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5 min readScary Stories - Nightshift
A gas station night shift worker, desperate to save money for a move to Minneapolis, finds himself alone for the first time. What starts as an uneventful evening quickly unravels into something far stranger. A man with bloodshot eyes stands motionless outside the front door, inches from the sensor that should trigger it open. Then more people emerge from the woods, all staring with the same vacant expression. Then the phone rings.
The Call
The caller identifies herself as Angie, a former employee whose name tag the narrator had seen in a box filled with dozens of others from past workers. She warns him that something inside the building is coming for him. "It doesn't have a name," she says. "But it'll leave you empty. It'll leave you like the people out front." Her instructions are simple: walk out the back door, and nothing will happen to him.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:36) **Protagonist's Setup: Desperation and a Night Shift** - The narrator explains why he is working a gas station night shift: he needs money to move to Minneapolis for a six-figure opportunity but couldn't find the funds.
- 2 (02:35) **Early Routine and the Box of Name Tags** - The protagonist finishes his chores early, then discovers a box of name tags in the manager's office.
- 3 (04:15) **First Anomaly: The Staring Man** - A man with a scraggly beard and bloodshot eyes stands directly outside the front door, but the automatic doors do not open.
- 4 (06:00) **The Mysterious Call from "Angie"** - The narrator's phone rings with an unknown caller, who claims to be a former employee named Angie.
- 5 (08:45) **The Trap is Set: Locked In** - The narrator tries to leave, but the front door will not open.
- 6 (10:33) **The Back Door Paradox** - The narrator checks the employee exit and finds it unlocked, with another group of four people staring at him outside.
- 7 (13:23) **Testing the Conspiracy: No Service, Rotting Food** - The narrator hangs up on Angie to call the police, but gets only silence; his phone and internet are dead.
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Show Notes
Workers at night keep going missing
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