Latest / MYSTERY & HORROR STORIES / My Doorbell Camera Showed Me Coming Home. I Was Still at Work.
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- 0:00At 9 .14 PM, my doorbell camera showed me arriving
- 0:04home. Same jacket, same face, same broken keychain.
- 0:11I was still at work when the person looked into
- 0:13the camera and said, Don't let him convince you.
- 0:17He's me. Then he unlocked my front door. I called
- 0:22my wife. Rachel answered on the fourth ring.
- 0:27Where are you? I asked. Upstairs, why? Someone
- 0:33just entered the house. Yes, you. I stood so
- 0:38quickly my chair struck the wall. Rachel, I'm
- 0:42at the office. Below her voice, I heard the front
- 0:47door close. My voice called from downstairs.
- 0:51Who are you talking to? Rachel stopped breathing
- 0:54for a moment. Stay in the bedroom. I whispered
- 0:59to lock the door for the police. She hung up.
- 1:04I called emergency services myself and gave our
- 1:07address. On my computer, the office security
- 1:12feed showed me standing at my desk, phone against
- 1:14my ear. Proof. I saved the footage. Then I opened
- 1:20the doorbell up. The man was outside. He leaned
- 1:26toward the camera. She's going to call you ask
- 1:29about the blue cup. Video ended. My phone rang.
- 1:35Rachel. The dream door won't lock. I could hear
- 1:40her turning the handle. Put the dress against
- 1:43it. Coming upstairs. Rachel. Silence. And she
- 1:54said, what blue cup? The line disconnected. We
- 1:59had broken a blue cup that morning. A stupid
- 2:03argument I turned too quickly. Clearing the table
- 2:07and knocked it onto the tiles. Rachel. I called
- 2:19her back then a message arrived from a number
- 2:25I drove there. Anyway, a police car was already
- 2:34outside one officer stood on the porch with Rachel
- 2:40She ran to me. Where is he? The officer said
- 2:57we searched the house Rachel grip my hand and
- 3:03she asked very softly. Did you tell him tell
- 3:11who the man about the cup? I looked at her you
- 3:19remembered, of course, but on the phone and I've
- 3:26called you back She showed me her call history.
- 3:31One incoming call from me. Then emergency services.
- 3:39The officer asked for my phone, while he checked
- 3:41it. Rachel went inside, hit her coat. We would
- 3:47stay with her sister. The officer found it on
- 3:50my screen. You're sick. He showed me. The contact
- 4:01name said Rachel. The number underneath was mine.
- 4:06My own phone called me. Inside the house, something
- 4:09shattered. Rachel screamed. We ran into the kitchen.
- 4:19She stood beside the sink. On the floor lay the
- 4:22blue cup. whole pieces of bright blue pottery.
- 4:29The same cup I had broken that morning and thrown
- 4:33into the outside bed. The officer reached for
- 4:37his radio. Rachel stared at me. I wasn't there
- 4:45a second ago. My phone vibrated in the officer's
- 4:49hand. A doorbell notification. All three of us
- 4:54looked. On the screen, I stood outside the front
- 4:59door. Beside me stood the officer. We were watching
- 5:06Rachel through the kitchen window. The time stamp
- 5:09was two minutes ahead. The officer looked toward
- 5:13the hallway. Stay here. He went to check the
- 5:19porch. Rachel caught my sleeve. Ask me something.
- 5:29Something only I would know. I thought of our
- 5:33wedding. Our first apartment, hundreds of memories.
- 5:43The man hadn't told me to ask which guy. He said
- 5:47to ask about it. Rachel's fingers tightened.
- 6:08My father had made it into party class. His initial
- 6:13was scratched underneath. Rachel released my
- 6:17sleeve. From outside, the officer shouted my
- 6:24name. And he closed her eyes. Every time, she
- 6:39said, I'll get you in the light, Mario. I ran
- 6:45to the officer's flashlight. He pulled me through
- 6:48the front door. I and this will call me me. I'm
- 6:54returned. And I'm notorious. From Gleescar.