A Rogue Pager Went Off Repeatedly Despite Being Unplugged
[ranking: 17]
From Redditor /u/anewatcher:
I work nights in a large warehouse-like store. It's just me and two others in the store at any given time. We used to have buttons all over the store that would page for help for our customers. I've been working at this location for five years and the supervisor for three of those years.
Once a year we will have one go off, and these things are not plugged in at all. The owners removed from the system in my first three weeks. They still go off sometimes.
A Late-Night Professional Heard Sounds Coming From Upstairs
[ranking: 21]
From Redditor /u/LeJack37:
I've been working in my trade for about 20 years. It can be difficult to focus when all the young bucks are asking you questions and blaring terrible music, so I tend to start work when everyone else leaves for the night. I started hearing sounds upstairs like people talking/walking/opening doors. I dismissed it as my imagination for a few days, but it got to be too much to ignore, so I started investigating when I would hear things.
Never found anything, thought I was going crazy though. Turns out, one of the guys that lived near the shop made a hide-y hole nest up in the attic to hide from his girlfriend like some kinda dumb*ss phantom of the opera.
A Student In Alaska Was Nearly Trapped In A Snowstorm
[ranking: 9]
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.
They Found Out Later The Car Dealership Was Actually Haunted
[ranking: 12]
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.
A Morbid MP3 Selection Arrived On This Worker's iPod
[ranking: 13]
From Redditor /u/Cloverleaf66:
Worked alone evenings cleaning in a building by myself. Had been there about three years by this time...
I had on my headphones in the elevator and the song I was listening to abruptly stopped partway through, then "Stairway to Heaven" started to play. I didn??t even have "Stairway to Heaven on my MP3 player. It had never been on my MP3 player.
A Former Madhouse Was Invaded By Late-Night Trespassers
[ranking: 16]
From Redditor /u/warumbel:
I have a workspace in an old former madhouse, built by monks, which had been turned into a hospital for SS personnel in WWII. Lots of spooky history. A huge building with long hallways and a stern 1920's architecture. Brick archways, ugly sculptures of [long-gone] monks.
I usually work late, until 3 in the morning, and I am usually the last person to leave the building. One night in winter, I locked my room and went to the exit. All the lights were off and the wind was howling. Suddenly I heard the sound of running footsteps in the distance. Lots of running footsteps. Then it was quiet again. I went down some stairs, and there I saw little red lights blinking on the other side of a long dark hallway, just for a moment. Then they were gone.
I was pretty freaked out at this point; I walked faster in the direction of the exit. Then I heard those running footsteps again! I turned a corner and suddenly a bunch of kids was screaming in my face. Almost had a heart attack.
Turned out the kids were playing laser tag - they borrowed the keys to the building from one of their parents. They had these laser guns with red lights to shoot each other with and were chasing each other through the dark building. They thought the building was deserted and almost sh*t themselves when this big guy in a trench coat suddenly appeared in front of them.
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