Blog:Night at the RPC Final Draft

Hey guys, me again. So back in May 2020, I made a horror story called "Night at the RPC", which is actually based on a ghost story I made up around the early 2010s. It was based on a building called "RPC" (short for "Religious Program Center"), which is in the area I live in. The ghost story was originally about a janitor who died in the building and haunts the building due to her loving working there. Over the years the story changed, going from her accidentally dying, to her getting murdered and becoming a vengeful spirit roaming the building. The reason I made up that ghost story was because the building it's based on creeped me out late at night, and someone left a note in one of the rooms that made me think they were dead, which they aren't. Then around spring of this year I was inspired by the Creepypasta called: Trapped at Freddy's, both because of the actual story and hearing Mr. Nightmare's narration of it. So I used the ideas from my ghost story and elements used in Trapped at Freddy's to create the first draft of this horror story, and it turned out great. I reposted it here a couple months ago. However, I had some problems with the first draft. My main issue was that it was too short and less detailed than I made it seem. The second issue is that I skipped over the details of the RPC in this one, especially because in the story, I wrote the building to be a recreational play center, and I practically left out details of the building that would've made it a recreational play center. The third issue was with how I wrote the characters. In the first draft, We don't hear what Will says, except for when the main character told the reader what Will said, and I also felt that Will didn't do much either. The fourth issue is how I just left my main character unnamed, but that's more of a minor issue. And the fifth issue was that there wasn't much scary things or strange things in the original draft happening. After I wrote my first draft, I kept trying to add more details, before I eventually decided to re-write the original story into a final draft, that was much more detailed, more scarier and mysterious, actually explored much more of the building, as well as giving the main character a name and more perspective from Will, as well as giving Will more to do, as opposed to just adding more small details to the first draft of the story. The reason this took so long is because I had writer's block for the past several weeks, until a couple of days ago when I finally stopped having writer's block and got the ideas I needed to re-write the next 3 chapters. If you want to read the original draft, click here. This was a long ass introduction, but now that this introduction is over, here's the final draft of my horror story. Enjoy!

Night at the RPC
Written by: NintenDylan64

Chapter 1: The Arrival
It was a regular Friday night, I was at my house with my friend William. The two of us were bored, just watching the same channels on TV that night, so we decided to think of places to go to kill the boredom and have fun. I suggested that we could go bowling, but Will declined, as he said he was sick of going to the bowling alley. Will said we could just go to the movies, but I didn't want to, since most of the movies playing weren't good. We tried thinking of other places, but many of them we were getting bored of going to a lot, such as the roller rink. It seemed like we were running low on places to go to. Then, Will told me we could go to the RPC (which is short for "Recreational Play Center"). I was skeptical about going there at first, but seeing as that was our only choice besides staying bored at my house, I agreed to go. We got into my car and headed to the RPC. On the ride over there, Will seemed happy about going, but I wasn't. I was always creeped out by the RPC late at night, I felt a weird feeling being there sometimes. We got to the RPC and walked in. The place looked the same, with an outdated atmosphere, kind of a mid-2000s look to it. I looked around the lobby, and there were two hallways, one on the left lead to a hallway with some rooms, and the other on the right led to a staircase, a few other rooms, a nursery room, two restrooms, a kitchen, and a dining room. There was a party going on in the dining room, but I thought that the party looked lame. I asked an employee what there was to do, and he said we could go play in the arcade room down to the left, go upstairs and watch a movie, go to the dining room party, play video games in the nursery, etc. I decided to just head to the arcade room, while Will went upstairs to watch the movie. The arcade room was okay, with your standard games there. I played some games for about 17 minutes, before getting bored and heading upstairs to check out any other rooms. There was a game room with a ping pong table and foosball, a children's play room, but those were the only rooms I looked at, especially since I only looked around a little bit in the right hallway upstairs. I found Will, who told me he got bored watching the movie, so we headed back downstairs. Will went into the nursery. But before I went, I looked to my right and I swear I saw a woman in the left hallway, staring at me, directly with her eyes fixed right on mine. It went on for more than 30 seconds, and it creeped me out. I was wondering why no one in the dining room was looking at her. But I shrugged it off, thinking she was probably just a drunk partygoer from the dining room. Then I walked into the nursery, and no one else was in there except for Will. The room had several toy bins, and