11pm at a government building. a missing person case. and then I heard it.

I wasn't going to post this but I need people to know this place is genuinely not okay.

So in October 2022, a civil servant in his 30s went missing from a city hall building in one of those planned new-development towns in Gyeonggi Province. Working late. Last thing on CCTV was him leaving his office. After that, nothing. Police searched the whole building and surrounding area. Found zero. The case is still unsolved.

I started working there in March 2023. Contract position. The building looked totally normal from outside, like standard modern government building vibes. But inside? Something was OFF. Especially the 3rd floor hallway near the conference rooms. Dark even during the day. And always cold. Like weirdly, consistently cold in a way that had no explanation.

I did a lot of overtime. Most nights I wasn't leaving until after 11pm. One night I'm walking down the hallway after finishing up some paperwork and I hear it.

"Help me... I'm here..."

I froze.

I told myself it was just my brain glitching from exhaustion. But the sound was clear. I looked around. Empty hallway. Just me. I basically sprinted back to the office, locked the door, kept every single light on, and sat there until morning.

Next day I told a coworker. His face went completely still and he goes, quiet:

"You're not the first person to hear that here."

And then he told me. The missing civil servant from 2022. The last place he was spotted on camera.

That hallway.

Apparently ever since the disappearance, the staff doing late nights started passing around this rumor. That at exactly 11pm, you can hear someone whispering in the corridor.

After that I tried SO HARD to avoid overtime. But some nights there was just no getting out of it. And every single time I had to walk that hallway I felt it. That cold crawling up my spine.

Eventually I got brave enough to check the CCTV footage from that corridor. And okay. I found something.

Every night at 11pm, the conference room door at the end of the hall was opening and closing on its own. Repeatedly. No one touching it. No one near it.

I reported it to my supervisor. He completely brushed it off. "Probably wind. Old buildings do that."

Except that door had an auto-lock mechanism. It physically could not be pushed open by wind.

After that it just kept happening. Walking alone and hearing footsteps behind me that stopped when I stopped. Sitting at my desk and hearing someone knock on the window. Turning around. Nobody there.

I left the second my contract ended. Didn't look back.

I still keep in touch with some people who work there though. And they say it's still going on. That the building is still doing whatever it's been doing.

"At 11pm, you can hear whispering in the hallway."

Apparently the voice is getting clearer.

"Help me... I'm here..."

Whatever is in that building. It's still there.