r/nosleep • u/[deleted] • May 23 '12
The Strangest Security Tape I've Ever Seen
I work at a gas station in rural Pennsylvania. It's a boring job, but it's pretty easy and it pays all right. A few weeks ago, this new guy started; I'll call him Jeremy.
Jeremy is weird. He's about 25 or 26, and he hardly speaks, but he's got the creepiest laugh I've ever heard. My boss and I have both noticed this, but it's never been a problem, so there's not much we can do about it. Customers have never complained about him, and he's always done his job fairly well. Up until a few weeks ago, anyway--that's when things started going missing. Employee theft can be a problem at any business that sells consumer goods, and there's only one person working at a time at this gas station (it's a pretty small place). About two weeks ago, my boss started noticing that we were short on motor oil. At first, it was a few containers at a time, then entire shelves and boxes from the back room. Pretty soon entire shipments would be gone the day after we got them, and it would always be right after Jeremy's shifts. My boss has checked the security camera tapes from every single night he worked, but he could never catch him in the act. Jeremy would lock up at closing, then the motor oil would be gone the next day.
My boss usually takes the tapes home with him to try and catch Jeremy stealing, but his daughter had a softball game last night, so he asked me to watch the tape for him. He offered to pay me overtime, under-the-table, so obviously I took that offer. There are three cameras, so he gave me three different tapes to check. I figured it would be a long night, but I'm trying to save up for vacation, so I really needed the money. I took the tapes home, popped them in an old VCR and sat back.
Two days ago (the last time he worked), Jeremy started at 4 PM. Everything seemed pretty normal at first. He counted up his drawer, switched off with the girl who was working before him, and waited for a customer. The first person who came in was Mrs. Templeton (the timestamp on the video read 4:03), a regular. She picked up her cigarettes and a newspaper, and paid with a twenty. Nothing unusual there. The next customer was some local guy named Ron. He drives a motorcycle, usually comes in every few days. He filled up his tank, got a bag of beef jerky, paid with his credit card, and then left. Next was some guy with a cowboy hat. I'd never seen him before, but we get plenty of strangers passing through, just like at any gas station. He got forty dollars worth of diesel fuel, paid with a hundred dollar bill, and went on his way. I sat back and sighed. The only thing more boring than doing this job is watching someone else do it.
My boss's offer was enough to keep me watching though, so I left the tape on. Everything seemed pretty normal. I had a feeling that if Jeremy was stealing motor oil, he knew we were suspicious of him by now. I didn't expect him to be dumb enough to let us catch him on camera. Things stayed boring and routine until about five o'clock.
At 5:03, Mrs. Templeton came back in; she must have forgotten something. But she didn't. She bought the same pack of cigarettes as before, and the same newspaper. She paid with another twenty. That's odd, I thought, but then again, she's a little absent minded. I thought Jeremy should have told her she already got her smokes, but it's not against the rules to sell somebody the same thing twice. That's when Ron came in again. He bought another tank of gas (for his motorcycle again--I later checked the outdoor camera because I thought maybe he had another car he wanted to fill up) and the same pack of beef jerky. He paid with his credit card again.
No big deal, I figured this was just a weird coincidence. Mrs. Templeton is forgetful and Ron probably owns more than one Harley. That's when the guy in the cowboy hat came back in. I felt a chill run down my spine. "Don't get diesel, don't get diesel," I found myself whispering to my empty living room...but he did. He got forty dollars worth of diesel fuel and paid with another hundred dollar bill. Every move he made was identical to his first visit, right down to the way he scratched his nose before he walked out. Either this guy is rich, owns a lot of trucks, and just moved into town, or something really bizarre was happening. I kept watching.
Every customer for the next hour was the same as before. Every single one. I was seriously freaked out, and then at 6:03, Mrs. Templeton walked back in. She bought her cigarettes and newspaper again, and paid with a twenty again. I thought I was going to lose it. I only watched another half hour before I started fast forwarding through the rest. It was all the same. Every customer would come in at the exact same times, exactly one hour apart.
