The Man Who Crawls Along the Floor: What I Saw on the Night Shift

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🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What starts as a routine overnight shift in a downtown Oakland call center slowly turns into a series of chilling, unexplained encounters. We hear about shadowy figures lurking in cubicles and an eerily disturbing presence that crawls across the floor. Even worse, the experiences intensify as the workplace changes locations. Even new offices bring new horrors: strange atmospheres, unexplainable shapes, and something that seems aware. This is a firsthand account of persistent, escalating paranormal activity in places meant to feel ordinary: your everyday workplace.You can get these ad-free through ScaryPlus.com free for 14 days, then 4.99 per month. Cancel anytime.
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0:00.0	It was creeping along in the air, moving back and forth like a snake. And I noticed after a while
0:14.7	it wasn't going straight to the ceiling. It was going off to the left. A night shift alone should be quiet, predictable.
0:23.6	But in a call center after midnight, one employee began seeing shadows, move, figures crawl, and something watching in the dark.
0:31.6	My name is Edwin, and here is Beav' true, scary story.
0:55.0	When I was 13, we moved to an old 1940s housing track in Hayward, California. And when we moved there, it's just mainly a lot of older people there.
0:59.0	They were retired.
1:01.0	And it turned out it was the original wife that owned the place, but it wasn't her husband.
1:08.0	It turned out that her husband was very abusive and they think she killed him in the house.
1:13.6	Also, I found out later they had a son there too. We found out from the neighbors actually that their son was a delinquent and he was a delinquent and they used to go around doing petty crimes.
1:26.6	But nobody knows what happened to the son.
1:32.3	The very first night we moved in, I remember it was like 8.30 at night.
1:37.3	And it was my parents, me and my sister, and my cousin had moved in with us too.
1:43.3	And we were sitting on the couch,
1:45.0	and my mom was standing in the middle of the living room,
1:48.0	and this huge, huge, like, green orb.
1:53.0	It had to be big as a softball, just flew from the dining area
1:57.0	across the living room in front of us and went into the closet. We had the Venetian blinds clothes. We were sitting on the couch.
2:04.6	The back of us was the actual like window.
2:07.6	We were on the second story because the house has everything on the top floor and at the bottom is a double garage.
2:14.6	My mom is like, oh no, that wasn't nothing. It was just the light. The light came through. We're like two blocks from a double garage. My mom is like, oh no, that wasn't nothing.
2:17.8	It was just the light.
2:18.6	The light came through.
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