A lot of people work 9-5 jobs, or close enough.
You get up in the morning, you go to work, you get home, do your thing and then you go
to bed.
But thats when the Night Shift workers day begins.
Many jobs require people to work through the night - and as weve learnt here from all our
scary videos on this channel, there are plenty of creepy things that go bump in the night.
These are the first hand stories from people who saw things when the rest of us were all
asleep.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary Night Shift Stories.
Starting off at number 10 now we have The Military Ghost.
This one comes from a guy called who said he did their military training at Fort Leonard
Wood in Missouri.
The barracks were at least 50 years old byu that point.
Every night, new recruits were told to stay awake for an hour and mop the floor for an
hour until the next soldier was woken up to take over.
One night, Jack was sitting underneath the speakers, trying to stay awake, when a voice
came out of them.
Usually, it was one of his commanding officers barking orders to wake up but this time - it
was totally different.
A soft womans voice could be heard, barely a whisper.
She said -Private, get everyone outside.
Right now.
Right now Private.
Everyone outside.- he was surprised, not because it was a woman as he had female drill sergeants,
but because the voice was so soft.
Jack headed down the hallways where he found another guard also standing duty.
He asked him if hed heard anything, the guard said no.
Jack thought it must have been his imagination and didnt want to risk waking everyone up
just because his mind was playing sleepy tricks on him.
The rest of the night was normal and Jack put it to the back of his mind until weeks
later.
One day, they had a 3 day field training exercise.
On the last day, they sat around a fire and everyone swapped stories.
The drill sergeants shared stories of the base.
Jacks sergeant told the story of the first female drill sergeant on the base.
She was harassed so much - it was so unrelenting - that one day she snapped.
She hung herself from some exposed water pipes using her belt.
A few years later, they plastered over the exposed pipes, the reason?
So that they could put the speakers up there on the wall …
Next up at number 9 we have The Wedding Party.
This one comes from Reddit user PieKing9000.
He said when he was in high school he worked for a catering company so his hours would
often be very late.
On one such night, he was resetting a room for a wedding that was happening the next
day.
A co worker told him to go upstairs and get some chairs from the room that had just hosted
a wedding that night.
When he got to the room, he noticed there was still people in there, chatting away and
having a good time.
He was confused and told them the wedding had already ended.
He took the chairs down and told his co worker that there were still guests up there - he
asked if they needed anything else from that room or should they just wait for them to
leave.
It was the co workers turn to look confused - he said hed just been up to that room aswell
and didnt remember seeing anyone up there.
They went up to the room and sure enough, the room was completely empty and looked like
it had been for hours.
Some redditors think this may have been a ghostly echo of a wedding that had already
happened years ago - or perhaps they were spirits, looking to recreate the good times
theyd had in life …
Moving on to number 8 we have a story from Ultimabdon316.
He said that one night he was working at a fancy hotel next to the airport.
One night he got a call from a lady in room 204.
She says there was arguing, loud banging and crying from the room next door.
He checked the computer but the system showed there was nobody in that room due to maintenance
issues.
Confused, he called his supervisor to see what to do.
She told him to call the on site security and follow them up with a key.
When they stepped out of the elevator they heard the sound of crying, its loud.
His heart starts racing as he nears the door.
The security guard puts the key in, opens the door and flicks on the light.
As they enter the room the shower is on, steam coming from under the door.
There was only one lamp on in the room, the air was very cold - and then he saw her.
A woman stripped down to her underwear was lying on the bed sobbing, as they approached,
she rolled over.
She was pale, covered in blood and just staring at them.
At that moment they realized the shower had stopped and the door was open.
There in the doorway was a huge, ominous looking man.
Security tased and arrested him.
It turns out that he was a criminal who was hiding in hotel rooms to kidnap and assault
women who stayed there, sometimes murdering them afterwards.
At number 7 now we have Swinging.
SmashleePimpson is the reddit user who shared this story.
He said that he worked in a department store where every year before Christmas, he would
have to stay overnight to sort out all the new merchandise.
One year, he was stuffing a duvet into a bag when all of a sudden, a picture frame that
was hanging up a few aisles away just crashed to the ground.
He was too tired to care and went to the back to get a dustpan and brush.
There were plastic bags of clothes hung up on a conveyor belt on the ceiling.
As he looked up, he saw one single bag was swinging hard.
It was banging around as if someone had just shoved it moments ago - no other bags were
moving.
He freaked out and quickly grabbed the dustpan and brush.
However, when he got the to the smashed picture frame, it was gone -all of it.
None of the other employees knew what he was talking about and the memory of that night
has never quite left him.
At number 6 now we have The Girl.
This one comes from Banksy420 who said they work in a restaurant that has its own bakery.
All the bakery staff would talk about the ghost of a little girl who haunted the whole
place but he didnt know that when he started the job.
One day, things were moving slow and so he did some prep work by himself in the kitchen.
He was the the prep table, kinda zoning out and listening to music.
Then, he felt someone right next to him - as if they were shoulder to shoulder - a sudden
presence that wasnt there before.
Then, he heard a little girls voice very sweetly say -Hi Josh, Howare you?- … he said he
even felt her breath as the words were spoken.
He said it felt so vivid but when he turned around, there was nobody there.
He told his co workers this and they werent surprised, they were all too familiar with
the ghost of the little girl - theyd just learnt to not answer her back …
Moving on to number 5 now we have The Dolls.
