14/10/2025
"Every night, my mother-in-law knocked on our bedroom door at 3 a.m., so I installed a hidden camera to find out what she was doing. When we saw the footage, we were both frozen in shock…
Arjun and I have been married for over a year. Our married life had been peaceful—except for one thing: the strange habit of my mother-in-law, Shanti.
Every night, exactly at 3:00 a.m., she would knock on our bedroom door. It wasn’t loud—just three soft knocks, “knock-knock-knock”—but enough to wake me up.
At first, I thought she had confused the rooms or maybe needed something. But every time I opened the door, the hallway in our Delhi home was completely dark—and no one was there.
Arjun would tell me to ignore it, saying his mother had insomnia and often wandered around at night. But the repeated pattern started to bother me deeply.
After nearly a month of this unsettling routine, I decided to install a small camera right in front of our bedroom door, in the hallway. I didn’t tell Arjun, because I knew he would just brush it off and say I was being paranoid.
That night, at exactly 3 a.m., the knocking came again. I pretended to sleep, my heart pounding.
The next morning, I turned on the camera. What I saw took my breath away. When I called Arjun to watch it with me, his face turned pale.
In the video, my mother-in-law appeared in a white nightgown. She stepped out of her room and walked straight toward our door. She stopped, looked around as if to make sure no one was watching, then raised her hand and knocked three times: knock-knock-knock.
But she didn’t return to her room right away. She stood there for about ten minutes, completely still, staring at the door—her cold eyes fixed on the lock, as if trying to see through it. Then she quietly walked away and out of the frame.
I turned to Arjun, expecting an explanation. He said nothing, his face as white as paper.
“You know something, don’t you?” I asked.
He finally sighed, his voice trembling:
“Mom… she doesn’t want