Thats an true story that happend to me years ago. Im from germany and worked at an old peoples Home in a little german town at that time. The facility was in rural area on the outskirds of town.
One night, I had night shift with an new co-worker I never worked befor. He was in the mid 50s wearing little round glases and for some reason seemed a little strange to me on the first sight.
There always only where two worker alone in the facility at night and our job was to watch after over 100 rooms/dweller on three floors and make controlrounds through the whole facility. We werent allowed to use the elevators for security reasons at night and had to use the stairway instead.
I remember the strange weather that night. It was stormy and wild outside when my shift started at about 10 PM. At this time most of the personal was gone, only one older nurse was in the stationroom on the 2. floor, where we had our headquarter at night. She wasnt uses to the newer PC programes and it took here longer to finish here writtingstuff.
Me and my co-worker started our first round trough the house, using the stairways which had heavy doors we had to close slowly and carfully everytime to avoid noise. Everything was quit, most old people where sleeping already and after we checked all rooms we sat down in the 2. Floor stationsroom and finished some paperwork. The old nurse was gone all doors to the outside shut and the house was completly quit when we where sitting on the table.
After 15 minutes sitting in the quit, suddenly a heavy door in the stairway was smashed hard.We looked at each other without saying anything and immediately run in the stairway. I run up the 3. Floor and my workmate sprinted down on the groundfloor. We saw nothing and nobody. We even checked the stairway windows, all where closed. Someone must have been in the stairway we conluded.
As we found nothing we continued our tour, starting from the 3. Floor down to the groundfloor. From there on I could not stop thinking who the hell would sneek arround the floors at the middl of the night. It was about 2am when we had to change the double sheets from an old invalid man who pissed in his bed. I stoud in the corner of the room beside the bed, backed up against the wall. My co-worker was on the other side of the bed.
I remember me watching the door waiting for someone peer in the room. While I was concentrating on the door and lost in my thoughts,suddenly my co-worker freaked out, screaming at the old man out of nothing, ripping arround the sheets and tossing arround the old man . His face got an angry creepy look and I was totaly shocked and not able to say or do anything. I just watched this creepy guy infront of me with the totaly black windows behind him and the door leading to the dark floors where some freak sneeked arround unseen...I stood there pressed on the wall in the corner of that room and felt totaly lost, surrounded by psychopats.
We finaly reached the groundfloor and everything was quit, only the wind blowing arround the house. Suddenly we heard an dropping sound, like someone dropped and knife or something metalic. The sound came from the kitchen area. We run to the closed glasdoor where the sound came from. It was an long dark hallway with an backdoor leading to the trashcans and parkinglot at the end. We opend that door and searched every single room. I felt extremly unconfortable and expected an attack every moment. Again we found nothing.
Some hours later, we started our last tour for this night. We splited up this time and I checked the rooms like usual. When I looked in one room an old lady was awake and sat on her bed. She asked me if I was in her room 5 minutes ago. I sayed no and that we just started our tour. She told me that 5 minutes ago she clearly heard someone enterd her room .She asked whos there but didnt got any answer back. Then the door was closed again.
I got an creepy feeling while listining the old lady. I told her to push the alarmbutton next time something like this happen again. I think its unnesseray to say how I feld for the next hours of the night every time I enterd a room or walked arround an corner. I expeceted some stranger standing there all the time. I was more then glad when this damn shift was over.
Some days later I met the old nurse who left the facility late at night and told her the story. She told me that the backdoor to the kitchenarea was wide open when she went to her car that night she left us. She reached the open dark backdoor from the parkinglot and called if somebody is there , suddenly she got an very very bad feeling turned arround run to their car and drove off fast. She was totaly scared and tried to reach and warn us but didnt found the number...I ´told her that the backdoor was definitly closed when we checked the area.
We never found out what creepy freak sneeked arround there at night and many night shiftworker reported similar experience the following month. The co-worker I had to work with that night was fired after more and more complaints about his person emerged over the time.
Anyway Im glad I dont have to work there anymore and never will make any night shift myself again....