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6 NIGHT SHIFT HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: A little over a year ago, I had a job
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Speaker 1: working overnight at a gas station close to my house.
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Speaker 1: I'm a woman and was 31 at the time.
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Speaker 2: I know, to some, it seems unsafe for a woman.
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Speaker 1: To work graveyard shift by herself. However, it was a
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Speaker 1: slow store, and the sheriff's office.
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Speaker 2: Was only 20 feet across from it.
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Speaker 1: There would be about 30 customers in an 8-hour shift,
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Speaker 1: and that was on a busy night. It was 3.30
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Speaker 1: in the morning. I went outside to sweep the parking lot.
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Speaker 1: and do a last-minute check at the trash. It was
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Speaker 1: time for a cigarette. I had one headphone in, and
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Speaker 1: was just kind of jamming out. Across the road in
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Speaker 1: the parking lot of the sheriff's office, I saw a
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Speaker 1: figure with his back to me. He was swaying back
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Speaker 1: and forth while looking down. Honestly, to me, it looked
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Speaker 1: like he was enjoying a much-needed piss. Against the sheriff's office, though? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that building closed up at 4 p.m. Didn't open up
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Speaker 1: again until 6 the next morning, but why there? By
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Speaker 1: the back of his ripped white t-shirt, I remembered that
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Speaker 1: he had come in about four hours earlier. He was
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Speaker 1: a total creep and I could already tell he had a.
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Speaker 2: Good buzz going. I didn't say anything.
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Speaker 1: I just took my eyes off of him and tried
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Speaker 1: not to draw any more attention to myself. It was
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Speaker 1: working until a car pulled in. I was still outside
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Speaker 1: as that car pulled up. I saw that man glance
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Speaker 1: over at the car, then at me, back and forth
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Speaker 1: once more. As that same customer who pulled up was leaving,
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Speaker 1: I walked back outside. I still had half a smoke
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Speaker 1: burning and had left my dustpan outside with a squeegee.
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Speaker 1: We both heard him start to swear angrily, seemingly engage
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Speaker 1: in an argument with himself. She looked across the road
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Speaker 1: and told me to be careful. I made some kind
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Speaker 1: of awkward joke about him being the one who should
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Speaker 1: worry and not me.
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Speaker 2: Something like that.
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Speaker 1: The man was still out there but closer to the
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Speaker 1: road now, facing the parking lot of my store. Whatever
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Speaker 1: he was yelling was completely unintelligible. He was obviously very
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Speaker 1: drunk and can barely stand straight, still swaying away. I
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Speaker 1: did not engage with him, but I didn't take my
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Speaker 1: eyes off of him. I just slowly walked back into
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Speaker 1: the store. Something about that man's face just really bothered me.
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Speaker 1: It had a darkness to it, and his eyes looked
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Speaker 1: completely wild. My experience working graveyard shift has told me
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Speaker 1: that the crazy-eyed ones are always the worst ones and
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Speaker 1: the ones to.
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Speaker 2: Look out for. I didn't like it at all and
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Speaker 2: I wanted no part of it. I looked up at
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Speaker 2: the clock.
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Speaker 1: I still had three hours to go and two hours
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Speaker 1: before any other employee got there. Instantly, I went to
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Speaker 1: the computer and typed up a temporary close sign just
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Speaker 1: in case he wanted some kind of trouble. I was
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Speaker 1: coming around the corner on my way to the doors.
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Speaker 1: When I glanced up, I saw that he was no
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Speaker 1: longer on the opposite side of the road. He was
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Speaker 1: on my side now. I literally had just barely gotten
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Speaker 1: the second door locked when he stumbled into our very
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Speaker 1: small parking lot. I took my hand and mimed the
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Speaker 1: hand signal for a cut across my neck, conveying to
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Speaker 1: him that, nope, sorry, you can't come in here, we're closed,
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Speaker 1: and shook my head back and forth, hoping to further
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Speaker 1: discourage him. He started walking away but screamed something at
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Speaker 1: me while he was walking, and I don't mean he
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Speaker 1: was grumpy and shouted at me or yelled that I
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Speaker 1: was an asshole or anything. I mean like he was
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Speaker 1: an enraged volume and was violently throwing.
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Speaker 2: His hands everywhere.