a game console hooked up to an old TV. It was weird, because, usually kids are in a nursery room like this, playing. I figured that maybe there were no kids here. Me and Will turned on the TV and started playing some of the video games they had lying around. It wasn't long until we got bored again, so we decided to head to the dining room party. The party was actually not bad, since it had live music with a band of three. The main option for food was pizza, and it wasn't that great, no better than school pizza, or what you could get at Nicolletti's. While looking around the room, I looked down the hallway to the left and I saw that woman again, staring at me like she was before. "What the Fuck?", I said. I couldn't believe it, she was staring at me again, and not by a random chance at all, she was directly staring at me. I thought to myself, "Who is that woman?", and these thoughts kept pouring into my brain. It was even creepier because no one was acknowledging the woman on the other side of the building. Did anyone even see her at all? Will saw me staring down the hall and asked what was wrong. I looked at him, then looked back down the hallway pointing to where the woman was and she was gone. I then tried to tell him that it was nothing. After that, I was confused, wondering where the woman went to, cuz she just disappeared. And why was she staring at me? What was she doing at the end of the hallway? I tried to calm myself down by going back to watching the band, before the lead singer of the band later announced that it was time for an intermission. I felt discontentment, because the thoughts of the woman staring at me were still in my head. I started talking with some of the partygoers, to ease my mind. And after 26 minutes, I was calmed down, even if I still felt a little unnerved. Will told me he was heading to the arcade room to play some games, while I stayed in the dining room, chatting again with some of the partygoers. It wasn't long before I ran out of soda, and went to go get some from the vending machine in the lobby. Then I went to the water fountain in the hallway leading to the dining room to get some water. After getting some water, I looked up, and saw something out of the corner of my eye. I looked to the left to see the woman staring again. I dropped my soda out of both fear and shock. An employee saw this and asked me if I was okay. I had pointed out to him that there was a woman staring in the other hallway, asking him why she was there staring at me. He told me that sometimes the partygoers do that, and then he walked off. He hadn't taken me seriously at all, and must've been joking around or something. I was now really fucking scared, and I couldn't get it off my mind, she stared at me three times. And the way she stared at me, doing nothing didn't feel friendly or whatever, it felt evil in a way. The sight of the woman staring at me was creeping me out, so I picked up my soda bottle and quickly walked back to the party, to try and calm myself down again. I got some more pizza, and went back to talking to people, trying to forget about that woman staring at me, but the thoughts kept pouring into my head. I decided to head back to the nursery again, and started playing some of the video games. Will came back, and decided to play too. I was starting to calm down now, but I still couldn't forget about that woman, something felt odd about the way she stared at me, the way she's been disappearing and reappearing felt very terrifying.

Chapter 2: Trapped Inside
The time spent in the nursery got boring, and being in the RPC was now starting to get really boring. Despite the boredom, I was still creeped out by the thoughts of that woman, even if I was calmed down. I was just wondering where she kept coming from, and why she kept disappearing at random. Was she drunk? Is she lost? And why was she staring at me everytime I've seen her? I tried to come up with answers, but I couldn't. I decided to head back to the arcade room, to get the thoughts of the woman off my mind. The arcade games started to distract my mind from the thoughts of that woman staring at me, but I was still afraid she was going to appear in the hallway again. I got bored after about 26 minutes of playing arcade games, before going to the party again. Will had walked off upstairs to play foosball. I would've gone to play foosball too, but the thought of the woman kept me from moving. I was wondering if the employees knew about her, or whether she was just a drunk partygoer, since there was tequila on some tables in the dining room. I couldn't come up with a conclusion for who she was, or why she stared at me and stood in the hallway. I decided to have a little chat with some of the partygoers, and things were looking better now, what with the thoughts of the woman starting to go away even more. After about 15 minutes, I was now calmed down, and a lot of the people looked bored. I couldn't blame them, I was starting to get bored of this place too. Will came back downstairs and told me he wanted to watch the band, after getting bored of foosball. I had explained to him that I kept seeing a woman staring at me in the left hallway. Will gave me a confused look, and told me that I must be seeing things. Then the band started playing again, meaning intermission was done. So we went back to watching the band, and the songs went by quick. One thing that interested me was how this place was able to get a live band, since bands offer a high pay usually. Then I thought that the band probably was hired by the person who planned this party. I saw Will was chatting