I Spent the Night in a Fire Lookout Tower. Something Was Already Up There. by pentyworth223

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🗓️ 3 August 2025

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No service. No roads. Just a drop-off by helicopter and a daily check-in by radio.

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0:00.0	I'm not looking for advice.
0:04.0	I just want someone, anyone, to tell me I'm not the first.
0:09.0	That I didn't imagine it.
0:12.0	Something else has knocked on that hatch before.
0:16.0	When I took the job, it felt like a blessing.
0:19.0	Two weeks alone on a fire watch tower off grid,
0:22.9	paid in cash. It said it was part of a remote reactivation program. Some of the towers hadn't
0:29.4	been used in years. This one needed a body to make it active again for funding.
0:36.4	Fine by me.
0:39.3	No service.
0:47.2	No roads, just a drop-off by helicopter and a daily check-in by radio.
0:52.5	Notebooks, coffee, and way too much instant ramen.
0:54.7	I thought I'd be bored.
0:56.9	That was the plan.
1:00.8	The tower itself was older than I expected.
1:03.3	Steel frame, probably World War II era.
1:08.1	Forty feet tall with a vertical ladder that groaned when I climbed it.
1:14.7	At the top was a single room cabin with wide windows on all four sides, a trapdoor entry and a thick metal latch locked from within.
1:19.4	The moment I stepped inside, I knew something was off.
1:23.6	Not wrong exactly.
1:28.8	Off.
1:32.8	The room felt colder than outside.
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