One girl said she used to work the night shift at a greasy spoon diner, there were usually
a lot of drunk people there.
Another waitress finished at 4 AM so she was usually alone until 7 AM.
One night, she left and then returned just a few seconds later.
She had a weird half smile on her face and said -uh someone put something on your car-
.. judging by her look, she knew it wasnt good.
She went out to see every inch of her car was covered in naked dolls.
There were hundreds of them.
Cabbage Patch, Barbies, Baby Dolls, you name it - it was there.
They all had different shapes and size - the only thing they all had in common was that
they were naked.
It took 55 trash cans to get rid of them.
She was scared.
In the nights that followed, she began to get creepy calls at around 4:15 AM, it was
a voice would ask if she liked the gift.
The calls go angrier and more abusive and then one night, at 4:15 AM, the phone rang
and all she heard was popping noises, no voices, and then the phone hung up.
Its been 9 years and she hasnt been called since - shes curious about what happened,
but also very glad its all over …
Next up at number 4 we have The Creature.
This story was told by a woman who worked at a group home for disturbed youth.
She said that 15 years ago, she was sitting in the hallway and she just felt like she
was being watched - all night.
It wasnt the kids - they were all in bed.
It was almost a physical sensation, an unseen pressure pushing down on her.
She cleaned out the linen closet in the hallway and left the door open when she was done.
The hallway was so narrow that the door blocked it completely.
To her surprise, that feeling of being watched disappeared, like a switch being flipped.
Happy, she continued like this for 2 nights.
Then, on that night, she was doing bed checks when something in the hallways caught her
eye.
She slowly turned her head to look down the hallway and froze.
The linen closet door was now halfway open, there was a tall, elongated creature hunched
over the back of the door, gripping it, its head peering out over it.
It didnt have a face, or clothes but it was flesh coloured with elongated arms and legs.
It stood at least 7ft tall.
Despite not having a face, she knew it was staring at her.
She ran to the staff office and sat huddled in the corner for 6 hours until the relief
staff came.
She told nobody but her family, and now us …
At number 3 now we have The Watcher.
This one comes from Reddit user BabyBuddahBlues.
She said that after leaving college she got a job as a nanny for two elementary aged girls.
For their anniversary, the parents went on a week long cruise and so she babysat the
kids.
For the first few nights, the 8 year old would go into her room multiple times a night and
wake her up.
It was obvious she hadnt pre planned what she was going to give her as a reason for
waking her up so she would stumble through an excuse on the spot like -I just wanted
to make sure we are still going to the park tomorrow- … the babysitter figured the girl
was just missing her parents and feeling a bit unsettled, so she let it slight at first.
However, by the 4th or 5th time, shed had enough - she told the girl not to wake her
unless it was for an emergency.
With that, she went to sleep for a few hours.
It wasnt to last though.
Around 5 AM, she woke up - but there wasnt any obvious reason, she just felt strange.
She turned over and almost jumped out of her skin.
The girl had brought over a chair right next to the bed and was staring at the babysitter.
Her long black hair was draped over her expressionless face.
The babysitter asked what she was doing … the girl simply said -I just thought it would
be fun to watch you sleep.
I didnt wake you- … thats where the story ends, but I presume at that point the babysitter
was just sprinting down that road, thats what Id do.
Next up at number 2 we have The Tap.
This one comes from Reddit user ilanko.
He said that his job involves him looking after a factory.
On one winter night it reached -30 degrees celsius.
It was a rough shift.
One of his co workers told him shed cover him while he went for a nap in his car.
He parked across the street from the plant so that his supervisor couldn't see him on
the camera.
With that, he fell asleep very quickly - however, just 15 minutes later, he was woken up to
the sound of tapping.
It was around 3 AM and by the time he pulled himself together and looked around, he saw
- well, nothing.
The parking lot was big and empty but there was nobody there.
Whoever tapped on his window must have been able to move incredibly fast or not even be
human.
He was too shaken to continue his nap and so decided to head back to work and tell his
coworker about what happened.
She had been working there longer and knew the area better.
She didnt seem phased when he told her what happened, simply saying -Oh yeah, that happens
all the time with everyone working night shift, we don't know who or what it is- … can you
even imagine?
I think the scariest part of that is the possibility of it not being animal or human - what do
you guys think?
And finally at number 1 we have The Dispatcher.
Ariadne Haze said that he used to work as an emergency dispatcher for the police department
in his city.
He was working overnight once when a woman called in to say her depressed husband had
gone missing.
The police asked around and found out that he sometimes liked to go to a old cemetery
and just be alone.
With this lead, they send two officers out to look for him.
When they got there, they saw the door to the old stone mausoleum was cracked open.
They went in and stumbled through the dark underground rooms, surrounded by the tombs
of the dead.
Then, one of their flashlights caught a figure standing at the very back - it looked like
they had their guy, they were relieved.
They walked towards him but it wasnt until they were right next to him that they realised
they had got it all wrong.
They had found the right guy but he wasnt standing, he was hanging.
The ceiling was so low to the ground that his feet were barely an inch off the floor.
The officers high tailed it out and told the dispatcher this very creepy story …
I loved that one - I hope you guys did too - I don't think I want to work night shifts
though - that would involve me filming these videos by myself in the middle of the night.
No thanks.
What video do you want to see next though?
Let me know, thanks for watching guys, my name is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in
the next video.