A cautionary tale

We had a freaky moment this weekend: We have a video baby monitor which has never worked well - when I tried to use it when M was small, it kept broadcasting loud static every few minutes, which drove me bonkers, so I finally got a regular old "sound" monitor, which works well. We had terrible cell reception in our house up until a little while ago, as well as cheap cordless phones which have now been replaced, so I wondered if that was the problem. So, I broke out the video monitor again and set up the camera in the nursery, put M down for a nap and then went downstairs to turn on the remote. Static, static, static, no picture, etc. until I finally manoevered it into a clear picture. In order to keep the reception stable, I had to open a kitchen cupboard and put the receiver on a shelf, but whatever. 

I called (husband) into the kitchen to have a look at the ridiculous set up. Just as we were looking at it, A WOMAN IN A TOWEL WALKS INTO THE BABY'S ROOM!!! We stared at the little screen in shock. There is SOMEONE UPSTAIRS IN OUR HOUSE AND IN OUR BABY'S ROOM!!! 

I grabbed the monitor and stared at it, thinking: WTFF!!! It took us a few seconds to realize that it was NOT OUR BABY'S ROOM on the monitor: it was someone else's house! Someone else's crib, someone else's baby playing on the floor. My heart started beating again. But I still sent (husband) upstairs to make sure that no one was up there, other than our own sleeping baby. 

No matter what I did, I could NOT get reception of our own nursery on that thing (changed the channel, etc.) so I turned it off and put it away. I have no idea whose house or child that was.