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A few years back, me and a friend of mine, started working for a loco
security company, that his mom ran. It was a easy job, walking nurses to their cars, making rounds at construction sites after hours,even working at the loco PBS Tv station. My friend and I needed cash bad, so any new jobs, or overtime opened up, we would jump on them as fast as they came along.
   So one night somebody quit, and the company needed someone to go out and releve him, so we took it. The job needed 2 people, and the guy that quit had been working by himself for about a week. We were to meet him at the site at 9:00pm so he could tell us what we had to do on the night shift. We had know idea what we had gotten ourselfs into.
   As we pulled up we were overwelmed at the size of the 4 storie building stairing back at us. As we maid our way to the main doors, we were greeted by the gard we were replasing. He walked us to our office, just inside the main doors. He then preseded to tell us what we were to do over the corse of our shift... Go top to bottom, floor to floor, checking all doors, making shure that thay were locked. And if they wern't, to lock them. We had no keys so we would have to lock them from the inside knob.We had to do this every hour.but that was just the start. Their were 3 more buildings that we had to do the same thing to them. And then their was this old house. We didn't have to go in, but we did have to check the outside doors and windows.And then the storage barn, and last but not least the old 8 car garage that was way off by it's self, past the woods, down by the river.
   You see... This job, this place was an abandend state run assilum, and boarding house for the homeless, or orphand children dating back to the 30's and had been closed for about 20 years. It was left mostly untuched after it closed and never used for anything since.
   The gard gave us the sad, and horifing history of the people that once ocupide this place. The sickness, abuse, suisides, and murders, the kind of things that got this place shut down. Well the gard left and we were on our own.
   At the first hour, we started our rounds. We started on the main floor, walking the halls, checking the doors, we found a few of them unlocked. So poking our heads in just enough to flip the lock, and then we were on our way. The same would be on every floor in that building, and the other buildings too. Then on to the old house, the barn, and the garage. On our next set of rounds, we split up for all the inside rounds, and do the outside ones together. James was back at the main building within 5 min. he had found out the same thing I did, some of the doors that were locked, were now unlocked. We decided to stick together. As we walked and talked, we started up the stairs to the next floor. Wnen we got to the top, we realised that we could hear footsteps still comming up the stairs behind us. We looked back, and saw nothing. neadless to say, we were getting freaked out.
   As the hours passed, and we did our rounds, the same things were happing with doors in all the buildings. Sometime after 1:00am, we were on our way back from the grage when we notised a light on at the old house. 20 min earlyer, when we had checked the house their was no light on. Then it was gone. being even more freaked out than before, we made our way back to our office to fill out a report on the light.
   As we were doing the paper work we herd something. It sounded like little kids laughing, and giggling. It was faint but we both knew we herd it. The fist thing that came to mind was, somehow some kids got in the building, and were messing with us. So we set out to find them and kick them out.
   The sounds seemed to be comming from the north hall, so we headed that way, checking the doors as we went along. The doors were all locked, till we got to the end of the hall,by the stairs. The door on the side of the stairs was open just a bit. Then we heard the sounds agean. We thaught we had the kids cornered in a broom closit.
   We wipped open the door expecting some kids, but insted we founda stair case leading down. "OH CRAP" we both said outloud. We must have stood there for 5 min or so, before we talked each other into going down the dark steps.
   when we got to the bottom, there was a long dark hall, with a few doors on eather side of it. At the end of the hall was a room with light comming from it. I think they are in there, James said. So we went down the hall, and into the room.
   It looked like some kind of office, trashed with papers, chairs, some desks, and lots of dust. As we took a look around, it seemed that knowone had been down here in a long time. At the far end of the room was a big safe door, partly open. We opened the door as much as we could and put a chair in the way so we wouldant get locked in. What we found in the safe wasant much, a few odds and ends of people's persanal belongings, most likely from the people that had staid at this place.
   Then, from behind us, we herd the kids agean. we rushed out of the safe hopeing to see the kids, but there was knowone. Then "WAM" the door at the top of the stairs slamed shut. We ran down the hall, up the stairs, to the door, praying that it would open. It did. we wen't back to the office, called dispatch to tell them to send someone else to cover the rest of the shift.
   Dispatch said if we wanted to keep our jobs we would have to stay. we told the dispatcher that we "quit", and locked the front door, and left.