SCARIEST STORIES FROM THE NIGHT SHIFT

Reddit asked the question, “Night shift workers, what’s the creepiest thing that’s happened to you?” Some of the responses:
– “I was working in a 35-story high-rise building. I was exhausted, could barely stay awake. As I approached the elevator, I noticed the door was open. I was happy that I didn’t need to wait so I started walking faster until I realized there was no elevator car – and it was a 10-story drop.”
– “I used to clean a church alone late at night. There was a piano upstairs in the attic. One night I started hearing piano music from the attic, so I immediately assumed someone was up there pranking me. But I went up and didn’t see anyone.”
– “I used to be an executive director of a family science museum. We once hosted a human cadaver type exhibit (similar to Body Worlds). Three times during the exhibit run, in the middle of the night, the alarm company called me to say motion sensors are going off in that exhibit hall. Three times I had to get out of bed, drive to the museum, and walk the exhibit floor amongst the posed cadavers and specimens with a flashlight to confirm all was well. Never found anything.”
– “Night shift on an ambulance… Thanksgiving 2016. I got called out for a suicide. We run the call, do what we do, and head back to the station. As I’m pulling into the spot, the electronics in the cab go nuts. Radio starts changing stations, dash lights dim off and on, and cab lights flicker. Me and my partner freaked out, and as we bailed, the truck shut off. We went to check the key, and it was still on.”
– “I worked nights driving a taxi, and occasionally I’d take a nap waiting for a job. I was waiting at a hospital since the hospital would give patients vouchers to go to another hospital or a shelter. I woke up and someone was sitting in the back seat – I’d forgotten to lock the doors. The guy admitted he’d been sitting there for a bit but didn’t know what to do since I was napping.”
– “I was working remotely, it was late at night, and I was alone in my house working. Something felt strange, so I went about checking the security cameras — and saw the rocking chair of a recently passed relative rocking alone on its own in the living room.”
– “I worked at a big box toy store. One night, I was stocking the board games section. I left the section to stock another part of the store when I heard a loud crash of several board games falling to the floor. I walked back to the board game aisles and found that every single box had fallen off the shelf. All but one…a single Ouija board, sitting alone on the shelf.” (* Oh, please! The guy’s just a bad stacker! Gimme a break!)
– “I worked at a grocery store, and it was in a bad neighborhood. So periodically I’d go to the front and check my car. Well one night as I was up front, every register started turning on and off rapidly. And the receipt machines started going crazy, like they were trying to print but nothing was coming out. I literally said, ‘Nope’ — and turned around and went to the back to continue work.”
* Nothing good ever happens after 11 pm, my dad used to say.
* Night Shift? This is more like “Night Gallery.”
* And every one of these really happened, you betcha.
* PHONE TOPIC: What’s your weird Night Shift story?