01/07/2026
đŠ Every night, my husband chose to sleep in our daughterâs room â so I hid a camera. What I saw in the recording made my hands shake so hard I nearly dropped my phone.
My name is Caroline âCarrieâ Mitchell, thirty-two, living in Portland, Oregon. Iâve always believed I was doing my best as a mother. After my first marriage fell apart, I swore Iâd protect my daughter from every hurt the world could throw at her.
Three years later, Evan Brooks came into our lives â gentle, patient, and lonely in the same way we were. He treated my little girl like she was already his. For the first time in years, I thought: Maybe this is what a safe home feels like.
Emma turned seven this spring. She has always struggled at night â waking up screaming, trembling, sleepwalking, sometimes staring into the hallway as if something unseen was calling her. I thought these were echoes of the past. I thought love would fix it.
But it didnât.
It got stranger.
A few months ago, close to midnight, Evan began slipping out of our bed. He always whispered the same excuse: his back hurt, the couch was better. I trusted him⌠until the night I couldnât find him anywhere.
The couch was empty.
The kitchen was dark.
Our home felt too quiet.
Then I noticed a thin line of light coming from Emmaâs door.
Inside, Evan lay beside her, one arm around her shoulders like heâd been there for hours.
âEvan?â I whispered.
He blinked awake, his voice soft. âShe had another nightmare. I didnât mean to fall asleep.â
It sounded harmless. It sounded like something a good man would do.
But a knot formed deep in my stomach that refused to loosen.
The next morning, without telling anyone, I bought a tiny hidden camera and placed it high in Emmaâs room â where no one would ever think to look.
A few days later, when I finally gathered the courage to review the footage⌠I froze.
Something in that video wasnât normal.
Something was wrong.
So wrong that my entire body went cold as I watched it.
I didnât sleep at all that night â not after seeing what was happening in my daughterâs room while the lights were off.
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