In the first episode of Late Shift Stories, we clock in with a night security guard working an isolated levee patrol surrounded by farmland, trees, and darkness. With unreliable phone service and backup nearly an hour away, the shift is already lonely enough.

Then an alarm starts ringing.

When the guard investigates, they find a battery-powered alarm clock deliberately placed outside in the dark. Moments earlier, they see a figure duck behind the trees. By morning, bootprints near the scene seem to end beside one of the trunks.

Was it a prank? A trespasser? A distraction? Or something stranger?

This episode explores one of those late-night encounters where nothing jumps out, nobody explains themselves, and the silence afterward feels worse than the sound that started it all.

In this episode:

• A lonely overnight security patrol near orchards and levees
• A mysterious alarm clock ringing in the dark
• A shadowy figure moving between the trees
• Footprints that seem to stop near a tree
• The question every night-shift worker knows too well: “Am I really alone out here?”

Listen with the lights low.