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Speaker 1: I decided to call the cops, and it was a
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Speaker 1: good thing I did too. Because the minute I hung
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Speaker 1: up with him, he came up directly to the doors.
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Speaker 1: He starts banging and pulling on them. Then he backs
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Speaker 1: up and tries to ram them. I yelled out, telling
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Speaker 1: him that I had the cops on the way and
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Speaker 1: his ass was about to be grass.
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Speaker 2: Once I said that, he took off.
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Speaker 1: Once the police got there, they drove around the road
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Speaker 1: and surrounding neighborhoods for over an hour and found no one.
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Speaker 1: He was on foot, so I don't know where he
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Speaker 1: could have gone to. Thankfully, I wasn't harmed during this
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Speaker 1: entire event. And because the police didn't find anyone, I
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Speaker 1: didn't fill out a police report or anything. I was
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Speaker 1: safe behind those thick glass doors that were locked for
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Speaker 1: the rest of my shift. Maybe if I didn't warn
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Speaker 1: him ahead of time, I wouldn't have to spend the
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Speaker 1: last three months of my job constantly looking over my shoulder.
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Speaker 1: I'll never really know what the right choice was. I'm
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Speaker 1: just glad that I don't work there anymore. I've posted
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Speaker 1: this on Reddit a few times, but here it is again,
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Speaker 1: just because it fits. Back in the early 90s, I
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Speaker 1: worked for Domino's Pizza. And during this time, I was
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Speaker 1: an assistant manager. But occasionally, we would have to deliver too.
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Speaker 1: On this night, it was just after 11 p.m., I
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Speaker 1: made a delivery to a house in one of our
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Speaker 1: middle-income neighborhoods.
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Speaker 2: As I pull up to the house, there isn't any
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Speaker 2: lights on.
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Speaker 1: If the porch light wasn't on, we're supposed to go
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Speaker 1: to a pay phone and call the number on the order.
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Speaker 2: That was to prevent robberies. I never did that.
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Speaker 1: I would just go ahead and go up to the door.
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Speaker 1: But on this night, I sat in my car for
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Speaker 1: a minute. For some reason, I just had this gut feeling,
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Speaker 1: and I always listen to my gut. So I drove
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Speaker 1: back two blocks to a payphone and called the number.
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Speaker 2: It was disconnected.
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Speaker 1: I decided to wait just a minute before making the
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Speaker 1: second call that we were supposed to make. If they
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Speaker 1: didn't answer the second time, we were just supposed to
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Speaker 1: go back.
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Speaker 2: To the store.
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Speaker 1: As I stood there, I noticed a Pizza Hut driver,
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Speaker 1: but I didn't really think anything of it in the moment.
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Speaker 2: You spot each other while on the road, you know.
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Speaker 1: I call back a third time, still disconnected, and for
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Speaker 1: some reason, I decided to return to the house and
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Speaker 1: just see if someone comes to the door. When I
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Speaker 1: get back, I realize the Pizza Hut car is sitting
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Speaker 1: in the driveway, and I think to myself, what the hell?
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Speaker 1: I turn in the long driveway that is lined on
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Speaker 1: the left side by tall evergreen trees and those shrub things.
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Speaker 1: I immediately notice that there's something big on the ground
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Speaker 1: next to the open door of that Pizza Hut driver's car.
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Speaker 1: I pull up behind him and park. When I get out,
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Speaker 1: I realize it's the driver. Okay, so he must have
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Speaker 1: had a heart attack or something, right? I run up
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Speaker 1: to him to see what I can do to help.
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Speaker 1: I get up to him. I realize that his skull
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Speaker 1: has been caved in so bad that I can actually
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Speaker 1: see some brains. I immediately run back to my car
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Speaker 1: and lock the door. I drive like 90 miles per
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Speaker 1: hour those two blocks to the payphone and call the police.
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Speaker 2: Then call my store and tell.
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Speaker 1: Them what's going on. And also have them call Pizza Hut.
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Speaker 1: I wait for the cops to come and go back.
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Speaker 1: Eventually the detective comes over to talk to me. He
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Speaker 1: tells me that in the first of the bushes next
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Speaker 1: to the driveway they found a realty sign.
