Music From The Unknown
I once managed a movie theater that had an automated audio system that would play a prerecorded radio-style program in-between shows.
The company that created these recordings wouldn’t update them for months, so we all got used to hearing the same 12 songs and silly jingles and banter over and over until we had it memorized.
When we would shut down the projector at night, we’d also turn off the lights in each auditorium. This turned off the speakers as well, so a shutdown booth meant a silent dark theater. One night, I had my closing usher come up to me and tell me I left the music on in theater 10. That’s funny, I thought.
Theater 10 last had a show two hours ago. I specifically remembered shutting it down, but I went back to check it out. Theater 10 was the last door at the end of a long hallway. It’s hard to explain, but in the theater, there was a blind corner before you reached the door to the projection booth.
I went into the theater and it was pitch black. I knew something was off immediately. If I hadn’t shut the booth down, the aisle lights would have been on. Yet, as my usher said, the music was still on. This was different music, though. I knew every terrible pop song on that program by heart and this was not it.
The music I heard sounded like the kind of piano playing in an old silent movie. Then I heard an older woman’s voice singing. This voice was NOT coming from the speakers. It was coming from around the blind corner. I knew that I wasn’t alone in the pitch dark theater.
I bolted right out of there and as soon as the last show ended, I locked up and went home.
The next day, I came in and checked the cameras. From the moment I shut down the booth, until two hours later, nobody went in or out of that auditorium besides the usher and myself. Story credit: Reddit / (the_comatorium)