How To Know If A Surveillance Camera Is On
Whether it's a business or a home, surveillance cameras are fundamental in identifying unwanted situations on a property. While footage might show a frightening intruder, sometimes the cameras end upward recording some seriously bizarre situations. These Redditors describe some of the craziest things they've seen on surveillance cameras. From surprising animals to property destruction, the footage is pretty unforgettable — and crazy.
This Wasn't Simba
I had a game camera out once and I had a neighbor who would but walk through my property. I didn't intendance; the place is pretty and at that place's no dorsum fence. Just I kept having sheep go missing, and so I set up out a camera.
The camera defenseless my neighbor walking past. Then, like 30 seconds later, a mount lion walked past, stalking him. Information technology plainly never attacked as he was fine, but he had no idea how shut he was to that thing.
–deleted user
Wrong Floor, Pal
I used to work overnights at a hotel and would monitor the security cameras. They would detect motion, and a picayune indicator would blink when motion was detected. Anyway, it ever gave me the creeps when I'd hear the elevator ding. I'd run out to the foyer to greet the guest to make sure they didn't demand something, and nobody would get off the elevator. I'd watch the tapes and meet the motion indicator blinking on a flooring, then see the elevator open on that floor. Then I'd see the lift open up on the ground floor and the motility indicator blink on the photographic camera downwards the hall. It gave me the heebie-jeebies.
–BurberryCustardbath
Stranger in the House
I was business firm-sitting in a huge identify and gear up a security camera near the sleeping room. I had an uneasy feeling someone else was in the house with me, and then I set the photographic camera simply to make sure no ane came near my room. In the middle of the dark, someone approached the camera from behind and turned it so it faced a blank wall. Then a few minutes later on they turned it back the way it was earlier. It tripped the security settings and I got a notification on my phone. I saw it and searched the house thoroughly the next morning but never found annihilation. Needless to say, I slept with my door locked the rest of my time there.
–Chouston3
On the Loose
I worked in a maximum-security prison house for a while. I was assigned to central control ane 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 ii a.one thousand. and nobody was supposed to exist in at that place. Everyone who had keys to that room went home at 5.
Then, this inmate is only sitting in in that location doing nothing. I got the sergeant's attending, told him someone was in at that place and gave him the spare key to the room. He went to go check it out with a couple of other people, but by the fourth dimension they got in that location, the room was empty. They searched for like 15 minutes simply in that location was definitely no one in there.
–Bb21297
Taken for a Ride
I used to have an flat pretty shut to my function. The part building was kind of in a business commune, but information technology was also kind of off on its ain relative to the city'southward commercial commune "footprint."
I sold the apartment and, before moving into my new home, I left my bicycle chained to the building's bike rack. It was just going to be in that location for a few days in that no man's land earlier I was able to motion into the new place.
Anyway, one day in the middle of the week, I come into the role, walk past the bike rack and notice that it'due south completely empty. The edifice has a agglomeration of security cameras and 1 more or less is facing the bike rack since it'southward next to the forepart entryway. I sit and watch the security tape with the IT guy. We're watching. We run into everyone get out the office the night before and see the wheel. Nosotros keep watching, and all all of a sudden, poof — the bike is gone. In the tape's timestamp it literally happened in one second. I assume my wheel got taken to the Upside Down.
–tjs252
A Ghost Probably Did It
I used to work security at a college dorm, and I once witnessed one of the doors on a washing machine slowly open up itself and proceed to tear itself clean off of the machine. I told my boss this creepy story and showed him the video. He made me review camera footage for the rest of the nighttime to notice out who bankrupt the machine, despite the fact that he watched it suspension itself.
–beatsnstuffz
Survival of the Fittest
I used to manage a retail swimming pool store, and we had a squeamish koi pond in the side grand. I chiefly cared for it, feeding the fish and cleaning out the leaves/filter. I named all the fish and grew to care about them.
And so 1 twenty-four hours I was walking through the side yard to become to the dorsum role when I noticed there were no fish in the pond. It'due south not a big pond, maybe a pes or so at its deepest and 7 feet long. It'southward not like they were all hiding! At showtime I thought someone hopped the argue at night and stole the fish — koi are expensive, subsequently all. I reviewed the security footage from the dark earlier to try and catch the cretin who did this. And at 6 a.grand., I defenseless him.
A giant heron with a 6-human foot wingspan came down and helped himself to some fish for breakfast. Luckily one of the fish survived. He afterward came out of some hidey hole in the wall. He was named Subway because he was about a human foot long. We bought more fish to keep him company and I made a rock cove roofing over one-half the swimming so they could flee in instance the heron came back.
