Things that go bump in the night

[Faulkner]

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

 

[walnutred]

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

 

[Rudi]

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.

 

[rockquarry]

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?

 

[Puller]

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

 

[Nevada Ed]

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?

 

[robvious]

mating snakes perhaps?

 

[Puller]

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

 

[Rule3]

Snail eyes

 

[Onomea]

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.

 

[llowry61]

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

 

[s&wchad]

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

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

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

 

[SnidelyWhiplash]

Chupacabra.

 

[walkin jack]

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

 

[Krogen]

Makes complete sense to me, Onomea!

 

[Iggy]

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.

 

[fiasconva]

"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.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

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.

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

 

[oldbrownhat]

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