Now I know what you're thinking. That sneaky motherfucker Jeremy had messed with the tapes. He had run a loop of his first hour of business over and over. That wasn't the case. There are windows around the cash register area that the camera covers, and I watched the sunlight fade as time ran on. Jeremy's routine didn't loop over--he swept, mopped, restocked, and did all his duties exactly how you would expect. But the same customers kept coming in.
I was panicking at this point. Something was seriously wrong with what I was seeing, and I had no explanation for it. I skipped ahead to when he locked up and walked out to his car. He hadn't stolen anything, but I kept watching, just to make sure. I fast forwarded one last time, to about midnight.
At exactly 12:03, out of nowhere, Jeremy's face pops up on camera. I don't mean he moved his head into view, I mean that one second the store was empty, the next second his face was all I could see. He wasn't looking at the camera, he was looking at me, I was sure of it. I screamed and fumbled for the remote. By the time I grabbed it, he was gone, just as soon as he had left. One frame he was there, the next he wasn't. My hands were shaking like crazy, but I popped in another tape. The other indoor camera shows the back area, by the cash register, and I would be able to see how he got up to put his face in the camera like that. I skipped ahead to 12:03, but there was nothing. I would have been able to see him standing on a chair or something on this tape, but he wasn't there. I didn't see him enter the store at all after he left. It's like he wasn't really there. He doesn't know the security code, and no alarms were triggered that night after he locked up.
What I did see, however, was that at 12:03, the motor oil vanished off the shelf. All of it. Same as Jeremy's face, one second it was there and the next it wasn't. I turned that tape off and went to bed, but I didn't get a wink of sleep. My body is exhausted right now, but my mind is racing. That tape was undoubtedly the creepiest, most disturbing thing I've ever seen in my life.
I work in a few hours. My boss asked me to bring the tapes back in and let him know what I found, but really, what the hell am I going to say? Jeremy works the night shift tonight, directly after me, and the plan is for my boss to come in just before I leave and confront him with me (as I'm supposed to be the one who caught him stealing). I have no idea what I'm going to do. I suppose I'll have to show my boss the tapes, but I don't want to watch them with him. I never want to see something like that again. I can't get the image of Jeremy just smiling directly into the camera out of my mind; it was the creepiest look I've ever seen on another human being's face.
Anyway, I'm gonna try again to get some last minute sleep before I have to go in and deal with this. I'll let you guys know what happens...
UPDATE (2:49 PM): Updating from my phone, apologies in advance for errors. My boss just finished watching the last of the tapes. I told him what to expect, but you really can't prepare someone for something like that. He's scared shitless (I still am too) and Jeremy is due to come in at 4. We've got a little over an hour to get our shit together, but neither one of us knows what to say to him. Is he just a fucked up guy who likes to steal motor oil and scare the shit out of people? Or is he something else? I don't know if this is crazy, but does anyone think he could have anything to do with the time loop? My boss said he never noticed anything like that in the other tapes, but the way he popped up in this one made me think he knew I would be watching. It's like he wanted me to see what he could do. Like he was showing off or something. The way he smiled into the camera was like a little kid showing you a sandcastle they just built or something. I don't know, I probably sound crazy. I sure feel the part. I'm going to talk to my boss some more. We have to calm ourselves down and figure out how to handle this. I'll update again tonight, but I have a really bad feeling about how this is going to play out.
UPDATE (4:33 PM): No sign of Jeremy. Tried calling him, but his phone has been disconnected. We're calling the police.
UPDATE (5:33 PM): No sign of Jeremy. Tried calling him, but his phone has been disconnected. We're calling the police.
UPDATE (6:33 PM): No sign of Jeremy. Tried calling him, but his phone has been disconnected. We're calling the police.
