The Haunting of Unit 409 by Tony Walker
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- The Haunting of Unit 409 is set in a storage unit in Carlisle. When his workmate falls sick, John Shaw is on night shift on his own. He's done nights there many time, and though it can be spooky, nothing unnatural has ever happened. But then you never know what mysteries people keep in their lock up units, secret and away from prying eyes. The Haunting of Unit 409 tells the story of the horrors that urk behind locked doors. You never know what's there. Until you find out.
An orignal Cumbrian Horror story by Tony Walker
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I, for one, love hearing about what Tony does and does not eat for breakfast 😂
no joke, me too🤍
Same! He’s so charming and interesting even talking about the most mundane things. It’s not even just his voice, although that is nice. It’s more the whole delivery, diction, syntax, all the subtle linguistic elements that make someone’s manner of speaking unique to them. Like, if a stranger took your best friend’s phone and took up the text conversation you had going with them, something would feel off pretty quickly just due to those slight differences in how people communicate, though it’s often hard to pinpoint specifics. Anyway, there is just something about the way he describes things that makes them more interesting to listen to.
Me too. He'd be an awesome night DJ. He could play Yes, ELP, and King Crimson. He could take his naps during the half-hour long songs....
@@skeleczar Well put!
I wanna know even more than that! Hey now!!! lol 😋
409 was an excellent modern story. More!
This totally reminded me of what recently happened to me back in May. My husband and I ended up selling our house unexpectedly because of the market change. Well we literally had no place to live so we had to move in a much smaller home ,so much smaller than a lot of our furniture and belongings had to go into storage. You can imagine with this whole housing crisis going on in the states, that there were little to no storage units. Except for one , It was by the old railroad station that had been condemned and two young people had committed suicide they’re back in the 70s. The storage facility was one where it was where you store all of your belongings. You get a code and you enter. No one is there ever. I was by myself on the second floor unloading all of the boxes into the unit. When all of a sudden the elevator opens and no one is in it. At first I didn’t think anything of it. However when it happened three times in succession my heart began to race. And I began to hear a weird noise almost like old music. Like from an organ. I quickly threw the rest of the boxes and packages into the unit. And was running towards the elevator doors ,when I stupidly thought don’t take the elevator take the stairs. The smell was like as if someone had urinated and was smoking. I ran out of there so fast to myself in the car and took off. My husband went the next day. He had shouted at me for not locking the door to the storage unit, because someone had taken all of the dolls that I had put in boxes out of the storage unit and threw them all over the floor like a trail leading down to the the stairs. I haven’t been back since.
This is a great story. It would make a great short story Tv episode. I think it's better in some ways than the one I wrote (as well as being true!) because no one was there. I loved it.
This didn't happen
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts it's okay... it's ok, just plz clean up next time. Dolls love all
You caught the ambience of a night shift experience really well.
I greatly enjoyed the story. Thank you. Coffee here too!
Tony your original stories are my favorite! I've spent hours looking for good horror stories on RUclips. This is by far the best channel I've found. I hope you continue writing I can tell your very passionate about it.
Glad you like them! Do you see that I have a playlist just for my own stories? ruclips.net/p/PLY-NL5PMfzvXRZoXQBQxb9yr0P9TUMXl8
Sorry, I couldn't hear how the story was hurriedly finished. You did some pretty good work Tony Tone. Reminded me of my days as a security guard. And yes, there was a couple of weird instances involving ghosts - all true. Very creepy, and unnerving; well done you. 👍👏
Thanks Nancy!
I keep books I know I will re-read or I really loved, books from childhood, I love having bookshelves full of them! My husband never reads because he reads a lot at work and has had enough by the time he gets home!
Loved this story, poor John! I like the small stinky monster… very believable, the sharp teeth, the muttering, brrrrr creepy!!!! You’ve out done yourself! ☺️
What was it though? I still don't know.
@@ClassicGhost could it have been an ancient golem? Or some kind of vampire child or ghoul! Maybe it only feeds once a year and then goes back to it’s mouldering boxes to sleep till the next hunger….
Great story and narration!
I like "The Expanse", too!
Great ramble and explanation. I assumed it was a vampire at first.
