Speaker 1: I worked as a night watchman all my life for
Speaker 1: this warehouse located on the outskirts. One night, I was
Speaker 1: having dinner after my usual rounds when I heard this
Speaker 1: mysterious sound. It was the sound of something being dragged
Speaker 1: on the floor, so I got up to check. Sometimes
Speaker 1: homeless men sneak in to spend their night under a roof.
Speaker 1: Expecting something similar, I entered the storage unit, where piles
Speaker 1: of cardboard boxes were lined up like a tower. That's
Speaker 1: when I heard two unfamiliar voices, hold the legs, I'll
Speaker 1: hold the hands. Didn't expect it to be this heavy.
Speaker 1: It's a dead body, not some back filled with trash.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be heavy more did they say dead body?
Speaker 1: Holy smokes. I quickly switched off my flashlight and peeped
Speaker 1: behind a cardboard box to get a better view of
Speaker 1: what was happening. When I saw gave me goosebumps. Two
Speaker 1: men were dragging a black polypine ramps which I now
Speaker 1: know has a dead body inside. Never in my life
Speaker 1: had I thought to come across two murderers sneaking a
Speaker 1: corpse into this warehouse. I took out my phone to
Speaker 1: call the cops, but realized there was no network inside
Speaker 1: the storage unit. The men were taking the body to
Speaker 1: the basement. I was silently following them, biding behind the
Speaker 1: boxes when I stepped on a broken piece of glass.
Speaker 1: The crunch made the men stop what they were doing
Speaker 1: and look around with wide eyes. I think there's someone here.
Speaker 1: You checked that way, Oh, look behind the boxes. No,
Speaker 1: he's coming this way. Now what should I do? I
Speaker 1: quickly crawled to the doorway, but before I could get out,
Speaker 1: one of those murderers blocked my way. Where do you
Speaker 1: think you're going?
Speaker 2: Duck?
Speaker 1: Move away? I have a gun. Really show me. I
Speaker 1: don't want to injure you. The cops will be here soon.
Speaker 1: I've been forged them all ready. I know you're lying,
Speaker 1: but don't worry. I have a knife, and that's better
Speaker 1: than your fake gun. Saying this, he took out a
Speaker 1: big knife and lunged at me. We started struggling on
Speaker 1: the floor. He brought the knife closest to my eyeball.
Speaker 1: I was freaking out of that. One wrong move and
Speaker 1: I'm dead meat, just like the body in the plastic bag.
Speaker 1: But when death comes, you try the hardest to cling
Speaker 1: to life. I took out my flashlight and hit him
Speaker 1: on the head with it. He moved away, holding his
Speaker 1: bleeding head and dropped the knife accidentally. I took full
Speaker 1: liberty of this chance and grabbed the knife before he could.
Speaker 1: He again jumped on me, but I stabbed him in
Speaker 1: the heart. The knife was deep inside and blood came
Speaker 1: out from his mouth with a dying choke. His lifeless
Speaker 1: body fell on the floor. I just murdered someone, but
Speaker 1: I did it in my self defense. There's only one
Speaker 1: way to inform comps. Now, there's a phone in the
Speaker 1: security room. I must go there. I rushed to the
Speaker 1: security room, and as I opened the door, I found
Speaker 1: the second murderer waiting for me with a smile and
Speaker 1: a gun pointed in my face. How the hell did
Speaker 1: he get here? Timmy was a moron, but I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'll kill you before you can take another step. No, no, stop.
Speaker 1: I dropped the bloody knife from my hand. My mind
Speaker 1: wasn't thinking straight anymore. I already have blood on my hands,
Speaker 1: and just like this man, I'm guilty of murder too,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to go to jail. That's when
Speaker 1: a vicious idea came to my mind. Look, we can
Speaker 1: both get away if you listen to me. Are you
Speaker 1: trying to make a deal with me? No? I don't
Speaker 1: want to go to prison, that's all. I have a
Speaker 1: wife waiting for me to come home. I want to live,
Speaker 1: and if I'm not wrong, you want to live too. Right.
Speaker 1: The man's face changed. He lowered the gun and asked,
Speaker 1: what do you have in mind? I told him that
Speaker 1: together we can get rid of the bodies and part ways.
Speaker 1: He proposed to delete the CCTV footage to leave no evidence,
Speaker 1: and that was it. We dragged the bodies one by
Speaker 1: one into the incinerator and burnt them to ashes. Not
Speaker 1: even in my wildest dreams I thought to work side
Speaker 1: by side with a murderer. But life is not the
Speaker 1: same for everyone, especially when you're not rich enough. After
Speaker 1: getting rid of the bodies, we shook hands and promised
Speaker 1: to never see or talk about this night again. He
Speaker 1: left in his blue pickup trunck and I closed the warehouse.
