Last Tuesday night, Sarah followed her usual bedtime routine—she locked all the doors, armed the home security alarm, and turned off the lights before heading upstairs. Everything felt completely normal and peaceful.
But around 3:15 AM, her phone vibrated violently on her nightstand with a dark alert from her smart home camera app: “Motion detected at the front porch.”
Groggy and confused, she opened the live video stream expecting to see a stray neighborhood cat or a racoon. Instead, her heart sank into her chest.
A tall figure dressed
