WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:05.919 Welcome to Scary Story Podcast. A worker had forgotten what it was like to 2 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:09.960 take the night shift, but he's about to discover why everyone hates it so 3 00:00:10.119 --> 00:00:15.400 much. It's not for the reasons that you're thinking. My name is Edwin, 4 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:24.679 and here it's a Scary Story. It was eleven at night, two 5 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:28.559 more hours until my shifts started, and it didn't feel that way. I 6 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:31.920 had been texting with one of my co workers, Amanda, half the night, 7 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:38.200 complaining about Markman's Warehouse, the despised clothing store. We both hated and 8 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:42.600 work that. It's always kind of like that, isn't it With our co 9 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:45.880 workers. I've become friends. We always talk about work, even when we 10 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:50.320 don't want to. It's like a way for us to connect and bond complaining 11 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:55.119 about work. But we all had the reasons to do so. You see, 12 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:59.439 the place was owned by this man, Robert Markman, that had recently 13 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:03.640 passed away, and just our luck, he happened to die during a visit 14 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:07.799 to our store. I mean, he was pretty old, and it felt 15 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.159 like he was really pushing it by staying at work visiting his other businesses in 16 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.200 the area. At that age, the raisin some of us would call him, 17 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.200 and it probably felt bad for a little while for saying that. Pablo, 18 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:23.879 the security guard waited for us in the car when we came in the 19 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:27.120 week that the owner died. He's the one that told us, but he 20 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:33.000 also took out his phone and showed us how it happened. He was fixated 21 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:37.439 on an idea that it wasn't just a heart attack, at least not one 22 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:42.879 caused by only his age, but that he had seen something that quite literally 23 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:48.239 scared him to death, and he had the reasons to believe something like that. 24 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:52.079 Pablo was a big believer in ghosts and always had some type of video 25 00:01:52.319 --> 00:01:56.840 or tweet to show us ghost caught on tape or whatever. I think that's 26 00:01:56.879 --> 00:02:00.719 why he was so into his job. He got to look at the cameras 27 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:06.280 all day, but this time he was onto something. In the video, 28 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:09.400 you could clearly see the owner walking with one of his directors and the store 29 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:15.639 manager toward the warehouse. Mister Markmans points at something seeming kind of upset, 30 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:19.599 and the two women that were with him rush over and leave him standing there 31 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:23.000 for a little bit. He looks around and then looks briefly at the camera 32 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:30.360 and then stares directly toward the center of the store. He could tell that 33 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:34.919 he saw something that terrified him because he tried to run, but instead his 34 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:39.039 knees gave in and he dropped to the floor. The video has no audio, 35 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:44.719 but you could see him screaming, his face stretched in an unusual manner, 36 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:49.240 and then he tilts to the side and ends up sitting like that, 37 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:54.280 his hands curled up by his chest under his neck. He freezes up and 38 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:58.919 he just stays like that until the store manager comes back running. He just 39 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:05.039 finds him there completely still. She screams, and the director comes in, 40 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:09.639 and then two other people follow. From that day on, things started changing 41 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:14.520 around there. They started getting some new hires to work the night shift, 42 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.199 but no one would stick around long enough to be switched the daytime shift. 43 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:23.680 Of course, it was incredibly boring, but it was easy, and as 44 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:27.439 more and more people would come and go, Pablo started to notice a few 45 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.439 things. You see, he would get along with everyone, especially with him 46 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:35.639 being the only other person on site at night. They started talking with them 47 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:38.639 about previous co workers, leaving that he was trying to get to the bottom 48 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:44.199 of it. Not even the managers tried so hard, but Pablo was so 49 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:49.039 into mysteries and detectives and stuff like that that had fit them. He wanted 50 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:51.840 to figure it out, and I have to give him credit for that, 51 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:59.120 although some of the answers were hard to believe even for him. The person 52 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:02.039 before me on the night shift was this girl named Deborah, who had told 53 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:05.360 pretty much everyone that she wanted to get into sales, but was all right 54 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:10.639 with taking the night shift for now. Nobody liked it. I had enough 55 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:14.280 seniority that I could say no to taking it, but I really didn't mind 56 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:16.600 it. I probably should have kept my mouth shut about it, though, 57 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:20.639 because I was the one that took her spot. When she left, her 58 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:26.000 reasons were bizarre, and even though she seemed a little out there, I 59 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.040 don't know, maybe something about the way she'd look at you, everyone believed 60 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.720 her. Pablo once again showed us some footage on his cellphone of her running 61 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:38.800 