working the night shift as a cleaner in an office
block was a lonely job but it paid the bills the routine was simple I'd arrive at 10:00 p.m. and
work until 2:00 a.m. cleaning and tidying up the building floor by floor most nights it was just me
and Eddie the security guard but one night things took a chilling turn I walked into the building
exchanged a nod with Eddie and headed up to the fourth floor where I usually started my cleaning
it was quiet as always the only sound being the faint
hum of the office equipment in the rooms
I began my work emptying trash cans and wiping down desks as I moved down to the third floor
I couldn't shake the feeling that something was off it wasn't the usual sense of isolation it was
something more unsettling I glanced back and saw a stranger in the distance following me down the
hallway my heart started to race as I quickened my Pace trying to convince myself that it was
just a late night worker or a visitor who had lost their way but I cou
ldn't ignore the knowing
feeling of unease I didn't recognize the man and he didn't look like an employee I reached the end
of the hallway and turned into a room pretending to focus on my cleaning tasks while keeping an
eye on the man's reflection in the window it was getting closer his footsteps echoing in the quiet
hallway Panic surged through me as I realized he was heading right for the room I was in I wanted
to call out for Eddie but fear had paralyzed my voice all I could do was watch
as the man entered
the room he was tall with a scruffy beard and his eyes held an unsettling intensity he didn't say
a word he just stared at me finally I managed to stammer out can I help you are you lost the man's
lips curled into a chilling smile and he replied in a low grally voice lost now I'm right where
I need to be my heart pounded in my chest as I fumbled for my phone my trembling fingers dialing
Eddie's number I knew I needed help and I hoped he would pick up quickly but there wa
s no answer
from the security guard The Stranger continued to approach me his gaze never leaving mine Panic
Rose in my throat and I tried to make a break for the door but before I could reach it the man
lunged at me his hands outstretched I screamed my voice piercing The Silence of the office block
and struggled to fend him off we grappled in the dimly lit room knocking over cleaning supplies
and furniture in our frantic struggle I could feel the man's strength and it terrified me just
whe
n I thought I couldn't fight him off any longer I heard the sound of footsteps running down the
hallway it was Eddie the security guard finally responding to my call for help he burst into the
room and with a strength I hadn't expected managed to restrain the Intruder the police arrived
shortly after and they arrested the man Eddie later explained that he had been patrolling
the upper floors and had heard my scream if he hadn't arrived when he did I shuddered to think
what might have happen
ed happened the man was taken away by the police but he never offered any
explanation for his presence in the office block that night I never found out who he was or what
he had intended to do it was a chilling encounter that left me scared and terrified to work alone
at night ever again to this day I can't help but wonder what might have happened if Eddie hadn't
come to my rescue story two I'm a private eye and as such I work a a lot of late night shifts
people sin the most at night I alwa
ys say it's easier to catch most offg guard than two in my
opinion now my work typically takes me all over but much of my work involves catching cheaters
in the app the kind of thing is generally easy to do and kind of boring so to put it frankly I
was more than a little excited when I was asked to look for someone's missing daughter I was told
to be discreet and I was paid UPF front I didn't even have to ask and that's something I generally
have to fight with people usually I asked for hal
f immediately to pay the bills and half when the job
is done so I guess my alarm Bell should have gone off when the client paid all of it upfront no
questions asked still I admit I was so relieved by how prompt and upfront they were about the cost
that I wasn't about to argue and I made their case my priority I was told that the client believed
their daughter may have run away still the city is a dangerous place to be running free for anyone
let alone a kid the girl was supposedly 15 and I
figured I'd start my search by asking around the
city through my contacts if they'd seen the girl I got a big fat no for most of my contacts but then
I got a message about a girl that had been seen matching this girl's description 30 Mi outside
the city this had me concerned and after doing some digging I was eventually led to a farm now
I went here after receiving a tip about the girl looking back now though I wish I hadn't gone there
at all when I first inspected the place it was by dayli
ght there were all the usual and expected
private property signs and after thinking on it I decided I was going to approach the owners of the
farm part of me didn't want to but I was a smooth enough talker I mainly wanted to get a Vibe of
the place anyway I could have done this on my own undercover of Darkness but I wanted to make the
owners feel comfortable and no matter the story they gave me I was to check the place out anyway
later on I figured if nothing else I'd get an idea of the lay
of the land so cautiously I announced
myself and that's when a tall man approached me he looked to be 64 and of stout build the man spoke
to me in a deep voice and basically asked what the hell I was doing near the farm I explained I was
looking for someone and I was wondering if they'd seen her around after showing the photo of the
girl I got a very firm M I asked if anyone else lived on the farm perhaps I could show them the
photo after a very tense silence the man opened the gate and in
sisted I come in I cautiously
walked ahead of this guy being certain I was going to be murdered and never heard from again
as I walked through I examined the area it was pretty open but there was something that caught
my attention it looked like a barn off in the distance I diverted my attention Straight Ahead
once more to see an old house we'd walked some distance when two women came out one was a heavier
set one and the other was quite the opposite I have nothing against anyone who's over
weight
as I have a bit of a belly myself but the stark contrast was just something I noticed a shorter
man came out and greeted me and asked what it was I needed on the way out I quickly drove away after
that but not too far as I basically took a nap in my car and waited for the night to fall it wasn't
long before my alarm went off and I realized it was 9:00 at night I slowly drove my car toward the
farm and drove by as I looked for a decent area to ditch my car when I found one I parked my
car shut
it and ran back to the farm the vibe of the place was so much different at night I was sure that
this was part of my imagination and the creepy look of the place at night was just me feeling
