Figure Stands in the Bedroom Doorway While the Camera Clock Skips Eleven Seconds
The clock reads a date that has not happened yet. In the gap where eleven seconds go missing, someone is standing at the door.
- Location
- Greyfield, Lancashire, UK
- Date recorded
- August 13, 2026 · 03:14 AM
- Camera
- Indoor Wi-Fi cam (low-light colour, wall mount)
- Clip length
- 0:10
- Reading time
- 4 min

Original clip: 0:10 · Full case file: 4 min read below ↓
Case summary
A wall-mounted bedroom camera recorded a woman asleep on her side, facing the lens, with the bedroom door visible in the back right of the frame. The on-screen clock shows a date about two months after the night the clip was actually saved. It counts normally from 03:14:15 to 03:14:19, then jumps to 03:14:29 and 03:14:31. In the frames after the jump a dark, upright figure is standing in the doorway. It is gone within two seconds, the picture tears briefly at the top, and the clock jumps again to 03:14:38.
Timeline of events
Subject asleep on her left side, facing the camera. Door at back right closed, curtain lit from outside.
Knees draw up slightly. Clock counting normally.
Last frame before the jump. Doorway empty.
Clock jumps ten seconds forward. Doorway still empty.
An upright dark figure stands in the doorway, head level with the top of the door frame, arms at its sides.
Figure still present. Subject stirs, knees drawing up further. She does not wake.
Tear across the top of the frame. Doorway empty when it clears.
Clock jumps again. Room as it was at the start.
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Witness statement
I want to start with the date, because that is what everyone asks. The camera says October. It was August. I know it was August because I had the flat inspection the next morning and the inspection was in August. I have never touched the date on that camera in my life.
I sleep facing the camera because that side is away from the window. The door is behind me. I cannot see the door from the bed. That is the thing I keep thinking about now.
The clock skips. It goes nineteen, then twenty-nine, and in that gap there is a person in my doorway. A person. Not a shadow on a wall, not a shape, a person standing up straight with their arms down, looking in. My door was locked from the inside with a chain. It was still locked in the morning.
Then the picture rips at the top and the doorway is empty and the clock jumps again. Eleven seconds in total that I do not have. I have asked the camera company for them. They said the file is ten seconds long and there is nothing missing. The clock says otherwise.
What investigators found
The camera is a wall-mounted Wi-Fi unit in low-light colour mode, looking along the bed toward the far wall, with the door in the back right of the frame and a curtained window in the back left. The blue cast is the sensor's low-light rendering, and the curtain glow is a street light.
The overlay is the first problem. The date shown is roughly two months after the night the file was written to the phone, which the phone's own metadata confirms. Clocks on these units can be reset by a firmware update or a dead backup battery, but they reset to a default in the past, not to a date that has not yet arrived. Then, within the ten-second clip, the clock skips ten seconds and later another five while the video plays continuously. The file is not cut; the subject's breathing and the curtain glow are continuous across the skips.
The figure is the second problem. It stands in the doorway for about two seconds, upright, with a head, shoulders and arms, and does not move. It is darker than the door behind it and has a defined edge, unlike the soft shadows elsewhere in the room. The door was chained from the inside according to the tenant, which we cannot verify from the footage. What we can say is that nothing walks into or out of the frame; the figure is present in one frame and absent a few frames later, with the tear at the top of the image in between. We have no explanation for the figure or for the clock.
What happened next
Reveal what happened after the recording
The tenant reported the recording to her building manager, who checked the corridor camera for the same night; it shows nobody entering or leaving the floor between midnight and six. She had the lock changed anyway. The camera's date corrected itself within a day and has been right since. She has kept the camera facing the door and has recorded nothing more. The archive is publishing this case with the actual month of recording, as the tenant remembers it, and noting the overlay date as part of the anomaly rather than as a fact.
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