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Speaker 2: The power is off. The house is completely empty. I
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Speaker 2: also found two sets of footprints in the bushes.
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Speaker 1: It appears they ordered pizza from both places and waited
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Speaker 1: to see whoever got there first to rob them. I
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Speaker 1: was first, but I didn't get out of my car,
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Speaker 1: so they had to wait on Pizza Hut to show up.
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Speaker 1: If I had been the one to get out of
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Speaker 1: my car that first time, it would be me laying
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Speaker 1: on the ground dead. For some reason, my gut feeling perhaps,
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Speaker 1: I didn't do what I normally did. I never knocked
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Speaker 1: on another door without a front porch light on, unless
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Speaker 1: I knew that customer really really well. I used to
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Speaker 1: work at a coffee place. We opened up at 5
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Speaker 1: in the morning, but we were there at 4.30 to
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Speaker 1: set up. We closed at 8pm and left by 8.30
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Speaker 1: or 9, depending on when we finished up cleaning. One
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Speaker 1: night a week was a deep cleaning session, so we'd
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Speaker 1: have to leave closer to 9.30 or 10.
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Speaker 2: I did my fair share of both opening.
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Speaker 1: And closing in almost my four years there. Definitely saw
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Speaker 1: some pretty interesting folks in all that time. Especially when opening.
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Speaker 1: Lots of homeless people who were sadly mentally disabled or
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Speaker 1: drug addicted. We were in a part of town that
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Speaker 1: was not as nice as it used to be. One
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Speaker 1: morning when I was opening, myself and the opening barista,
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Speaker 1: I was the supervisor at the time. We were the
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Speaker 1: only ones in the store. I was in the back
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Speaker 1: of the store setting up some tills.
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Speaker 2: She was in the front brewing coffee and tea and
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Speaker 2: so on. Suddenly, she starts.
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Speaker 1: Screaming bloody murder. I grabbed a box cutter and ran
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Speaker 1: to the front. She'd been cleaning a drain on the
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Speaker 1: ground by the sink right next to the drive-thru window.
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Speaker 1: She'd been bent down, but when she stood up again,
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Speaker 1: a man's face was pressed up against the window, literally
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Speaker 1: inches away from her face just through the glass. He
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Speaker 1: was just staring at her with this huge, super terrifying grin,
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Speaker 1: super dirty and messy, and for some reason, had a
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Speaker 1: pink blanket wrapped around his shoulders. As my barista began
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Speaker 1: screaming and crying, mostly shocked from how quickly he'd randomly appeared,
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Speaker 1: and how close he was to her, he started cackling.
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Speaker 1: It was funny to him. I don't really know why,
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Speaker 1: but it pissed me off. I didn't open up the window, obviously.
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Speaker 1: I just told her to go back into the back
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Speaker 1: of the store, and then made eye contact with that
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Speaker 1: guy to the window, and scowled as hard as I could,
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Speaker 1: pointed down the street, and yelled, Off now!
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Speaker 2: He looked taken.
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Speaker 1: Aback at first, but then, kind of just stumbled down
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Speaker 1: the street, He lingered on the block for a long time,
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Speaker 1: but eventually left for good. I kept an eye on
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Speaker 1: him for a while, then went back and tried to
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Speaker 1: calm down the barista. Another time I was opening with
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Speaker 1: a different barista. For reference, I'm an average-sized female in
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Speaker 1: her early 20s. The barista that was opening up with
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Speaker 1: me was in his late 30s, and it was a male.
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Speaker 1: When we opened the store, we'd wait in the parking
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Speaker 1: lot for another person to get there. One barista, one supervisor,
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Speaker 1: and then walk into the store together. I arrived before him.
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Speaker 1: And when he got there, he parked a few spaces
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Speaker 1: away from me. His car is black and small, so
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Speaker 1: it could be kind of hard to notice in the
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Speaker 1: dark and when it was a ways away. When I
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Speaker 1: realized he was there, I got out of my car
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Speaker 1: to meet him. he left his car too and was
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Speaker 1: walking towards me when he suddenly just starts yelling get.
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Speaker 2: The f * * * away from her.
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Speaker 1: And then running super fast at me I heard footsteps
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Speaker 1: run away from behind me and I was just completely
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Speaker 1: shocked apparently someone had been hiding behind my car waiting
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Speaker 1: for me to get out. They hadn't noticed my co-worker
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Speaker 1: show up and was scared off by him, thank God.
