Reddit Nightshift Horror Stories

Lexi tells us stories she found on Reddit that deal with creepy night shift stories! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hey, it's Kayla and it's Lexi and it is Lexi day.
It's what you got. Okay, So today I'm actually going
back to my roots, like my personal roots, not the
podcast roots, with the topic that kind of started it
all for me in like horror podcasting. Well, I mean
I guess really what started it for me was Kayla going,

(00:42):
do you want to be on this podcast? But like
before that, like how I got into like listening to
horror podcasts is frightening night shift stories, sightings and encounters.
So because my brain was put together with spare parts,
I used to fall asleep reading scary stories that people
experienced on the job, like especially on night shift. Like

(01:03):
I would be on Reddit reading like scariest trucker stories,
scariest night shift police stories, and I'm like, oh, this
is it. This is what I want to fall asleep to.
And no, I would not have nightmares. I get that
question a lot. Again, brain is put together with spare parts,
so it's the rest of my body. But like the
brain is no exception. So if you've spoon in it. Exactly. Yeah. Actually,

(01:24):
right before we started recording this episode, Kayla informed me
that they did a study that apparently we all have
enough micro plastics in our brain for one spoon, and
that not like one spoon for all of us combined.
Like each of us gets our own brainspoon.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
You all get your own brainspoon for your brainspoon.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
That's how you feed him apple sauce. Oh my god,
the toxoplasma and they're eating soup. Yeah, we both work
in VetMed. We're just if we have a brain worm,
it's the toxoplasma brain worm. Is the toxic plasma brainworm.
We've accepted him, We've made friends with him, we've named him.

(02:04):
I did name my sleeprousees demon, but I did not,
in fact name my brainworm. I should probably give him
a name. Where was I in my script? Oh, if
you've ever worked to night gift, if you've ever worked
night shift, you know that there's something just like a
little bit off about it compared to day shift. And
it's not just like the general void of higher management,
like and even when you get used to it, there's
something still a little eerie about it. Like you've definitely.

(02:26):
I think done more night shift in your life than
I have. But like I've done night shift and like,
I don't know, it hits three in the morning and
thinks something's just not correct. I don't know how to
explain it. Yeah, I used to work.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
I worked two pm to two am for a while,
and then four pm to four am, and then noon
to midnight. And then I was like, can I please,
for the love of God, have day shift right there?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I do anye that I have, Oh, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I had to get a doctor's excuse in order to
work or day shift. I was like why and they're like,
just to see if like, just so you get off
night shift, you need a doctor's excuse.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
So I was like, okay, what the fuck? Whatever, Okay,
I mean whatever works. I mean I feel like if
you're chilling off with your doctor, they'll just write you
a note for anything. I I could not stand my
job I had when I was pregnant, and I was
pregnant in twenty twenty, which was like would not recommend
by the way, and so I was. I did not

(03:25):
like how my job was a treating me and be
handling COVID. So my one of my midwives wrote me
a joke that was like she ised to be on
early maternity leave. So like my last month of pregnancy,
I was literally at home on neopets. It was kind
of a vibe. It was awesome for health reasons. I
was at home on neopets. I had a stock portfolio

(03:45):
and everything.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Like.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
I was like, like, some people are like, oh, in
your last trimester, you'll nest, And I was like, does
is this nesting? Is this I have? I have a
real stock portfolio and a fake one in neo points
I mean neo nesting, neo nesting catch to catch me
buying index funds in the neo Dow Jones. This is
what I mean when I say my brain is put

(04:07):
together with spare parts. So I like, I I've you know,
I've spent some time working night shift. I worked three
thirty pm to three thirty am in like rural er.
That was weird. The things I saw were strange. I had.
I had a guy take his dog home one time
AMA for an ear laceration. He was like, I'm gonna
just put grease on it. We were like, sir, what
does that mean? And he's like, I just got a

(04:28):
bucket of grease I just put it on injuries and
we were like, don't do that, Like is it? Vaz
a Lean is like it's awkward, Like what is it?
Nea was born? And he's like, it just boocket of grease.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's not the worst I've heard, Ama, though, that is
not the worst.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's not the worst I've heard, but it's definitely the
funniest for me.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Oh, we had this one. He was a GDV so
for those who don't know the stomach flips. He wanted
to leave AMA and he was gonna make his dog
run in circles to unflip it. You've one of my
coworkers went on. They were like, you're dog, I will
literally die. I recommend you do not do that.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
And we're done with the episode because I can't take
it anymore. Well, he's gonna run in circles and flip.
Don't don't do that. That's like some TikTok ath medical advice.
I will never forget the one time that I stumbled
onto diy euthanasia TikTok and I was like, hey, you
guys shouldn't do this for like so many reasons, and
they were like, you just want our money, and I

(05:24):
was like I actually just don't want you to shoot yourself.
Please don't. Oh my god. Yeah, So that's a that's
I like how there's like specific niche talks, you know,
like there's there's RFK brainworm TikTok, there's a there's there's
DIY animal euthanasia TikTok. There's eating sloppy burritos in your

(05:46):
car TikTok. And that's like the most normal one and
of all I've named. So, even though I did I
did spend some time in night shift, I don't really
have anything like particularly frightening or were a normal to
report from the night shift. I definitely just had some
weird vibes. I've had some interesting occurrences, i e. Grease Guy.

