Grandma's Security Camera
We got my grandma an alarm system after some criminal activity: teenagers broke into her home and, before that, someone was living in her basement without her knowledge. This thing had a camera on the exterior doors and motion sensors to take pics of whoever came into the house. Awesome. We were convinced she would be fine.
I got a call from her when her phone went off at work saying that motion was detected in the home. Weird, I thought, she lives alone. She assumes someone broke into her house. I’m concerned because the alarm system itself didn’t go off…so this person must have been in the house when she set the alarm.
Imagine her surprise when she sees her deceased brother in law rooting around in the fridge. He hit a low spot after his daughter died and wife left him. One morning, he took a gun out to a lake and killed himself. Apparently he used to come over to my grandma’s house every weekend and help her ex-husband with the basement remodel. He used to always dig in the fridge for snacks.
I have the pic on my phone still. It’s a wild thing to see regardless of the answer: a ghost or an intruder who was hiding in the basement.
Edit to include the link to the pic:
