Video Surveillance Footage That Shows Us All The Weird Things That Happen Unbeknownst To Everyone Around

There are so many forms of video surveillance these days, like the Ring Video that is activated by movement and actually captures a pretty wide area.

Most scary things are magnified at night. I remember when my husband worked the night shift and I was home alone; I often sat with many lights on (or off for fear the wrong person would take notice), and every bump, creak, or slight movement freaked me out.

I cannot tell you how many times one of my own children scared the air straight out of my lungs.

My husband and I have considered getting some video surveillance set up for when we aren't home, but I almost feel like this is the one time I enjoy being oblivious and naive. I love where we live; it's very isolated, but that can have its drawbacks as well.

I hope I never have a story resembling the ones you'll read below.

1. I wouldn't believe it without video footage.

“In the late 90s and early 00s, my family would put these plastic candy canes along the driveway with Christmas lights strung across the bottoms.

Shortly after installing them, a particular wire was cut in the middle of the night. My dad repaired the wire, and it happened again the next night. And the next night.

It became a conspiracy on our cul-de-sac to the point where fingers were being pointed at our neighbor, teenagers, etc. Neighbors set up video cameras in their windows pointed directly at our driveway. My dad even rented one and set it up.

After two weeks of this, my dad woke me up at 2 a.m. and asked me to come look at the viewfinder on the camera.

It was a rabbit. Every night, it would trek the same path, find the wire in its way, and snip it with its teeth.

Half of our neighbors found this hilarious, while a select few were kind of disappointed at the lackluster conclusion.

We ended up lifting the wire higher off the ground so the bunny could go under, and needless to say, the wire-cutting bandit never struck again.”

2. I'm not sure how I would've reacted in this particular situation.

“I see crazy stuff all the time. One of the creepiest things I have seen was a string of toys moving on its own down an aisle. It was like a duck with smaller ducks. Of course, I had to investigate. When I zoomed in, I was surprised to see that they were real ducks.”

3. Although we live in the country, I've pondered hard about getting video surveillance just for times like this.

“I have a home security system.

I left for work one morning, walked out my back door, got in my car, and pulled out of my driveway.

The moment I left the driveway, a homeless would-be burglar came out from hiding on the side of my house and tried to open my back door. When he found it locked, he reluctantly wandered off after looking around a bit.

I never would have known if it weren’t for the cameras.

Makes you wonder what goes on without your knowledge…”

4. Some things even video can't explain.

“I edited together the footage from the security cameras outside Pulse before, during, and after the shooting. Though there were many sad and/or disturbing things to be seen, the strange one was a wounded man that appeared out of nowhere.

He waved his hands for help, and the cops came over and carried him to safety. I tried numerous times to rewind to find out where he came from, but he was just there or he wasn’t. He didn’t crawl to where he had gotten; he just appeared.

He looked like he made it out okay.”

5. Hmmm... Maybe a ghost was caught instead?

“I worked in a maximum-security prison for a while. I was assigned to central control one night, which is where the camera screens were.

One of the cameras was for the classifications room. I glanced at it, and there was an inmate in there. This was super odd because it was two in the morning and nobody was supposed to be in there. Everyone that had keys to that room went home at 5.

Anyways, this inmate was just sitting in there doing nothing. I got the sergeant’s attention and told him someone was in there, and I gave him the spare key to the room. He went to check it out with a couple of other people, but by the time they got there, the room was empty. They searched for about 15 minutes, but there was definitely no one in there.”

6. This one has me shook.

“I used to see little crescent-shaped light orbs floating around the back dock of a nursing home where I did a little security work when I was young.

The first time I saw it, I thought it was a reflection of a flashlight and that somebody was screwing around behind the building. I jumped up and ran to that door, only to find that it was pitch dark and no movement of any kind was going on.

The only explanation I was ever able to come up with is that it had something to do with the electrical panel energizing when the AC units would kick on. I don’t know for sure, but it made me feel a little better.

Also, around that time, the nurses found a cat that had been deboned, sprawled out on the sidewalk in front of the healthcare entrance. Paws and skull were the only hard bits left.”

7. This one has my heart thumping in my chest.

“I used to work at a place that required staffing 24 hours a day. I handled sensitive documents/files, and if somebody needed this information in the middle of the night, I would have to fetch it for them. Anyway, security is kind of tight. There are bars on the windows and multiple locked doors to get to where I am. They would give me work to do during the night but underestimated how quickly I could get it done. So, like most nights, I finished my work in about 30 to 45 minutes and pulled out my phone to play games.

Now, it was getting to be the last third of my shift when all of a sudden I heard a door close. I looked at the security camera and saw someone walking down a hall toward my room. At first, I thought it was just somebody who came in early, so I turned around and waited for them to come in. But nobody came in, and the hairs started rising on my back.

