All this started when I was working as a night guard. My first two years as a guard I was working at the control center as an operator where the entire emergency calls and electronic alarms are received. But you get pretty tired of that kind of work pretty fast, and I don't really like to work inside an office. I would rather be out there in the real world where the action is. I love to work night shifts, I don't know why but you could call me a "night person". So when the opportunity came for a transfer I took it.

　　I started to work as a patrolling guard on a Monday night. The area that I was supposed to guard included six business districts, five residential districts, three industrial areas and two cemeteries. At some of the places that I was suppose to guard I had to go inside and use this little device that documents the time I was inside, so the owner of that building or house and specially the company that I work for can see that I’m really doing my job.

　　I have never had any problem with graveyard or anything like that before and I'm not afraid of the dark. If you're afraid of the dark, night guard is NOT the job for you.

故事发生在我做夜班警卫的时候。当警卫的头两年我在控制中心做接线员，所有的紧急呼叫和电子警报都会接到那。但很快你就会对这种工作感到厌倦，我本人也不怎么喜欢呆在办公室里。我宁愿到外面参与实际行动。我喜欢上夜班，我也不知是为什么，你可以叫我是“夜猫子”。所以我抓住一个调任机会，成功换岗了。

　　我周一晚上开始做巡逻警卫。我负责的区域包括6个商业区、5个住宅区、3个工业园区和两个公墓。有些地方我得进到建筑里，将我进入的时间用一个xxx记录下来，这样那个建筑或家庭，尤其是公司的主人就可以知道我确实是克尽职守的。

　　我以前没在墓地之类的地方遇到过麻烦，我也不怕黑。如果怕黑就不适合做夜班警卫的工作了。

Everything started as planned on that Monday. I did my rounds and I was just enjoying working at night. Tuesday went by and I could not love my work more. But on Wednesday night was the night that changed my life pretty much. It was a pretty quiet night, no alarms or anything. At about 2.00am I was driving up towards the cemetery and parked outside the graveyard. At this cemetery I had to walk the grounds to see if everything looked O.K. Some times drunken people take the chance to get a good night's sleep around the gravestones.

　　At this cemetery there was a small building that I had to enter and use this device that documents my presence. When you enter the doorway you turn right and then there is a long hallway with three doors, one of these doors led downstairs to the basement where they keep the dead that are going to be buried in the coming days or so.

　　When I passed that door i told myself that I was lucky that I didn't have to go down there. At the end of the hallway you enter an office and that's where the device is placed. I draw my card through the device and I was free to leave the building. While I was walking back up the hallway I saw a note posted on the wall. I stopped and started reading it.

那个周一起初一切正常。我四处转悠，享受着夜晚工作的乐趣。周二顺利过完，我真是太喜欢我的工作了。周三晚上是改变我人生的一晚。那晚很太平，警报什么的都没响。大约凌晨两点的时候，我开车到了公墓，把车停在墓地外。我得穿过墓地以确保一切正常。有时候，会有醉汉抓住机会在墓碑旁睡上一整晚。

　　公墓中有个小房子，我得进到里面去，用xxx记录下我到此处的时间。进门后右拐，会看到一个有三扇门的走廊，其中一扇门通向楼下的地下室，那是用来停放第二天或近日即将入土的死人的。

　　我经过那扇门的时候，暗自庆幸自己不用到地下室去。走廊尽头有间办公室，xxx就放在里边。我划完卡，就可以离开那屋子了。沿着走廊往回走的时候，看见墙上贴着一张纸。我停住脚步开始读上面的内容。

After a few seconds I started feeling this cold chill. That feeling was very uncomfortable for me, so I turned around and turned my flashlight on, but I could not see anything that was out of the ordinary. I really didn't like the feeling so I started walking fast towards the doorway. When I was about to turn left at the end of the hallway the chill disappeared and I stopped. I thought that it was just my mind playing tricks on me.

　　While I was standing there in the dark observing the hallway for a few seconds this cold chill started coming over me again and the hairs on the back of my neck all stood up, it was like someone was in the hallway with me, but I could not see anyone. I turned around quickly and left the building in a hurry and jumped in the car and locked the doors. I was so scared that I was white in the face.

　　The next night I was working was on Saturday. At about 3.00 am I arrived at the cemetery that had freaked me out three days earlier. I parked outside the building that I was supposed to enter. I went out of the car and approached the door. I turned right and went down the hallway towards the office. I was so scared, but I was on a mission, just get to the device and then get the hell out of there. I draw my card and turned around and started walking back up the hallway.

