Parents reveal the 14 weirdest things they've seen on their infant monitor

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Baby monitor cameras capture some bizarre things.
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Parents use video baby monitors to make sure their kids stay condom — but the devices oftentimes serve the unintended purpose of capturing bizarre things on camera.

A recent AskReddit thread prompted parents to share the weirdest things they'd seen or recorded using infant monitors or security cameras in their homes. Moms, dads, and even a few babysitters rushed to answer.

Though INSIDER couldn't verify all of these stories, they sure are fun to read:

"Every few days or and so a militarist would land on the outside of the window."

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"Our [baby's] crib was nether a window (close and locked, don't worry). Every few days or and so a hawk or some other kind of large bird would land on the outside of the window. The bird and my daughter would sit at that place for a good 10 minutes bobbing their heads at one another. It was ambrosial, despite the fact the bird probably wanted to consume her." - Redditor __Iniquity__

"That's how he discovered that his son could get out of the crib."

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"My buddy has a camera that sits on his doorstep. It has a motility sensor and every fourth dimension information technology detects someone or something on the porch, it snaps a photo and sends it to his phone. It'south a Sunday morning, and for one time, his two year sometime isn't shouting into his bedroom to get him out of his crib. Ah, yep. A rare morning time to lay in bed. His phone goes off. A photo of a little ruby-headed boy reaching out of the forepart door to catch a packet appears. And that'southward how he discovered that his son could become out of the crib." - Redditor Kalae

"The older kid deactivates the baby monitor when he and his sis want to do something they'll get in trouble for. "

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"My old roommate has two kids of his own. The older kid ([historic period] iii) deactivates the babe monitor cam when he and his sister want to practise something they'll go in trouble for. Kid even waves adieu to the camera before he pulls the plug." - Redditor Flynn_lives

"Once caught the bodyguard taking the infant's coating and putting it around her neck like a modest cape."

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"Once caught the bodyguard taking the infant'south blanket, putting information technology around her neck like a small greatcoat, and 'flying' around the room with it on. Keep in listen, the baby could only encounter out of the crib and was non present for the show. Needless to say, we constitute out she was frequently high during babysitting." - Redditor gooblagoobla

"Her girl went into the nursery and proceeded to lay out a few 'firm rules' on her 4-calendar week old little brother."

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"[My] sister chosen me weep-laughing to tell me that [her girl] went into the nursery and proceeded to lay out a few 'business firm rules' on her iv-calendar week sometime little brother. She says it was things virtually sharing, and cleaning upward, and being nice, and protective, and minding his manners. That was funny enough, simply [my] niece finished with this gem: 'Everybody pulls their weight in this family unit. Yous're lucky you're but ix pounds.'" - Redditor Durbee

"I wait at the baby monitor and see a ghost."

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"I await at the baby monitor and run into a ghost. I practice a double take; yep, it'due south really real and on the monitor hovering and swirling around my babe son. My encephalon jumps. Should I get take hold of my son? This can't be existent. Maybe the ghost is harmless. Should I get my camera? No one will believe it. I don't believe it. Is the ghost going to hurt the baby? I can't believe this is happening. Volition the ghost hurt the baby if I interrupt? Think logically. It'due south not a ghost. Information technology's not a glitch. It'due south definitely in the room hovering over the infant. Think. Breath. At-home. Call up. Oh, it's the camera light reflecting off the vapor from the humidifier we installed this morning." - Redditor ecafyelims

"I grabbed the two-year-quondam and a knife and slowly walked upstairs."

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"When I'1000 abode from college I babysit for these pretty wealthy people. At the time the boys I would babysit were about 2 years sometime and nine months erstwhile. It was summer and I had laid the younger one downwardly for a nap, then took the monitor out with me to the lawn so the 2 yr old could play. I hear sounds going off and come across artillery reaching into the crib to the sleeping infant. I grabbed the ii-year-old [and] a knife and slowly walked upstairs. Their grandma had come to see if I needed any help, but didn't have my number and so she didn't text me she was there. We laughed about it but never have I ever been so ready to shank someone." - Redditor foolsdayeveryday

"This child was like a petty Beyoncé."

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"I used to babysit a ix-year-old kid with Autism, forth with his about 2-year-old blood brother. He actually liked to watch YouTube videos lonely in his room, and his parents were cool with me letting him [...] as long as he didn't watch anything inappropriate. They had a nanny cam in the baby's room.

"So ane afternoon, I put the little 1 down for a nap and bring the laptop with the nanny cam feed with me to the living room, so I can get some reading done. I look up perchance 10 minutes into nap time, and I encounter the ix-year-quondam performing the most mind-bending and impressive dance choreography I've ever seen, while his little brother watched in complete awe. This kid was like a piddling Beyoncé.