with some of the partygoers, and I decided to start chatting as well. I talked to them, and I would've mentioned the woman to one of them, but I figured they'd start looking at me like I was crazy. Then, one of them came to me and said that the woman could've just been one of the employees trying to scare me. I thought about it for a second, and figured they could've been right, because the employees were probably just pranking me, but I still had my suspicions, especially since that woman was in a black suit, whereas the employees were in light blue long sleeves and blue jeans. I looked at the tequila on the tables and figured I could have some, but I decided against it, especially since I had to drive us home. I was just waiting to go home, because this place wasn't as fun as Will described it. I'm guessing the reason was just because of less people being there. I checked my watch and saw that it was 9:00. Then I heard an announcement that the party was over, and that the building was closing up for the night. I was relieved, now we could get the Hell out of there and go home. Will came to me and told me he needed to use the bathroom. So we headed to the one near the entrance, but the door was locked, which was strange, since it was unlocked before. I figured the employees must've locked it by accident. We asked an employee if there was another bathroom for Will to use, he said there was one upstairs that Will could use, and he headed upstairs to it, while I waited downstairs. A couple minutes passed and I was growing impatient, especially since most of the partygoers had left, and even most of the employees had left too, plus the place was about to close and I wanted to go home. Another minute passed, so I went upstairs and I banged on the door, demanding that Will get out. He walked out and told me that the reason he took a little bit is because he had to find some hand soap for the sinks. I was relieved because now we could just leave. I told Will that going here had sucked, and that it wasn't that fun. Will told me he was a bit disappointed in how boring it was to come here. Right as we were walking into the lobby, we heard the sound of the front door being locked. We ran to the door and tried to open it, but to no avail. We tried going to the back doors, and the same result happened. Both the front and back doors were locked. I then took a peek out the windows of the entrance doors to see that the last employee drove off. I thought to myself, "What the Fuck?" "That employee knew we were still here, why the Hell didn't he check to see if we were still in here?" I was now worried, because we were now trapped in this damn place with no knowledge of how to get out. Will was panicking and cursing far more than I was. I tried to call my parents on my cellphone, but no one answered. My phone was on low battery, so I tried to keep calling people, but my phone died leaving us with no way to call someone. I asked Will if I could use his phone to call someone, and he told me his phone was dead too. I thought both of us were screwed, until I figured there could be a phone here somewhere to call someone to come get us out. I told Will there could be a phone to call somebody, and he calmed down. We immediately tried walking down the hallway to where the kitchen was since two of the rooms in that hallway were offices. But as we entered the hallway, something made us stop in our tracks. All the doors in the building opened on their own, all the phones in the building started ringing, papers started flying out everywhere at rapid speeds in the hallways, all the lights in the building started flickering, and what sounded like the scream of a woman filled the air. We ran into the nursery in a blind panic and slammed the door shut, cowering in fear. The whole thing lasted for a minute, before everything stopped. The scream stopped, the lights went back to normal for a couple seconds before switching to the night lights, the papers all went back in neatly stacked, all the phones quit ringing and every door was shut. My mind was just incredibly blown away, but in the scared kind of way. I just couldn't believe what just happened, but the two biggest questions on my mind were, "Why did that crap just happen?", and "How did all of that just happen?". All of that had completely terrified Will, who looked at me like he had just witnessed a murder. I was frankly terrified myself, and I couldn't come up with a reason as to how all of that happened and why it happened. I wondered if this happens often at night, or if this place was haunted. I didn't want to know the answer though, because it would've been more scary either way. I asked him if this happens at night, and he told me this never happened every time he came over here whether it was day or night. Then, we heard what sounded like whistling, which made us cower more. After it stopped, we looked out the door windows, and saw nothing at all. But it was somewhat hard to see since the dimly lit night lights were turned on. Will told me, "I'm gonna go out there and look for something to find a way out of here, or defend ourselves with". I told him not to, since we don't know what's outside the room, but he told me he wouldn't be long. After Will left to find something, I kept thinking that this place was haunted, and if it was, why did none of the employees know about it? Will thankfully returned unscathed, and he told me he found some flashlights in one of those office rooms in this hallway. I told him we should split up to cover more ground, as well as find a way to get out. He agreed and we both split up.

