00:00When police entered the Bell Street house two weeks later, they found it unlocked and cold.
00:05There were no signs of a break-in, no fingerprints, no disturbance. Just an unlit hallway,
00:11a cup of tea long gone cold, and a shattered mirror. It had fractured from the inside out.
00:18Mrs. Dunning, the neighbor, claimed she saw Irene in the window that morning,
00:23standing perfectly still, as if waiting for someone. But when officers searched the house,
00:28she was gone. They collected the glass, bagged it, stored it. A month later, a clerk at Evidence
00:34Lockup quit suddenly, saying he heard scratching from inside the container. The case was closed,
00:39cause of disappearance unknown. But the house remains unsold. And if you walk Bell Street on
00:45a foggy night and glance up at the second-floor window, you just might see a flicker of someone
00:50watching you back.
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