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Caught in the Crossfire of Chaos - Scary Paranormal Story · Shallow Nights: Scary Bedtime Stories

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  It was a typical boring day in calculus, only it was Friday 7th
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  period, meaning the week was almost over and spring break
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  would finally be upon us, so everybody was getting antsy in
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  their seats. I could tell we didn't have a
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  test that day like a lot of my friends did with their other
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  teachers. So our teacher in the middle of
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  class just decided to start playing games with us on
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  sporkle.com. He was a very laid back teacher
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  like that. As we were doing some brand logo
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  quiz on Sporkle, I remember the exact moment it happened.
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  Right after my friend answered a question.
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  I remember the exact answer to Adidas.
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  The Dean's voice came through the loudspeaker.
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  He sounded panicked and frantic as he told all the teachers this
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  was not a drill and to go into lock down.
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  I actually got the chills and I got goosebumps on my arms as our
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  usually laid back teacher too seemed panicked as he ran to
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  turn off the lights and ushered us to the back corner of the
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  room. We all sat in silence for about
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  two minutes and then the usual buzzing that came from a panel
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  in the back of the room seized indicating that the school must
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  have cut all the power. We all looked at each other
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  realizing this must be serious. A few more minutes of waiting
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  later we heard a man screaming at the top of his lungs coming
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  down the hallway. 2 girls in the class actually started crying
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  which made all of us even more scared.
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  As the screaming got closer to the classroom, the lunatic
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  sounding man started banging on the lockers while screaming.
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  I'll kill all of you. It was at that moment that I
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  started to fear for my life. My teacher shushed us as we all
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  looked at each other to see our peers reactions.
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  The banging then moved from the lockers to our classroom door
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  and that's when one of the crying girls screamed no.
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  The banging on the door only grew worse as the man started
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  screaming open up. Two of the girls in the class
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  were crying out loud now. It felt like an eternity that
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  that man was pounding at the door, but eventually he finally
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  continued down the hallway screaming like a mentally insane
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  person until we could not hear him anymore.
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  I'd say 10 minutes later though it felt like half an hour given
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  the situation. The Dean came back on the
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  loudspeaker explaining the situation, which was surprising
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  for him to do. He explained that some
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  apparently mentally unstable person entered the building and
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  assaulted the woman sitting at the front desk, causing her to
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  flee the building screaming and staff wasn't sure if the man was
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  armed or not. Now this was before the school
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  had cameras or could afford proper security, so the school
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  was wide open to something like this happening.
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  The staff had done a sweep of all the hallways and classrooms
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  and couldn't find him. So the Dean instructed the
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  teachers to resume teaching but to keep all the doors locked and
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  to not let any students leave for any reasons.
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  The most disturbing part, however, is that one of the
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  janitors working the night shift found the man sleeping in one of
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  the storage closets near the back end of the school, and
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  according to rumors that were spread by my peers, sticking out
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  of his pocket was a 44 Magnum. The janitor must have done
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  something stupid to wake him up, for example, leaving the closet
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  door open, because by the time a police officer could arrive on
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  the scene, the man was gone. My entire class as far as I know
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  to this day has no idea if this man was ever found, but I like
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  to think that right now he's being given the proper help that
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  he needs. I'm 22 years old, fresh out of
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  college, and I recently got a job at my old high school as a
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  sort of computer intern in the school basement.
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  The basement of the school is very messy and disorganized, but
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  there is a small three person office that's actually very nice
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  down there. It has three nice big desks, 2
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  mini fridges, a flat screen TV mounted on the wall, and also
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  satisfying air conditioning, a luxury the students and teachers
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  cannot enjoy in the school. And of course all the school
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  servers and other computer Y stuff.
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  I got the job because three of my old computer teachers flat
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  out adored me. I could actually consider them
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  as real friends, not just teacher figures, so they all
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  helped tremendously in lending me this job.
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  It's been great until something that happened a few weeks ago.
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  My 2 Co workers that shared the office with me, Dave and Gary
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  weren't in the office at the time.
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  They were upstairs working on papers or whatever.
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  I was eating my sandwich during my lunch break when I got a
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  phone call from one of the women in the front office telling me
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  the school was on lockdown and that somebody, possibly armed,
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  had entered the school. There wasn't much that I could
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  do other than turn off the lights, because surprisingly, as
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  nice as this little office was, it didn't have an actual door to
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  it, just a big opening, and the door to the whole basement
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  didn't even have a working lock. For my own safety, I did turn
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  off all the lights in the office and my computer screen.
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  I kept my phone on the desk, texting both Gary and Dave, but
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  they wouldn't respond. I sat down there in the dark,
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  playing games on my phone for like 20 minutes, waiting for the
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  call from upfront to tell me to resume working.
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  I had no idea what was happening.
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  I couldn't hear what was going on upstairs from down here, but
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  I was not allowed to make any calls until I was informed that
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  the lockdown was over. Then the noisy basement door
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  opened as the creaking echoed across the basement and into my
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  office. I sat up for my seat, wondering
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  if I should call out Gary or Dave.
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  I was eager to get some info from them.
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  Someone then came running down the stairs and their footsteps
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  were approaching my office. I pushed away my chair and
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  crawled under my desk. Somebody entered the office but
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  did not turn on the lights. There was just silence.
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  I can't even describe the fear I was experiencing.
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  I felt like if I made one sudden noise I'd be a dead man.
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  Suddenly my phone dinged as I got a text message.
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  I felt my entire world shrivel up and die at that one moment as
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  I clenched my teeth in fear. Footsteps suddenly moved closer
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  to me until I finally dove out from under the desk in
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  capitulation, begging whoever it was not to kill me.
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  And just then someone grabbed my arm and pulled me up.
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  It was some guy in a red Plaid button up, jeans and a reddish
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  black cap. He told me it's OK, I'm just
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  down here hiding with you. What's going on up there?
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  I whispered to him. He kind of ignored my question
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  and asked me if there's an exit down here.
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  I told him yeah, around that way.
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  Before he could do anything else, I asked him who are you?
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  There was a brief moment of silence before he started
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  explaining. He was coming in to pick up his
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  son when a teacher told him to hide.
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  After his explanation, I checked my phone and saw the text I
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  received was from Dave. It said.
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  Dude this is fucking crazy. Some guy with a gun shot Mr.
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  Buckley. He's wearing a red shirt and a
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  hat. Whatever you do, don't come
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  upstairs. I was about to reread that text
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  out loud to the man until I realized I looked up and felt my
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  stomach sink. The man seemed to catch on to my
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  suspicious stare. Panicking, all I could think to
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  do was to run for the upstairs. A gunshot echoed through the
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  basement and I could hear the bullet ricochet off something
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  metal in the darkness. But thank God the bullet missed
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  me and I made it upstairs. Fortunately, police were waiting
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  at all exits, including the basement exit, and caught the
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  man the second he opened the door.
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  More good news. Our teacher, Mr. Buckley,
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  survived the gunshot. It was later determined that the
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  man and Mr. Buckley had some beef for whatever reason, but
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  that was never revealed. All we know is that Mister
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  Buckley couldn't have done anything that would have
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  warranted this kind of reaction, and I know that the sound of
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  that gunshot will forever echo in my mind.