Spooky season is about to reach its apex with Halloween on Friday (Oct. 31), and Google Home may be getting in on the action. Reportedly, Google's smart home devices have started inventing fake people and events.

A couple of Reddit users claim that their devices started acting up this week. The initial post on the r/googlehome subreddit concerned the poster's Nest camera, giving an active summary that said "Michael was seen taking out trash," even though they say that no one by that name lives there.

The user, jpro1001, asked about it and Google's assistant reportedly said that the camera “can identify faces even if you haven’t explicitly named them." It was supposed to add that it spotted the mysterious "Michael" between October 26 and 27.

The user went on to say they'd never put Micha

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