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In the recording, he pans the camera upward. The digital zoom struggles, pixelating the treeline against a bruised, purple sky. Then, at the 14-second mark, the humming stops.

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"Are you seeing this?" Elias’s voice whispers from the phone’s speakers, sounding younger and more terrified than he remembered. In the recording, he pans the camera upward

Elias hadn’t opened this folder in years. November 14, 2022, had been a night of biting wind and heavy silence in the valley. He remembered holding his phone with frozen fingers, the screen’s glow the only light on the deserted backroad. He clicked play. In the recording