out of the back storage area, right around where Robert Markman, the owner, 62 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:42.839 had died. You could see it. She looks off camera towards one 63 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:46.279 of the windows and towards the center of the store, and then in shock, 64 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:48.279 she tries to run away. She hits her knee on one of the 65 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:53.519 work tables. And keeps rushing towards the front of the store. The front 66 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:57.240 doors were locked by that time, but she used the emergency exit to get 67 00:04:57.279 --> 00:05:00.560 out and set off the alarm. Deborah I had told Pablo that she didn't 68 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.720 quit, she was just suddenly off the schedule, so she stopped coming in. 69 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:10.360 She also told them that she regretted telling the management what she had seen 70 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:15.920 that night. Things had gotten tens around Markmans. Although it wasn't formally announced, 71 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:20.360 rumors had it that we couldn't talk about ghosts or anything of that paranormal 72 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:26.800 stuff around there. It's messing with employee morale. They said that after going 73 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:30.319 through a hard time keeping employees around, it was affecting everyone. If we 74 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:34.360 didn't stay quiet about it, we would all lose our jobs if it shuts 75 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:40.399 down. Pablo had several theories, and that's what we talked about that night 76 00:05:40.519 --> 00:05:44.199 before work. When I showed up, I just started on the night shift 77 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.240 myself, and yeah, it was super easy. Had so many movies, 78 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:50.720 music, and podcasts loaded on my phone. It seemed like I was about 79 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:56.800 to take three twenty hour flights back to back. My job was to organize 80 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:00.920 a storage area and count items to receive the delivery from the trucks that would 81 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.879 start coming in between three and four in the morning, and also to work 82 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:09.279 on printing out price tags, labels, things like that. It was a 83 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:12.120 bunch of things that no one wanted to do, but they were super simple. 84 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:15.759 The only bad thing was a lack of sleep, obviously, but other 85 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:20.279 than that it was fine. Well except for the thing about the ghost, 86 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:26.600 or at least I thought it was a ghost. Being in a place where 87 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:30.519 someone had died so mysteriously was definitely going to be creepy. But I remember 88 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:35.480 hearing somewhere that people have probably died everywhere. Ever, thought about the streets 89 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:40.959 to drive, in the sidewalks you take to work. At one point a 90 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:43.800 car might have gone off the road, or someone might have taken out a 91 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:49.480 weapon, drive by, trees falling, I don't know lightning strikes. But 92 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:55.399 Pablo knew something that I didn't. You see, he had worked at Markman's 93 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:59.680 for a while, and he had met the owner several times. He knew 94 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:02.920 of some of his strange requests around the stores. He was very into keeping 95 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:06.879 a hierarchy going, for example, made everything slower, but he liked to 96 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:13.360 feel at the very top in charge. He didn't like being questioned even for 97 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:17.879 his odd orders. Pablo showed me the video again of the footage of Robert's 98 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:23.879 death. It was hard to see, both emotionally and quite literally, because 99 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:29.079 he recorded the security footage on his phone from the TV monitor. But again 100 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.759 we watched as Robert pointed to something, scolded the director and store manager, 101 00:07:33.439 --> 00:07:38.800 and them rushing over to fix it. That's when he stands around for a 102 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:44.319 bit and again sees something by the center of the store, and then screams. 103 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:48.600 People aren't quitting because of the ghost of Robert, Pablo said quietly. 104 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:54.439 We were sitting in his old truck parked by the entrance of the delivery area 105 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:58.600 of the store. The rest of the shopping center was empty by now, 106 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.319 except for the security patrol car that did their rounds every half an hour or 107 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:07.199 so. Even before you came in, Man, people have been complaining about 108 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:11.800 something else. I waited for him to finish, and I didn't point this 109 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:13.839 out to him, but I noticed the hand holding his phone was beginning to 110 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:20.240 shake nervously. No one would be bringing this stuff up to anyone, you 111 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:24.959 know, Gil and Debbie. He was referring to the director and general manager. 112 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.959 No one could tell them anything either. They even went against me. 113 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.440 At one point, Pablo continued, I almost got fired because of it. 114 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.480 My alarm went off at that point I had two minutes to clock in. 115 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.639 I'll tell you about it. Man. You're gonna be at the back storage 116 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.639 area, right, Pablo asked, I'm still on the clock. I'll leave 117 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:50.559 at four, but i'll stop buy a little later after I do my other 118 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.799 rounds. I don't know why this guy had to ask. I mean, 119 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:58.159 he could see literally everything inside the store and warehouse to do the security cameras 120 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:03.919 well. I later found out that it wasn't exactly every corner of the place. 