Just Like That It Was Never Seen Again
Whether it's a business organization or a home, surveillance cameras are key in identifying unwanted situations on a property. While footage might show a frightening intruder, sometimes the cameras end up recording some seriously bizarre situations. These Redditors describe some of the craziest things they've seen on surveillance cameras. From surprising animals to holding devastation, 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 just walk through my holding. I didn't care; the place is pretty and there's no back fence. Simply I kept having sheep go missing, and so I set up out a photographic camera.
The photographic camera defenseless my neighbor walking by. Then, like 30 seconds afterwards, a mount lion walked by, stalking him. Information technology patently never attacked as he was fine, but he had no idea how shut he was to that thing.
–deleted user
Incorrect Floor, Pal
I used to work overnights at a hotel and would monitor the security cameras. They would detect movement, and a little indicator would blink when motility was detected. Anyway, it always gave me the creeps when I'd hear the elevator ding. I'd run out to the lobby to greet the guest to brand sure they didn't need something, and nobody would get off the elevator. I'd spotter the tapes and see the motion indicator blinking on a flooring, then see the lift open on that floor. And then I'd see the elevator open up on the ground floor and the move indicator blink on the photographic camera down the hall. It gave me the heebie-jeebies.
–BurberryCustardbath
Stranger in the House
I was business firm-sitting in a huge place and set up up a security camera near the bedroom. I had an uneasy feeling someone else was in the house with me, so I set up the camera just to make certain no one came about my room. In the eye of the night, someone approached the camera from behind and turned information technology and so it faced a bare wall. Then a few minutes later they turned it dorsum the fashion it was before. Information technology tripped the security settings and I got a notification on my phone. I saw it and searched the firm thoroughly the next morn only never constitute anything. Needless to say, I slept with my door locked the rest of my time in that location.
–Chouston3
On the Loose
I worked in a maximum-security prison for a while. I was assigned to primal control i nighttime, which is where the photographic 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.m. and nobody was supposed to be in there. Anybody who had keys to that room went home at 5.
So, this inmate is merely sitting in at that place doing nothing. I got the sergeant'south attention, told him someone was in there and gave him the spare central to the room. He went to go check information technology out with a couple of other people, merely by the time they got there, the room was empty. They searched for like 15 minutes simply there was definitely no one in there.
–Bb21297
Taken for a Ride
I used to have an apartment pretty close to my office. The office building was kind of in a business district, but it was too kind of off on its ain relative to the city's commercial district "footprint."
I sold the apartment and, earlier moving into my new home, I left my bike chained to the building's wheel rack. It was only going to be there for a few days in that no homo's land before I was able to move into the new place.
Anyhow, 1 mean solar day in the middle of the calendar week, I come up into the function, walk past the bike rack and notice that information technology'south completely empty. The building has a agglomeration of security cameras and one 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. Nosotros're watching. We see everyone exit the function the nighttime earlier and run into the wheel. We keep watching, and of a sudden, poof — the cycle is gone. In the tape'south timestamp it literally happened in i second. I assume my bike got taken to the Upside Downwards.
–tjs252
A Ghost Probably Did It
I used to work security at a college dorm, and I one time witnessed one of the doors on a washing machine slowly open up itself and proceed to tear itself clean off of the automobile. I told my dominate this creepy story and showed him the video. He made me review camera footage for the residue of the night to discover out who broke the machine, despite the fact that he watched information technology break itself.
–beatsnstuffz
Survival of the Fittest
I used to manage a retail pond pool store, and we had a nice koi pond in the side yard. I importantly cared for information technology, feeding the fish and cleaning out the leaves/filter. I named all the fish and grew to care near them.
Then one solar day I was walking through the side 1000 to get to the back office when I noticed in that location were no fish in the pond. It's not a big swimming, maybe a pes or so at its deepest and 7 feet long. It'due south not similar they were all hiding! At first I thought someone hopped the fence at nighttime and stole the fish — koi are expensive, later on all. I reviewed the security footage from the night earlier to try and catch the cretin who did this. And at vi a.m., I defenseless him.
A giant heron with a 6-foot wingspan came down and helped himself to some fish for breakfast. Luckily one of the fish survived. He later came out of some hidey pigsty in the wall. He was named Subway because he was about a foot long. We bought more fish to keep him company and I made a rock cove covering over half the pond so they could abscond in case the heron came back.
