Night Shift Workers Share The Weirdest Things They’ve Encountered, Here Are The 69 Best Stories

A one legged man, sneaking onto a dealership parking lot and draining oil out of a brand new vehicle.

Not me directly, but my security guy radioed about a couple of people hooking up in the employee parking lot of the hospital. Apparently one of the nurses found underwear on her car the following morning.

Used to work overnight at a dog kennel. Typically pretty quiet as they are sleeping while I clean and prep for morning. There were 2 different rooms of kennels, both had a good amount of dogs, and in the middle of the night, both rooms of dogs like woke up and started barking. Like allll of them. I walked through both rooms multiple times and nothing was out of place or anything. Very weird.

Someone fishing in our drainage/holding pond... I used to go chill out on the loading dock when nights were slow, and one day I walk out and there was a fishing rod and smoldering cig on the sidewalk.


We used to keep goldfish in there to show the epa the water was safe enough... But why the [hell] was sneaking into our property at night to fish goldfish?

A guy screaming 2-3 times a minute for 3 hours at 3am. Yes. This lasted from about 3 am until about 6am. Weirder still is how the cops or ems didn’t come after he had gotten beaten up by a guy who got sick of it. Multiple people called 911 over him including clean and safe. Both before and after he got beaten up.

I was the night auditor at a hotel, and the groomsmen in a wedding party basically had a free-for-all fistfight in the hallway. They were frat boy idiots. Someone put a jet ski in the pool at the hotel across the street tho.

A shootout in the middle of an intersection. Probably 40-50
Casings on the ground once the smoke cleared and the cops rolled up.

It was probably about 15 years ago at one of my first jobs. I was working overnights at a resort casino and it brought in a lot of traffic from locals and people out of state since it was off of a major interstate highway.

Anyway. I was working and some guy came in, I assumed it was a trucker, he had a black cap with tipped wings on the sides and it was supposed to have a logo for Icarus but it had this giant stain on it and read as Icus.

Didn't really care but he wanted to ask if we had any jobs available and I gave him an application and he looked at me like I was slow. He said jobs that pay big and right now. I didn't really have an answer for him, but some fat trucker guy sitting at a table eating biscuits asked if he would dress up as sasquatch and tell him everything was going to be alright.

I then realized my mysterious job seeker had one leg and a really terrible prosthetic. He was completely game.

I emptied out the cash drawer and was getting ready to move stations when my replacement came up and asked how he was going to get into the readily available sasquatch outfit with one leg, a true predicament.

He figured it out eventually. He just took off his leg and one sad super fluffy sasquatch leg just kind of flapped around while he talked to the trucker till dawn. Wish I stuck around, but my shift ended and I assume someone got something out of that transaction.

Saw a guy walking a cat on a leash. not weird, right? the cat was walking *him*. full sprint, dude was just trying to stay upright at 3:17 am. we made eye contact. we understood each other.

I worked the night shift at a couple of different stores for a bunch of years, but since we were basically locked in for most of the night and the customers were locked out, I never witnessed anything particularly wild firsthand, but I do have a story or two from coworkers and I have seen a thing or two when clocking out in the morning.

**Story from a coworker:** Customer had sat down on a patio furniture display while shopping and fallen asleep. The evening staff somehow failed to notice her during their closing time sweep. Night crew found her an hour or two after close.

**Personal experience:** Worked a night shift on the eve of a local holiday. Walked out the front door at the end of my shift to see a section of the garden center trashed... kiosk windows broken, pots smashed, bags of gardening soil ripped open and thrown around... most likely the work of some folks who had partied a bit too hard and had nothing better to do after Last Call.

Night shift at a psych unit. At 3am one patient very seriously informed me that the ceiling tiles were “listening tonight” and asked me to whisper. Five minutes later she was asleep and snoring. I stood there questioning reality for a bit.

I'm a medical laboratory scientist, so an amputated belly button. (I was testing to see what organism caused it to become infected.)