(06:09):
But in fact, the scariest thing that actually happened to
me at work happened in broad daylight during the day shift.
We had an active shooter threat at one of my
prior hospitals and we were hiding out in the closet.
It was me, two other techs, a doctor, and an
Australian shepherd. We just were kind of posted up there
until the police game.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
My god, we had we had it wasn't a threat.
Someone said they were gonna bring their gun, and then
another lady overheard and she made us call the cops.
Oh we should have, but it wasn't like an active
I'm gonna shoot you.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
It was a weird situation. Yeah, yeah, I mean I
don't remember all the details of like mine, but it
was it was something similar to that. You and me
might actually be talking about the same incident, but yeah,
that was. And if we're not talking about the same incident,
it simply would not surprise me that that happened twice. Yeah,

(07:02):
because I think it happened to me before we worked
at the before we worked at the same place. So cool. Yeah,
so that's just happened multiple times. Neat love that. I
I know that you have some absolutely bonkers night shift stories.
I will never forget you and me working the night
shift together that one time and that guy came in drunk,
dropped off his dog and then just like fully left
and you had to call him and you were like

(07:23):
you need to come back.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, And the doctor was not happy with me for
quote unquote letting him leave, even though I was in
the back doing my job, and the guy was just like.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
He just left. What were you supposed to do that,
Like me, he had it out for me, like were
you supposed to Spider Man? Like, it's ridiculous, Okay, that's crazy.
So were you there for the guy that called and
basically was like, can you meet me at the gas
station for Kennedy Kellemy? Yes, okay, He's like I just.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Punched my girlfriend because she turned.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
To a zombie.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
We were like, oh god, we got to call the
cops now.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, and you know what shout out to like the
patient care coordinator that like thought on her feet and
basically was like, oh yeah, like we can meet you
at this gas station blah blah blah, while she like
wrote a note to the other receptionist that was like
call the police, tell them to come to this address.
So like very quick thinking on her part. But yeah,
I was hoping we would get into that today. So

(08:19):
for today's palate cleanser, since that's what I was assigned
to do. After an absolute doozy of an episode last week,
last last two, whatever last episode was, the time isn't real.
I'm going to be bringing you all a compilation of
all the best night shift horror stories I could find
from Reddit and the last time I did This was
when I did a compilation of urban exploration stories, so
I'm very excited to do this again. Is there a gnome,

(08:41):
I'm sorry, like in the background? Is that like, is
that just the way the light is shining, or is
there a happy little red gnome like on the vine
behind you that? Yes, shit, it's actually a gnome. Okay, great,
strap in, We're gonna bring the gnome. So I'm actually
going to start with some stories from nurses and other

(09:02):
medical or hospital staff, since, as we all know, hospitals
are haunted at af and medical staff see some wild things.
So the first story is from user La La Levato,
and this user said nineteen seventy nine, I was working
night shift as an LPN on a medical unit. Went
for my RN the next year and X shape unit

(09:26):
with one pediatrician three medical wings extended from the central
nurses station. The rooms were four bed, two bed and
single rooms. We would start at one end and work
as a team together making rounds through medical turning patients
and making sure everyone was clean and dry, etc. By
the time you finished the whole unit, it was time
to do it all over again. A light came on
in a four bedroom we had just been in not

(09:47):
twenty minutes before. I went back to see what they wanted,
and a gentleman told me that the guy in bed
one to the right of his door had died. I said,
we'd just turned him and he seemed okay at the time,
no signs of being near death. Sure enough, he was gone,
luckily a DNR, so no heroics, I attempt to. I
asked the other patient what made him suspect he had died,

(10:09):
and he said, quote, oh, two angels came and took
him away, and I watched them go, no, thank you,
like excuse me, and like the factory was so calm.
He's like, yeah, like I died.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
I watched the angels take him away, Like why are
you calm? You shouldn't be.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
That makes me think something bad happened. I don't do.
That doesn't sit well with me.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
The only reason I don't think something bad happened is because,
like apparently for people who work in like hospice care,
that kind of thing is so common. I don't like that,
except usually it's the person that's about to die. They're
like I see angels in my room and it's like, oh,
you had six hours.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard of that, like when it's the
person himself, not like the person next.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
To you right where your neighbor's like, oh yeah, I
see him too, and it's like, oh, like, are you
coming too, Like what are they picking you up next?
After they drop that guy off on the uber? Like
all right? The next one is from user equivalent War
twenty three seventy eight had a COVID patient but not
in the COVID floor, so she was scheduled in one
of our air worn rooms that already had a creepy

(11:09):
vibe to it. Just peeked my head in to check
on her, and this lady was standing in the corner
of the room, stiff as a board, just facing the wall.
Some paranormal activity. Shit scared the shit out of me.
Had to close the door and give myself a few minutes,
then brought a CNA in the room with me to
help get her back in bed. Creepiest part was the
bed alarm was on the whole time and never went off,
and it went off just fine when she tried to