Chapter 3: Tons of Terror
Navigating the building was pretty difficult, what with the dimly lit night lights not providing me enough light to look around. Thankfully my flashlight provided enough light for me to look around. I tried looking in those two office rooms in the nursery hallway, but the only working phone had no dial tone, and that was because it had been disconnected. I tried finding something by looking in the kitchen, but found nothing except a bunch of food. I swear before I left the kitchen, the sink just turned on, on its own. I turned it off, and left to the one room at the end of the hallway. The door handle was somehow locked, but the door opened anyway, which was kind of confusing. The room was a laundry room, and it didn't have anything useful in it. While looking in there, I found this mysterious note that said, "Return all the cleaning supplies, thanks. Signed E. G.". I was now confused, as I was wondering who the Hell E. G. was, but I figured it must be the name of one the employees. Before I walked out though, I heard a buzzing noise which came from the dryer. The noise scared me for a second, and then the washing machine, on its own, turned on. It then started shaking a little and as I started walking out, I stepped in some liquid. I was scared to check what liquid I stepped in, so I wiped my shoes on the rug near the dryer, and then walked to the left hallway near the lobby. As I walked there, I checked one of the rooms. The room was dark, and the only things I found using my flashlight, were a bunch of storage cabinets, nothing useful. But there were snacks in there for some reason, as well as a bunch of party props and costumes. I looked around a little bit, trying my hardest to find something, like a map of the building or something along those lines, but nothing. While walking out, I thought I heard what sounded like one of the cabinets creaking open, so I went to check whether or not that was the case. I saw that one of the cabinet doors had been opened, and I was puzzled, because there was no one else here but me and Will. Then I thought, "Is that woman causing this?", "Is she trying to scare us, or did she leave and I'm just seeing things?". The thoughts kept me puzzled for about 15 seconds, before I saw more cabinet doors open on their own, and the costumes falling off their rack and things falling out the cabinets, which scared me enough to run down the hall to the nearest room, which was located right next to the arcade room. I shined my flashlight into the dimly lit room and found a bunch of DVD movies and some VHS tapes. I took a look at some of them, some being movies I had seen and hadn't heard of. I saw some sort of boombox, and I turned it on and found a regular radio station playing some pretty good strings music. The music started to calm me down a little, as I looked around for a map of the building or a key, something to get us the Hell out of there. Then, the boombox started going to static, before playing some sort of creepy music. I tried turning the knobs, but nothing worked, and then a loud scream played, that sounded like the one from before. I would've tried to think about what was happening, but some DVD cases and VHS tapes fell on the floor, while a very old TV in the room fell onto the floor on its own too. I ran out of that room in a blind panic down to the dining room hallway again. This time, I ran into the dining room, and stopped to catch my breath. The night lights started flashing a little, but then they stopped after a couple seconds. I looked around the dining room for an exit or something, but I wasn't able to see much, and the light of my flashlight only provided enough light to see some areas of the dining room. I flashed my light to a pillar with a landline phone on it. I was about to dial for a number, but I saw something out the corner of my eye, and I couldn't believe what I had seen again. No. That woman, she was staring straight at me, with a sort of angry look, as if she was pissed off that we were still here. "I thought she had left, what was she still doing here?", I thought. The stare went on for several seconds, I could feel my heart pounding with fear, so I turned away to not face her. I was afraid that if I turned my head, she was going to be right behind me. I turned my head again, and she was gone, yet again. "Where has she been disappearing too?", I thought. I was just completely fucking scared again and also very confused. It was the fourth time she stared at me, and I was still terrified, as if she was going to kill me, or rape me. I went back to dialing on the landline, waiting for someone to answer. I gave up after no one answered. Then, the phone rang, and I was relieved. I answered the phone and asked who was on the line. No one answered. I tried asking again to see if the caller would answer, and tell me why they called. No answer again. I was starting to wonder whether or not this was a prank caller, but I thought "Who would prank call this place at this time of night?". I waited for someone to answer, and then I heard the sound of heavy breathing or something like that. Then, I heard some unintelligible message that sounded reversed, and whispered. I was a little creeped out. And then I heard the creepy music that I heard on that boombox in the DVD room. I hung up the phone in terror, since something felt off. I had never felt as if there was anything paranormal happening, but that seemed very paranormal to me. I then saw three dining room chairs get violently thrown across the room, and two almost hit me. A couple tables then flipped over, and I ran out of the dining room to the part of the hall where the staircase was. I was now starting to become convinced that this place may be haunted because of all of the things that