Episode 11
Santa Is in the Camera
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- In December 2019, hackers broke into Ring cameras across the United States using passwords stolen in data leaks.
- A Tennessee mother heard a stranger's voice through her bedroom camera, singing and claiming to be Santa Claus.
- Similar intrusions were reported in Florida, Connecticut, Texas, Georgia, and New York.
- The FBI issued a national warning. No one was ever caught.
The Draugr does not invent. He documents.
Episode 11 case file
The facts
- In December 2019, hackers broke into Ring cameras across the United States using passwords stolen in data leaks.
- A Tennessee mother heard a stranger's voice through her bedroom camera, singing and claiming to be Santa Claus.
- Similar intrusions were reported in Florida, Connecticut, Texas, Georgia, and New York.
- The FBI issued a national warning. No one was ever caught.
The evidence
- A Tennessee mother heard a stranger's voice through her bedroom camera, singing and claiming to be Santa Claus.
- Similar intrusions were reported in Florida, Connecticut, Texas, Georgia, and New York.
- The FBI issued a national warning. No one was ever caught.
Sources
- Sources are being gathered for this file. The facts above are documented.
The words, as I spoke them.
Transcript
BEAT 1 (28 words), HOOK December 2019. A Tennessee mother checks her bedroom camera... and a stranger's voice answers. He has been watching. He has been singing. He says he is Santa Claus.
BEAT 2 (29 words) "I'm Santa Claus." The intruder isn't in the house, my Dreaded, he's inside your camera feed. Hackers stole Ring passwords from data leaks and walked straight through locked doors.
BEAT 3 (23 words) Florida. Connecticut. Texas. Georgia. New York. Camera after camera wakes on its own. Strangers speak through bedroom walls. Mock families. Watch them sleep.
BEAT 4 (27 words), OPEN LOOP The FBI warned the whole country. No one was ever caught. So tonight, my Dreaded, who is behind your camera? And who are they talking to?
BEAT 5 (32 words), STITCH DARE + FOLLOW + SIGN-OFF Stitch this video if you'd check every camera in your house tonight, bedroom first. Follow for a new true nightmare every day. Sleep with the lights on, if you can.
- Character lines: 1 (the hacker; line dramatizes his documented Santa claim). - Guardrail: child never shown or heard on screen; all on-screen characters are adults (the mother, a homeowner).
Dramatized for the telling. The facts above are documented; the narration is the Draugr’s retelling of them.
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The Dreaded wear the mark.
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