121 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:07.600 Some of these areas were off limits, and I think on that night 122 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:15.320 we found out why I didn't turn on any of my podcasts that night. 123 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:18.639 Usually there might go to when I'm by myself, but since I listened to 124 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:22.360 a lot of scary stories, I decided to hold off for a bit. 125 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:26.240 I had actually started working the night shift a few years before this. Right 126 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:31.440 there at Markman's. There was another coworker with me at the time, and 127 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.000 lots more to do since it closed a little later and open earlier than it 128 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:39.639 did now. But with theft and everything, they changed their hours. We 129 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:43.440 rarely had to step onto the sales floor during our night shifts. There was 130 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:48.080 almost nothing for us to do out there. Plus you were just setting off 131 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:52.480 the secondary alarms, the beeping alarms. Who would call them. They were 132 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:58.200 basically a soft beeping noise that sounded when a detected movement, I guess had 133 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:01.639 some slack between something small like headlights casting shadows in the store, or the 134 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:07.120 AC knocking something over and a window breaking or someone running across the floor, 135 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:11.639 which would set off the real alarm. Either way, that alarm had been 136 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:15.320 set that way for the longest time. When I first started, I didn't 137 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:18.720 want to risk it because it's what security would see, and then they would 138 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.279 report that to the owner, and he always had something to say, although 139 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:28.759 he wouldn't tell us directly. Debbie would normally do that. I remember one 140 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:33.480 time the AC wasn't working and I went in with basketball shorts and had to 141 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:37.000 explain myself, even though we had no uniform, and it was well within 142 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:41.039 store policy for us to do that. It's respect for the workplace, Debbie 143 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:48.679 said, I don't know how I stayed there for so long, And so 144 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:54.279 I got to work, getting used to the new roles by myself, everything 145 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:58.360 written down in this makeshift manual that other coworkers started years ago. They even 146 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.080 added their own notes to a book on things that we needed to do, 147 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:05.480 what was important, what to ignore, and how long things would normally take 148 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:09.960 to finish. There were several boxes to put the price tags on, so 149 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:16.279 I got started with that, slowly getting into the groove of things, and 150 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:22.919 suddenly I heard the beeping sounds from the secondary alarm. After a few seconds 151 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:28.840 it stopped. The phone started ringing from the desk behind me. It was 152 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:33.279 probably PABO. I walked over to it answered the call by pushing the blinking 153 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:37.879 button. That thing had been upgraded in over a decade. Hey man, 154 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:41.159 you were on the sales floor, no, I answered, I'm the only 155 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:46.600 one here, right, I asked him. Yeah, Okay, no worries, 156 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:48.279 you're good man. Don't worry. I'll tell you about it later. 157 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:54.600 Don't worry about it. He hung up abruptly. But that was one don't 158 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.159 worry too many. I think it was the way he said it. It 159 00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:03.879 was disturbed, and so I kept labeling away for a couple of hours and 160 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.440 I finally got into it. So I started listening to my music, making 161 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:11.960 time pass a little bit faster. I took off my earphones to go back 162 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.720 to read the manual. I remembered that thing that made some notes on it 163 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:22.320 too at one point, and forgotten all about it. Working in the front 164 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:30.399 was a whole other world compared to this one. Part two of Nancy is 165 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:39.480 coming upward after this, stay with me. Every once in a while, 166 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.080 one of the shift leaders would leave a set, which was a few clothes, 167 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.559 all in the smallest sizes available, to be brought up near the door 168 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.639 and put on hangers so they would get unwrinkled overnight. I don't know if 169 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:54.879 it worked, but hey, that's what the note said. The clothes would 170 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:58.120 then get put up on the mannequins in the morning, and there was another 171 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:01.000 set, an individual one that would be in a different size. It was 172 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:07.440 very specific size fourteen pants, medium top, and usually had to search several 173 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:11.919 boxes to find the perfect unseam length of it. I knew exactly of the 174 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:16.159 mannequin they wanted it for, and everyone had at least two jokes about it. 175 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:20.639 Although we were all pretty much creeped out, nobody really found out why, 176 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:22.919 but for a while we had stopped getting the sets for some of the 177 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:28.799 mannequins only kept the larger one. I never questioned anything. It just felt 178 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:33.639 like there was no point to it. Plus, all the mannequins were creepy. 