Security Guards Break Down The Creepiest Things They've Ever Experienced

My hat is off to anybody who works security jobs.

Underpaid and life threatening.

Not a fun combo.

Slow Crawl

"Once we had a seemingly homeless guy crawl into a crawl space trying to hide in our casino. He suffocated and we found his body 5 days later after a smell and bio matter had appeared on one side of the wall."

GhostLandsTramp

Something out of a zombie movie...

"Used to work at a hospital that was mainly used for mental health. It had fully secured floors and it was our job to control combative patients. Many patients were waiting for felony trials, so lots of stories."

"The worst was we did a welfare check on a vehicle in our ER parking lot. They had been sitting there around an hour or so. The guy inside the car wasn't responding to our attempts to get his attention."

"Open his car door up and he was trying to dig his own foot off with a flat head screwdriver. He had gotten all the way down to the ankle bones on one whole side."

"We had to wrestle him into the ER as he was on a ton of meth. Seeing the ankle like that and the guy's almost feral-like state was like something out of a zombie movie."

Youfooool10772

In the Dark

"I was a security guard at an old folks' home that was essentially 2 buildings with a smaller building between them that acted as a lobby. One building was for assisted living and the other was palliative care."

"I was in charge of doing a security check of every floor, including the boiler room and basement. One night, I took the elevator down to the basement and hit the light switch, walking down the hall toward the boiler room."

"About halfway there, the lights started shutting off at the ballast, one after the other."

"Now normally I'm not in any way afraid of the dark, but on this particular night, I started on a mad dash back to the elevator before the lights went off completely because there were no windows in this basement, it would have been too dark to see."

"In the process of running, I realized that the elevator had lost power as well, so I got to just stand there in pitch black darkness until someone upstairs got everything back on again."

"All in all, I spent 23 minutes down there in the dark. 0/10, would not recommend."

DeusEx-Machinist

Voices

"Apart from the usual 'voices' you hear, shades you see, light cracks, creepy ol' buildings etc..

"One night I was passing by a playground park at around 3 am and spotted an adult male and what appeared to be a kid 5-6 years of ages both swinging in total silence on them swings you have for children. It was cold/rainy and both of them were poorly clothed for this type of year and especially weather. (Didn't seem homeless though)."

"Pretty unusual stuff to do at 3AM with a kid you would say."

"I had lots of different things cross my mind that moment so decided to take a closer look since I thought I was tripping.

"As soon as I got close enough for them to see me (still far from them) they just stared at me for a brief second & started running as fast they could, again without a single word spoken or voice/sound being made. Not sure where they ran because I had to scratch my eyes for a second time to check if I was asleep or not."

"It isn't 'creepy/scary' as the other stories in the comments but it was definitely a 'What the f**k bruh?' moment for me."

DavidKr98

In the Stall

"Got a call on the radio about something happening in the bathroom of our main building as there was a crowd forming. My brother and I approached the scene on foot since we were a walking distance away. We walked into the bathroom and I could see two very pale, blue veined legs in one of the stalls."

"A man died on the toilet. His wife and kids were there and apparently the last thing the woman said to her husband was 'Could you hurry it up you’re slowing us down.' It was one thing to see the body and another to see the look on the kids faces when they found out."

REDDIT

I will never not see these stories when I close my eyes.

On Patrol

"So I did patrols for a business district in my city. 4 buildings about 20 floors or so each. You have one partner at the desk watching cctv and one who patrols all buildings then they switch. Anyways it was like 3am, I'm on patrol. All buildings are basically locked tight."

I check to make sure each door on each floor is locked, then check the stairwell, can be really spooky since it's late, dark, and you're alone."

"Anyways I was on the like 12th floor or something, open the stairwell door and there's just a dude there. Didn't look homeless, he had a sleeping bag. I escort him out of the building, no fuss, but he also didn't say a word. No idea how he got in. My partner told me he ran into him in the same way once before."

uzasno

Staring Back

"I was doing security in a hospital at the time, decided to do the basement patrol with a flashlight for funsies, I was sweeping the light into the offices when I saw a semi-transparent man staring back at me from inside on of the rooms. Well I nearly shit myself before I realized I had caught my own reflection in the glass because of the flashlight."

Matt_East

Talons

"My dad used to work security guard jobs after he retired because he could. He was on-site overnight shift at a paper mill here in Oregon that's part of a small town and is at the edge of the Cascades."

"He noticed over the course of about three nights that all of a sudden all of the little critters he was used to seeing in the lumber yard were just... gone."

"It was weird, and quiet, and he was about to set out on his rounds when something made him pause and take a big step backwards into the cover of the guard shack."

"It's a good thing, too, because the Great Horned Owl's talons missed his head by about six inches. Those birds are f**king big, and they're territorial as hell. Dad said they stuck around just long enough to kill every living thing under about 30lbs in the area, and then they moved on."

slice_of_pi

The Ambush

"I used to patrol at night for a school district and one night we got a call from dispatch that there were some kids at the school that called them saying they were there and that they should send a guard. It seemed off since why would they self incriminate that they were trespassing."

"Regardless they told me to go check. While about halfway there my supervisor tells me over the radio to not go and that he’ll take my call."

"I stop into a gas station for some snacks and and am sitting the car when he gives me a update. My supervisor contacted the police and arrived with them."

"They found the kids hiding in the bushes with knives ready to ambush me. They were arrested but I couldn’t help but think what could’ve happened had my supervisor not intervened and it was shortly after that I decided to pursue a new line of work."

The_Galactic_Hunter

Watch the Cameras

"Guy told me he was going to use my glasses to stab out my eyes and that I should be careful dealing with guys like him because you never see them coming."

"Went to save the footage on our camera system and the cameras were in fact down due to an unrelated reason, so he coulda just murdered me and nobody would have seen that crap."

SadGruffman

Some jobs are the stuff of nightmares.

Good luck to y'all.