She Used To Work Nights At A Hotel, And A Creepy Man Showed Up At 3 AM, Silently Staring At Her And Refusing To Leave
When this woman was 19, she worked nights at a chain hotel in her hometown. Occasionally, creepy people did come in, but she felt confident enough to handle tough situations, and her job was pretty stress-free for the most part. One night in particular, however, wasn’t so stress-free.
She spent her night shift checking in guests, doing laundry, and stocking. At the entrance to the hotel, there were two sets of doors, and once the night shift started, the inner doors were locked.
At 3 a.m., a man showed up at the hotel and called her through the lobby phone that was set up between the two sets of doors.
Before she could even assist him, he started asking her desperately for “‘medical transport.'” Because she didn’t know the man’s situation, she tried to help and asked him a few questions.
“Eventually, I just let him in so I can get a better idea of how to help, but when I do, his whole tone immediately changes. He starts speaking in this monotone voice and has this kind of dead stare. I’ve never seen eyes so void of any emotion. Not to mention, he had no physical signs of injury. At all,” she explained.
Even though she was scared, she tried to act normal, and she kept trying to ask the man questions. However, he stopped answering her and just continued to stare blankly. She repeated her questions several times, but he just stared without responding.
“At this point, I’m pretty fed up with him, so I say, ‘Alright, I’m just going to call 911 to get you some help.’ He then starts getting frantic again, going between begging me not to call and saying, ‘They won’t let me go’ and ‘I can’t go back there.’ I told him that I wasn’t really sure how to help him if he wouldn’t let me call emergency services, so he needed to leave. He didn’t even seem to need medical assistance in the first place,” she said.
After that, the man went back to his silent staring.
In hindsight, she wished she’d called the police at that point, but the man’s behavior made her feel so overwhelmed, and at her job, she normally didn’t want to call the police unless it was a last resort.
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So, she told the man that he could rest in the lobby for 20 minutes and find transportation, but after that, he’d have to leave.
Then, she went to the back to watch the man on the hotel cameras. When he hadn’t left after 20 minutes, she walked back out to the lobby to tell him to leave.
“He starts arguing nonsensically. I go back into the back in exasperation. The cycle then repeats for, like, two more hours. Finally, I tell him I’m calling the police, to which he replies, ‘Well if you’re going to be like that, I’ll just leave.’ The situation was so comical at this point. I’m like, ‘Please do! I’ve wanted that this whole time!’ I was so done with him, so I was basically yelling,” she shared.
True to his word, the man finally left the hotel, and she called the police to file a report.
Later, she told her then-boyfriend what had happened. Once she gave him a description of the man, her boyfriend thought the creepy stare she described sounded familiar.
He then pulled up the man’s mugshot with assault charges. Her boyfriend had worked at a homeless shelter for a few years, so he’d seen the man at the shelter sometimes.
What would you have done if you were in her shoes?
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