–smallof2pieces
What Did the Barrier Do to Her?
I used to piece of work every bit hospital security, and nosotros had video cameras attainable in the office. One time nosotros were eating lunch, watching the cams in the parkade. There was a barrier that went down to block the exit until you lot paid. Some lady in a minivan pulled up really slowly to the arm, stopped so put the pedal to the metal. She blasted through the arm blockade, snapping information technology into smithereens. She then stopped on the other side for a adept 30 seconds before casually driving off. Considering she did information technology and then casually, we assume it was intentional.
–LilithImmaculate
A Burning Issue
I worked Information technology for a cord of retail stores. I was asked to back up the information from an incident. Information technology was a disheveled-looking man who came into the store only before midnight. He had crazy hair. He went right to the lighter display and started selecting lighters and placing them directly to his ear. To hear the hissing of the butane? I don't know. But on the 5th lighter or so, he hitting the flint. The lighter fired upward, and his crazy hair burst into flames. He swatted at his hair with not bad speed. The flames went out, merely his hair was…singed. Badly.
I had a expert laugh, backed upward the data to a USB stick and handed it to the staff. No idea how information technology all played out.
–CitizenTed
Cops Took Out the Real Trash
This was on my home surveillance system. There was a home invasion robbery near me, and so subsequently the cops came (and arrested the perps) I checked for surveillance footage.
There'south me, taking out the trash. Less than 10 feet from me, the two cars (a total of six criminals) made a U-plough in front of my firm before committing the crime.
And so the criminals literally drove past me and and then drove upwardly the street to exercise a robbery. They broke in the back door of a house where 2 teenagers were dwelling lone. The kids hid and chosen the cops. Nobody got hurt, and the cops arrested all the crooks.
–GotMyOrangeCrush
Seize the Twenty-four hours
I help run tech support for a regional convenience store chain. About 2 months ago, we had a crazy occurrence of 3 people having seizures in our stores (3 different stores) in the same day. Here's the kicker: They all happened inside a range of 10 minutes. I have access to each store'southward tapes and watched the first happen, and then two minutes afterward saw the seizure at another store. Then seven minutes after I saw it happen at a tertiary store.
–weeds96
Orb to be Wild
I was installing CCTV in a retirement residence apartment and didn't have a hard drive to save the recording. I gear up up four cameras with the monitor in the sleeping room. The other tech and I were in the bedchamber looking at the screen, and we noticed a glowing orb on the living room camera going around the room and heading towards the hallway.
We checked the hallway camera and the orb moved to that screen and went down the hall towards the door of the room we were continuing in. We both, without saying anything, just turned and stared at the door, but nothing appeared. I've worked with CCTV for many years and never saw any orbs like that earlier or ever again.
–Klyde87
Cypher Similar a Challenge
I piece of work nights at a hotel, and in that location's this kind of odd family unit living on the floor higher up me. I watch the cameras then I can sit down and chill. Fairly oft in the centre of the dark, an older lady who lives in that location comes out and runs backwards to the leave, I presume for a smoke. It'due south nothing terribly abnormal for a dark-owl family, I guess, but she RUNS and runs BACKWARDS every fourth dimension she comes out. Actually odd.
–DarksoraXIII
Gone to the Dogs
I have cameras upwards around the front of my house because nosotros had our car broken into 3 times one year earlier the law close downwardly the gang doing it.
One Christmas Eve, we're most 45 minutes from the house. My neighbour calls and tells me that my ii Rottweilers are sitting on my porch and won't let anyone approach them. I race dwelling house and discover the gate open up. I immediately put them dorsum in the yard and get go a lock for the fence. The whole time this is going on, my wife is telling me that the dogs probably pushed the gate open up, which is a reasonable assumption.
So it'south actually bugging me because I've never had a lock on my fences and neither dog had tried to escape in 3 years. I review the tape, and these two guys go to the side gate and endeavor to steal my dogs! The male person is easily 85 pounds and the female is 65 pounds. The video was hilarious because these ii guys were running for their lives to an SUV parked ii houses downwards with both dogs all over them. Then afterwards they left, the dogs went to the porch to prevarication downwardly to wait.
–oscurotek
A Wild Turn of Events
I used to exist the barback at a pizza place/brewery, and on most nights that included billowy duties to kick out unruly people. The identify was correct past the beach and then we had a lot of people who were homeless come through. One night an older homo came in with a bamboo staff and was waving it effectually like he was going to hitting someone. I had to grab the guy and have his staff and drag him outside.
