18 Weirdest Things Caught on Security Camera

"Whether it’s security cameras in stores or places of business, police body cameras, home security systems, or even the cameras in people’s doorbells, these are some of the weirdest things ever caught on CCTV. We’ve got animals, aliens, monsters, maniacs, and a whole lot of morons."

18 Weirdest Things Caught on Security Camera is a video on the Infographics Show showing the top eighteen weirdest things that were ever caught on security cameras, all weird, funny, and creepy, with some unexplained things.

Synopsis
We've all seen some pretty weird stuff on security cameras. But what you're about to see is something else. Watch these clips from the strangest, most bizarre security camera footage that's ever been caught on tape!

Transcript
Whether it’s security cameras in stores or places of business, police body cameras, home security systems, or even the cameras in people’s doorbells, these are some of the weirdest things ever caught on CCTV. We’ve got animals, aliens, monsters, maniacs, and a whole lot of morons. Stay tuned!

18. A Bear Goes Shopping

We begin our collection of strange videos over in Russia, where a large, agitated bear managed to find its way into a local shopping mall. While bears like this can sometimes seem cute and cuddly from a distance, videos like this remind you of the speed, power, and ferocity of these animals.

A collage of security footage shows the bear positively losing it, running through glass and scrambling around in a state of panic, creating a huge source of danger for nearby shoppers. Russian authorities sadly had to kill the bear in the end, but thankfully, the bear did end up the only casualty of this incredibly weird event. And thanks to all the CCTV cameras in the shopping mall, the whole thing is immortalised on YouTube forever. Now, it’s time to get gross...

17. The Doorbell Licker

Dave and Sylvia Dungan, a couple in California, documented this incredibly weird encounter on their doorbell camera while they were away from home. The video depicts Robert Arroyo, a man with a lot of time on his hands and probably at least a couple chemical dependencies, doing some very creepy things outside their home.

Robert didn’t know what to do with his evening, so he decided to relieve himself in the Dungan family yard, before strolling over to the house to taste their doorbell. Already, this qualifies as 100% weird, but what pushes this into ultra-weird territory is the fact he licked their doorbell for three solid hours - that’s as long as Avengers: Endgame. We can only imagine it must have tasted incredible. Let’s get a little less creepy, and a lot more cool...

16. Forklifts to the Rescue

Not every strange event caught on CCTV is upsetting and strange, sometimes they’re downright awesome. Take this surreal footage straight from a construction site in the Czech Republic. According to sources in the area, the people in the red car were attempting to steal tools from the construction site. Workers on the site simply weren’t going to let that slide. They put their forklift certification to good use, hopping into their vehicles without a second of hesitation.

In what can only be described as a “pro gamer move”, the forklifts blocked every potential escape route for the thief. Then, like a pack of hyenas, they surrounded and boxed the car in, totally immobilising the thief and thwarting any hopes of him getting away. All in a day’s work for the forklift driver’s, the true backbone of the Czech Republic. Let’s get way creepier again!

15. Clown Vs Pumpkin

From clownish criminals stealing tools to a very different type of clown. Remember the clown epidemic of 2016, when a bunch of weirdos decided to dress up as clowns and freak out total strangers? Here we have a security camera video of one of those very same weirdos – and we can’t quite decide whether it’s funny or scary. On Halloween night, this portly clown decided to terrorise a stranger’s porch, taking particular issue with the pumpkin. He punches it several times, to no effect, before digging his fingers into it like a zombie and tearing it apart. Makes you wonder what the pumpkin ever did to him. That Clown wasn’t very funny, but this next video sure is...

14. Regular Day at the Golf Store

From Residential evil to retail chaos, this CCTV footage shows what seems to be the interior of a normal golf store...for a few seconds, anyway. Then, a man abruptly falls through the ceiling in a shower of concrete dust. Despite what seems like a pretty shocking incident, nobody involved seemed to really mind. The shopkeeper, who seems to recognise the man who fell through the roof, says “Hey, Ron.” The man who fell through replies, with equal casualness, “Hey, Billy,” before calmly remarking, “That hurt.” We don’t know much about these two outside of this weird CCTV footage, but we can only assume they probably go on wacky adventures all the time. But here’s a much crazier incident in a store...

13. Mr. Machete

They tell you to never bring a knife to a gunfight, but this video proves that the same cannot be said for machetes. Here, we see a robber try to pull a gun on a shopkeeper, ordering him to open the cash register and hand over the contents. But this shopkeeper has no interest in that. Instead, he reaches under the counter and grabs a giant machete, before unsheathing it and giving chase. The robber makes the wise decision to turn tail and run for his life, as the machete-wielding shopkeeper chases him all the way through the parking lot. You’d much rather run into the next person documented on this list...

12. Supermarket Gun Show

We’ve now learned that it isn’t wise to bring guns into a store, unless you’re Dublin-based comedian and body builder Blessing Awodibu. Blessing was in a local supermarket, doing some shopping with his girlfriend, when he noticed that he was being filmed by a nearby CCTV character. Deciding to have a little fun with the situation, Blessing began an impromptu gun-show, flexing and posing for the camera, and even taking his shirt off. It’s one of the stranger things you’ll be likely to see in the bread aisle of your local supermarket, but things can get even stranger than that if you look into the stars...

11. The Fresno Nightcrawlers

While this next CCTV footage was taken in Fresno, California, the actual subjects of the video may very well be out of this world. This is footage of a cryptid known as the Fresno Nightcrawlers, which look a little bit like a giant pair of walking pants with a mind of their own. The two strange creatures stroll through the video, sparking hundreds of theories into what exactly they are. Some have suggested ghosts, others robots, aliens, or even some undiscovered species. But one thing is absolutely certain: They make for an extremely weird CCTV video. Now let’s jump from a pair of two-legged weirdos to a bonafide four-legged hero...

