Colin Morabito

When we think of creepy stories we rarely think of stories from work. Fortunately, the world is full of people willing to share thier creepy stories from their palces of work. Redditor u/shafaatkhan007 asked, “Redditors who work at remote places like forest officers, oil rig workers, etc, what creepy things have you noticed while at work?” and the internet delivered with their creepy answers.

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Field Geologist – Finds Something On A Large Pole, Middle Of Nowhere

From Redditor u/thealbinorhino504:

I was a field geologist in the Outback about 12 hours north of Adelaide. One day I was driving the truck and saw what looked like a flagpole sticking up in the middle of nowhere. I wasn’t anywhere near a farm or anywhere else that people would be, so I decided to drive over and check it out. It was a dead dog fully impaled on a spike. Like, from butt to mouth. Took some pictures and had my boss call the cops, but for the rest of the assignment I was freaked out that some maniac was out there with me.

What do you think?

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Delivery Driver – Remote Delivery To Trailer Park

From Redditor u/Snow_Cabbage:

I used to be a delivery driver, which doesn’t sound very remote because it isn’t. However, I did have to deliver to some pretty remote places. One time I delivered to a trailer park just barely inside our designated “delivery zone” and it was very dark and poorly lit. I leave my car running and keep the headlights and inside lights on to go deliver the pizza. Upon returning to my car, I sit down in the drivers seat and look up to see a creepy old man standing less than 3 feet from my side of the car. He was just staring. It was the equivalent of a jump-scare. I just started driving forward, had to do a u-turn to get out of the park. When I turned around the man was standing in the middle of the road, so I freaked out for a second before speeding around him only to watch him attempt to chase my car out of the trailer park. I put in my two weeks after that.

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Remote Grocery Store Worker – Mumbling Man Wearing Overalls Covered In Dirt

From Redditor u/Juicebox-fresh:

I worked in a store once in a really small town that was always absolutely dead, a customer every hour or so, shifts all alone too which I’m sure wasn’t even legal but hey.

Anyway it’s a dark evening and I’m sat on reddit as usual when I hear the door open. I look up and see the back of a man as he begins walking down the first aisle towards the tin foods and he appears to be talking to someone on the phone, I think nothing of it and go back to reddit. All of a sudden I get this intense smell of soil and earth, I look up and the mans approaching the counter and he’s wearing some kind of overalls and his face and long grey hair and body is just covered in dirt. That’s when I notice he isn’t on the phone at all and is just talking to himself in this absolutely bizarre tone, he sounded like a cartoon elf or something, he’s just sort of murmuring and doing this really weird hehee sort of laugh.

I’m just frozen solid, as he’s stood at the counter in front of me thinking I’m about to be killed when a policeman storms through the door, he asks if I’m ok to which I don’t respond because i’m just in a complete state of what the f*ck is happening, tells the man to come outside to which he starts murmuring giberish and saying the words legal over and over again. They come grab the man and put him in the back of the police car and that’s the last I ever heard of it, I have no idea who he was, what was going on, but I have never been so afraid of another person before, you know when you just sense a bad bad situation. So grateful the police showed up when they did.

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Agriculture Field Work – Movements In The Middle Of A Corn Field

From Redditor u/riarum:

I used to do agricultural work, alone in a field for 10 hrs a day kinda thing. The pure amount of times I heard the sound of running & snapped up to see literally nothing there was horrific. I was convinced it was surely animals between the trees for a while, but the weirdest moment was when I heard it loudly from a row of trees next to me & immediately ducked under to see the feet of whatever animal was running by, and there was absolutely nothing.

I remember trying to stay calm and walking really fast to the toilet block and sitting in there for a good long while before I came back. I never thought I’d be so freaked out in the day time but there wasn’t a soul nearby for quite a way, & it really amped up my imagination.

