Mom freaks out after she thinks she sees a ghost on the baby monitor

After putting her son to bed, Maritza Cibuls caught a chilling sight on the screen of her baby monitor. What looked like a "ghost baby" appearing next to her son in bed had her spooked.

"At first I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me," she told Mashable via DM. "I tried to ignore but it was really starting to creep me out."

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With her husband out working that night, Cibuls sent the picture of the ghost baby to him, her mother, and her best friend. She also posted the photo in a mom group she belongs to. She knew there had to be a rational explanation, but the same thought kept popping into her head: "ghost!"

Cibuls was so afraid that she didn't even want to enter the room. "I was so freaked out, I barely slept. I even tried creeping in there with a flashlight while my son was sleeping," she wrote.

Honestly, who can blame her? Look at that! That's a freaking ghost! It's almost Halloween!

Except it's not. Ghost baby actually turned out to just be Mattress Label Baby masquerading as ghost baby in the monitor. Crisis averted for Cibuls.

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"Turns out my husband just forgot to put the mattress protector on when he changed the sheets," Cibuls wrote on Facebook.

"I was embarrassed," Cibuls said. "Relieved but embarrassed. I almost didn't want to update my mom group."

Since posting the photos and story publicly on Facebook, Cibuls' ghostbaby has racked up over 300,000 shares and 500,000 likes at the time of writing.

It was a truly Halloween-worthy fake-out — one seemingly ripped from the screen of a Paranormal Activity film. It may have just been a trick of the lens, but ghost baby will continue to live on in our hearts and minds throughout the remainder of spooky season.