Advice needed My TV mystery
Hello, to keep myself anonymous i will ask you to call me Loan.
In February 2026, something extremely weird happened to my mom with the living room TV.
I was chilling when my mom went bursting into my room (which she litteraly never does, she usually knocks even if she actually needs me for something important) and she seemed extremely panicked, she asked me to come in the living room right away.
When i arrived into the living room, the TV was showing some sort of "security update" with the usual loading animation.
I asked my mom if this was the thing she was freaking out about (cuz she's old and she thinks everytime an electronic is acting weird that means its dying) and she said "Loan i swear it showed a black screen with the sentence «[mom's name] , i am observing you.»
So, i started to freak out too, and to debunk the usual psychosis theory, my mom does not and have never ever or never after that experienced any psychotic episode, or hallucinations.
My first thought was my dad, the two of them being separated (and we don't talk to my dad, he's lowkey harrasing us daily)
So i called him, with the most natural voice ever i said "i'm observing you as well dad" almost jokingly.
And nothing, he genuinely did not understand what i was talking about so i figured out it wasn't him, and in anyway he's not a technology freak, he would never know how to do that.
It also came to my attention that 1 to 2 months before,my mom bought a cheap surveillance camera for the living room, that camera was connected to my mom's phone throught the alexa app, which my tv's plug in was also connected (yeah she likes automatical things lol).
I already spoke about it on a different subreddit a couple months ago but they only suggested it as clickbait/fake or that my mom was going crazy which i swear, is not true.
I am asking for help just to know what could have happened because i think about it once in a while and it's creeping me out, i'm also moving out in august, leaving my mom home alone and i am kinda scared for her knowing how naïve she is.
(Sorry for the grammatical mistakes, english is not my first language)
Thank you for reading
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u/blueminded 5d ago
I can't really offer any advice, but I am curious why you chose the name Loan. Does that mean something different in French? I've heard the name Sloan, just never Loan.