179 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:37.840 They weren't the usual ones you see nowadays. I feel like they've gotten 180 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:43.159 more stylish and even headless, handless and featless. But the owner was an 181 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:48.159 old school kind of guy, and his obsession were these ultra realistic things that 182 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:52.519 would scare even some of the customers. But there was one that even Pablo 183 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:58.559 remembers from back when he started that everyone called Nancy's, the one with the 184 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:05.919 specializing. The owner always wanted it front and center with the most recent arrivals, 185 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:09.279 and no one knows for sure, but the workers used to say that 186 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:15.159 the owner lost his wife or something and they felt bad for him overlooking his 187 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:20.080 creepy obsession with it. One of my co workers joked that they looked like 188 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.600 they would have made a good couple if he took off, like fifty years 189 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.440 from him. I wouldn't hear a lot of those things too, but I 190 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:31.159 never put much attention to them. I looked at the list and found the 191 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:35.360 set request, but it didn't have a date on it. One of them 192 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:39.519 was requesting a red top and the other a yellow one, so I had 193 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:43.759 to open the door carefully in order to not set off the beeping alarm to 194 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:46.480 glance at the mannequin, and I was able to see its dark hair tied 195 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:50.840 up in a ponytail, the head looking straight ahead and away from me. 196 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:56.799 For some reason, I felt a little bit better seeing that. But okay, 197 00:14:56.840 --> 00:15:01.120 so she wants the yellow set to myself, taking a note of it 198 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:05.919 on the notebook they would leave for me. I finally found the set that 199 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.519 the shift leader wanted for the morning and set it aside. I was about 200 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:13.600 to continue with everything when my alarm went off again, scaring the heck out 201 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:18.399 of me. It was break time already. I went out toward the back 202 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:24.639 gate and found Pablo sitting in his truck looking at his phone. You ready, 203 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.279 he said, as I got in the passenger seat. Yeah, so 204 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:33.039 what happened? I asked, as he prefaced the story by saying he would 205 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:35.679 have to go back to when he started. He didn't waste any time. 206 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:41.440 Robert Markman was set in his own ways, but he didn't want security cameras 207 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:46.200 at first because he thought that it would make people rely on them and therefore 208 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:50.519 make them less vigilant. But soon the store started experiencing people stealing things. 209 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.799 They would always blame the shoppers, but employees can be guilty of that too. 210 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.840 There anyway, the point was that in order for the insurance to cover 211 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:03.480 things like that, they needed alarms and security cameras. A guard would be 212 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:07.120 a good thing too, and that's where Pablo came in. There were two 213 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:11.080 security guards, one more on the floor while the other was overlooking the cameras 214 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:15.039 and equipment. But this is where things started to get a little bit strange 215 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:19.360 because Pablo, no matter how much he loves the ideas of the paranormal, 216 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:26.440 he doesn't believe that it's a ghost creeping everybody out. You see, for 217 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:30.720 a time, employees that would stay laid pass their shifts or by themselves near 218 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:36.000 the sales floor would complain of hearing noises. At first, they blamed the 219 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:40.519 rats, but since there was never any food there and the past control people 220 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:44.360 were pretty good with their jobs, they dismissed it to just saying that it 221 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:48.559 was the store settling. Things get moved around a lot during the day, 222 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.559 they explained, so it made sense that maybe something wasn't placed properly on the 223 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:57.360 shelves and they would shift. But it took one person, a young man 224 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:03.359 that had been hired recently, to say that he saw Nancy the Mannikin move 225 00:17:03.400 --> 00:17:08.200 an arm, that it was clear as day, and that his reasoning sounded 226 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:12.680 crazy. He admitted it, but the arm moved up and not down, 227 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:18.079 which could be easily explained by gravity or a loose joint or something. It 228 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:23.079 just wouldn't move in that direction. And we talk about it as normal now. 229 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:26.920 But Brandon, the guy that saw it, wasn't shocked when it happened. 230 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:32.480 People didn't call ambulances as easily as they do now, but the paramedics 231 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:37.200 arrived in everything. He was dismissed or quit. No one really knows what 232 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:41.160 happened. The story faded as it got passed down from co worker to co 233 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:45.119 worker, and only Pablo claimed to know the truth. I mean he was 234 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:48.799 there. Of course, back then, cameras weren't always in our pockets, 235 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:55.839 and tape would be recorded over frequently, especially with security footage, so there's 236 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:59.640 no record of it. Although Pablo saw it with his own two eyes. 237 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:07.920 It was subtle if he admitted to that, but clear the thing had moved 238 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:14.279 I smiled as he told me that, wondering if he would just admit to 239 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:18.079 lying about his story, but he looked at me, reding the eye, 240 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:23.240 his lips trembling as he continued in order to not hear more about it. 241 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:27.839 Mister Markman had the cameras angled away from the center display where Nancy was, 242 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.759 and when Pablo brought it up that the insurance needed a camera covering a certain 243 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:37.440 percentage of the floor, they had several meetings with him about what he had 244 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:41.680 seen and who he had told about it. Paulo had just had a baby 245 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:45.079 back then and needed his job, so he kept quiet about it. But 246 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:51.160 that beeping alarm had a different meaning to him now. It detected subtle movements. 