Even those who are skeptical about all sorts of horror stories and take a sober view of things, sometimes encounter unknown cases that defy any explanation. The heroes of our article on their own skin experienced chilling horror during the night watch. And who would have remained cool when they saw the masked man from The Scream on the doorstep, heard footsteps in an empty building, or found an ambiguous song in their headphones that was never even in your playlist?
However, some stories still found an explanation. And for the rest, you can come up with your own, if you don't believe too much in ghosts and mysticism.
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About 10 years ago he worked as an operator in a call center of a large company. One night shift call.
Me: "Operator such and such, hello!"
The man says in fright: “I received a strange SMS. See what it is."
Me: “Can you read the text of the message? And tell us what alarmed you."
M.: “The message came from my number to me! The date is tomorrow!"
I, slightly stunned: "What's in the message?"
M.: “Don't go there, there …”
After a couple of days we figured it out. A service has appeared on the Internet that allows you to send messages with edited system information. He was quickly covered. Damn it, the guy has some very creative friends! © Kiskanen / Pikabu
- In his youth, he worked as the chief operator of the department. One day at 3 am I glanced at the camera at the back entrance and saw someone standing there motionless in the mask from the "Scream" and staring at the camera. I rushed to the back door and looked through the peephole, but there was no one there. I returned to my workplace and saw that someone reappeared in the frame, waved and then left. I called the police. Arriving, the police did not find anyone. But we could not see anything on the camera, since the camera does not record - it only shows it in real time. © Phantom_61 / Reddit
- When dad was a student, he decided to work as a night watchman in a warehouse located in an old building. He was left alone at night. And then I heard that someone was walking along a long corridor, while steps were approaching. But dad was not expecting anyone and knew that the building was closed. Of course, he had no weapon, although he was a guard. Just in case, he took a sharpened pencil in his hand and went to the door. The steps were getting closer. Dad looked out into the corridor. The footsteps ceased, and there was no one in the corridor. He examined everything, but found no one. In the morning the warehouse manager came. When dad asked "What the hell is going on here?" she said that yes, something strange was going on in the building, so the night watchmen were changing at a wild speed. Dad, of course, did not appear there either. And in this building, it turns out, there used to be a monastery.
- I worked in a hospital. My job was simply to make sure that the patient did not pull out the tubes. I worked at night, so, in fact, it was just me and the patient in the dark room. Once I was with a patient alone in a 2-bed ward. The next bunk was empty, but a curtain still separated it from us. In the middle of the night, a nurse came and asked what I needed, as her call light came on. I said I didn't press the button. It turned out it was a call from an empty bed. © cracken735 / Reddit
- He worked as a bartender in a tiny town on weekend nights. There were few visitors. I had been working there for 7 or 8 months when it all started. One day I was washing dishes and suddenly I heard someone whistling a melody near the guest restroom. I thought that a client had come in, turned around - no one was there. Until the end of my shift, I heard footsteps and whistles every now and then. After that night, it began to happen periodically once a week. I told my colleague about this, and she responded by saying that she once heard "Hello" from the other end of the bar, although she was definitely alone in the hall. As a result, after a few months I quit because it was very scary. © MysteriousArtichoke / Reddit
- In the first year I got a job in a small company located in the basement of a residential building in a residential area of Moscow, as a kind of security guard. I myself lived in the accounting department, and across the corridor opposite was an exhibition hall (the company was engaged in sewing and selling women's clothing) with mirrored walls and a dozen mannequins. When he had already settled down there, he began to sit up for hours until 3-4 in the morning. Before couples, you need to take a nap for at least an hour, but you are too lazy to put a cot, so I decided to spend the night with mannequins on the sofa. I go up to the curtain leading to the exhibition hall, lift it up and hear a woman's voice: "Who is here?" I ran from there as I had never run before. And then he took a huge cleaver from the kitchen, went to look, but found no one. There was no more desire to spend the night in that room. © RoofTrooper / Pikabu
- A friend works as a watchman at the school. One evening there was an event for high school students. When an acquaintance was about to close the hall, she saw a girl walking along the perimeter and touching the drapery on the wall. She was asked to hurry up, but the girl replied: "Nothing has changed since 95" - and left. Then a friend remembered where she had seen her - at the stand of honorary students of the school. But the guest looked the same as in the photo 20 years ago, and the camera showed that, apart from the watchman, there was no one in the hall at that moment. © "Overheard" / Ideer
