- Security cameras are there for your protection,
but the truth is they can't actually stop anything.
In fact, sometimes all that they can do
is capture your worst nightmares as they come true.
Here are the 10 scariest things caught on security cameras.
Number 10 are creepy clowns.
Unless you've been living a life
that doesn't include online videos or social media,
by now, you've likely seen the clips
of scary killer clowns in prank and scare videos.
But while most of these masked figures
are giving birthday clowns a bad name in a harmless way,
simply waiting for a victim to scare
with fake murders and other antics,
elsewhere, like in Jackson, Florida,
other more devious things are going down.
Video from surveillance cameras
have captured multiple characters
doing far more threatening things,
such as walking onto people's property and porches
while posing for the camera and, in one instance,
tearing a Halloween jack-o'-lantern into pieces
with their bare hands while their psychotic grin
remains frozen on their masks.
Other videos show clowns making threatening gestures
while staring right into security cameras,
all while standing on a private home's porch.
A large number of arrests have been made,
not just in the United States
but all over North America and the United Kingdom.
It's just a matter of time before one of these clowns
makes your nightmare a reality.
Number nine is an insane car crash.
On July 30th, 2016, a car was traveling down a highway
in Deland, Florida, when it careened off,
struck a mailbox, and then became airborne,
flipping over several times before landing upside down
in a parking lot at the side of the road.
A security camera for a local business
caught the entire shocking event,
which became even more terrifying
when the front end of the vehicle caught fire,
sending smoke up in plumes.
Witnesses grabbed fire extinguishers to put out the fire
before attempting to get the sole occupant
out of the vehicle,
only to discover that the car was so heavily demolished
in the horrific crash
that they couldn't pull him through the window.
Instead, the growing group of bystanders flipped the car,
cut through the man's seatbelt,
and managed to pull him through the sunroof.
Amazingly, the man survived, but not everyone is as lucky.
Number eight is a home invasion.
Our homes are meant to be our safe places,
places we can be ourselves and not worry
about the negative events of the outside world.
But when that safe feeling is taken away, real fear sets in.
On February 20th, 2017, individuals forced their way
into the apartment of an unidentified business owner,
assaulting him and robbing him while he bled out.
A surveillance camera in the North York, Toronto, condo
caught the home invaders on film
as one shot the man in the shoulder
before a second man stabbed him repeatedly
in the head with a screwdriver.
Four out of the five people involved in the assault,
two men and two women, were shortly after arrested,
mostly due to one of the men still wearing his ankle monitor
that he was ordered to wear
after being released from prison.
This random attack happened so quickly and so intensely,
it makes you wonder if it could happen to you.
You may want to go check
that your doors are locked right now.
Number seven are traffic twins.
So much goes unexplained about twins.
How do they know when the other's injured or killed?
How can some pairs communicate without speaking?
And in this case,
why did both have to run into oncoming traffic together?
In this shocking video captured
by closed circuit traffic cameras,
two twins, Sabrina and Ursula Eriksson,
can be seen walking along the median
between two lanes of the M6 motorway
near the city of Keele in England.
As authorities approached them,
they unexpectedly fleed into oncoming traffic,
as the pair ran out in front of cars,
where Sabrina was struck and suffered injuries.
Shortly after, when police managed
to seemingly calm the girls down
at the side of the motorway, the pair broke away from them
and ran back into the path of traffic,
this time getting them both struck.
Experts claim that the pair suffered a shared psychosis,
which caused them to act erratically,
a psychosis that they still can not explain to this day.
Number six is the Fresno Nightcrawler.
Every city has their own local monster legend.
And for the city of Fresno, California,
that monster is the Fresno Nightcrawler.
According to legend, a family was growing tired
of being awakened in the middle of the night
by the sound of their dogs barking
at something in the woods nearby.
In an attempt to determine what it was
that stalked the property,
they put up a security camera on their garage,
only to discover that what was moving about late at night
was an unusual white-sheet-wearing creature
that strode with legs far too long for a real person.
Numerous individuals have come forward
with eyewitness accounts
and surveillance footage of these creatures,
which have also been referred to
as the Fresno aliens or stick-figure aliens.
Unfortunately for experts who aim to study these creatures,
the footage has been lost over time.