–smallof2pieces
What Did the Barrier Exercise to Her?
I used to work equally hospital security, and we had video cameras attainable in the part. One time nosotros were eating tiffin, watching the cams in the parkade. In that location 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 and and so put the pedal to the metal. She blasted through the arm occludent, snapping it into smithereens. She then stopped on the other side for a proficient 30 seconds earlier casually driving off. Because she did it so casually, we presume it was intentional.
–LilithImmaculate
A Burning Effect
I worked Information technology for a string of retail stores. I was asked to back up the data from an incident. It was a disheveled-looking human being who came into the store just 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 fifth lighter or so, he hitting the flintstone. The lighter fired upward, and his crazy pilus burst into flames. He swatted at his hair with great speed. The flames went out, but his hair was…singed. Badly.
I had a good express joy, backed upwards the data to a USB stick and handed information technology to the staff. No idea how it all played out.
–CitizenTed
Cops Took Out the Real Trash
This was on my home surveillance organization. There was a dwelling house invasion robbery near me, and so subsequently the cops came (and arrested the perps) I checked for surveillance footage.
There'southward me, taking out the trash. Less than 10 feet from me, the two cars (a total of six criminals) made a U-turn in front of my house before committing the crime.
So the criminals literally drove past me and so collection upward the street to practice a robbery. They broke in the dorsum door of a firm where 2 teenagers were home alone. The kids hid and called the cops. Nobody got hurt, and the cops arrested all the crooks.
–GotMyOrangeCrush
Seize the Day
I aid run tech support for a regional convenience shop chain. Well-nigh two months ago, we had a crazy occurrence of 3 people having seizures in our stores (three different stores) in the same day. Hither'due south the kicker: They all happened inside a range of ten minutes. I have admission to each store's tapes and watched the beginning happen, and so two minutes later saw the seizure at another store. And so vii minutes later 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 four cameras with the monitor in the sleeping accommodation. The other tech and I were in the bedroom looking at the screen, and we noticed a glowing orb on the living room camera going effectually the room and heading towards the hallway.
We checked the hallway photographic camera and the orb moved to that screen and went downwardly the hall towards the door of the room we were standing 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 similar that before or e'er over again.
–Klyde87
Nothing Similar a Claiming
I piece of work nights at a hotel, and there's this kind of odd family living on the flooring above me. I watch the cameras so I can sit and arctic. Fairly oft in the center of the night, an older lady who lives in that location comes out and runs backwards to the get out, I assume for a smoke. It'southward nothing terribly abnormal for a night-owl family, I guess, but she RUNS and runs BACKWARDS every time she comes out. Really odd.
–DarksoraXIII
Gone to the Dogs
I have cameras up effectually the front end of my firm because we had our automobile broken into three times one yr before the police shut downwardly the gang doing information technology.
Ane Christmas Eve, we're about 45 minutes from the house. My neighbor calls and tells me that my two Rottweilers are sitting on my porch and won't let anyone arroyo them. I race home and find the gate open. I immediately put them back in the yard and go get a lock for the fence. The whole fourth dimension this is going on, my wife is telling me that the dogs probably pushed the gate open up, which is a reasonable assumption.
And so it'southward really bugging me considering I've never had a lock on my fences and neither dog had tried to escape in three years. I review the tape, and these two guys go to the side gate and effort to steal my dogs! The male is easily 85 pounds and the female is 65 pounds. The video was hilarious because these two guys were running for their lives to an SUV parked two houses down with both dogs all over them. And then later on they left, the dogs went to the porch to prevarication down to wait.
–oscurotek
A Wild Turn of Events
I used to exist the barback at a pizza identify/brewery, and on most nights that included bouncing duties to boot out unruly people. The place was correct by the beach so we had a lot of people who were homeless come through. One nighttime an older man came in with a bamboo staff and was waving it around similar he was going to hit someone. I had to catch the guy and take his staff and drag him exterior.
He wouldn't leave, and so we called the police and I had to wait in that location for the cops to bear witness upwards. One time they got there, I told them what happened and went back inside to have my break. I was in the office watching the police talk to the guy on the outside cameras when of a sudden a Lotus pulled up behind the cop automobile. A guy in a conform got out and talked to the cop as he uncuffed the human being. The human got in the Lotus with the guy in the suit and they drove off. It was pretty weird.
