Mr. Nightmare

True Mall Horror Story

"For the past three years or so I've worked as an overnight security guard at a mall. It used to be that the mall didn't require an overnight person but vandalism started to become a problem. Most of the time I would drive around the parking lot all night listening to my car radio, now and then I'd kick some skateboarders out of the parking lot or investigate a suspicious person lurking about, other than that I'd say the job was pretty tame. Maybe three months in, I noticed something a little stranger, I noticed that the light to one of the shops was on while driving around the parking lot. This was surprising to me considering no one had snuck past me as of yet, so of course, I parked the car and headed inside the mall to catch the potential thieves. As I approached the shop, I didn't hear the sound of anyone rummaging through the inventory, sure enough, the shop was empty, as a matter of fact, even the security gate was still down, only the shop owners had access to the security gates, so I couldn't really do anything about the light being on. I headed back out to my car, that same hour went by with no incident but as I was circling around the entrance to the mall I saw another light was on inside. Inside the mall, it was the same scene repeated, the light was on to the shop but the security gate was still closed, I even tugged on the damn thing to see if someone heard me coming and just hid from me, nope it was locked. I heard a click from behind me while investigating, a previous light was no longer on. Maybe it was my mind playing tricks on me but I swear I saw someone run behind the counter and hide. I think now is a good time to mention I was running on three hours of sleep for the past 48 hours and I was blaming these occurrences just simply on the lack of sleep. I shined my flashlight into the shop and scanned the area, nothing that I could see. Behind me was another click, once again the light to the shop was off and this time I know I saw someone standing in there, so I simply called out, "You can either leave with me or you can leave with the police" they didn't move, just stood next to the light switch. I approached the gate and turned my light in the direction of the light switch and there was no one standing there. I did see that a clothes rack was fairly close to the switch, so maybe the light was catching the clothes just right and was casting a shadow, that was the most logical explanation I could think of at least. I left the mall, I was pretty spooked from the events of that night but after a few months, they were pretty much out of my mind. My patrols were nothing special for a while after that. I think my next incident happened around my one-year anniversary as a guard, it was winter and I was inside of the mall checking the pipes, yes I was on security duty but the owners decided to save a buck by having me inspect certain things as well, it was whatever. I was heading to one of the bathrooms to relieve myself when I heard a toilet flush, I jumped a little more than I would like to admit. Inside of the bathroom, I didn't see anyone, the toilets in the mall were motion activated much like every other mall in the world. I checked all of the stalls, empty, I'll spare you the details but after checking the stalls I took a seat in one of them, I had a Youtube video playing on my phone while I was sitting, then I heard a tapping sound coming from the stall next to me, I glanced to my left and saw a pair of shoes standing with the toes pointing towards me.

Slowly I brought my eyes up above the stall, sure enough, there was the tallest man I'd ever seen standing over the stall staring down at me.

Had I not already been on the toilet, I would had been running home for new pants, when he saw me notice him he ducked back down beneath the stall. I hopped up and kicked in the door to the neighboring stall, the damn thing was empty except for a pair of shoes sitting in the same spot I had seen them. My heart was thumping like crazy, I went back to my car as quickly as possible after that, If I remember correctly, this happened at around 4:00 in the morning. Once again I accredited all of this to my lack of sleep, I was just happy that I had the next day off".

-Unknown, Mr.Nightmare did not say who this story was by.