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3 True Night Shift Alone at Work Horror Stories (Vol. 3) That Will Make You Fear the Dark · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: It was just past eleven PM, and I was in
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  Speaker 1: the back room of our building moving boxes around. It
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: was just a regular hardware store and I was an
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  Speaker 1: overnight stocker there. My other coworker that I usually work
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: with was on vacation, so it was just me for
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: the night. I didn't mind, though, because people always expect
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  Speaker 1: less from you when you're left alone to do all
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: the work, so if anything didn't get done, it wouldn't
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: really matter. I was working slowly, taking my time. All
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  Speaker 1: the deliveries that came in during the day needed to
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  Speaker 1: be put by the aisles where they belonged, so I
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: was just breaking down the pallettes and putting boxes on
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  Speaker 1: carts that I would then roll into the main shopping
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  Speaker 1: area and stock the boxes from there. Once I had
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  Speaker 1: filled a few carts, I grabbed one and pushed it
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  Speaker 1: to the aisle on the far left. It was raining
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  Speaker 1: or maybe even storming pretty heavily outside. Though through the rain,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I heard something from the front of the building.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really care, not even crossing my mind for
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  Speaker 1: a second that it was anything other than the building
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  Speaker 1: making noises. I took a few boxes and started stocking,
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  Speaker 1: humming to myself to save me from the boredom. But
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  Speaker 1: then again I thought I heard something. I walked down
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  Speaker 1: to the front of the store and looked all the
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  Speaker 1: way at the other end, where the front door was.
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  Speaker 1: There didn't seem to be anything or anyone. I stayed
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  Speaker 1: there for a little bit, again in no rush to work,
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  Speaker 1: and then it happened again. I could have sworn this
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  Speaker 1: time that I saw something moving by the front door,
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  Speaker 1: and that was where the sounds seemed to come from.
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  Speaker 1: Being in my place of work with all the doors locked,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't really afraid of anything, but more just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make sure nothing strange was going on outside. I
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  Speaker 1: went up to the front door and looked out the glass,
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  Speaker 1: which I noticed had huge smudges and scratches on them.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing was outside, no cars or people, just heavy rain
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  Speaker 1: pouring down. I turned and started walking away back to
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  Speaker 1: where I was working. It was quiet for a while,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a whole hour even, but then the sound came
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  Speaker 1: again from the front door. I dropped what I was
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  Speaker 1: doing immediately and walked back to the front, and from
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  Speaker 1: across the store I could for sure make out a
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  Speaker 1: figure moving around outside the door. I began walking closer
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  Speaker 1: before the figure stopped, stood still for a second, then
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  Speaker 1: ran away. I ran up to the door, trying to
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  Speaker 1: catch a glimpse of the person, but it was too
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  Speaker 1: dark and rainy. Looking at the door, though there were
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: definitely more marks on it than there was before, I
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  Speaker 1: was confident that this person was trying to break in.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: I pulled out my phone, still standing by the door,
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  Speaker 1: and called the police. The operator said it wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: too long, just a few minutes. I put my phone
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  Speaker 1: back in my pocket and waited by the door, looking around.
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  Speaker 1: The parking lot was still empty. But then I turned
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  Speaker 1: my head to look against the building, and on the
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  Speaker 1: very side was that same figure. I backed away quickly,
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  Speaker 1: worried that he may have seen me. I took several
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  Speaker 1: steps back and tried to be quiet. Not even ten
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  Speaker 1: seconds later, the figure appeared right outside the door. While
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  Speaker 1: the glass was somewhat foggy and had rain drops all
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  Speaker 1: over it, I could tell he was looking at me.
