I work as in-house legal counsel at a medium-sized pretty profitable real estate company based in the southeast.

I've been an attorney for nearly 10 years, and the closest I've come to a courtroom is when I go to the courthouse to do land title searches.

I've been married for 8 years and we have a 4 year old little boy.

I say all this to you so you have some idea that I have a good but pretty ordinary life.

I don't have strange hobbies or friends.

I don't typically go outside the normal boundaries of my day-to-day existence to meet odd people or experience

dangerous things.

But last Tuesday I woke up to a strange text message.

My alarm was set for 7 a.m. but my phone buzzed at 6.40 and it stirred me out of sleep enough that

I checked it.

It said you saw something you shouldn't have. Being half asleep, I kind of stared at it for a minute, trying

to figure out what I had seen before the overall weirdness of the message dawned on me. First of all, the sender was blank. No name, no number, no

symbols, no indication that there were blank spaces like someone had hit a space bar repeatedly and it had taken the input as characters.

I couldn't even highlight anything in the sender space.

Second, the font on the message was different.

Not like a different font than normal, but there were several letters that shifted

noticeably higher or lower than the letters around them in a given word.

Third, I haven't seen anything.

Aside from going to work, the Parent Teacher Conference, and out to pick up a pizza, I can't think of anywhere

I've even gone in the week prior to that message, and I sure haven't seen anything weird or

criminal or whatever.

I show it to my wife, and she just laughs it off, says it's probably some marketing thing or

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