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Elias paused the frame, zooming in. The shadow wasn't a person, but it was shaped like a hand, grasping the window frame from the outside —three stories up.

He grabbed his coat. The timestamp was no longer just a file name; it was the moment the impossible became part of the evidence. The case was finally moving. If you want to know what happened next, I can tell you: Elias found the next clue. Who or what was casting that shadow. How Sarah Jenkins managed to leave a message. 2023-02-03-13-50-00.mp4

He watched the .mp4 file loop for the hundredth time on his office monitor. It was a security camera feed from a coffee shop in a quiet suburban town—the last known location of Sarah Jenkins before she vanished. Elias paused the frame, zooming in