Board Thread:Short Stories/@comment-26108027-20181004153536/@comment-36543212-20181005000629

Wow! There are others with the same experiance! Thank god. I thought it was just my imagination XD

I used to work as a construction worker for a company that specialized in building giant dams for rivers and lakes. It payed well. But it had some downsides...

For one! The company didnt wish to hire additional people who specialize in clearing the underwater debris. Which meant that a few unlucky sods had to go and clear it out every time. On one job. I was the unlucky sod. So i had to put on swimming gear and clear out any trash and such at the bottom of the lake. Or atleast the part that we were planing to build the dam on.

It sucked!

But i had to do it or id get fired (Something i wish i had done is just say no and quit. But eh what can ya do. Gotta put bread on the table)

At first everything was fine. I was clearing out all the trash at the bottom of the lake. I wasnt that used to wearing a diving mask. So i was actually using up alot of air without knowing it by breathing alot. But it wasnt really that important. I had more than enough to do the job

Something strange happened tho. And i really couldnt ever fully comprehend what it was. It was some kinda electronic device. Sorta like one of those old phones. Except it had this really weird shape (Now that i think about it. It was probably a novelty item or something?) Anyhow! The phone was completely undamaged! No decay! No water damage! Nothin! Not even a scratch! It was like it was brand new!

So being the idiot that i was. I decided to fiddle around with it. Eventually figuring out it was a phone (I know i sound stupid but trust me it was REALLY HARD to tell under there. I mean it was like pitch black! Now that i think about it that was kinda strange too...) I decided to try and call some numbers. Just for shits and giggles.

So i started by calling my Mom. No answer. Just a silent hissing noise. Like static. But kinda unsettling So then i tried to call my boss. Kinda freak him out maybe. Again. Nothin. I was pretty convinced the phone was broke at that time. So i just continued doing my job. Not really minding it or thinkin about it. And thats when it happened

I saw a really strange looking guy swimming in the water close to me. At first he seemed like your normal. Everyday dude (Again. The darkness) I had assumed it was just another poor sap that got forced to clear the area out like me. So i started to swim up to him.

And i kid you Not! Thats the last thing i remember. I woke up later at my Girlfriends house. She said id lost the air in my tank. That i was lucky to be alive. When i asked her about the other guy in the lake. She said there was none. And said it was probably me hallucinating due to a lack of air

I believed her at that time sure. But that guy i saw. It somehow stuck to me. This was like 2 years ago. But it still haunts me.

Who was that guy? Where did he come from?

I may never know that. But it creeped me the hell out