Speaker 1: You can't imagine how I drove home that night. I
Speaker 1: stopped to ring the doorbell, but found the main door
Speaker 1: already open. I got inside. There was only moonlight coming
Speaker 1: from the window. I threw my body on the couch.
Speaker 1: I called out to my wife, and she spoke from
Speaker 1: the kitchen, Nancy, are you awake? Yes, dear.
Speaker 2: I couldn't sleep, so I came down to get some milk.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you lock the door? Oh?
Speaker 2: Who would come at this hour? You sound tense? Is
Speaker 2: everything all right?
Speaker 1: I wiped the sweat off my forehead and relaxed a little.
Speaker 1: I don't need to tell her about any of what happened.
Speaker 1: I calmed my boys down and said, can you give
Speaker 1: me a beer? Please? But she didn't answer. I called
Speaker 1: out again, Nancy, are you there, But this time she
Speaker 1: replied yes, dear. I picked up the phone with shaking hands.
Speaker 1: Is it the cops? Are they already looking for me? Hello?
Speaker 2: Jonathan?
Speaker 1: Yes, who's this?
Speaker 2: I'm your neighbor, Missus Morris. Don't worry, the cops will
Speaker 2: be here any moment. I knew something was wrong when
Speaker 2: I heard a scream. I got up and saw two
Speaker 2: men dragging something in a plastic bag outside your house.
Speaker 2: They left in a blue pickup truck.
Speaker 1: I dropped the telephone, I picked up my trembling body
Speaker 1: and walk to the kitchen. I turned on the lights.
Speaker 1: There was no one in the kitchen. It was ransacked completely.
Speaker 1: There was a long blood trail, starting from the kitchen
Speaker 1: and ending at the door from where I stepped in.
Speaker 1: It's been six months now I'm a prisoner in Ohio
Speaker 1: County Jail. I can't sleep at night as that one
Speaker 1: question keeps haunting me in my dreams. If I killed
Speaker 1: one of the murderers of my wife and helped the
Speaker 1: other get rid of my wife's body, then who answered me?
Speaker 1: When I got home that night, I won't to find
Speaker 1: myself strapped to a chair, the faint hum of a
Speaker 1: fork left echoing around me. Help is anyone out there?
Speaker 1: The laughter I heard in response was enough to make
Speaker 1: my skin crawl. I had to get out of there
Speaker 1: and fast. Suddenly the ropes dropped from the chair and
Speaker 1: I was free. I raced through the warehouse, desperately searching
Speaker 1: for an escape route. I threw open a door and
Speaker 1: found myself face to face with a guy in an
Speaker 1: ad Jason mask. What the who are you? The only
Speaker 1: response he gave was raspy breathing. He raised a machete,
Speaker 1: and I felt my heart stop. I needed to hide.
Speaker 1: I dodged his swing and ran, my heart pumping with
Speaker 1: fear as I scrambled into a supply closet. I frantically
Speaker 1: looked around and noticed a trap door in the ceiling.
Speaker 1: I climbed up, hoping to find an escape route. The
Speaker 1: ladder was long, and I felt my arms aching as
Speaker 1: I continued to climb, the darkness around me only broken
Speaker 1: by faint lights built into the wall. When I finally
Speaker 1: reached the top, I opened the door and looked around.
Speaker 1: The room was dark, but I managed to see an
Speaker 1: object in the distance. Climbing out and creeping toward it,
Speaker 1: I realized it was a chair, the same chair I
Speaker 1: had been strapped to earlier. My heart sank as I
Speaker 1: tried to comprehend what was going on. I had to
Speaker 1: find a way out and fast. I ran for the door,
Speaker 1: only to be greeted by two men in Jason masks.
Speaker 1: They were blocking my path and they began to close
Speaker 1: in on me. What do you want from me? Why
Speaker 1: are you doing this? I had no time to wait
Speaker 1: for an answer. As they came closer, however, something happened
Speaker 1: that left me speechless. Their limbs holding machetes began to
Speaker 1: fall off, as if they were made of plastic. As
Speaker 1: their bodies fell to the floor in front of me,
Speaker 1: I finally realized what these figures were and where I was.
Speaker 1: I had stumbled my way into a warehouse filled with
Speaker 1: animatronic horror characters. The sound of a forklift getting closer
Speaker 1: alerted me to the danger that lay ahead. I could
Speaker 1: see it coming from the shadows, driven by a man
Speaker 1: wearing a clown mask. Hey, you there, what's going on?