happened. That mess that happened after we got locked in, the sink turning on, the washer and dryer going off, the stuff falling off the shelves and racks, the creepy music, the phone call, and now those chairs and tables being thrown. I still had my doubts, as some of the things could've just been an oversight by the employees, but some of it kept me thinking. I thought for about 5 minutes before just focusing on getting out of here, as all of this could be solved later. I noticed a door near the entrance doors, and I went to go see what room it led to. I tried opening it, but it was locked. I figured that the room was an employee only room. I then heard Will call my name. He shouted, "Matthew, come up here!". I ran as fast I could up the stairs to see if anything had happened to Will. I asked him if he was alright, and he told me he did see some creepy shit up there, and that he found some journal written in by a person named Evelyn G. I now knew what the initials on the note in the laundry room I found meant. I told Will about what happened to me while looking around, stating that I had found practically nothing useful to find a way to escape. He said we should keep looking, and that he'd go downstairs and look, while I surveyed the upstairs. I agreed, and Will headed downstairs to find something to help us. I looked around the upstairs area, and it was even creepier than downstairs. The hallways were dimly lit, with many of the rooms looking dark from looking at the door windows. I checked the foosball and ping pong room. Nothing useful of course, as I doubted anything would be helpful in a room with a foosball and ping pong table. I swear I heard one of the doors open, and before I had time to see, the foosball levers started spinning at rapid speeds on their own. I started to get freaked out and left that room immediately. I saw that one of the doors did open, but the room was very small. So I looked around the other rooms, a couple were not particularly interesting, as a few on the hallway I was in were just empty, including the one at the end of the hallway with little to nothing except just video games or tables. I then went to the left hallway and walked into a closet. There were old kids meal toys, a bunch of arts and craft supplies, as well as an old CRT TV. There were some more DVD movies and VHS tapes. I looked for a map or a key, but I couldn't find one at all, to my disappointment. I found a VHS tape that was labeled, "RPC Staff Training Video". I decided to watch this and see how it was. It was just your typical staff training video for a place like this. The video was very cheesy since the narrator had the hammy training video voice. Then, the video randomly went to static, and it started saying things. I think it had said, "Never leave", or "Been too long". And then the video flashed a picture of that woman that I've been seeing. After the video ended, I was now confused. Why did the video start saying things like that? And why was the woman in that video? These questions had kept me puzzled, until the boxes of crayons and markers, kids meal toys, and more DVDs fell off the shelves. I tried to run out of there but the door was shut and was locked from the outside. I couldn't get out and I was worried I was gonna possibly die or be trapped forever. Then, everything stopped. And the door was unlocked again. I couldn't believe that just happened again. I thought to myself, "What did I discover in there that I wasn't supposed to?". I couldn't come up with an answer, and decided to just leave that room. I didn't know what to expect next after that mess.

Chapter 4: The Disturbing Backstory
I walked to the next room which was an old storage room. I shined my flashlight in the room and found some suits or costumes that looked like they were never used. They were all in mint condition, and it seemed like they were made for scrapped mascot characters. It was strange because if these things were never used, why did they still have them here? The room itself looked particularly strange to look around in, especially with how old the costumes looked. I heard footsteps coming up the stairs, and I was scared as to who it was, as I thought whoever it was would've tried to kill me. Thankfully, it was Will. He had told me exploring some of the rooms was strange, as he told me he saw chairs moving, doors opening, and he even saw a computer just turn on, on its own. I told him about the creepy shit that happened to me since I had been upstairs, such as the foosball table thing, the door to one room opening, and the scary shit in the arts and crafts closet, as well as seeing an image of the woman on that video. Will said he heard something downstairs earlier that sounded like someone saying, "No escape", or "You can't leave me". I told him I had heard something like that when watching the video. I told Will to look around the room I was in, at the costumes and everything. He said, "Why in the Hell would this place have unused mascot costumes lying around?" I told him that I thought the same thing. We then decided to split up again, but we stayed upstairs so that we could easily find each other without having to walk downstairs. I looked around in a couple more rooms, and there were two more rooms with just what looks like video game systems. "How many rooms in this place needed this many video game systems?", I thought to myself. I then walked into a room that was kind of like a lounge area with 4 rooms in it. I looked around in one of the rooms, and it was an instrument room. The room had cases with brass, woodwind, and string instruments just lying around in there, with some books on how to play the instruments sitting on the shelves. The second room had a ton of unopened toys in boxes, as well as a desk, a desk