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If you go searching for creepy and chilling surveillance images caught on camera, there’s no end of supposedly supernatural sightings for you analyze and even terrify yourself with. However, the most terrifying and chilling things in this world aren’t the unexplainable but instead, they often involve real people and real events.

Having a home surveillance system in one’s home used to be an incredibly difficult and expensive undertaking. However, with the improvements in technology, even having a crystal clear CCTV set-up is far more affordable now than it ever used to be.

After taking a look at these images here on The Clever, if you don’t already have your own home surveillance system set up, you’ll certainly want to. That’s because it’s worth remembering as criminals get more advanced in their methods of getting into our houses and invading and violating our privacy, then so should we look for better methods of keeping the sanctity of our home safe and sound.

Here at The Clever, we have put together a list of images captured from CCTV video streams that are not only chilling but in some cases terrifying, as they capture moments of pure horror.

17. Intruder Lurks Around And Watches Netflix As Couple Sleeps

In July of 2016, a couple, Jordan Buranskas and Jack Mackercher from the Chicago Bucktown area, fell asleep on the sofa together as they watched television. They awoke to find that a purse was missing, prompting them to check their security footage and were horrified with what it revealed.

The creepy footage showed a man lurking around their house as they slept on their couch. The intruder appeared to be watching the TV show Mr. Robot and didn’t leave until the credits rolled. Apparently, the lurking intruder broke in through an open balcony door, which the couple had failed to lock because they both dozed off watching Netflix.



16. Creepy Burglar Taunts Home Owners In Their Baby’s Room

This is an image that will give every parent nightmares. On April 4, 2014, the Le family were alerted by one of their neighbors after he had told them that he discovered their laptop and briefcase in his backyard.

The incident prompted the Le’s to check their surveillance footage from the night before and they were horrified to see an intruder making his way around the house. The most chilling moment came when they saw the man had made his way into their baby’s bedroom and stood over their 2-year-old son’s crib. The intruder who was fully aware of the camera taunted the parents by mouthing the words “I’m here, and I don’t care”.



15. Mother Dragged Around The Home By An Intruder

On Thursday 12, 2017 at around 3:15 am, Cheryl Mathys was awoken by a burglar in Rittman, Ohio. The CCTV images capture her horrific moment while she was marched around her house at gunpoint as her three daughters slept upstairs.

Thankfully, one of the daughters was woken up by the noise downstairs, and she escaped through a window and raised the alarm with her neighbor. Knowing that the daughter escaped, the burglar ran away with a small amount of money.

The CCTV footage captures what must have been a terrifying ordeal for Cheryl as the intruder drags her around her own home looking for something to steal. Thankfully everyone involved was unharmed but the intruder hasn’t been found.



14. The L.A. Ghost Strikes Again

In 2017, in the space of three months, more than 40 San Fernando Valley businesses were robbed by a male burglar that the police have nicknamed “The Ghost”.

It wasn’t until the 17th of October, 2017 that the authorities are at least able to identify that he’s likely an Asian male in his twenties. However, what is chilling is the suspect is obviously becoming more confident and there’s potential for his crimes to escalate even further.

Despite the authorities taking the crimes of “The Ghost” very seriously, the suspect is still at large and is expected to continue his crime spree at the time of writing.



13. A Mother Discovers What The Scratches On Her Door Really Are

In July 2015, a mother of two in Bridgend, Wales, UK noticed scratches on her door. Thinking it was an animal or even on of children playing about, she checked her CCTV footage. To her horror, she could see the terrifying figure of a man in a hooded coat trying to break into her home with a homemade lock pick fashioned out of a car window wiper, all while her children slept.

The man casts an eerie figure in a fisherman’s style coat similar to that of the horror villain from I Know What You Did Last Summer, and eyes glowing from the camera’s night vision flare. He failed to get into her home but there’s no further information on whether or not he was eventually caught.



