For weeks, I dismissed my eight-year-old daughter Emily’s nighttime complaints as simple nerves. We live in a quiet suburban home, and she had always been proud of sleeping in her own room. That’s why it unsettled me when she began saying her bed felt “too tight,” as if there wasn’t enough space. I blamed bad dreams, shifting blankets, or too many stuffed animals—until one morning she asked, with shadows under her eyes, whether I had come into her room during the night. In that moment, instinct replaced logic. A mother knows when fear isn’t imaginary, and mine told me to stop brushing it aside.Emily’s sleep grew lighter and more restless. She described feeling nudged toward the edge of the mattress, as though someone else was there. My husband, Daniel, worn down from long hospital shifts, reassured me that children sometimes invent stories when overtired. Still, unease followed me through the house. I checked doors, windows, and hallways repeatedly, finding nothing unusual. Finally, guided by intuition rather than reason, I placed a small security camera in the corner of Emily’s room—not to spy, but to understand.
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