There are many jobs I know I'm not built for, but could possibly pull off.
But I do have a certainty about a few.
Security.
I know I am out of my league there, as are many of us.
Security jobs are no safer than law enforcement.
Especially jobs in jails, hospitals and asylums.
I don't even know how much they make but I KNOW it's nowhere near enough.
Redditor KapyBaraAI wanted to hear from the people who work security jobs and are left riddled with nightmares, so they asked:
"Security Guards, What's Your Creepiest/Scariest Story?"
My hat is off to anybody who works security jobs.
Underpaid and life threatening.
Not a fun combo.
Slow Crawl
"Once we had a seemingly homeless guy crawl into a crawl space trying to hide in our casino. He suffocated and we found his body 5 days later after a smell and bio matter had appeared on one side of the wall."
GhostLandsTramp
Something out of a zombie movie...
"Used to work at a hospital that was mainly used for mental health. It had fully secured floors and it was our job to control combative patients. Many patients were waiting for felony trials, so lots of stories."
"The worst was we did a welfare check on a vehicle in our ER parking lot. They had been sitting there around an hour or so. The guy inside the car wasn't responding to our attempts to get his attention."
"Open his car door up and he was trying to dig his own foot off with a flat head screwdriver. He had gotten all the way down to the ankle bones on one whole side."
"We had to wrestle him into the ER as he was on a ton of meth. Seeing the ankle like that and the guy's almost feral-like state was like something out of a zombie movie."
Youfooool10772
In the Dark
"I was a security guard at an old folks' home that was essentially 2 buildings with a smaller building between them that acted as a lobby. One building was for assisted living and the other was palliative care."
"I was in charge of doing a security check of every floor, including the boiler room and basement. One night, I took the elevator down to the basement and hit the light switch, walking down the hall toward the boiler room."
"About halfway there, the lights started shutting off at the ballast, one after the other."
"Now normally I'm not in any way afraid of the dark, but on this particular night, I started on a mad dash back to the elevator before the lights went off completely because there were no windows in this basement, it would have been too dark to see."
"In the process of running, I realized that the elevator had lost power as well, so I got to just stand there in pitch black darkness until someone upstairs got everything back on again."
"All in all, I spent 23 minutes down there in the dark. 0/10, would not recommend."
DeusEx-Machinist
Voices
"Apart from the usual 'voices' you hear, shades you see, light cracks, creepy ol' buildings etc..
"One night I was passing by a playground park at around 3 am and spotted an adult male and what appeared to be a kid 5-6 years of ages both swinging in total silence on them swings you have for children. It was cold/rainy and both of them were poorly clothed for this type of year and especially weather. (Didn't seem homeless though)."
"Pretty unusual stuff to do at 3AM with a kid you would say."
"I had lots of different things cross my mind that moment so decided to take a closer look since I thought I was tripping.
"As soon as I got close enough for them to see me (still far from them) they just stared at me for a brief second & started running as fast they could, again without a single word spoken or voice/sound being made. Not sure where they ran because I had to scratch my eyes for a second time to check if I was asleep or not."
"It isn't 'creepy/scary' as the other stories in the comments but it was definitely a 'What the f**k bruh?' moment for me."
DavidKr98
In the Stall
"Got a call on the radio about something happening in the bathroom of our main building as there was a crowd forming. My brother and I approached the scene on foot since we were a walking distance away. We walked into the bathroom and I could see two very pale, blue veined legs in one of the stalls."
"A man died on the toilet. His wife and kids were there and apparently the last thing the woman said to her husband was 'Could you hurry it up you’re slowing us down.' It was one thing to see the body and another to see the look on the kids faces when they found out."
I will never not see these stories when I close my eyes.
On Patrol
"So I did patrols for a business district in my city. 4 buildings about 20 floors or so each. You have one partner at the desk watching cctv and one who patrols all buildings then they switch. Anyways it was like 3am, I'm on patrol. All buildings are basically locked tight."
I check to make sure each door on each floor is locked, then check the stairwell, can be really spooky since it's late, dark, and you're alone."
