My son's camera monitor alerted in the middle of the night. I checked it and saw my wife and son sitting on the bed. They weren't my wife and son.

I'm a nurse and I currently work nights. It's a total drag but I'm hopeful I can go to days soon since some coworkers older than me are retiring. Anyway, I was working one night when just after 3am my son's camera monitor alerted me to sound and movement. No big deal at all, he probably coughed loudly or sneezed. He's three now and we are thinking his tonsils may need to be removed (but we are trying to avoid that for now). I brought up the camera on my phone and it was a little Grainy. I figured it was probably the wifi or my older phone but it cleared up into a crystal clear picture after a moment.<br><br>There was my son, sitting up in the bed. He looked extremely scared and was holding his dinosaur stuffie. I felt bad, I was going to tell him it was ok and go back to sleep but then the movement alerted again for my wife who walked into the camera's view. She sat down beside our son and put her arm around him. Why was she scaring him like this? She looked down and whispered something in his ear. He nodded back to her and they both looked up and directly into the camera. This sent chills down my spine. My wife smiled and waved at me.<br><br>"Gina, what the - " I said out loud but stopped myself when I realized I was at work. My wife and son looked away from the camera and I thought maybe she was just checking in with me but then I noticed something off about them. First thing I noticed was my wife's smile seemed off. It was perfect, on each end of her lips there were dimples where a real smile would cause wrinkles. Her eyes were black as coal. And her skin was slightly grayish, like the hue of the camera when it first came on. My son... his eyes were also black but his skin was just normal tan color. I don't know how I didn't notice at first but his smile went across the entire width of his face in a straight line.<br><br>I couldn't look at them anymore. It gave me the creeps. But something told me not to look away. I continued to watch until the movement stopped and the camera cut off. Then I took my phone out and called my wife. It went straight to voicemail. I tried again but same result. At that point I texted her:<br><br>"Hey hun, just wanted to check in. Please call when you get this." Then I put the camera back up to check.<br><br>They were still there. My not-son and not-wife. My not-wife was looking up at the camera again with that terrible smile on her face. I couldn't take it anymore. I may have been 300 miles away at work but I had to check on my family. I got up and told the supervising nurse I wasn't feeling good. She could tell by my pale complexion I was telling the truth. I grabbed my things and rushed to my car. I set the GPS for home and put it on drivel mode (I come from a country where this isn't allowed but traveling to America has driven me to do it a lot). I called but my wife didn't answer again. I texted:<br><br>"I'm not feeling good. On my way home now." I kept refreshing the camera feed on my phone. There was no movement and I figured "maybe they are just sat there doing nothing but at least it's my actual wife and son". When I was 45 minutes away I tried calling again. It went to voicemail. Then I tried texting:<br><br>"Baby don't mess around. Call me now or I'm calling the police." Truth is I was going to call the police but I wanted her to know I was going to do that so she would have to call me back. But she didn't.<br><br>I arrived and the house was empty. It was 5:15 so I figured they were out for a walk or something. I texted:<br><br>"I'm back. Please tell me where you both are." I waited but there was no reply. That's when I just broke down. I cried on the kitchen floor until 7:15 when I called the police and reported them missing. They told me to come down to the station and report it in person.<br><br>I went to the station and they took my phone and the camera monitor in custody. They said someone would be by my house to look around. I asked if I should hire a private investigator. "No, do not" they said. I sat there at the station for three hours. At 11am a man in a suit came in and introduced himself to me. I won't say his name but he had a bunch of letters after his last name. He told me he was there to help me and that he had seen the footage on the camera and looked at it thoroughly. He also said the police had been to my house and surrounding areas but there was no trace of my wife and son.<br><br>"Listen," he said. "I know you are in a fragile state right now but I have to tell you that your family is gone. That wasn't your wife and son on that footage."<br><br>"Then who was it?" I asked.<br><br>"I don't have enough information to tell you that. But we have talked with hundreds of people like you before who had a similar experience and we have come to the conclusion that these creatures hijack your camera and are able to give you the illusion that your loved ones are there but in reality they are not." <br><br>"What? No. So you're saying my family abducte--"<br><br>"No, I think there is a very dark possibility that your family is dead and this thing has hijacked your camera to give you the illusion that they are ok" he said. Why would he say that? I don't know. I know he was just doing his job but jeez. I broke down again.<br><br>He went on to explain to me that they were going to put sensors around my home to alert them if it happened again. He also said they would monitor the feed remotely and analyze it whenever it went on. He also warned me not to talk to these entities again and that when I get home to not look at the camera.<br><br>I am shaking as I type this out right now because I am the only person in this house. I can't sleep but I have kept myself somewhat occupied. I can't keep my eyes away from the monitor though. My not-wife and not-son are still there. They are just sat there looking at the camera with those awful grins. My not-son sometimes looks away but my not-wife always keeps her eyes on the camera. I feel like if I look away it will stop. I'm just hoping that my family is still out there. I'm not going to fall asleep. I wont look away from the camera. I wont miss it when my son comes back. <br><br>Please, if you have any advice on how to get them back, please tell me.