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Late Night Shift
Hi! I'm Monica! This incident happened when I
was an adult in my twenties when I used to work in Mc Donalds and thought of quitting till I saved up for my college. The boss was a money-grubbing and high-handed person. He hardly gave the co workers leave. We can't never disobey or speak against his instructions and if we do, he would reduce our salary. Most of the co workers who worked here were teens and adults like me who were saving up for their education. We needed the money badly so none of us didn't dare to deny his orders.

One day, the boss called out to me, when I entered into his office room, it smelt really bad. I thought the smell was from the alcohol bottles that he used to drink always. The smell was soo bad that I felt nauseous but knowing about my boss, I hardly controlled my breath. I asked him whether does he need anything and he said that I had to take the night shift for that day because the co -worker who used to take the night shift had fallen severely ill! He also said two other co-workers would accompany me!
I didn't want to take the night shift since they are very tiring but as I already mentioned before, we can't never deny his orders so I accepted it. But just did I know, this night shift was a gonna be a terrific night!

So that night, everything went normal and finally when our last customer went back home, we closed the restaurant at 10:45. Then all of us went on doing our own jobs. Michella was at the cashier working out certain calculations, John was doing the dishes and I was cleaning the tables. When everyone completed their jobs, it was almost 11.30. We were all worn out, so me and my co-workers sat around the kitchen table and was having a chat. We didn't even realize the time pass till all of us heard a knock on the glass door of the restaurant. We looked at the clock, it was 00:00. It was really strange since we never had any customers so late in midnight. Michelle volunteered that she'll go and check.

Fifteen minutes later, Michelle still didn't return. I got a bit worried so along with John, we went to the dining hall and there was Michelle with her eyes wide open. We went near her and shook her. I asked, "Hey Michelle! What are you doing here? Why are you white as you've see a ghost??! Who was at the door?" She stammered, "b..b..because I.. I..I.. have!" Her voice trembled with fear, but me and John laughed it off thinking it was a joke. John said "Seriously dude, cut it out! Do you know what the time is!? We have to go home, the time is almost past our shift!
She snapped, "You'd not even want to work here if you know what happened, You fool!" Me and John gasped. We stammered,"W..w. what happened??!" Then she started narrating the incident.

When I went to see who knocked the door, there was a little girl at the door. She was standing all by herself so I asked her if she needs anything but she didn't respond so I asked her again, where were her parents? Out of the blue, she silently muttered, my father killed me. I thought she must be mentally disturbed, so I asked her what was her name. She said that Sophie was her name. I asked her where was her father. She said that he works here and the most terrifying thing she said was our boss's name Dane! She continued to say I was killed by Dane and she pointed towards our boss's office room. And seconds later she just vanished.

John said, "d...d..did you open the door?" Michelle said, "I don't know where the key is!" My blood ran cold and then suddenly it hit me. I said, " Wait I know, this evening after dane talked about the night shift, he locked his office room and kept his keys under the vase in the entrance, let's go and check there. It might be there!"

John rushed there and took the key. We were all nervous, remember, everything was happening late at night. It was 12.30. Me, Michelle and John went together as he opened the door. The bad smell I felt earlier in the room was still there. John and Michelle said, "What's that bad smelll? This isn't a good start, anyway let search the room for anything out of the ordinary." As everyone began to search, I approached a cupboard, the smell likely seemed to come from it. With hesitation, I opened it which to my horror, I found 5 bodies in there. I called out to Michelle and John. We couldn't say who they were but Michelle identified one of the bodies as the little girl whom she saw earlier at the door. This was a complete shock to all of us. I stammered, "s..so..It I., I.. s TRUE. If only the little girl was killed, then WHOSE BODIES ARE THESE?!?"
I could hear my heart pounding and my body became very cold as I was the dead person there.

John said, "No more questions! We gotta call the cops!" He called the cops and the cops showed up at the place ten minutes later. We didn't tell about the meeting with the little girl because obviously we knew they would not believe it. So we made something up and they said they will
have to close the relevant area till they've done a complete research about the killer and get the autopsy report.
Me and my co workers didn't go to the work place till we heard anything from the police or any news.

Within three days, as I was sitting on my couch watching the news, a picture of Dane appeared. The news read that the boss of the Mc Donalds had not only murdered his daughter, but his wife and some co workers who used to work there. It was even confirmed that he was a psychopath and according to the law, he was sentenced life prison for commiting homicide murder.

I was very relieved when I knew they had caught him. It literally gives me chills when I think I've talked and worked under a cold-blooded killer. To this day I think, If we had not opened the office room and checked what was inside the cupboard and didn't know this sooner then I too would be one of those victims!

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