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Boy Scout Summer Camp Counselor – Choir In Very Remote Woods

From Redditor u/VVillyD:

I used to work at a Boy Scout Summer Camp. Every week I had to take a big group of campers to a “secluded” spot for their wilderness survival badge where they had to build a shelter out of sticks, leaves, etc and sleep in it overnight. The spot was only about 1/2 mile from the main camp, but we took them a circuitous route that made it seem really secluded.

Anyways, on this one night all the campers had made their shelters, we had cooked dinner, and were all just sitting around the campfire. It was getting late, maybe 11:00, so I sent all the campers to their shelters for the night and started cleaning up the fire. That’s when we heard in the distance what sounded like church bells. They were pretty faint, but myself and my fellow staffers could definitely hear them. They went on for about 30 minutes, ringing every 30 seconds, or so. We were all a little creeped out, as there were no churches or towns within 20 miles of us. After the bells stopped, though, the singing started. It was too faint to hear the words, but it sounded like church choir music, but a lot of people, and a lot more enthusiastic. Also, it was almost midnight at this point. The singing went on for well over an hour, sometimes quieting down until we almost couldn’t hear it, sometimes getting so loud we thought it was getting closer.

All of the campers were super creeped out, but I lied to them, telling them there was a church service going on in camp, and that there was nothing to be scared of. Eventually, at almost 1 AM, the singing stopped. I found out a few days later that there had been a large K*K rally only a few miles away that night, and that’s what we had heard.

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Oil & Gas Worker In Remote Canada – The Silence Of A Snowy Forest In The Dead Of Night

From Redditor u/gooberplsno:

I’ve worked in Canada’s north for a few years now in oil and gas.

It’s pretty creepy when during night shift you realise a moose has just been standing at the tree line staring you down for an unknown length of time.

Or finding bear tracks crossing the tracks you just made 5 minutes ago.

Honestly, the silence of a snowy forest in the dead of night 100s of km away from anything is pretty spooky. When your only contact to the outside world is a radio channel nobody’s listening to, you feel pretty alone.

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Oil Rig Worker – Screaming In The Gulf

From Redditor u/houseofamon:

I’ve been fishing out in the gulf of Mexico where they have some oil rigs. This rig wasn’t being used (from what we knew) so we would get pretty close to it to fish for red snapper. While we were out there, we could have sworn we heard screams of a woman over and over. It was some sh*t, but the explanation was the wind making the noises as it blew through the rig.

Well, that’s what we were told, but it totally creeped us out.

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Worker At A Remote Mine Site – Eyes In The Darkness

From Redditor u/alangrai:

Working late at night on a remote mine site, changing out a switch in a substation on the edge of the pit. Just me and a quiet room full of gently humming transformers. I finish up and head for the door and I see three pairs of red eye staring through the window. Nothing else visible, just blackness and three sets of red eyes.

Turns out goats’ eyes reflect red at night, and they like staring in windows.

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Polar Bear Guard – Totems In The Tundra

From Redditor u/Jalsavrah:

I work as a polar bear guard. As in, I escort people across tundra and mountains and protect them from polar bears. I once saw a snowman totem with reindeer antlers coming out of his head. It was deformed, full of bullet holes and rather creepy.

There was one time when I was going to the gym at 6 in the morning. Because “Oh it’s just to the gym” I wasn’t going to bring a gun. Then I got an alert on my phone saying a bear was in the area.

So I decided to stay in bed and eat Maltesers. It later turned out that the bear was on my route to the gym at the exact time I would have been walking down without a gun. And it was dark and snowy so I would definitely have been a entrée for the bear.

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Alaskan Ship Crew – Spotlight Through The Northern Lights

From Redditor u/chiefboldface:

Working on ships. there was one night I was on a ship sailing through Alaskan Waters. And it happened to be my first night ever seeing Northern Lights. I can’t believe how awesome that was… it made the sky clear, made the night look like it was dusk, we were able to see clearly for miles.