Speaker 1: He pressed a button and two more animatronic figures came
Speaker 1: out of the shadows. They were famous horror characters once
Speaker 1: I had seen in movies but never wanted to face
Speaker 1: in real life. Suddenly, the lights went completely out. The
Speaker 1: man in the clown mask was chasing me, and I
Speaker 1: felt my legs start to give out from fear. No
Speaker 1: get away from me, I sprinted for the door, only
Speaker 1: to find that it was locked. I frantically searched around
Speaker 1: and noticed a large red button on the wall. I
Speaker 1: pushed it and the door opened up, revealing an exit
Speaker 1: out of the warehouse. Yes, I'm free. The laughter echoing
Speaker 1: behind me only increased my fear. As I ran out
Speaker 1: of the warehouse and into a nearby forest, the rain
Speaker 1: started to pour. I just kept running, noticing that my
Speaker 1: legs and arms were moving slower. I felt tired, old
Speaker 1: and aged, I just gotta keep running. I pressed forward,
Speaker 1: running through the dark trees as I heard the sound
Speaker 1: of a forklift getting closer, closer. I finally looked back,
Speaker 1: and I saw the man and the clown Mask, his
Speaker 1: laughter ringing in my ears. I could see his animatronics
Speaker 1: coming toward me as well. They were made of metal,
Speaker 1: and their limbs began to rust in the rain as
Speaker 1: they chased after me. I dodged behind several trees, making
Speaker 1: sure the man couldn't follow me in his forklift. I
Speaker 1: needed to find a way out. Finally, I stumbled across
Speaker 1: an abandoned mine shaft and scrambled inside, praying for safety.
Speaker 1: I hid in the dark, breathing heavily as I heard
Speaker 1: the forklift getting closer. I always know where you are.
Speaker 1: There's no hiding from me, you know. I held my
Speaker 1: breath and sank into a corner and trying to make
Speaker 1: myself as small as possible. Suddenly, however, I heard the
Speaker 1: footsteps of the man and the clown mask getting closer.
Speaker 1: He was coming into the mine shaft, and I knew
Speaker 1: that he would find me. I had to make a
Speaker 1: run for it, and I tried to leap from the
Speaker 1: corner where I was hidden to make a break for it.
Speaker 1: With a pure feeling of horror, however, I realized something.
Speaker 1: My arms and legs couldn't move. Looking down, I realized
Speaker 1: they were rusted, just like the animatronics. With a sinking
Speaker 1: feeling of dread, I knew that my fate was sealed.
Speaker 1: I finally realized what I was and why I had
Speaker 1: been in that warehouse. My body animatronic like the others,
Speaker 1: had completely rusted. Now I couldn't move any longer, and
Speaker 1: I was doomed to stay in that mind shaft forever,
Speaker 1: or until he caught me. Looks like I have to
Speaker 1: reset your mind again. I saw him coming closer, and
Speaker 1: with a final murmur, I closed my eyes. His laughter
Speaker 1: echoed in my ears as the darkness enveloped me. The
Speaker 1: last thing I saw was the man reaching out to
Speaker 1: grab me. My name is and I don't want to
Speaker 1: scare you, but I think I'm about to die. It
Speaker 1: all started with Richard's house, my childhood friend. Recently, his
Speaker 1: uncle died in a car accident, so all his belongings
Speaker 1: were trapped in a warehouse, and they didn't want to
Speaker 1: give them to his aunt. So he asked me for
Speaker 1: a huge favor to help him get into the warehouse
Speaker 1: to rescue a gold watch and give it to his aunt.
Speaker 1: I was touched by Richard's noble wish, but his uncle
Speaker 1: always made me suspicious. Whenever I went to his house,
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of satanic insignia or cult stuff.
Speaker 1: But he was my best friend and I couldn't say
Speaker 1: no to him. When we arrived at night, we carefully
Speaker 1: slipped into the warehouse, but the security guard saw us
Speaker 1: quickly and started chasing us. The guard was pretty old,
Speaker 1: so he couldn't keep up with us, and as soon
Speaker 1: as we lost him, we ducked out of sight. Very carefully.
Speaker 1: We made it to Richard's uncle's warehouse. I asked Richard
Speaker 1: if he had brought the key, but instead he pulled
Speaker 1: out a lock pick and unlocked the padlock. Hey, you
Speaker 1: told me your aunt ada key. Why did you use
Speaker 1: a lock pick? Uh? You see, Come on, Richard, there's
Speaker 1: no such thing as a gold watch for your aunt.