nervous still I pressed forward hoping the fence as I did I worked my way slowly toward the house I
explained to the man I'd been looking for a young girl that had recently been near the area and I
was wondering if they had seen her the man took a close look at the photo and said he hadn't tha
t
he was often busy working the farm at which point he'd handed the photo to his wife she shook her
head before turning to their daughter and asked if she had seen the girl she looked closely and
shook her head saying she hadn't but she'd keep an eye out in case anything was happening around
the farm I then took the photo and told the family thank you and said I'd be on my way I even gave
them a card to call in the event they saw her I soon left the farm escorted by my giant friend on
the
way out I quickly drove away after that but not too far as I basically took a nap in my car
and waited for the night to fall it wasn't long before my alarm went off and I realized it was
9:00 at night I slowly drove my car toward the farm and drove by as I looked for a decent area to
ditch my car when I found one I parked my car shut it and ran back to the farm the vibe of the place
was so much different at night I was sure that this was part of my imagination and the creepy
look of the pla
ce at night was just me feeling nervous still I pressed forward hoping the fence
as I did I worked my way slowly toward the house there were no lights on and all appeared silent
when I approached I peaked inside the windows and realized there was no activity so I looked around
the area finding nothing in the yard I examined a nearby shed at first all seemed well but as I
dug further I noticed some photos the photos were in a bag titled family looking through them they
seemed innocent enough
that said something didn't sit entirely right with me the photos were all
of women who looked to be in their teens Smiles on their faces and wearing strange gowns made
out of burlap saac on top of that the smiles they wore didn't seem entirely genuine it looked
more than a little forced examining these photos just showed the girls hanging out and doing farm
work and eating watermelon I attempted to make a call out to my contact after taking a photo of the
photos I was hoping to see if any
of these girls were missing naturally I had no signal out there
though and so I left the shack quietly and headed down the lane toward the fence and back to my car
once there I sent a text to one of my friends and asked about these girls a person said they'd do
some digging and get back to me so I waited for a bit and eventually was told none of them had
been missing confused I thanked them and decided I'd get something to eat and get some sleep as
daylight was fast approaching and I wouldn
't be able to get any anything done then the day came
and went and I was awoken by my alarm at about 7:00 there was still light out but I wanted to get
some food in me and get ready for a second night out searching at 10:00 I headed back onto the farm
once ID finished eating it was about 9:00 I had headed back to my hiding spot and waited at 10:00
I headed back onto the farm I was quiet and I once again checked the house making sure there was no
activity after I realized everything was quie
t I decided I wanted to check the barn in the distance
the area was open and I couldn't help but feel afraid that someone would see me as I approach
the barn itself that was the least of my worries though as I would soon realize upon approaching
the barn I saw that it was lit up with chains all over the doors as I peaked through the lit in the
doors I could see another door partially covered by hay with a padlock and something else on it
listening more closely now I could hear screams for h
elp I immediately inspected the outside
of the barn and kept a close eye on things for movement inside listening more closely from the
back of the barn I could hear chanting I didn't understand the language but I knew someone was
in there knowing I wouldn't have signal I decided it's best to report things to the police from here
I made my way back across the field but Midway across I heard a gunshot and felt a great deal of
pain in my right arm I couldn't help but cry out in pain as it was
so sudden and immense I looked
closely at my arm and kept my head quite low this time as I did so I heard another shot fire off and
I felt a bullet whiz through my hair and narrowly miss my skull then I heard an all too familiar
loud voice shouting expressing anger and telling me I'm trespassing on private property out of
options and unsure what to do I called out stating who I was and informing them that if I wasn't out
of there in the next few minutes the police would be raiding the place
this was a desperate lie
and the reality sank in all too quickly that I might not make it out of this place alive when
the voice came came back laughing and telling me they enjoyed the taste of bacon it was at this
moment I knew I was out of options and was screwed if I didn't start moving and fast I got up and ran
keeping no straight lines or particular patterns I kept thinking I'd likely be dead any second but as
I made it to the fence and threw myself over there wasn't another shot fire
d at all perhaps he bought
my bluff perhaps not but I didn't wait around to find out as I was desperate to make it to the
hiding spot my car was in before driving as best as I could to the nearest gas station and calling
911 I explained the situation and who I was and they mentioned that they would have authorities
out there immediately I told them I'd come out once I saw the lights and in the meantime I'd be
in a spot near the farm I told the authorities that they should be careful that th
ey're very
dangerous and to bring guns as these these people didn't seem like they cared at all whether the
cops showed or not it wasn't long before I was back at my spot and the police were already on
the scene I was checked out by paramedics and questioned I told them it was fine but I wanted
to be sure the girl I was looking for wasn't there the police spent the remainder of the night
searching the farm only to find it abandoned the family wasn't there and upon breaking the padlock
on t
he Barn Door what they found inside was crazy they found a bunch of photos but no bodies the
entire area was searched thoroughly and the cloves of the girl I was searching for were found in the
house but there was no sign of the girl outside of this or the family it looked like the family had
been keeping many girls underneath the farm but no one ever found them some skeletons were found on
the property later on but I never found the girl I returned the payment I received from the family to
them but they told me to keep it anyways as thanks for at least finding where she was to my knowledge
this family hasn't seen or heard from her since Story 3 I won't say my name I'll just say I'm
32 and a male I'm a facilities guy for parks and wreck and I work nights now facilities guy is
just another way of saying I'm the maintenance man I do a lot of cleaning and any pickup needed when
