phone footage. backyard pool. 2:41am. the pool light was on when i went outside because i thought i heard the filter running wrong. it wasn't the filter. the sheet did not fall when i stopped filming. i left it out there. i haven't gone back to check.

Property is a single-family residence, in-ground pool installed 2004, filter serviced August 2026 per HOA records. Witness statement is retained in the caption field as submitted and is not corroborated by our narration. Ambient audio from the device's voice-memo cache places the witness inside the house from 02:12 onward. At 02:29 the pool pump cycles down on its programmed timer; at 02:33 an irregular low-frequency intake noise begins and continues for approximately six minutes. This is the sound the caption attributes to the filter. The pump does not restart. At 02:40:51 the patio door is heard sliding open. Recording begins twenty-three seconds later. The clip itself is treated as immutable evidence. The sheeted figure is stationary above the water for the first eleven seconds of capture; the downward seizure of the fabric, the pull to the surface, the brief presentation of the skull through thinning cloth, and the tearing of the sheet toward the water occur in one uninterrupted motion inside the remaining span. Recording ends by manual input, not by device failure. Auto-exposure logs show the pool lights maintained constant lumens throughout; the darkness in frame is ambient, not electrical. Post-clip audio at 02:44 records the patio door closing and the interior deadbolt engaging twice. At 03:07 a wet dragging sound is captured through the kitchen window microphone, duration nine seconds, origin consistent with the pool decking. At 03:48 a second device on the neighboring property — a rear-facing doorbell camera two lots east — registers, at the far right of its fisheye field, a hunched silhouette at the fence line holding a shoulder-braced rig with a forward optical assembly, aimed across the intervening yards toward the subject pool. The figure is not resolved further. It is not the witness, who remains indoors per handset accelerometer data. The sheet has not been recovered. Sonar sweep of the pool basin was conducted 2026-09-16. Findings from that sweep are held at a higher classification and are not released with this file.