{"id":15521,"date":"2025-11-01T00:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=15521"},"modified":"2025-11-01T00:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:32:38","slug":"i-discovered-a-hidden-camera-in-our-airbnb-bedroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=15521","title":{"rendered":"I discovered a hidden camera in our Airbnb bedroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was midnight when my husband, convinced the blinking device on the ceiling was a hidden camera, tossed a towel over it. Satisfied we had outsmarted Big Brother, we went to sleep. But at 2 a.m., the door flew open and the Airbnb owner came storming in, shouting, \u201cYou idiots, this is a <em>fire alarm!<\/em>\u201d My husband and I shot upright, stunned and blinking like guilty raccoons caught in a kitchen. The owner\u2014gray hair, Hawaiian shirt, and pure fury\u2014marched straight to the device and ripped the towel off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our sleepy panic, we tried to defend ourselves. \u201cWe\u2019ve read stories about hidden cameras in Airbnbs,\u201d I stammered, cheeks burning. The owner, rubbing his temples like he regretted every life choice that led him here, explained that the alarm wasn\u2019t a camera, but a legally required smoke detector. Worse, covering it triggered an automatic alert that dragged him out of bed and into his car. \u201cIf I wanted to film you,\u201d he snapped, pointing to the ceiling, \u201cdo you think I\u2019d put it in plain sight like that?\u201d My husband mumbled something about blinking lights looking suspicious. The owner looked like he wanted to scream into a pillow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the reality hit\u2014namely, that we\u2019d nearly suffocated ourselves and ruined the poor man\u2019s sleep because we watch too many true-crime TikToks\u2014there was nothing left to do but apologize. The owner eventually sighed, told us to never touch the alarm again, and trudged out, muttering about sleep schedules and idiots. My husband tried to find a silver lining, cheerfully saying, \u201cAt least we know the system works.\u201d The owner just stared. It\u2026 did not help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once alone, we sat in silence staring at the totally-not-a-spy-device smoke detector. \u201cShould we mention this in the review?\u201d my husband whispered. I hit him with a pillow. We left the owner an extremely apologetic review, vowed never to let our paranoia run wild again, and learned a valuable lesson: if something is blinking on the ceiling, it\u2019s probably just doing its job\u2014not watching you sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was midnight when my husband, convinced the blinking device on the ceiling was a hidden camera, tossed a towel over it. Satisfied we had outsmarted Big&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":232,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15524,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions\/15524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}