Does anyone know what this is?

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

God I hope u are ok

Sounds like all these random events weren't random at all.
Creepy stalker behaviour.

No don’t ask him. Try and find out if you can unlock them yourself. He could destroy them and then you’ll never know and have this big wedge between you. Just hide them somewhere. If he asks you where they are, plead dumb and just say you were having a clear out and thought they were just gadgets and dropped them into the bin.
If he then volunteers what they were and why he had them, you’ll know the truth, but if he’s osbicked and sheepish, you’ll know he’s up to no good. He’ll be relieved to think you’ve just lobbed them if he’s been up to no good.
If you ask him directly, he can make an excuse. Then he’ll want them back or take them back and you’ll never know the truth.

Demand to see what's on there. Don't give them back til he sets them up to show you, don't let him take them out of sight or wipe footage. This is very strange.

It's all sounding very worrying now, OP. I wonder if it was purely coincidence that you bumped into each other in a different part of the country??

How long have you been married? How is your relationship? Personally, I'd feel justified in having a good look through everything of his, as something just doesn't feel right.

That’s what I’m wondering too truly.

We’ve been married nearly 7 years. Relationship not great at the moment. Young dc, dh working away, I’ve been ill since youngest was born and dh hasn’t been particularly supportive. But I’ve certainly never cheated on him and I don’t think he’s cheated on me.

Find the make by google images and then find someone who can unlock.

It may not be you he’s stalking this time

Sounds like that bloke off Netflix's YOU. (Haven't watched past episode 2 so apologies if it gets really dark and it's an inappropriate comparison.)

The comparison with You is totally inappropriate based on the evidence so far (not going to post any spoliers)

Could it be something old that's ended up at the back of the junk drawer?

enid that’s exactly what I thought! I’ve only watched the first episode but I’m hoping he maybe turned out totally normal?

I’ve just been speaking to dsis who has calmed me down a lot and told me I’m probably being completely daft. She has a black box storage thing and it’s apparently something completely normal that most responsible adults have for storing copies of their documents.

She’s not sure about the camera thing though. The box thing that the camera goes into doesn’t look too sophisticated. It’s got a slot for a SIM card thing (technology not my strong point) and from what I can tell without unlocking it, it only shows what the camera is recording at that moment. It doesn’t look like there’s anything on the actual camera attachment to store any memory.

Dh not back until late Friday so I can’t talk to him about it until then. I’m going to get it out and show it to him and ask him to explain it. I want to see if I can read anything from his reaction when he’s presented with it.

Until then to be honest I’m going to try not to think about it. It’s all just too weird and confusing and it just makes everything feel wrong, somehow.

patti it could have been at the back of the junk drawer for years. I do occasionally have a good old rummage through stuff and I think I would’ve come across it before now though. Particularly as it was in a wallet. We live fairly rurally and I’m forever running out of cash and dh’s drawers are normally the first stop on a cash hunt!

Lots of people use external hard drives op (black box), mine has all the photos of kids, documents etc backed up on it.

Most people don't use spy cameras though.

We have two hard drives, however ours are connected to our xboxes. They are normal. The spy things aren’t and I actually don’t think you should calm down. There is no explanation he could have for having them that is innocent.

Hope you get to the bottom of this OP

A dictaphone is usually a hand held recorder thing. It’s more conspicuous, as usually when things are recorded people are aware they are being recorded.,
The device you showed looks as though it’s intended to be inconspicuous, ie hidden behind books, inside soft toy etc.
I personally would want to get to the bottom of this. If it’s innocent and I had one, I’d completely understand why my husband was worried and I’d just show him.
He’s not into filming you both having sex or anything is he?
Maybe he’s insecure?
Is this a complete shock to you, or do you feel incredibly worried because other things are clicking into place?

Do you think he is recording you both having sex?

Could it need it for work op?

He need it for work

Take photos of all the gear and post them here and someone will be able to identify it.

He’s never shown any interest in recording us having sex. Tbh these days I’d be impressed if he managed to see any action anyway - it tends to be limited to a quick fumble under the sheets before one of the dc’s decides to come charging in! I’ve stumbled across his ‘private time’ internet history before and it was all very tame page 3 type model photos, no real porn and certainly no voyeur type stuff.

I think he is an incredibly insecure person. He does his best to hide it and I know he finds his work very draining as he needs to appear confident all the time. But he’s never said anything to make me think he was insecure in our relationship. I have male and female friends and he’s never even suggested that he didn’t like my relationship with any of them. My best friend came out as a lesbian a couple of years ago. I go on days and weekends away with her a lot as we have a shared interest. I suppose he might be jealous of that. He’s certainly never mentioned it before and I’ve never given my suggestion that I’m either bisexual or interested in my mate.

I suppose he could possibly need it for work. He does work with some very high level contracts that need to be absolutely watertight, but he has a legal team that work with him in those situations so no real need for him to be filming anything. He’d only need audio if he did need anything. Also I’d like to think if he did do something as odd as have to privately record someone at work that he’d tell me. It would be an interesting thing to chat about work. I know I’d tell him as I’d find it really exciting pretending to be a spy.

All I can think of is maybe he thinks the cleaner is stealing from us? He knows I’m pretty close with the cleaner. I’d be upset if he told me stuff had gone missing and he immediately assumed it was the cleaner without any evidence. Could possibly explain the missing cash too? But surely he’d have asked me if I’d spent the cash, it’s usually me!

I don’t know wtf he’s doing. Or if he’s doing anything at all. It’s just all confusing.

Does he work for MI5?

That explanation would be comforting bobster. I’m not convinced MI5 buy eBay standard spycams to keep in their sock drawer though.

Is this not part of a dashcam? Does he or has he ever had a dashcam for the car?

I don’t think he has a dash cam. I’m not 100% sure though. Aren’t they bigger? The square bit of this is only about 2cmx2cm.