Watcher

I heard this story once. I thought it was pretty crazy, but I don't think so anymore...
There was this app called "Watcher". It was basically one of those video-sharing apps. Like Vine or something, except crappy and generic. It never became popular. A few people used it, and then quickly discarded it and stuck to the popular ones. 
The weird thing was that I knew a few people that used the app. They have all said that when they replayed its videos, they noticed something really weird in all of them. 
In each video, there was some kind of figure standing in the background. At first, I assumed it had been someone caught there accidentally, but all of my friends insisted the person filming was either alone, or they had accounted for everyone that could have been in the video. The figure was always slightly off-camera. You couldn't make it out all the way; they looked like a blur, so most people assumed the phenomenon was just terrible photo bombs. 
A friend of mine that had a video editing program actually took some footage and was able to make out the figure in the background. He said it looked like an old, beat-up metal mannequin in a parka. It had no eyes, and its head was scratched up and covered in rust. But my friend said he took footage of several people he knew who had used the app. He reported the same anomaly and said he found the thing in all of the videos; this white, eyeless face with rust and scratches all over it in a parka. 
So I did a little digging into the app itself. I didn't turn up much about it, but I did find an interesting story. It seems its creator was some kind of creep. Whenever users would sign up for the app, he would use their personal data to stalk them. There were at least six girls who reported him stalking them. Apparently, the guy eventually died in some freak accident (like a car accident or something). 
The app was discontinued after rumors started circulating that the developer had used it to stalk people. A girl friend of mine told me something after she deleted the app though. She said that whenever she took selfies or videos of herself, she would see the figure in the background. She would take the photos and videos using different apps like Instagram and stuff, too. She started getting really paranoid; she texted me one night and said she was laying in bed, afraid to look over into her closet... because it was standing inside. 
I told her to turn on all the lights in the house and sleep with them on, but she said she was too scared to move. She continued on like this for a few months. She said sometimes, she would hear something scuffling around under her bed, and she was certain it was that thing, but she would never get up and confirm it. When she went to the police and said she was being stalked and that someone had been breaking into her house, they couldn't confirm anything. There were no signs of illegal entry into her house. A friend of ours stayed with her one night and insisted nothing happened the entire time, but she said the thing was there that night, too. I couldn't tell what was going on. Had she gone crazy?
We haven't heard from her in over six months. Her parents put out fliers and got on TV and everything, but to no avail. Her bank account had money in it, so she hadn't spent anything, and her car was still parked at her apartment complex. She hadn't packed, and everything in her house was like she'd never left. The police looked through her cell phone and say they saw all the pictures with the figure in them, but they couldn't make out what it was, how (if at all) it had gotten into her house, or how it had taken her. Everyone assumed foul play, though...
I was looking through my cell phone yesterday... and I noticed the figure in the background of my selfies and videos.
Category:Computers and Internet
Category:Beings
Category:Disappearances