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Sleeping Woman's Leg Is Drawn Sideways Across the Bed, Then the Feed Glitches

Nobody touches her. At four seconds her right leg lifts, bends and is pulled toward the edge of the mattress, and the picture tears.

Location
Carrick Hollow, Vermont, USA
Date recorded
October 24, 2023 · 02:14 AM
Camera
Indoor Wi-Fi cam (low-light mode, wall mount)
Clip length
0:10
Reading time
4 min
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Still frame from Sleeping Woman's Leg Is Drawn Sideways Across the Bed, Then the Feed Glitches
Sleeping Woman's Leg Is Drawn Sideways Across the Bed, Then the Feed Glitches

Original clip: 0:10 · Full case file: 4 min read below ↓

Case summary

Case summary

A wall-mounted bedroom camera recorded a woman asleep on her back, one arm raised beside her head, with the light from a street lamp falling through the blinds in stripes across the wall. At the four-second mark her right leg lifts, bends at the knee and is drawn sideways toward the edge of the bed as if taken by the ankle. She does not wake. The leg settles, and at the eight-second mark the picture tears across the middle for a fraction of a second before returning to normal.

Timeline of events

  1. Subject asleep on her back, right arm raised beside her head. Striped light from the blinds steady on the wall.

  2. No movement. Both legs straight, feet together at the foot of the bed.

  3. Right knee lifts and bends. The movement is smooth, not a twitch.

  4. Right leg is drawn outward toward the edge of the mattress, foot leading, as if held at the ankle.

  5. Legs held apart. Subject's face and upper body do not react.

  6. Leg begins to return toward the centre of the bed on its own.

  7. Horizontal tear across the middle of the frame for roughly half a second.

  8. Picture normal. Subject in her original position, still asleep.

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Witness statement

I sleep on my back with one arm up. Everyone who knows me knows that, so the first thing I checked was whether that was even me, and it is, that is my room and my lamp and my leg.

The camera is there because of a break-in on our road the year before. It points at the bed because that is where the window is, not because I wanted to film myself. I get maybe three motion alerts a week and they are always me turning over.

This one I watched at work on my phone and I had to go outside. My leg lifts. Not a kick, not a jump like when you dream you are falling. It lifts slowly, bends, and gets pulled to the side. If you have ever had someone take hold of your ankle to move you over in bed, it looks exactly like that. Then it comes back, like it was put back.

I did not wake up. I do not remember a dream. My husband was on nights. The door was shut and the dog sleeps downstairs and could not have got in. I keep telling people I do not believe in this stuff, and I still do not, but I have not been able to explain that clip to a single person, and I have tried.

- R. ████████, homeowner

What investigators found

The camera is a consumer Wi-Fi unit in low-light colour mode, mounted high on the wall opposite the foot of the bed and angled down. The blue cast and the diagonal stripes on the wall come from a street light through venetian blinds; those stripes are the best reference in the frame because they do not move at any point, which rules out the camera itself shifting.

The leg movement is the whole case. Sleep-related limb movement is common and we looked for it first: myoclonic jerks are fast and brief, restless leg movements are repetitive, and neither produces a slow, single, outward draw followed by an equally slow return. The knee bends before the foot travels, which is the order a limb moves when it is pulled by the ankle rather than when the sleeper moves it. The rest of the body stays slack throughout; there is no bracing in the shoulders or hips.

We also considered the sheet catching and releasing, but the sheet is under her, not over her, and nothing on the mattress surface moves. The tear at eight seconds is a dropped frame segment, common on Wi-Fi cameras, and on its own means nothing. We note only that it arrives two seconds after the leg settles, the same order of events seen in the 24 October recording from a different house that is filed as the second part of this series.

What happened next

Reveal what happened after the recording

The homeowner posted the clip to a neighbourhood group asking whether anyone else's camera had done anything strange that night. One reply came from a house on the other side of town: a recording from the same night, timestamped to the same minute, on a different camera in a different bedroom. That clip is filed as case #0004. Neither household knew the other. The two women have since met once, compared the clips side by side, and have agreed on only one thing, which is that they do not want to know what happened at 02:14 on any other camera in town. The camera in this bedroom now points at the door.

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Evidence gallery

Still frames pulled from the original clip.

  • Still frame 1 from case 0003: Sleeping Woman's Leg Is Drawn Sideways Across the Bed, Then the Feed GlitchesFrame 01
  • Right leg drawn outward, knee bent, upper body still slack (frame 2)Frame 02

    Right leg drawn outward, knee bent, upper body still slack

  • Frame tears across the middle two seconds after the leg settles (frame 3)Frame 03

    Frame tears across the middle two seconds after the leg settles

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    Tags: bedroom, low-light, limb-movement, glitch, unexplained. This case file is a fictional dramatisation created for entertainment. Disclaimer.