The Glitching Figure

I work overnight security at a storage facility. Most nights are dead silent,

but last Tuesday, Camera 4 started glitching… flickering like something was standing too close.

When I rewound the footage, my blood went cold. At 2:13 AM, a tall,

pale figure wandered into view—except it wasn’t walking. It was jerking forward frame-by-frame,

like it only moved when the camera wasn’t capturing a full image. Every time the screen

glitched… it got closer to the lens. By 2:15, it was inches away.

You could only see one thing clearly: its eyes—wide, black, and staring directly

into the camera, as if it knew I would be watching later. I switched to the