Top 20 Creepiest Things Caught On Security Cameras

In a series of disturbing videos, nineteen-year-old Kenneka Jenkins can be seen stumbling down various hallways and bumping into walls and railings. Jenkins eventually makes her way to a kitchen, and it’s here that she would die. This footage was filmed inside the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare hotel, where Jenkins was attending a party. Jenkins left the get-together in the early morning hours of September 9, 2017 and was later reported missing. Her body was found inside the kitchen’s walk-in freezer on Sunday, September 10. The death was ruled an accident, with the effects of alcohol and a drug called topiramate worsening the effects of hypothermia and leading to her passing.

We’ve all heard of shadow figures. Maybe you’ve even seen one in your lifetime. But these are generally harmless things, seen out of the corner of an eye. But what if a shadow figure decided to get dangerous? In this video, a boy emerges from a door holding what appears to be an ice pack to his head. After rubbing his feet on the mat, he’s seemingly pushed from behind by a shadow. The boy immediately reacts and goes to the door to investigate, holding the spot on his back where he was pushed. Even if this is fake, it’s still very well made and suitably effective at giving us the creeps.

Even ghosts love the Blockbuster experience. Or should we say “loved?” This classic video shows an employee at a Mexico Blockbuster stocking shelves when he experiences some paranormal activity. The man is putting DVDs on the shelf when his cart moves and is pushed with enough force to knock over some of the videos. Following this, numerous DVDs begin falling off the shelves, causing the frightened employee to bail. We don’t blame him one bit. This video has amassed over one million views on YouTube, proving that good paranormal footage is a thing of intense interest to many.

It was February 1, 2012, and eighteen-year-old Samantha Koenig was working at a coffee shop in Anchorage, Alaska. Unfortunately, Koenig was targeted by serial killer Israel Keyes, and her kidnapping was filmed by the store’s security cameras. Keyes approaches the quiet stand and pulls out a gun, causing Koenig to react in fear. She then turns out the lights and talks with Keyes before he climbs through the window and ties her up. Keyes then leads Koenig outside and takes her to his vehicle. This is the last time that Koenig was seen alive, as she was taken to Keyes’s home and killed.

A man in a yellow shirt walks into an airport carrying a bag. Moments later, he’s seen running out of the building without the bag. Taken on its own, the footage of Lars Mittank isn’t that scary. After all, people run through airports all the time. But it’s the context that matters. Mittank was vacationing in Bulgaria when he suffered an injury to his ear. He began acting very strangely, seemingly hiding from unseen people and even calling his mother to tell her that he was being followed. He consulted the airport’s doctor but ran from his office and out the building, where he proceeded towards some nearby woods. Mittank was never seen again, and the reason for his behavior is still unexplained.

Breanna Hernandez and her husband received the scare of their lives on the night of August 22, 2017. The couple was enjoying their dinner when Hernandez’s husband noticed something creepy on the home security camera. This footage was released to the public, and it shows what looks like a white, ghostly figure walking past the property. The figure has a very clear gait, with what looks like either moving legs or swinging arms. The event remains unexplained, but it was enough to capture the attention of the media, who proceeded to interview Hernandez. She posits that it was a ghost. What do you think?

Hotels are notorious for being haunted. It’s hard to say why, but it probably has something to do with the volume of visitors and the potentially high death rate that results. This CCTV footage shows an empty hotel hallway with what looks like a cleaning cart sitting in front of a doorway or elevator. Out of nowhere, a shadow figure appears from the doorway and hits the cart before darting back out of view. The incident is over before you know it, but it certainly leaves an impression. It’s hard to say what this is, but we do know one thing - it is incredibly eerie.

Captured in March of 2016, this terrifying footage shows a stalker creeping outside of a woman’s house in Brisbane, Australia. The man lurked around the house for about twenty minutes and acted in a very peculiar manner. At one point he kneels behind a trailer to avoid the headlights of a passing car and proceeds to crawl around on all fours. His movements are reminiscent of Gollum from “The Lord of the Rings,” and the visual is enough to make blood run cold. It’s presumed that the man was attempting to look into the woman’s windows without being seen. He eventually walks away without incident and was never caught or identified.

They’re some of the most infamous photos in British true crime - a boy wearing a brown jacket holds the hand of a much younger child and leads him through a busy shopping mall. The taller boy is Jon Venables, who’s holding the hand of James Bulger. Venables and his friend Robert Thompson were actively abducting Bulger from the mall. Unfortunately, this was the last time that Bulger was seen alive. The boys took Bulger to a railway station and killed him, and his body was found two days later. Venables and Thompson became some of the country’s youngest convicted murderers and were given an indefinite sentence. They were both paroled after just eight years when they turned eighteen.

Thirty-four-year-old Amanda Pitt was sleeping in her Pennsylvania home when she heard footsteps walking throughout the house. She initially thought that it was one of her children but found them all snug in their beds. Frightened, she decided to check the home’s security cameras. Pitt then received the shock of her life when she saw what appeared to be a human form standing in the door of her kitchen. She woke her husband and he went to investigate but found nothing out of the ordinary. However, the family dog was in the area and was anxiously pacing back and forth. Pitt told the media that it wasn’t the first spooky incident to have occurred inside the house.