you work night shift you have to go around and quickly clean everything and host any nighttime
events
as well as cover all facilities in the area before your shift ends around midnight in
my case one night I had what you would call a typical work night typical work nights as I call
them are the ones where you don't have any events going on so you basically just go from facility
to facility making sure upkeep is done and doing things like taking out the trash replacing said
trash bags and making sure there is no vandalism Etc being that a lot of our facilities are in
and around Parks we get
a lot of transients and homeless the homeless are fine and normally very
understanding individuals if I need them to move on or even just further away from my facility they
are normally very understanding and will comply at the very relas until I move to the next facility
I'm a nice guy and I don't like to give people too hard of a time as I've been homeless and I
know what it's like that said the transients are almost always a horrible interaction transients
generally choose to live homele
ss on purpose and are often addicted to drugs or will commit crimes
because they can basically they are uncooperative 99.9% of the time and since most of the the time
they are just released immediately if they are arrested at all they have no qualms about causing
a scene or stabbing you if it's in their interest or they simply wish to so needless to say I
have to be careful transients aren't usually a big concern until I get to the last facility of
the night that facility is in our highest
crime neighborhood in the city I work now for the
record I think it's great to have a facility like this in a neighborhood like this because
it helps keep kids from getting into gangs and such like that which are very prevalent in this
neighborhood that said working the night in an area like this can go if Lucky perfectly well and
quietly or be a complete Horror Show Now generally the gangs in the area won't mess with you if you
aren't in their business you know just mind your own business
keep walking keep your head down and
you'll be fine a lot of people I've come across while working my shift will even be understanding
of the fact that I'm just doing my job as well I'm not defending gangs by any means but I am also not
saying that they're bad you know I am saying most of the ones in my neighborhood go by and as long
as you stay out of their business they'll stay out of yours anyway on this night I was wrapping
up my cleanup and was pretty stoked as I had the next two night
s off it was around this time I Was
preparing to do my last check of the facility and clock out and go home as I was making my rounds
I hear a sudden noise from upstairs when I say upstairs I'm referring to an attic area where a
lot of ventilation systems are in order to access it you need to pull down an attic which creates
steps and then you'll need to climb a ridiculously tall ladder and hang off of one with one hand to
push a fairly heavy door open so you you can climb up to the attic a
rea of the facility it's not an
easy place to access but you can do so if you know what you're doing and no one is around to see you
do it I don't hear anything for a minute or so so when uncomfortable again I begin turning off the
lights it was around this time I hear another loud bang from above me curious I open the front door
and then shut it again but I don't exit I shut the lights off and I'm waiting around now it is
only now I start hearing stomping I'm a little on edge as it becomes
more and more apparent that
someone or something is clearly camping out in the Attic area I thought about calling the cops
at first but we've had an issue with raccoons and such finding their way into the building
before and the last time we called the cops to check out something like this it turned out it
was just bats after just a couple of more minutes of listening I decided to take a flashlight
and check the area myself now the attic stairs are going to make a loud enough noise on thei
r
own but if somebody knows that I'm coming they can't really go anywhere as such I also bring my
knife with me just in case I climb up and get to the ladder and climb into the attic area itself
I shut the door behind me to make sure I don't fall back through this large drop the moment the
door shuts I notice all I can hear is my breathing and some of the ventilation and such I'm slowly
scanning the area with my flashlight and keeping my knife close by my other hand as I look around
I noti
ced a raccoon and its babies at this point I breathe a huge sigh of relief and prepare to
head out I figure I'll leave a note about the raccoons and the babies and they'll be able to let
animal control handle it in the morning I'm just about to head back toward the door when I hear a
shifting sound I turned around and suddenly this old older bearded guy lurches at me and knocks me
on my butt I lose my flashlight and my knife and decide to feel around to find where my knife went
it was aroun
d that time I feel something hard hit the back of my head I feel dizzy and when I feel
something hit me in my right side between my ribs shortly after this I feel it exit and enter me
several more times before I'm turned and beaten in the face I'm dizzy and thinking to myself on
clock out and no one is going to know I'm up here and I'm going to die I try to fight back with what
strength I had with any adrenaline that I could afford as the man tries to stab me with an already
bloody knife in
the chest I managed to stop him and struggling and quite dizzy after some rolling
around I'm unable to knock his head into a board and scramble to get up again I grab my flashlight
and see my own knife which I scramble toward and feel sharp objects stabbing me in the back of my
right leg I'm hurting but I'm also heated at this point so I get to my knife I turn around just
in time to stab this guy I wind up pushing my knife into the side of his head but out of shock
I let go the man falls o
ver and seems out of it complaining about his head I get my phone out and
called the police the last thing I remember was saying something to 9 to11 and the next thing
I know I'm awake in a hospital and there's the sweetest nurse I've ever had looking at me and
asking me how I'm feeling I told her I'm not sure then I was flooded with memories of what I just
experienced and I started freaking out she calmed me down and reassured me that I'm going to be okay
that I'm safe now the police were
there and an officer asked me everything about what happened I
explained what had happened and he took the story down and reass assured me that the man in question
would be spending a time in jail a long time that is I remember being in shock at the fact that the
man was alive I asked how the man was doing mostly out of reaction to my shock the cop said he'd been
you know alive but that's all he could say about it I was out of work for quite a while after that
it was all pay leave until I c
ould recover I'm still a facilities guy today but I switched to a