(11:31):
crawl out of bed to use the bathroom in the morning,
So that one was short. Sweet. I wouldn't like that.
I would not like to walk in to see a
patient just you know, like Blair Witch Project. I'd be like, no,
I'm gonna I'm gonna give it three minutes and come back.
What that isn't happening. It's okay to take some time
to yourself, to take like three deep breaths before dealing
with whatever situation that is.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
There was a brief moment in time when I wanted
to be a human nurse. I'm really glad I didn't
do that. I gotta give it the human nurses like
I can't. I couldn't do it.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Still, I still would like it is something where I'm like,
you know what, Yeah, like I think I could do it,
but I feel like I would want to continue working
in surgery, you know, because like the patients aren't awake
to do stuff like that, like just put me in
the o R where there is deep so user making

(12:29):
it up as we go. Okay, had a COVID patient.
Oh no, this is terrible. I copy pasted the same
one twice and now I don't have this person's story
to tell you because while I was editing this script,

(12:49):
I just put the same one in there. I'm so
sorry making it up as we go, okay, I don't
have your story. Maybe I could find it, but that
might take me a while, so I might added in
in the next episode. As soon as I read had
a COVID patient but on the COVID floor, I was like, damn,
it will my bad guys.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
It was good the next one, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
I was working on writing this episode after like a
thirteen hour shift when I was I was at work
late with an emergency, so that it is what it is.
Luckily I have more so this one from user number
Chanelle number twenty two eighty two worked at a hospital
which had its foundation from early nineteen hundred to attached
to the ICU. This unit was separated from the main

(13:31):
ICU wings and was staffed with two nurses for four
to six beds. Many were stepped on ICU waiting to
be moved off unit. One night, the other nurse was
in front of me behind the counter and we were talking.
We had only three patients who were asleep at the
back end of the unit. We heard a lady scream.
We both looked at each other, Oh, no, how do
we not know we had a patient over there. We
both go over and that bed was completely empty. No

(13:52):
one was around, no explanation of where that scream came from.
At the end of the shift, we had to clock
out in the main ICU wing and told others what happened. Apparently,
very similar experiences had occurred several times, and they even
named the ghost. It would use the call light and
cause the bet alarm to go off every time. It
was from the same bed we heard the screen. Very bizarre.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
That bed needs an exorcism.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
I hate that. I know that would be so awful.
I cannot imagine. Like, Fortunately, I feel like VET hospitals
aren't like that haunted and it's like, okay, if it's
haunted by a cat, like who cares. It's just it's
just yeah, it's just not that creepy. You know, You're like, oh,
there's a cat in that room. Okay, what's it gonna do?
Per make biscuits? Like okay, knock something off the counter.

(14:36):
So this I gotta handle. This person's username user twidly Twat.
I work in a big old psychiatric hospital. One night
I was pulled upstairs to work on the detox unit.
Halfway through my shift, someone on staff has to go
room to room and checking all the patients every fifteen
minutes to make sure they're breathing, not in distress, et cetera.
I had just gotten on the unit. I wasn't sure

(14:56):
offhand which rooms are occupied, so I just walked by
all of them. One room had the bedroom lights off,
but the bathroom lights were on, and the bathroom door
was cracked open just slightly. I knocked and gripped the
door knob to open it, and something yanked on the
door and slammed it shut. I heard something banging on
the bathroom wall, like someone was punching it. I opened
the door and no one was in there. One of

(15:17):
the texts had been there for twenty plus years said
she knows at least one person died in that room
a number of years ago. I'm not in the least
bit superstitious or prone to believing in supernatural forces, but
fuck that floor. I would hate that. I tell you what,
I've met human psych nurses, and they are like, I
don't know how they do it. I mean, they are
just it just takes such a specific type of person,

(15:37):
and I feel like they are the chillest people you
will ever meet. Because I feel like, in order to
do that job, You've got to be cool as a cucumber,
because you're telling me you do not just have to
deal with your alive patients, you have to deal with
your past on psyche patients too. Like that's a lot.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah, that made me think. So I worked as a
janitor in a hospital and I had to clean I
had to go through this corridor it's like on the
bottom floor of a hospit I had to walk buy
all these rooms that were dark, with dark beds, dark chairs,
and I just kept thinking, I'm like, I'm going to
see something.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Whose days to day. I quit. Oh, that's terrifying. I
hate that. I did work at this one restaurant one
time where the bathroom upstairs. I and I'm not like
someone who's like scared of mirrors or anything like that.
I refused to look in the mirror, like at this
in the upstairs bathroom, like at the one restaurant I

(16:28):
worked at. It just I can't even explain it. It just
gave me this horrible feeling of dread, like if I
looked in the mirror, I was gonna see something other
than myself. Like I just I wouldn't do it. And
I worked there for years and I would refuse to
look in that mirror. And the restaurant was actually named
after the ghost that supposedly haunts the place, and basically
everyone who worked there had some sort of paranormal story.
I hated being upstairs alone, absolutely could not stand it,

(16:51):
and the bathroom was the worst. And like, nothing like
specific necessarily ever happened to me, But I just had
this like awful feeling whenever I was up there alone. Ye.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
No, I wouldn't trust that either didn't love it.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
So another post from a deleted user now deleted user
obligatory not me, but happened to someone I worked with
at a house I worked at. Used to work in
a group home for individuals with developmental disabilities. This home,
in particular was considered a high support home, as the
individuals were relatively aggressive and their needs were mostly behavioral.
The home itself was in the middle of nowhere, fifteen

