11 Unbelievable Places People Found Secret Cameras

Imagine finding a hidden camera in a place you’d never expect — like a hotel room, fitting room, or Airbnb. Trust your gut if something feels off, report it. Privacy is a basic right, and we must protect it. But unfortunately, for some people, such a found became a reality.

• My husband and I booked a charming beachside cabin for a romantic getaway. The first night was perfect — waves crashing, cozy fireplace, pure bliss. But the next morning, as I was brushing my teeth, I noticed a weird dot on the showerhead. On closer inspection, it wasn’t just a dot — it was a hidden camera cleverly disguised within the shower fixture.
  What was the worst, is that we’d already used the shower several times. Imagining what footage might exist of us made my skin crawl. The host denied everything, claiming it was a “fancy sensor,” but we reported it anyway. I’ll never look at vacation rentals the same way again.
• I was regifted a plastic cactus figurine by a coworker. When I was going to bed, I accidentally kicked the cactus over and found a spy cam inside. I asked my coworker about it, and she was freaked out because a guy that made her uncomfortable had gifted it to her a few weeks earlier. She apologized for giving it to me. I tossed it. featoutsider / Reddit
• I found one of those “spy pens” in my room. It had been there for a few days and activated whenever I came into the room.
  The first video was of my old housemate putting the camera there and making sure it faced my bed.
  I called him and was like “Hey psycho. So. Want to explain this!?” and after some utter crapola, he couldn’t explain. I moved out a week later. Daviemoo / Reddit
• This is a little different. We lived next door to my dad’s parents. They had a key to our house because his dad would often come and let our dogs out. Well, we started noticing weird things go missing like a box of cereal, $5, just small things like that.
  So my dad set up a hidden camera in our kitchen to see if it was his dad, and sure enough, it was. One day he came into the house, stuffed his pockets full of dog treats, and left. We eventually changed the locks and didn’t give him a key. Lyssann24 / Reddit

• I was staying in a budget hotel for a work trip. One night, while lying in bed, I noticed the smoke detector on the ceiling seemed to have a faint blinking light. Curious, I got up and inspected it. To my shock, it was a hidden camera disguised as part of the detector.
  The worst part? It was positioned directly over the bed. I reported it to the front desk, and their nonchalant response made my stomach churn. They said they’d ’look into it,’ but I checked out immediately. I still wonder how long it had been there and how many people were recorded before me.
• I was actually venting to a mutual friend about my ex after a breakup. He recorded me without my consent so that “he could send it to my ex so that he’d get off his back trying to get us together.” When I found out, I asked him to delete it. But I have no idea how many times he has recorded me in my moments of vulnerability. Never saw him the same again. The trust just wasn’t there. justananxioussoul / Reddit
• I had just finished a tough workout and headed to the locker room to change. As I was putting my stuff away, I noticed a phone charger plugged into the wall, seemingly left behind by someone. But something about it felt off — the front had a small, dark lens-like hole. I picked it up and realized it was a spy camera disguised as a charger. My stomach dropped. I reported it to the gym staff, who called the police immediately. The thought that someone had been secretly recording people in a place meant to be private made my skin crawl.
• My mom set up a hidden camera in my son’s room at her place to spy on me while I visit him there because she thinks I’m ’up to something’. She was asked by our social worker to take it down, but they couldn’t do much because it’s a private residence, and she’s apparently within her legal rights to keep it there.
  So the worker organized for all visits to be at my place instead because she refused to be accommodating and make me feel welcome. Mom was not happy, worker finally gets what I meant when I said my parents hate me. kadesc / Reddit

• I was in a private meeting room at work, preparing for a sensitive discussion with a client. As I set up my laptop, I noticed a tiny black dot embedded in the wall clock. It was strange — too perfectly placed to be a design flaw. My gut told me to investigate, so I pulled the clock off the wall. Inside was a fully functional camera, pointed directly at the conference table where confidential conversations happened. I reported it to management, who claimed they had no idea how it got there. But knowing someone had been spying on our meetings for who-knows-how-long left me paranoid for weeks.
• When I was 20 in the early ’80s, I moved back in with my parents due to poor decisions and became a disappointment to my dad. One morning, he woke me up, ranting about my behavior and mentioning things he shouldn’t have known. I realized he might be tapping the phone.
  Later, a friend called, spilling details about our plans that night. Panicked, I checked my dad’s office and found a tape recorder hooked to the phone line. I rewound the tape just before he got home and then recorded over it with another call.
  He never mentioned it, so I assumed I got away with it. Afterward, I warned my friends not to discuss anything suspicious on the phone again. My dad likely figured it out but said nothing.
• I found a clock spy cam on a website that was super similar to the one I’ve always had in my room. I checked my clock, and the memory card slot was empty. I asked my mom about it. Turns out they got it to monitor my babysitter when my brother was a baby, they didn’t like her behavior to him and fired her. Since the spy clock also functioned as a regular clock, they decided to use it as that. CaptainBasculin / Reddit

Coming across a hidden camera is disturbing. This is a reminder that our safety skills need to be honed. Find out some tips on how to prepare for unwanted situations.