CW: death of a security guard described briefly and non-graphically.

Three buildings. Four hundred thousand square feet. Twenty two checkpoints. One guard.

In this episode we hear from Garrett — a private security officer who worked the overnight at a corporate office complex in the mid-Atlantic for two years. Ninety minute rounds. Four times a night. Eleven months of finding exactly what he expected.

The twelfth month the monitors changed.

A figure. Standing at the end of a corridor. Still. Gone by the time he got there. And when he pulled the footage back —

the corridor had been empty the whole time.

It happened eleven more times over six weeks. Different buildings. Different floors. Never on camera. Always gone.

Then one night he took a slightly different route.

And it was facing him.

Third Shift Tales collects stories from people who work while the rest of the world sleeps. Names and some details have been changed at the request of contributors.