it was a snowy night when I pulled into the parking lot of my gas station I worked the overnight 11 to 7 shift and had been at the job for several months before this I really didn't like this job but finding somewhere else to work was really difficult and due to how some things were in other aspects of my life night shifts were the best for my personal schedule still though I went in tired every night and struggled to get through every shift I parked in front of the building beside the only other car in the parking lot which was my co-workers then I went inside and relieved him of his shift he left a couple minutes later and then it was just me for the rest of the night my manager had a paper on the desk with some things to get done but from reading it over it wasn't all that much my guess was that it would take no more than an hour total to complete all the tasks so I tried to put it off as long as possible to save me from falling asleep once I started getting really tired but as I sat there behind the desk and somewhere around 12:00 a. m. A car pulled into the station I glanced out the window seeing an old SUV parked by one of the pumps of course with its snowing outside most people were not driving around but getting a customer every once in a while was normal I went back to my phone and scrolled through some videos not paying much attention for probably 10 minutes until I looked back outside and saw the SUV was still there by the pump the headlights were off and the doors were closed looking like they should be pumping gas but it been so long I stood up and got closer to the window looking down both sides of the building but nobody was anywhere outside if they had been in their car for the past 10 minutes with it off they'd have to be freezing it was snowy windy and cold so I honestly got a little nervous for them I paid more attention for the next few minutes waiting to see any movement through the dark windows or for someone to get back inside their car but there was nothing it was like the car was just abandoned right next to the pump after some thought I put on my jacket and went outside immediately I knew I was right it was way too cold for anyone to be in there with the car off or for anyone to even be outside for more than a few minutes I rushed over to the car and looked around then put my face close to the window and tried to look inside hello anyone in there just checking to see if you're okay I called out but from what I could see there wasn't anyone inside it wasn't exactly easy to see so someone could have been but I was pretty sure there wasn't now even more confused I backed up and looked around at the empty gas station parking lot before starting to walk back now with my eyes not focused on the car I was just looking at the ground and noticed shoe prints in the snow going toward the building not really the front of the building but kind of off to the side I looked back and saw that they seemed to come from the car but at this point I was freezing and didn't want to investigate further without warming up a bit first inside and turned on the small heater next to the counter putting my hands in front of it to warm them up I was only inside for 30 seconds to a minute though before a thump resonated through the building from behind me I spun around not seeing anything then walked around the counter and T the back on the floor there were puddles of dirty water like snow that had melted off someone's boots feeling a chill run through me I stepped closer to the back room and turned the corner toward where the supply room was standing in the dark behind one of the shelves I could see the outline of a figure they were tall with broad shoulders and had a large scruffy beard and they were looking right at me my heart stopped for a moment but after the initial shock my reaction was to just walk back to the counter I don't know why maybe I was just too shocked to react appropriately after staring at the doorway to the supply room for I don't even know how long I quietly picked up the store phone and called the police Whispering for help then I endured the most unnerving 10 minutes of my life as I waited during this time I didn't hear or see anything from the supply room which honestly added to my fear for some reason the man never came out to confront me when two cops finally pulled in and came inside I quietly told them where the man was they searched the room while I stayed by the front but I was shocked when they came out with nobody else the man was gone watery shoeprints surrounded the back door but outside were Fresh Tracks in the snow going straight away from the gas station straight into the completely dark empty field that led on for Miles obviously nobody could search that at night but even when they did in the following days they didn't find anything I mean the field was huge he could have gone anywhere but it was so cold and windy that night that I was almost sure that they'd find a body the SUV was taken in for hopefully more information I don't know how or why but for some reason they couldn't find any history of ownership so that left us with just what we know from that night and we are still left with just that who the man was and what he was doing remains unsolved and where he is now is just as much of a question I worked at a restaurant with my older brother during our high school years it was a really small restaurant in an outlet shopping center we were both waiters there but since the place was small we often helped out all around doing dishes deliveries or whatever they needed but after just a year of working there my brother graduated high school and chose to go to college so he quit but I kept working there this happened a few months before I eventually left the job it was Friday so I was working a later shift than I usually did on other weekdays the restaurant was open until 12:00 every night but because of school I usually never stayed late later than 8 or 9 