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  Speaker 1: He slammed something against the window. He looked like maybe
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  Speaker 1: a large rock. Then he hit it again and again,
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  Speaker 1: trying to break the glass. I backed away quicker and
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  Speaker 1: ran to the back of the store, locking myself in
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  Speaker 1: the office through the building. I heard the glass shatter
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  Speaker 1: and the alarm by the door go off. I waited
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  Speaker 1: in fear, hearing nothing else. A few minutes of silence passed,
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  Speaker 1: and I was growing more and more nervous, until the
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  Speaker 1: police finally showed up. I heard them call out, then
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  Speaker 1: walk around searching the place before they got to the office,
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  Speaker 1: where I identified myself and told them what I knew.
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  Speaker 1: The guy wasn't in the store, so I guess after
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  Speaker 1: he broke the glass, he just left. It seems really
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  Speaker 1: weird and doesn't make any sense. Part of me even
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  Speaker 1: wishes that he had actually stolen something, so that i'd
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  Speaker 1: at least know that that was what he was after.
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  Speaker 1: But given he didn't do anything after breaking down the door,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what he wanted, and that is what
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  Speaker 1: still scares me to this day. I used to be
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  Speaker 1: a bus driver for the local suburban kindergarten and elementary schools.
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  Speaker 1: After nearly fifteen years, I retired from that job and
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  Speaker 1: started driving for the buses in the city where I lived.
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  Speaker 1: I loved my job driving kids around, but as I
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  Speaker 1: got older, it became more difficult for me to put
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  Speaker 1: on a smiling face every day and interact with energetic
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  Speaker 1: and chaotic children driving in the city. The bus lot
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  Speaker 1: was only a ten minute walk from my apartment, and
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  Speaker 1: the passengers would mostly just get in and out. While
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  Speaker 1: the actual driving part of the job was more stressful,
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  Speaker 1: I still felt a sense of relief compared to before. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the city bus company I worked for had buses running
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to seven, though at night they only have
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  Speaker 1: a few buses out and they would just run longer routes.
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  Speaker 1: Few drivers actually one of these shifts, so all of
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  Speaker 1: us day drivers were forced to do two night shifts
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  Speaker 1: every other week. It wasn't horrible aside from it messing
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  Speaker 1: up my sleep schedule. They were less passengers and the
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  Speaker 1: roads were more empty, so the job was much more
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  Speaker 1: relaxing than it was during the day. It was somewhere
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  Speaker 1: between two and three am this night, and nobody was out.
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  Speaker 1: I drove my normal route several times over the course
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  Speaker 1: of an hour, and not a single person needed a ride.
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  Speaker 1: I maybe only saw four or five people total, even
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  Speaker 1: walking outside. I pulled up to the last stop of
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  Speaker 1: the route and parked, not to pick anyone up, but
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  Speaker 1: just to take a quick break. While it wasn't busy,
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  Speaker 1: I leaned my head on the back of the seat
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  Speaker 1: and closed my eyes to rest them. I was being
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  Speaker 1: sure not to fall asleep, but soon a knock came
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  Speaker 1: at the door. My eyes shot open as I was
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  Speaker 1: startled by the sudden noise. An older man was standing
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  Speaker 1: at the door looking at me. I made a nervous
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  Speaker 1: and awkward smile, then opened the door. He stepped in
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  Speaker 1: and scanned his bus pass, then went to the very
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  Speaker 1: back of the bus and sat down. Nobody else is out,
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  Speaker 1: so I can drop you off wherever you need, I yelled,
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  Speaker 1: turning my head slightly towards the back. There was a
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  Speaker 1: really awkward few seconds before I turned back forward and
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  Speaker 1: started on the road again. I thought he might have
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  Speaker 1: had earbuds in or something, so I was just going
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  Speaker 1: to do it the hard way and stop at every
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  Speaker 1: bus stop along the route like I was supposed to.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: Over the course of the drive, I constantly checked the mirror,
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: seeing the man just sitting in the back staring ahead.
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  Speaker 1: It was odd behavior, but who knows what these people
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  Speaker 1: have on their minds. At three am, I pulled up
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  Speaker 1: to every stop on the route and was approaching the
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  Speaker 1: last two, wondering when this man was going to get off.
