Determined to catch the trespasser in the act and hand them over to the police, Leo mounted a pair of high-tech, night-vision trail cameras on the fences facing the woods. He linked the system directly to Clara’s smartphone so they could both monitor the property.
That night, Clara sat anxiously on her living room couch, keeping her eyes glued to the live video feed. Around midnight, the motion alerts started pinging. Clara gasped as the infrared footage revealed the shocking truth. No human was walking through the brush leaving out bowls of alcohol, and the animals weren’t eating from the ground.
Instead, a surreal procession of dazed squirrels, opossums, and a literal swarm of birds were all stumbling, crawling, and flying in a highly specific direction. They were all heading straight toward the deepest, darkest corner where Clara and Leo’s properties connected, right at the thick, overgrown edge of the ancient woods.