Midnight has passed, and in the stillness of these hours, the hauntings are never silent.

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After midnight.

When Ashley and Nick brought their daughter home, the nights in the house quickly began to feel different from the days.

During daylight, the place still felt new in began to feel different from the days. During daylight,

the place still felt new in a comforting way. They had moved in only a few months earlier,

and most of their attention had been focused on preparing for the baby's arrival, rather than

noticing the house itself. Sunlight filled the kitchen and living room through wide windows,

and the quiet street outside gave the

neighborhood a calm predictable rhythm at night the house seemed to stretch in ways ashley hadn't noticed before

the rooms felt larger after the lights were turned off and the hallway outside their bedroom carried shadows farther than it did during the day.

Even the quiet changed once the neighborhood settled in for the night, leaving only the occasional

distant sound of a car passing somewhere beyond the houses. Sleep arrived in pieces during those

early weeks. Ashley woke every few hours to feed the baby, sometimes before the crying even started.

The small sounds from the nursery carried easily through the hallway, and her body had already

begun to recognize them instinctively. Nick helped when he could, but most nights he slept

through the first moments of the baby stirring, the exhaustion of long work days catching up with him the moment he closed his eyes.

The baby monitor helped make those nights easier.

Nick had mounted the small camera high on the wall in the nursery before the baby was born.

From that position, it captured the entire room, showing the crib beneath the window,

and the rest of the furniture arranged around it.

The monitor itself sat on Ashley's nightstand, its screen glowing softly in the darkness

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