POV You Got the Easiest Job… Guarding a Door That Must Never Open

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[00:00:00]You are sitting in a folding chair 40 ft underground staring at a door that has not been opened in 87 years.

[00:00:07]>> [music] >> The chair is cheap metal legs with cracked padding the kind nobody thinks about. A clock hangs above you 2:17 a.m.

[00:00:16]Your replacement was supposed to arrive at midnight. He never did.

[00:00:20]The hallway is silent except for the hum of old lights and [music] a slow drip somewhere above the ceiling. You look at the door again thick steel six locking wheels no [music] window no handle on your side just one red warning label bolted at eye level. [music] Do not open under any circumstances. Then the knocking starts three slow [music] knocks from the other side. You freeze three more knocks then a voice says your name but that is not where the story starts.

[00:00:50]It starts 11 days earlier when you are sitting in a job center with $46 left in your account. The woman slides a folder toward you night security government facility [music] basement level 12-hour shifts good pay.

[00:01:04]You hear good pay and everything else disappears. Your rent is late. Your bills are overdue. Your daughter's birthday is coming. So [music] you sign.

[00:01:13]The building looks abandoned gray concrete dead trees one slow moving camera. Inside an old man named Harren meets you [music] thin white-haired straight-backed. He shakes your hand and says you're late. You are early. He walks you follow. He takes you through empty offices and down an elevator with only two buttons >> [music] >> G and B. He presses B. The elevator drops longer than it should.

[00:01:40]>> [music] >> When it opens you see the hallway narrow concrete flickering lights and at the end the door. It looks wrong like the building was made to hide it. There's a desk in front of it one chair one lamp one logbook one landline phone with a red button. This is post six Harren says. You ask what is behind the door.

[00:02:02]You do not need to know.

[00:02:04]>> [music] >> Then the rules. You sit from 8:00 p.m.

[00:02:07]to 8:00 a.m. You log anything unusual.

[00:02:10]You do not leave. You do not sleep.

[00:02:12][music] You do not touch the door and you do not respond to anything that comes from behind it. You read the first page of the logbook. The door must remain sealed no exception.

[00:02:23]Your first shifts are quiet too quiet.

[00:02:26]You sit drink bad coffee and watch the door. Nothing happens. At night you read old entries voices crying voices imitating the dead scratching always the same ending no response given. Your replacement is a young guard named Elias tired eyes a scar under his chin. First night he asks you nod. It gets easier.

[00:02:50]You ask what is behind the door. He glances at Harren. Nothing good. For a few nights nothing happens then on your fifth shift the knocking [music] comes 2:17 a.m. three slow knocks. You log it [music] no response. Then a voice soft and close please. You say nothing.

[00:03:10]The next morning you ask Harren if someone is inside. He closes the book and says there are many things that sound like people. You almost quit [music] then your daughter calls and asks about her birthday. You promise her you will make it special. So you stay.

[00:03:25]The sounds get worse not every [music] night just enough scratching whispers.

[00:03:31]One night a voice says your home address. You log everything no response.

[00:03:36]Then Elias starts [music] changing late pale distracted. One morning he pulls [music] you aside and says if it ever uses someone you love leave. You tell him Harren said not to. Elias laughs quietly. [music] Harren has never sat a full night down there.

[00:03:53]The ninth night everything breaks.

[00:03:55]>> [music] >> Elias is supposed to relieve you at midnight. He never arrives. At 1:03 a.m.

[00:04:00]the phone rings. Harren's [music] voice tells you to stay at the post. The line cuts. At 2:17 a.m. the knocking starts [music] again. Three knocks then a voice Elias. Do not log this. He says your name says Harren locked him inside says he saw what is behind the door.

[00:04:19]>> [music] >> Then he tells you something only Elias would know. Your stomach drops. A slot opens at the bottom of the door and a keycard [music] slides through his name on it blood on the edge. Then the elevator dings. Harren steps out [music] with a gun. Do not touch that. Behind the door Elias screams. [music] Harren raises the gun and tells you to go upstairs. You hesitate. Elias begs talking about his wife his child. Harren says it knows what to say. You pick up the keycard. [music] Harren fires. You run crashing into the breakroom hands shaking blood on your arm. Harren follows and tells you the truth. He opened the door once. It does not force anything. It makes you choose.

[00:05:02]That's how it feeds. You go back anyway keycard in hand. Elias whispers instructions. You unlock the door one wheel at a time. The door opens an inch darkness then a voice daddy your daughter. You know it's not real but your body doesn't care. The door opens wider. You see your old apartment your daughter there standing crying.

[00:05:27]Harren tackles you. The door swings wider and voices fill the hallway people you love people you failed. Then something moves behind it tall wrong and for one second you see Elias real alive.

[00:05:42]Then something pulls him back. Harren looks at you and says I'm sorry then steps [music] inside. He chooses it. You slam the door shut and lock it. The hallway goes silent. [music] Morning comes men in gray suits arrive.

[00:05:56]They say nothing happened. They give you a contract $300,000. [music] You sign. Months pass life improves but sometimes at night you hear three knocks inside your walls. Then a letter arrives. Post [music] six needs a new supervisor. Refusal is breach of contract. That's when you understand.

[00:06:16]Harren wasn't guarding the door. He [music] was trapped by it and now you are too.

[00:06:21]Years pass. You miss birthdays calls.

[00:06:23]Life moves on without you because someone always has to sit in the chair.

[00:06:28]Then one [music] night 17 years later your replacement is late. 2:17 a.m.

[00:06:33]three knocks. You open the logbook. Then the voice comes your daughter grown crying. Dad [music] please. Your pen stops. Behind you the elevator dings. A young guard steps out [music] nervous late. He hears the knocking and reaches for the door. You grab his wrist.

[00:06:51]Someone is in there he says. You look at the warning label. You look at him. You [music] look at the door. And now you finally understand. The worst part was never the knocking. It was knowing that one day the voice [music] behind it might be real and you would still have to keep it closed.