Sometimes security keeps people out, and sometimes it keeps things in.

This world is a strange one.

Security guards have often awkward and dangerous jobs, some of them deal with unpredictable people,

while others tend to empty lonely buildings with nothing but themselves and a flashlight.

You can only imagine how creepy it can be to work as a security guard.

Well, actually, let's get a taste right now by checking out these allegedly true stories from security guards.

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Now, grab your torch and try not to be caught alone in the dark.

Number 1.

Ghost Stories from a Shipping Plant.

Submitted by Tom.

I've worked security for a few years now.

If there's one thing I've learned while working security,

it's that we often experience some creepy things.

There is one place I remember clearly in a certain rural Tennessee town.

I worked at a big building that used to be a packaging and shipping product company.

They would distribute various wares to stores.

It ran 24-7 and was only closed on Christmas.

At least when I was posted there, that's how it was.

When I signed on, there was an old guard who had been there for years.

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