12. The Curtain Ghost Of China

In the province of Jinjiang, China during the month of July in 2017, a ghostly figure was spotted on security cameras trying to rob several residential homes dressed in a curtain. Although the thief was quickly identified and caught because he showed his face, he hadn’t managed to steal a thing, it must have been a startling sight for CCTV security witnessing the man.

Even though he looked like he walked off the set of a Scooby Doo film, the man was a prolific burglar and was charged with several other related crimes which he admitted to during a police interrogation.



11. Mother Confronted By Four Burglars

This is the horrifying moment that mother of two Dr. Waheed was confronted by four men that broke into her London home after she put her 6-year-old son to bed. The moment the doctor closed her son’s bedroom door and turned around, she came face to face with the intruders who immediately grabbed her and demanded to know where the money and valuables were.

The family was unharmed, but it goes without saying that the invasion must have been an incredibly traumatic experience as well as a violation of her home. The group was part of an organized and professional gang of burglars that robbed at least 15 homes across London. Thankfully, the men were eventually caught and sentenced to a combined total of 23 years.



10. The Disappearance Of Steven Koecher

The home security footage captured thirty-year-old Steven Koecher’s last known whereabouts before he vanished without a trace on December 13, 2009. Carrying a small package under his arm, Koecher didn’t appear to be under any form of distress and was walking with purpose like he was meeting someone.

No evidence of foul play was found, but his disappearance remains a mystery. Steven drove 2,100 miles away and abandoned his car filled with Christmas gifts on Savannah Springs Avenue. His mobile phone pinged at several locations before the signal was lost.

According to his family, despite struggling to look for work, Steven showed no signs of erratic behavior, depression or any other ailment. His family continues to search for him to this day.



9. The Quick Thinking Nanny

In a terrifying ordeal a nanny’s quick thinking and instincts that something just didn’t feel right. Jenna Lee Baker, a nanny hired by a family in Irvine, California, arrived at the family home with the child to a feeling that something wasn’t quite right. She then heard noises and footsteps coming from downstairs.

The nanny immediately grabbed the child and ran to a neighbor’s house for help. When the child’s father arrived home and checked the CCTV footage, it was very clear that Jenna’s instincts were correct as they revealed an intruder wandering the house ransacking every room, searching for something to steal.

The thief broke in through a glass door in broad daylight, and it’s terrifying to think what may have happened had it not been for Jenna knowing that something was amiss.



8. The Jacksonville Clown

In the build-up to Halloween in 2014, there was a clown craze that seemed to originate (at least in the media) in Jacksonville, California. The weird craze saw people dressed as clowns and wandering the streets and terrorizing families.

In a display that looked like it was inspired by Stephen King’s IT and The Purge, one particularly memorable incident came when a heavyset man dressed as a clown stood on a porch fully aware of the CCTV, proceeding to tear apart and destroy a decorative pumpkin.

Although, these incidents were nothing more than a performance of pranks across the state, some of these pranksters crossed the line with threatening and downright creepy behavior like this.

The craze became a worldwide phenomenon in 2016, and it remains to be seen if YouTube channels will once again be dominated by clown sightings for another Halloween.



7. Home Surveillance With A Difference

This was a particularly horrifying story posted by a Reddit user and Brisbane, Australia resident known as coolvy in 2008. After his parents bought a cable TV for the home, coolvy wanted the same package in his bedroom without the extra cost of buying another set-top box. So he purchased an AV transmitter/receiver so he could get the cable TV signal sent to his own television.

In a scene that reminded him of Saw 2, coolvy picked a blurry video stream of someone else’s bedroom. After informing his family they came to the conclusion that it was his neighbor’s bedroom possibly set up to catch their partner cheating.

The truth behind the camera signal for was more terrifying. The neighbors were renovating their home, and the video feed revealed that their plumber was in their room fiddling with the camera lens and going through their drawers.

The plumber had set up a spy camera which sent a hidden video stream to his laptop as he sat outside in a parked car. The police and neighbors were quickly informed and the plumber was arrested.