lamp, and another old TV, except it wasn't on a stand. The next room was an office, and there was also another radio. I looked around through some of the file cabinets, just finding files of the employees, before finding one of that person named Evelyn G. Unfortunately, there was no picture, meaning something must've happened to it. It was said that she was a janitor, and she worked at the RPC. I saw a computer and turned it on. It showed me some records of the employees, including Evelyn G., still no picture. The record I read stated that she started working there in 1986, and that she was last seen on November 1993, on a Wednesday. I couldn't tell what to think of this. Did she die or quit, skip town and never come back? I decided that maybe it wasn't that important, as she's probably still alive, and maybe just in another town or working somewhere else in this town. Then, I noticed some sort of note in one of the drawers. I shined my flashlight on it and it read, "Costumes to be used on Friday-Junior Manager, Gordon". I also found another note that said, "Costumes to be scrapped until further notice, new costumes will be coming soon-Junior Manager, Gordon". The date on both notes read 1991, and this at least helped me understand as to why the costumes in that one room were just left there, and how they were in such mint condition despite being very old looking. I swear after that happened, I heard what sounded like someone saying, "You can never leave", "He took me away", "Please help me", or things like that. I was wondering where the voice came from. Then, the radio in the room turned on, on its own. It started playing some regular, relaxing sounding jazz and strings music. But then it quickly turned creepy, because I heard that same music that I heard downstairs on the boombox in that one room. I couldn't believe what was happening, how was that music still playing? And who is behind all of this? I heard what sounded like a door shutting, and I tried to check if I was trapped in this lounge area, but the doors that led to this area thankfully weren't locked. I heard Will scream my name for help saying, "Matthew, help me!". I heard him running down the hall and he came into the office I was in. I asked him what happened, and he said he saw the foosball table running, the video game systems turning on, as well as the video I saw in the arts and crafts closet, as well as having markers, crayons, the kids meal toys and even DVDs and VHS tapes being thrown at him. He said that he also heard that same voice saying, "Stay forever". I told him how I heard the same voice as well, and how I heard the creepy music, the radio turning on, the notes about the costumes from 1991, as well as the records about the employees. But I told him about the record of Evelyn G. and how she was last seen in November of 1993, 21 years ago. He told me that he remembered the journal from Evelyn G., and told me that we should read it. We read it, and we found entries from her past. Her entries were about her job as a janitor, and apparently she had became night shift janitor on November 17, 1993. Her last entry was written in on November 18, 1993, during the day. It was intriguing learning about the backstory, but we still were wondering what happened to Evelyn G., and why she's been missing for 21 years. We put the journal in a drawer and walked out of the office, since we had pretty much looked through most of the rooms. Then, I saw another landline sitting next to a fax machine and a computer in the lounge area. I was relieved that we found another phone. I tried calling 911, or my parents, but neither answered. Then, the phone started ringing again. I picked it up, trying to ask the caller if they could help us get out of there. The caller didn't answer for several seconds, and I waited for an answer. Then, they finally answered. The caller whispered, "You're next". I hung up the phone immediately out fear and shock. That, that voice was the same as the one me and Will have been hearing. I thought to myself, "Who is that person, and why are they saying these things to us?" Then, a fax was sent. I shined my flashlight on it and it said "DIE". Die? "Who the Hell sent that, and why do they want to kill us?", I thought. It seemed like that caller was saying these things, and they were trying to kill us. I told Will what I heard on the phone, and he was just as confused and creeped out as I was. Then, the night lights started flickering, the phone rang again, and that scream from an hour earlier happened again. Me and Will immediately ran downstairs in a blind panic. Once we made it back down, I remembered the two rooms I hadn't gone into down the left hallway. We ran to one of the rooms, and slammed the door shut and locked it. Then, everything stopped. The night lights in the hallways went back to normal, and the and the lights in this room were shut off. It was dark, so I shined my flashlight and found a light switch. I turned it on, and the lights revealed that we ran into a security office. I found it strange that a place like this would need night security, especially since it seemed unlikely to me that anyone would break in here and rob this place, since there was nothing really to steal here. I also found it strange because the night guard must've forgotten that they had to work tonight, or maybe they had the night off. Unlike the rest of the place though, many of the things in this room gave off an early-to-mid 90s vibe. There was a camcorder in the storage cabinet in there, the couch I was sitting on looked kind of old, the security monitor looked like it was from the early-to-mid 90s, as well as there being some VHS tapes, CDs, and some old DVDs in the storage cabinet. I was really annoyed by the fact that this place had so many VHS