10. Hero Cat Saves Toddler

Much like the forklifts we covered earlier, heroes can sometimes appear in unexpected forms. When a toddler was attacked in their very own driveway by an aggressive dog on the loose, an unlikely hero stormed in to the rescue: The family cat. This amazing footage shows the dog first grabbing the toddler’s leg, pulling them off their bike, and beginning to drag them down the driveway.

That’s when the cat streams in from the side, body-checking the dog and knocking it away from the child. The dog, seemingly just as shocked by this outburst as the rest of us, began to flee as the defensive cat gave chase. This bought the adults nearby enough time to run in and take control of the situation. It’s very possible that this brave cat saved the child’s life, in this incredibly weird CCTV video. Enough about real heroes, though. Let’s take a look at someone who dresses like a comic book supervillain...

9. TV Head Vigilante

This video is one of the strangest on the list, and I’m afraid we don’t have much of an explanation for you. This man, wearing an old-fashioned Cathode Ray Tube TV on his head, left 52 similarly old-fashioned TVs on the doorsteps of a neighbourhood in Virginia. He clearly knew he was being filmed by the doorbell cameras of many of the residents, often stopping to wave at them after leaving the TV, like a strange variation on Santa Claus. The identity of the TV Head Vigilante, as some people took to calling him, still hasn’t been uncovered, nor do we know why he decided to go on this fly-tipping spree. But at least we got a tremendously weird CCTV video out of it. Nowhere near as weird as this next one, though...

8. Dobby in the Garage

Speaking of tremendously weird creatures in the suburbs, this short CCTV clip from Denver shows a strange creature leaving a woman’s garage. While some believe that this clip is a hoax, it really doesn’t change the strangeness of seeing this little entity waddling out of the garage. Some have suggested that the creature is an alien, while others have compared it to Dobby from Harry Potter. What do you think we’re looking at here? Cause we just don’t know. Now let’s take a look at some absolute chaos!

7. The Domino Effect

We’ve already established how forklifts can be forces of good in weird CCTV clips, but they can also be forces of destruction. In this video, caught on a CCTV camera at a warehouse, we watch a devastating chain reaction unfold as the forklift knocks into a huge shelving unit. This causes basically everything in the warehouse to collapse, likely causing millions of dollars in damages. The one consolation is that nobody was seriously hurt in the incident, though it’s safe to assume that somebody probably lost their job over this. Sadly, “nobody got hurt” could not be said about our next clip...

6. 93-Year-Old Man Gets Revenge

Next, the CCTV footage of a very old man pushed to his limit. Apparently dissatisfied with the service he was receiving, a 93-year-old man, dressed in all black, wandered into the lobby of his apartment and decided to hold the manager hostage. And yes, he was packing heat. The old man instructed everyone else to leave after shooting a computer monitor to show he was serious, until he was alone in the lobby with the manager. At this point, he decided to express his distaste by shooting the manager in both legs. Thankfully, the wounds the manager sustained were only grazes, but it’s still a terrifying and absurd scenario to be held hostage by a gun-wielding man who was almost a century old.

5. Girl Swallowed by the Ground

Now, we’re going to give you a whole new kind of fear you may not have even known about. In this video, a Chinese woman is minding her own business when the ground suddenly collapses beneath her, and she falls down a six-meter hole. Lucky for her, taxi driver Wang Wei was able to stop his car and call for help. It’s a strange and terrifying video, and it’s enough to make you be a whole lot more careful when you’re walking around in public.

4. An Interesting Visitor

Here’s another little nightmare for you. Imagine your doorbell camera detecting someone outside, and when you log in to check the video, you see a terrifying, giant spider crawling all over the camera. In reality, this spider is probably pretty average in size, but it’s terrifying to see it up this close. This is one visitor you probably won’t be letting in.

3. The Elisa Lam Footage

This one is equal parts strange and deeply, deeply tragic. Back in 2013, a 21-year-old Canadian woman named Elisa Lam was found dead in the water tank of the infamous Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. Shortly before her death was discovered, this video of her acting extremely strange in the hotel elevator was leaked by police in hopes of aiding the investigation.

In this unsettling footage, Elisa seems nervous, acting erratically, looking around as though someone or something is following her. This video led to mass speculation online, ranging from murderers to the supernatural. The most likely reason behind what we’re seeing here is that Lam was suffering from a manic episode, due to her unmedicated bipolar disorder.

2. Little Girl Defends Herself

From a tragic video of a girl in an elevator, to a badass one. This young girl was minding her own business when a sketchy dude entered the elevator with her. Not long after, when the doors open, he tries to block her path and prevent her from leaving. He must have not noticed that she was a martial arts black belt. In what proves to be an extremely satisfying CCTV clip, she beats the living hell out of her would-be attacker, giving him a lesson in respecting others that he won’t soon forget. And thanks to this video, the rest of us won’t soon forget it, either.

1. The Worst Robbery of All Time

And we’ve saved the best for last: CCTV footage of a robbery so hilariously botched, we dare you to watch it and not smile. In the video, our would-be robber approaches the counter of a vape store. Just as he’s reaching the cashier, he tries to pull out a handgun, but his butterfingers ruin the whole operation. The gun slides out of his hands and lands behind the counter, effectively disarming himself.

Already, things are going wrong, but it’s about to get worse for this poor idiot. He makes a laughable attempt to climb over the counter, but instead aborts as the cashier grabs the gun. He runs towards the door and leaps out with an awkward flying-kick, and the cherry on top? His pants start to fall down as he’s making a run for it. Who says slapstick is dead?

There you have it. Our list of the craziest, scariest, funniest, and downright weirdest pieces of CCTV footage out there.