The Intruder
On 6 september 2009 at 11:15 PM a call came in at 112, the Dutch equivalent of 911. On the line was a woman who lived in one of the stately old houses in the Old South part of Amsterdam. She was hysterical.
She screamed for help, claiming that someone was trying to get inside her home. All the while there was the sound of glass breaking in the background. The dispatchers tried to calm her down, telling her to go somewhere safe, but after a few seconds the line went dead.
Cops arrived at the house only to find the front and back door were locked. They went inside and found the woman on the living room floor, strangled. In her hand she held a baseball bat, still clutching it tight even in death. There were pieces of broken glass in her hair and sticking out of her other hand.
When they searched the home they found no sign of a break in or of an intruder like the woman had described on the phone. But they did find all of the mirrors in the house had been smashed. Blood on some indicated that the woman had done it by hand first, before she had found and used a baseball bat. All of the mirrors, except for one that hung in the living room.
Police set aside the theory of an intruder and instead went looking in another direction. They were wrong.
Something did get into that house that night. It didn't use a door or a window. It used something nearly every home has, something it can use freely, without ever being caught. Something that may even be in your home.
Do you have a mirror in the room with you. Then smash it now.
She screamed for help, claiming that someone was trying to get inside her home. All the while there was the sound of glass breaking in the background. The dispatchers tried to calm her down, telling her to go somewhere safe, but after a few seconds the line went dead.
Cops arrived at the house only to find the front and back door were locked. They went inside and found the woman on the living room floor, strangled. In her hand she held a baseball bat, still clutching it tight even in death. There were pieces of broken glass in her hair and sticking out of her other hand.
When they searched the home they found no sign of a break in or of an intruder like the woman had described on the phone. But they did find all of the mirrors in the house had been smashed. Blood on some indicated that the woman had done it by hand first, before she had found and used a baseball bat. All of the mirrors, except for one that hung in the living room.
Police set aside the theory of an intruder and instead went looking in another direction. They were wrong.
Something did get into that house that night. It didn't use a door or a window. It used something nearly every home has, something it can use freely, without ever being caught. Something that may even be in your home.
Do you have a mirror in the room with you. Then smash it now.