立刻感到一阵寒意。这让我很不舒服，我转身将手电筒拧亮，却没发现任何反常的东西。我实在不喜欢这种感觉，便加快脚步向门走去。在走廊另一头卧正要左拐的时候，那阵寒意消失了，我停下脚步。我想那只是我的脑子捉弄了我自己。

　　我站在那又仔细观察了一会这段走廊，那股寒意又攫住了我，我脖子上的寒毛都竖了起来，感觉走廊里还有其他人，但我什么都没看到。我赶紧转身走出那房子，跳进车里将车门都锁上。我害怕极了，脸都发白了。

　　我下一个晚班是在周六。我大约凌晨3：00钟时到了这个三天前把我吓坏了的公墓。我把车停在那所我得进去的房子外，我下了车向门边走去，然后右拐沿着走廊走向那间办公室。我很害怕，但我有任务在身，我得去把卡划了然后赶紧离开这。

I can tell you that I turned my head around to look behind me 50 times while I was walking up the hallway. When I reached the doorway I stopped to take a look back down the hall. I turned my flashlight on and just stood there looking down the hall for a couple of seconds. But the strange feeling never came, everything was normal. I told myself that it was just my mind playing tricks on me the other night.

　　Two weeks went by and nothing specially happened at that cemetery, but I never really liked being there. But this night, my last night as a night guard was different. After this night shift I put an end to my career as a night guard.

　　This week I had a guard dog with me patrolling the grounds. I arrived at the cemetery at 2.30 am, I took the dog for a walk over the graveyard. It was a pretty cold night, below zero. After fifteen minutes I was done with the graveyard and I was about to enter the building. I went inside and turned right and then went down the hallway. About halfway down the hall I stopped to pick up my flashlight. When I suddenly got this weird feeling that someone was watching me from a distance. To calm myself down I told the dog to be on the watch, he started bark ing. I told him to calm down and be quiet, he totally ignored my order. When we entered the office the dog turned around facing back down the hall.

可以告诉你的是，我走在走廊上的时候，回了不止50次头看向身后。我走到办公室门边，回头向身后的走廊看了一眼。我打开手电筒，站在那盯着走廊看了几秒钟。但没再有那种奇怪的感觉，一切正常。我告诉自己那晚确实是我自己的脑子捉弄了我。

　　两周过去了，那个公墓没发生什么特别的事情，但我还是不喜欢去那。但我{zh1}一次值晚班的那晚却不同。这晚过后，我作为夜班警卫的职业生涯就结束了。

　　这周有一只警犬和我一起巡逻。我凌晨2：30 时到了公墓，带着狗在墓地里走了一会。那晚很冷，气温在0摄氏度以下。我在墓地里巡视了15分钟，然后走进那所房子。进去后右转然后走过走廊。走到一半的时候，我忽然又有了有人在远处看着我的奇怪感觉，便停下将手电筒打开。为了让自己冷静下来，我让狗保持警惕，它开始叫了起来。我叫狗安静下来，它却xx无视我的命令。我们进到办公室里，警犬转身对着走廊。

At this moment the dog went totally crazy, totally ballistic; I have never ever heard a dog bark like this!. It was a very aggressive barking. I was flashing my flashlight down the hall to see if I could see someone down there. But all I could see was an empty hallway. Suddenly the dog stopped barking. But the dog didn't let his eyes leave the hallway; there was obviously something down there that he didn't like at all.
　　I was thinking to myself that no one besides me could be inside this building. The only way to find out if I was right was to let the dog go free. I let him go and called him to search the hall. He didn't move at first but after a few seconds he started to move forward. I followed him across the hall and I didn't see anything strange on the way towards the doorway. We went out the door and back to the car. I let the dog in and closed the door. While I was going towards the front door I turned around for some reason and faced the graveyard. I stared in to the dark and I was convinced that there was something out there watching me. I got in the car and left. The following day I quit my job, now I’m working with computers instead, computers can't scare you.

此时它已经xx疯狂失去控制了，我从没听过一只狗叫成这样！它的叫声满含挑衅。我将电筒照向走廊，看是不是有人在那。但只看到空荡荡的走廊。突然狗叫声停了，但它还是死盯着那里，很显然，那里有它不喜欢的东西。

　　我想除了我之外没人能够进到这间房子。{wy}确认我这一想法是否正确的方法便是把狗放开。我把狗放开让它去搜查走廊。刚开始它没动，几秒钟之后它开始向前走。我跟着它穿过走廊，但没看到任何奇怪的东西。我们走到门外上了车，然后把车门关上。走到前门的时候，我曾回头看了一眼墓地，我盯着暗处，确信那里的确有人在盯着我看。我赶紧上车离开。第二天我就辞职了，我现在和计算机打交道，计算机是不会吓唬人的。