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Speaker 1: I didn't even notice that anyone was there. A few
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Speaker 1: weeks later, when I was closing with a different barista,
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Speaker 1: my barista's partner was picking her up from work that
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Speaker 1: night and was waiting in the parking lot since she
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Speaker 1: got there a little early. Luckily, the barista's partner was
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Speaker 1: also a cop.
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Speaker 2: She noticed someone.
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Speaker 1: Was crouching behind my car and called her partner to
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Speaker 1: tell her to tell me what was going on, then
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Speaker 1: went to investigate and shoo the guy away. As soon
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Speaker 1: as he saw her, he ran away again. My barista
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Speaker 1: and her partner both walked me to my car, just
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Speaker 1: to be safe. So yeah, two separate attempted kidnappings within
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Speaker 1: two weeks was pretty creepy. All for 15 bucks an hour.
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Speaker 3: A couple of years ago, I worked at a gas station.
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Speaker 3: It was a pretty small town about two hours north
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Speaker 3: of where I was from. I was living there temporarily
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Speaker 3: while I worked on flipping the house I owned. I
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Speaker 3: worked on the house during the day and I would
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Speaker 3: work at the gas station on nights to help pay
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Speaker 3: for it. The gas station was right off of a
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Speaker 3: major freeway and we would get lots of people passing
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Speaker 3: through town. One night I was working a 9pm to
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Speaker 3: 5am shift. I didn't mind these shifts because they would
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Speaker 3: not be very busy, and I always found things to do.
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Speaker 3: Most of the time, I would be the only one
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Speaker 3: working for a majority of the shift. On this night,
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Speaker 3: there was a decent amount of people coming through for
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Speaker 3: the first few hours, and at about 1 a.m., things
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Speaker 3: really started to quiet down. I mopped the floors and
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Speaker 3: then went back behind the counter. Then, I noticed a
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Speaker 3: car pulling into the station. It was a regular black
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Speaker 3: car and looked pretty normal except for when it got
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Speaker 3: closer I noticed that it had no license plates on it.
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Speaker 3: The car drove very slowly around the front and then
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Speaker 3: went to the side of the building where I could
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Speaker 3: no longer see it. About five minutes passed and then
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Speaker 3: a man came inside who I assume was the driver
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Speaker 3: of the car. He was a very tall man, about
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Speaker 3: six and a half feet tall and pretty thin. He
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Speaker 3: was wearing a black sweater and gray pants. He had
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Speaker 3: a very serious look on his face. He walked in
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Speaker 3: the front door and looked directly at me. The counter
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Speaker 3: was on the other end of the store, so he
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Speaker 3: was probably about 40 feet away. He didn't say anything
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Speaker 3: and just looked at me. Eventually, I couldn't take the
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Speaker 3: awkwardness and I said hello to him and waved. He
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Speaker 3: responded by turning and walking to the other side of
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Speaker 3: the store. He just stood there, no longer looking at me,
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Speaker 3: but looking at the wall, or whatever items were for
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Speaker 3: sale in that area. I was pretty confused at this time,
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Speaker 3: and I was getting kind of creeped out by this guy. Eventually,
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Speaker 3: he walked into the bathroom, which was at the end
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Speaker 3: of the store. About ten minutes passed, and he remained
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Speaker 3: in there, Another customer finally pulled into the gas station
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Speaker 3: and got some fuel and came inside to pay. I
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Speaker 3: was so relieved by them finally being a normal customer.
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Speaker 3: I almost wanted to bring up the man in the
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Speaker 3: conversation with them because it was so strange, but I
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Speaker 3: felt it wouldn't be professional, so I didn't. The customer left,
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Speaker 3: and I once again felt pretty creeped out knowing this
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Speaker 3: guy was still in the bathroom. A long hour went
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Speaker 3: by and we didn't get any customers. The man didn't
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Speaker 3: come out of the bathroom either. I felt it had
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Speaker 3: been long enough and I decided to walk over to
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Speaker 3: the bathroom. It was a bathroom with two stalls in
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Speaker 3: it so I could just walk in to wash my
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Speaker 3: hands or something and it wouldn't seem weird. I got
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Speaker 3: to the bathroom and opened the door. I saw that
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Speaker 3: the lights were out and it was pitch black in there.
