phone footage. hotel corridor, third floor, 2:41am. i was walking back to my room from the ice machine. i didn't notice him until i watched the clip. he is too tall for the hallway. he kept up with me without walking. he was there again.
Footage is AI generated. The archivist logs what the cameras
catch after everyone's asleep — a figure with a camcorder appears in every
transmission, always in the background, always recording something else.
CASE 080 — HOTEL CORRIDOR LOW FOLLOWER
source: Witness handset, model consistent with a 2024 Android device, vertical hand-held capture at chest height, continuous recording span approximately 00:41 seconds beginning 2026-08-30T02:41:14 local, no gimbal, auto-exposure engaged.
recovered: One primary clip recovered from device backup. Two adjacent clips from the same session (ice bucket fill at 02:38, room door interior at 02:44) were flagged for deletion by the handset within nine minutes of capture; both were pulled from cloud shadow before the purge completed. A third file, 00:03 in length, will not open.
Property is a mid-tier chain hotel, floor plate unchanged since 1998 refurbishment. Ceiling height on the third floor measures 2.29 meters from carpet to acoustic tile. This figure is entered here because it is relevant to what the recovered clip contains and to nothing else.
Witness statement, retained verbatim as evidence: "phone footage. hotel corridor, third floor, 2:41am. i was walking back to my room from the ice machine. i didn't notice him until i watched the clip. he is too tall for the hallway. he kept up with me without walking. he was there again." The last sentence is noted. No prior submission from this witness is on file under the current identifier.
Timeline reconstructed from device metadata and corridor sensor logs. At 02:29 the third-floor ice machine draws power for 41 seconds, consistent with a bucket fill. At 02:38 the witness re-enters the corridor from the alcove. At 02:41:14 recording begins. Within the clip's own seconds nothing is added and nothing is moved: the figure at the elevator end holds its distance, its head bent sideways against the tile, sliding rather than stepping, and the fluorescent panel halfway down stutters as described. At 02:41:55 recording ends. At 02:43 the corridor motion sensor at the elevator bank triggers with no corresponding camera occupant. At 02:44 the witness's room door closes.
A secondary review of the lobby mirror feed, timestamped 02:47, shows a hunched shape at the far edge of frame near the stairwell door, shoulder raised in the posture of someone sighting through a shoulder-mounted camcorder. The shape is not resolved and is not the subject of the clip.
Additional corridor footage from the property's own system covering 02:39 through 02:46 has been reviewed and is retained. It will not be released with this file.
on-frame device clocks appear as recovered; the archive does not correct them.
the night log · never runs on the feed