Are We Ever Really Alone?
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
G'day mates, it's BBuster here. And before the episode begins, I would just like to let you know that Be Scared, which is produced along with Studio 71, features scary stories from around the globe on a weekly basis that aim to fuel your nightmares with a smile. And if you enjoy the podcast, it would be great if you could hit that subscribe button and drop a review. But thanks for listening guys, and without further ado, let's begin.
What really happened at the abandoned Milwaukee machinery plant at 4 a.m.?
This took place at an abandoned industrial warehouse district in the outskirts of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I was about twenty five at the time, and And I was working for a security firm that specialized in high-risk vacant lots. The place that I was working is It was a defunct, heavy sort of machinery plant that spanned four city blocks, in fact. It was my third month on the night shift, and I had long since stopped expecting the job to be anything other than a slow, quiet rot. So it was close to four in the morning. It was a Wednesday and And I was performing a sweep of the main assembly hall when I saw something in A shadow moving across the upper level windows was It wasn't a flicker too. It was clear. A deliberate silhouette of a person walking slowly from the north end of the building to the south.
I called dispatch, my voice steady, requesting a secondary unit for a perimeter check. I reported what I'd seen and I didn't enter the building. I waited by the gate, my spotlight fixed on the darkened glass. I didn't see anyone come down, and the exterior doors were all chained and padlocked. When backup arrived, we did a tactical sweep. The interior was a cavernous, desolate place filled with silence and dust. And after an hour of checking every level, the We found a solitary office in the back. And inside a man was hunched over a heavy wooden desk. It was a letter on the desk, too, and A stillness in the room that felt weird, and The investigators arrived and the procedure was pretty clinical. They confirmed his identity, secured the site, and checked the logs.
How did the security footage reveal a man staying motionless for over 24 hours?
What bothered me though, and still bothers me a little bit, was the review of the internal surveillance system. You see, the cameras were hardwired into an old DVR setup that tracked movement. The logs were perfect, unbroken. And the footage, it showed the man entering at two o'clock the previous day. It showed him walking into the office, sitting down and literally never moving again. I mean, this guy was like a statue There was no other movement in that building for fourteen hours as well. I checked. Not a stray animal, not a maintenance worker. And certainly nobody else walking across the assembly hall windows at like four in the morning. I gave my statement, signed the forms, and tried to wash the smell of that office out of my uniform.
The investigators told me that it was visual persistence, the way that the brain tries to fill in gaps in low light environments, especially when you're anticipating movement. But I know what I saw. I saw someone moving, but But when I think back about it, the way that they moved seemed a bit weird, and They moved like something was being projected against the glass, like an image with no mass and sort of gliding and Even all these years later as well, in a completely different line of work now, I think I still wonder about that night and what that was all about. I know that I saw someone up there, that much I'm convinced about. And yet every single camera that I looked at, again, I confirmed that This guy was there for like fourteen hours and didn't even seem to move, even an inch.
It makes you wonder though if we're really alone in these places or if maybe there's something else there. Do you guys ever feel like you've caught a glimpse of something that reality just wasn't meant to show you? And does it make you question what else might be happening in the gaps when we're not present? This whole event it certainly did for me, and It's something that I'll never forget.
So I moved into this third floor loft back in January, thinking that the high ceilings and exposed brick would be perfect for my studio.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:36
2
What really happened at the abandoned Milwaukee machinery plant at 4 a.m.?
0:36–2:22
3
How did the security footage reveal a man staying motionless for over 24 hours?
2:22–10:20
4
What explanations did investigators give for the impossible surveillance logs?
10:20–21:38
5
Why did the narrator start suspecting a mimic after the office incident?
21:38–28:20
6
What strange phenomena occurred in the third‑floor loft after the mimic episode?
28:20–33:42
7
How did a solo bike ride on a decommissioned logging trail turn deadly?
33:42–38:10
8
What haunted events unfolded in the old chemistry wing of the security site?
38:10–41:14