Ooh...
I hope you make it through Samhain with your wits intact Tony.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and wonderful imagination with us.
I deeply appreciate that your acknowledge that there IS real horror in the slaughtering gentle creatures en mass. (I hate to imagine what those poor, defenceless creatures go through! Bowel cancer may just be the result of karmic debt).
On keeping our books, I think that we do so because they literally contain pieces of Human souls, they cling to us like foster children.
How could we abandon them?!
Oh well I'm off to iron now and listen to Led Zeppelin.
😁👍🏼🙋
+April Wakefield I’m with you on led zeppelin
That bloody terrified me! I do wish he’d got away though 😢
Can't give up the books mate. That's just a no-no. I like hearing about your day as well. Good to hear your house move is done and dusted. Cheers for the cool story.
This story hits differently when you listen in bed, in your pitch-black bedroom 😱 Thank you, Tony, for scaring the devil out of me! 😅
Glad it scared you!
I liked the story. I enjoyed how you explained about it at the end.
One of your best yet, very atmospheric
Thank you :)
Excellent! Loved that one!
I luv how you said *'older than time'* 👍👍👍*Tony Walker* 👍👍
Brilliant, just brilliant. Thank you.
Short stories limit the reader's time spent with characters and experiences, but you effectively flesh them out. I know John so well I know what's written on his mug. Indeed, he became a legend of sorts.
Poor old John. Food for some gobble-monster thing.
That woman's voice saying about getting into the locked drawer actually just scares the crap out of me. Every. Single. Time. Don't know what there is about it, but damn~ if it was meant to scare, it is doing the job.
I always think that woman is probably Mrs Danvers.
I think Tony should write a story about the Lady and the locked drawer .
Oh, WONDERFUL!!!
I wish I'd saved this till a stormy night...
Thoroughly enjoyed this one, Tony, great narrative and loved the reference to XL crisps.
Only a few know
I’m here because I like listening to what you put out in the world - so if you talk about breakfast and whether you eat it or not, I’m gonna happily listen!
Great story - very happy to have found you and your channel and podcasts.
You’ve got it going on!
Although every day reportage of my breakfast would be a bit dull even for me. Lovely day here; very bright sunshine. Hope you are well
Tony that was wonderful!!! The first I've heard set in a storage unit. Scary!!! Good job. It'll make me step sharply to the car tonight.
There are probably more storage unit stories out there. We should do an anthology
A great reading! Glad I discovered your channel! Thanks Tony.
Welcome! I'm glad you did too
A fine story and your usual perfect narration. You brought out that incredibly tedious, dark, empty, industrial mood with the wrongness of something going on. BTW, Struwwelpeter is just a very unkempt boy. He never washes, never combs or cuts his hair, and never clips his nails. Needless to say, he has no friends.
Perhaps it's the long red-legged scissorman who is meant? He was one of the characters in the book, I think? Who cut off the thumbs of the boy who sucked his thumb...
@@janglaschu The tall tailor and little Suck-a-Thumb!
I won't be more specific, but there are those with podcasts or RUclips channels who narrate quite a lot of their own writing. I've gotten to the point where I'm disappointed when I come across these "vanity" works and wish that the the narrator would read something from one of the classics instead. I have to say that your channel is the exception -- in fact, I sometimes
go through your archives expressly to find something you've written. And I very much appreciate your comments on what you've read. Sometimes I end up with a more complete understanding of these tales --
yours and others' -- through your addenda.
For a few years I managed a storage facility
in a huge old three-story building in Northern
California. It was a newer facility than the one in your story, but there are many similarities.
I believe that (at least some) storage facilities are inherently creepy places. You beautifully capture the feeling of ambiguity such places evoke. All those doors, and behind each a mystery, and what's behind those mysteries sometimes quotidian and sometimes much less so. I think that one day I will write about the darker aspects of working (and in my case, living) in such a place. But I'll be working on something else for now, as your story has such strength that I couldn't currently write anything having to do with a storage facility without your story bleeding through into mine.
My thanks, as always, for your tale, both the authorship and the narration. I especially
enjoyed this one.
I have made my living as a writer and that is an excellent story.
