Fright Bites: The Third Floor Desk
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
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An overnight security guard patrols an almost abandoned office block where little ever changes. Empty corridors. Silent lifts. Rows of stripped-back offices left frozen in time.
But on the third floor, one desk remains.
At first, it’s easy to dismiss the strange activity as faulty equipment and exhaustion. A lift opening on its own. The sound of typing echoing through empty rooms. A chair inexplicably pulled back from a desk no one should be using. Then the CCTV begins to capture something impossible.
In this Fright Bites episode, we hear the unsettling account of a night worker who came face to face with the lingering presence of a former employee… a man said to have died alone at his desk years earlier, unnoticed for days inside the silent building.
A short-form paranormal encounter rooted in isolation, empty workplaces, late-night patrols, and the unnerving feeling that some places never truly empty out.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fright Bites, a mini-series from the Haunted UK podcast. |
| 0:14.7 | Over the years, you've trusted us with your true paranormal experiences, stories that chilled us, unsettled us, and stayed with us |
| 0:23.0 | long after the episodes ended. In Frightbytes, we bring you the very best short-form |
| 0:29.3 | listener submissions we've ever received, hand-picked, stripped down, and told in their most |
| 0:35.3 | terrifying form. These are short stories, real accounts. |
| 0:40.7 | No filler, no distractions, just a single moment |
| 0:44.2 | where something unexplained stepped out of the shadows |
| 0:47.2 | and into someone's life. |
| 0:50.1 | So dim the lights, get comfortable, and brace yourself. |
| 0:59.0 | This is Frightbytes, Episode 6, the third floor desk. |
| 1:07.0 | I'd been on nights at the office block for six months before anything happened, which is why I still struggle to explain it. |
| 1:15.3 | Old Place, 1970s concrete slab, eight floors, long since emptied, except for a few archive rooms in a server rack that hummed like it was alive. |
| 1:26.3 | My job was simple. Sit in the security room, |
| 1:29.7 | watch the monitors, do a patrol every hour and make sure no one broke in to nick copper |
| 1:34.7 | or sleep in the stairwells. It was just after 2 a.m. when I first noticed the lift. |
| 1:41.0 | The building only had one working lift and it was locked off overnight. You needed a coded |
| 1:46.7 | fob to activate it. Still, on the monitor, I saw the doors open on the third floor. No one stepped |
| 1:54.1 | out. They just opened and stayed that way. I told myself it was a fault and began my patrol, heading for the third |
| 2:03.4 | floor first, to check out that lift. The third floor had always unsettled me. Open plan offices |
| 2:11.3 | stripped bare except for one desk with a chair in the far corner. It had been there since my first night, |
| 2:17.8 | an old metal thing, |
| 2:19.2 | drawers half open, |
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