The doorbell camera showed a man waiting on my porch with his back to the lens.
When I opened the live view again, the porch was empty and he was facing the camera from inside my hallway.
Home-invasion fear becomes supernatural when the locked boundary is intact but the threat is already inside.
It follows the house rule: exactly two sentences, with the turn doing more than adding a monster. It changes the reader’s interpretation of the setup.
Smart Lock
At midnight my smart lock notified me that the front door had been opened with my fingerprint.
Camera Delay
The hallway camera has a five-second delay, so I watched myself leave the bedroom before I actually opened the door.
Motion Alert
The motion alert showed a woman standing motionless in my backyard at 2:11 a.m.
Baby Monitor
My wife keeps complaining that our baby monitor wakes her whenever I come home from the night shift.
Face ID
My phone unlocked with Face ID while I was asleep alone in the apartment.