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00:00I once worked as a direct care aide for a 65-year-old woman with a developmental disability.
00:15Her daughter, who was in her 40s, worked overnights, and she needed a caretaker with medical experience to watch her overnight.
00:22When I say once worked for them, I mean I literally worked once, just this night, and you're about to hear why I never went back.
00:30The 65-year-old woman's name was Martha.
00:33Her daughter's name, who contacted me, was named Colleen.
00:37It's possible Colleen didn't have any other family to watch her and didn't want to or couldn't afford to put Martha in a nursing home.
00:43Or it was possible that she felt more comfortable hiring somebody with some form of experience to watch over her.
00:49At the time, I was already a direct care worker for two other women who suffered some forms of developmental disabilities, so I had experience.
00:57But nothing prepared me for that night.
01:00Colleen left for work.
01:02Earlier that day, I worked my first job, so I was really pushing my body to exhaustion, trying to make as much money as possible.
01:09Colleen had introduced Martha and I.
01:12Martha had given me a smile before Colleen brought her upstairs to her bedroom for the night.
01:16It was around 9pm.
01:18Colleen told me that Martha would sometimes walk around the house at night acting confused, and I'd need to calm her down and bring her back to her room.
01:26She specifically addressed this not to be a form of sleepwalking when I asked.
01:31She said it's one of the symptoms of her mother's dementia.
01:34I told her to rest assured that I'd know how to handle it.
01:37I spent my time initially in the living room, catching up on my show.
01:42These jobs aren't super glamorous, and for the most part, it is a lot of sitting around.
01:46I heard footsteps from upstairs.
01:51I went to the stairway and looked up the stairs, then called Martha's name, asking if she needed anything.
01:57She didn't answer.
01:58I heard her footsteps go back to her room, and then the door closed.
02:03Maybe she went to the bathroom.
02:06I went back to the living room and watched some more TV.
02:08It was maybe an hour later that I got up to grab my sandwich that I brought from the fridge.
02:14As I left the kitchen with a plate and my sandwich to go back to the couch, I nearly had a heart attack and dropped the plate when I saw Martha standing at the doorway.
02:24Glass shattered everywhere.
02:25I apologized to her and asked if she was okay.
02:28She started yelling at me, who are you?
02:31I reminded her who I am.
02:33I'm her direct care worker here to make sure she's okay.
02:36Everything she said at this point was in a loud scream.
02:40Why are you here?
02:41I don't know you.
02:42Things of that nature.
02:43I reminded her that we had just met, and that her mother Colleen hired me to watch her and the house.
02:49This seemed to work for long enough for me to get her to come back upstairs with me and to her room.
02:55I brought her up a glass of water and some melatonin and clonazepam.
02:59I made sure she took both before going back downstairs.
03:02After a few hours, I was absolutely exhausted.
03:06I had to get a couple hours of shut-eye.
03:08There was a spare bedroom upstairs with a twin-sized bed where Colleen said I could rest if needed.
03:14I felt like at this point Martha was asleep for the night from the melatonin.
03:17I fell asleep within minutes, but I was asleep for only maybe an hour.
03:23I woke up to a sound from downstairs.
03:28It was this repeated slamming.
03:30Every one to two seconds, something from downstairs was being slammed.
03:34I jumped out of the bed.
03:36I had left the bedroom door open so that I'd hear anything if Martha got up.
03:41Case in point right here.
03:42When I got to the stairs, I realized the slamming was coming from the kitchen.
03:47I walked down the stairs in as quick of a speed as I could while still remaining quiet.
03:52Getting to the bottom, I peered around the opening to the kitchen, and what I saw was like a scene from a scary movie I'd seen before.
03:59I saw Martha in the darkness, standing in front of the oven, repeatedly opening it and slamming it shut.
04:07It was horrifying.
04:08When I say I saw Martha, I really only saw her silhouette.
04:12It was that dark in the kitchen.
