I Kept Hearing Phantom Laughter In My House Every Night. My Husband Said I Was Crazy. Then I Found The Hidden Recording Device.

Voices in the Shadows

A few days ago, something happened that literally turned everything upside down. It all started with the fact that Linda started hearing voices.

It happened late in the evening when she decided to take a bath before going to bed. Having turned on the water, Linda heard hysterical female laughter outside the door.

“What is this?” Linda whispered.

She put on her robe and stepped out of the bathroom. To her great surprise, there was no one in the hallway. Moreover, the TV was off, and Howard and Gina had long since gone to sleep.

“So where did this laughter come from? Or was it only in my head? Things like that do happen, after all. Split personality or paranoia? I guess that’s how people lose their minds,” Linda thought, having a hard time keeping her emotions in check.

Having entered the bedroom, she found Howard fast asleep and once again realized that something strange was happening to her. The next day, Linda carefully asked her husband if he’d heard anything strange last night.

“Nope, I don’t think so. Even the neighbor’s dog was surprisingly quiet. Why are you asking?” Howard asked.

“The thing is, I heard a voice. Or rather, not a voice exactly, but a woman’s laughter,” Linda answered, embarrassed by her own words.

Howard shook his head and casually advised her to see a doctor. Of course, Linda understood that her husband was right, but at the same time, something seemed to be holding her back, preventing her from going to see a specialist.

But then she heard that voice again and was terrified to realize that she was slowly losing her mind. Now Linda wasn’t just forgetting to turn off the stove or misplacing things; she also was hearing voices, which became the straw that broke the camel’s back.

“That’s it. I have to go see a doctor tomorrow, or I might soon stop recognizing Howard and Gina,” Linda made herself a promise in her head before going to bed.

The Midnight Confession

She couldn’t fall asleep for a long time, feeling overwhelmed by the events of the last few days. When Linda finally managed to fall asleep, she had a disturbing dream which had things disappearing on the right and all kinds of female and male voices.

Suddenly, the woman shuddered and realized that the voices weren’t part of her dream. She turned her head and saw that Howard wasn’t in bed.

“Where could he have gone in the middle of the night?” She thought and got out of bed.

And then Linda clearly heard Howard’s voice coming from the next room. Apparently, the husband was talking to someone on the phone. Linda stopped by the door and listened in on his conversation.

“By the way, that idea you had to play the recording of the laughter—it was great. This will finally put her over the limit. Linda’s going to see a doctor any day now, and then her mental breakdown will be a part of her medical record. So I’ll get to keep Gina in the divorce,” Howard exclaimed louder than he should have.

Having heard her husband’s words, Linda turned pale and instinctively recoiled from the door.

“Dear God, what is happening? And what does Gina have to do with it?” The woman thought as she got back into bed.

Of course, she wasn’t going back to sleep now, but she also didn’t want her husband to know that she was awake. Only now did Linda realize that all this time she’d been living side by side with a cunning and deceiving man, and now he was trying to make her look crazy.

A few minutes later, Howard came back to bed as if nothing had happened. But Linda couldn’t close her eyes again until the very next morning. She couldn’t shake off the thought that her husband would be so cruel towards her.

Determined to find out the truth once and for all, Linda decided to pretend that nothing had changed, at least for a little bit. The next day, she made Howard breakfast, doing her best to play the role of the perfect wife.

However, her heart wasn’t in it, since all she could think about was how to catch her husband red-handed. Howard, on the other hand, was cheerful and cracking jokes.

Caught on Camera

At some point, Linda turned to the TV at exactly the moment when an ad for the latest video surveillance system was running.

“What if I tried catching Howard with the help of a surveillance camera? There are so many of them now. Small, nondescript, like coat buttons,” Linda caught herself thinking.

The woman, who nearly lost faith in herself, was very inspired by this idea.

“When are you going to see the doctor? I can make an appointment for you,” Howard asked as casually as possible.

Linda shuddered and dropped the cup in surprise.

“Oh, I’ve been so awkward lately. It’s okay, I’ll clean everything up,” Linda began to lament and switched the subject of the conversation.

Howard smiled meaningfully and went to work. Meanwhile, Linda decided to finish the job she had started and went to the nearest electronics store. There, the woman purchased a tiny video camera that easily fit into her palm.

“Now we’ll find out which one of us is actually crazy,” Linda thought as she set up the camera.

That day, Howard came home from work earlier than usual and started telling his wife that she forgot to turn off the water in the bathroom and left the door unlocked. Linda pretended to believe her husband and promised him to see a doctor as soon as possible.

In fact, the woman was watching Howard on the hidden video camera. Having locked herself in the office, Linda watched the surveillance footage and saw something that made her feel very uncomfortable.

The footage showed her husband, Howard, taking clothes out of the closet and throwing them around the room, as well as turning on the stove with leftovers on it.

“So that’s what’s been going on. I don’t have a split personality. It’s all Howard’s doing. But why would he do it?” Linda thought, trying to steady her trembling hands.

Howard was the only one who could answer this question for her, but of course, she wasn’t about to come out and ask him. Instead, Linda took the video footage from the camera and went to the nearest police station.