The day before my vacation, my mother called me unexpectedly and asked me to hide a camera in the living room before leaving the apartment. Intrigued—why would she ask that? She simply replied: “I’ll explain later, just do it without asking questions.” Even though I had my doubts, I still hid the mini camera in a flowerpot with a clear view of the room.
A few hours later, already settled in my getaway spot, curiosity drove me to check the recording. What I saw on the screen froze me on the spot… 😱😱😱
I thought my life was as ordinary as it gets: a job at a marketing agency, a quiet house in a residential neighborhood in Detroit, a husband named Thomas, and the occasional reunion with friends. But everything changed the day before my vacation to Cancun. My mother, with whom my relationship was both complicated and warm, called me unexpectedly that evening. Her voice betrayed a palpable worry.
She asked me to discreetly place the camera in the living room and leave the apartment for a while. I was perplexed, but she insisted: “Do it, I’ll explain later.” Although the situation felt strange, I took out the mini camera we had once bought to watch the neighbor’s dog. I placed it inside a ficus, aiming to capture the whole living room as well as the front door.
Checking the app on my phone, I went to my friend Claire’s place. On the way, doubts overwhelmed me: what was my mother hiding? Her words about “important reasons” haunted me and kept me from finding peace.
That evening she called again, asking me not to return before morning and especially not to watch the recording. I agreed, but the temptation to find out more kept growing, a gut feeling whispering that a secret capable of shattering my life awaited me.
In the morning, once on vacation, the impulse was too strong: I opened the app. What I saw froze me, my heart heavy with shock…😱😱
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I stared at the recording, my heart pounding, when something completely strange happened. At one point, Thomas suddenly stood up from the couch and went over to the bookshelf. He seemed to be looking for something, then stopped, his gaze fixed on a specific book. He took it, opened it… and suddenly the book went dark. Yes, it went dark.
I frowned, not understanding. The book had disappeared from the screen. Then the image blurred, and a crackling noise filled my phone. It lasted a few seconds, then the screen stabilized again. But now something was radically different.
The living room was no longer the same. The couch had been moved. The furniture rearranged. And… another person was there.
A man in a dark suit, with an icy stare, was sitting in the armchair by the window. He was holding a small metallic object that glinted under the dim light of the living room. He hadn’t been there before. I had never seen this man.
Thomas and the man exchanged a few inaudible words, but what I heard next sent chills down my spine: “You know what you have to do. It’s the only way to erase everything.”
Erase what? Why this sudden change in the apartment? Why did I feel as though I was watching something completely different from reality?
I had no idea what was happening, but one certainty settled over me: what I was seeing wasn’t just a recording. It was… a parallel version of my life, a reality that Thomas and my mother seemed able to manipulate at will.
