Man's terrifying discovery after setting up camera to work out why food was going missing

New York-based actor Joe Cummings was living with his girlfriend when he noticed something strange - his food kept disappearing.

Sure he wasn’t imagining things, he initiallysuspected his girlfriend was sneaking late-night snacks.

But when she denied it, Joe decided to get to the bottom of the mystery by installing a hidden camera in the kitchen. It comes after a woman claimed 'My friend is naming her baby after a fish – she can't see how ugly it is'.

What he discovered was far more disturbing than he ever expected. Rather than catching his girlfriend red-handed, the footage revealed something straight out of a horror film: a woman he didn’t recognise slowly emerging from a storage loft above the kitchen in the dead of night.

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She climbed down onto a table, used the kitchen sink as a toilet, drank from the fridge, and helped herself to food from the pantry.

At one point in the footage, , Joe himself walks into the kitchen, unaware of the intruder silently hiding just out of view.

After reviewing the shocking clip in 2009, Joe immediately left the apartment and called the police. When officers arrived, they found the woman still hiding in the loft.

According to Joe, she had set up a makeshift sleeping area with a blanket in the crawl space, which extended surprisingly deep into the building’s structure and had no ventilation.

“The police officers thought she had been living there for at least a couple of weeks,” Joe later explained. “I had no idea who she was. She didn’t say much when the cops came and took her out.”

Joe speculated that the woman may have entered through a fire escape window and decided to stay, possibly after initially breaking in to rob the place. Police added that this wasn’t the first time they had encountered a squatter living secretly in someone’s home.

Ultimately, Joe chose not to press charges, saying he “felt bad” for the woman, describing her behaviour as almost “feral.”

The unsettling footage was later uploaded to YouTube, where it quickly went viral - unnerving millions of viewers around the world.

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