–Rafaeliki
A Sneaky Deal
I used to work surveillance for a casino. I've seen people smoke and proceed to make clean their cars for an hour or more than at like 4 a.m. The funniest thing I've seen is someone literally selling the stock stereo out of his truck (information technology wasn't stolen; he was a regular and e'er drove the truck).
Anyhow, they do the deal and the guy comes to trade the money for I recall singles or something. The money is counterfeit. We had a good express joy at that one for a while. Also, exist careful with your phones; our cameras could see everything people texted if nosotros idea someone was sketchy or we were just bored.
–beebs914
Up Against the Wall
I work in a retail shop, and for a while, I worked security at that place. Watching the security cameras wasn't technically my job, simply we were consistently short-staffed in that section and the director was training me for promotion. So, I got to fill in and lookout man the cameras occasionally.
1 day when we were reviewing footage from overnights, we saw this teenager calmly prepare down his shopping basket, take off his hat and glasses and merely charge at a wall. He hitting it head-on. He did this ii more than times. When he was done, 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 It at a university, and last Easter we had a break-in. We plant the footage of the guy going in at 2 p.m., leaving at effectually 3 and not actually taking anything. Fast forrard to 7 p.m. The guy comes dorsum in and is walking effectually the auditorium until 6 a.m. the next morning. In that time he proceeded to strip into his underwear, steal and wear a mask the Japanese exchange students made for the teacher and and then steal six full numberless of random items.
–MacZilliren
An Almost Tragic Fall
I worked at a hydropower plant in NC. The top was a walkway with a 30-foot drop off the back. A drunkard group of guys is playing around on the edge. We see them on the cams, so nosotros telephone call the authorities. In the meantime, one of them falls.
The matter is, the water on the back side is being pulled into the dam. He falls into the penstock. Nosotros think he's dead afterward the xxx-foot fall, getting sucked underwater, going through the cage and coming out. Nosotros go out to find the body, and we find him, coughing and bruised.
–Neven87
Peekaboo!
I used to work from vii p.chiliad. to 7 a.m. At around 3 or 4 a.m., I would get-go seeing things due to isolation and lack of slumber. There were many times I jumped to the cameras to see if what I was seeing was existent or non. I oft idea I saw people watching me and jumping off the parking garage next door.
But it was never real, so I stopped worrying nigh it — until one night I saw someone watching me and idea naught of it. That was until I went to do a patrol and it turned out the person was existent and had been staring at me for twenty minutes. At that signal, I merely ran back within and decided I was done with my patrols for the night.
–meghanlevy
Let the Bottle Hit the Floor
I worked as a valet dorsum in the day at a very high-finish hotel and had some friends who worked in other areas of the hotel every bit bartenders, servers and security. After busy Friday and Saturday nights, we all go called in similar all hands on deck — every member of the staff. The hotel manager is fuming. They had gear up out a bottle of wine that price something like $25,000. When they came in Sunday morning in preparation for a very important guest, the wine bottle was smashed on the floor. Everyone denied doing anything, so it only kind of went abroad without anyone hearing about what happened.
A few days afterwards, my buddy in security showed me the bar footage. I tin can clearly see the manager identify the canteen on the bar and then leave and close upwardly. Then I see the bottle is slightly moved, nearly like a cat knocking a pen off the table. Then, bam! The bottle hits the ground and shatters. There are what await like footprints without shoes going dorsum and forth. There were tons of diverse stories virtually the place existence haunted, but that was the first video bear witness I'd seen.
–notafantasyexpert
Making Sheep's Eyes at You
I worked in a 24/7 filling station exterior of a large town in Ireland. The surface area is pretty rural and is actually night at night. The forecourt has a motion-activated buzzer that lets night coiffure inside know there's movement outside. The cablegram went off one time during my shift, so I looked exterior but couldn't see anyone…
…just a heavily significant ewe staring back at me, I went to phone my dad for him to come to encounter if he knew who it belonged to. As I dialed his number, the ewe turned around. There were ii little legs sticking out; it was giving birth right then and in that location.