(17:26):
minutes from the closest town, no cell reception really and
surrounded by forests. Aside from a couple other houses on
the road, there were two overnight staff usually want to
be awake and want to sleep and take turns. Anyways,
the staff told me about one night where they had
a noise coming from one of the people living in
the house's rooms. I guess that person had decided to
rip open a scab and use the blood to smear
all over the walls of their room. One staff went

(17:48):
to deal with the situation and the individual said, don't worry,
they're coming tonight. The other staff walked back out into
the open concept living room, kitchen, dining room to get
to the phone to call the on call supervisor to
let them know since this required a lot of documentation
and notifying the on call The staff noticed that the
sliding door was somehow a jar by about a foot,
even though they had just been in that room and
the door was closed and locked. When the other staff,

(18:11):
walking towards it went to close the door, the staff
noticed a wolf, coyote, koi wolf something was slowly lurking
on the porch towards the open door. They closed the
door and ended up calling the police because they didn't
know what the hell was going on. They had to
clean all the bloody hand smears off the wall, and
the individual didn't talk about it again. Just another overnight.
I straight up saw a coyote tonight. Also, like just

(18:34):
unrelated that happened. We were getting in the car and
my wife like looks out the window and she's like,
she's like, oh, I think there's a fox coming up
the road. And I look over and I see it,
and both about this at the same time. We're like,
that's not a fox, just a coyote just trotting towards us. Thankfully,
we weren't like out walking the dog or anything. It

(18:55):
wasn't like trotting towards us like it was. It was
our neighborhood backs up to the woods, and it was yeah,
and so I've seen that coyote before, but I usually
see it closer to the tree line, like by the tracks.
It looked completely like mentally appropriate. And it was like
after dark, like I think it was like seven o'clock
or something, and it was just sort of like trotting
up the road. And we just happened, like we got

(19:16):
in our car and we looked back. She's like, oh,
is that a fox? And it was just kind of
like running along like the neighbors, like through the neighbor's
yards and then sort of like ran into like a
wooded area off like it was. It wasn't acting like
abnormal or anything. It's just when my wife first looked,
she's like, oh, look a little fox, and I look
over and I'm like, oh, that's actually a big ass coyote.
She couldn't think of the word coyote. She was like,

(19:37):
it's a dingo, it's a zingo. And I was like, no,
it is. But I love your spirit. I can't give
her a hard time. One time, I tried to show
my mom a cool crab I saw on the beach,
and I couldn't think of the word for crab. I
literally like I was pointing out it and the word
crab was not coming to my brain. I was like, Mom,
look at the short lobster. It was the best idea.

(20:00):
Put yeup. So it was fun. There's just and i've
been I've been new if there was a coyote in
our neighborhood. There's you know, it's just just kinda there's
there's just wildlife and it's there. It's a little too
friendly because you know, it's it's it backs up into
the woods and it's such like we're so close to
downtown and like, so there's no hunting or anything that
goes on, so of course the deer populations thrive and

(20:22):
the deer aren't afraid of people, so the coyotes and
foxes aren't afraid of people, so like they'll leave you alone,
but like they'll the neighborhood. Stray cat jumped into my
car the other day. I was like, you gotta get out.
He can't. We can't do this, Hey did I just
opened the door and I didn't hear him, and he
went man, just hopped into my car. I'm like, can
you get out of my vehicle? Like he's the he's
the he's the neighborhood. Well, my friend called the slut cat,

(20:44):
like he goes into everyone's house, like everyone feeds him
and everything. But yeah, that was my coyote story. I'm
just glad I wasn't outside walking the dog. Yeah my dog,
My dog is roughly coyote sized and is more more
more bark than she is bite, so she probably would
have gotten herself into a situation that I would have
had to solve. So up next, I have stories from

(21:07):
security guards on night shift user j Russ eighty two.
I was a security guard at a scrapyard. One day
I went to the small management building to do my business.
We had a small bridge with a scale cars would
drive in, get weigh and then drive out and wait
again to see how much scrap was removed. Of note,
this was during the Slenderman craze and someone had drawn
his symbol all over the place, most likely bored kids

(21:29):
with their parents looking through the scrap when no one
was looking, or people that had come on to the
site when there was no one there. Yes, even though
I worked security, i'd get there after the crew had
left for the day and before they arrived, so I
was a security ooh sorry, second part of the story.
I was a security yard at the same scrap yard
one day and I went into the site building to
do my business, and we had a small scale. Cars

(21:50):
would drive in to get weighed and then drive out
again to see how much scrap was removed. I don't
know why he typed that twice, because that is not
actually a copy problem. He just wrote it like that.
So I looked out the and this yard was in
a wooded area, and trees weren't moving an inch, so
it wasn't the wind. Then I heard a roaring sound,
even though this was a wooded area where it was
still developed enough for there to be no animals that

(22:10):
could make that sound. I spent the rest of the
shift in my car, the fence gate opened, and prepared
to nope out of there if anyone needed. I think
I skipped a line an important part of that basically,
as person said that they noticed the scale. The was
scale for like a truckway station, was just going to
zero to two hundred pounds randomly. Oh and then they
heard a roaring sound and there was no wind.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
I thought there was gonna be like a slender Man aspect,
because he brought up the slender Man too.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
It was a totally separate thing, and that's why, like
both of them they were like, and I was at
the same scrapyard. Here's how it works. Here's the separate story.
They just like wrote it out kind of weird, but
it was creepy enough that I'm like, yeah, he wrote
that kind of funny, but I'm including both those in there.
Not gonna lie. The slender Man craze was like if
if any of you are too young to really remember that,
like you had to be there. That shit was so scary,
and it's like not now because Slenderman's like a meme