He wouldn't leave, so we called the police and I had to wait in that location for the cops to show upwards. Once they got there, I told them what happened and went dorsum inside to have my break. I was in the part watching the police talk to the guy on the outside cameras when of a sudden a Lotus pulled up behind the cop auto. A guy in a suit got out and talked to the cop as he uncuffed the man. The human got in the Lotus with the guy in the suit and they collection off. It was pretty weird.
–Rafaeliki
A Sneaky Deal
I used to work surveillance for a casino. I've seen people fume and proceed to clean their cars for an 60 minutes or more at similar 4 a.thou. The funniest matter I've seen is someone literally selling the stock stereo out of his truck (it wasn't stolen; he was a regular and always drove the truck).
Anyway, they practice the deal and the guy comes to trade the coin for I think singles or something. The money is counterfeit. We had a adept laugh at that one for a while. Besides, exist careful with your phones; our cameras could encounter everything people texted if we thought someone was sketchy or nosotros were simply bored.
–beebs914
Up Confronting the Wall
I work in a retail store, and for a while, I worked security there. Watching the security cameras wasn't technically my job, but we were consistently short-staffed in that section and the director was grooming me for promotion. So, I got to fill in and lookout the cameras occasionally.
One day when nosotros were reviewing footage from overnights, we saw this teenager calmly set downwardly his shopping handbasket, take off his lid and glasses and simply charge at a wall. He hit it head-on. He did this two more times. When he was washed, his face up was a mess, and he put his hat and glasses back on and just left.
–Agnol117
That Was a Nowadays, Dude
I used to work Information technology at a university, and last Easter we had a pause-in. We found the footage of the guy going in at two p.m., leaving at around iii and not really taking anything. Fast forward to 7 p.m. The guy comes back in and is walking around the auditorium until 6 a.m. the side by side morning. In that time he proceeded to strip into his underwear, steal and vesture a mask the Japanese exchange students fabricated for the instructor and and then steal 6 full bags of random items.
–MacZilliren
An Almost Tragic Fall
I worked at a hydropower institute in NC. The meridian was a walkway with a 30-pes drop off the back. A drunk grouping of guys is playing effectually on the edge. We see them on the cams, so nosotros telephone call the government. In the meantime, one of them falls.
The affair is, the water on the back side is being pulled into the dam. He falls into the penstock. We think he'southward dead after the thirty-foot fall, getting sucked underwater, going through the cage and coming out. Nosotros leave to notice the body, and we observe him, coughing and bruised.
–Neven87
Peekaboo!
I used to piece of work from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. At around iii or iv a.m., I would get-go seeing things due to isolation and lack of sleep. There were many times I jumped to the cameras to encounter if what I was seeing was real or not. I often thought I saw people watching me and jumping off the parking garage next door.
But it was never existent, then I stopped worrying about information technology — until ane night I saw someone watching me and thought naught of information technology. That was until I went to do a patrol and it turned out the person was existent and had been staring at me for 20 minutes. At that indicate, I but ran dorsum inside and decided I was done with my patrols for the night.
–meghanlevy
Allow the Bottle Striking the Flooring
I worked as a valet dorsum in the day at a very loftier-terminate hotel and had some friends who worked in other areas of the hotel as bartenders, servers and security. Subsequently decorated Friday and Saturday nights, nosotros all get called in like all hands on deck — every member of the staff. The hotel managing director is fuming. They had set out a bottle of wine that toll something like $25,000. When they came in Lord's day morning in grooming for a very important guest, the wine bottle was smashed on the flooring. Anybody denied doing anything, so it but kind of went abroad without anyone hearing near what happened.
A few days later, my buddy in security showed me the bar footage. I can clearly come across the director place the bottle on the bar and then go out and close up. And then I see the bottle is slightly moved, virtually like a true cat knocking a pen off the table. So, bam! The bottle hits the footing and shatters. There are what look like footprints without shoes going back and along. There were tons of various stories about the place existence haunted, but that was the kickoff video evidence I'd seen.
–notafantasyexpert
Making Sheep's Eyes at Yous
I worked in a 24/7 filling station outside of a large town in Ireland. The area is pretty rural and is really nighttime at night. The forecourt has a motion-activated cablegram that lets night crew inside know in that location'south movement outside. The buzzer went off 1 fourth dimension during my shift, so I looked exterior but couldn't run across anyone…
…only a heavily meaning ewe staring back at me, I went to telephone my dad for him to come to see if he knew who information technology belonged to. Equally I dialed his number, the ewe turned around. At that place were two trivial legs sticking out; it was giving birth right then and there.
