Part 1

It started in an ordinary parking lot on an otherwise quiet afternoon, when Shannon noticed something unusual wrapped tightly around the handle of a parked car. At first glance, it looked like nothing more than a thin ribbon or piece of string, casually tied as if forgotten or discarded. But as she moved closer, she realized the knot was deliberate, almost too neat to be accidental. The unsettling detail made her pause, unsure whether she was overthinking what she was seeing. Still, something about it felt wrong enough that she decided to record it, capturing the strange object on video before walking further down the row of cars. Just as she thought it might be an isolated case, she spotted another vehicle nearby with the exact same type of string tied in the same unsettling manner, hinting that there might be more to the discovery than she initially believed…