It was the sound that came first. Pop…pop…pop…pop.
In the middle of the night, the man’s partner woke up to what “sounded like popcorn popping in the microwave,” he told us. At first, the woman didn’t register what was going on, then she realized the popping sound was coming from her phone, a Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus that she had put on charge before going to bed, and one that was now sizzling on her carpet.