Random People Who Work Alone Describe Their Creepiest Experiences On Job (21 items)

• (#16) An Office Worker Locked Themselves In When An Intruder Appeared

  From Redditor /u/sleepytimeghee:

  I work in a building that is high security because we have a lot of expensive equipment. If you want to get to my office you have to walk through four doors that require keycard access. It's very quiet and sterile. White Walls, nobody around, very little furniture, gray floors, open ceiling so you can see the ducts. Sounds echo here.

  I was working alone and noticed that there was a guy in the building. He was wearing the same shirt that maintenance wears, but it was weird because it was really late at night on a Saturday. He was also wearing jeans, and the maintenance people always wear black pants. He kind of gave me the creeps so I closed my office door and stayed there. I could hear the echo of him walking back-and-forth for a while. He tried the handle on my office door twice. I heard the beep of him try to open my office door with a keycard twice.

  It turns out that he didn't work there. He is the grown son of one of the workers and was walking around the building trying to steal stuff, but his dad's keycard won't open any offices because it's a handyman card with limited access (handymen have to make appointments and you have to let them in, unlike cleaning people or the techs maintaining the servers who can open any door). He got caught on camera and security checked to see whose card had tried to open the doors. The guy [got] a fine for trespassing and his dad got fired.
• (#17) A Janitor Learned He Had A Guest

  From Redditor /u/stapletowny:

  I used to work as a night janitor at a student union. Skirting tables for events was part of the gig. I was scanning my floor for what needed to be done that night and went into a room annex. Long thin room with one wall entirely made of glass facing the river.

  I approach a skirted table that's against the glass wall and hear snoring. Sounds funny though. I think it's on my radio. Assume someone fell asleep at work and rolled on the talk button. Standing there for a few seconds trying to figure it out, I realize there's a homeless man sleeping under the table. His snoring was climbing the glass window and bouncing off the ceiling that's why I couldn't figure out where the sound was coming from.

  If you've ever thought you were completely alone only to find out you're within arms distance from another a person, your body becomes one big goosebump and your butthole puckers tighter than a dolphin's. It was freaky.
• (#11) They Found Out Later The Car Dealership Was Actually Haunted

  From Redditor /u/SpicyCryptoGuy:

  This happened a few years ago when I was working at a car dealership.

  Our business had just moved into a new lot down the road and the cars were parked in an open-air parking garage. One way in and one way out with one set of stairs which was right by the entrance. So I'm hanging out at the entrance and I hear a car door slam. I found it strange since no cars had driven in and no one had gone up the stairs. So I start walking up the stairs and I hear another door slam shut. I'm thinking 'WTF is happening?' Next day I tell my coworkers what happened and they all think I'm just delusional.

  Fast forward a week later, I had to travel down the road to another dealership to pick up some parts. The dealership I went to had just moved out from where my company had moved in. I walk down to the parts department and grab my part. As I'm walking away, the guy behind the counter asks if I've worked the night shift yet at our new place. I told him I had and he quickly responded with "Be safe, that place is haunted." 

  I immediately got goosebumps and proceeded to tell him what I had experienced just a week prior. He said it was normal and you get used to it.

  Freaked me the f*ck out.
• (#2) A Toy Store Worker Freaked Out When The Local Ghost Responded To His Wager

  From Redditor /u/KINGCOOVER:

  My dad worked at the haunted Toys R Us in Sunnyvale CA. He worked as a night watchman back in the day to pay for school. Cool gig, got to sit around and study while being paid for doing next to nothing. Learned to juggle and play guitar too. 

  Weird stuff happened there all the time. Objects would fall off shelves as you walked past them, lights flickered on-and-off from time to time, noises from the other side of the hall, stuff like that.

  So there he was in a big mostly dark store, all by himself, thinking about the ghost. He said aloud, "if there is a ghost here, then that balloon, the red one in the middle of the roof will pop." Right as he finished the sentence, the balloon burst. Suffice to say he turned on all the lights in the building and got as close to a door as he could for the rest of the shift.
• (#9) A Student In Alaska Was Nearly Trapped In A Snowstorm

  From Redditor /u/OldGreySweater:

  Worked as a lab student in Alert, Nunavut (look it up, most northerly inhabited place in the world). I was there for my second term in January, so total darkness. The lab I worked at was an atmospheric lab so it was far from the main base, maybe five km. Around the lab, there were ‘lifelines’ leading to all of our instruments outside.

  However, on this particular Wednesday, which was flasking day, it was a little stormy but nothing too serious. Since I was the student I did all of the outside flasking, I loaded up a sleigh with evacuated flasks and would walk about 300m from the lab, open up the flasks, and then walk back to the lab. We then would send them south for analysis.

  Since we had to ensure that we got the best samples, we always had to walk into the wind. That means no lifeline. It was coming from a different direction every time. On this Wednesday I had my little headlamp, walked out, and pulled my sleigh into the darkness (the darkest dark). I was a couple hundred meters out and everything went dark. I turned around - the lab was gone, the station was gone, where we parked our truck was gone. I was alone, with only a headlamp and a sleigh of empty glass flasks.

  I panicked. I had no radio, no phone (not that they work up there anyway), and no clue where anything was. The wind was strong enough that I couldn’t even find my tracks. I accept my fate and just stay put, heart racing. This was it. This was how I die.

  After the longest two minutes of my life, the power comes back on.
• (#10) A Nature Photographer Possibly Heard A Murder

  From Redditor /u/USMC_MissileMan:

  I was photographing a waterfall in a deep basin. I was the only one in the basin. I was alone from 6 PM - 10:30 PM. The trail that comes in was right up against a rock face that went straight up and over 400 feet high. When I was heading back up there were bare wet human footprints up the stones of the trail. I got to a spot where I see muddy footprints leading into the brush.

  A few moments later I heard a blood-curdling scream from the same bushes. The sound to me sounded like a mountain lion. They are common in the area. I ran faster than I’ve ever run before. I called rangers to my mile marker and I’ve checked back since then. No missing persons reports have been filed, nor was anyone’s car in that area that night. Easily one of the scariest experiences I’ve had.

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