My Stories #1
I work in a Jail at night. Our shifts are from midnight to eight in the morning. My job tends to be very boring at times paperwork gets done in about an hour or so all that's left to do at night is make sure everyone is alive by the time first shift comes on. In the unit I was working it only had about 40 people at the time. It's changed since then, but all of them were locked in single cells. There are two rooms upstairs with 8 cells and three rooms downstairs with cells all I can see into from my workstation. My workstation is in the middle of the unit. If I'm not walking I'm on the computer typing reports, doing other paperwork or checking emails on the computer. No inmate but my trustee was allowed to be out at night. My trustee was allowed to wander the unit and clean. I had only been working at the jail for about 6 months at the time. I didn't know anything about the history of the jail then what they told us in the classroom upstairs. So as I'm typing my report for something on the computer. My trustee had been mopping around the unit. I'd seen someone moving at the top of the stairs I just barely notice them over the top of my glasses that have slid down my nose. There is a big area up there and its brightly lit. All I can see is the silhouette of the person cause those are the only lights on up there besides the soft night lights of the cells and couple lights above me. It's not very far from where I'm sitting but I'm not really paying attention to them I assume their clean and I am engrossed with writing the report since I'm having problems with the program I'm using. So the person is moving back and forth at the top of the stairs for about 10 minutes. I see them walk toward one of the sub dayrooms which door is open so that the trustee can clean. They stop at the top of the stairs and stand. I don't really look up from my typing cause I assumed its the trustee about ask me a question or is looking over their work. So I go back to typing for a second and realize I don't see the person at the top of the stairs anymore from over my computer screen. They didn't come down the stairs they are metal and very hard to miss someone walking up and down them. I look into the sub dayroom where they were closest too and there's no one there. I look into the sub dayroom on my right on the bottom and I find my trustee is in there and he's chatting with another inmate who's in a cell and the room there is half mopped which means he's been there a while. I check the entire unit over. All the doors are secure. There is no way to close the doors without making a noise, all the doors are heavy and the locking mechanism can be heard all over the unit when its quiet.
I asked my coworkers about the weird experience at which someone told me that in the unit next door which was much like my own, had a man that suffered a sudden heart attack. They were unable to save him and had died in route to the hospital. The two units that were side by side tended to have weird experiences all the time. Guards and inmates seeing weird things.
Shortly after that experience, I ended up in the unit next door. Which had recently been converted to a female unit. I had a female wake up in the middle of the night in a panic. She was begging me to let her out of the cell she was. She kept stating that there was a weird man that was all black and he was leaning over her while she slept and that he was scaring her. I leaned back in my chair from my workstation to see into her cell and saw that she was alone, but that still made me nervous. Needless to say, those units still give me the creeps at night. Often when they told me either one of those was my assignment I would find someone to call when I started to feel uncomfortable. Cause when everyone is asleep and I know they are late at night, it still feels like someones watching me, but only in those units do I have the problem.
