The Glitch in Hallway 4

The Dead Zone ​Estimated Read Time: 2 Minutes Genre: Psychological Horror / Thriller

​I need you to listen to me very carefully, and whatever you do, do not look behind

you until I tell you to. ​My name is Elias, and for the last six months,

I’ve been working as a night-shift security guard at a data center in the middle of the

Nevada desert. The pay is obscenely high. The job is boring. I sit in a booth,

I watch monitors, I drink coffee. ​There is only one rule in the employee handbook.

It’s printed in bold, red text on page one: "If you see a person standing

in Hallway 4 on the monitor, do not look away from the screen." ​It sounded like