dat shift and it's much more comfortable with my job again the nurse I'd met is my wife now as
well we've been together for about 5 years now and I can't help but laugh at The Morbid irony
of it all I mean what I experienced was easily the worst experience in my life that said had I
not experienced it I never would have met my wife it's funny how life works that said I never want
to experience anything like that ever again St
ory 4 you can call me Maddie as I won't share my real
name I was a 911 dispatch worker on a night shift for my area I won't share my area as I don't feel
comfortable doing so that's it and you weren't working as a 90011 dispatch on any shift can
tell you it's a tough job it's very mentally and emotionally taxing as it's your responsibility to
make sure someone gets the help they need as soon as possible but some of the things you hear on the
other end of the line well they're just horrific
we go through a fair amount of training to deal
with these things and there is always an open door if we need more help dealing with things mentally
or emotionally with the trials of the job at hand anyway my story revolves around several strange
calls I got over the course of several nights and the strange occurrences that happened soon after
the first night I got one of these calls was in December it was during most kids holiday one of
the first things we ask people to give us when we rec
eive a call is the address that they are
at it's a vitally important bit of information as unless you were calling from a landline we
don't usually know the specific address you are calling from this is changing as Tech changes
but at the time I was doing this if you were calling from a cell phone we could trace with in
the general area in most cases but we often could not get an exact address also depending on how
many cell towers were in the area if you're in a rural area and you just hav
e poor signal it can
make our job that much harder anyway I get a call and it's a man who simply says help in a groggy
sounding voice and the line just dies after that as I said before if it's a landline we'd have an
address immediately but this is what makes the call stranger I have no information appearing
at all as to the location of this call there's generally some form of information but I can't get
anything off of this thrown off by this I informed my supervisor of what just happened
we talked for
quite a bit and she tells me she will look into it if I get another call like this and just to let
her know if it happens again I'm sure she was worried maybe there was something wrong with the
system or with my equipment I continued through the night and everything is working smoothly it
seems at this point that one strange call has been pushed to the back of my mind and was almost
forgotten at about 6:00 in the morning I'm ready to head home that's when I get the last call o
f
my night it's that same groggy voice and it simply says help before hanging up once again there's
no caller information or anything to work with I talk to my supervisor who tells me to get home
and get some rest and she'll look into the issue more thoroughly I go home and crash immediately
the next night I'm back at it again I asked my supervisor if she ever figured out what was going
on with those calls she explained that she hadn't but once again if I got another one just signal
her an
d she'd come and check it out I believe she figured it was a prank of some kind but she wasn't
allowed to voice it out loud as we were supposed to take every call seriously and she seemed to be
regardless of what she might have been thinking it's about 11:00 at night when I get another call
and judging from the lack of data on my computer I know immediately it's the guy I signal for my
supervisor who quickly rushes over and answers the call herself this time there is nothing on
the other en
d no voice just breathing the line then hangs up still there is no information at
all weirded out my supervisor has me work on a different computer and system just to see if that
changes anything or if somehow our own equipment is glitching it's 2:00 in the morning when we get
another call from this man once again there's no information my supervisor tries to inform whoever
is on the other end that if this is a prank call they will be charg there's silence on the line
then it HS up again my
supervisor is equal parts confused and also angry and I'm just at a loss
that said the remainder of the year goes by without any more calls shortly after New Year's
when we get the mysterious call again I answer and signal for my supervisor the voice on the
other end sounds like some GR Rocky man the same one from before and he simply says why didn't you
help me this time the caller ID turns up the call was coming from inside our own building I remember
the shock on my supervisor's face an
d I remember being completely confused my supervisor informs
me she is going to search the building and asks that I keep doing my job I agree to do so but
inside I just have this bad feeling nothing is right about these calls I reluctantly get back to
work and try not to overthink the calls I got it's about 4:00 in the morning when I receive another
call it once again is coming from the building it's the man but he sounds happier the word t says
next send chills down my spine She's mine now
the line hangs up it is around this time I noticed my
supervisor hasn't responded to my signaling and I haven't seen her since she was going to search the
building trying to be rational and assuming she's probably talking with the police who are trying
to get things handled elsewhere in the building I try to continue my job until my shift ends the
second I'm off shift I see the daytime supervisor and I asked him if he's seen or heard from the
night shift supervisor he said no and I begin t
o get this sinking feeling I asked him to search
the building for her as a last I had heard heard from her she was looking into a strange calls we
were getting from the building itself he said sure thing and I made him swear to search the building
I then went home and tried to get some sleep it was shortly after I got home that I got a call
from the daytime supervisor he informed me that he found the night shift supervisor hanging in the
basement level of the building it appeared to be a su
icide I remember being freaked out and trying to
explain that there was no way it was a a suicide there was no way I remember being questioned about
everything that had happened and I remember the only answer I was ever given after it was all
said and done was that my supervisor's death was a suicide it was ruled a suicide and everything
pointed to a suicide I still don't believe it was a suicide for a few months after this took place
I get calls at varying times of the night and my persona
l cell went off goody with that man's voice
he just laughs every time and that laugh is etched into my memory eternally I quit my job and moved
a few months later I no longer work in any sort of high stress job in fact I work from home now I
haven't received another call since moving Story five I work at a gas station in New Zealand and
