True Lockdown Horror Story #3

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-Mr.Nightmare

  "I was staying in a Hampton Inn in New Jersey when I was visiting Rowan University, a college I potentially wanted to attend. My family couldn't come with me so I was on my own. After attending campus tours, I went to get a bite to eat at a nearby restaurant and then went back to the hotel at around 8Pm, planning on going back to campus again the next day. About an hour after returning to my room, a strange alarm started going off in my room along with a white light flashing from the corner of the ceiling. A message started looping shortly after as well saying something along the lines of 'All Hampton Inn guests please remain in your rooms, this is a lockdown.' I've never heard of a lockdown in a hotel, I never even knew hotels had alarms like this. I found it more interesting and exciting than anything else. Eventually the sound of the alarm stopped but the light kept flashing and every 20 seconds or so the message would repeat. It was only like 9:30 so I turned on the TV just as background noise while I started changing clothes and brushing my teeth. I turned off the lights when I was done and hopped under the covers. I watched TV for half an hour before shutting it off. The light was still flashing with an obnoxious bright light every few seconds, it was definitely going to hinder my sleep. I was starting to consider calling the front desk to ask what was going on when the phone rang. It was someone from the front desk. I was expecting them to tell me something about the alarm and when it would shutt off but instead, the person on the other end spoke in a very concerned voice. She told me to remain calm and walk out the door, I took that opportunity to ask her what exactly was going on, she went on to tell me that there was somebody in the room with me and to get out immediately. I dropped the phone and instinctively started looking around everywhere, part of me was curious to see if somebody was in fact in the room. I checked under the bed, looked into the empty bathroom, nobody in either spots. Then, I noticed the closet door right next to the bathroom, it was one of those closets with a wooden sliding door, it was open just a tiny crack and through that tiny crack I could see a person's face. At first it didn't sink in what I was seeing but when the door slid shut that was when I freaked out and ran out the door. The people at the front desk showed me security footage from an hour earlier of some sketchy looking man walking around the hallways, apparently looking for a certain room. When he got to my door, he opened it with the card he somehow acquired and that was it. I stayed around as the authorities took the person out in chains, it was a man of course on the shorter side, easily forties. He looked at me as he passed as if  he knew who I was immediately. It's scary thinking back that he may have been watching me for more than an hour from that closet".

 
 

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