In November of 2005, I received a strange message from my seventy-four-year-old father.
He lived alone in the old Iowa farmhouse where my sister and I had grown up.
My mother had passed away earlier that year.
And since then, Dad had insisted he was perfectly capable of taking care of himself.
But that Friday afternoon, his voice came through my answering machine.
Dana, it's Dad. If you can come tonight, I think you should.
He sounded serious.
Almost worried.
He mentioned a man who had been helping him around the house.
And he said there were things we needed to sort out.
I tried calling him back.
Nobody answered.
So I packed a bag and drove through the night.
When I reached the farmhouse, it was after one in the morning.
The porch light was on.
A pickup truck was parked outside.
And my father was standing in the doorway.
He looked surprised to see me.
When I told him about the message, he frowned.
Then he said something I wasn't expecting.
I didn't call you.
I played the message for him.
He insisted he had never made that call.
The man who had been helping him suggested that Dad might be forgetting things.
For the first time, I began wondering whether my father was having problems he didn't want to admit.
But later that night, something happened that changed everything.
I was asleep in the spare bedroom when I heard my father's voice.
Dana, it's Dad. Call me when you get home.
I opened my eyes.
The house was quiet.
Then I heard him again.
I'll leave the porch light on.
I stepped into the hallway.
My father's bedroom door was partly open.
I looked inside.
He was fast asleep.
But his voice was still coming from downstairs.
Someone was inside the farmhouse.
And when I discovered where the voice was coming from, I realized the strange phone message had only been the beginning.
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