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Does anyone know what this is?

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WhatTheFlipIsThis · 16/01/2019 11:43

The button bit unscrews and various other sized buttons can be screwed on in its place. Any ideas anyone?

Does anyone know what this is?
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DonkeyPunch88 · 16/01/2019 11:50

Looks like a spy camera with different lens fittings?
www.ebay.com/itm/1080-HD-Screw-Spy-Hidden-Video-Micro-Button-Pinhole-Camera-DVR-Recorder-Cam-US-/282621243861

DonkeyPunch88 · 16/01/2019 11:51

goo.gl/images/kGVm4x

WhatTheFlipIsThis · 16/01/2019 11:51

Fuck. That’s what I thought too but wasn’t sure if I was going bonkers.

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DonkeyPunch88 · 16/01/2019 11:52

Where did you find it???

bsc · 16/01/2019 11:53

Where did you find it?

WhatTheFlipIsThis · 16/01/2019 11:53

The connection is weird though. Not a USB one, I can’t seem to find what it would connect to.

Does anyone know what this is?
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itsazoohere · 16/01/2019 11:53

Are you ok?

DonkeyPunch88 · 16/01/2019 11:54

HDMI on the back of a tv?

WhatTheFlipIsThis · 16/01/2019 11:55

In one of dh’s drawers. He sometimes keeps cash in a sock in one of his drawers and is forgotten to get any out for the cleaner. There were three of them zipped in a wallet at the back of the sock drawer.

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BiscuitDrama · 16/01/2019 11:57

DH is pretty good with cables and stuff and has no idea. Might go into some separate device I guess.

DonkeyPunch88 · 16/01/2019 11:59

eBay says it's to connect to a power pack or separate charger? Why would your DH have one of them then?

Ozziewozzie · 16/01/2019 12:13

I’ve been bugged before by a stalker. Really awful thing to know is and has been happening. Check for other things too, ie sort of plug adapter things that literally plug into wall but record everything you are doing sound wise, conversations etc.
Does your dh suspect you of having an affair or something?

ApolloandDaphne · 16/01/2019 12:16

I would think that goes into a power pack or heavy duty plug thing like you get with Christmas tree lights.

WhatTheFlipIsThis · 16/01/2019 12:39

I just don’t get it. Why tf would he want to film me sitting around watching TOWIE? He was a bit ott when we first started going out but has never seemed to do anything out of the ordinary since then.

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SwimmingInMuslins · 16/01/2019 13:04

Maybe he wants to film you doing other stuff?
In the bedroom or something?
Or talking on the phone?

Fucked up, whatever it is.

WhatTheFlipIsThis · 16/01/2019 15:49

I’ve found the power pack it connects to which also has a screen on it for playback. It’s password protected though and shows that I’ve input the incorrect password twice. The fact he’s set it up to the point it has a password shows that he’s definitely used it. I don’t know what to do.

I’ve spoken to my dm and she thinks maybe he got it to use as a dictaphone for work Confused. Any other perfectly logical solutions?

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WhatTheFlipIsThis · 16/01/2019 15:54

I’ve also found a battered black box which is apparently hard drive storage. I have no idea why he would have this as he meticulously files all his paperwork. Unless it’s something to do with work. I can’t access this as it has a USB connector and I only have my phone. I’m going to take it to dm’s tomorrow to plug into her laptop. I imagine it will also be password protected though so not much use to me. I don’t understand what is happening.

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trulybadlydeeply · 16/01/2019 15:55

I'd hide it all somewhere else and see what he says/does.

When had you last been in the drawer? Is this something that could have been there for some time?

trulybadlydeeply · 16/01/2019 15:56

I'd also be checking all his other drawers.

EnidButton · 16/01/2019 15:59

He was a bit ott when we first started going out

Before anyone suggests confronting him or hiding it etc. I think we need to know what ott means exactly?

WhatTheFlipIsThis · 16/01/2019 16:01

If I hide it then he simply won’t mention it ever again. He has a sock drawer that I normally go in which had the cash in a couple of weeks ago. It wasn’t there when I looked this morning so I thought maybe he’d put it in the next drawer along which is a bit of a junk drawer - batteries, old game boy and games, loads of old wires and connectors for stuff. I spotted a wallet so thought he might have put cash in the but it had the little cameras in it instead. Then I had a proper root around in it a few minutes ago and found the charger/ screen thing and the black box. I don’t normally go looking through this drawer but he’s certainly never been bothered about keeping it private. The cash is nowhere to be found so I don’t know what he’s done with that. It was quite a bit of cash.

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WhatTheFlipIsThis · 16/01/2019 16:10

When we first started going out we were seeing each other very casually for a couple of months. I still lived at home with my parents and he worked in a city about two hours away. He asked if we could be exclusive, I said I wasn’t sure and we should just see how it goes. We’d previously made loose plans to meet the following weekend in my parents home town but then I didn’t hear from him after the exclusive or not chat. I assumed he was no longer interested and made plans to go and stay with my sister that weekend. I came back from weekend with sister to find a hand delivered letter to my parents house (the address of which I’d nevertheless given him) and the next afternoon he walked out of the pub at the end of my parents road as I was walking to the bus stop and completely ignored me. We then didn’t contact each other for nearly 2 years. Randomly a couple of years later I bump into him outside my work (another city again, in another part of the country) and he’d just got a job nearby and had relocated. We got together properly, all was well and we lived sort of happily ever after. Except now everything is really weird.

He always denied that it was him that came out of the pub that day and I must’ve got it wrong. He is also very adamant that he’d posted me the letter and I had given him my home address.

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WhatTheFlipIsThis · 16/01/2019 16:10

*should say never not nevertheless

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TheViceOfReason · 16/01/2019 16:14

You are in a relationship that started with someone stalking and gaslighting you?

Why pussy foot about - just tell him you found them and want to know what is on them - he can unlock and show you footage there and then. If he won't then it's game over.

BitOutOfPractice · 16/01/2019 16:17

Oh. That's a bit worrying. It could be from years ago? A security camera?

I would be concerned though and you need to ask him

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