"The best part was his parents confirming that they had watched it besides, and they had no idea that he was studying dance videos on Youtube and that he could actually perform such an amazing routine. Five years later, they're on Facebook sharing how he's in his high school's pom team and how dance has helped with some behavioral delays." - Redditor SexyFajitas

"Both the cat and the beagle would climb into the crib with the baby occasionally during naps."

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"Buddy of mine had a kid at the first of last year, [and he] discovered that both his cat and his beagle would climb into the crib with the baby occasionally during naps. Cute, right? Both animals fabricated it a habit to climb in, kick/push the baby to the very side of the crib and ringlet upwardly in the middle completely lone. You'd catch them glaring at the kid if he started to roll back over and invade their space." - Redditor crushing2013

"I could see a effigy standing over the crib in the vi-month-erstwhile's room."

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"I babysit my cousin'due south two kids pretty much every other Friday night [...] Their kids are 2 [years] and half-dozen months and so they take video monitors in each of their rooms and I pretty much watch the monitors and read or sentry Television. Roughly a calendar month agone I heard talking coming out of 1 of the monitors. It was a man's voice and he kept saying over and over once again, "Information technology's ok, get back to slumber, I'1000 here," and I could see a effigy standing over the crib in the 6-month-quondam'due south room. I freaked out thinking someone has broken in [...] I called the police and my cousin and crept upstairs with a pocketknife to protect myself and the babies. No 1 was upstairs and both kids were audio asleep.

"Fast forward to concluding week [when] the exact same thing happened to my cousin during the twenty-four hours while the kids are napping. But since it was day time the video monitor gave off a meliorate motion picture of the room. Apparently the 1 monitor in the half dozen-calendar month-old's room switches over to the neighbor's monitor every once and a while. The vox I heard was that of his next door neighbor soothing their crying baby who is effectually the aforementioned age." - Redditor goalieamd

"She woke upwardly early and was sitting upward in the crib, practicing her words."

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"My child was nonverbal as a infant. Obviously very smart, so nosotros weren't worried about it and just figured it would happen when it happened. You would ask her questions and she'd bespeak at things or if yous said something funny, she would laugh.

"So i forenoon we hear our daughter through the monitor. She woke up early and was sitting up in the crib, practicing her words. She'd say a word over and over until she got it right, then move on to some other. This was accompanied by grunts of frustration if she got one wrong.

"[My] wife wanted to run in and give kisses, merely I had us expect information technology out and so we could come across how deep her vocabulary went. It was actually pretty big, more than than 20 words. All that twenty-four hour period and for at least a few weeks more, still nonverbal. Then ane day she simply started speaking in complete sentences." - Redditor AlanMercer

"I managed to record my son playing peek-a-boo with himself."

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"I managed to tape my son playing peek-a-boo with himself but before going to slumber. It was super beautiful. The video starts with him sitting in his crib, laughing with his blanket over his head. He whips the blanked off and laughs, and then does it a couple more times, until finally grabbing his stuffed bunny and flopping onto the bed to go to sleep." - Redditor samuelk1

"I awoke out of a slumber because of some odd noises, like ruffling and labored breathing."

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"My kid was of the age that she was standing and talking and liked to aimlessly travel around her crib. On this particular dark, I awoke out of a sleep because of some odd noises, like ruffling, and then sort of labored animate and and then other noises I'd never heard earlier. So, equally a parent my eye drops [...] And so in a two seconds flat, I sit down directly up like they do in the movies, and I look straight over at a dark screen and I grab information technology, plough it on [...] I was Non prepared for what I saw.

"My kid's f------ face was the entire monitor screen, caput turned sideways. All I saw was her cute trivial face up and little beady night vision eyes [...] That'southward when nosotros institute out, she now knew what the camera was and could communicate with u.s.a. through information technology [...] She was whispering 'I dear y'all mommy and daddy, can I come to your bed?' It really was a scary few seconds, then that weird feeling you get when you realize your child's curiosity is so cute and they're learning." - Redditor Bujaly

"I overheard my 8-year-one-time son breaking upwardly with his girlfriend of 4 years."

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"Overheard my 8-year-one-time son breaking upwardly with his girlfriend of 4 years. She came over for a play date only to break the news to him that since most likely they volition cease upward with different teachers it volition exist hard to maintain relationships and perhaps would exist a good idea to showtime seeing other people. [I] asked him if he was ok afterwards [and] he said, 'Yep, she was but my backup anyways.'" - Redditor noreasterner

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