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If you’re keen on new technology, you might have one of those video doorbells that detects movement. If someone comes and tries your front door, or your car door, they’re captured there on video.
If you’re keen on new technology and animals, you might also have a wildlife camera that detects movement and takes photos using an infra-red flash. It was a bit of an indulgence for your small surburban front garden but you’ve seen ghostly images of grumbling hedgehogs and a twitchy mouse, as well as any number of cats slinking around their inscrutable business. And once, to your amazement, a young fox, who wandered in without a care in the world, sniffed at a few things, and then trotted off to his next appointment.
One day though, you might be reviewing the night’s capture on the wildlife camera and see a shape like a person walk slowly into your garden. Unlike the shots of the animals in the night (three cats, one hedgehog, an insomniac blackbird) you can’t make out any detail illuminated by the infrared flash, just a blurry but unmistakeable shape. It stands there, completely still for about three minutes, then moves it head. After a moment more, it turns and slowly walks away, out of your garden and out of sight.
Indignant at this intrusion, you review the footage from your video doorbell, which they passed to get onto your garden, and when they walked out. There’s nothing there. Nothing at the timestamp on the wildlife cam. Nothing around it. Nothing. But when you look really closely, you think you can see two impressions on the grass.
�You’re not sure which unsettles you most. The fact that the shape could be seen on one camera but not the other, or the fact that just before the shape like a person left, despite the lack of detail in the picture when it moved its head you are sure that it was sniffing the air.


Oh now I want to get cameras all around the outside of my bungalow! We have a lot of wildlife both normal and supernatural here. My wife won't allow me to get an EVP monitor for our home in case she hears something she does not want too. 🙁