Oh lovely, what sort/genre of writing?
Unit 409 bravo Tony you read this story so well. Outstanding. Thank you.
As for my preference in ghost stories, I usually hunt for something old and ancient (as long as it's not hunting me..) but I've been focusing on your stories lately. The modern world, with it's lack of the supernatural character of the old, is much more eerie when invaded by the old beasties and such. One expects an old dusty castle to have a beast, but not a storage facility. Creepy!! Well done.
This storage place was really old. It really had been a tanning factory
Another brilliant story Tony, excellently read.
I was thinking of doing this one live on Saturday
@@ClassicGhost sounds good!
I listened to this story in bed, under the covers while the wind was howling round the house and it absolutely terrified me! Like you I rented a storage unit during a house move and I found it deeply unsettling going there unloading stuff mostly alone. The lighting was triggered by movement so after a while the corridors around the unit would click off into darkness which added to the atmosphere.
Great story and wonderful narration 👍👻
What a lovely night to listen to the story..
That was terrifying! Thank you. :)
I'm happy to hear what you have for breakfast. And I also have thousands of books; they smell lovely.
Glad you liked it. I will comment again below I am sure that I regret now mentioning that. Everyone's different. I'm just glad you like the way I end up doing things :)
superb stories wonderful narration
thank you :)
Suspenseful! Great build-up. Everything is creepy in the middle of the night, especially when you're alone. We have rented storage units twice and both were numbered crazy. And all the rows look the same lol
When I got that unit I knew I had to write a story about it
Great story. The part about how John found it pleasant to reread stories about Liverpool victories...hit close enough to home that I felt a bit embarrassed.
I just found this channel. My friend wrote The Beast of Blanchland and pointed me to read it, and I've just kept on.
The stories remind me of the ghost stories I read when I was younger, fabulous. Thanks for these.
The Beast of Blanchland is a great story
@@ClassicGhost it is, and is my stamping ground. I like her other work, too.
Your channel really is fab, I am rationing myself so that I don't run out, though you seem incredibly productive.
I love hearing your chat too - breakfast or no breakfast! 😂
I felt as if I was there! I had the heebiejeebies the whole time.
I have loads of books and crystals too.
Tony, your descriptions of the doors and how the storage business is over was super spooky. Uhmazing reading
Well done.
I have waited for this since days 😂 finally 👏👏👏
Bravo, my lovely, this was easily the best story I listened to for Halloween and thank you for all your postings and chats and hard work and time 💙💚💛💜
Thank you Hilary
And here I thought it was an ancient pre Celtics vampire that shipped himself from storage unit to storage unit to predate on the night staff. I also thought Polish Dan had gotten eaten up too and that there would be remains. Good job bringing ghost stories to the present day.
I would not want to work alone at night in a place like this. Great job freaking me out.
This was a great story. I like hearing about your life. It's like hearing a friend catching me up on what's going on.
Me too 👍
Love your ramblings 😋🌷🌱
Omg, that made me shudder, and the picture is so creepy, I had to turn the phone away 😂 I absolutely loved the Judderman ads, and periodically watch them on you tube 😂😂 Thanks for another fab story 👍👍
Well, I'm giving this wonderful story a 'second time around'...because I loved it's spookiness...and it deserves a second listen!! A really good spooky story. A lot of stories just don't have that kind of spookiness where you just have to look behind yourself to make sure all is A OK!!
Great! It says something about me that i like to scare people :)
Loved it thank you
As for keeping your books, that is something I can understand perfectly. I grew up in a house with 17, count 'em, seventeen, bookcases in it. And books are as much a passion of mine as they were for my dad. Yes, I've written a few of my own, but more poetry than that. As for you, I only get an audio of you here on RUclips, but if there were a way of actually watching you perform these stories, that might be equally as enjoyable. Let me know if there's a way. Thank you for another wonderful tale, Mr. Walker. Good night. 🌃🕯🥀
+Mary C Wallace if you look you will see the odd one of me on video. But can you believe the consensus was that the people preferred not to see me? I was smashed into pieces . Loom for W S by L P Hartley
That was brilliantly narrated and written. I could so easily identify with the poor security guard because he was an ordinary bloke doing an ordinary job in creepy warehouse. Thank you.