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Speaker 3: I reached around for the light, but when I found it,
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Speaker 3: I saw that it was already switched on. This freaked
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Speaker 3: me out. I thought about just leaving, but I decided
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Speaker 3: to turn on the flashlight to my phone to look around.
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Speaker 3: When I did, I looked in the first stall, and
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Speaker 3: it was empty. Then I saw the second one. I
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Speaker 3: could see the man's legs from the bottom of the stall.
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Speaker 3: Then I shined my light up to see the man's
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Speaker 3: head poking out from above the stall, staring directly at
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Speaker 3: me with the creepiest smile I have ever seen. I
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Speaker 3: dropped my phone as soon as I saw him. I
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Speaker 3: picked it up as quick as I could and then
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Speaker 3: ran for the bathroom door. I got out there and
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Speaker 3: the man did not come out and follow me. I
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Speaker 3: went back to the counter and debated what I should
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Speaker 3: do for a few minutes. I really did not want
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Speaker 3: to go back in there But I also didn't want
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Speaker 3: the man scaring customers that went to the bathroom, and
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Speaker 3: I felt that it was my responsibility to keep the
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Speaker 3: place safe. As much as I didn't want to, I
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Speaker 3: decided to go back and tell the man he would
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Speaker 3: have to leave. I walked back to the bathroom and
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Speaker 3: opened the door. I shouted to the man that he
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Speaker 3: needed to leave, but there was no response. I can't
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Speaker 3: say that I was surprised. I decided to just put
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Speaker 3: an out-of-order sign on the door because of him and
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Speaker 3: the light not working. Several hours went by and I
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Speaker 3: only got a few customers. Amazingly, the man never left
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Speaker 3: the bathroom. Finally, at 4 a.m., my co-worker Devin came
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Speaker 3: in and we worked together for the final hour of
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Speaker 3: my shift. I felt much safer and I told him
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Speaker 3: what had happened. We decided to go into the bathroom
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Speaker 3: together to see what the man was still doing in there.
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Speaker 3: We walked in with our flashlights shining but when we
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Speaker 3: got inside we saw that both stalls were empty. Not
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Speaker 3: a trace of the man at all. I have no
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Speaker 3: idea how the man was able to leave without me
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Speaker 3: seeing him. Thinking about it still freaks me out. A
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Speaker 3: couple years ago I worked room service for a hotel.
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Speaker 3: This one day, I had an overnight shift, which was
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Speaker 3: easy since no one usually orders food that often. An
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Speaker 3: order came in at around 4 a.m., just chicken parmesan,
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Speaker 3: a popular item for the limited night menu. Once the
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Speaker 3: cook made it, I got the tray together and took
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Speaker 3: the elevator up to the room on the 14th floor,
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Speaker 3: the top floor. I walked down the corridor to the
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Speaker 3: room to knock on it. Usually you knock, say room service,
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Speaker 3: and once they open the door, you place the tray
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Speaker 3: on the table and give them a check to sign.
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Speaker 3: One reason I liked working room service was from the
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Speaker 3: good tips you make. I always was tipped good, since
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Speaker 3: I always brought up the food earlier than the time
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Speaker 3: frame that was given to them, as well as being
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Speaker 3: a nice girl that didn't try to talk too much
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Speaker 3: since most people just want their food. When I knocked
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Speaker 3: on the door and waited for the person to answer,
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Speaker 3: I heard movement on the other side. Not unusual, since
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Speaker 3: it's them getting up from the bed or couch or
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Speaker 3: muting the TV and walking over. But this noise was different.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't explain how I made the mental note of
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Speaker 3: why I thought it was different. It just didn't sound normal,
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Speaker 3: like it was more movement that would be appropriate for
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Speaker 3: the size of a normal hotel room I don't know
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Speaker 3: what they could have been doing. When the door opened,
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Speaker 3: a normal looking man was there. I assumed a businessman,
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Speaker 3: since that's the usual people that stay at my hotel.
