I went to the mall around 9:30 one night because I needed to pick something up before the stores closed. It was almost empty. I remember thinking how weird the mall felt without all the noise. No kids running around. No music from the stores. Just the sound of my shoes hitting the tile. I was walking toward the food court when I noticed a man standing at the end of the hallway. He wasn’t doing anything. He was just staring at me. I looked away for a few seconds. When I looked back, he was gone. I figured he had walked into one of the stores. I kept going. A few minutes later, I turned down another hallway. And there he was. Same guy. Same clothes. Same expression. He was standing maybe fifty feet away. I stopped walking. So did he. I turned around and walked back toward the main entrance. That’s when my phone buzzed. Unknown Number: “Don’t take the escalator.” I stopped. I looked around, but nobody was near me. I didn’t know who sent it. I decided to ignore it and take the elevator instead. When the doors opened, I stepped inside. I pressed the second floor. The doors closed. Then the elevator suddenly stopped. The lights flickered. The display changed from 1 to 2… Then back to 1. The doors opened. I was standing in a hallway I’d never seen before. Every store was closed. There wasn’t a single person around. Then I heard footsteps. Someone was walking toward me from around the corner. I immediately pressed the elevator button. Nothing happened. The footsteps got closer. I called mall security. A man answered. I told him where I was. There was a long silence. Then he asked: “Are you alone?” I said yes. He told me to stay exactly where I was. A few minutes later, I saw a security guard walking toward me. I felt relieved. Until he stopped. He looked at me from across the hallway. Then he slowly raised his radio. I could hear him whisper: “She’s here.” Another voice came through his radio: “That’s impossible. We’re watching her on camera.” The guard looked confused. Then he looked directly at me. He said: “Don’t move.” I didn’t. He pulled out his phone and showed me the security camera. It showed the exact hallway I was standing in. But on the screen… I wasn’t alone. There was someone standing directly behind me. I slowly turned around. Nobody was there. Then the security guard’s phone buzzed. He looked at it. His face went completely pale. He showed me the message. It was from the same unknown number: “She still hasn’t noticed the second one.” I looked at the security camera again. There were now two people standing behind me. And both of them were smiling. #fyp #viral #scary #scarystories #scarytiktoks - @midnight_nightmare_files