Someone I Don't Know Is Living In My Home!

[tehck_1013]

Does it plug in or run on battery? If battery does it run for awhile and shut off automatically? Does a light show when it records? If so put tape over the light and hide it in a plant or stuffed animals or something that will camouflage the camera even in a register or vent.

Hehe, I guess we were on the same wavelength

[tehck_1013]

I just went downstairs, got my video recorder and watched it.

As I approached my recorder, I noticed that the red light on the front of the recorder was off - which meant that the recorder had been turned off! I picked it up and saw that YES, it HAD been turned OFF!!!

I brought it upstairs, sat at my desk on the main floor and watched the video. It had 1 hour and 19 minutes of recording time available and only recorded 24 minutes and 25 seconds worth before somehow it got turned off. I watched the entire video and didn't see anything, but a few times heard what sounded like movement and one time it sounded like someone had turned on a water faucet. It sounded like water running full force. One of the movement sounds I heard was like the sound of when you are wearing a raincoat and you move your arms. Another was like a faint sound of the shuffling of feet and another was just like the sound of someone resituating themselves while sitting.

I would be scared out of my mind sitting down and watching the playback... You just don't have any idea what you will see. What will you do if you actually see a person? Sorry you are going through this... How stressful!
I really hope you don't move before you actually get to the bottom of this. It would keep me up at night and I would think about it for the rest of my life, wondering and wondering and never knowing what on earth it ever could have been .

:hug:

[permanentvacation]

I wish I could find a person in the house or see someone in the video! Then I would know who/what has been causing all the disturbances in the house. And I definitely know how to handle a person. I'd much rather it be a person than a demon or something along those lines.

[SilverSabre25]

I wish I could find a person in the house or see someone in the video! Then I would know who/what has been causing all the disturbances in the house. And I definitely know how to handle a person. I'd much rather it be a person than a demon or something along those lines.

i hope you sleep with a nice baseball bat in your bed. or knife. or gun.........

[racemom]

Thank you for the updates. You are alot braver than I would be! I am keeping you in my prayers and hope whatever or whoever is in your home leaves soon so you can find peace.

[permanentvacation]

I am trying to attach the video I just made of my basement. I can't figure out how to do it. Am I able to attach a video here?

[permanentvacation]

It might just be too long of a video. I am trying to e-mail it to my sister and I have to create a drop box for it because it is too long. I have no idea what a drop box is. But I told it to create one. We'll see if it works.

[SilverSabre25]

I am trying to attach the video I just made of my basement. I can't figure out how to do it. Am I able to attach a video here?

i don't think so. maybe upload it to youtube with pretty strong privacy settings, the kind where only people with the link can view it?

[permanentvacation]

I have never uploaded anything to Youtube. I'll try to figure it out.

I just set up a new facebook account just for this and it said that the video is too long.

[permanentvacation]

My camcorder won't work now. I have used it for a couple of years to record my daycare kids and personal kids with our dogs. I have recorded things on the camcorder, hooked the camcorder up to the computer and put the videos from the camcorder to the computer, then erased the videos from the camcorder so I have more time available on the camcorder. I have done that numerous times. But this time, it won't give me more time on the camcorder!! It says time left: 0min 00 sec and the word Ready in the top corner. Since it says that there is 0 time left, that means that the camcorder is full of videos. So I pushed the button for it to play the videos. But it says Camcorder empty. Then I press the record button and it says Camcorder full. This is WEIRD!!! It did let me erase the 2 videos I made of the basement, but won't let me record again! I noticed earlier and mentioned to my sister that when I first deleted my old videos from the camcorder today, it told me that I had 1 hour and 19 minutes of recording time available. Then I put the recorder in the basement. It turned off somehow at 24 minutes and 25 seconds. Then I copied that video to my computer and erased it from the camcorder. So my camcorder available time should have gone back to 1 hour and 19 minutes, but it only went to 53 minutes and some amount of seconds. I noticed that fact, but didn't really pay it much attention. I thought it was weird, but was more worried about watching the video than figuring out why the available recording time was not correct. Now, however, after getting a second recording of the basement that lasted 49minutes and 43 seconds - The recorder said it had 53 minutes and some amount of seconds left. Why did it stop recording at 49 minutes and 43 seconds instead of keep recording til the full 53 minutes and whatever amount of seconds that the recorder said it had left of recording time?

Then I plugged the flip video camcorder up to my computer like I always do and copied the video onto my computer, then I erased the video off of the camcorder, which now should be empty of videos and should give me 1 hour and 19 minutes of recording time again, but it says that the recording time available is 0 min 00sec and that the camcorder is empty. If it is empty, it should have 1 hour and 19 minutes of recording time available!!

Yeah, this is really freaking me out. I have used this camcorder for a couple of years and this has never happened!

Before I video taped the second video, I went and bought new batteries. Since it has told me it is empty but there is no recording time left, I have turned it on and off a couple of times and have taken the batteries out a couple of times.

[permanentvacation]

I don't think I am going to get much sleep tonight! Now I wish my daughter spent the night at her friends tonight so I could go sleep in my car again!!

[permanentvacation]

Racemom,

Thank you. I am actually scared to death! I just can't afford to move and have to put up a good front for my daughter. She's scared enough on her own. I can't let her know how terrified I am! I really just wish I could move! Out of curiosity, I would like to know who or what is in this house. But I would love to move out tonight!! Honestly, right now at 1:22 in the morning, if someone told me that they have a U-Haul out front and a home I can move to, I'd be throwing my junk in the truck right this minute! I can let someone else find out who or what is here and they can tell me about it later!

[permanentvacation]

Childminder and Tehck_1013,

There's no connector to plug it in to the wall. It only works on batteries. It allows 1 hour and 19 minutes of total video taping time. I have used it for the entire length of time at once before and used the entire length of time up throughout one day. The things that it is doing tonight are weird and have never happened before.

[permanentvacation]

Okay, I think I just told it to post the video on youtube. It says that it will be shown here http://youtu.be/215LNFl7Oe8 after it finishes processing. It is taking a very long time!

I video taped the view of me walking down the basement steps, the walls, ceiling, and floor of the basement. Then I put the camcorder on top of my clothes washer and went back upstairs. The noise you hear at first are of me going back upstairs, locking the basement door, putting the big bag of toys in front of the door (so if someone opens the door, I'll hear the bag of toys rattle!) Then I took my dog and myself out for a little over an hour. The noises that you hear after about 5 minutes are all after the house was empty. No one (that I know of) was in the house from about 5 minutes on to the end of the video.

The video is 49 mins and 43 seconds long. You are looking at a random cement wall with the air conditioner and water heater in front of the camera. I just sat the camera on top of my washing machine. The view is not exciting. You don't see anything strange in the video. For the most part, the video is quiet, but there are some noises that I think sound like movement, footsteps, metal scraping, and a light switch being turned on/off. It started raining during the video. I think the rain is what you start hearing around 36 minutes. There is a loud sound at 38:40. I'm not quite sure what that is. I am wondering if that might be the sump pump working due to the rain. But I know nothing about sump pumps, I am completely guessing. If you know whether that sounds like a sump pump or not, please let me know.

I might be completely wrong, maybe these are normal basement noises, but they just don't sound like it to me. Please listen, if the video works, and let me know what you think about the noises.

Oh, and I made sure to turn off the air conditioner before I left the house, so the noises are not from the air conditioner.

[permanentvacation]

SilverSabre25,

Thank you for suggesting Youtube. I hope it works.