Clowns are most closely associated with birthday parties or the circus, but in recent years, people have been sullying the profession through creepy acts like, well, this. In Jacksonville, Florida, various clowns were caught on security cameras terrorizing private homes. In one video, a clown simply stands near the porch and stares into the camera. In the other, more popular video, a clown goes onto a porch, rips apart a pumpkin while staring directly into the camera, and then leaves, with the pumpkin pulp an eerie reminder of its presence. It’s said that these clowns were friends of the home owners and were simply pranking them before Halloween. But still, that’s not something you want to wake up to.

Receiving doorbell notifications at 4:00 in the morning is never a good sign. Reddit user FatNDepressed received numerous doorbell notifications on their cell phone, spanning from before midnight to after 4am. They initially ignored it, believing it to be nothing more than stray dogs, or passing pedestrians on the sidewalk. But when they finally checked, they were met with one of the most terrifying sights on the internet - that of a person staring directly into their doorbell camera, a slight smile on their face and their hands casually placed behind their back. It’s like something out of “The Purge,” and it really gets the imagination going. Fortunately, the owner of the house confirmed that they were not harmed - just incredibly spooked.

While modern cruise ships make for luxurious travel, the open sea is a fickle and dangerous thing. And unfortunately, everyone on this cruise learned that fact in the scariest way possible. The ship was on the open ocean near New Zealand when it encountered a violent storm that sent enormous waves pounding against the hull. On one of the ship’s security cameras, people, tables, and chairs can be seen careening around the room as the ship lists in the storm. It makes for unnerving viewing, appearing like a scene out of “Titanic.” The storm left forty-two people injured, and customers were offered a 25% discount on their next cruise as compensation.

Located in South Yorkshire, England, Barnsley Antiques Centre is a very popular shop—and for more reasons than one. It’s caught the attention of paranormal enthusiasts, owing to its supposedly relentless supernatural activity. Back in 2016, a Bambi rocking horse was caught on camera rocking by itself and flying off the shelf. The previous year, a heavy lamp was caught being pushed off a table by an unseen force. But that’s not all. A glass cabinet shattered for no apparent reason, pictures have fallen off shelves, and a book once tumbled off the aforementioned glass cabinet, startling an unsuspecting employee. The store uploads its creepy CCTV footage on its eponymous YouTube channel, and it has helped make the shop both a sensation and a popular tourist destination.

On the morning of April 18, 2016, Dallas area fitness instructor Missy Bevers was killed by an unidentified person while preparing a class in a local church. The crime tragically remains unsolved, and that’s made all the more aggravating owing to the clear video evidence of the killer. Various security cameras captured a suspicious vehicle driving in the area shortly before Bevers’s murder. But even creepier is the killer themselves. The suspect can be seen clad in police riot gear and casually roaming the empty halls of the church, opening various doors and wielding what appears to be a hammer.

In October of 2017, mother Rechelle Haigh experienced one of the scariest things that a parent can encounter. As captured in a video she later shared, a white van approached her three children, who were playing outside on a trampoline. Haigh reportedly heard the driver asking the kids if they wanted some donuts. She initially thought it was a friendly neighbor and wasn’t too alarmed. However, her eldest daughter, who can be seen running from the stranger on the CCTV footage, came bursting into the house and informed her mother of the situation. Haigh confronted the man from afar, who reiterated the donut story before driving away. The incident was reported to the police, and Haigh uploaded the creepy footage to Facebook.

As captured on surveillance video, on June 17, 2013, a wanted felon named Sammie Wallace strolled into an Oklahoma City store and snatched a young girl out of her mother’s cart. He then held the young girl at knifepoint and gave her mother a cell phone, demanding that she call a specific police officer. He proceeded to hold the girl hostage for half an hour, and witnesses claim that he was rambling about the Illuminati. He spoke with a hostage negotiator with the child on his lap, the knife held to her stomach. When he brought the knife up to her throat, however, he was immediately shot. The little girl was unharmed.

Swedish twin sisters Ursula and Sabina Eriksson were traveling the UK when their odd behavior got them kicked off a bus. They soon made their way onto the median strip of a busy freeway, where they were captured on CCTV. The twins proceeded to run into oncoming traffic and were repeatedly struck by speeding cars. Ursula was seriously injured in the ordeal, and Sabina attacked an officer after regaining consciousness. She was taken into custody but attacked a man after being released from court, leading to five years’ imprisonment. No drugs or alcohol were reported in the original bizarre incident, and it was eventually chalked up to a rare phenomenon known as shared psychosis—in which two people share a psychotic episode.

There are few things scarier than an intruder breaking into your house and watching you sleep. Unfortunately, Chicago couple Jack Mackercher and Jordan Buranskas know that from firsthand experience. The suspect entered their home through an unlocked door and stood at the top of the stairs, silently watching over the couple who had fallen asleep on the couch. Luckily, the couple were not hurt, though Jordan’s purse was stolen. Curious about the missing purse, Jordan and Jack consulted the home’s security camera hoping to get answers. And that’s when they saw the lurker standing at the top of the stairs. This is like something out of an urban legend, and it is every bit as terrifying.

Lam was a college student staying at Los Angeles’s infamous Cecil Hotel when she went missing. CCTV elevator footage showed Lam acting in an unsettling manner shortly before her death. She can be seen hiding inside the elevator, peeking around the corner, continuously entering and exiting the elevator, and speaking to someone in the hallway. Two weeks after she was reported missing, Lam’s body was found in one of the hotel’s water tanks. The leading theory is that Lam stopped taking her medication, leading to a psychotic episode. She then likely accessed the roof via a fire escape and climbed into one of the open tanks. Her death was one of the most shocking and captivating news stories of the 2010s.