- I worked in a former psychiatric hospital, built by monks, which served as a hospital for members of the SS during World War II. There are many dark stories associated with this place. I often work late, sometimes stay up until 3am. One winter night I had already closed my office and left. The lights were extinguished, and only the wind howled. And suddenly in the distance I heard the sound of running feet. And then everything fell silent. I went down the steps and saw flashing red lights at the other end of the room. A moment - and they disappeared. I was very scared and quickly went to the exit. And then I heard these steps again. I turned a corner, and suddenly a band of shouting children jumped out at me. It turned out that the guys were playing laser tag. They borrowed the keys to the building from a parent. © warumbel / Reddit
- Worked a night shift in a factory. I was alone there. At 2 am I went to the warehouse to get some material. Meanwhile, a hooded man came out of another door. The light in the corridor he went to comes on automatically, but it never came on. The next day, I asked the guard to look at the security cameras, but they didn't work. © flaccidCobra / Reddit
- My father worked as a watchman at the Toys "R" Us toy store. The job is not dusty, you just sit and learn something while you are paid to do almost nothing. Dad, for example, learned to juggle and play the guitar. But strange things happened all the time in the store. Items fell from the shelves as you walked by, lights blinked, sounds were heard from the other end of the store. It was a huge dark store, and my father was alone in it. And so he began to think about ghosts and said loudly: "If there is a ghost here, then let this red ball in the center of the ceiling burst." As soon as he finished his sentence, the balloon burst. Dad turned on all the lights in the building and spent the rest of his shift as close to the doors as he could. © KINGCOOVER / Reddit
- I work as a security guard in three days. It so happened that a couple of cameras from our company are located near a vacant lot, and one goes out to a tree located behind a fence. Julia comes there. My first shifts were in the middle of winter. Nobody warned me about what could happen, so when one of the cameras showed that a girl had come under the tree, she riveted all my attention and made me feel very cold, because she began a dialogue with a weeping willow. She came around 19-20 hours. Julia led a very lively and active dialogue with someone invisible to our eye, listened to the interlocutor, answered, sometimes laughed, in the summer she could even sit under a tree. Her conversation lasted exactly 50 minutes. It turned out that her sister had died 6 years ago. The weeping willow became for Yulia a kind of "personification" of the deceased. The locals say that the rest of the girl is absolutely normal,primary school teacher. By the way, Julia has not come for more than six months, and sometimes I catch myself thinking that I look at the willow too often. © notAhero / Pikabu
- I work in a security-sensitive building because it contains expensive equipment. If you need to get to my office, you will have to go through 4 doors that require a key card for access. It's very quiet and safe here. White walls, no one around, little furniture, gray ceiling. Even the echo is heard. I was working alone and noticed that someone was in the building. The man was wearing a shirt worn by the technical staff, but that was weird because it was Saturday night. He was also wearing jeans, and these workers are wearing black pants. I felt creepy and locked myself inside my office. He came to my door and pulled the handle twice. I heard a characteristic sound as he tried to open the door with a key card. It turned out that it was the grown-up son of one of the employees and he climbed in to steal something. But father's key did not fit all doors due to limited access. © sleepytimeghee / Reddit
- He worked the night shift at the hotel. I was the one and only person on the territory. The hotel was located between a forest reserve and a motorway, so the atmosphere immediately set in a mystical mood. That night, I was standing at the front desk when the door suddenly slammed shut. In general, even if you remove the stopper and try to close this door, it will close rather slowly. And then it was as if someone slammed it shut on purpose. I was terrified and spent the rest of my shift in paranoia. © [deleted] / Reddit
- He worked alone in the evenings, cleaned the building. I turned on my headphones and rode in the elevator. And suddenly the song I was listening to was cut short in the middle of my journey. Instead, another one - "Stairway to Heaven" by the group Led Zeppelin turned on. I didn't even have this song in my MP3 player. This track has never been in my playlist. © [deleted] / Reddit
- I am on duty on the night shift for a couple with a guy, an analyst. The office is located in a small shift camp in the middle of the steppe, that is, strangers do not wander here. I decided to make some coffee. I go to the kitchenette at the end of the corridor, fiddling with a coffee maker. Suddenly, a quiet, barely audible female voice comes from the corridor: "Tatiana-ah … Tatyana-ah." Here I understood the meaning of the phrase “my heart went to my heels”. The previously heard tales about disturbed ghosts persistently climbed into my head. Then I thought that auditory hallucinations appeared from night vigils. On bending legs I go out into the corridor and … face to face with my friend! My friend leaves the shift tomorrow and decided, using a round-the-clock pass to the facility, to walk from the village to our office before going to bed. I got to the office, and there was no one there. Well, I decided to call on the sly,so as not to disturb my partner. © Tanyabomba / Pikabu
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