@darednight: It started as a dare. My friends and I kept seeing videos about people trying to stay inside Disneyland after closing, so we wanted to see if it was actually possible. There were five of us. Me. Ethan. Jake. Emma. And Chloe. Right before the park closed, we hid behind some bushes near one of the rides. We waited almost an hour. Eventually... The music stopped. The rides shut down. The crowds disappeared. The happiest place on Earth suddenly felt... Empty. We came out laughing. It felt unreal. We walked down Main Street with nobody around. Took pictures. Ran through the middle of the park. It honestly felt like we'd gotten away with it. Then... The music started again. Soft. Old. Like it was playing through a broken speaker. The weird part? None of the lights turned back on. Only the music. Jake smiled. "Probably automatic." Then we heard a train whistle. We looked toward the railroad. A train slowly rolled past. Every seat was empty. Except the very last one. A little girl sat there. Looking straight at us. She never blinked. The train disappeared into the tunnel. We waited for it to come back around. It never did. Emma wanted to leave. So we walked toward the exit. The gates were gone. Not locked. Gone. Like they'd never been there. Instead... There was another path we'd never seen before. A wooden sign pointed toward it. CAST MEMBERS ONLY We definitely hadn't seen that sign earlier. Jake walked first. The path led to another part of the park. Except... Everything looked wrong. The buildings were faded. The paint was peeling. The music sounded slower. Like an old record losing power. Then we saw them. Cast members. Standing perfectly still. Smiling. Every single one was facing us. Nobody moved. Nobody blinked. Ethan whispered, "Don't look at their faces." I asked why. He pointed. Their smiles never changed. Not even when they breathed. Then one of them waved. Slowly. Without lowering their arm. Another one waved. Then another. Until every cast member in sight was waving at us. At the exact same speed. Jake whispered, "We need to run." The second we turned around... The music stopped. Complete silence. Then we heard footsteps behind us. Not running. Walking. Perfectly in sync. We looked back. The cast members were gone. Every single one. Then Chloe froze. "They're in front of us." They were. Standing across the street. Blocking the path. Still smiling. One of them finally spoke. In a calm voice. "The park closed hours ago." "So why are you still here?" The lights shut off. For maybe two seconds. When they came back... Jake was gone. No scream. No footsteps. Just gone. We ran as fast as we could. Somehow we found the front entrance again. The gates were back. We climbed over them and didn't stop until we reached the parking lot. Police searched the park before sunrise. They never found Jake. Security checked every camera. According to the footage... Only four people entered the park that day. Not five. I thought that was the end of it. Until last week. My little sister begged us to go to Disneyland. While we were waiting in line for a ride... I looked over at one of the cast members. He looked familiar. Way too familiar. He smiled at me. Then quietly said... "Welcome back." It was Jake. He hadn't aged a day. if you reach this point of reading your an OG so please follow Road to 1k LETS GOOO! Hashtags: #xyzbca #viral #blowthisup #scarystories #fyp