If You Step On a Train and No One Is Sitting, GET OUT

11:52 p.m. The second-to-last train. Through the windows, the car is almost full. You squeeze in just as the doors close. Then you turn around. The car is still crowded, but nobody is sitting. Every seat is empty. Five minutes later, the conductor comes through to check tickets. The ticket is an old bronze coin, and he can tell who is still alive. The Night Desk has three signs that tell you which train you are on, and seven rules for getting a ticket, getting past him, getting off at a station where the living step out, and making sure nothing followed you home. Listen to every rule. Especially the last one. This is Log 008. Tell us in the comments: have you ever stepped onto a car that felt wrong before you knew why? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 11:52 p.m. 1:34 The Night Desk 1:41 Sign 1 · A crowded car, no one sitting 1:58 Sign 2 · You're not in the glass 2:15 Sign 3 · Everyone is holding something 2:45 Rule 1 · If the doors are still open, step off 3:08 Rule 2 · Don't sit down 3:26 Rule 3 · Turn off everything electronic 3:49 Rule 4 · Trade for a coin 4:36 Rule 5 · When the conductor comes, look down 5:18 Rule 6 · Get off where the living step out 6:17 Rule 7 · Get rid of the coin. Check who followed 8:09 The Night Desk is closed ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Night Desk is a work of fiction. The train, the conductor and the rules are invented. The coin draws on a real custom: the ancient Greek "Charon's obol", a coin left with the dead to pay the ferryman, and the coins placed on the eyes of the dead in later European burials. #analoghorror #horror #thenightdesk #creepy #scarystories #ghosttrain #rules