True Ghost Stories: Real Police Ghost Stories: True Tales of the Paranormal as Told by Cops and Other Law Enforcement Officials by Zachery Knowles

Author:Zachery Knowles [Knowles, Zachery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Anthologies
ISBN: 9781979307529
Google: tScKtAEACAAJ
Amazon: 1979307520
Goodreads: 36511085
Publisher: True Ghost Stories
Published: 2017-10-27T05:00:00+00:00

The Key Holder

Two officers responded to an alarm in the dead of night at an old office building in a rough part of town. The building was a timeworn, yet largely converted into a series of offices with an attached pharmacy. The dispatcher initially taking the call told the officers the alarm was tripped in an upstairs office, but before entering they had to wait for a key holder to meet them there. After a short while, the key holder, a weary, quiet, middle-aged man showed up and the three people headed inside.

Being an older office building without windows in the corridors, the officers only had their flashlights to see since the lights were on timers. They headed to the end of the main corridor, where all the offices branched off, and proceeded to the stairs \located behind a door. It was at that point they discovered the key holder did not have a key for that particular door. Frustrated, they all went back along the corridor to where the elevator, leaving the key holder on the main floor.

The elevator opened to a dark corridor with one overhead light fixture at the end creating a pool of light. Thinking it a bit weird, but nothing too troubling, the officers began to check the doors in the corridor, finding them all locked and secure. Most of the offices were for doctors and small businesses. They reached the final office with the light illuminating over it and found it to be open.

Calling ahead to warn anyone inside they were there, the officers entered the office, finding a sizeable reception and waiting room area with about a dozen examination rooms. The air inside was much colder than the rest of the building, but temperature imbalances weren’t unusual. The officers cleared all of the rooms, finding them empty of everything including furniture, although it didn’t appear to have been long since the office had been in use.

Not finding anyone, or even evidence someone had been there, they chalked it up to a faulty alarm and left the office. But as soon as they did, they realized something was very wrong; the light on above their heads marking the unlocked office was out and instead, a light was on at the elevators. One of the officers looked over at his partner and saw his face was drained of color and clammy and his hands were shaking,

The officer asked his partner, “What’s wrong?”

“Weren’t all those doors we just checked closed and locked?”

“Yeah, so?”

“Well, now they’re all standing open,” he said, pointing with a shivering finger.

Looking up, the officer saw his partner was right. Every door they had checked only a few minutes ago was now swinging open. No one had passed them in their search of the previous office and the doors had been locked, so if anyone was there, they needed keys for the whole corridor. What was stranger, the officers hadn’t heard a single thing.

Drawing their guns, they set about re-checking and clearing the offices again, moving from the elevator to the last office they had just left.

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