[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content]
That is about 5 of our worst nightmares wrapped into one.
On Monday, Lifetime kicked off its new present Phrogging: Hider In My Home with a bang, with the household within the premiere episode telling the disturbing story of the time they caught a stranger hiding of their home — who was planning on surgically reworking them right into a race of deformed beings he known as “Omnivores.”
For individuals who don’t know, “phrogging” is the time period for when individuals uncover others secretly dwelling of their properties — normally in locations like partitions, crawl areas, and attics. And this explicit story is a doozy…
James and Brittany Campbell recounted the terrifying story, which initially made headlines again in 2019. The couple defined that after getting married and transferring to Honolulu with their two youngsters that yr, they began to note issues that weren’t including up. The 2 found their possessions have been transferring round, their webcam was turning on at night time, bins had been opened within the storage, and Brittany heard the door slam “out of nowhere.”
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Brittany stated the entire ordeal left her “on the verge of a whole psychological breakdown.”‘ However James, in the meantime, stated he thought “she was being paranoid” and that he was “getting annoyed” together with his spouse, regardless of seeing some bizarre exercise of his personal. The patriarch remembered seeing the shadow of an individual exterior their residence at some point, then coming throughout a weird message left on a desk calendar, studying:
“Your rehabilitation begins at present. Do as I did: Select a home, clear it, arrange all units.”
James stated he assumed his spouse wrote it for him and needed him to wash the home.
However they met the observe’s actual writer in September 2019 after touring to the mainland for every week. Once they returned, they knew one thing was unsuitable once they seen James’ bike was left within the driveway. Protecting the children within the automobile, James opened the storage and “noticed that it had simply been utterly trashed.”
James went to open the door to examine extra, however a person who was inside the house stored him from coming into. Brittany stated:
“It opens a crack and we will see an individual inside our home.”
James added:
“There’s a person peeking via the door, he’s attempting to carry it shut and the person says, ‘This isn’t your home,’ very calmly.”
James then made the startling realization that the stranger was sporting his garments, which made him assume the person was homeless and on medicine. After the person informed the couple he “took care of your cat” whereas they have been gone, Brittany ran inside to test on their pet, and located the feline inside a cage, with out water. To make issues even stranger, she stated the house appeared like he had been “doing a list” of every little thing inside.
Police arrived and arrested the person, who “was very informal” about the entire scenario, in keeping with the couple. Brittany added:
“It was actually as if this particular person didn’t suppose he was doing something out of the unusual.”
After the person, recognized within the press as Ezequiel Zayas on the time, was taken away, the couple continued to test round to see what he was as much as. They found he had executed all of their sons’ laundry, made their beds, and left the room “immaculate.” However once they bought to their very own bed room, they discovered a disturbing scene.
Of their bed room, the couple discovered a towel arrange with knives on it, subsequent to a pair of their computer systems. One laptop confirmed a textual content doc titled:
“The Omnivore Trials: a rehabilitation for rat like individuals.”
The textual content additionally included “intimate particulars” about issues the person “may have solely identified if he was listening to our non-public conversations,” the Campbells defined.
Brittany revealed:
“He by some means knew my husband and I have been attempting to have a child. He wrote that I ought to quit on attempting to have a child and concentrate on the youngsters that I’ve. This particular person had been watching us.”
Chilling.
Nevertheless it will get worse… Whereas talking to The Publish, Brittany stated the stranger “needed to play physician on us — and never within the cute little child means,” including that he aimed to “make us into good individuals.” The 2 detailed the person’s sick plans on the episode, with James sharing:
“These writings have been suggesting that surgical procedures needs to be carried out on my spouse and my youngsters. We discovered these serums which can be labeled to make use of on the ‘omnivores.’ He had been wanting up movies on methods to surgically take away an arm, he appeared up methods to do gender reassignment surgical procedure.”
WTF!?
Brittany went on to say the person had additionally checked out web sites to purchase surgical tables, and researched methods to carry out sure surgical procedures at residence. She defined:
“He had researched methods to implement these plans that he had.”
Brittany stated one other laptop had a video on it of Zayas apparently “mocking” her, with footage exhibiting him doing “like a make-up tutorial with a extremely weird twist on it.”
James summed up his ideas on the entire disturbing situation, telling viewers:
“There’s not even a single a part of me that will have thought, ‘Hey, there’s a man perhaps in our attic writing a medical manifesto who needs to rework my household to a species that he known as omnivores.’ Who would suppose that?”
We definitely wouldn’t!
The Campbells have since left Hawaii. Can’t say we blame them. We’d cross the nation to get away from that reminiscence, too!
In the meantime, Zayas was — SHOCKINGLY — granted supervised launch after his arrest. However he wound up getting arrested once more for allegedly burglarizing a temple. Whereas awaiting trial on the housebreaking expenses, he allegedly killed one other inmate; he was charged with first-degree homicide and second-degree homicide in 2020 and is at present awaiting trial in a psychological well being facility.
Check out only one clip from the present (beneath) for extra of the couple’s unsettling expertise with phrogging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0EBaNTCJy0
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