# What the HECK is THIS? **URL:** \ **Category:** Captured on Wyze\ **Tags:** cam-v4\ **Created:** [July 2, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235 "2025-07-02T15:38:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nikrib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/nikrib/32/110816_2.png) [@nikrib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/nikrib)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/1 "2025-07-02T15:38:13Z")
Does ANYONE have ANY IDEA what the heck this is?? Captured this on a V4 in Night vision, edited with iMovie to get a better, closer, slower look. ---
**Author:** ![Crease](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/crease/32/123254_2.png) [@Crease](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Crease)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/2 "2025-07-02T15:45:42Z")
You mean what you just posted without any images or videos? No idea. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![nikrib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/nikrib/32/110816_2.png) [@nikrib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/nikrib)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/3 "2025-07-02T16:49:40Z")
hmmmmā€¦ I know I attached a videoā€¦ Let me try againā€¦ THANKS for bring the to my attention! ---
**Author:** ![nikrib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/nikrib/32/110816_2.png) [@nikrib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/nikrib)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/4 "2025-07-02T16:50:33Z")
its there, nowā€¦ Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![Crease](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/crease/32/123254_2.png) [@Crease](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Crease)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/5 "2025-07-02T16:54:59Z")
I have no idea, but now Iā€™m curious about the raw video. ---
**Author:** ![nikrib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/nikrib/32/110816_2.png) [@nikrib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/nikrib)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/6 "2025-07-02T16:59:21Z")
I downloaded the night vision recording from my V4, and used iMovie to zoom and slow it downā€¦ I did NO OTHER processing to the raw footage. This spic shows it in scale. ![Image 7-2-25 at 12.57 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/c/b/cbf38ffc1da450a1aa4f4bf5f68aa82f4a9b438e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![nikrib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/nikrib/32/110816_2.png) [@nikrib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/nikrib)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/7 "2025-07-02T17:00:40Z")
This is the original raw footage, just cropped to see it better. ---
**Author:** ![nikrib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/nikrib/32/110816_2.png) [@nikrib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/nikrib)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/8 "2025-07-02T17:08:14Z")
@Crease The V4 is mounted just below the roof tucked under the eves, 11 feet from the ground. Can Crawfish be living in Storm Water drains? That is what this thing looks like, but I thought they only liv ed in the ocean. Apparently not! ---
**Author:** ![Crease](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/crease/32/123254_2.png) [@Crease](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Crease)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/9 "2025-07-02T17:31:02Z")
You _think_ thatā€™s a bird bath, but itā€™s really an alien ship _disguised_ as a bird bath. šŸ‘½ I donā€™t know how close you are to water, but Iā€™ve caught crawfish in freshwater lakes. I sā€™pose thatā€™s as good a guess as any, though Iā€™m not sure how quickly they move on land. When Iā€™ve caught them individually, itā€™s often been by positioning a large cup _behind_ one so that when it uses the tail flick to jet backwards it goes right into the vessel Iā€™m trying to use to capture it. I donā€™t know how rapidly they can travel in a rostral direction out of water. In some of the frames, it gives the appearance of a backwards frog, just based on the highlighted morphology. Iā€™m stumped with this so far. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø ---
**Author:** ![nikrib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/nikrib/32/110816_2.png) [@nikrib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/nikrib)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/10 "2025-07-02T17:34:28Z")
Britanica says: " Crayfish, common in streams and lakes, often conceal themselves under rocks or logs. They are most active at night, when they feed largely on snails, insect larvae, worms, and [amphibian](https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/amphibian) tadpoles; some eat vegetation." I bet thatā€™s what this critter is. ---
**Author:** ![habib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/habib/32/110070_2.png) [@habib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/habib)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/11 "2025-07-02T17:35:18Z")
Or fairly big scorpion šŸ¤” ---
**Author:** ![StevenA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/stevena/32/98871_2.png) [@StevenA](https://forums.wyze.com/u/StevenA)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/12 "2025-07-02T17:43:45Z")
Here is a weird video I saved from last year. Some kind of flying bug in my garage with night vision on. ---
**Author:** ![nikrib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/nikrib/32/110816_2.png) [@nikrib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/nikrib)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/13 "2025-07-02T17:47:10Z")
WOW, that is strange!!! ---
**Author:** ![nikrib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/nikrib/32/110816_2.png) [@nikrib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/nikrib)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/14 "2025-07-02T17:49:55Z")
MYSTERY SOLVED! What an Optical Illusion! What was actually a spider on a web up close to the camera, appears to be something much larger, on the ground. Especially since it just made a b-line running, but here is is obvious what this mysterious thing actually was! You can see at the end of this short clip, when it runs in a straight line, that is what we saw in the original clip! ---
**Author:** ![Crease](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/crease/32/123254_2.png) [@Crease](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Crease)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/15 "2025-07-02T17:52:19Z")
Oh, that makes a _ **lot** _ more sense! Thanks for providing the additional context and solution. šŸ‘ With this two-dimensional imagery, itā€™s so easy to think that something is scurrying across the ground instead of being significantly closer to the lens. Nice work. ---
**Author:** ![nikrib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/nikrib/32/110816_2.png) [@nikrib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/nikrib)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/16 "2025-07-02T17:54:10Z")
> [@nikrib](#): > > MYSTERY SOLVED! What an Optical Illusion! > What was actually a spider on a web up close to the camera, appears to be something much larger, on the ground. Especially since it just made a b-line running, but here is is obvious what this mysterious thing actually was! You can see at the end of this short clip, when it runs in a straight line, that is what we saw in the original clip! Itā€™s obvious in this clip. Fortunately, I have my SD card recording always, and was able to scrub through to find more footage that made it clear what was going on! Thanks for participating in todayā€™s Mystery Theater! šŸ¤£ ---
**Author:** ![StevenA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/stevena/32/98871_2.png) [@StevenA](https://forums.wyze.com/u/StevenA)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/17 "2025-07-02T17:58:29Z")
> [@nikrib](#): > > WOW, that is strange!!! I have lived in my house for 34 years. Started using Wyze v3 cameras in 2022. Make me wonder what strange stuff Iā€™ve missed before getting Wyze cameras. ---
**Author:** ![posterim127](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cdc98d/32.png) [@posterim127](https://forums.wyze.com/u/posterim127)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/18 "2025-07-03T10:45:38Z")
Looks like a frog šŸø ---
**Author:** ![compserv111](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/compserv111/32/81770_2.png) [@compserv111](https://forums.wyze.com/u/compserv111)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/19 "2025-07-04T10:01:29Z")
To me it looks and runs like a scorpian Check this out as a comparison [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/5/7/57e93a084e961044768fab92c7a98485ea5014de.jpeg "Scorpion runs like a madman (part 2)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUeyU6mDYJE) ---
**Author:** ![nikrib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/nikrib/32/110816_2.png) [@nikrib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/nikrib)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235/20 "2025-07-04T20:07:59Z")
That was one of the theories I had at first until I found out that crawfish actually live in storm drains and puddles and swamps and so I thought it mightā€™ve been one of those, until I searched through more videos and realized it was a spider running straight along a single line of webbing Very close to the camera so it looked large and of course his legs were tighter to the body since it was hugging at one single thread. Great optical illusion ! [Next page](https://forums.wyze.com/t/what-the-heck-is-this/333235.md?page=2)