6. Burglar Creeps Around Sleeping Elderly Lady

In 2013, 68-year-old arthritis sufferer Margaret Woodward became the target of several burglaries over the course of several weeks. To counter the burglaries, with her permission the Derbyshire police set up some hidden surveillance cameras around key points in Mrs. Woodward’s home.

It wasn’t long before they caught the man that had been preying on the pensioner, as the camera footage revealed the man sneaking around her ground floor flat in Long Eaton as she slept. Awoken to the sound of a zip, Mrs. Woodward leaped out of her chair and chased him out of her bedroom window.

Thankfully, the man was caught, but it must have been terrifying to know that some stranger had been standing over her, watching and touching as she slept, to say the least.



5. Creepy Neighbor Caught Sneaking Around The Attic

In July 2017, a man in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was caught on CCTV sneaking into his neighbor Jerome Kennedy’s attic and spying on the bedroom through a vent. The man had built a false wall dividing the two properties which he could remove at will, so he could crawl around the Kennedy’ ceiling undetected.

Kennedy set up a home surveillance system because he saw flashing lights and heard creaking sounds coming from his attic space. The creepy neighbor was caught red-handed peeping into either his bedroom or his baby’s.

The neighbor was arrested after initially denying that he was capable of climbing into the attic, and is facing additional charges of burglary related to other properties too.



4. A Motion Sensor And Text Message No Parent Wants To Get

A family in Billings, Montana set up a motion-sensing baby monitor designed to send the parents a picture message when it detects movement in the baby’s bedroom. The mother was horrified to find that one of those texts didn’t show the baby standing in the crib, but the chilling image of an intruder snezaking around their baby’s bedroom, while she was still downstairs.

After making as much noise as she could before grabbing the baby and running out of the house, the mother called the police after informing her husband — who was away on business.

However, what is even more terrifying was that the man disappeared, and the police couldn’t find any signs of a break-in. Not even the dog barked during the intrusion and every door was bolted and locked shut.



3. Ghostly Burglar Caught Crawling Around Home On CCTV

A surveillance camera at a privately owned kitchen center in Albany, Georgia, caught a ghostly looking figure crawling around on his belly cutting phone lines and alarm wires using a cigarette lighter to see in an attempt to avoid the store motion detectors.

The camera’s night vision picks up the intruder’s glasses and blacked out face, and only serves to make his appearance even creepier than it already is. The store’s owner believed that it was a former employee and he has potentially robbed other businesses in the area too. Apparently, the creepy crawler caused over a thousand dollars worth of damage because he spent hours trying to disable the alarm systems.



2. The Disappearance Of Lars Mittank

Not a home CCTV capture but still very eerie. In 2014, a German student named Lars Mittank mysteriously disappeared in Golden Sands, Bulgaria. Whilst there, Werder Bremen fan Mittank got in an altercation with four Bayern Munich soccer fans and was punched in the ear, resulting in a ruptured eardrum.

Consequently, the doctor advised him not to fly and Mittank stayed behind an extra few days while his friends flew home after he insisted he would be fine. Mittank stayed in what he described as a “strange hotel” and was seen acting panicked by onlookers who heard him shouting “I don’t want to die”.

Although the hotel footage isn’t available, on the day he was due to leave, Mittank was last at the Varna Airport and he was recorded on airport CCTV frantically running away from someone or something. When he made it outside he was seen jumping over a fence and running into a meadow, never to be seen again.



1. Four People Fall Down A Ten Meter Sinkhole

Store footage captured in the Heilongjiang in China shows the terrifying moment that four people fell through a large sinkhole. Thankfully, all four escaped with minor injuries, but it must have been terrifying for all those involved and demonstrates just how terrifying and random these sinkhole events are.

The incident happened near a busy main road, three people were standing directly in the middle, while one managed to grab onto a steel beam. The sinkhole had an area of ten square meters and was two meters deep.

The sinkhole phenomena appears to be on the rise worldwide. China’s occurrences, however, have some of the most notable with sinkholes swallowing over 20 million square meters of land a year.

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