04:15I said Martha really loudly, and she stopped, turned to her left at me, shut the oven door one final time, and started walking towards me.
04:23Towards the stairs.
04:24I said in a now softer, kind of scared-sounding voice, are you okay?
04:30She got close enough to me where I could now see her facial features, and she looked at me with this blank expression, then walked right past me and started walking up the stairs.
04:40I followed her upstairs, but as soon as she got to her room, she slammed her door shut.
04:45I knocked on the door, saying, Martha, are you alright?
04:48She didn't respond.
04:49I quietly opened the door just to peek inside, and I saw Martha at the side of her bed, just standing, facing the wall.
04:57I've seen a lot, but this was some pretty unsettling behavior that I feel like is the exact kind of stuff you'd see in some scary movies, like I mentioned before.
05:05I walked over to her and gently eased her into the bed.
05:08When she was laying down, I covered her, and for what I was hoping would be the final time, I said goodnight, Martha, and shut her door.
05:15I went across the upstairs to the spare room and went back to bed.
05:20I purposely tried not to fall asleep for at least half an hour just in case she'd wake up again, but I don't even know if I made it that long.
05:28All I know is I fell asleep pretty freaking quickly.
05:31I woke up once again, however much later.
05:34The room was still pitch black, and the one-hour alarm I set had not yet gone off.
05:39I looked around the room, wondering what woke me up.
05:42I didn't see what it was until I heard a sound from inside the closet.
05:47I then noticed the cracked open closet door, and the black shadow of a head peeking out of the closet.
05:54Again, I almost had a heart attack.
05:56I said, Martha.
05:58She didn't answer.
05:59I kept saying Martha a bunch of times until she pushed the door open, and I saw her approaching the bed slowly.
06:06She started saying what she was saying hours ago again.
06:09Who are you?
06:09I don't know you.
06:10As she got closer, I tried calming her down, reminding her who I am.
06:15I reached for the lamp next to the bed and fumbled with it until it turned on.
06:20Martha was holding a huge kitchen knife in her hand.
06:23At this moment, everything changed.
06:25Martha was now a threat to my life, and I had to worry about myself, not her.
06:30I screamed at this point.
06:31Martha put the knife down.
06:32I guess my scream stressed her out because she got closer and started screaming back at me, still repeating, I don't know you.
06:39I wasn't going to attempt to calm down a knife-welding dementia patient.
06:43That was not in any job description.
06:46I mapped out a way to run around her in the bedroom, and I went for it.
06:49I jumped off the bed on the side further from her, and she screamed again, who are you?
06:54She swung the knife at the air as I ran past her.
06:57It was a slow and weak swipe from what I saw, but nonetheless showed that she had intentions of actually using it.
07:04I got downstairs and grabbed my shoes and went outside.
07:07Instead of calling 911, I called Colleen as she requested I do if there's an issue.
07:12I was courteous in doing this because getting law enforcement involved is never doing anyone any favors.
07:17Colleen was yelling into the phone at me not to leave her, and honestly I yelled back that she attempted to kill me, and that I didn't call the police.
07:26She had to leave work, of course.
07:28I stayed outside of the house, making sure Martha didn't go anywhere until Colleen returned.
07:33When Colleen went inside, Martha was back in her bed, asleep.
07:38Colleen went as far as accusing me of exaggerating the whole thing, until she found the knife next to Martha's bed.
07:43To not give her any more fuel to blame me for any of this, I left out the fact that I ever went to sleep.
07:49But that doesn't mean that I felt in any way I did anything wrong.
07:53Colleen even offered me that room to sleep.
07:55I never worked in that house again.
07:58Martha was a scarier patient than I'd ever dealt with in any of my jobs in my nine years of being a direct care aide.
08:03It was my first day working for this plumbing company.
08:16I was called in for my first job to this house out of town.
08:20The plumbing company had five employees, and the owner would choose who does what job.
