“He said he was going to wait for me all day outside and kidnap me.
The thread quickly filled with stories of problematic bosses and patrons and inexplicable, eerie encounters.
Here’s what people shared:
1.
“I had someone call my work and ask for me.
They told me they wanted to eat my heart.
I kept trying to see if they needed an appointment, and they kept repeating themselves.
u/CrabbiestAsp
2.
He kept looking behind me and said, ‘Who’s that behind you?’
I turned around, and there was no one behind me.
Maybe a week later, they had moved him to a hospital, and he passed.
I still wonder what he saw.”
u/NastyCountChocula
3. u/seoakih
4.
“I work in a library at a reference desk.
I answered a call from a man who wanted me to try and look up a specific woman.
The only result with the info he gave was a missing person.
He then gave me another woman’s name and a little more info.
She was also a missing person.
Big NO from me on that one.”
u/Satyr-but-wiser
5.
“I work as a funeral director, and one day, there was an open-casket funeral.
The family gathered, and there was one woman who seemed out of sorts.
She was dressed casually and just kind of meandering about.
I observed her for a while.
She went to the casket and appeared to be giving the deceased some reverence.
She gave me a drunk girl grin and staggered off.
She just staggered into a funeral off the street.
Who does that?”
u/Scallywag357
6.
“I’m an EMT.
One night, I had to grab something from the ambulance on a call.
She smiled wide and said, ‘You’re a good person.
What you put out into the universe will come back to you.
You’re going to be rewarded…with a quick death.’
Still smiling, she kept talking after that, but it was just white noise to me.”
u/CentSG2
u/acheron53
8. u/ordinaryhorse
9.
“I was with a sweet gentleman who was passing, and he just wanted to be home.
He was seeing and naming people he saw who had died in the hospital.
His partner couldn’t believe it.
He kept seeing a baby with me.
Without giving details, there was a baby I was with at one point who passed.
I went home and cried my eyes out.”
u/ElleYesMon
10. u/DuchessBananaHammock
11.
I’m going to see Hazel.'
Hazel was his wife, who had passed away four years earlier.
I immediately called his house, no answer.
He just went to sleep in that recliner.”
u/ginniper
12.
Everything was going well until he started talking to himself.
I asked him about a cool demon tattoo he had.
He said that the demon was the one he was talking to.
‘He wants me to kill you before we get to the hospital.
u/ProofAbroad4766
13.
He said when he got back, he’d have enough money to ‘buy me.'"
u/Alive_Ad823
14.
“I worked at a snowcone place all through college.
You dont usually do that,’ which was true.
I went in the back and let my coworker finish serving him.”
u/37brooke37
15.
“‘Make the kid in the corner shut up!’
an older lady said at 3:00 a.m. while she pointed to the empty corner.
There was no kid.
She passed not long after.
Honestly, this kind of thing happens a lot.
If you start seeing ghosts, Im putting the crash cart in front of your door.”
u/tacokahlessi
16.
I was bored, so I did it.
They asked if I liked wearing stockings and lingerie and what kind of shoes I liked wearing.
They started asking me what I was wearing and what color and pop in of underwear I had on.
u/Ok-Amphibian
17.
“I’m a paramedic and had a call years back to a nursing home.
We arrived, and none of the staff knew who had called (not unusual).
We checked the rooms and found a juvenile male sitting with an older sleeping female.
It caught us off guard in a major way.
He was extremely calm, cooperative, and polite throughout the process.
He wasn’t a visitor.
u/Terrami
18.
“I worked in a toy store.
I’m still shaken to this day.”
u/buddyspied
19.
Those were probably the oddest/creepiest ones from work.
Lots of stories about men approaching me with creepy things outside of work, too.”
u/PositiveTrick461
20.
“I was driving up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan through Wisconsin with a new guy at work.
It was my first time working with him.
It was a pretty quiet ride most of the way.
There was nothing to look at besides trees and farmland.
He randomly said, ‘This would be a great place to hide a body.’
I’m not sure if he even realized he said it out loud.
I didn’t say a word; I just kept driving.”
u/Weimski
21.
“I worked as a patient care technician in a hospital.
My badge got caught in her hair as I leaned over her.
She all of a sudden said, ‘Ow.’
This woman hadnt spoken since her stroke, so we were both very surprised.
I looked at her with my mouth open in astonishment.
She was just as shocked but knew the message she wanted to get out.’
She looked directly into my eyes.'
‘Let me die,’ she spoke again clearly.
‘What do you mean?’
“There was a long pause, and I saw her face shift to a disappointed frown.
She wasn’t going to speak again.
I told the nurse and charge nurse.
Then, I got busy, and soon, my shift was over.
I could tell by her face how angry she was.
She would not look at them.
And they wouldn’t listen to her.
I look around the room at her IV, her feeding tube, and her oxygen.
They were all there to help her live because they wanted her to.
She was done, but they wouldn’t let her go.
She was totally coherent but unable to decide anything for herself because we couldn’t hear her.
I think of that often, and it’s a nightmare for me.
u/ok-uncle
22. u/Robertroo
23.
“A lady was with me who had never encountered a deceased person.
My patient passed while she was standing there in the house.
She asked me if he was dead, and I said yes, he had passed on.
And she asked how I knew.
The lights flickered off then, and the dogs outside started barking.”
There was one employee who other co-workers said was a bit strange.
u/ChummierLion
25.
“When I was 16, I worked at a grocery store.
It was Mother’s Day, and one customer wished me a happy Mother’s Day.
I thanked him but said I was a little young for that.
He replied, ‘Oh, you’re never too young.'”
u/traininvain1979
26.
“I worked at a cellphone retailer and had a regular customer.
He would tell me about his son, the fire chief in a neighboring town.
I politely declined and explained I lived with my boyfriend.
He said you’re really hot.’
I immediately made him delete the photo while I watched.
u/srpl555
27.
He said he was going to wait for me all day outside and kidnap me.
I asked her to share a leadership experience of hers.
She described being one of many counselors at a Christian summer camp.
She did not get the job.
I really hope she found her way out of whatever cult she’d been a part of.”
u/readingmyshampoo
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