True Lockdown Horror Story

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-Mr.Nightmare

   "I was 16 in my Junior year of high school, I had 9 periods in the school day, 5th period was lunch and straight from there was my astronomy class. My astronomy class was actually held in one of the two basement classrooms of the school. My high school was big, there were three floors and even that wasn't enough to accommodate all the classes offered, so the school built two classrooms in the basement. It was honestly kind of creepy down there when nobody else was around, it used to be a janitorial area, however, it was remodeled to better resemble a typical hallway. The only thing, there were no intercoms or loudspeakers down in the basement at that time, for that reason no classes were held down there first period for the morning announcements. Everyone referred to this little section of the basement as the chamber and everyone always tried to get classes down there just because it was air-conditioned and the classes were typically easier, plus it had it's own bathroom down there. We had a quiz in astronomy that day, usually I was one of the first done just because I found the class easy. After I finished my quiz, I texted my friend who was in the other basement classroom to meet me in the bathroom because I was bored, he told me okay. I walked out of the classroom and down the small hallway to the bathroom, a few seconds later the door opened and my friend JJ entered the bathroom. We were joking around for a while until JJ checked his phone and said someone texted him saying the school was going on lockdown. We both looked at eachother with the same grins, neither of our teacher's saw us leave the classrooms, that meant we had free range of the school while it was on lockdown. We agreed to sneak upstairs and look around the hallways just for the hell of it. The worst that would happen is that we'd explained how we couldn't hear the announcements in the basement classrooms. Upon opening the basement door to the main floor, we were surprised to find all the lights had been turned off so the hallways were pretty much pitch-black aside from the light pouring in from the doors in the lobby. This was legit because usually the lights were left on in the hallways during lockdowns, something was going down and we didn't know if we were even comfortable walking around now. JJ stepped out a little further into the hallway and I followed soon. JJ then looked down the hall and said 'Who's that'  I looked and emerging from the darkness was a man. At first we couldn't tell if he was a teacher or not but as he got closer, we realized this guy wasn't dressed at all like any staff member, he was dressed like a bum. 'All right, let's go'  I told JJ as we hurried back down to the basement. He surely saw us, whoever he was. We saw both classrooms had their doors shut and lights off so to avoid making a scene, we decided to hide in the bathroom. I turned off the light first thing and then we both went to hide in the corner stall. There was complete silence in the room, no ventilation, no heaters, nothing, just the sound of me and JJ breathing and an occasional drip from the sink. The door to the bathroom suddenly opened and light from the hallway poured into the bathroom for a brief moment. The door shut and the bathroom was once again pitch-black. Me and JJ tried our best to control our breathing. The room was so silent that we could hear somebody walking over to our side of the bathroom, the person stopped and started breathing really heavily as if they were out of breath. Me and JJ were both scared to death. JJ did something very dumb, he whispered in my ear ' You have to crawl out through the other stalls'  The room was so silent however that JJ's whisper could be heard from across the room. The heavy breathing from outside the stall stopped and the person tried pressing the stall door and that was when I whispered 'go go' to JJ. We both crawled under the sidewall to the next stall over and then the next stall and then finally out to the other side of the bathroom. The person was now full-on banging on the stall door. Me and JJ hopped up off the floor, opened the door and as the light filled the room again, we saw the guy from upstairs in the corner. We pounded on the door- JJ's class, the teacher let us in within seconds. JJ explained everything as the teacher locked the door mentioning a gun sticking out of the man's pocket. I was shocked to hear this because I didn't see a gun but I went along with it anyway. Usually a bunch of high school students would be laughing their asses off at two students causing a scene like this but I noticed all the kids sitting in the corner looked concerned. A sudden bang at the door made everyone jump and a couple of girl's squeal out of fear. JJ the teacher and I could see the man standing at the door looking through the window while trying the doorknob. After a few bangs on the door out of what seemed to be anger, he turned and walked down the hallway back to the stairs. We don't know how much longer the lockdown went on for but for over an hour, we sat in silence in the room, other than the teacher occasionally asking me and JJ questions with a very concerned tone, shaking his head after everything we would tell him. Eventually somebody from upstairs called the teacher and he instructed all of us to single- file walk up the stairs and out of the building, where we would be greeted by cops. Me and JJ did the best we could at describing the man to the cops and to the Dean. One of the cops patted me on the back and we were sent off to go home. After this incident, the school installed camera's everywhere and ramped up the security budget. This incident never got media attention, so honestly we never found out if police caught the guy. I'm convinced that man had no other intentions but to kill us then and there in that bathroom stall".

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