My Son Said Someone Was Watching Him Sleep—So I Set Up a Hidden Camera, and the 3 A.M. Video Exposed a Face I Never Expected

When my eight-year-old son first told me someone was watching him sleep at night, I assumed it was just another childhood fear.

He had recently started waking up after nightmares, asking to keep the hallway light on and insisting that he saw “a person standing near the door” after midnight.