“What Is The Weirdest Thing You’ve Seen Through A Surveillance Camera?”: 58 Answers, From Bizarre To Creepy

I work at a truck terminal and two cop cars drive into the terminal. I think they're looking for someone so I zoom my camera. Nope, they get out and the cop opens his door and a visibly drunk guy gets out and stumbles to his truck and gets in.

The cops leave so I keep my camera on the drunk trucker. He starts hitting the windshield with his fists and bouncing around in the truck. Then he starts it and keeps trying to drive away but he forgets how to release the airbrakes. I can tell by the way the truck is lurching forward.

I call the cops dispatcher and let them know they should pick the drunk trucker back up that they just dropped off cause he's trying to drive away. They come back, pick him up and leave. Geez.

I work at a college and we came in on Monday morning to find a big pile of puke in our dish washing room. Our security guy who had been off work(we aren't open on Sunday) thought he should check the tapes. Apparently the cleaning crew came in on Sunday and one of the guys was a bit sick/hungover or the like. The tape was awesome. He was mopping a hallway and then started convulsing or hiccuping, he looked around and went to a door, only that door was locked. He looked on his key ring and found the key to the dish washing room where he went and did his thing. We only have camera footage of the hall, not the dish room, but he came out wiping his mouth and coughing and then washed his face in the drinking fountain.

He finished mopping the floor and left for the day after his shift. No one else had been recorded going into that dish room, but this guy denied it up and down, even after seeing the tape. He wouldn't explain what he was doing in there to our security, but he was fired nonetheless because everyone knew what the hell he had done. I mean, he was a janitor and didn't clean up his own puke!

The real worry was that he didn't even clean the drinking fountain where he cleaned his face off after he puked. Why didn't he use the bathroom that was so close!

Security cameras can expose the real base elements of humanity sometimes.

Ex security, I saw someone fall down on an ice patch and drop a pryrex dish once. Security cams are pretty boring. Most of the time we'd just replay any physical confrontations we'd get into.

Current security guard here. Saw a sphere-like UFO hover above cars in the parking lot, then flew around trees, over the field, then to the back of the building. Minutes after, I saw another sphere like object on the internal camera floating upstairs and out of view. I was freaked out.

The week after, I reviewed the footage again and realised the first sphere-like object was a balloon and the second one was a dust particle.

I was freaked out because I watched an alien documentary just before that occurred.

Not a guard but when I was in high school, working at a grocery store, I got called in to watch a video at loss prevention.

It was a coworker of mine who walked down a whole aisle, looked around, jammed his hand up and down his [pants], then sniffed it and went on like nothing happened. He didn't know he was on CCTV.

Worked at a coffee shop but through our CCTV we watch a bloke have explosive diarrhoea right outside the front of our store (this was in the middle of the night). He wiped his hands on the walls then walked away like nothing happened.

Story from a friend who worked as a security guard. Their post was behind a one-way mirror, when you entered the facility you'd see a long mirror on the wall and not know there were people behind it.

One day a job applicant arrived. She paused at the mirror to check for lipstick stains on her teeth, then reached into her v-neck top and adjusted her ... headlights ... to make sure they were evenly distributed. The guys behind the mirror nearly choked laughing silently.

She ended up not working there, so clearly the guards had no influence in HR.

I did assets protection for a retail store and some a few items literally jump off the shelf in their own. I was reviewing footage while investigating a theft when I saw it. I actually recorded a video of the video.

A bunch of 14 year old girls fighting in a hallway of an apartment complex I worked at. One girl got punched in the face and then just started projectile vomiting all over the place. I couldn't stop laughing.

I worked for Best Buy some years ago, and we had a woman disappear into the bathroom with around 17+ Nintendo DS games.
Called the cops when we found the packaging and no games.
Held the woman until cops arrived and they found TWENTY DS games IN her.
They were Christmas gifts for her kids...

A dude walking around under a cardboard box. He had a lot of military gear on him too.

I saw a truck blow up because it drove through a gas cloud or something. It also burned down a building, some palm trees, and like 6 cars. It happened pretty fast.
I worked for a transwest security at a gate outside of an occidental site.
It was the most boring job ever.

Actual security guard here. I got to watch this one with my own two eyes. There was a guy meandering down the highway outside the guard shack. Since I was busy with truckers, I didn't pay him any mind. Then, an old lady pulls up and asks for a little help loading her son. I can't since I'm dealing with trucks going in and out, but a site worker tries to help her coax him over. It took them about twenty minutes and threatening to call the cops till he grudgingly got in his mother's van. This guy had to be in his 30s and it was a riot watching this all unfold.

It wasn't live but I saw a guy walk through the university campus mall without a shirt on, covered in blood, and carrying a 2x4 also covered in blood. He walked through and stood in the center of the mall just kinda looking around, then he left. He was about 15 ft from custodians when they saw him and hid. Dunno if he saw them and didn't care or just didn't see them but it was super weird.

We found a trail of blood the next day when we got into work but it didn't lead to anything. I don't think anything ever came from it.

Guy steals a pickup truck. Owner of truck jumps in another vehicle and takes off after the guy. Thief can't handle the speed and crashes into a power line... said power line hits truck and well... he's not alive to be charged for auto theft. Saw the whole nasty incident on CCTV.

I have a few stories (throw away for reasons)

Kidnapping


We had a kidnapping happen on a neighbors property and the victim tried to run towards our building. From what we pieced together from witness statements, she obviously knew the 2 men that took her. She said that she didn't want to go with them, so they got out of the car and took her by force. Lots of people saw it and some of the drivers tried to block off the driveway where the kidnapper was but he sped off in between them. We caught it all on camera, but couldn't make out the licence plate.


Family Feuds


There was an incident where an employee's child came to our work. He signed in (we have relatives of employees floating in all the time) and naturally the receptionist call the employee to pick him up. The employee said that he didn't want to see his son. We let the top supervisor in our department handle it and we watched it on camera. He basically said that he can't be here and this is private property. The son left in his expensive car.

The best thing I saw on camera was a bar fight / melee between two traveler gangs and then our security staff.

There was brutal points, heads being smashed through thick windows and the like.

There was also cartoonish things like two eejits picking up pool cues and sword fighting with them. Also a 10 year old being launched like a rugby ball over an impressive distance for a significantly smaller guy who was not security to catch who was knocked over by the weight.

I'm not security but I saw the head of security tumble down a bunch of stairs. He's a big guy who prefers appeasing instead of calling the cops on [jerks]and disruptive patrons. That was a good laugh.