Naked Man Behind the Mask

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I never would have thought that a crazy and creepy event that happened at our home on New Year’s Eve of 2015 would lead to so much attention across our neighborhood, city and then even across the U.S. and the World. After many years, I was contacted by a producer from Investigation Discovery of The Discovery Channel about this incident that happened at our home that New Year’s Eve. They were working on a new series called “Caught on Camera” and wanted to interview me and include the viral clip of the ADT security camera footage that I posted from that evening.

Here's the story of NYE 2015. My husband, Bart, and I had an early dinner and headed home. Since our girl dog, Sweet Pea, is really afraid of fireworks and thunder, we decided to be home early with her and our other two dogs and have the TVs on to drown out the sound of the loud fireworks that people were shooting in our neighborhood.

Bart wanted to watch a football game and he watched it in our family room. I watched a movie in our master bedroom. The sound on the TV was pretty loud so Sweet Pea couldn't hear fireworks that people were shooting in our neighborhood. All three dogs were in the master bedroom with me so they didn't hear the guy approaching our back door when usually they would hear something and bark.

At around 10:50pm, a guy with nothing on but a Ronald Reagan mask and a sock on his private area crept up to our back gate to our breezeway that led to our back door. The masked, naked guy knelt down, opened the breezeway gate and crept in. We had a lot of windows at our house and this guy began to stand up in our breezeway by our back door and look through the windows. My husband had gotten up to go down a few steps to our kitchen and when he walked back up the few steps to our family room, he saw something in the corner of his eye through the windows in our gated breezeway area. He then saw a naked man wearing a Reagan mask.

When Bart saw the guy in the breezeway, the guy got spooked, turned around and went through the gate of our breezeway and ran up the street. Bart opened the door and tried to run after him. The guy got away and Bart ran back inside the house and down the hallway to the master bedroom yelling. He told me what happened and I didn't believe him because I thought Bart was trying to be funny and joke around. When Bart called the police, I knew he had to be serious. I then went to our ADT security camera monitor and looked back at the footage.

I grabbed my phone and recorded the video clip from our security camera system. When the police arrived, we showed them our security footage also. Police said they would monitor the area to look for this person. I was worried that this guy was going to continue to other homes and scare other people. We had no idea what he would have done if my husband had not seen him in the window. Was he going to knock on the door or try to come in our home? We still do not know what action he was going to take that night.

Since it was NYE, we thought it definitely could have been just a prank, but it also could have been someone that could have had too much alcohol or been on drugs that could have done more harm. I took the video clip from my phone and posted it to our neighborhood Facebook pages to warn others near us to be aware and be on the lookout in case it happened to them and then posted to my public Facebook page and Instagram. The next day I saw where many people had shared it. The video clip began going viral and shared all over our area, our city and then also across the U.S. and the World.

It was on our local news stations throughout the next few days and this led to two different men stopping by our home and letting us know about a guy had been arrested in our neighborhood recently doing just this – unclothed and looking in people's windows. They said that the man had been released but had a court date coming up and even showed me papers of his court date. My thoughts of this being just a prank ended and began to think this was more serious.

About 4 days after this happened, someone in our neighborhood came by and told us he knew who it was and it was a guy his son had over for a party and that the group of guys were just pulling a prank. That guy wanted to come by and apologize and he did. We accepted the apology, did not press any charges or release his name. I was scared for this guy because a gun could have been easily involved at any of the homes in our neighborhood and he could have gotten seriously hurt.

I haven’t thought much about this video clip since it happened until Investigation Discovery contacted me a few months ago about the viral video. What was creepy and scary evening thankfully turned out to be nothing serious and only a prank.

The Naked Man Behind the Mask | Caught on Camera: The Untold Stories by Investigation Discovery, Season 1, Episode 2

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