despite the downside of dealing with difficult customers I have genuinely always loved my job the
station I started at has a lot of homeless people or indiv
iduals who are struggling financially
even if they do have a home one homeless man in particular has become my stalker when I first
started my co-workers informed me that this man would come in and we would give him a free
cup of hot water which he would add some sugar sagits to they mentioned that he's a bit strange
but generally harmless except for his tendency to swear frequently since he was homeless I felt
sorry for him especially during the winter when I first heard about him so I hap
pily provided him
with his water however this man wouldn't just take the water and leave he would go on rants about
all sorts of nonsense and I could never understand what he was talking about he'd used the FW every
other word and spoke gibberish in between some of my co-workers stopped serving him as he Disturbed
other customers but but one other coworker and I continued to do so looking back this is probably
where the problem started because he began only coming in when I was working alon
g I worked from
2:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. and he would always show up at night he never came on my days off which
varied each week so he must have observed and noted my work schedule by passing by during the
day which I noticed him doing often over time I started feeling uncomfortable with his presence
and the way he looked at me however being raised in a Christian family I was reluctant to turn
him away my grandfather always told me as a child manners are cheap and never turn your back
on c
harity so I continued to serve him but then he started making comments about my appearance then
my body and he stopped asking for water he just wanted me he would come in head straight towards
me me and linger in the store for what felt like ours the final straw came when he winked at me
and said I always had a friend in him the way he said it sent chills down my spine so I decided to
stop letting him in the moment I was working alone I locked the doors because I knew he would appear
the pr
oblem was I knew he was watching me I could sense it and as soon as the last customer
left the fort he would approach the doors I caught him watching me multiple times a day from
Alleyways and bushes we got him trespassed hoping it would solve the issue unfortunately it didn't
he would still watch me try to get in and yell at me through the doors when I refused to let him in
I called the police every time he showed up but he managed to escape each time this went on for
months on end I was s
cared 247 at work and even had nightmares at home there were countless
incidents of harassment attempted entries and sightings of him watching me but the worst one
occurred when I was on four Court Duty filling cars and cleaning the pumps we have speakers
at all pumps that are connected to an intercome inside allowing us to communicate with customers
without having to run outside it's a large site with 12 pumps while I was outside I heard my
coworker call me inside through the speakers her
voice filled with panic since it was daytime
my initial thought was that a customer was causing trouble I quickly went inside and immediately
heard the doors locked behind me look over there by the bushes she said with wide eyes I turned to
look and there he was peering in the scariest part he had one foot lunged forward as if he was ready
to run and attack the moment the doors opened my heart sank and and I called the police who arrived
remarkably quickly they were already there as I hung
up the phone the officer taking my statement
informed me that he would be charged with criminal harassment and a restraining order was in place
however legally they had to issue a warning before he could be arrested and he was released the same
night but enough was enough I couldn't handle it anymore I was constantly terrified it wasn't a
matter of if he would return but when the very next day I handed in my 2 weeks notice management
didn't want to lose me and offered me a transfer to a sit
e far away where he would never find me or
so we thought I accepted the transfer and the new site was great all the staff were instructed not
to disclose my new location to anyone including the regular customers they were told to say that
I no longer worked for the company for about 3 months everything was peaceful there was no sign
of my stalker and I felt safe I no longer had to constantly look over my shoulder however the
relief didn't last long just a month ago the officer handling my c
ase informed me that I had
to appear in court and testify against him I was terrified of seeing him again but I convinced
myself it was for the best I had just come to terms with the fact that I could do it and I would
ensure he was held accountable but then the worst happened he found me at the new site I don't
know how he did it but my best guess is that he asked a new employee at my old site someone
who wasn't aware of him the stalking and the restraining order and they told him he must
have
taken a bus or made a remarkably Long Walk he was approaching the doors quickly when I spotted him
and I ran away in a panic I nearly knocked over my boss who saw the fear on my face and asked what
was wrong in my State of Shock and fear I can't even remember what I said but my manager locked
us in her office and provided incredible support she called the police and handled everything I was
trembling and in shock we all believed I was safe at the new site as the police officer in charg
e
had assured us he would never find me there while we were on the phone with the police we witnessed
him circling the site at least three times before the police arrived and apprehended him and placed
him under arrest thank God needless to say I couldn't sleep for the next few days as I waited
for the court date the fear of him being released was overwhelming 2 days before the court hearing
I prayed I prayed that he would be convicted and that I would be safe I honestly had no idea what
I
would do if he was released and new knew where to find me again this might sound dramatic but
anyone who has experienced the trauma of being stalked will understand I even made the comment if
he gets away I think I'll kill myself I genuinely felt that hopeless thankfully my prayers were
answered the next day when the officer handling my case called me I got some good news he said
he changed his plea to guilty I was at work and I jumped up up and down in front of customers this
is the safes
t I have felt in nearly a year which has been the longest year of my life but for
now it's over well mostly I have a sentencing case coming up where the duration of his sentence
will be determined but for now I can finally relax knowing this monster is off the streets and most
importantly unable to come near me deep down I know it's not truly over my gut tells me that when
he's released he'll come back this man is obsessed and mentally ill the only thing keeping me going