anyway I was scheduled to close this night alongside the manager everything was pretty normal slowing down by 8 and getting a few people picking up orders for the rest of the evening but at 10:30 my manager picked up a phone call for a delivery by 11:00 I was driving out of the parking lot and onto the road the address I was given on the receipt was just 8 minutes away but as I drove a couple minutes down the the road I got a call from my manager I answered right away thinking they must have cancelled but apparently the guy called back saying he'd given the wrong address I had to pull over and write down the new address I typed in the new Street to number into the GPS but right away I knew something was off it wasn't close at all it was 25 minutes away in the opposite direction of where I was going if they had given this address to begin with the order would have never been accepted I thought about just going back to the restaurant and telling my manager knowing he would understand but I was already out and we already made the order so I just started driving the roads were already pretty empty around town at this time of night but the further out I drove the roads became even more empty like I didn't even see any more cars for the last 5 minutes of the drive I was on the far edge of town where most of the buildings and houses turned to grassy fields and trees when I approached the road with the address all I could see were a row of houses with all the lights off as I drove down and passed more of the houses a few of them did have their porch lights on but it still felt empty it's worth mentioning that these were not the nicest houses either by any means they were all single story box style homes I pulled up to the one I was to deliver to and parked on the side getting out with the food I felt the strange Eerie sense as I walked up to the door it was quiet outside and with no street lights and barely any house lights it was really dark I knocked on the door and waited a whole minute passed with no signs of anyone being home and I was starting to get a little bit more uneasy so I just set the bag down and turned to walk back to my car they hadn't paid yet but the food was probably cold and it was no use to me anyway when I looked over at my car though A man was standing right behind it he was leaned over like he was looking into the window I stopped and I don't know if the man heard me or what but he immediately looked up at me I could barely make out his face but he was older do you need something the man didn't move I asked again but nothing changed feeling that Eerie sense getting bigger I looked around but didn't see anything other than trees in the dark then the man took a few steps back moving away from my car and standing maybe 5 ft from the door after a moment I started walking over slowly hoping to just get in and leave as I got right up to the door the man continued to stare at me from just a few feet away I cautiously opened the door and rushed inside but before I could even turn it on the guy started yelling I looked over at him seeing him now facing the woods and just screaming I turned my head slightly to look where he was looking and in the woods I could see two or maybe even three figures hurrying toward my car my immediate thought was that this was a setup and I needed to leave instantly before something happened I quickly turned it on and reversed out just as the man next to me tried to move behind the car in an attempt to stop me I was able to get out seeing and hearing the group of men yelling at me as I sped away cops were called and although not much much was able to be found there were a few things the house I was to deliver to apparently was a vacant property it wasn't technically abandoned but the owners didn't even live in the state anymore it wasn't for sale either it was just left as is rotting away for the past decade the Coler that placed the order is unknown but the initial address he gave seemed to have no significance who the group was what they plan to do and so many other things are left with no resolution but I'll probably be wondering about it for the rest of my life after all had anything played out even a little bit differently I may not even be here right now I worked at a retail store in my 20s as an over overnight lead it wasn't one of your regular Big Chain grocery stores it was a local place with only about 8 or nine locations most nights I'd have an overnight stalker to help out but it wasn't uncommon for me to spend the whole shift alone again not the biggest store so it really wasn't a very intense working environment a lot of the time I'd find myself working slow just so I wouldn't run out of things to do this was one of those nights where I was alone and working at a steady Pace at the beginning of my shift I loaded up some boxes and moved into the aisles to start stalking it doesn't take much mental effort so my mind was elsewhere and just thinking about random things not really paying any attention I went through about three aisles until a knock at the front entrance made me jump I almost didn't even realize what it was because I was so spaced out but once I did I got really confused I heard them knock again loud enough to echo through the store I walked down to the end of the aisle and looked through the large front windows seeing a man in a hood standing at the doors I went up to the other side we're closed won't be open until 8:00 a.
m. I said through the glass the man looked at me but didn't say anything I pointed at the sign on the door we're closed sorry I repeated the man continued to look at me for a few seconds then turned and walked away I watched him walk until I couldn't see him anymore but it didn't look like he had parked anywhere the whole thing was odd to say the least but I figured he was just at the wrong place or something I went back to what I was doing stocking up the shelves and eventually forgetting about the Man by 2 a. m.