"Anyways I was on the like 12th floor or something, open the stairwell door and there's just a dude there. Didn't look homeless, he had a sleeping bag. I escort him out of the building, no fuss, but he also didn't say a word. No idea how he got in. My partner told me he ran into him in the same way once before."
uzasno
Staring Back
"I was doing security in a hospital at the time, decided to do the basement patrol with a flashlight for funsies, I was sweeping the light into the offices when I saw a semi-transparent man staring back at me from inside on of the rooms. Well I nearly shit myself before I realized I had caught my own reflection in the glass because of the flashlight."
Matt_East
Talons
"My dad used to work security guard jobs after he retired because he could. He was on-site overnight shift at a paper mill here in Oregon that's part of a small town and is at the edge of the Cascades."
"He noticed over the course of about three nights that all of a sudden all of the little critters he was used to seeing in the lumber yard were just... gone."
"It was weird, and quiet, and he was about to set out on his rounds when something made him pause and take a big step backwards into the cover of the guard shack."
"It's a good thing, too, because the Great Horned Owl's talons missed his head by about six inches. Those birds are f**king big, and they're territorial as hell. Dad said they stuck around just long enough to kill every living thing under about 30lbs in the area, and then they moved on."
slice_of_pi
The Ambush
"I used to patrol at night for a school district and one night we got a call from dispatch that there were some kids at the school that called them saying they were there and that they should send a guard. It seemed off since why would they self incriminate that they were trespassing."
"Regardless they told me to go check. While about halfway there my supervisor tells me over the radio to not go and that he’ll take my call."
"I stop into a gas station for some snacks and and am sitting the car when he gives me a update. My supervisor contacted the police and arrived with them."
"They found the kids hiding in the bushes with knives ready to ambush me. They were arrested but I couldn’t help but think what could’ve happened had my supervisor not intervened and it was shortly after that I decided to pursue a new line of work."
The_Galactic_Hunter
Watch the Cameras
"Guy told me he was going to use my glasses to stab out my eyes and that I should be careful dealing with guys like him because you never see them coming."
"Went to save the footage on our camera system and the cameras were in fact down due to an unrelated reason, so he coulda just murdered me and nobody would have seen that crap."
SadGruffman
Some jobs are the stuff of nightmares.
Good luck to y'all.
People With Video Camera Doorbells Describe The Creepiest Thing They've Ever Caught On Film
We want to keep an eye on everything all the time.
Reddit user, wigglytunadiddler, wanted to hear about the horrifying security recordings when they asked:
"Redditors who have a Ring doorbell, what’s the creepiest thing you have caught on it?"
Sometimes it's not an outright terrifying video you catch on your doorbell camera, but that doesn't mean it's any less difficult to explain or understand.
Spreading The Magic
"Not really creepy but there’s a serial gnomer in my neighborhood being caught on doorbell cameras. She’s dropping off gnomes on the unsuspected and walks away."
NotVeryAccurateTbh
"Is this some sort of euphemism or is this lady just going around leaving garden gnomes everywhere?"
nightcrwlrs
"She’s just showing up to houses at night and leaving little garden gnomes for people. Apparently she made it into a very small section of the local news. She’s making progress with her army"
NotVeryAccurateTbh
Nice Plants. Good Plants.
"Not super creepy, but there is a guy that pets my plants sometimes."
lookssharp
"Those damn vegetarians."
gambler328
When You're The Center Of Attention
"I was drunk as f-ck watching my parents house when they were on vacation, woke up the next morning to a video my mom sent me, I was taking out the trash and dropped my phone in with the trash..."
"I'm in my boxers trying to get my phone out of the trash can... my drunk ass falls into the garbage can and I had a hell of a time getting myself out. I remember none of it. My mom proceeds to send that video to the rest of my family... and extend family.. and some family friends."
"Scary, no... but pretty hilarious"
huewutm8
Interfering In Young Love
"My neighbor's teenage daughter's boyfriend hiding behind my car waiting for her to leave to go to her "friend's" house for the night. Yeah, I showed her parents."
Steel_Town
Burn The WHOLE House Down
"Not really creepy (at least to me) but kinda bizarrely funny. The time we were out of town and at like 10pm we got the “There is a person at your front door” notification and of course immediately opened up the app, because who in the hell was at the house that late. Get on the live camera view to find the motion sensor was triggered by a spider lowering itself down from the roof right in front of the camera"
dragonsarmors
What the doorbell camera is supposed to do is let you know who's at the door, what they want and allow you to make the choice if you want to open and confront it or not.
