It happened again. That is the entire point of this entry, that it happened again, and I want to be precise about what again means because people use that word loosely and I cannot afford to. Same location, specifically the northeast corner of the lot that has the dumpsters against the back fence, same time within a window I can estimate at under six minutes, and the same configuration, meaning the same posture, the same direction of attention. The photograph I took is the documentation. Look at where the figure is standing. Look at the shadow angle. Compare it to the one I took eleven days ago. The shadow angle is not the same because the shadow angle would shift with the season and the time of day, but the position relative to the dumpster and the fence is the same. That is not accident. That is a held position.

The part I want to address directly is the thing I hear every time I explain this, which is: maybe it is a regular person who parks there or uses that area. I have thought about that. I have thought about it more carefully than the people who suggest it. A regular person who uses that area for a regular purpose does not maintain the same body orientation. A regular person moves. A regular person responds to stimuli like cars pulling in or people walking past. This figure does not. The figure is oriented toward my building in both photographs. The orientation is the same. Whatever the figure is attending to, it is consistent, and it is not the dumpsters.

I took the second photograph from behind the curtain at the angle that gives the least distortion from the glass. I was careful. I am keeping both photographs in the documentation because the repetition is the evidence and the evidence has to be preserved in sequence or it loses its meaning. You have to see them together. Once is nothing. Twice is not coincidence. Twice at that interval, in that position, is a claim.