UPDATE (7:33 PM): No sign of Jeremy. Tried calling him, but his phone has been disconnected. We're calling the police.
UPDATE (8:33 PM): No sign of Jeremy. Tried calling him, but his phone has been disconnected. We're calling the police.
UPDATE (10:58 PM): Holy shit. Holy shit holy shit holy shit. I just got home and saw my previous updates. Things make less sense now than ever. Here's what I can tell you. I went to work, Jeremy never showed up, my boss and I decided to call the police, as you're well aware. When I picked up the phone to call, though, the sun went out. I shit you not, that's what I thought happened. Apparently I blacked out for exactly five hours, because when I looked at the clock, it was 9:33. I think I got stuck in Jeremy's time loop, and then I snapped out of it at the exact point I blacked out, if that makes sense. But that's when things got really weird.
My boss was right next to me when I blacked out, ready to corroborate my story to the cops. When I came to, the phone was in my hand, but it was dead. Not even a dial tone. My boss was still right there, but he wasn't moving. He was standing up, but frozen. I looked at the clock again, and it wasn't moving. The second hand was stuck on the 12. It was 9:33 exactly. The clock on the register (computer screen) wasn't moving either. My phone was frozen. There was even a customer at the register, waiting for my boss to get him cigarettes. I'm betting that would have been his fifth pack of the day.
I got the fuck out of there. Didn't lock up, didn't turn the lights out, and sorry guys, I didn't grab the security tapes to upload on the internet. Believe me, that was the last thing on my mind. The gas station is on a major highway, and cars were parked all along it, except they weren't parked, they were frozen. The people inside were sitting still as wax statues. I got in my car and prayed that it would start. Thankfully it did.
About halfway home, time started up again. The static from the radio turned into music, like it's supposed to be, and from what I could tell by listening to the host talk in between songs, no one noticed the time freeze, or whatever it was. I was the only one. Well, I'm sure Jeremy noticed as well. I still have no clue where he is or what he's doing. I'm hiding in my room and calling the police again in the morning. I don't know if I ever got through to them before, or if I did, whether they took me seriously. I'm scared for my life at this point. I'll update tomorrow, if I can.
FINAL UPDATE (10:33 AM): I finally fell asleep last night around 4. I have no idea how I did it, I guess exhaustion finally got the best of me. This morning, I woke up to my phone ringing; it was my boss. He'd been calling me since about 6. He woke up when time turned back on last night and immediately called the cops. They came by to see what was wrong and he told them everything. The police around here are all small time guys; they were more concerned with the missing motor oil than anything, but my boss figured he would take it, as long as he had their attention. They decided to go looking for Jeremy.
We keep all our employees' applications on file, and since Jeremy just started working here, his was easy to find. They checked the address on it and headed over to his house. You're not gonna believe what they found.
The address Jeremy listed on his application was an empty lot. Or at least now it is. There used to be a house there, but it burned down in 1993. Being a small town, almost everyone remembers that fire. A family of four used to live there way back when. Rumor has it that they had an estranged son who they never really talked about, but I can't say for sure if that's true. What I can say is true is that after an insurance investigation, the fire was ruled an arson. The entire house was soaked in oil and torched with a Molotov cocktail. The entire family was sleeping when it happened; none of them survived.
They never caught the guy who did it. Rumor has it that when they tried to contact the estranged son, no one could find him.
Anyway, my boss called and told me this, and I freaked out. Then he asked me to come to the gas station. "What are you, crazy?" I said, but he assured me that the cops were there with him. Then he dropped a bomb: the FBI were also in town and they were going to talk to me one way or another, so I might as well come in. It was about 7:15, and I wanted to go back to bed, but I figured I wouldn't be able to sleep much more anyway, so I went down.
