This is straight out of a horror movie.

Jack Mackercher and his girlfriend Jordan had fallen asleep in the living room of their Chicago residence while watching Mr. Robot. So far, your typical night of binge-watching Netflix or Amazon Prime. Nothing amiss. But when they woke up, they realized Jordan’s purse was missing. So, as detailed by DNAInfo Chicago, Jordan checked their Nest home security footage, thinking they might have caught a thief on tape.

Which they did. But, disturbingly, the intruder didn’t just grab the purse and go. Instead, he stood at the top of the stairs overlooking the living room where the couple slept and looked down for fifteen minutes. Here’s a clip from the footage:

No. No thank you to that. Home invasions aren’t funny, and in the end, the couple are lucky they were just victims of a purse-theft and voyeurism, as opposed to something much worse. And because it wasn’t worse, I can say this: maybe the intruder just got sucked into Mr. Robot like the rest of us did? I mean, that’s a hard show to turn off, I watched the entire first season in a weekend.

Also, Mr. Robot is a fascinating show to be watching when this happened, since so much of it revolves around the idea that you’re being watched, monitored, or tracked wherever you are. Which works in two ways, as the intruder was watching the couple, while being watched himself by smart home security technology.

If you’re wondering how he got in, apparently the couple hadn’t meant to fall sleep downstairs, and therefore hadn’t completed their nightly routine which included locking the upstairs balcony door. I grew up in a very small town, and being a slightly paranoid child, would routinely lock the doors that my parents were comfortable leaving unlocked all day. I now feel vindicated.

The intruder in question apparently is suspected in a rash of neighborhood burglaries, and has been nicknamed the “creeper ghost”. Based on that footage, it seems an apt moniker. Hopefully he’s caught soon.

[DNAInfo]

About Jay Rigdon

Jay is a columnist at Awful Announcing. He is not a strong swimmer. He is probably talking to a dog in a silly voice at this very moment.