(22:57):
practically at this point, but like in the era of
when Slenderman. Alternate reality games were like in their heyday,
and slender Man was like a new thing and no
one really knew if he was real or not. Like
that shit was so scary like that that must have
been what it was like to experience like the Blair
Witch Project in its heyday. Is there a market for
people who exclusively play horror games but are like very

(23:17):
easily startled and extremely bad at them? Because if so
I have a Twitch career in my future, that's yay,
welcome to a little wicked on Twitch. We're gonna branch out.
This is gonna be so fun. Speaking of which, unfortunately, uh,
you guys aren't gonna see any of my content on
TikTok from here on out. I guess because So I

(23:39):
got a new phone, right and I had TikTok downloaded
on my old phone and they transferred all the apps
over because of the whole functionhit going on with our
government and TikTok, it didn't transfer to my phone and
I can't get it from the app store, so I
have no way to access TikTok. So the TikTok account's

(23:59):
going to be all kayla. So I guess find us
on red Note, I will post things on Instagram while
that still functions, And I was like, oh, I got
a new phone. I can't wait to make tiktoks with
my new upgraded phone. Egg on my face.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
I thought they like would put it back on the
app Store because.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Like it was, it wasn't banned anymore. So anyway, see
you guys on what what's what's the what's the Chinese
name for red note? Like I have an idea, uh
home Hong show something idea, dang it, so yeah, catch
us catch us there. I guess pixel fed. Whenever that

(24:39):
takes off Instagram, we're gonna we're gonna you're gonna find
us on like exceedingly more obscure social media is like
eventually it's gonna be like come to our smoke circle
in the woods for funny hah promotional content. Check out
on Tumblr. I literally was saying that. The other day.
I was like, I should read download Tumblr, check out

(25:00):
our mind interest my Space. My Space was crazy for
having you publicly rank your friends. That shit was so funny,
Like just add me on Snapchat. I guess I don't know,
like way too old to be using snapchats. Oh man,
all right, back to security. So user flying Chandeliers love

(25:23):
that user name was working in a club late, last
one last one. In the building, there's a few dance
poles on the main stage and a few dim ish
lights that shine from the ground towards the middle of
the pole. I just locked up the bark woolers when
I looked towards the poles and I saw this big
rat human light creature hanging off the top of the center.
One glanced down to grab my phone to use it

(25:44):
as a light, and in two seconds I took to
look away, that thing was gone. Still have no clue
what it could have been. Like, I'm sorry, there's a
rat creature haunting your strip club. Absolutely not immediately, No,
just let her get her bag. She's just hustling. She
just like showed up late. She's like, oh shit, she
like ran off because she's like, oh, my first day

(26:06):
and I'm late.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
They didn't play my song?

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Oh no, She's like to am I too late? Did
they already play? Pink Pony Club? Pink Rack Club? So
user Modern Welfare seventy five. There was a building on
the site that was haunted af Three people died in there.
One was sucked into a jet engine, another was electrician
who was electrocuted, and another man hung himself. I have

(26:30):
videos of the place and it's straight out of a
horror movie. Some exits would wouldn't open to let me
out some nights, despite the badge reader unlocking the door.
Lights would turn on and off in the hangers, and
the scary part was I was the only one with
the keys, and maintenance crew wouldn't go into the building
after seven pm because of all the weird things that
happened in there. I have videos of that place and
it's terrifying. One guard felt he was pushed down the

(26:51):
stairs and came back to the command cunder covered in
blood from a mass of massive head gash. After that,
I was the only guard who would go into that building.
I'd run in doom, my check and then bolt out
that door. Absolutely not, that's sarily Like whatever you were
getting paid, it wasn't enough.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
No, I guf, somebody is like bleeding like that's enough.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Nope, too far, the ghost is seeking at too far.
User Sorry. Mess forty nine thirteen said I worked for
a hospital in Phoenix. Things moved in the morgue and
it had an awful feeling to it. You could feel
the agony in there. I've heard infant cries when no
bodies of kids were in there. The door would rattle
when you walked by it. Nothing on the other side
when checked. We also had to cover an old mall

(27:30):
in downtown Phoenix. It was where the billing offices were.
The elevator doors would randomly open and close. Occasionally it
would change floors. There was also a bunch of old
buildings in the property, one that has gone now where
we had to do sweeps. There were instances where you
thought you saw someone enter a very empty room. Hate that.
I don't know if I could do that job. Like
I can. I can handle like the real life blood

(27:52):
and guts, but like you, there's a dude that's not there,
and I'm like, Nope, can't do it, absolutely not, yepe,
I don't think I could go into a morgue, you know,
I don't know. I always I always joke that like
if I wasn't in veterinary medicine, I'd either be in
like human medicine or like the death industry. But there
would definitely be an adjustment period where I would be

