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

• (#5) A Real Estate Photographer Found A Horrifying Scene

  From Redditor /u/LifeWithAdd:

  I don’t work in extreme seclusion but I can go days without seeing anyone. I do real estate photography so I'm going in and out of strange houses all day, almost always vacant. I’ve had a ton of weird experiences and encounters with squatters, but the creepiest was a badly fire-damaged house I shot.

  The owner was a flipper and asked me to go get before photos. Before he hung up he mentioned the previous owner killed herself in the house during the fire. I got there and the house was severely burned and has no electricity, so the only light was my flashlight. I walked into the bathroom and immediately knew where and how this woman killed herself.

  Here are the photos of what I saw.
• (#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.
• (#8) They Saw A Man Wearing A 'Scream' Mask At The Back Door

  From Redditor /u/Phantom_61:

  Worked overnight as a master control operator in my youth.

  One night, around 3 AM, I catch sight of the camera we have aimed at the back door, and there’s someone standing there wearing a Scream mask staring at the camera and not moving.

  I go to the back door (which is magnetically sealed and deadbolt-ed for overnight, the door is next to impossible to force open) and look out the peephole and there’s no one there.

  Head back to control and see them walk back into frame, wave at the camera, and then walk away.

  Called the cops. They found nothing and the camera doesn't record - it's live feed only.
• (#14) An Antarctic Worker Ran Afoul Of Some Locals

  From Redditor /u/lordlod:

  I was working in Antarctica at a station with an elephant seal mating ground. I thought I had left something in a shipping container by the docks, next to the elephant seals. Mindful of my safety and being a bit lazy, I grabbed a ute (utility vehicle) and drove down there at midnight.

  I parked and left the vehicle running with the lights on. As soon as I got out I realized it was seriously dark. No moon, no building lights, can't see your hand in front of your face dark. I hear heavy breathing coming from all around me, and I can hear the two-ton b*stards starting to move.

  Whatever I forgot waited until the next day.
• (#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.
• (#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.

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