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  Speaker 1: After these, it just loops back around to where I
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  Speaker 1: picked him up. When I stopped at the next spot,
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  Speaker 1: I put the bus in park and looked at the
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  Speaker 1: man in the mirror. After a second, he got up.
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  Speaker 1: He began walking down the aisle, but the way he
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  Speaker 1: was staring at the floor was really unusual. As he
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  Speaker 1: got closer, I turned my body around and could see
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  Speaker 1: his face. It was full of anger and rage. I
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  Speaker 1: tried to act normal, turning my face to the road again,
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  Speaker 1: but the guy stopped right next to me. I looked
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  Speaker 1: over and he was staring down at me. Is everything okay?
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: The man continued staring, but then he looked away and
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  Speaker 1: walked back down the aisle and sat down. This was
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  Speaker 1: the point where I knew something was very wrong, and
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  Speaker 1: I started to worry. After a moment, I put the
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  Speaker 1: bus back in drive and headed to the next and
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  Speaker 1: final stop. When we arrived, I put it in park
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  Speaker 1: and waited. There was a sort of tension in this
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  Speaker 1: moment that was hard to describe. I looked ahead at
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  Speaker 1: the empty roads and sidewalks. Then the man got up
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  Speaker 1: and walked quickly down the aisle. He approached me, but
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  Speaker 1: this time he shoved me against the side window and
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  Speaker 1: held a gun against my head, looking him in the eyes.
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  Speaker 1: He had that same look as before, crazed, anger and
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  Speaker 1: ra I didn't know why or what he wanted from me,
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  Speaker 1: but I was sure he was going to pull that trigger.
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  Speaker 1: The man didn't say anything, He just tensed up and
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  Speaker 1: pushed the gun against my head even harder, still staring
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  Speaker 1: me in the eyes. Then he opened his mouth wide
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  Speaker 1: and screamed right in my face, just a painfully loud,
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  Speaker 1: angry scream. Then he let go, backed up and walked out.
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  Speaker 1: I closed the door quickly and drove away. I called
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  Speaker 1: the police as soon as possible, knowing that his bus
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  Speaker 1: pass would have his identity in the system. An officer
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  Speaker 1: was sent to where I dropped the man off, while
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  Speaker 1: one came to where I was to get more information.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: A couple days later, they showed me a picture of
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  Speaker 1: the man who was on the bus pass that the
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  Speaker 1: stranger had used, but it was a completely different person.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, oh what kind of sick mind that
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  Speaker 1: man had or what he wanted from me, but that
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  Speaker 1: was the most unusual, disturbing and creepy encounter I've ever had,
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: and we'll probably ever have I worked at a library.
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  Speaker 1: In my mid twenties up until my early thirties, I
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  Speaker 1: worked over night shifts there as a stocker and reorganizer.
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  Speaker 1: When I applied, I was told i'd be working midshifts,
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  Speaker 1: but a few months later they decided to open a
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  Speaker 1: new overnight position. This place was huge and was an
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  Speaker 1: old stone building in the center of town repurposed into
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  Speaker 1: a library. Being so large, though, stocking and reorganizing the
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  Speaker 1: books became too much for US employees to do consistently
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  Speaker 1: throughout the day. Nobody wanted to do the night shift, though,
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  Speaker 1: mainly because they only opened a single position, meaning whoever
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  Speaker 1: it was would be alone all night. I really didn't
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: I want to do it either, but they offered to
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  Speaker 1: increase pay by two dollars per hour for overnight shifts.
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  Speaker 1: That was a big deal for me at the time,
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  Speaker 1: so I took it. A few months in everything was
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  Speaker 1: going well. Even though I was technically doing the same
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  Speaker 1: job as I was when I worked midshifts, it was
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  Speaker 1: a completely different job. I didn't have to interact with customers,
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  Speaker 1: waste time helping them or anything. I just did my work,
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  Speaker 1: listen to music, and nobody bothered me. Over the following months, though,
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  Speaker 1: I strangely started to become less and less comfortable while working.