(28:12):
like jumping through the ceiling anytime like I'd heard or
thought I saw anything. And honestly, I'm a very easily
startled person. I probably would never get used to it.
I would simply live and I would just like work
in a baseline level of fear at all times. Like
I'd be like, my brain knows I'm safe, my body
does not know. A now deleted user posted non security
per se. But I worked in dispatch and heard a

(28:34):
few things through the grape vines. The company I worked
for had a heritage building on site. Used to be
a hotel where a pretty gruesome murder occurred. A guy
got abducted by his friends and got murdered and dismembered.
By the time my company bought it, the building was
all but abandoned, but security still needed to patrol it.
So one night, a couple of guards into the lift
of the building go up to the level where the
murder occurred. When the lift doors opened, they were greeted

(28:55):
by a brick wall. It was like the lift was
stuck between levels, but the corridor was sealed by a
brick wall. They claim to see blood leaking out of
the wall, and nope, the fuck out of there. My
company retired the security patrol to that building soon after.
I hate elevators. I don't think you could pay me
enough to get an elevator in an abandoned, supposedly haunted building.
I don't even like to go on elevators in like

(29:16):
normal hotels.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
If it's like abandoned. What if something goes wrong and
like it is, does get stuck, Like, what do you do?
There's nobody gonna help you.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
I didn't even think of that. I hate that.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Oh yeah you're right, yep, God forbid, Like you don't
have service.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Right, yeah, you're elevator shaft and it's not like the
call buttons get Oh I have chills. Oh I have
to move on. I can't. How come we've been doing
this podcast for song and that's what gets me, Like,
that's what I'm like, Nope, immediately, no, okay. And now
I have stories from police officers and first responders. User

(29:56):
is this infectious? I love that? Said. Used to do
canine security for many years. I don't particularly believe in
the paranormal stuff, but I did get the hebegb's a
couple of times. There was one site I used to
patrol with my dog a few nights a week. It
was an old historical farmhouse. From the main road, there
was about a kilometer walk down a beat up, old
dirt road with woods for a couple hundred meters on
either side, more of a path nowadays than a road.

(30:19):
People talk of it being haunted, if you believe in
that kind of thing. One night was really dark out.
Can't remember if it was overcast or if there was
no moon that night, but it was really black, and
two thirds of the way of the farmhouse, my dog
starts acting a little weird. I can feel him getting
tense through the leash. He starts to let out really
low growls every other step, and I can see his
ears twitching as my light swings back and forth. It's dark,

(30:39):
but I'm sure his hackles are up maybe one hundred
meters or so. After I started noticing him waking out,
he surfs out in front of me, which he only
does if there's a perceived threat. He stays about two
meters in front of me for a little bit and
then just stops and starts growling at the darkness. Of course,
I'm scanning with my light, but I can't see anything.
After years of working with Brew, I have learned to
trust him like I trust no person. During one of
my scans, I see six sets of eyes reflecting my

(31:00):
light in the woods. I am certain it was coyotes,
but damned if I didn't get the wicked shivers up
and down brew and I retreated and went back to
the car. Wrote it up as a clear patrol, supernatural
or not. I am not letting my partner scrap it
out with half a dozen ghost coyotes. I don't like.
I ran into a badger one time when I was
walking my dog, not like not physically, It just like
crossed the path in front of me, and I was like,
what the fuck is that? And then I looked a

(31:22):
little harder. I'm like, is that a fucking badger? And
I had like a twelve pound dog at the time,
So I literally just like lifted him up and carried
him down because I'm like, I'm not letting anything happen.
So user agri Mentis said responded to a single vehicle
crash out in the county. Found the car it had
left the road, crashed through the fence, rolled at least
three times, and came to lest came to rest right

(31:44):
side up. The driver was mangled pretty bad and actual
paramedic says he's deceased. We secure the scene, wait for
the corner. Corner gets there, it clears him dead, starts
his investigation slash documentation. About twenty minutes into it, we're
all near the corner van discussing a situation. We're about
twenty feet from the victim's car. The driver, who hasn't
been removed yet, sits up, looks around, and starts the car.

(32:05):
We all jump about five feet straight into the air.
Driver survived loads of investigation into how two trained pros
declared a live man dead.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Okay, so ooh, there is some kind of syndrome. I
forget what it's called, but they are talking about it
one of my vetech groups on Facebook because there was
so many stories going around of pets being euthanized, confirmed
dead and coming back to life. I cannot think of

(32:33):
what that syndrome is called. I think it's the Lazarus syndrome.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
It sounds like it would because Lazarus was the dude
in the Bible who was brought back to life. And
then there's that movie The Lazarus Effect, Yeah, which is
like all but forgotten. It's a cast of like six people.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Oh yeah, it's called Lazarus syndrome.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Don't like that. Don't like that. I don't like that.
You've just told me that. Oh ooh, nope, immediately, no, immediately, No,
I hate that. I hate that so much because also,
like you know, a fun fact for those that don't know,
after death, bodies will they will sometimes twitch and move
and make sounds because like even though your brain and

(33:15):
your heart and like nothing like nothing is working together,
the cells themselves will still have like chemical synapses which
can cause twitching or muscle posticulations, or you know, air
will move in and around the GI tract and the lungs,
and you know, your your microbiome inside your your GI
tract is still just go and ham, so you know,

