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At the 0:12 mark, a door at the end of the hall creaked open. No one walked out. Instead, a hand reached around the frame and began to smudge charcoal against the wall, drawing a series of tall, jagged tally marks. One, two, three, four—then a long diagonal slash for five.

On the screen, the door behind the "on-screen Elias" began to creak open. In the real world, the floorboards behind him groaned. 3701_5.mp4

He looked back at the screen. The video was still paused, but the timestamp was moving. 0:37. 0:38. In the frame, the hand was gone, but the door was wider now. A dark shape began to lean out—a face with features that looked like they had been blurred by a shaky camera lens. At the 0:12 mark, a door at the end of the hall creaked open