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  Speaker 1: It was weird because I figured I should be getting
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: more comfortable as time went on, but I began thinking
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  Speaker 1: about how old the building was, and it kind of
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  Speaker 1: creeped me out. Sometimes I'd look up from the bookshelf
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  Speaker 1: and see the empty dark room with what felt like
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of aals where anything could be hiding. I'd pull
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  Speaker 1: my headphones out and listen, hearing nothing but silence, which
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  Speaker 1: for some reason made me feel even more creeped out.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: But then one night, when I was doing my usual
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: listening to music and stocking, I heard something from the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the large room. I stopped moving for
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: a moment as it registered in my head that I
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: did actually hear something. Then I pulled out my headphones
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  Speaker 1: and looked up. I kind of just stood there for
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes, scared to move. I was waiting for
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: something else to happen, but nothing ever did, so I
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: went back to my work. This time I left my
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: headphones out though I finished rearranging the shelf. Then I
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: rolled my cart to the back to grab all the
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: book returns. But that's when I heard it again, this
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  Speaker 1: time with my headphones away. I could confirm it was
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  Speaker 1: inside the building, and I could tell it was the
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: sound of something falling on the ground. It might have
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: sounded just like a small book hitting the floor, but
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  Speaker 1: in such a large, quiet room it echoed loudly. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I froze and just stared in the direction I heard
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  Speaker 1: the sound coming from. Considering the building was full of books,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't seem unlikely for a couple books to fall
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  Speaker 1: down randomly, But that didn't really make me feel any
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  Speaker 1: more comfort. Something felt off, like I was being watched.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: My head started doing that thing again, going through every
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  Speaker 1: reason to be scared of the place, and I was
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: trying really hard not to panic. I knew the likelihood
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  Speaker 1: of it just being a book falling off the shelf
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  Speaker 1: was high, and I also knew that I'd often get
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: into my head and scare myself for no reason. So
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  Speaker 1: I got myself to walk over in check. I walked
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  Speaker 1: slowly through the aisles of bookshelves, looking down each one.
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: I got to the very last aisle. There was nothing,
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  Speaker 1: not a book or anything down any of the aisles.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: The panic started to come up in my head again.
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  Speaker 1: I turned around and my heart stopped. Someone was standing
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  Speaker 1: by the door leading to the back storage room. They
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: were in the far corner, as if trying to hide
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: against the wall, but I could tell they were watching me.
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  Speaker 1: I resisted every urge in my body to scream and run.
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  Speaker 1: I looked away, walked back down the aisles, unlocked the
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  Speaker 1: front door, and walked out. As soon as the door
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  Speaker 1: closed behind me, I sprinted around the back of the
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  Speaker 1: building to my car and locked myself inside, then called
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: the police. I was shaking and crying when they arrived.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: I came to the front of the building and waited
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  Speaker 1: while two of them searched inside, but they came out alone.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently they didn't find anyone. My mind immediately thought of
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  Speaker 1: how I should have locked the front door after I
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: got out, but I was so afraid I didn't even
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: think about it. My manager had us do a stock
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: count and everything in the following days, but nothing seemed
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: to be out of the ordinary, no large amounts of
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: stock missing. It made everyone question why the person was
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: in the building, or if there even was a person
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  Speaker 1: at all. It really sucks because a lot of my
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: coworkers thought that it was just some weird trick to
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: get me out of working night shifts. I know what
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: I heard though there was no mistake, and I know
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  Speaker 1: what I saw too. Despite that horrifying night, I still
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: kept my job. They were nice enough to let me
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: do midshifts for a month before going back to nights.
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  Speaker 1: After that, though nothing else ever happened, I'm just left
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  Speaker 1: with the mystery of what that man was trying to do.