Stranger on my porch...

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At 2:44 AM, my door cam went off. This has happened occasionally, always due to nature out in the night...the occasional raccoon, squirrel, bunny, and twice in one night, a little red fox. But never a human at that hour, never. My neighborhood is very well lit, and very quiet at night. I checked the phone camera, imagine my surprise when I hit play and an older man walked up to the doorway. Baseball cap, light tan jacket, probably in his 60's....he walked sort of funny. Stopped and looked at the door, walked back out to the sidewalk, and after a shuffle or two, went down to the next townhouse (we are all on one level.) It's COLD. Sort of icy. And I wasn't sure of him at all, so I didn't open the door to check on him, etc...I called the police. They came out and did a scan all around for him, and in the surrounding two circle streets and even went out by our little lake, and the big gazebo...but no one. They called me back and asked to see the footage, so came and got that...they have no idea who he is. One officer says, maybe he's confused, or possibly from the Assisted Living down the street, but they checked and no one is missing from there. Now I am worried he is still out there walking around. He didn't act that confused, he was just sort of...well, strange. They said they were going to look some more. Yes, my doors are locked, of course. It was a first for me, in all the time I have had that camera, I have never had a human come to the door in the middle of the night. Gave me a weird feeling.