Leila Livingston got more than she expected when she took a look at her baby monitor.

The North Carolina mother of four posted a photograph on her Facebook page on November 15, 2019 at 5:58 p.m. saying:

Y’all. This is the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life. I was getting ready to go out with my husband. That means fixing my hair and makeup and finding an outfit. That’s hard to do when you’ve got two toddlers and a baby by yourself. Since their new obsession is The Lion King, I decided to put the movie on so they’d sit and watch it so I could get ready. They were sitting quietly on the couch. Jayce was in his chair beside them. I turned the camera on them and was watching them from the iPad upstairs. Every so often I would glance down and every time they were sitting in the same spot watching the movie. But this time I looked down and saw someone (an adult) sitting on my couch looking at the baby and the babies just watching their movie like it was no big deal. My heart dropped. I ran downstairs and turned the corner to the living room and no one was on the couch. I JUST saw them ten seconds before. The babies were still sitting there in the same exact spots watching their movie. This person was on my camera but not actually there? Naturally I assumed it was a ghost and I caught it on my camera! I ran back upstairs to see if I could see this ghost again. I looked at my iPad and they were sitting on my couch still! I called my mom to show her this ghost on my iPad. As I was getting ready to show her, I looked down and lost it. Somehow my iPad went from the camera’s live view to a clip that was recorded earlier. It was me. I was the ghost on the couch.

Leila Livingston’s Facebook post

As she described in the post, she realized that the iPad went from the camera’s live view to a clip that had been recorded earlier – of her.

Livingston was understandably unnerved by this but then later someone pointed out that it looks like there is a little boy with his arms around her.

Livingston, according to Today.com, lost a son about nine years ago.

She told Today that this gave her a sense of peace.