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A Scottish tourist vacationing in Canada suggests people should consider refraining from booking accommodations through Airbnb after he found a video camera concealed in a digital clock at an apartment he rented in Toronto last week.

Toronto police and Airbnb are investigating the harrowing discovery Dougie Hamilton says he made last Thursday, shortly after he and his girlfriend arrived at the rented condo in the city’s downtown core. The two were excited to decompress in the “lovely apartment” after a busy day, the 34-year-old from Glasgow wrote in a public Facebook post over the weekend, only to be shaken by what they found on a table in the living room.

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“If you use Airbnb, then you’ll definitely want to read this and possibly stop using them,” Hamilton wrote, before asking the reader to bear with him “as I take you on a journey!”

Hamilton says he was lounging on the couch while his girlfriend went to buy coffee at Starbucks when he noticed the clock facing in his direction. Weeks earlier, he had watched an online video that detailed how small cameras can now be embedded in all sorts of everyday objects, from pens to buttons to teddy bears’ eyes. The memory triggered in him a burning curiosity to check if the clock contained a “spy camera.”