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Dundee
Guest
Quite some years ago now I worked as a security guard at a... lets call it theme park.
It was about 10pm and I was doing my rounds and the place was deserted except for some patrons having a meal in the restaurant.
I went in through the back doors of a furniture factory, it was basic. It had one large workshop in the front where the public could watch the furniture being made and a small office out the back. So two rooms down stairs and a completely open upstairs that had a door onto an elevated walkway to another building. I went under the rear split (top and bottom) doors and entered the building from the rear. Went upstairs and the routine was check the upper door, check they locked the gun cabinet, then back down stairs to check the front door. Now this is a large building with a bare wooden floor. As I was walking back to the stairs I clearly heard footsteps on the bottom floor. They sounded loud, and clear in the quiet night. I thought it was the other gaurd on duty dropped in, did not give it a second thought. As I neared the stairs I bent down to say G'day Mick, and the footsteps stopped. I went down the stairs and there was no one to be seen. I shone my torch around and the room was empty of people.
Thinking it was Mick trying to prank me, I jumped on the radio, knowing if it was him it would burst into life and give away his hiding spot. I called him, "Hey Mick where are you" no sound in the factory!!! he replied, "Down the front entrance why" Ummm nothing I replied. I checked that building end to end, it was only small and had not a living soul in it. If you have ever been in a large mostly empty room at night with a bare wooden floor, believe me you don't imaging footsteps.I heard them, just whose they were is anyone's guess. That was the first of many encounters there.
It was about 10pm and I was doing my rounds and the place was deserted except for some patrons having a meal in the restaurant.
I went in through the back doors of a furniture factory, it was basic. It had one large workshop in the front where the public could watch the furniture being made and a small office out the back. So two rooms down stairs and a completely open upstairs that had a door onto an elevated walkway to another building. I went under the rear split (top and bottom) doors and entered the building from the rear. Went upstairs and the routine was check the upper door, check they locked the gun cabinet, then back down stairs to check the front door. Now this is a large building with a bare wooden floor. As I was walking back to the stairs I clearly heard footsteps on the bottom floor. They sounded loud, and clear in the quiet night. I thought it was the other gaurd on duty dropped in, did not give it a second thought. As I neared the stairs I bent down to say G'day Mick, and the footsteps stopped. I went down the stairs and there was no one to be seen. I shone my torch around and the room was empty of people.
Thinking it was Mick trying to prank me, I jumped on the radio, knowing if it was him it would burst into life and give away his hiding spot. I called him, "Hey Mick where are you" no sound in the factory!!! he replied, "Down the front entrance why" Ummm nothing I replied. I checked that building end to end, it was only small and had not a living soul in it. If you have ever been in a large mostly empty room at night with a bare wooden floor, believe me you don't imaging footsteps.I heard them, just whose they were is anyone's guess. That was the first of many encounters there.