And every now and then, when Leo replays the final recording of that stream, he swears he sees a third shadow in the frame — someone else still trapped inside the old AverMedia driver, waiting for another lost soul to find the file.

Leo had been saving for months. Finally, he held the AverMedia GL310 in his hands — a sleek, red game capture card that promised to turn his retro gaming streams into high-quality videos.

Standing in the doorway, pale and confused, was his uncle.

But as Leo played the first few seconds of Super Mario World , something odd happened. The video feed glitched — not with static, but with a flicker of a room he didn’t recognize. A desk, an old CRT monitor, and a calendar showing .

The GL310’s light flickered once… and went dark for good.

The driver loaded. OBS detected the source. His SNES showed up on screen, pixel-perfect.

He plugged it in, installed the software, and… nothing.