I’m trying to fall asleep with my monitor on and I hear a woman’s voice say “Meow meow” in my baby’s room. Now I’m terrified that either it’s my baby cam hacked or a ghost. This is the first time ever something strange has happened with our monitor and I keep close track in case of anything that might indicate a hacked camera. I just need others’ opinions, thoughts, reassurances, or something. I’m so tired, my mental health is in the shitter because of sleep deprivation, and I can’t sleep now because of this. It’s not a wifi camera and the brand is Babysense.
By any chance, does your baby have one of those Vtech activity cubes??? We have one, and one of the sounds it makes with a button is a woman’s voice saying “meow meow.”
Finley said:
By any chance, does your baby have one of those Vtech activity cubes??? We have one, and one of the sounds it makes with a button is a woman’s voice saying “meow meow.”
I bet this is it! Those VTech toys are possessed.
@Harper
THEY ARE! We have this Vtech drum toy and it randomly kept going off on its own so my husband and I referred to it as the “possessed drum.” We quickly got creeped out by it and promptly returned it.
Finley said:
By any chance, does your baby have one of those Vtech activity cubes??? We have one, and one of the sounds it makes with a button is a woman’s voice saying “meow meow.”
“The cube is fun for everyone!”
@Abi
Come and say hi, there’s fun on 5 sides. Meet the animals, beat the drum, the cube is fun… for everyone!
Finley said:
By any chance, does your baby have one of those Vtech activity cubes??? We have one, and one of the sounds it makes with a button is a woman’s voice saying “meow meow.”
I must know if this turns out to be the reason!!!
Finley said:
By any chance, does your baby have one of those Vtech activity cubes??? We have one, and one of the sounds it makes with a button is a woman’s voice saying “meow meow.”
I don’t have this particular VTech toy, so I can’t speak to that specifically, but FYI, OP, I’ve had multiple other VTech toys randomly go off without any reason.
Finley said:
By any chance, does your baby have one of those Vtech activity cubes??? We have one, and one of the sounds it makes with a button is a woman’s voice saying “meow meow.”
The cat in the square, is peeking out of there, meow meow meow the cat’s in the square!
Which camera by Babysense is it exactly? Looking at their cameras, many are connected by WiFi and yes those can be hacked. Also, if you are sleep deprived, you could definitely be hearing things. I remember seeing massive bugs walking on the walls of the hospital after birth (they were not real, my husband thought I was nuts) - but that’s what happens after losing enough sleep.
@Ember
Ugh, I see the bugs every night still at 6 months postpartum 
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@Ember
Similar happened to me when I was sleep deprived and having incision complications from my c-section. I would hear voices coming from the monitor. Husband was also sleep deprived but never heard them when I did, or on his own, so I’m certain my brain was just messing with me for fun.
I didn’t realize the level of sleep deprivation I was experiencing until one day I became convinced that the musical mobile above my baby’s crib had a man’s voice whispering at the end of one of the melodies. There wasn’t anything—it was an auditory hallucination. Not saying that’s what happened here, but lack of sleep can really mess with your brain.
@Blane
Agreed! Once I swore my breast pump was talking to me. I bought soundproof headphones on Amazon to try and block out the pump sounds. My husband thought I went nuts.
What kind of monitor is it? Can you name the model? Just helpful to know, as things like this have happened and if it’s truly a non-WiFi monitor it’s almost always interference (because for non-WiFi you have to be super close by to access and even then it’s almost impossible to hack).
Regardless, ask yourself this - why would someone go through the trouble of hacking a baby monitor, then just use it to go “meow meow”? Seems like an awful waste of time and significant effort for something silly. Who sets out to do that? If you’re that talented a hacker, you’re going to do something more fun/interesting/moneymaking.
Occam’s razor here is that there’s interference it’s picking up—from other devices in the neighborhood, like pet cams or even phones. Just annoying.
I’m not saying this to at all demean you, but to reassure you.
@Shane
It isn’t always by purpose. Judging by your first paragraph, you know more about this than I would, so I might still be wrong, but it reminds me of the true crime story where a man was trying to set up a video baby monitor and accidentally connected to a nearby camera where he discovered tied-up children in a basement.
So, I agree that hackers wouldn’t really care, but someone might have accessed it accidentally and not realized? Which would explain why she’s saying something silly like, “Meow meow.” She could be playing with her own baby.
Or you could be hallucinating because of sleep deprivation.
Fin said:
Or you could be hallucinating because of sleep deprivation.
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve hallucinated the baby having a full-on crying fit, jump awake and he’s sound asleep.
@Pax
So glad to hear other people hallucinate hearing their baby cry! My therapist says it’s anxiety… silly therapist. 
emmanuel said:
@Pax
So glad to hear other people hallucinate hearing their baby cry! My therapist says it’s anxiety… silly therapist.
I get this too! Turns out we have neighbors with kids lol. But I also think we’re just wired to be hyper vigilant during the first year or so.