However, there are those times when what you see at the door is too bizarre to leave shut.
A Friend Came To Visit
"At 5ish in the morning, sun was just starting to come up and it's the middle of winter. My husband half asleep answers the doorbell on his phone in bed next to me. It's a toddler wearing nothing but a pj top and underwear. Husband says 'hello?' Toddler says 'can (my son's name) come out to play?' Husband still half asleep says 'not right now maybe later'."
"About 3 mins later husband suddenly sits up as the reality of the situation dawn's on him and he rushes out of the house to track down a wandering toddler walking barefoot in the streets in freezing weather."
"Turns out my son's toddler friend from daycare who's been to our house once for a playdate just walked straight out his front door undetected and memorized the route to our house."
"For me it was the possibility of his little journey ending very differently than it did in a number of terrifying scenarios that still haunts me."
misspoopyloopy
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Have you ever worked one of those jobs that paid you to kinda sit there? If you have, you know the joy that comes with watching the entirety of Breaking Bad ...Wrong House, Bro
"I was out of state and my brother who lives with me was two hours away visiting our parents. A guy came to the door and he was on the phone with someone saying "Dude I'm at your house now where are you?" (It was not dudes house) He literally checked the door and tried to come in, I guess Dude told him to go ahead in."
"He's still in the phone saying "Man I'm telling you your door is locked. Don't you have a black truck in the driveway?" Coincidence that it is the same thing my brother drives. And this is why from that day forward I keep my front door locked even when I'm home and I'm going in and out of the house all day."
rcktgirl05
A Conversation To Forget
"My little brother is a sleepwalker, this one time he snuck out of the house (while still asleep)."
"My sister said she heard someone talking just outside the door, went to look and saw my brother sat on the porch couch apparently having a conversation with my [not there] grandpa. She says he was telling my grandpa 'I love you' and 'I’m going to miss you'.”
"My dad got him back inside the house without waking him up and nobody gave much thought into what just had happened until a couple hours later when my uncle called telling us my grandpa had passed away while asleep."
"My little brother says he doesn’t remember anything but we got it on video, we can’t hear what he’s saying too clearly but he was definitely talking to someone and he sure as heck said 'I’m going to miss you' at least twice."
Raging-ball-of-fury
Probably Looking To Charge You For Your Lawn Maintenance
"6 people standing about 10 feet from my door and just staring at my house this past September."
"They were there muttering to each other for almost 20 minutes before going to the next house on the row and muttering there too."
"My girlfriend thinks they were the HOA, but I don't totally believe that."
mxmnull
And then there's stories like these, encounters with horrifying, potentially life-ending situations, narrowly avoided because your doorbell alerted you.
An Unwanted Visitor
"My mom saw a guy wandering around her yard with a baseball bat in hand late at night. Her, my brother, and our Great Dane went out to ask him what the f-ck he thought he was doing. Guy immediately ran off."
"Used to think security cameras at home were weird. Now I know they can give you a head start in case someone shady is about."
KayTheMadScientist
Took Part Of The House As Evidence
"the lady next door completely naked and passed out on the front door, so I called the cops, she got arrested for public drunkenness and indecent exposure and they took the doorbell as evidence"
boat_ghost420
The Sounds Of Chaos
"Had mine detect the sound of someone screaming bloody murder in the middle of the night. Was only like 2 seconds then stopped and didn't happen again."
"Then there was the time there was a shootout across the street and it picked up the sounds of gunshots. I could hear the crack of the bullets on the opposite side of the house, but sadly not on camera."
xXminilex
Sounds Of Boom
"A chemical plant blew up a few miles from my house and you could hear the a distant explosion and see an orange glow on mine"
woodchuck125
Wanting To Introduce You To His Friend?
"Around 6:00am an obviously homeless man rang our doorbell a few times. He began to reach his hands into his pants and talk to his penis."
"After a few seconds he then tried to climb through a cracked window above the door. It was too tall and he gave up immediately. He then walked around the side porch, put all of his belongings nicely in a corner, and left. Never saw him again."
neviuz
Keep your eyes on the world around you.
Obviously, do what's best for you and your family to keep yourselves safe, but be ready to act.