This isn’t a really big building, so I figured I’d find the guy wherever he was and started checking offices and storage rooms but came up empty-handed. However, I did see that a fire door had shut. I went to try and rewind the camera, but the digital recording was password protected, and I didn’t know the password. Anyway, the whole thing freaked me out, the way the person was walking down the hallway, like a determined walk right to where I was.

So, I sat with my spine tingling for the last couple of hours of my shift, and finally, people started coming in. My replacement showed up, and I told her what I saw. At this point, I figured I must have imagined the whole thing. I was told to go home, and the manager and the girl who replaced me would look over the camera. After getting home, I called my manager and asked what was on the camera. They said that the video showed the fire door closing, but then the video froze for about an hour. The next thing it recorded was me reopening the door.”

8. What in the...

“The security guy showed me footage of an old man standing outside the building at 4 in the morning for an hour or so each night. This happened for a few weeks, then suddenly he never came back.”

9. Let's hope they weren't up to no good?

“This happened a few years before I started working at my current job. The elevators in my building go down to the first and second basement. Late one night, one of our security guards spotted a group of people heading into the elevator at Level 4. He thought it was curious because nobody is supposed to be in the building after midnight, so he kept a close watch on all the lobby cameras to see which floor the group got out at.

The doors opened at basement two, but nobody came out. The second guard scurried down to the elevator doors while the first guard kept his eye on the cameras to make sure no one had left. When the second guard got to the basement elevator, he looked puzzled and searched around. He came back to the guard station to confirm that it was empty.

Putting the building on lockdown, the two guards spent the rest of the night combing the building together, but they were unable to find anyone or anything. They decided to call the police, who reviewed the footage and saw the same thing. In the end, the sighting was still unexplained, but my workplace decided to stop being cheap and install security cameras in the elevators too.”

10. Ah snap!

“I have cameras on my front and back doors that send video to my phone when they detect movement. I was out of town and woke up to see several police officers walking around in my front and back yard. I called my neighbor to find out what had happened and found out that someone had crashed their car through my back fence, which borders the highway.”

11. Sometimes our brains DO manifest things.

“I used to work part-time doing surveillance work for an art gallery. I went in horribly sick one day because I worked on a contract and had to meet a quota for so many hours; otherwise, I’d have to make it up elsewhere.

So, here I am with a fever and a trashcan, dripping sweat and staring at these screens when, all of a sudden, on the lower gallery, I see this black oozing mass creeping across the floor. It just kind of slithered across the brick, up the wall, pooled into a perfect circle in the middle of the room. Then, it stood up into this weird, elongated shadow person with spindly arms and no eyes, “looked” up at the camera, then very rapidly melted back into the floor and bolted toward the hallway that led to my desk.

I screamed bloody murder. Then, I threw up.

Also, no, that thing wasn’t really there. I was just way sicker than I thought; it was a fever hallucination. My boss came in and sent me home shortly after she came to see if I had died.”

12. Holy smokes!

“I had a game camera out once, and I had a neighbor who would just walk through my property (I didn’t care; the place is pretty and there’s no back fence). But I kept having sheep go missing, so I set out a camera.

The camera caught my neighbor walking by, then, like 30 seconds later, a mountain lion walked by, stalking him. It apparently never attacked, as he was fine, but he had no idea how close he was to that thing.”

13. How is this even possible?!

“I used to work security at a college dorm, and I once witnessed one of the doors on a washing machine slowly open itself and proceed to tear itself clean off of the machine. I told my boss this ‘creepy story’ and showed him the video, and he made me review camera footage for the rest of the night to find out who broke the machine, despite the fact that he watched it break itself.”

14. Say what now?!

“I was storing my bike at work while I moved to a new apartment. One day in the middle of the week, I came into the office, walked past the bike rack, and noticed that it was completely empty. The building has a bunch of security cameras, and one more or less is facing the bike rack since it’s adjacent to the front entryway.

I sat and watched the security tape with the IT guy. We were watching, saw everyone leave the office the night before, saw my bike, kept watching, then all of a sudden, poof, bike gone. We slowed the tape down, and it seemed like when you’re watching digital cable or satellite and the image gets garbled.

Literally, it was bike there, then poof gone. In the tape’s timestamp, it literally happened in one second. I assume my bike got taken to the upside down.”

15. DUDE WHAT. Definitely saved the creepiest of the creepy for last!

“I was house sitting in a huge house and set up a canary camera near my bedroom. I had an uneasy feeling someone else was in the house with me, so I set up the camera just to make sure no one came near my room. In the middle of the night, someone approached it from behind and turned it so it faced a blank wall. Then, a few minutes later, they turned it back the way it was before. It tripped the canary, and I got a notification on my phone. I saw it and searched the house thoroughly the next morning and never found anything.

Needless to say, I slept with my door locked for the rest of my time there.”