tapes, DVDs, and CDs, since it seemed like this place had too many of them and if they were never used, they should just sell them. But I shrugged it off, as it wasn't worth getting pissed off about. I turned on the camera system, and I was able to get a good view of most of the building. While looking around, I spotted that woman I had seen several times upstairs. I told Will to come look, and I told him that was the woman I had seen while we were her four times. He told me he was sorry he didn't believe me, but I told he didn't have to apologize, because at least he knew what the woman looked like. She was mostly just standing around in the office room upstairs. And I kept looking through the cameras, trying to see if every other room was clear. The woman was moving from the office, to the arts and crafts closet, to that storage closet with the costumes in it. And then she went back to the office. I was now starting to get even more scared than I already was, so I told Will he could look through the camera screens for awhile, as I sat down on the couch. I was worried that the woman was going to find us and kill us, but I was wondering why. What did we do? But mostly, I was wondering why and how all this fucking paranormal shit has been happening. I could feel my body was still terrified, and my nerves were running. I was just so worried, and I was wondering why none of this shit was ever known by any of the employees. Did they know about this paranormal crap? Or did it never happen to them? I pondered on those questions for several minutes, before giving up on trying to answer them. I was afraid to look out the door windows, because I knew that if I looked out the door window, I would see that woman. I sat cowering in fear on the couch, with the sound of the lamp next to me buzzing. Will said nothing strange was happening yet, which was relieving, but I was still terrified that we were going to die. 26 minutes passed, and nothing was happening. I saw a phone and tried to dial 911 or me and Will's parents, but no one answered. I tried again, and the dial tone was gone. Now that pretty much every phone I could find in this place was useless and helpless, I thought we were trapped for the rest of the night, since we still haven't found an exit, or a key, or something that could help us get out. I noticed some small details on the desk, such as a couple figures of video game characters, such as Mario, as well a soda that looked like it been in here for days, as well as some crumpled up papers. That was mostly small details though. I then started to feel tired, which felt weird to me, because in a situation such as this, your body would be in panic mode, your reflexes would be hyper, your nerves would be shaking, and your body would just stay awake. I tried to fight the urge to fall asleep, while still hoping we could find an exit or something to get us the Hell out. Then, everything went dark... I woke up to the sound of the lamp still buzzing, and the sound of Will snoring. It wasn't a nightmare at all, me and Will were still in that fucking building. I was relieved that we were still alive, but I was wondering why nothing paranormal has been happening. Seeing how I was asleep for so long, I checked my watch and found it was 2:35. I had been asleep for four hours, and yet nothing paranormal had been happening for the past 4 hours. I woke Will up and asked him what was happening on the camera screens. He said he must've fallen asleep after a while, since he didn't remember checking for the last four hours. I told him I should check again, and I didn't see the woman for awhile. I was now wondering where she went, since I checked every camera, including the ones outside the building, but nothing. I was now worried as to whether or not she had found us, or whether she snuck in the room. Then, Will told me he found some old cassette tape, with no title sticker or anything on it. He said he found it hidden in a box of VHS tapes. I told him we should play it, since the camera monitor seemed to run on cassettes. The date of the footage read November 18, 1993, and it was late at night. The footage showed the woman in the hallway near the dining room, but she was just cleaning and feather dusting, so she must've been a janitor. She seemed happy to be cleaning, which I didn't expect someone to be this happy working a gross job during the night. One thing about this footage was that, it seemed to be in some sort of automatic mode where the camera screens would switch on their own, rather than just being manually switched by the night guard. I found it kind of neat that a camera system that old had the capability for an automatic switching mode. Then, the camera screen switched to a camera outside of the building. It showed a strange man walking up the stairs that led to the entrance and going into the building. Then, the footage showed the woman upstairs cleaning some more. The footage then switched a couple of times, showing the man ransacking the kitchen, the nursery, the dining room, and a couple offices. Then, the footage switched upstairs as the man hid in the shadow of the hallway. The woman had walked to go downstairs, and the man then rushed towards her and stabbed her very brutally. He then kicked her down the stairs and stabbed her more, killing her. The camera screen went to static for a minute, before showing the man running out the building to his car and driving off, then the footage showed the lobby of the building, before cutting to static again and ending. Me and Will were horrified from watching this. I then started thinking about everything I had seen before, and then the clues came together. The note, the voice, the caller, the fax, the phone calls, the radio interference, the creepy music playing, the journal