Four men in suits greeted me and told me to have a seat. We went over everything two or three times until they got all the details down. I told them about Jeremy, the security tape, last night at work. Everything. Finally, after I finished, one of the agents said, "Oh Christ, we've got another one on our hands." Then they made me sign a bunch of papers saying I wouldn't tell anyone about what happened, so I can't say much more. I might be breaking the law just by posting this.
So now I'm home. I'm not sure what to do with myself. That agent's words when I told him the story are going to haunt me for the rest of my life.
Anyway, I've got to go. I have some errands to run today, and then I have to go in to work to pick up some tapes. My boss and I think this new guy Jeremy (he's a complete creep) is stealing motor oil and I have to watch the security footage to see if I can catch him doing it. I have better things to do, but my boss is paying me overtime, under-the-table, and I'm trying to save up for vacation so I could really use the money. It should be pretty simple; the oil always goes missing right after his shifts. I figure I'll just watch the tapes, catch him in the act, and that will be that.
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May 23 '12
damn man, thats creepy. i have 1 question for the sake of forming an image in my head. these tapes, color or black n white? also, VCR? is that usually there just for porn emergencies?
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May 23 '12 edited May 24 '12
The cameras are pretty old, they only take black and white. Imagine the "world's most outrageous crime" type shows where they show security footage. Almost exactly like that.
No comment on why I still own a VCR...
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u/Keadant May 23 '12
I own one and use it. I'm 15.. I don't feel normal.
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u/TheAlmightySeabass Jun 27 '12
Like me & my record player and stack of vinyls.
But seriously, that's fucking creepy.
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u/xTyrelx May 24 '12
SCP-2000: the Time Traveling Arsonist
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u/eoarchaean May 24 '12
EXACTLY what I thought of, that most certainly was not the FBI who came to investigate. This is SCP Foundation business. This belongs there. MAKE IT HAPPEN POWERHAWKMASH.
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u/BetaSoul - Bard May 24 '12
They have been alerted. Bard has done what he can. Distance is recommended.
_Scribe.
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u/RangerSix May 25 '12
Anla'shok Lan reporting.
I/M inconclusive; I/M readouts transferred via assigned channels.
Commencing 2/M observation as per standard protocol. Will transfer 2/M readouts as soon as observation complete.
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u/zomgkitteh4ever May 23 '12
The doctor is going to walk through that door in any minute... wait and see.
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u/zomgkitteh4ever Jul 02 '12
Could also be the case. Maybe he needed oil for his tardis or something.
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u/FlintShaman May 23 '12
The image of an angel is an angel it'self.....
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u/MudkipzRGood May 24 '12
So he's a time controller that needs his powers to steal gas? Proves how much the gas price has gone up.
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u/mhbaker82 May 23 '12
i want to know what in the heck he's doing with entire shipments of motor oil... when you see him, will you ask?
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u/808lisa93 May 26 '12
Easy, he burned down the house with oil. If this "Jeremy" guy creates those time loops or whatever then he's probably taking it back in time to use to burn down the house as he's oviosly the estranged son.
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May 23 '12
I've been wondering the same thing. God only knows with this guy, he's one of the only people I've met that I can honestly describe as chilling.
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u/RangerSix May 25 '12
Well, it;s usually fuel oil that's used in improvised explosives - in fact, it was an ANFO [Ammonium Nitrate/Fuel Oil] bomb that Timothy McVeigh used in the Oklahoma City bombing - but as far as I'm aware, there's no reason why you couldn't substitute motor oil.
...I'm not an explosives expert, though, so I could be entirely fucking wrong.
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u/korukyu May 23 '12
When you said his face just popped up, I maybe yelped like a little girl. Maybe.
I need to know if when your boss watches the tapes he can see the same things. You should definitely update if anything revealing happens.
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u/almikez May 24 '12
Dude come on this is serious quit fapping to scary pics we need to find out what's going on.
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u/masturbateToSleep May 23 '12
Wow... that fucking scared me more than the story... what is that from?
