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In the recording, the car rounded a bend near the old Miller’s Creek bridge. At exactly 9:30 and 40 seconds, the sky in the video didn’t just brighten—it inverted. For three seconds, the midnight blue turned into a searing, neon violet. The trees on the roadside cast long, impossible shadows toward the car, and the radio emitted a sound like a choir singing through a vacuum cleaner.

Elias looked at his watch. It was 9:29 PM. Outside his window, the sky began to turn violet. Video_2022-05-27_at_93027_PMmp4

"They don’t have to believe us," a younger version of Elias replied from the driver’s seat. "We have the video." In the recording, the car rounded a bend