phone camera. vanity mirror. 3:04 am. she said she wanted to check if the front camera was recording properly before bed. she never looked up from the screen. the reflection did. i've watched the clip four times. she isn't smiling in any of them. the mirror is. he was there too. #DreadFeed #AIHorror #NightDread #DontLookBack

The witness caption is preserved verbatim in the metadata layer and is treated here as evidence, not narration. Timeline reconstruction proceeds from device logs and adjacent household telemetry. At 22:47 the subject completed a shower cycle; the bathroom exhaust fan logs shutoff at 22:58. Between 23:10 and 02:52 the handset registers no motion, screen dark, face-down on the nightstand. At 02:52:19 the handset is lifted. At 02:58 the bedroom smart bulb, scheduled off since 22:30, briefly draws 0.4 watts without a command issued — insufficient to illuminate, sufficient to note. The subject relocates to the vanity. Capture begins at 03:01:47. Within the clip window the reflection performs the expression documented in the frame log. The archive will not restate it. Attention is directed instead to the reflected curtain movement: the window behind the subject is closed and latched per the home security feed, and no HVAC cycle is active between 03:00 and 03:06. The forearm at the lower frame edge is consistent in tone and hair pattern with the subject's own left arm, which per posture reconstruction should not be reachable from her standing position. This is noted and set aside. At 03:06:44 the exterior doorbell camera, twenty-two feet away and aimed at the front walk, captures a single frame of glare on its own housing glass. Within that glare a stooped silhouette is legible, shoulder raised, a boxy handheld object braced against the cheekbone, lens oriented toward the second-floor vanity window. The figure does not appear in the frame before or the frame after. No corresponding heat signature was logged. The subject was located the following morning and gave a statement consistent with the caption. She has since declined follow-up. The remaining four clips from her cloud account, the audio stripped from this one, and the doorbell glare frame at full resolution are held under restricted access and are not appended to this file.