Welcome to Tales of Unusual, where we tell you stories that slip through the cracks of reality. Tonight’s tale is called The Elevator Reset. If you’ve ever stepped into an empty elevator late at night and felt like it moved somewhere it shouldn’t — this story is for you. Switch off your lights, put on your headphones, and prepare for an hour of unsettling truth. This is The Elevator Reset.
00:00Welcome to Tales of Unusual, where we tell you stories that slip through the cracks of reality.
00:07Tonight's tale is called The Elevator Reset.
00:11If you V.E. ever stepped into an empty elevator late at night and felt like it moved somewhere it shouldn't,
00:18T. This story is for you.
00:21Switch off your lights, put on your headphones, and prepare for an hour of unsettling truth.
00:27This is The Elevator Reset.
00:31In a crumbling apartment building on the outskirts of the city, there was an elevator that everyone avoided after midnight.
00:39Residents whispered that it sometimes stopped at floors that didn't exist.
00:44Some called it a glitch. Others called it a door.
00:48Ethan, a young office worker, exhausted by debt and regret, heard these rumors but didn't believe them.
00:56One rainy night, after losing his job and drinking too much, Ethan stumbled into the building's old elevator at 2 a.m.
01:06He pressed the button for the sixth floor, but the elevator started going down, far below the basement.
01:12The light above flickered between numbers he didn't recognize, and then the doors opened.
01:20On the other side of the doors was not concrete or storage rooms, but a hallway that looked exactly like the one outside his apartment.
01:29Only cleaner, brighter, newer, confused, and half-drunk, Ethan stepped out.
01:36He found his door, apartment 614, but inside, everything was different.
01:43His debts were gone.
01:45His fridge was full.
01:47His phone buzzed with an email, offering him back his job with a raise.
01:52It felt like stepping into a version of his life that hadn't gone wrong yet.
01:59But when he looked in the mirror, he saw someone else's clothes on his body, and on the table near the door, he found a note.
02:08This is your reset. Use it well.
02:11At first, Ethan thought he was dreaming.
02:14He paid off his old debts with money in an account that hadn't existed before.
02:19He rekindled friendships he'd lost years ago.
02:24The people around him seemed happier.
02:26His mother, who had been sick, was healthy again.
02:30He felt unstoppable, until he found the elevator again.
02:35Late one night, curiosity made him press the button.
02:39The elevator hummed to life, moving up and down like a heartbeat.
02:45It stopped again at a floor that wasn't there.
02:48This time, two floors above the top.
02:51The doors slid open.
02:53Ethan stepped into a world just slightly better.
02:57Each time he took the elevator, his life improved.
03:02Better job, bigger apartment, more respect.
03:05But each reset left him feeling less like himself.
03:09The city outside seemed the same, but not quite.
03:13Sometimes, he'd see flashes of people who looked just like him, staring from across the street.
03:21One night, he met another Ethan.
03:23They spoke in whispers in the basement, where the elevator waited.
03:28The other Ethan warned him.
03:30Every reset costs you something you can't see.
03:34And when there's nothing left, you become part of it.
03:38Ethan ignored the warning.
03:40The temptation was too strong.
03:42He rode the elevator again and again.
03:45With each ride, memories slipped away.
03:49Old scars vanished.
03:51But so did the laughter, the pain, the tiny details that made him human.
03:57He noticed the people around him seemed dull, like actors reading a script.
04:03One night, he looked in the mirror and didn't recognize the man looking back.
04:08He found a note in his pocket.
04:11You are almost clean.
04:13The elevator waited.
04:15Ethan decided to ride one last time, hoping to undo it all.
04:20He stepped in, pressed every button, hoping to wake up in his old broken life.
04:27But the elevator only went down, deeper than ever before.
04:31The doors opened to pitch black.
04:34A voice whispered, reset complete.
04:36Ethan stepped out and found himself among hundreds of others.
04:42Blank faces, empty eyes, people who had tried to perfect their lives, until nothing real remained.
04:49The elevator closed, the doors sealed shut.
04:54And in the apartment building above, another elevator hummed to life, waiting for the next lost soul.
05:01So next time you stand alone in an elevator late at night, and it stops at a floor you don't remember, ask yourself, what would you trade to reset your life, and would you still be you when you step back out?
05:16Until next time, take the stairs, sleep well.
05:34The elevator closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed.
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