08:25I don't see it as a coincidence that I was sent to some undesirable job far away in a shitty area for my first job.
08:31The call was for a leaky pipe under the sink, which is typically the easiest, most basic job to get a call for, depending on the root cause of it.
08:40I pulled up to the house, my first ever call, and it was an absolutely disgusting looking house.
08:46Completely run down, as if no one had lived there for years.
08:50I went up to the house and knocked, until a middle-aged man opened the door.
08:54I didn't like his aura from the start.
08:55He had this unflattering, disproportionately wide smile that made his entire face appear off-putting.
09:03His voice was also really soft and high-pitched, not the voice I was expecting to come out of his mouth.
09:08Or maybe it was, given his unusual appearance.
09:12He welcomed me inside of the house.
09:14I realized there wasn't a single piece of furniture in the house.
09:17Just moved in?
09:19I asked him.
09:21He replied yes, and then chuckled.
09:23Or maybe I should say he giggled, because it was just a weird, high-pitched little laugh.
09:28He brought me to the kitchen, and the first thing I did was set my stuff down on the counter,
09:32then open the cabinets under the sink.
09:35I slid myself under the sink and started to examine the pipe,
09:39specifically looking at the P-trap and the locknuts to make sure they weren't overly tight or loose.
09:44I noticed the man was standing directly over me.
09:48His legs spread wide so that I was sandwiched between both of his feet.
09:52It was extremely uncomfortable.
09:54I asked him politely to give me some space,
09:57and he backed up a bit, but not enough that would make me feel comfortable.
10:01I realized that I didn't see any water leaking at all,
10:04so I got out from under the sink and tried running the water,
10:07but no water came out of the faucet.
10:09I looked at the weird man and asked him why the water wasn't running.
10:14He said he must have shut off the main water valve without realizing it.
10:18When I say I stood there speechless for a few seconds, I'm not exaggerating.
10:22I asked him bluntly, how do you do something like that by mistake?
10:26He smiled and shrugged his shoulders.
10:28I asked him to go turn the water valve back on.
10:31He turned and said he'd be right back, and I saw him leave the kitchen,
10:35but then I heard footsteps walking upstairs.
10:37I'd never in my life heard of a water valve being upstairs in any house.
10:43I knew something was off with this guy and the situation.
10:46Everything from the condition of this house to his mannerisms.
10:50And then I started hearing multiple sets of footsteps from upstairs.
10:53Coming down the steps quickly.
10:58In a split second, I decided I was out of there.
11:01I grabbed my stuff and quickly walked out to the front door and to my van.
11:05I'm a pretty large and loud dude,
11:07so I'm not really intimidated very easily by people in a physical way.
11:11But there was something about that situation and that guy
11:14that told me that some shit was about to go down.
11:17I looked at the house for a second, and then I drove away.
11:20I called Dave my boss, letting him know it was just some kind of prank,
11:24because that just sounded better than me saying I was scared of that guy.
11:28I did a few minutes worth of investigating,
11:30and found out that that was just a vacant, abandoned house.
11:34I got the number that made the call for the alleged leaky pipe from Dave,
11:38and it turned out to be a voice over IP number, not even a real number.
11:42I reported this shady encounter with the local police department,
11:45just so that they would be aware of it and maybe close off that house.
11:48But I've never had a reason to return to that sketchy part of town again.
11:53I only worked for that specific plumbing company for about a year.
12:06Back in 2019, I worked for Domino's.
12:09It was my first night, I was just starting out.
12:12I was only working there, because I needed the money for college, supplies for my dorm, etc.
12:17And so that night, I was being trained.
12:20When you're being trained, you're accompanied by the manager on your first few deliveries
12:23to see how you do, and evaluate you, and train you.
12:27It was late, around 8 o'clock, and we got an order.
12:30Our store wasn't electronic like they are today.
12:33We couldn't see where their locations were on a big TV.
12:35We had to go look them up on our phones for directions.
