Late one night, four-year-old Emma ran to her mother’s room, crying that a “man in a mask” was hiding under her bed.
Her mother tried to calm her, insisting it must have been a nightmare.
But Emma wouldn’t stop shaking.
To reassure her, her mother looked under the bed — nothing.
Still, Emma begged her to call the police.
Reluctantly, she did.
When officers arrived, they found Emma crouched on the bedroom floor, clutching her stuffed bunny.
She pointed to her bed and whispered,
“He’s hiding from you.”
The police searched the room — under the bed, the closet, the hallway — but found no sign of anyone.
Some of them assumed Emma had imagined it.
Still, one officer suggested checking the home’s smart-security recording “just to be safe.”
They rewound the footage to the moment Emma had run from the room.
At first, nothing seemed unusual — the girl asleep, quiet house…
Then one officer paused the screen.
A dark figure wearing a mask could be seen crawling out from under Emma’s bed — just seconds before she woke up.
Everyone froze.
The man crawled silently out of the room, slipping down the hall and disappearing through the back door.
He had been hiding there… watching her sleep.
Police immediately secured the home and called for backup.
They later discovered that the masked intruder had been breaking into homes across the area — and had never been caught until that night.
Emma’s alarm may have saved her life.
The officers praised the little girl for speaking up, reminding her mother — and everyone — that sometimes children see what adults overlook.