I love your way with words. Your description of the place is so enthralling and already foreshadowing what's to come "drip drip". It conjures a black and white picture of the storage unit. And the barb at the past winnings of Liverpool as a fan I felt it. You left it to our imagination to what it could be. Awesome narrative.
I got lost in a storage facility a few years ago. It was surprisingly disturbing. Luckily, I hadn't heard this little gem, or goodness knows how I'd have dealt with it!
Totally amazing, Tony! Not only are you a superior story teller with a wonderful gift for language but you skill as a writer tremendous. I love listening to your reading, especially those stories which you have composed. God bless!
Thank you very much Don. Much appreciated. I loved that storage unit. I am thinking of storing something there just so that I can go back
I work as a security guard and I've worked the night shift in some proper creepy old places,,, great story for a cold winter's night 🌙 🦉
did you ever see that play Ghost Stories? There's a security guard story in that.
What a beautiful narration! Happy Halloween! 👻
Mounting tension - great atmosphere - excellent
I like your work. You fit into my taste of dark and creepy horror genre. I also used to do night shifts as a security guard and I actually experienced a real supernatural presence at a depot centre. My first nighttime assignment was at a mental hospital. It gave me the bigger creeps, and I had to go around the empty grounds if I wanted to keep my job. As a result, I overcame my fear of the darkness. I can relate to your experiences and emotions in this story.
+Murtaza Arif you should write a story yourself :)
@@ClassicGhost Thank you. I am slowly writing, I just need to learn to organize my ideas :-)
Excellent story! Very scary. And I loved the Expanse reference as I am a big fan. Cheers!
Lovely. A nice gothic feel in the midst of the modern. I weirdlove it!
I love that you weirdlove it :))
😳the little thing with the little needle SHARP teethe HAS GOT ME 🤣😂🤣 thank you 🥰😘
Having had to have a couple of storage units I am so pleased I no longer have them😬.
You could do virtual night time DJ work for Tasmania. They are on night mode when we are awake . You will be excellent at it 🤣🥰😘
The rambling music man 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎼🎙️
Yes, I just had this nasty image. We read this out live to an audience and it wasn't me who read it and the guy who did, Ben Brinicombe, said it gave him nightmares!
i’ll say it again, don’t listen to people who comment that you ramble too much, breakfast or no. they’re just grumpy. but they’re still here listening and they’re bothering to comment.
screw them. your end pieces after a story are the other half of the reason i’m faithfully here.
i like shiny things too🤍
You did say it before. I should have listened. It is true what you say. They are still bothering to comment. Shiny things are the best. I rarely wear anything shiny. I wish I wasn't so shy about it.
Wowwwww Julie!!! What a traitor!!! She didn’t even arm them but SHE KNEWWWWW! 😱 excellent once again. Especially for my current situation, I am living in an apartment that it attached to a storage facility. Sometimes the alarm goes off and we have look at cameras and then do a walkthrough if nothing shows up on the monitor. Can be very creepy, since it is located on the middle of a deserted business park.
Enjoyed that. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
One of your best...😃👍
Sometimes hast leads to perfection. Looking forward to the others you mentioned. Thank you.
Haste. I don't know. I wish I wasn't so hasty.
Ok, a) I loved this. I love when you read us your original stuff. You are such a treasure. This gave me the heebeejeebees, and I relate so much to you growing attached to the storage dudes and those sorts of momentary friendships, rituals in your life. Moving is horrible, and I’m glad you’re almost done with it. B) We can’t comment on podcasts, so I just need to add that Again just made me squirm a whole bunch. It was the terrifying, but also so well done, both the author and your narration. Thank you for that experience! I just got a new puppy (an old new puppy), and it’s perfect timing, because I’m going to need company tonight. 😂
We are finaly done with it. I won't ever move again. 'Cept in my box. Well who knows? Never say never. I then struck up nodding acquaintances with the men at the local tip. that is where I put all the carboard boxes and all the things we'd paid to store but now realised we never needed them. That part is done now. Gratz on the puppy though. I love dogs.