Speaker 1: It's all an excuse to rob your dead uncle, isn't it.
Speaker 1: What if it is he's dead, he won't wear any
Speaker 1: of this. Richard entered the place without paying attention to
Speaker 1: me and started to put everything he saw into a
Speaker 1: huge bag. Among everything he stole, something caught my attention.
Speaker 1: It was two round gold jewels. Underneath them there was
Speaker 1: a note that said keep quiet. As soon as Richard
Speaker 1: stole them, the power went out. We decided to leave
Speaker 1: the place immediately, but suddenly we heard a scream. Oh,
Speaker 1: that was the voice of the guard. We were not alone.
Speaker 1: After a few seconds, the screams became muffled, and before
Speaker 1: we knew it, they disappeared. We ran to the exit door,
Speaker 1: and when we trying to open it, it was locked.
Speaker 1: Darn for sure the guard had them, and the worst
Speaker 1: thing was that everything was too dark for Richard to
Speaker 1: use his lock pick again to escape. While we were
Speaker 1: thinking about how to escape, a corpse came flying towards us.
Speaker 1: It was the guard. His throat was torn with a
Speaker 1: lot of force. This was not the work of someone
Speaker 1: from this world. From the direction of where the corpse
Speaker 1: was thrown, something approached us. It was a humanoid of
Speaker 1: more than two meters. With each step it took we
Speaker 1: could feel it twist more than the previous one. It
Speaker 1: knew we were here and it wanted to hurt us. Look, Richard,
Speaker 1: he has no eyes. The note said, keep quiet. How
Speaker 1: do we get out of here? Keep quiet? We must
Speaker 1: return those jewels. We both started walking slowly toward Richard's
Speaker 1: uncle's warehouse. We passed by the monster without making a sound,
Speaker 1: and as I suspected he could not hear us. Hey, Thomas,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but I'll escape with the jewels. What Suddenly
Speaker 1: Richard pushed me in the direction of the monster and
Speaker 1: started screaming. The monster walked nervously in my direction. As
Speaker 1: Richard ran away, I froze, holding my breath as the
Speaker 1: monster got closer and closer, trying to find me. He
Speaker 1: knew I was there, but he didn't know where. I
Speaker 1: took a few steps back, and without realizing it, I skidded,
Speaker 1: and even though I didn't fall, I made some noise.
Speaker 1: The monster walked in my direction furious, but suddenly it stopped,
Speaker 1: turned around, and ran away. We both heard Richard reopening
Speaker 1: his uncle's warehouse. I stood up and ran quickly to
Speaker 1: the warehouse. He had betrayed me, but I still wanted
Speaker 1: to help him. By the time I got there, though,
Speaker 1: it was too late. The monster was in front of Richard,
Speaker 1: who was threatening him. With a knife locked in the
Speaker 1: war house. Richard ran with his knife and stamped the monster,
Speaker 1: but the monster didn't flinch. In response, the monster put
Speaker 1: a hand on Richard's head and pinned him against the wall.
Speaker 1: My friend began to scream, while with the other hand,
Speaker 1: the monster reached across his throat and ripped out its trachea.
Speaker 1: Richard screamed no more. Immediately he dropped dead. As I
Speaker 1: watched my friend fall to the ground, the monster saw
Speaker 1: the two gold stones on the ground, grabbed them, and
Speaker 1: put them in his hands. The stones got out of
Speaker 1: control and began to move on their own. At that moment,
Speaker 1: I realized that these were not just jewels, they were
Speaker 1: the eyes at the monster. The strange being began to
Speaker 1: look all over the room. My eyes had already adapted
Speaker 1: to the darkness, so I could see perfectly how its
Speaker 1: horrible golden eyes moved all around until it fixated on
Speaker 1: its next victim, me. The monsters started walking slowly, but
Speaker 1: when I ran towards the exit door, its speed increased rapidly.
Speaker 1: As I ran away, I found the guard's corpse and
Speaker 1: grabbed his keys. When I reached the exit door, I
Speaker 1: quickly tried all of the keys I could, but none
Speaker 1: would fit. And that's the end of my story. At
Speaker 1: this moment, the monster is very close. I only have
Speaker 1: two keys left. For sure one of them is the
Speaker 1: right one. If I put in the wrong key, I
Speaker 1: have no doubt that I will die. I took a
Speaker 1: deep breath and put in one of the two keys,
Speaker 1: and with all my strength I forced it open, praying
Speaker 1: that I had chosen the right key.