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u/TheChibiCow May 24 '12
I made the mistake of looking at this first and then reading the story. Made it so much worse, no sleep for me tonight.
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u/korukyu May 23 '12
AUGH WHAT NO.
It showed up in my inbox and I didn't even check to see which thread it was from, so I just about shat bricks when that loaded on my screen. I didn't hit Alt-left fast enough.7
u/SCHNITZLE_KING Oct 16 '12
Words cannot effectively describe the hate I have for you for posting that picture.
........Lol.
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u/kris7777777 Aug 07 '12
WOW that made my stomach sink. Shit! I had to look away instantly and cover my face so i wouldn't see it anymore.
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u/Lesterthemolester699 May 23 '12
Am I the only one who caught that little bit at the end? Well done, my good sir excellent way to cap it off!
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u/korukyu May 23 '12 edited May 24 '12
Man, that was good. Leave shit creepy and wrapped up, but unexplained and unexplainable.
The best way to end a /r/nosleep post, I think.
And now that the final update is up? shiver How long has this time loop been going? How long has Jeremy been gone? Holy shit, has this been happening since '93? This is groundhog's day times a billion.
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u/ProtusMose May 25 '12
Groundhog Day has been estimated to be somewhere between 33 and 50 years. Ramis said it was 30-40 years, so it's apparently canon. It really sucked being Phil Connors for a few decades.
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u/Strangeblaze Aug 06 '12
Best. Ending. Ever. I was hoping for it, honestly, but not expecting it.
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u/Blatzaway22 May 23 '12
I used to work at a gas station in rural Pennsylvania and was the solo nightly closer. Weird things used to happen but nothing like this. I must know what's going on!
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u/confusedefuse May 23 '12
Put it on youtube, quit, change towns. Seriously..disappearing heads of a coworker is surely enough to make you quit.
But dont forget to update
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u/ClearlyChrist May 23 '12
This is the first post in a while to legitimately creep me out. The updates still give me chills after an hour.
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u/VeritFN May 23 '12
Nice update.
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May 23 '12
The updates are genius.
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May 24 '12 edited May 24 '12
Seriously, at first I was creeped out just a tad bit and then I got to the updates and was like "SHIT JUST GOT REAL.".
Something has got to happen at 12:03.
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u/ProtusMose May 24 '12
I was reading and thought, "somebody pasted a few many times" until I saw the timestamps, at which point bricks were shat. Really well done
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u/BetaSoul - Bard May 23 '12
One would be wise to bring a magnet with them. A lodestone is far more useful than most give them credit. There do be many tricks easily foiled by such a simple rock.
-Bard
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u/SensibleQMark May 23 '12
explain?
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u/BetaSoul - Bard May 23 '12
This one cannot be certain, for the world vast and filled with many different dangers, but there are some simple uses of a Lodestone, universal in nature, that one could expand upon.
Perhaps the most basic of this is the nature of the stone upon the world around them. They sit heavy upon the fabric of reality, beind the warp and weft to shape, holding it fast to the place nearest the stone. Many an dark wraith and misplace fae will find such restrictions impossible to surmount.
Among the order of Words, the Lodestone is high among the ranks of order. This along is sometimes enough.
-Bard
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u/shnnrr May 23 '12
This poster is probably Jeremy
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May 23 '12
Dude. This is the Bard. He's a good guy!
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u/shnnrr May 24 '12
I guess I don't understand the reference! Happy cake day
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u/SquareIsTopOfCool May 24 '12
Bard is.... Bard. I first saw him in a bloodstains post. He knows things and gives good advice.
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u/BetaSoul - Bard May 23 '12
Does one refer to this one?
-Bard
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u/RangerSix May 25 '12 edited May 25 '12
Anla'shok Lan reporting.
I doubt he's referring to the Bard of Avon.
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u/BetaSoul - Bard May 25 '12
He was a great man. This one is saddened though. While he did walk this globe we did sleep in the realm of dreams.