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Speaker 3: I noticed he looked very worn out or tired, and
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Speaker 3: I thought it was just because it was four in
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Speaker 3: the morning. As I set the tray down, I heard
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Speaker 3: the door close and I wasn't weirded out though because
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Speaker 3: all hotel doors automatically close if you aren't holding them open.
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Speaker 3: But what was weird was when I heard the lock
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Speaker 3: get set. I turned around to give the guy the
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Speaker 3: check to sign and I tried to act normal even
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Speaker 3: though I was getting nervous. He seemed too cheery for
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Speaker 3: this time of night and started asking a lot of
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Speaker 3: personal questions like what my age was and if I
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Speaker 3: grew up in the area and what city that was.
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Speaker 3: I answered how I was 19 and even though I
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Speaker 3: was from the area I just said I'm from around
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Speaker 3: here because I felt weird telling him info like that.
19:36
Speaker 3: I just started getting the creeps. I think he noticed
19:41
Speaker 3: I was getting uncomfortable and started getting closer as he
19:44
Speaker 3: was signing the check. Then he looked me up and
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Speaker 3: down in the most disgusting way. I already felt violated.
19:54
Speaker 3: Right when he made eye contact with me, he lunges
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Speaker 3: at me and tries to grab me. I moved to
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Speaker 3: the side as fast as I could and jumped on
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Speaker 3: the bed. Then I leaped off the bed for the door.
20:06
Speaker 3: I barely got the door open. when he grabbed my
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Speaker 3: arm and I started screaming as loud as I could
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Speaker 3: to hopefully wake up anyone that was on that floor.
20:16
Speaker 3: Since he didn't want to get caught, he let me go,
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Speaker 3: and right when he did, I ran down the hallway
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Speaker 3: to the employee elevator and locked the door right away.
20:26
Speaker 3: My heart was pounding, not believing what just happened. With
20:31
Speaker 3: working room service, you always get some creepy people, and
20:34
Speaker 3: I always thought of bad stuff that could happen when
20:36
Speaker 3: delivering food but I never thought it would actually happen.
20:42
Speaker 3: When I got down to the lobby, I told the
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Speaker 3: night manager what happened, and he said he would call
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Speaker 3: the police and report the incident. I stayed until the
20:51
Speaker 3: police showed up to give them my statement, but when
20:54
Speaker 3: they went up to the room, the man was gone.
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Speaker 3: Not one trace of someone being there, except the untouched
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Speaker 3: plate of food I delivered. The name on the reservation
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Speaker 3: didn't match any real person when they looked it up
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Speaker 3: in the system, and the room was paid in cash,
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Speaker 3: so no credit card name or info. My heart sank
21:14
Speaker 3: knowing the police couldn't do anything else besides have them
21:18
Speaker 3: be on the lookout for a tall man with dark
21:20
Speaker 3: hair and pale blue, almost gray eyes. That was the
21:24
Speaker 3: most description I could give, since he didn't have any
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Speaker 3: unique features, and that this man was just out there somewhere.
21:33
Speaker 3: I then went home since I couldn't finish my shift
21:36
Speaker 3: from being so shook up. I was even more paranoid
21:40
Speaker 3: because I realized I told the man I lived in
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Speaker 3: the area. He could be easily watching me leave the
21:46
Speaker 3: hotel and drive home. Since it was late, no one
21:50
Speaker 3: was on the roads so it was easy to see
21:53
Speaker 3: I wasn't being followed as far as I knew but
21:55
Speaker 3: my heart was still pounding the entire drive home expecting
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Speaker 3: I would see him somewhere. I got home and went
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Speaker 3: inside as quick as I could and tried watching TV
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Speaker 3: to distract me from spiraling impossibilities of what could have
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Speaker 3: happened if I didn't get out of there in time.
22:14
Speaker 3: I had to quit my job since I was so
22:16
Speaker 3: paranoid of something similar happening again, and I don't think
22:20
Speaker 3: I can ever work at a hotel again from this incident.
22:32
Speaker 3: I work as an overnight security guard at a healthcare facility.
22:36
Speaker 3: My job is pretty easy most.
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Speaker 2: Of the time.