247 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:55.480 It would label them on a map on the floor. They always came 248 00:18:55.480 --> 00:19:00.400 from the center display, which was an area where the mannequin was along with 249 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:06.359 some other clothes lying on special shelves for viewing. Does it still happen, 250 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:11.880 I asked him, kind of believing him by now, Well, that's the 251 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:17.559 thing, he continued. It's been picking up. One of the theories many 252 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:21.440 of the coworkers had, and had them for the longest time. Was that 253 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:25.680 ever since a new set of Mannicheans was brought in. The motion detector kept 254 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:30.039 going off at night from the center display. Nancy, by the way, 255 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:33.839 had been kept all this time in the same spot. Became so obvious that 256 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:38.319 it only happened after the new ones were installed around the store that mister Markman 257 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:44.200 demanded that they be removed immediately, which they were, and suddenly everything was 258 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:48.759 fine. For years, no one complained about it, and the story sort 259 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:53.319 of became a rumor, a tall tail around the store. But you know 260 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:59.839 what Pablo said quietly, the day the owner died, some of the new 261 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.519 anakins had been set up around the store. That's what he was angry about. 262 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:08.759 The direction where he turns his head. Look, it took out his 263 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:14.440 phone. The position of the video was right before mister Markman screamed. Look, 264 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:19.880 Pablo whispered, he's looking right towards the center display. I think it's 265 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:23.680 Nancy Man, I'm telling you, he said. Whenever there are other Mannekins 266 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:30.079 around the floor, even just one, this thing acts up. I can't 267 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:34.839 find any other explanation for it. We talked about how bizarre it sounded, 268 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:40.599 and now with this whole theory being thrown out the window considering the Mannikins were 269 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:45.480 in storage and not on display. My alarm rang, My brake was over, 270 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:49.039 and I had two minutes to head back inside. I'll go with you, 271 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:52.000 man, to show you, Pubblo said, as we shut the doors 272 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.240 to the truck and walked up the side entrance to the back. We stepped 273 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:00.759 inside, and he casually pointed at the storage closet for the mannequins were I 274 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:04.359 wanted to see them, so I opened it up and saw them, realistic 275 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:08.359 in the style that mister Markman liked them, five of them leaning on the 276 00:21:08.359 --> 00:21:12.839 wall. Pablo went inside and turned on the light, looking behind the door 277 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:18.039 on the high shelves. He stepped outside and into the other storage closet, 278 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.319 turning on that light and then looking around the warehouse. It was freaking out. 279 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:26.480 He walked up toward the door that led to the sales floor. He 280 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:30.319 opened it up slowly to not set off the beeping alarm, and then he 281 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:36.119 turned around and back toward the exit. There are supposed to be six Mannikins 282 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:41.079 stored in here. There's one on the floor aside from Nancy. He looked 283 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:45.200 at me and then turned around to head to his booth. He was out 284 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:48.960 for about two minutes before rushing back, saying that he had checked the footage, 285 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:53.960 that he noticed that there was one mannequin off camera by one of the 286 00:21:55.039 --> 00:22:00.640 corners, that maybe the changes in staff caused some confusion, that they put 287 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:06.079 one out there after years. I'm not doing so I stayed quiet the whole 288 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:10.200 time he spoke. I didn't want to scare him anymore. It was time 289 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:11.759 for him to do his rounds on the outside of the building, and the 290 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:15.640 delivery truck was about to arrive, so I told him we would talk about 291 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:22.240 it later. I didn't want to tell him. When we looked out towards 292 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:29.000 the cells floor, Nancy her profile, her stiff collar bone showing as she 293 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:33.480 no longer looked directly away from me now her head was turned to the right. 294 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:40.160 I didn't know what to think of it. It was a complete sense 295 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:47.119 of loss of reality. It's going to be happening, and so I sat 296 00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:52.079 there about myself. Once Pablo left, with the new boxes opening, sorting, 297 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:59.000 stacking all in that silent storage area, I had two more hours to 298 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:19.920 go. 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