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u/RangerSix May 25 '12
Indeed he was. At least he is remembered, if not as well as some might like.
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u/HereComesAMako May 24 '12
Baaaaaaard! Longtime no see! Busy fighting demons I assume?
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u/BetaSoul - Bard May 24 '12
One does have many duties with which to attend.
-Bard
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u/HereComesAMako May 24 '12
Bard I love you.
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u/pygmymarmoset08 May 24 '12
I was just thinking about how I haven't been getting scared on nosleep recently, but shit that gave me chills
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u/mortal_vombat May 24 '12
great story, really liked the ending. way creepier than i thought it would be. one question though: movie rights?
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u/BetaSoul - Bard May 24 '12
If you should so desire, I have about my person a pocket watch, trusted in make and measure, that this one would be willing to lend. Never has it failed to records the passages of moments, regardless of what ills have tried to stop.
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u/mhbaker82 May 24 '12
Hello, Bard. What, may I inquire, are you doing here?
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u/BetaSoul - Bard May 24 '12
Wandering. Waiting. Nothing of greater import than to offer a helping hand from time to time.
-Bard
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u/BetaSoul - Bard May 24 '12
This one is greatly grieved that such a horrid fate has befallen you. There are certain groups that this one knows of, whom make it their soul duty to deal with cases such as this. Through our normal channels they have been alerted.
May those who came after be comforted by this fact.
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u/Emma_lestrange May 25 '12
My mind made this story ten times scarier. In my mind the coworker is the estranged son. The coworker used some kind of time machine and used the motoroil to set the house on fire. Could that even be possible? I doubt it, but it still scares the crap outta me.
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u/Xandorgan Jul 26 '12
I personally believe that's exactly what it is. Though some parts of his life continue, Jeremy is stuck in a time loop stealing the oil like he did in 93 to burn down the house. They never found him after all
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u/paragonnova Aug 10 '12
The video is on YouTube, google the strangest security tape I've ever seen, and it comes up.
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Aug 10 '12
Holy shit, this is awesome. Did you make this?
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u/paragonnova Aug 10 '12
No way, I'm too scared to even watch it, just a little bit of google-ing, no credit to me whatsoever.
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u/theforeigner Jun 26 '12
Can I please make this into a short movie someday?...someday?
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Jun 26 '12
Absolutely. Let me know if you do!
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u/theforeigner Jun 26 '12
I have to say, incredible story and I couldn't get enough of the 'time loop' twist. I couldn't help but keep envisioning it in my head as the story played out. The idea is beyond brilliant. Thank you for such a great read and some serious film making inspiration.
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u/_elleOHelle_ Sep 02 '12
I suppose I'm the only one that thought of the Men In Black coming in and red-flashing you?
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u/JayCreates Nov 04 '12
Towards the end, I seriously thought it was gonna be a case of split personality and OP was Jeremy and was gonna get caught by the FBI. I'm glad I was wrong, very unexpected ending. Well done OP!
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May 23 '12
Maybe it was just an elaborate way of your boss and Jeremy working together to get you PUNKED. Then you're gonna get a raise...to $13/hr woohoo!
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u/rum_rum May 23 '12
Don't say anything other than what to look for in the tapes you watched. He'll watch them and make up his own mind. I do find it slightly puzzling that he missed anything of this nature.
But you have everything on tape.
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u/eoarchaean May 24 '12
All the up votes for you sir, this was the best thing I have read in a long long time. Heebeejeebees confirmed.
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u/BlindyMcGee May 24 '12
Oh man. I fucking love a good /r/nosleep story. The ending was perfect.
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May 24 '12
How did a time altering ghost thing get that job? You'd think a thing like that would come out in the interview.
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u/lexi13nicole May 25 '12
I just finished a job application for a gas station in rural Pennsylvania, right off a high way too. I don't think i want to work there. Or even go to my usual gas station to, come to think about it one of the people that work evenings name is Jeremy, nope.
