phone camera. side of the neighbor's house. 2:47am. i was walking back from my car when i saw the shape against the moon. it didn't move for almost a minute. then it went up over the roof faster than anything that size should move. he was standing at the hedge. he had already set up.
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catch after everyone's asleep — a figure with a camcorder appears in every
transmission, always in the background, always recording something else.
CASE 088 — SPIDER CREATURE SUBURBAN WALL
source: Witness handset, hand-held, front yard of 4213-block residence; continuous recording span 02:46:41 to 02:47:58 local, single vertical capture, no cuts.
recovered: One clip surrendered voluntarily; three earlier fragments from the same handset overwritten by the device's own storage rotation between 02:12 and 02:44. A fourth file, 41 seconds, was flagged for deletion from the cloud mirror twelve minutes after upload and preserved only through automated retention.
File CF-2026-0917-SUB is logged as Class III (residential exterior, single-witness, corroborated by ambient audio only). The property under observation is a two-story frame house on a cul-de-sac; municipal records place last occupancy change in April 2026. Neighborhood noise logs show no unusual dispatches on the night of capture.
Reconstruction of the hour preceding the clip is partial. The witness's vehicle telematics register engine-off at 02:31. Between 02:31 and 02:46 the witness remained inside the vehicle; the reason is not stated in the surrendered caption and was not pursued in intake. A neighboring doorbell unit two lots east recorded a soft, repeated tapping from an unidentified direction beginning at 02:38 and ceasing at 02:46:39, two seconds before the witness's recording begins.
The clip itself is preserved without edit. The shape against the second-story siding is present from the first frame; it does not arrive on camera. Auto-exposure hunts three times across the seventeen-second static interval. The upward scuttle at 02:47:44 is accompanied on the audio track by a single dry click, not a footfall. The shape clears the roofline and is not reacquired.
The caption references a second party at the hedge line, already recording. Review of the frame's lower left quadrant, at the boundary where the neighbor's privet meets the driveway, resolves a low hunched silhouette and a squared object held at shoulder height, tape-format form factor. No face is available. No handshake was made with the archive by this second party; no footage from that position has been offered, sold, or seized.
Post-clip: the witness remained in the yard until 03:04. At 03:11 the same doorbell unit east recorded the tapping resume, briefly, from a higher elevation. That segment is held under separate seal and is not released with this file. Further material exists. It is not the archive's practice to describe what has not been cleared.
on-frame device clocks appear as recovered; the archive does not correct them.
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