Few buddies and I hit the roof or what we call, Lido deck at 1am just to gaze at it. An hour or so in, there was 6 of us on top, nearly the entire crew now. A big white spot light shines at us. We were near land, but where the spotlight was, was above the water and it wasn’t low enough to be on a ship, this was very high up. It shined on us for about 15-20 seconds. Once the light turned off we looked to see what it was. Saw nothing; no trace of an aircraft or anything.

Couple minutes go by and the same light shined on us, this time it was on the other side of our vessel, above mountains. Still, unable to see what it was. We all saw it, we all have never seen any aircrafts hovering above these waters, especially at 2am.

We don’t know what it was. We think it might have been some sort of silenced aircraft the military was probably doing drills or something. But anyways, that was one of the weirder things to happen out on the ocean.

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Worker In The Woods – Headless Doves & Sticks Arranged In Formations

From Redditor u/righteous_meow:

I do a lot of work out in the woods. Creepiest thing was finding some headless doves. I also found sticks arranged in circles and paint on the trees in the same spot. Not sure if it was part of a ritual or not, but that’s what I saw.

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Remote Field Camp In Antarctica – Mummified Birds

From Redditor u/lakewoodhiker:

I spent several seasons working at a remote field camp in Antarctica… over 1000 km from the main station in McMurdo. Every once in a while, a Skua bird or Antarctic Tern would accidentally end up following one of the small planes (Twin Otter) out to our camp. Once there though, they’d basically be stranded with no way to get back to the coast. I’d get out of my tent some mornings and see a lonely Tern circling overhead, knowing it was a dead bird flying. It was quite creepy.

Along these lines, when birds (or seals) do die down there, it’s so cold and dry, that their bodies don’t decay either. They essentially mummify. Outside McMurdo at Scott’s Discovery Hut, there is still a perfectly preserved seal carcass from 1912 sitting by the entrance of the hut.

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Studier Of Wild Orangutans – Crouching Clouded Leopard Waiting To Pounce

From Redditor u/Lorebeck521:

I spent some time in the peat swamp forests of Borneo studying wild orangutan. We would go into the forest very early around 4 am. One morning there was a clouded leopard on the trail we used to enter the forest. It was just crouched there watching us. We shouted, tried to act big, one of the indigenous people we worked with even took out his slingshot and shot rocks at it (he missed on purpose just trying to scare it off). It stayed there for a good 5 minutes watching us before it slowly walked into the thick brush off the cleared trail. When we walked by I shined my light to where it had walked to and could clearly see a pair of reflective eyes only 3 meters away crouched watching us pass. Creepy but also incredibly cool to see one in person for how critically endangered they are.

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Oil Rig Worker – What Lurked Beneath The Sea

From Redditor u/DONOTENGAGEWITHME:

I used to work in the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs for years, and it may not exactly be creepy, but I found it really unsettling.

In deep, open water, the water itself is really clear, so everyone can plainly see all the tuna and barracudas hanging around the rig waiting for the onboard cook to throw off whatever food waste he needs to. Every once in a while a huge great white shark would swim up from underneath and snatch a tuna and it really took like less than a second. They’re really scary.

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Merchant Seaman – Mysterious Transmission In The Gulf

From Redditor u/RedditIsSocialMedia:

Merchant seaman here. Nothing particularly creepy; most of the time you’re too focused on not hitting anything, getting position fixes, updating logbooks, etc. to really think about paranormal or spooky sh*t.

But the closest thing to “creepy” I’ve experienced recently has been a strange transmission over the radio. It started with a series of morse code beeps followed by an accented female voice listing off random letters and numbers. Dunno what the f*ck that was about.

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Guard Duty In Kabul – Noises In The Dark

From Redditor u/Sasquatchachu:

I was on guard duty at Camp Phoenix on the outskirts of Kabul in 2011. It’s a 12 hour shift, and it started at 7pm. Around 2am, I could hear what sounded like foot steps, running all around the guard tower, promptly set my hairs on end, so I pull out my night vision and pray that its some kids or something.

I sh*t you not… There must have been 2 or 3 pairs of dogs h*mping each other at the same time…

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