entry, the record of Evelyn G., November 18, 1993 when Evelyn G. disappeared, the woman, and all the paranormal crap that's been happening. That woman was Evelyn G., the janitor who went missing 21 years ago, that journal was hers, that was her calling us and whispering those things, as well as her causing all this paranormal crap. And I had found out the reason as to why, she had been brutally murdered 21 years ago, and she's been in this building as a vengeful spirit, waiting for her killer to return in order for her to get revenge on her killer, but he never came back. And now she had been haunting this place for 21 years, only her hauntings have been done late at night. And she was the one threatening to kill us, and we've been trapped in here with her vengeful spirit for since 9 PM, and we could end up becoming her victims if we didn't escape. The last thing I figured out was that the killer went back in to hide the cassette, and that's why it was in that box of VHS tapes. I told Will what I figured out, and he said, "We've got to get the fuck outta here Matt, or else that evil bitch is gonna kill us!". I agreed with Will, and I tried looking for an exit on the security cameras, but then the camera screens went to static. I couldn't turn them back on, so I tried looking for a map anywhere, before finding a paper map. It showed me there was an exit at the end of the dining room. I couldn't believe that I didn't see it 5 hours ago, but I was relieved that we found an exit. Me and Will decided to run out the other door that led to the next room, so that the woman wouldn't find us. As we ran in, it was dark and we couldn't see where we were going. We ended up slipping in some sort of liquid, and fell on the floor. The pain from falling on my legs was hurting badly, and I was worried that I might've broken them. Thankfully I didn't break my legs, knees, or ankles at all, as I was able to get up, same with Will. I shined my flashlight on the door handle, and I tried opening it, but it was locked. The room smelled foul, so we left the room and walked back through the door that led from that room back to the security office. The lights in the security office showed me what liquid I slipped in that I got on my arm, it was blood. I was so terrified, I felt like I was going to scream. I showed Will that I slipped in blood, and he checked his arm too, and had blood on it too. He was starting to freak out, and I told him, "Calm down, or else Evelyn G. will find us". That was enough to calm him down. I told him we just need to get to the dining room exit, and we're safe from there. We unlocked the door and walked out of the security room, and I told Will we should try to either run or walk. And then, the power went out... We had stopped in our tracks, and we were still near the security room. I tried shining my flashlight in the hallway to help find our way out, but my flashlight was starting to grow dim. I tried looking behind us, and we saw her. It was Evelyn G, she was standing right behind us with an evil smile and a creepy stare. Fearing for our lives, we ran as fast we could to the dining room exit in a blind panic, with Evelyn chasing after us. The lights of our flashlights were starting to grow more dim. We made it to the dining room exit door, but I couldn't see the door handle. Evelyn was now getting much closer, and it seemed like we were going to die. I tried shining my flashlight, and I found the door handle. I pulled the door handle quickly, and thankfully it was unlocked. We ran out slamming the door shut, and ran to my car. We got in, and quickly started my car and took off... We were able to make it back to my house with no problem. My parents called, and they said they'd be home in two days. I hung up after talking for a little while. Me and Will put on a movie to try and calm ourselves down, before we fell asleep.

Epilogue
After that terrifying night, we went to the police the next day and told them what ended up happening to us at the RPC. They looked at us like we were joking, but then we told them about the murder of Evelyn G, and they said they'd contact the owners of the RPC. The owners came to the station, and they told us they had no idea we were trapped in the RPC last night, or about the murder of Evelyn. We told them that her killer never returned, and that we had found this out since the killer had taken the cassette recording the night it happened and hid it in a box of VHS tapes. We also told them about how her killer has been on the run for 21 years, and how we ended up experiencing a ton of paranormal activity that night. The police said that they would try to investigate the building for any clues of the paranormal activity. The employee who locked us in apologized for locking us in by accident. They found some of the camera footage, but some of it was tampered with. No blood was found, and they said they couldn't find Evelyn's spirit at all. The police said that since they didn't find much evidence aside from some camera footage, they would need to find some experts to investigate. Will told me that it was a mistake on his part that we went there, as now we knew the dark mystery of the RPC, and why it was always so creepy late at night. Me and Will haven't gone back to the RPC since that night, and we refuse to go there ever again. I never would've figured that such an innocent place such as the RPC, would actually have a dark, disturbing past that no one, not even the staff knew about. With how much paranormal activity we experienced that night, the terrors we faced that night won't be forgotten. If we tried telling someone about this, they'd think we're insane. And what's the worst thing of all, is knowing that Evelyn G. will still be haunting the RPC, waiting for her next, unlucky victims.