In October 2023, I was with my boyfriend in his 2 seater about 30 miles north of Ershfjordbotn, and saw a circle of about 20 or so east-asian looking highschoolers across what looked like a poorly lit football stadium without markings, possibly drunk, singing what I perceived to be Japanese enka rap. It was freezing and they were shirtless. To this day, I can't figure out what that was about. It creeped us out so much.

I hosted all night video game events 2 every weekend for 12 years. We operated 8pm to 8am.

Tons of things...

A kid pulled an airsoft gun on me.

A homeless guy spent $800 a month to attend events.

Drunk parents driving to attempt to pick up kids.

People would attempt to steal things regularly. Not just snacks and drinks. Games, controllers, the 8 ball off the pool table like 4 or 5 times.

Many more weird things.

Worked at a small bakery, two main people overnight including me. I was a teenager, other guy about 30. He would regularly cover the stainless baker's table with butter and flour, then bang his gf on it. Wouldn't let me clean it before we went back to the baking work because most of our earliest AM customers were Cops and he hated them.

I was 16 and illegally worked overnight at a gas station for a bit. Bad aea stations had special bulletproof booths for the overnighters, my gas station was fully open, anyone could walk in and have access to me. The owner and his wife and all of their parents and several of their adult nephews/nieces lived upstairs, the security system was a broom I could use to tap the ceiling. So many creepy men enjoying my company for a bit. But that's not weird, that's expected.

The weird thing was that the owner's nephew seemed to only have birthday parties at night, in his truck. Sometimes at random times, including 3am, he's very quietly walk down the stairs and sit in his truck for a bit, then someone would come by and sit his truck for a bit with him, then they'd get out and go to the covered bed. The nephew would get a birthday present of a thick stash of cash and he'd give his guest a lootbag, a small or medium-sized paper bag from the truck. One time he got mad at a guest and hit her in the face repeatedly.

I was chatting with the guy who delivered the hotel newspapers, when suddenly his eyes turned to the hallway at the other end of the lobby. I looked at my camera bank in time to see the pool door close. The houseperson was in charge of locking it but I always checked and clearly I had forgotten. I march down there, open the door, and politely yet firmly inform the man in the hot tub that he needs to leave because it is closed. He pretends he doesn't hear me for a few moments and then I become a little bit more authoritative and tell him it is time for him to get up and get out of the hot tub and go back to his room. He then stands and turns to me with the biggest grin. Do you know those little white plastic nets they put some produce in? Well It looked like he was wearing a thong made out of that. And even worse, or better depending on your outlook, when wet it was completely transparent. As was my having had enough of his hijinks.

I used to work in a warehouse that had previously been a wartime assembly line. The rumour was that the warehouse was haunted by the ghost of a man had been [ualived] during an industrial accident.

One night one of the old hands said how he'd turned up a little early one shift to get ahead of a work order. While he was working on a pallet he saw someone that he presumed was his colleague turning up for his shift enter the warehouse and go into the office area. Through the internal window he could see the person moving around inside the office and he headed over to greet him. When he entered the office area he was startled to find noone there, and nowhere for them to have gone. It was only then that his colleague turned up, walking into the office area behind him.

On another night a different worker saw a man he didn't recognise walk into the men's bathrooms. Wondering if they had a thief in the warehouse the worker followed the man into the bathroom to challenge him and, once again, there was noone there, and nowhere for them to have gone.

Another co-worker related how one night a group of them were standing in one of the aisles of the warehouse when one of them suddenly said "Jeez, do you feel that?" Noone else knew what he was tallking about, until another man suddenly reacted and then, shortly after that, another. When they spoke of what they'd experienced all three of them said that a wave of cold had passed through them that the other people around them hadn't felt. It seems that, given the speed at which each man had experienced the unusual feeling of quickly-passing cold, it had passed through the assembled group at the walking speed of a man.

Drive down Barton Street in Hamilton Ontario its like being in The Walking Dead, Avatar & Escape from New York.

I saw a pale, hairless creature that looked similar to a deer without ears by a dumpster. When I was driving past it (about 10ft away) it walked into the woods quietly. The eyes didn’t reflect in my headlights or anything it was really odd.