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Speaker 3: Usually, I just sit at a desk and watch over
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Speaker 3: security cameras as well as taking care of things around
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Speaker 3: the building. There are mostly just a few overnight nurses
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Speaker 3: and doctors working, and we don't typically get many people
22:54
Speaker 3: coming in the building. On one night, it was about
22:58
Speaker 3: 2 in the morning, and I was sitting at my desk. Then,
23:02
Speaker 3: I noticed movements on one of the cameras. It was
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Speaker 3: dark and I couldn't really see, but it looked like
23:08
Speaker 3: a person walking past. It was coming from a room
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Speaker 3: down the hall. Then, the camera went out. Nobody was
23:18
Speaker 3: supposed to be in that room at this time. I
23:22
Speaker 3: decided to go over and check it out. When I
23:25
Speaker 3: got to the room, it appeared to be empty. I
23:29
Speaker 3: did see tape covering the camera, that was on the
23:31
Speaker 3: wall though. That room connected to another room and so
23:36
Speaker 3: I walked into there to see. That's when I saw
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Speaker 3: a man that was dressed in all black. He turned
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Speaker 3: and looked at me and was about 15 feet away.
23:48
Speaker 3: We stared at each other for about a second and
23:50
Speaker 3: I was about to speak but then he charged at me.
23:54
Speaker 3: I prepared myself to take him on but right before
23:58
Speaker 3: he got about 5 feet away from me He stopped, turned,
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Speaker 3: and went the other direction.
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Speaker 2: I told him to stop.
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Speaker 3: Instead, he ran for the window and jumped out of
24:09
Speaker 3: it and ran away. I chased after, but when I
24:13
Speaker 3: got to the window, he was long gone. As it
24:18
Speaker 3: turns out, the man had broken in through the window.
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Speaker 3: What his plans were once he got inside, I really
24:24
Speaker 3: don't know. All I know is that it was the
24:28
Speaker 3: weirdest and most bizarre thing I have seen while working there.
24:41
Speaker 4: I worked at a museum a couple of years back,
24:44
Speaker 4: maybe a decade ago. I was a night shift security guard.
24:48
Speaker 4: It was as boring as you could imagine, but I
24:51
Speaker 4: desperately needed the money and it paid a few more
24:53
Speaker 4: dollars than any other job I could land, so... I
24:56
Speaker 4: figured why not. I remember landing a construction job a
25:00
Speaker 4: year into working this night shift security job. I enjoyed
25:03
Speaker 4: construction a lot more and I desperately needed to get
25:06
Speaker 4: my life back on track. Being on night shift really
25:09
Speaker 4: messed with my mood and general well-being. The construction job
25:13
Speaker 4: I got had roughly the same pay so it was
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Speaker 4: a no-brainer even if I had to do a little
25:17
Speaker 4: bit more manual labor. As much as I dislike the
25:21
Speaker 4: job itself, I really liked all the people that worked
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Speaker 4: at that museum. They were actually really cool. I went
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Speaker 4: ahead and gave them my two weeks notice and told
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Speaker 4: them that I would stick around for as long as
25:32
Speaker 4: they needed me to find a replacement. They hired some
25:35
Speaker 4: skinny pale guy named Justin. When I first met him,
25:39
Speaker 4: he seemed like he was a decent enough guy. After all,
25:43
Speaker 4: it really wasn't my problem once I left. After a
25:46
Speaker 4: couple of shifts with him though, I noticed that he
25:49
Speaker 4: was an extremely awkward and very strange person. He did
25:53
Speaker 4: this thing where he would change the tone of his
25:55
Speaker 4: voice mid-sentence. It was really strange, and it almost made
25:59
Speaker 4: me feel like he had some kind of mental issue.
26:02
Speaker 4: Trust me, I wasn't being judgmental or anything, and if
26:05
Speaker 4: you heard it yourself, you would probably have had the
26:07
Speaker 4: same concern. Not that I thought that he was dangerous
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Speaker 4: or anything, just a little out there with a possible
26:14
Speaker 4: mental illness. Maybe even a speech impediment. But anyway, it
26:18
Speaker 4: was my third or fourth shift training him, and it
26:21
Speaker 4: was an ordinary night just like any other. As weird
26:24
Speaker 4: as he may have been, he seemed somewhat depressed or sad.
