It started as a small disturbance I tried to ignore. Every night at exactly 1:44 a.m., my phone would ring.
No caller ID. No missed-call record after I declined.
At first, I blamed network errors or spam, but the timing was too precise.
Night after night, the same ring, the same silence when I answered.
After a week, the sleep deprivation began to affect me. I started dreading nights.
I switched the phone off, but the moment I powered it back on in the morning, I would see that the battery had drained unusually fast, as if something had been active while it was off.…CONTINUE READING