01/20/2026
🎥 10:49 PM. I was out to dinner for the evening. He was home. He walks into the driveway and then stops. Not hesitating. Not distracted. Just standing there, feet planted, eyes fixed on nothing. The timestamp keeps running, 10:49:05 - 10:49:24. Time continues without him. The world moves. He doesn’t. Then, without warning, it releases him. He looks around, turns, and walks back inside like nothing touched him.
The next day I show him the footage. No memory of stopping. No sense of standing there. No gap he can explain. No memory at all. The camera never glitched. He did. Something stepped in, paused him, and returned him precisely where it found him.
Nineteen seconds. No struggle. No sound. No error. Just a clean interruption in reality that suggests whatever runs this place can stop us, study us, and resume us without leaving a mark.👽👻⏰