–CSATDidNothingWrong
As You Wish
I worked at a hobby card shop about 12 years ago. I get to piece of work i morning and the police are already in that location. We'd had a break-in and had some stuff stolen. Our IT guy gets in and pulls upwardly the video from the night earlier. We see a person'southward shadow walk in front of the door a few times, and then eventually the thief throws an object through the glass, smashing information technology. He runs in, hops the counter, throws some Yu-Gi-Oh! booster boxes into a trash pocketbook and runs back out.
We rewind and freeze the picture to get a proficient wait at the intruder. Nosotros then realize the thief is wearing a Boba Fett helmet. We all exclaim, "It'southward Boba Fett!" and start laughing hysterically simply equally one of the officers walks up. She says, "Oh, so you know the guy?" We then proceed to lose it even more than. Needless to say, Orlando's Finest never caught up to Boba Fett.
–banstylejbo
Going Out With a Bang
I was a cop in the Air Force. One dark while working the operations center, I observe it looks like one of the gates to our airfield, shared with a major business organisation and local aerodrome, is on the ground.
I radio my patrols to go check it out and all I hear is, "Uh, control?" I say, "The gate is on the ground isn't information technology?" I set a makeshift checkpoint with my people and call the airport and local police force.
After they make it I review the footage and encounter this machine cease at our gate, back up perchance one-half a mile, pause for a few minutes and then floor information technology. He turns toward our part of the airfield and either sees our large cargo planes or the two cops non paying attention on the flight line. He turns around. (Both of these officers got in trouble later for not seeing this.)
He and so floors it towards oncoming air traffic and is gone. I notify aerodrome police that some guy is out at that place dodging airplanes, and their dispatcher leaves without hanging up the phone assuming to assist. They finally catch him after a short chase ending in a ditch with ii empty bottles of vodka in the car. He'south killing a third when they pull him out.
–kynickB4U
Odor a Rat
Information technology was the middle of the night and I was working alone (watching security cameras) in an African country. Suddenly, a BIG animal jumps off the roof and scuttles away into our courtyard by the front door. Terrified and about to telephone call for backup, I pull upward the recorded photographic camera footage and replay it until I finally figure out what it was — a giant rat. I'1000 not sure how large those things can get, just this i looked similar 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 well-nigh 2 a.m. She was staring at the storm drain at the curb for well-nigh five minutes earlier she pulled a huge knife (information technology seemed like it was a human foot long) out of her waistband and knelt down with her head in the bleed, screaming. This went on for about 10 minutes. Then she stood there and screamed at the ground before going inside.
–iRambes
The Register Isn't That Way, Sir
I found a would-be 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 dorsum storage expanse for a solid 30 minutes before we airtight and I found him. It scared me to see team members walking effectually with him lurking in the shadows, going in and out of aisles in the dorsum. I carried mace and was a full scaredy cat for a solid year or so later.
–Oregonian_Lynx
A Flurry of Papers
I worked the overnight shift as an asset protection officer for a department store distribution center. When I was hired, people joked most information technology being haunted, and some warned me nigh 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 being thrown, office chair pushed aside. I saw and heard a lot of weird things during my fourth dimension at that place, but that scared me the most. And knowing I had to become back inside later my outdoor rounds scared me fifty-fifty more than.
–Peachgirllove90
The Old Switcheroo
20-three years agone I was doing a job that involved monitoring some people through a CCTV camera on a bus. It was hidden backside the mirror the driver uses to watch passengers. Well, it was odd considering a guy was standing at the front near the yellow line watching the road with the driver.
Then I see it. A middle-anile woman in the forepart has her pocketbook on her lap with her hands resting on top of it. Seconds later, the purse kind of flashes away from her easily and is nether the seat. Then it'south back to beingness on her lap. So it's away again underneath her seat. And then information technology'southward back to being where it started on top of her lap. Information technology was so infuriating that I went on a rampage.
–Panorama
Trick or Treat
I really do sentry security cameras for a living — for a high-rise in a big urban center. Every Halloween, like a dozen of the folks in the company that works in in that location do a big group Halloween costume. One year the theme was presidents. 1 year information technology was different characters from the same Telly show. And so on this particular Halloween, I'm watching the cameras, non really thinking almost Halloween. I glance at the elevator cameras to come across an elevator door open, and a dozen women all dressed like The Grudge ghost enter the elevator at in one case. It spooked me for a second!
–schmavid
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