In October of 2002, I was living alone in the house I had shared with my mother.
She had passed away four months earlier.
For most of my life, it had been just the two of us. After losing her, the house felt unbearably quiet.
There was one thing I couldn't bring myself to change.
Our answering machine.
My mother's voice was still on the greeting.
Sometimes, after a difficult day, I called my own house just to hear her say my name.
Then the strange messages began.
The first contained nothing but silence and three faint metallic notes.
A few nights later, the telephone rang again.
I let the answering machine pick up.
After my mother's familiar greeting, I heard something that made me stop breathing.
My own television.
The same program I was watching in the living room was playing through the answering machine.
I muted the television.
The sound on the telephone stopped immediately.
That's when I understood.
Whoever was calling could hear what was happening inside my house.
Then something scraped against the outside of my living room window.
I called the police.
They searched the property but found nobody.
For a few days, everything was quiet.
Then another message appeared.
This time, the recording captured the sound of my morning newspaper coming through the front door.
And the quiet click of someone testing the handle.
Whoever was doing this wasn't simply calling to frighten me.
They were learning my routine.
With my friend's help, I decided to find out whether someone was really coming onto the property.
But what we witnessed that night was far more disturbing than either of us expected.
And when the stranger finally left a message in his own voice, I began to realize that his interest in me might have started much earlier than I ever imagined.
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