(33:38):
air escapes and things happen. And I will never forget
the one time I was prepping a cat after euthanasia
and it just did this like full body shutter and
it was it was definitely, you know, definitely that was
not a Lazarus syndrome situation. But like I was almost
like out the door and down the street because it
was just like the first time and experienced something like that,
I was like, Nope, like lizard brain just took over

(33:59):
and I was like, I'm not nope, nope, nope. So
after like you know, unshitting my pants and remember like
reminding myself like, oh, this happens because blah blah blah.
We learned about those in school, Like I'm a professional,
I know what I'm doing. I was like, Okay, I'm
gonna keep I'm like, I'm gonna have a doctor take
a realisten just case because that was oogie spooky. But yeah,

(34:20):
so sometimes that just happens. And I've been told I
have friends of mine that are morticians and they're like, oh, yeah,
that happens with people too. So A now deleted user
has this following story. My brother was a traffic cop
in a rural county for twenty years. He always would
go for the night shifts, finding them generally more interesting
in his jurisdiction. The short of it is that he
was stopped as an unlit crossroads in the middle of nowhere,

(34:42):
surrounded by endless farmland on all sides. It was the
middle of the night, and the only light came from
his headlights and the instruments in his dashboard. He knew
this particular area well as he tended to loiter in
it during the quiet parts of the night. Given that
this was a rural area was such a low population,
they would have a single officer on at that time
of night, and they shared a dispatcher with the local
le FD. He was doing paperwork while sitting there. Suddenly
the entire truck in the area around his truck was

(35:03):
lit up with harsh white light. He was terrified at
first and sat motionless for what he described as several minutes.
The only sound he heard was his own idling engine
as he sat parked there. Then, he said he was
standing outside in the middle of the street, looking up
at a blinding white light that shut off with no trace.
The moment it shut off, there was a clear night
sky above him. This was very early eighties, so he
was almost staring up at the milky way. He says

(35:26):
he doesn't remember getting out of his patrol car, and
he says that the whole thing lasted about ten minutes,
and his wristwatch and patrol car worked without issue. When
this happened, he didn't say anything at first, but he
stopped working nights for a while, and after five years
of nights, the handful of other cops covered him for
a while. I remember him acting strange for a bit,
perhaps grappling with whatever happened. When he ultimately told my
parents and me about it, there was a lot of concern.

(35:47):
I was a kid when close encounters of the third
kind came out, and being young and dumb, I immediately
started joking with him about it, but stopped when it
was obvious something was wrong. He pursued the medical approach
to things and went through all the tests. Maybe he
had a brain tumor or something. They found nothing. He
ultimately went back to work, working nights until late eighties,
when the population grew and hard drugs started appearing in

(36:08):
the community. He never mentioned having another experience like it again,
but I know it still bothers him. Whatever happened to him.
A few years ago, he was visiting when we were
working on something in the garage. I had this super
bright flashlight that emits a harsh white light that lights
up whatever I point at it. At one point, I
aimed it in his general direction and I could see
his expression change and frozen up. His demeanor changed entirely

(36:28):
when I was checking on him, because it was so
strange that he seemed to shut off he just mentioned
he was thinking about that light at the crossroads, gave
a forced smile, and then seemed to return to normal.
That was aliens sand aliens go sna aliens, so user
Gary Nova said, cop here. I'm pretty sure I saw
chupacabra once. My rookie saw it too. I work midnights.
The thing right in front of our car at Southeast

(36:48):
United States. But it was something I've never seen and
not seen since. It was about three feet tall, hairless,
had no lips, big fangs, walked on two legs, red eyes,
seemed to have a snout, claws, freaky looking sounds like
a chupicoppertra fee. I couldn't do that.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Jubikaba looks like I would just say it's a thing, right, and.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
I'd be like, yo, I saw the creature while I
was out of patrol.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
The creature from the depths of Hell, just like crawl
out of a tree.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah. What kind of paperwork do you have to fill
out for that, like as a police officer, Like do
you have to like you have to like write up
a report on like l choopicamra or are you just
like you know, you're like, we're just not gonna talk
about this like, don't don't tell anyone when we get
back to the station. That's that's just hard anybody. Probably
not so user hopeful lesbian personally my favorite so far

(37:36):
said not a cop but a former EMT. I worked
night shift and this was either the night before or
night of Halloween. We got a call to BF for
generalized pain, which is a giant red flag for us
because that can range from I hurt my finger too,
I got shot, I'm dying, but I don't want the
cops to come. So now, since this is night shift,
we get this call about three am. So we get
there and there's a creepy old lady who gets us

(37:58):
into the house from the garage. Why because she has
the TV blocking the front door at a fear of
zombies or something showing up to rob her. Weird, right, Well,
this garage is pitch black. We ask her to turn
on the light and she wouldn't do it because squirrels
chewed up the wires. So my partner and I can't
of give a weird look to each other, but we
didn't think much of it since we thought it was
some Halloween thing. We go inside and there's a single
mattress on the floor, no other furniture besides that TV

(38:19):
blocking the front door. The patient is this crazy lady's daughter.
She's got chronic pain, so it's snow big deal. So
we go get her into the truck, and something seems
off with the crazy lady, so I automatically close the
door to the truck, leaving the medic and the patient
in there since he's much bigger than me and can
handle himself, and a patient already strapped to the stretcher.
So I'm outside the truck and this crazy old lady
standing there with her arm in a sling that she