26:28
Speaker 4: I caught on pretty easily, as he didn't make much
26:31
Speaker 4: of an effort to conceal it. We were making the
26:34
Speaker 4: usual trip throughout the entire museum, which was honestly a
26:36
Speaker 4: pretty long walk. We were probably about ten minutes into
26:40
Speaker 4: it when I finally just asked him why he seemed
26:42
Speaker 4: so sad. He told me that he was really lonely
26:45
Speaker 4: and couldn't get a girlfriend. Again, if you had one
26:49
Speaker 4: look at this guy, you would probably understand why he
26:51
Speaker 4: couldn't get a girlfriend. let alone his weird personality. I
26:56
Speaker 4: tried telling him that there were plenty of fish in
26:58
Speaker 4: the sea and that he could probably have some luck
27:01
Speaker 4: on the internet. Online dating wasn't as big back then, though.
27:05
Speaker 4: He kind of shrugged his shoulders and just continued being sad.
27:09
Speaker 3: Whatever.
27:10
Speaker 4: I didn't know what else I could tell him. After
27:12
Speaker 4: that point, it became gradually weirder and weirder with each
27:15
Speaker 4: passing night. It was really strange. For instance... he would
27:20
Speaker 4: start going on these massive monologues about the most random
27:23
Speaker 4: things in the world. I only had to stay for
27:26
Speaker 4: a couple more shifts, but it honestly became really intolerable
27:29
Speaker 4: being around this guy. There was one night where he
27:33
Speaker 4: talked for at least 15 entire minutes about the environmental
27:36
Speaker 4: harm of pizza crust. Yes, literally pizza crust. It made
27:42
Speaker 4: absolutely no sense in the world. I tried interrupting him
27:45
Speaker 4: a couple of times to ask what was up, but
27:48
Speaker 4: He just cut me off and even started ignoring me
27:50
Speaker 4: after a certain point. When you are completely alone in
27:53
Speaker 4: a massive building with one other person trust me when
27:57
Speaker 4: I say that their mental well-being is very important. I
28:02
Speaker 4: gradually began feeling more and more unsafe in the presence
28:04
Speaker 4: of this weird guy. Justin just seemed like he was
28:07
Speaker 4: going crazy or something. Thankfully my entire shift with him
28:12
Speaker 4: went by decently enough. It was still awkward and moderately
28:15
Speaker 4: unbearable but it was at least over I started my
28:19
Speaker 4: new job and everything seemed to be going really well.
28:22
Speaker 4: I had completely forgotten about Justin and life seemed to
28:24
Speaker 4: move on. I didn't really think about that security job
28:28
Speaker 4: anymore at all. That was until I heard about an
28:31
Speaker 4: interesting story from my friend a few months later. I
28:35
Speaker 4: still kept in touch with a few people from the
28:37
Speaker 4: museum that worked there during the day. We were only
28:40
Speaker 4: Facebook friends, but that was enough for me. One of
28:43
Speaker 4: them messaged me to ask me what I thought about
28:46
Speaker 4: that guy Justin that replaced me. I was honest with
28:50
Speaker 4: her and told her that I thought Justin was really
28:52
Speaker 4: strange and possibly insane or something. And she typed back,
28:56
Speaker 4: You're going to love this then. She then proceeded to
29:00
Speaker 4: tell me about Justin being fired for completely destroying an
29:03
Speaker 4: entire exhibit on night shift. I guess they came in
29:06
Speaker 4: at the morning shift and found him trying to put
29:09
Speaker 4: it back together. They watched the security footage and this
29:12
Speaker 4: guy literally tried to fight a dinosaur skeleton. I guess
29:17
Speaker 4: he had been acting really weird that night judging by
29:19
Speaker 4: what she had told me about the rest of the
29:21
Speaker 4: security footage, but the interesting part of the story is
29:24
Speaker 4: that they somehow found out he was on anti-psychotic medication.
29:29
Speaker 4: They figured that he probably had stopped taking his medication.
29:34
Speaker 4: That was all my friend knew, and that's all I know.
29:37
Speaker 4: It's really scary how people can stop taking their very
29:40
Speaker 4: necessary medication on a whim, and then potentially have a
29:44
Speaker 4: complete mental breakdown. I started wondering if he had been
29:49
Speaker 4: off his meds when I first met him. All I
29:52
Speaker 4: know is that I'm kind of happy I don't ever
29:54
Speaker 4: have to see Justin again.