is the saying don't
borrow trouble before it shows up at your doorstep but that's the problem
I know he'll be back at my doorstep as soon as he can story six for context I'm a mail and I
work at a gas station in the Deep South a part of Louisiana that most people have never even heard
of I talking about dirt roads with no name thick trees that seem to swallow darkness and you might
be lucky enough to see a street light every other mile the little gas station that I work and is
located in the trifecta of all t
hese elements I of course work the overnight shifts the gas station
doesn't see much excitement there are either the 10 customers that come in between the hours
of 10 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. or the random possums that decide to make the trash cans outside their
personal drum set but I digress the night started like any other night make sure that the coffee is
fresh check make sure all the snacks cold drinks and beer are properly stocked check now all that
is left for me to do is to wait I stood b
ehind the counter looking at inventory listening to music
and just pacing around for the first couple of hours you know the thing that people say time
flies yeah that didn't apply to that shift as I got bored I decided to leave the register and
check out the items on the Shelf two you know make sure nothing majestically sold itself while I was
on one of the aisles I heard a man call out hey you all open I turned around to see that I had two
customers standing at the checkout now I should me
ntion this gas station does not have that fancy
system that makes the doors go ding when someone comes in Topline security right so I was caught
off guard the two customers had come in without my knowledge I quickly walked up to the register
and apologized for the wait as we were making the usual conversation of hey how you doing and man
it's dark out here in this area the customer asked another question that is usually always asked
how long is it until I get to the city from here I answere
d it with the same answer that seems to
automatically live in my mind rentree it's a good couple hours from here just go towards the lights
corne I know but that's my thing anyway after scanning the customer's items which literally was
a candy bar and a bottle of water I told them be careful out there y'all there's a tornado warning
in this area until 700 a.m. and the rain's picking up in this area even on a clear night it's hard
to see what is ahead of you on these dark desolate roads as I
went to look at the second customer
I realized there was no second customer anymore I chocked it up to the guy not wanting to wait
any longer and decided to just leave I mean from what I saw he didn't have any items with him and
probably only needed some cigarettes or something that was behind the counter I told my customer
Fair well and was ready to grind out the rest of these hours but just like a psychic my own words
had foreshadowed my faith for the night not long after the customer le
ft it might have been an hour
or so the sky could no longer hold its sorrow and just wept gallons of tears from above to me this
is not a big deal bad weather rain and possums yeah I still have it out for them happened
a lot in my area area so much so that I call the experience HOA which stands for humid wet and
annoying as the rain and wind picked up I started to feel a little uneasy mostly because honestly I
would rather be at my house when the rain and wind decided to battle for dominanc
e with that being
said the inevitable happened the power lines were no match for the Relentless punishment from the
elements and then Darkness silence aggravation the power had gone out and there was no backup
generator for me I was just there standing in a blanket of Darkness so thick that it seemed
to cover everything in its Embrace I called my manager to let him know that the power had gone
out and asked him what I should do right now of course with it being so late slash early whatever
400 a.m. means to you there was no response I thought about locking up and just buckling down
at the gas station until the storm passed after all I was getting paid but that's when I heard it
between the Thunder between the rain between the wind I heard a slight crunch coming from one of
the aisles further away from the entrance of the station at first I paid no mind to the sound I
believed it to just be store items shifting with all of the Terrible Weather Darkness had a way of
bending yo
ur mind making you see and hear things that your mind usually dismisses as just the
wind but after sitting there for a while upset of course but getting paid I called my manager again
but unfortunately no answer then right after the light of my phone faded and my eyes were trying to
adjust to the darkness I heard it again movement movement but this time closer and right in between
my phone call and the Thunder strike like I said I have listened to this channel for years so now
I'm on high a
lert someone was in here I was not alone I just knew it I tried to call my nerves not
wanting to be that guy who overreacts but I asked myself can you ever really be too safe I made a
potentially dangerous and thoughtless move I stood up and yelled is anybody still in here I got no
response but that did didn't mean that there was no one there the air felt thick from humidity not
just that though that feeling you get when you're not alone the feeling of being watched as cliche
as it sounds I
remembered something that I knew all along there is no ding on the door to let
me know when customers enter or exit that and the thought of that second customer came to M I
never saw him leave I just knew that he was there and then gone automatically without a doubt I felt
that something was strange something was not right so I did what any gas station worker would do in
the pitch black pretended to be a ninja so that I could slowly make my way to the source of the
noise without being caug
ht as it turns out I'm not a ninja the moment I stepped from behind
the counter that I had been sitting behind a voice stopped me in my tracks give me what you
got was all that the void softly spoke to me I froze scared too scared to say a word or move an
inch when I called out I wasn't truly expecting a response soon I heard footsteps slow but getting
closer my mind yeah I'll do something run charge at the sound and hope for the best after all that
though I did nothing and then his face ap
peared a face that I wouldn't have seen seen if my manager
hadn't called me back at that moment allowing my phone to light up the second customer as it turns
out he never left I pretended not to see or know that I recognized him and again he repeated come
on give me what you got now still in a calm and calculating way I spoke for the first time after
noticing that I was holding my breath the whole time all I have is $250 in the register he was
quiet for a while but then told me give it over
I wish that I could say that I pulled out some
special move that brought the guy down allowing me to hold him until the police showed up but this is