Great story, reminds me of a true story I heard on the radio several years ago about two big burly night security guards who got a new gig at an office block. After one of them did the walk around the floors, he came back to the office visibly in fear. He couldn't go back in the second night. If I remember, it was a "presence" that put the terror in him.
There was a story like this (not quite the same) in the play Ghost Stories that was on in London a while back. Might still be on.
Absolutely 💯 Loved This!!❤
You may even know the storage unit on Rome St
@@ClassicGhost 👀😳OMG!!
Rome St you say,,,,, Now you come to mention the place....
How is Scots' Iain keeping these days?!
( Did he ever get back to the Hebrides?!🫣) Guess who's in the middle of moving house and getting the Keys Today?!
I've decided that I won't be leaving anything in Storage Units,,, I'd be too scared that One of my Family Skeletons,,, might end up wandering around those corridors!!
Namasté 🙏🕊️
Andréa and Critters. ....XxX....
Fabulous💀🎃!
Sorry I might of left a comment on the wrong story, because I forgot and I meant to go back and do it! This is the one I meant, I wanted to say that it was very, very good! Your writing keeps improving! Have a great day!
Your writing process reminds me of how Stephen King described his process for writing From A Buick 8. Like, seeing a situation and thinking, this could be kind of scary if...
Waiting patiently
Great story! I also enjoy hearing about your life, as you are a natural story teller and have a great voice. For those who don't like it, they can move on.. After all, they would have already heard the book /story.
+Shelljo_KayakLife thanks . I appreciate your support
Good story Tony.well done.
What’s Julie hiding? I want to hear that story as well. Thanks for making Halloween special this year, Tony.
You're right! I didn't think of that. Tony what say you?
That would be good 👍
Love the story connection times- thank you for the behind the scenes & the inspiration breakdown . It’s like a creative writing seminar focus group. Plus, it yields depth to our understanding, when share the tid-bits. 👻☠️📝🕳🍄🖤❣️🧿😘🥰🎁
Eek that was terrifying. Felt anxious all the way through, and your narration is perfect - thank you. Also - I am interested in what you have for breakfast! 😂 xx
+Sara Dillon just coffee this morning
“And I haven’t read those books for 30 years but I need to keep them for some unfathomable reason….because I *love* them.” Yes, this detail is everything. I’m gradually building up a book collection that I’ll keep forever. Everything else can get lost in the move, but the books are precious cargo.
I know. I have been moseying through my books today. So many good ones!
Truly gems.
Superb story and reading. You are so talented.
Thank you so much! I need to get back to writing
@@ClassicGhost Yes, keep writing. You have a true gift for storytelling in all it's forms.
Storage units are scary especially at night when you are alone.
What beautiful opening graphics! Reminds me of Soviet art during the 1920s. With a little Populux thrown in. Sure am looking forwad to this!
Ahh, good eye for detail!
Good story thank you very much
+Marilyn Mills thanks for listening
First of all Tony, I do care what you have for breakfast.
Really like this story. I too have worked night shift at a medical facility.....could be really creepy.
Write more my friend I love listening.
Tony, you are hilarious and that was a very scary story!! I love your rambling s! Admiration from Spooky Northern California.....
Nice and warm there, I'll bet. All those vineyards!
Awesome story T
It’s nearly true
What a let down - the guy who reads the scary ghost stories I listen to at night isn't a night owl! Great story - liked & subscribed ;) (i'll be passing on your channel to my family & friends). Everyone who listened to this story should be giving it a thumbs up!! If you didn't, I hope you all have nightmares!! j/k :P
Yes, I'm asleep by 10:30! Glad you liked the story. Thank you for sharing it
Scary!😱
Good God Man!! You're good and scary, well done..... 😳
ha ha! I have an evil side you see
My husband often complains about all my books. Why can’t we rid ourselves of our books? I guess because they’re like old friends who unlike others, haven’t passed on but are still here to be visited-or not- whenever we wish.
I have a pile behind me now. I need to sort out which ones I can give away. I'm doing this instead.
