One evening a few weeks ago I was awakened when one of my security camera's alerted me via it's iPhone app. I reached over to take a look at which camera had been triggered and what triggered it. It was the camera covering my driveway and I could see my truck in the drive where I'd parked it . . . and then after a moment I saw something moving in the upper right hand part of the video. As I watched it a few moments I listened to see if Daisy was alerted outside to anything. I had not heard her bark and pretty much no varmint moves around our place at night without Daisy letting us know.

So, I laid the iPhone back down and rolled over to go back to sleep when Mrs. Faulkner asked, "what was it?"

"I don't know." I answered

A few moments passed. "Aren't you going to go check it out?"

"No, that's why I installed the cameras."

A few more moments passed, then she said "but the camera just told you something was out there."

I sighed. "Honey, if there was anything out there Daisy would have barked by now."

A few more moments passed. "If Daisy is such a good watch dog why did we put up the cameras?"

"Well," I replied, "if something gets Daisy we'll have the cameras for backup."

A few more moments passed. "But, we have not heard Daisy barking and the backup just triggered. Who is the backup to the cameras when they go off."

"I am I suppose," I answered sleepily.

"Yet here you lay. Don't you think you should investigate? Isn't that what you do?"

I'm starting to see that sleep is fleeting away, but I wanted to give one more try for me not having to get up.

"Honey, you have the camera app on your phone. Take a look for yourself and you'll feel better and then we can go back to sleep."

With that she reached over and grabbed her iPhone, sat up in bed and pulled up the camera app to view the most recent alert. It didn't take long.

"What is that thing!?!" she asked quite exasperatedly.

"What thing," I replied.

"That thing on the wall above your truck!"

"Oh, yeah, I saw that. I don't know what it is. Now go back to sleep."

I'm still not sure what it was, but it was gone the next morning. Attached is the video below.


Thinks that go bump in the night - YouTube

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Looks like Mothman to me, hope there are not any large bridges in your area.

Pretty darn weird! Good that you didn't go out there. You could have been blasted by a death ray or beamed up or...???? Very strange.

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I feel reasonably prepared but have a low paranoia level. I have no mounted outside or inside cameras. I leave my cellphone in another room near my house phone while I sleep. I don't like sleep interruptions. My wife is in agreement. What won't wait until morning?

I'm with Mrs. Faulkner on this one . . . you saw that and didn't go investigate? Come on man!

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I see the same movements out of a large fly on a table.
Maybe a large moth close to the lens?

Probably enjoying the little heat, given off by the unit, in that early morning?

mating snakes perhaps?

I've watched the video a couple of times, I think it's a snail or slug checking things out.

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Snail eyes

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My theory is Santa was doing a trial run. (For trial runs he paints the hooves of his reindeer team with florescent paint to make it easy to keep track of them in the dark.) Before trial runs, the reindeer are told not to drink. Rudolf of the red nose, however, typically sneaks in a few. This time, however, he overdid it. Got absolutely pie eyed.

As Santa passed over Faulkner's house, he made an abrupt turn north and Rudolf, being pretty drunk, kept going straight which threw him out of his harness and he plunged, straight down behind Faulkner's wall and headfirst into a garbage can. What we see in the video is Rudolf's two hind hooves waving forlornly above the wall.

Santa realized Rudolf was missing about when he arrived over Topeka, turned the team around and retrieved his sorry butt, as the hooves were easy to spot, which is why there was nothing to see in the morning.

Currently, Rudolf's in the Arctic doghouse along with a couple of misbehaving elves.

That video is odd. The curiosity would kill this cat.

You should have gone out and taken a good photo. It could have made you rich!

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Iffen out here in de woods. We just shoot out thar amongst it. Iffen no one hollars. Just go back to bed.

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Chupacabra.

I WISH I had NOT seen that... TOOOOO CREEPY!

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Makes complete sense to me, Onomea!

We see moths or birds like that near the cameras several times a week.
Won't see any for a while they all froze in the snow night before last.

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"Go back to sleep"??? There is no way I would have been able to go back to sleep or SWMBO would have let me go back to sleep until I checked it out.

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SNOW?.........We be still in shorts and tee shirts.

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The IR illumnators on cameras can be deceiving, as stuff that is close up can look pretty weird. My guess is possibly a couple of strands of spider web.

I get spiders regularly clogging up my cameras. Once in a while something will crawl across the lens; usually just a bug but it looks like Godzilla

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“To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
“The dog did nothing in the night-time.”
“That was the curious incident.”
— The Adventure of Silver Blaze, Sir A.C. Doyle.

Holmes’ quote applies in at least two ways: the traditional evidence of absence, and Daisy’s lack of response. The video is likely insects (at a concert with tiny lighters), or aliens. Since Daisy didn’t bark, it wasn’t a substantial alien incident... or Santa tossed her some treats

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Swamp gas.

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All joking aside, I'd guess Faulkner's 'creature' is a spider or moth close to the camera. We caught a spider on one of our motion cams a while back and it looked the size of a small car in the video!

I got woken up last night by these four trespassers on our property...

Did not read all the postds to see if anyone else agrees with me, but it's a snail with the eyestalks all the way out.

See Rule 3's post (#9) I wondered about that, too, then thought, "What's a snail doing up there?" But not being a snail, I wouldn't know.

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Biggest garden slug I ever saw! Must be at least 18 lbs. Call a French restaurant and get rich quick.

Couldn't help thinking of this:

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I always liked this one.

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Living in the country, we always had animal noises. Elk, coyotes, foxes etc. One night I was awoken by someone trying to get in my kitchen window. I grabbed my 1911, safety off, I prepared to open the curtains and catch the perpetrator. Just then one of children's proximity toys exploded, lit up and took off across the kitchen floor. Neary blew the coffee maker away. The noise stopped but my heart was racing. Minutes later the noise under the kitchen window resumed. I threw back the curtain, with my 45 pointed directly at the perp. Instead of a burglar it was a mule deer buck that was using my house to rub the velvet off his horns.

That is a genuwine begota. Be go to heck if I know what it is.

After a practically long day at work a good night's sleep was all I wanted. In the early hours of the morning, I could hear something downstair on the porch making odd noises. My wife said she would go look. My last words to her were to not open the door and go outside because we had been having quite a few bears of late. A few minutes later I could hear the door open. She never has taken my advice, don't know why she would this time. Then I heard her trying to shoo away some animal, lawn chairs crashing and all kinds of commotion. Then words I didn't want to hear. In a load voice she yelled, "Steven, get your gun". I flew downstairs, 1911 in hand, ready to do mortal combat with a bear, or mountain lion or even a bigfoot. I did not know what. As I exited the house onto the porch, I saw my petite bride swinging a lawn chair at the offender. Seems a baby porcupine was trying to eat his way into our living room. He had already ate away a football sized chuck of our cedar siding. The wife would whack it with a lawn chair, and it would come back for more dinner. No matter what she did it always returned. I gave it a size 13 boot and launched it several yards across the forest, yet it still returned. Not wanting to, I retrieved my Colt Woodsman and sent him to meet his ancestors.

This was crawling over one of my cameras during the day. I hope it's not trying to find a way inside via the wiring or I'll have to be armed. Any idea what cailber is recommended for thagomizers?

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