19 Of The Creepiest Things Ever Caught On Surveillance Cameras

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I used to work as a security officer and was in charge of surveillance/dispatch at a theme park. I was once casually watching a camera that was mounted in one of the ride’s management office and I saw someone shitting in the desk-side trashcan.

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I work security. During the weekdays I’m doing parking, while weekends I’m at the desk solo. I’ll always remember this one Saturday. It was the second shift ever working the weekend and I was watching the cameras when this one guy came to the side door. He looked around inside and just before I could activate the speaker to let him know he was on private property he looked directly at the camera and stared what felt like a minute. When I took my hand away from the button he started to walk away. I ran to the side door to see if i could see where the hell he was walking and he was gone. The only thing that was in that direction was more freaking wall. So to this day whenever I’m watching the cameras, I’m waiting for this guy.

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About a year ago, I had cameras installed around my house, initially to catch mail thieves. One morning after noticing my back gate ajar, I reviewed the footage from the night before. I watched as a would-be burglar at 3am pry open the gate and creep towards the living room. He suddenly stopped and started backing away when he noticed I was home and awake. (I was actually just a few feet away in the living room with the blackout curtains closed) He must have spotted light peeking out at the bottom of the curtains. The motion-activated lights kicked on as he simultaneously ran out the back gate and into the woods behind our yard. I was awake transitioning to a midshift – and ironically had a table full of guns as I disassembled them for cleaning after a day at the range. It’s probably good that I didn’t see him or hear him that night – we both would have freaked out.

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cI 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. 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.

Written by Laura McNairy

Laura is a freelance writer for TFLN. She likes to write about what she knows best — dating, sex, and being awkward, but usually in the opposite order. She is the Assistant Editor and videographer for Peach Fuzz, a sex-positive nudie magazine in ATX.