It’s 2019. Britain and James Campbellwho have just returned from their hot vacation week at their home in Honolulu, Hawaii, cannot open the front door. Thus begins the gruesome story of a couple and their intruder.

the caveat is worth it: The story goes from worse to worse and it wouldn’t be surprising if we saw it fictionalized in a Netflix or HBO blockbuster in the future.

When James tried to break into the house, he noticed that someone – or something – was forcing him from the inside. He was a man. So he instructed his desperate wife to call the police while he was looking for a cane to get anyone in their house out as soon as possible.

By force, James managed to find the intruder and pushed him onto the front lawn. Surprisingly, in the middle of the fight, when he found himself face to face in the light, he noticed something extremely strange: the man was wearing his clothes.

Within minutes, the police arrived, took the offender and began investigating what had happened.

be a doctor

The strange visitor was called Ezekiel Zayas. I was 23 at the time.

When they entered their home, James and Brittany noticed that things weren’t how they left them. everything was confused.

Checking their home computer, they found something truly shocking. Not only were there knives on the PC desktop, but they were registered on it a diary and reports about them. At that moment they discovered that Zayas had not been home for a few minutes. He had been there for at least a few days.

Notes titled “The Omnivore Trials: A Rehabilitation for Rat-Like People” appeared in the folders created on his computer. Even a “manifesto” with “terrifying” projects for them.

In the “manifesto”, Zayas left a trace of how he would at least perform “sexual reconstruction” and a “hand transplant” on the Campbells.

“He wanted to play doctor with us, and not the cute way kids do. (She wrote about) how she could make us perfect people, ”Brittany said.

Another disgusting object found on his computer was a nude video of Zayas sitting in James’s chair.

Although the intruder has physically disappeared from the couple’s life, the character continued to be spiritually present in his home. Over the past few months, the Campbells have noticed that their computer’s camera has been turned on multiple times at night, that doors sometimes open on their own, or that their dog is now barking for no reason.

What really happened?

Nobody knows. It was never clear how Zayas got into the house or how long he was there.

The most disturbing thing for the Campbells is that Ezequiel uncovered very confidential information about both of them and jotted it down in his diary. One of these was that Brittany was undergoing fertility treatments.

After his arrest, Zayas was detained twice more, once for robbery and once for alleged vandal of a Buddhist temple. And that’s not all: while he was in prison for this latest crime, Ezequiel allegedly murdered a 62-year-old fellow inmate.

Eventually, the man was charged with first and second degree murder in October 2020 and later found not guilty, as “he was found unfit to prosecute.” Today, the offender resides at Hawaii State Hospital awaiting trial.

phrogging

The story of the Campbells was told in Lifetime’s new real detective show “Phruging: Hider in My House”.

This edition explores the crime known as “phrogging” (or frog, as they say in Spanish), in which criminals are people who enter a home without permission and spend time there without those who live there noticing. A great example of fiction is that of the award-winning film Parasites family.

The Campbell case occupies the first half of the first program of the television signal.