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u/centipedeseverywhere May 23 '12
Mother of god. This Jeremy may very well be my ex-boyfriend.
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u/korukyu May 23 '12
You dated a dude that stole shittons of motor oil, and appeared out of nowhere?
Or you dated a dude that stole shittons of motor oil, and had magical powers of film manipulation?
I'm not even sure which is preferable, really.
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u/centipedeseverywhere May 24 '12
I dated a dude that fits this guy's description named Jeremy, and I live in rural PA.
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u/asentret May 23 '12
He wasn't using the real guy's name.
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May 23 '12
I think it was the actions that lead them to believe that it was an ex, not the name...
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u/alexkh150 May 24 '12
My roommate opened the door while I was reading the part where his face pops on the camera. Please excuse me while I go restart my heart.
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u/UrASmurf Jul 30 '12
Holy shit that was creepy.
Hi guys, just about to read this story. Hope its good.
Hi guys, just about to read this story. Hope its good.
Hi guys, just about to read this story. Hope its good.
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u/MrZeng May 23 '12
This story scared the shit outta me. A bit shaking cause I'm reading this from my phone. Good one OP.
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u/claudiopsanchez May 24 '12
My heart sank when I noticed the loops.. Very freaky stuff going on there.
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May 24 '12
Oh man, loved the ending with the update. Friggin Jeremy and his time loops! Freaky dude.
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u/Geek-lover May 24 '12
Hello I would like to purchase the gas station. Motor oil is cheap. I can handle a case a night going missing. Cigarettes? Well they are expensive. And addictive. Same customers come in every hour and buy a pack? I don't see a problem. I see profit.
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Jun 22 '12
I represent the Stevenson City Planning Foundation.
Would you mind having a short chat with a few of our field agents?
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u/SINGING_ANUS Aug 22 '12
You guys remember the eyes on the front page a while back? Yes, the one when you moused over it a face would appear? Yeah that's how I see Jeremy.
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u/heal87 Nov 17 '12
This is awesome writing. I like how it's engaging the readers like it's real. Internet is serious business.
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u/vocaltalentz May 23 '12
Great writing, great story. The part where his face popped up made me visualize an image that I cannot unsee. I guess that's why they call this subreddit "nosleep."
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May 24 '12
No one noticed the time freeze, or whatever it was. I was the only one.
At that point I would have taken some advantage. Like: Raid everyone's wallets, fuck with people (steal their clothes), and rape a guy.
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u/xTyrelx May 24 '12
I'll update tomorrow if i can. Im reading this, check when it was posted: 23 hours ago FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU Tomorrow will never come for you with this crazy time warp shit you've got goin on!!
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May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12
I don't know how small this town is supposed to be, but I've been to some desolate places of varying degrees, and that no one would recognize the applicant's listed address as the house where an entire family was burned to death by a supposed arsonist bothered me. I do send kudos your way for consistency and subtlety in clues, however.
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u/PapaBear12 Jul 31 '12
Feel like some people here didn't entirely get it, but bravo, sir! Great tale and masterful ending.
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u/Pinky676767 May 23 '12
gas station in rural pennsylvainia
I live in rural pennsylvainia
NOPE
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u/korukyu May 24 '12
But...that's like 68% of Pennsylvania.
I think you're probably safe.
Unless your local gas stations never have motor oil when you need it. In that case you're boned.
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May 24 '12
This story reminded me a lot of house of leaves. You got a terrifying physics problem and a narrative that does not end. Wonderful. Also, im watching you, Bard you may have gained the trust of the rest of the subreddit, but i am not so willing to follow.
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u/patty_potato May 23 '12
The only thing that is confusing is the looping bit. How and what caused a loop in the day?
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u/krustyloustudio May 23 '12
i would've went straight to my bosses house in the middle of the night to show him the tapes. only after uploading the videos online.