Absolutely hated the judder man advert when I was younger gave me absolute nightmares for years as a child 😩 I think it was the unsettling music they played and the way it was structured 😅 and it actually got banned if you didn’t know because it got so many complaints about it scaring kids 😅
The Judder Man. When you look at it on RUclips now it's so low-res. I wish they'd do a new one, or even a story.
I can't look at the screen while you're telling the story Tony. That monster gives me the creeps! Oh my God you're killing me! That smell! John don't do it!
The Minute I would get that smell I would be gone Julie could do it herself
Fabulously creepy - my favourite of your own stories that I’ve heard so far! (I also enjoyed the Croglin Vampire).
I have loads and loads of books too, also a ridiculous amount of crystals 😂
Personally am quite interested in little details of your life, like the lack of breakfast.
Being more serious, I’m really enjoying your channel more and more. Do you have just the one channel?
I’ve never liked going into storage units but now I’ll never go in again. 🙀
It's that time of year again, and I realized after listening to this VERY creepy and complex story again, that I hadn't commented. Listening to your explanations of what the "thing" was in the storage unit, I was waiting for you to mention the rats again. You wrote of them being there so I assumed the small creature with needle teeth might be some weird hybrid of a rat. But as you pointed out, you didn't actually intend to create something obvious. I guess I pictured something chewing on those old hides (disgusting image and apologies to vegetarians) and eventually going after fresher "hides."
Still get a chill from this one 😳
Well I was re-reading the M R James comments on not making the mechanism of the ghost thing clear. Leaving it vague. Think of Oh Whistle? What is that actually?
@@ClassicGhost Good question..great example. 💜
I asked for modern gritty Britain and I got it ! Loved the chill in your voce on 'at night it got very quiet."
My favorite story of yours ever. Every sentence of that froze my blood.
Storage being an expanding business is not a sign of a healthy economy is it ? Did you ever see the movie 'Creepshow' ? The boxes in 408 reminded me of the '1830 - Arctic Expedition' crate from that film and the surprise inside.
No, but I was just reading Drood by Dan Simmons and his man comes in a box. As does Dracula of course. There will be lots of box stories. I do recall a Pan Horror about a man buried alive. Horrible.
Aw wow!
@@ClassicGhost Right on as far as reading 'Drood' goes. What an amazing and diabolically confusing book. I've actually read that great brick of a book twice just to try and clarify what really happened and my conclusion is Wilkie Collins is an extremely unreliable narrator but an absolutely fantastic book regardless. I'd love to know what parts are demonstrable fact about Dickens later life and what are Wilkie's hallucinations. It also gives a good picture of what horrible pain most people went about in back in those days. I also have a mysterious longing for a gallon jug of laudunum. 21st century schizoid man has his aches and pains too you know. And what a great villain Drood is - or is he ? And now do you know whereabouts Bluegate Fields where even the police wouldn't dare to tread is ? Fantastic and maddening - Drood by Dan Simmons (author of the equally endless and frightening 'The Terror' )
You are so lovely to listen to...DJ Walker! Hahaha!
You have a voice made of soft serve ice cream. I don't know where I came up with that, but I meant it most sincerely. 🐈🐾 I guess it's an American thing. Ha!
+Kittima I will look into how I her a job as a DJ
☠👻 Thank you and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
+AletaDreams back to you too
This is gunna be so awesome 😎
A ghost story audiobook narrated by the author is such a treat. This seems quite polished to me... that first line is excellent. Am I the only one who, when Tony mentions people being unkind to him, is instantly ready to throw hands on his behalf? I had a half bagel and some fruit and a LOT of coffee for breakfast, so I should be able to take anything commenters throw at you, haha.
🕵♂[1 year later] 💂♀
Yes, I'm here to help back you up against any unkindness toward Sir Tony Walker.
Unfortunately, I am surprised no longer by miserable, self-loathing, hateful nincompoops. 🥷
👮♂If someone is feeling unkind🧟♀ get help or try constructive criticism,
simply stop watching or move on, or even (only bitter earthlings mostly)
leave a thumbs down, if one is inclined to voluntarily be noticed as a public jackass. 💂♂
🕵♀Anyway, many thanks Anna Bell Reads it was nice to see someone else ready to rollll.🥷