real life I gave him the money and luckily for me he accepted it he knew that the police would not
be here in these parts at this time and with this weather and even if called it would take at least
30 minutes to get there the local I assumed had to be to be so confident I talked to the manager
and the police after all was said and done my man
ager apologized I had to go through that and
also apologized for not answering sooner I told him no worries everyone deserves sleep I got to
leave early and the manager closed the store for a couple of hours until the next employees
came in I was so lost in a trance after that situ situation that I truly believe that it still
couldn't be real that couldn't have just happened to me after a couple of years of working there
and that was that I thought a funny plot twist two weeks later A man w
as caught trying to hold up
a gas station close to where my job was located a man that I remembered from that flash of light on
my phone the only difference is he didn't get away this time the thing that I can really say that
I've learned from all of this is no matter how com comfortable or how much you think you know
how each day will play out always be on guard story 7even so this happened a little over 2 years
ago now and I wanted to post it somewhere just to look back at it one day and
never forget the
lesson I learned so I figured sharing it on your show was the best way to do this it was 2016 and
I just started a new job at a motel it was low pay but I needed an office job one of my friends
Michael got me this job for a few days I did training with the owner in the mornings for two
nights Michael trained me our job was the 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 am shift nothing exciting checking
guests in and doing paperwork my boss the owner went away with his wife on vacation for about a
week which is attributed to the Swift training I had to endure so it it was my first night alone on
the night shift there was a monitor with security cameras around the motel's property and a large
glass window all around the office building with a glass door there was no night window like
most motels have it was fairly early in the night at about 1:00 a.m. and I was just doing my
normal checkin paperwork when the man walks in and asks if we have any rooms available usually
if someone is
sketchy my boss has me liying say no but he seemed normal at the moment without
hesitation I said yes of course just for one and he replied yes so I began creating the reservation
on the computer when I noticed he started swatting the air and making spitting noises as if he was
surrounded by flies I tried to ignore it as far as I was concerned it wasn't my business so I tried
to check him into the room as quickly as possible I give him his key and he's on his way at this
point I could be de
scribed as very timid I had a lot going on in my personal life so I hope you can
understand my reaction to What Happens Next the man comes back from his room and slams his hand
on the glass door causing me to jump absolutely frightened I look up to see him just staring at me
he cracks the door and puts his head through and says I can't get into my room why won't you let
me into my room and my only defense is trying to be helpful so I replied maybe there's something
wrong with your key let m
e give you another one the look he had in his eyes was inexplicable I
felt like I was in absolute danger I handed him his new key and he went back to his room I tried
texting Michael because he is the one who trained me though it was the middle of the night and he
was probably asleep I needed some guidance with no reply from Michael I noticed a man charging
down the stairs to come back and I go into an absolute panic I run into the back office and
lock the door and I pull up my pocket knife
it's important to keep protection when working at night
I hear the man in the office yelling hello hello why won't you let me into the room do not like me
me being an AB absolute idiot and not standing my ground and calling the police when I'm feeling
scared I decide to take the situation on alone I reply I'm just on the phone I'll be right out
and I start calling Michael over and over for hell no answer I decided to take a few deep breaths
and then step out of the office the man was not t
here he was in the bathroom I started hearing him
talking to himself angrily saying kilver kilver my heart sank I stopped being an idiot not calling
the police he comes out and says your key was broken I'm sorry let me escort you to your room
he agrees thankfully I was wearing a long sleeve sweater so with my arms down I was able to hide my
knife in my hand while holding it I began to walk outside and he seemed insistent to walk behind me
we begin making our way to the staircase and up towa
rds his room I was sweating from how nervous I
was continuously looking behind me to make sure he wasn't going to make a move he stops at a room and
I stop at his room a few doors down I smile and say oh that's the wrong room this is your room as
I clearly said on the door the whole time he was going to someone else's room and trying to open
the door I felt bad for them I quickly ran back to the office and locked the door the next guest
I checked in was a police officer from a few towns awa
y I felt bad for confiding in them about the
guy but they seemed willing to keep an eye on the house the next night the man came back but I had
the doors locked and told him we were all booked up I explained to my boss what happened when he
got back from vacation however he didn't take me seriously I continued to work there on the night
shift for the next year when many other strange encounters happened Story 8 I recently got a job
at a hotel downtown from where I live I have never worked i
n the hotel industry before so I had no
idea what to expect the time between applying for the job and being hired was less than 24 hours
which made me kind of nervous honestly but I had been looking for several months and couldn't find
anything so I thought I'd take a chance this hotel is about 150 years old and has plenty of character
behind the front desk there are places where the wallpaper was torn away revealing the Psychedelic
wallpaper from what I can only guess was the 70s we're tal
king a bright pink neon green hookah
induced Vision type of wallpaper the walls on the upper floors are painted bright orange and
yellow and the hallways are narrow enough to give off a shining kind of feel to it but I'll
elaborate on that later my manager is a young Chinese man in his mid-20s only 5 years older
than me the man who owned the building is also Chinese and literally a walking stereotype the
owner is friendly and kind to the employees but he's also Rich enough that he doesn't r
eally care
if the votel isn't up to par I learned recently that he also owns one of the more rundown shopping
centers downtown so this time I explained the less than five-star quality of the hotel probably
about a 3 and 1 half star in my opinion some people describe the place as quaint unique and