–CSATDidNothingWrong
Every bit You lot Wish
I worked at a hobby bill of fare shop about 12 years ago. I get to work 1 morning time and the police are already in that location. We'd had a burglary and had some stuff stolen. Our Information technology guy gets in and pulls up the video from the dark before. We see a person'south shadow walk in front end of the door a few times, and and then somewhen the thief throws an object through the drinking glass, smashing it. He runs in, hops the counter, throws some Yu-Gi-Oh! booster boxes into a trash purse and runs back out.
We rewind and freeze the picture to get a proficient look at the intruder. Nosotros then realize the thief is wearing a Boba Fett helmet. We all exclaim, "It'due south Boba Fett!" and get-go laughing hysterically just as ane of the officers walks upwards. She says, "Oh, so yous know the guy?" We and so continue to lose it even more. Needless to say, Orlando'southward Finest never caught upwardly to Boba Fett.
–banstylejbo
Going Out With a Bang
I was a cop in the Air Force. One night while working the operations center, I notice information technology looks like one of the gates to our airfield, shared with a major business and local airport, is on the basis.
I radio my patrols to become bank check information technology out and all I hear is, "Uh, control?" I say, "The gate is on the ground isn't it?" I fix up a makeshift checkpoint with my people and call the airport and local law.
After they arrive I review the footage and see this car end at our gate, back up mayhap one-half a mile, intermission for a few minutes and so floor it. He turns toward our part of the airfield and either sees our big cargo planes or the two cops not paying attention on the flight line. He turns around. (Both of these officers got in trouble later for not seeing this.)
He and then floors it towards oncoming air traffic and is gone. I notify airport police that some guy is out in that location dodging airplanes, and their dispatcher leaves without hanging upwards the phone assuming to assist. They finally catch him after a short chase ending in a ditch with 2 empty bottles of vodka in the motorcar. He'south killing a third when they pull him out.
–kynickB4U
Aroma a Rat
It was the middle of the nighttime and I was working alone (watching security cameras) in an African country. Of a sudden, a BIG animal jumps off the roof and scuttles away into our courtyard by the front door. Terrified and about to call for backup, I pull upwards the recorded camera footage and replay it until I finally figure out what it was — a giant rat. I'm non sure how big those things can become, but this one looked like a medium-sized dog.
–tstubbs7
Scream Your Guts Out
The creepiest I've seen involved our neighbors. The lady had walked into the street at almost ii a.k. She was staring at the tempest bleed at the curb for virtually v minutes earlier she pulled a huge pocketknife (it seemed similar it was a foot long) out of her waistband and knelt down with her caput in the drain, screaming. This went on for about x minutes. Then she stood in that location and screamed at the ground before going inside.
–iRambes
The Register Isn't That Manner, Sir
I found a would-exist burglar in the back of a department store where I worked security. After a pretty scary confrontation, the cops came and I had to pull video and write a report. He had been lurking around the back storage surface area for a solid 30 minutes before we airtight and I found him. Information technology scared me to see team members walking around with him lurking in the shadows, going in and out of aisles in the back. I carried mace and was a full scaredy cat for a solid yr or so afterwards.
–Oregonian_Lynx
A Flurry of Papers
I worked the overnight shift as an nugget protection officeholder for a department store distribution center. When I was hired, people joked nearly it being haunted, and some warned me about it.
I was outside checking in my coworker who worked assisting the truckers, and I was watching their cameras. I watched my office being torn apart by…no one. Papers existence thrown, office chair pushed bated. I saw and heard a lot of weird things during my time there, but that scared me the virtually. And knowing I had to go dorsum inside after my outdoor rounds scared me even more.
–Peachgirllove90
The Quondam Switcheroo
20-iii years ago I was doing a job that involved monitoring some people through a CCTV photographic camera on a bus. It was hidden behind the mirror the driver uses to watch passengers. Well, it was odd because a guy was standing at the front almost the yellow line watching the route with the driver.
Then I see information technology. A middle-anile woman in the front has her purse on her lap with her hands resting on top of it. Seconds later, the purse kind of flashes away from her hands and is nether the seat. Then it'southward back to being on her lap. Then it's away again underneath her seat. Then it's back to being where it started on acme of her lap. Information technology was so infuriating that I went on a rampage.
–Panorama
Play a trick on or Care for
I actually do scout security cameras for a living — for a loftier-rise in a big city. Every Halloween, like a dozen of the folks in the company that works in at that place practise a big group Halloween costume. One year the theme was presidents. I year it was different characters from the same Boob tube prove. So on this particular Halloween, I'chiliad watching the cameras, not really thinking virtually Halloween. I glance at the lift cameras to meet an elevator door open, and a dozen women all dressed like The Grudge ghost enter the lift at once. It spooked me for a second!
–schmavid
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