{"id":144,"date":"2025-09-07T09:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2025-09-07T09:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:47:29","slug":"i-thought-i-was-losing-my-mind-until-i-opened-his-old-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"I Thought I Was Losing My Mind\u2014Until I Opened His Old Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">I came home to find my boyfriend Rayan asleep, but then saw him showering in the bathroom. Panicked, I shouted about an intruder. He told me to run to the car and call 911, but police found no one\u2014no forced entry, no footprints, just an unlocked back door. Rayan swore he was in bed, but I saw someone identical to him: same build, tattoo, smile. I wasn\u2019t hallucinating.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Strange events escalated. Footsteps downstairs at 3 a.m., the kitchen faucet turning on briefly, but no one was there. We installed cameras. For weeks, nothing\u2014until footage showed two Rayans entering with groceries, one never leaving. He claimed he was at the dentist, but his phone was dead, and he couldn\u2019t explain the video.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rayan revealed he once worked for a startup creating \u201cProfile Cloning\u201d software, making digital and physical decoys for rich clients. He quit when it turned unethical, but his profile wasn\u2019t deleted. Cameras later caught a not-quite-Rayan in our home, moving oddly. A woman claiming to be his ex warned me his past was catching up.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We went dark, ditched phones, and hid in rural Ontario. A USB drive later arrived, showing Rayan in multiple cities simultaneously\u2014and me at our coffee shop when I wasn\u2019t there. We exposed the AI firm behind it, went public, and the clones stopped. Now, in a quiet town, we\u2019re healing, but always watchful. Trust your instincts\u2014truth leaves footprints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came home to find my boyfriend Rayan asleep, but then saw him showering in the bathroom. Panicked, I shouted about an intruder. He told me to run to the car and call 911, but police found no one\u2014no forced entry, no footprints, just an unlocked back door. Rayan swore he was in bed, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}