(38:40):
had just put on. I asked her to leave so
I could go to the hospital. She tries to hand
me a diet coke for her daughter and I refuse.
This sets her off and she throws the coke and
runs towards me and runs towards the house, but only
a few feet before she turns back around and starts
coming at me. I see something in her hand and
she has a knife pulled out. My paramedic then opens
the door to tell me he's ready to go, and
startles the lady enough for me to be like, all right,

(39:00):
let's go and off we go to the hospital. I
went home and cried. That was the first time I
was almost killed on duty and it was three am
at Halloween. I don't even know. EMTs have got to
see some shit. Like every single person I know who's
an EMT is like like they've just seen the most
insane shit. Like that doesn't surprise me at all. I mean, yeah,
that makes sense for an EMT. So user, oh, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
I couldn't imagine just trying to do my job and
somebody came out me and some old lady came out
with me with a knife.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
With a knife and a diet coke and it's like,
can we be for real here? Like do you have
an anvil too? Like Wiley Coyote? This, I mean, man ridiculous.
So user Comprehensive Cup three ninety one said, was on
my usual route at a T junction where I'd normally
swing a right. For some reason, I went left as
I've gone left. Around the corner, a big old oak

(39:50):
tree came down and squashed two cars. Had I gone
right as I usually did, the tree and power lines
would have been smack on top of me. And it
was a warm, still day too. Not a breath of wind.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Weird.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah, that's yeah, your guardian angel was doing their job today.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Crazy.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
So I have a final Hurrah story from the gas
station user Roy Toy six seventy eight sixteen seventy eight
was working at a gas station at like three am
one night. A car pulled into the pump, guy got
out and started pumping, and then the car and dude
just vanished. I was looking right at it and it
just popped out of existence. I told my boss the
next day, and she turned white as a sheet. She'd
seen the same thing, same exact description, same car, same pump,

(40:26):
same guy, like that camera all right. They didn't elaborate
in the comments they I think someone had mentioned about
the CCTV footage, but it was like an archived post.
In conclusion, it's been a while since I've done a
scary stories of Reddit compilation, and this just happened to me,
one that Kayla and I could also contribute to. And
admittedly I tried, I will say I tried to filter

(40:49):
the stories I found that would be a little bit
more interesting and like, for lack of a better way
putting it, like fun to listen to over like genuinely
traumatizing stuff because like medical staff and first spondors often
see some things that are like truly honestly hellish and
just would not even be entertaining to put in a podcast.
So I hope I managed to put together something you
guys enjoyed. I tried to stick with like the paranormal,

(41:11):
spooky creepy. You know, nobody was actively like shot to
death during one of these stories or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
I like them. That was interesting to hear.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Thank you. I thought it was really fun. And you know,
it's been a really long time since I've like fallen asleep,
like with phone in hand reading scary Reddit stories because
like I'm a healthier person now, like my frontsal lobe
is fully developed, and I just I'm in a better place.
But like, damn if this isn't fun every now and
then to just like ooh, top ten spookiest chucker stories,

(41:40):
like you don't mind if I do.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Yeah, I wonder if you guys have any stories of
your own, cause I know people that listen to us
a lot of you have the work night shift. It's
oh so common shift to work. Yeah, so if you
guys have anything, send us an email at a little
Wicked Podcast at gmail dot com or message any of
our socials on Instagram, Facebook, whatever it pops up.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Yeah, one of honestly one of my Well, if you
send it to TikTok, that's all on Kayla, I won't
get it. Oh and send it to her. Thanks, She's
gonna send it to me via red note. I'm like,
message me on shiaohom chua or whatever it is. Yeah,

(42:21):
I would love to do an episode like this, but
like just with user submitted stories that would actually be
really very fun. Yeah. I mean I had a great time.
I had a good time reliving the Ketamine guy story
with you. That was a situation. Yeah, that was broad
daylight too. That was broad dayly. Why did I think
that was? What the hell? All right? Hey, if you

(42:42):
guys have broad daylight horror stories at work cent of
our way, there's something so like uniquely funky wonky about
like work horror stories. I wish I had ones that
were more like paranormal and fun. Like most of my
work horror stories are like genuinely traumatizing and I would
not put them on an entertainment podcast. But I do think,
I do think there's a ghost that lives in the ICU.

(43:03):
I'm like ninety percent sure it touched me. We didn't
like a vet Need podcast truly. And you know this
is so common because apparently the people who run National
parks after dark are also two vetex h No, no,
that I know right, We're apparently a very specific type
of person gets into veterinary medicine. Yeah, we're all either

(43:24):
like gay, mentally ill, or spooky. I think if I think,
they make you take a psych exam and if you
like past, they're like, we can't let you do this.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
No, that's how it works.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
It picks something you have to fail it. They're like,
if you would not have gotten a lobotomy in nineteen
sixty two, you are not allowed to do veterinary medicine.
Will you can find us on all our socials, send
us an email. We're on discord. I'm actually really excited
to see if you guys have anything you can add
to this. I think that's gonna be so fun, and

(43:53):
if you do, we'll talk about them in a future
episode for sure. Honestly, I think that was nocturnally wicked.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Hmmm, that was I don't know, that was like just
spookly wicked.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
It was spookly wicked.

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