Viral: This CCTV footage of burglar is both super-creepy AND hilarious

The thought of someone creeping around your home is the stuff of nightmares (and Wes Craven movies obvs), and yet there's something about this CCTV footage of a recent home invasion which has the internet in absolute stitches today.

Uploaded to Facebook by the Counties Manukau Police in New Zealand last night, the short clip shows an unidentified man creeping through a family home desperately attempting to conceal his identity with the help of a child's duvet.

Explaining the circumstances surrounding the bizarre footage, Manuka Police wrote: "Sergeant John Roberts of the Counties Manukau Police Tactical Crime Unit says the male has covered himself with a duvet and crawled around the house stealing a number of items including cash and jewellery."

While authorities obviously hoped the public would be of assistance in this case, it looks like social media users were more concerned with making hilarious pop culture references than performing their civic duty.

"Using the blanket to cover himself like its the invisible coat off Harry Potter, it worked though," wrote one while another joked: "I think it was the Ghost of Christmas Past."

We know we shouldn't laugh – and believe us, we tried not to – but that crab-walk finally got us.