However, it's very likely that they're still out there,
stalking in the night.
Number five is the burglar in baby's room.
What could possibly be scarier for a parent
than watching as a stranger
who's just broken into their home
stands creepily over their baby's crib?
That's just what happened to one family
in west Harris County, Texas, on April 5th, 2014,
when their baby monitor's motion-activated camera
caught 18-year-old Christopher Gomez
as he crept about the infant's bedroom.
At one point during the disturbing footage,
he's seen standing right over the sleeping baby
and staring down at it.
Gomez entered the house
through an unlocked first-floor window
and proceeded to search the home
with the aid of a flashlight.
Authorities reported that even though the man
seemed to know his burglary
was being recorded on a video camera,
he went about with his thieving anyway.
Gomez was ultimately caught due to the anonymous family
releasing the video of him
and his creepy actions in their nursery.
Makes you wonder how often you actually check
that your windows are locked.
Number four is Eliza Lam's elevator ride.
On February 19th, 2013,
the naked body of a 21-year-old student named Eliza Lam
was pulled from a water tank on top of the Cecil Hotel
in downtown Los Angeles.
A resident of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada,
Lam was on a tour of California while on break from school.
Sadly, her tour was cut short,
though no one knows exactly why.
Lam had been missing since January 31st,
when she'd failed to call her parents
as she'd done every day prior.
Investigators released the last known images of Eliza,
specifically the recordings taken
via the surveillance camera in the hotel elevator,
which sees the woman acting oddly,
pressing several buttons though the lift doors don't close,
and she's seen talking to somebody that is unseen.
The footage went viral,
with many claiming the dark history of murder
that the hotel was the site of
led to Lam being possessed by a demented spirit.
Officially, her death was ruled as an accident,
although it's clear to many
that something more diabolical was afoot.
Number three is the Miami zombie.
For decades, the thought of a zombie outbreak
has terrified millions upon millions of people,
with many actually preparing their homes
and families for the forthcoming zombie apocalypse.
Of course, many laughed at these individuals.
That is, until May 26th, 2012,
when a vicious attack in Miami, Florida,
changed things a bit.
A homeless man named Ronald Poppo
was sitting under a tram bridge
when 31-year-old Rudy Eugene approached him.
Security footage from multiple cameras,
including the most famous angle
from the Miami Herald Building,
saw Eugene strip naked as he walked up to Poppo
and soon after viciously attacked him.
After knocking the man unconscious,
Eugene proceeded to consume
most of the flesh from the victim's face,
even eating his left eye.
The unbelievable event culminated
in an officer shooting Eugene dead.
Given the nature of the attack,
hazmat officials had to be called onto the scene.
And to this day, no further explanation has been given.
Number two is the ghost in the cab.
After a massive tsunami hit Japan on March 11th, 2011,
multiple drivers around the country
began reporting ghostly apparitions trying to enter
or in some cases floating right into their vehicles.
Some taxi drivers even found
that seemingly regular people got into their cabs,
only to vanish soon after into thin air.
In this clip taken from a security camera
at a Japanese taxi stop,
a man is seen walking towards a car
while a translucent eerie figure follows him.
The ghostly image appears to be a woman with black hair
who, as the man gets in the cab,
incorporeally disappears into the side of it.
While some claim that there really is a woman there
and it's simply a bad capture of her
on the surveillance camera,
others point out how she seems to guide the man into the cab
before vanishing completely.
Next time that you think that you're alone,
such as, say, watching this video,
you may want to look around because you may not be.
And number one is the ghost child.
Even the most fearless individuals
would likely be heading in the other direction
if they ever crossed paths with a ghost,
especially if that ghost was a child.
Such was the case when a ghostly child
was captured in the street
by a closed circuit television camera
attached to the UK home of Ian Hawke.
In the clip, the translucent figure moves about the street
and Hawke believes it's a child simply playing outside.
Of course, this isn't the only time
a young specter has been recorded via security footage.
Hundreds upon hundreds of people
have uploaded surveillance images
that they say contain the ghosts of children playing,
walking, or even just staring at the camera.
Some people believe them to be hoaxes,
while others who witness the events
believe them in their heart to be very real.
So, as you're going to bed tonight,
you may want to take one final look around your room.
You may not be alone.
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