Our Baby Was Sleeping Peacefully… Until I Realized Who Was Standing Beside the Crib

Our baby Tom had been asleep for hours when I heard the soft cry over the monitor. I checked the screen, expecting to see him stir — but instead, I saw my husband standing by the crib. The only problem? He had just left the house. My heart nearly stopped as I watched him stand there, motionless in the dark. I ran to the nursery, praying it was just a trick of the light… but what I found inside still haunts me…

The night it happened was quiet — too quiet. The kind of stillness that makes you hear your own heartbeat. Our baby, Tom, was barely a month old, and every creak in the house made me twitch. Motherhood had rewired my nerves — I slept light, breathed shallow, always half-awake.

It was around 2 a.m. when I heard the faint cry from the nursery. Nothing unusual. Babies wake up, they fuss, they drift back to sleep. I reached for the baby monitor on the nightstand and glanced at the tiny glowing screen.

Tom was there, wriggling softly, his little fists waving in the dark. Then, just as I was about to put the monitor down, something flickered in the corner of the image — movement.

At first, I thought I imagined it. But then I saw him.