12:38We got the directions and the pizza.
12:41I still remember the order.
12:43Four large pizzas with two bottles of Pib.
12:46We load them into the car, and it was my car since I was the one being evaluated.
12:50So it was me, my manager, and another trainee who I didn't know.
12:54The house we were heading towards was way out of the way in the middle of nowhere.
12:59My town was old, though, so it was fairly common to go miles without anything.
13:03It took us around 15 to 20 minutes to get there.
13:06The house looked old, really old.
13:09It was an old two-story home, and it was completely run down.
13:13The wood was chipping, some of the windows had boards on them.
13:16It was not a house you'd expect people to be living in.
13:20I remember asking my manager if we had to go up there, and he told both of us yes,
13:24but that he'd come with us and hand them the pizzas and sodas.
13:27I hesitantly got out of the car, and noticed that the other guy who was new was very nervous
13:32as well about walking to that front door.
13:35We finally started making our way to it, when the other trainee said he thought he saw someone
13:40watching us from the furthest window from us, upstairs.
13:44Our manager told him he's just paranoid, and that this shouldn't take more than a minute
13:47or two, making sure to tell us to stay calm and be nice.
13:51I don't know how I had the courage to ring the bell, but I did, which of course didn't work.
13:57So my manager pounded on the door.
14:00No answer.
14:02We waited about 15 seconds and knocked again, harder this time.
14:07Still no answer.
14:08We were all getting impatient, and there was a smell of something rotten.
14:13We couldn't tell if it was the house, or if something inside had died.
14:16Finally, after about a minute of impatiently waiting, someone opens the door, but not completely.
14:23They open the door only showing part of their face, and asking who we were and what we wanted.
14:29My manager said we had their pizza, and the guy quickly unlocked the door and acted all
14:33friendly towards us.
14:34It freaked the three of us out.
14:36It was an older gentleman, in his 50s at least.
14:40He told us it took him a while to open the door because it's hard for him to get around
14:44or some shit.
14:44Our manager handed him the receipt, and asked if he was paying with cash or a check, and
14:50the man told us he'd be back with the money.
14:52He left the front door open, so I looked around to see what the house looked like inside.
14:57Empty.
14:58Completely empty.
14:59No furniture or anything in that house.
15:02Just the floor and a couple of blankets.
15:05Obviously this guy was homeless, and was just living here since no one else was.
15:09That's when we heard footsteps coming from upstairs.
15:12More than one person, too.
15:14That's when we got uncomfortable about the situation.
15:17The realization of what the other employee said became true.
15:21Someone was probably watching us as we walked to the front door.
15:24My manager yelled out if the man had the money yet, but he never got a response back.
15:29The footsteps stopped.
15:31Everything just stopped.
15:32It became silent.
15:33We could just hear the three of us breathing.
15:37My manager told us to stay at the front door in case the man came back, and that he'd go
15:40around the house to see if the man needed help or something.
15:43We nodded at him, and he walked towards the back.
15:46The two of us heard footsteps, but not from upstairs.
15:50They were coming from below us somehow.
15:53We both looked completely puzzled and confused, and honestly uneasy about this entire situation.
15:58That's when we heard our manager scream and heard frantic running.
16:03He ran to the front of the house where both of us were, and told us to go back into the
16:07car and that we're leaving.
16:09I've never driven a car faster in my life.
16:12My manager explained to us that when he was walking around to the back, he saw a group of
16:16people in the darkness surrounding a sort of makeshift campfire, but it was very small.
16:21He got closer to them, and noticed in the middle was a baby deer.
16:26The group of men were sitting around laughing at it as if they found it funny.
16:30The minute he said that, my heart almost stopped.
16:32The new guy and I quit right after, and I heard the manager quit a month after this.
16:37I'd never worked a delivery job again.
16:40Obviously, we walked into some kind of cult meeting, and I'm just glad we left when we did.
16:51I'm just glad we left.
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