full of characters While others describe it as outdated or disappointing as a history Enthusiast
I would agree that the place is full of character but I also think the owner should be a little more
concerned about keeping the place clean there are lots of problems in this hotel including mice
broken toilets falling ceiling tiles leaks and other maintenance nightmares the fancier rooms on
the upper levels have real fireplaces in them so that adds the risk of fires if carelessly used
mice are a common problem and I'm thankful the guests don't have to see all the dusty traps
filled with dead rodents in the basement by far the most interesting aspect of the hotel is that
it's supposed t
o be haunted there are two ghosts reported in the building as well as the adjoining
Pub next door back when the hotel was first built it had the reputation of being a complete dive a
lady named lady Churchill died in the hotel and her spirit supposedly lingers in the haunted
room 49 guests will occasionally smell their perfume or see her face in the mirror one of the
most frightening stories included someone opening the door only to have lady Churchill fly at them
in Fury on my first day wh
en my boss toured me around the hotel he pointed out the haunted room
to me lady Churchill has also been spotted at the fireplace in the pub arguing with her boyfriend
and the other resident ghost Brady Brady was apparently stabbed to death in the basement
stairwell the stairwell is not in use anymore as it leads directly into the basement instead
it's used to store extra chairs and miscellaneous items the light has never turned on which adds
more of a creep Factor my shift is the day shift
from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. every morning when I
come in I have to check the entire hotel by myself in search of homeless people sleeping in the back
stairwell or trying to get into the basement I'm not an intimidating person I'm a short female not
physically fit and too friendly for my own good if I did find someone hiding in the hotel what was I
supposed to do about it I'm not sure which creeps me out more the fact that I'm going around looking
for people who shouldn't be there or the id
ea that I have to walk through the dark and Silent areas
known to be haunted all by myself my sweep of the hotel includes all four floors of guest rooms the
kitchen the back stairwell the basement stairwell and the basement to give you some context the back
stairwell serves as a fire escape connecting all the floors together it goes straight down to the
street level it's always cold and echoing in there and as I said before full of dead mice when I was
first told about the haunted stairway
I mistakenly thought they meant the fire escape stairs they
go down to the basement level the four floors of guest rooms in all the Overlook Hotel Glory are
shaped like a square horseshoe which means more than enough blind Corners where creepy twins might
suddenly appear lady Churchill's haunted room is at the end of a hall around one of these blind
corners and yes I do think about that every time I search the hotel there is an elevator and
an interior stairway that guests are supposed to u
se behind the elevator is the old connecting
hallway that basically serves no purpose anymore in the past it may have been useful but now just
serves as a secret passageway that goes behind the elevator and comes out at the other end of
the horses show this hallway especially needs to be searched for homeless people drunks or people
having sex the basement is by far the creepiest part of the hotel to get there you can either
take the elevator or go through the pub and down the stairs I pref
er to go through the pub because
there are some fascinating black and white photos from when the hotel was first built and I love to
look at them it's also the best place to see the age of the brick Foundation anyway the basement
is used for storing beer kaks firewood plant reports housekeeping items and maintenance tools
among other things it's usually deserted now that I know the dark unused basement stairway is where
Brady's spirit is supposed to be I think I'll try to spend even less ti
me down there this week is
my second week of work and my boss has put me on the afternoon and evening shift just so I can get
a sense of what it's like in case I have to cover anybody in the future yesterday was my first late
shift and in the time I learned a whole bunch of things I didn't know from the lady I worked with
this woman let's call her paty has been at the hotel for 14 years she's seen all there is to see
and is well known for her stories I've listened to some of these stories a
nd honestly part of
me thinks she's full of crap but the other part is going to cautiously believe her on the off
chance that it's true here are some things I learned about the hotel in the span of one shift
the man I'm replacing was not actually fired for chronic lateness as the boss told me but instead
for sexual harassment the head of housekeeping a man I get along very well with is a friend of
his the day before Peggy caught a drug addict rooting around in the private back office after
hours we looked over the security footage he was definitely searching for something we now keep
the office doors locked there were two guests several years ago who stayed at the hotel and the
next day they robbed a jewelry store downtown and folded back to the hotel with everything they'd
stolen there was a massive police standoff on the roof SWAT teams and all there's a news article
about it online otherwise I'd never have believed it the Bedrock of the hotel can be found in the
Boiler Ro
om there's a slight Gap filled in on the top right corner that connects directly to the
street one time pecky came down to the boiler room to find a man halfway through the Gap at
first trying to get in because he wanted to know what was down there that image terrifies me
during the span of that one night shift an alarm went off in the basement the police showed up at
the pub and aggressively abused the day staff over non-existent shuttles to the hospital no not
an ambulance taking the bus
was beneath him I suppose and on my bus stop after my shift a
man was shooting up in public my city has a drug epidemic going on right now my bus took half
an hour to arrive and when I got off at my stop it was as funky as Silent Hill I felt as though I
would be looking around for Michael Myers or Jason bordy's it is October after all that's one night
shift down I have another tonight and one more the day after if anything else interesting happens
I'll keep you updated I mostly just wanted
to get this off my chest it's amazing how different
the hotel is after 300 p.m. much louder that's for sure thanks to the pub on one side and the bar on
the other everyone I've gotten to know during my first week of work has already gone home leaving
me with drunks strangers and Peggy's crazy stories one thing's for sure after three nights of this
I'll never complain about getting up early again
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