Updated June 12, 2019 64.6K votes 21.7K voters 2.5M views
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Creepy security footage crops up on YouTube and other video sites all the time, primarily because it's easy to fake. With its grainy, low-quality resolution, objects and people can be 'shopped into the clips and made to look authentic. However, genuine examples of bizarre security camera footage are out there - videos that, even if staged in some way, are not instances of post-production effects and trickery. Let's take a look at the most horrifying, unsettling, and creepy camera footage clips taken from CCTV and other home-security devices.
Originally believed to be the fault of "bath salts" or another drug-related incident, this footage hit the Internet in May 2012 and caused a bit of a stir, as it purported to show a "zombie" incident happening on the streets of Miami, Florida. In actuality, it depicted 31-year-old Rudy Eugene accosting a homeless man, Ronald Poppo, in a frenzy. Eugene chewed part of Poppo's face and was eventually taken down by police.
The body of Elisa Lam, a 21-year-old college student, was discovered floating in a rooftop water tank at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, California, on February 19, 2013. No substances were found in Lam's system, and medical examiners believed she inadvertently drowned in the tank. However, it is clear from the above security footage - captured on the evening of February 19 - that something is amiss. Lam appears disoriented and frightened, and she appears to converse with someone who isn't there.
The exact details of her demise, namely how and why she found herself inside the Cecil Hotel's water tank, are still a mystery. There are many theories as to what happened to Lam, although her case wasn't the first instance of something sinister transpiring at the infamous Cecil Hotel.
In this unsettling security footage from November 2014, Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, 22, is seen stalked, assailed, and abducted by Delvin Barnes, a stranger to Freeland-Gaither. The incident took place in Philadelphia. Investigators used GPS to track Barnes's car.
ATF agents discovered the woman alive 72 hours later in Maryland and subsequently apprehended Barnes.
In January 2016, reality TV star Danielle Yancey spotted this naked peeping tom wearing a Ronald Reagan mask as well as a sock over his privates. The incident was captured in its entirety on CCTV security footage stationed at Yancey's residence in Alabama.
It's the Reagan mask that makes this footage especially creepy.
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Woman's Assailant Stalks Corridors In SWAT Uniform
In April 2016, attendees of a morning fitness class held at a church in Midlothian, TX, received a shock when they discovered their instructor Terri "Missy" Bevers deceased on the floor of their classroom. An unknown person struck her repeatedly with a sharp tool. Police only have one solid clue in the case: this security footage, which shows a person of unidentified gender in tactical gear entering the church shortly after Bevers and stalking the corridors.
The police have no suspects, and there is a $50,000 reward for any information leading to the perp's identity.
This incident took place at a Walmart in Midwest City, Oklahoma, in July 2013. A man, 37-year-old Sammie Wallace, snatched a 2-year-old girl from her mother's shopping cart and held the child at knifepoint. Police evacuated the store and began talking to the suspect, who showed clear signs of mental illness, quite possibly paranoid schizophrenia.
Midwest City Police Capt. David Huff aimed and took out Wallace, whose motives remained unclear.
