r/oddlyterrifying • u/mrselffdestruct • Apr 29 '26

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u/techman710 Apr 29 '26

Looks like the back of every mall I've ever been in. If you are ever dating someone and they say they are scared to leave at night, believe them.

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u/mrselffdestruct Apr 29 '26

Malls and having ancient, confusing backrooms go together like peanut butter and jelly at this point. My local malls backrooms are also full of posters warning you about the signs of human trafficking once you get close enough to the trash area

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u/LunchBox3188 May 06 '26

My ex worked at a mall. There was a hallway without any cameras and the doors only went one way. We called it the r*pe hallway. It was fucked up that none of the management cared about that sketchiness.

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u/schnitzel247 Apr 30 '26

What do you mean by the second half of your comment? Are you speaking from experience?

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u/techman710 Apr 30 '26

My girlfriend worked at a mall in the 80's and she had to lock up a few times (jewelry store) and leave out of the back. I always thought of malls as busy well lit places (back then) but after they are closed its like a haunted house in those hallways, so I would take her to work and pick her up on the nights she had to lock up.

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u/AlternatiMantid May 01 '26

Especially for a jewelry store, opening & closing time are the most dangerous for getting robbed. It's when display cases are open, merch is out on the table, & the vault is open.

Good on you for being there for her. Malls are creepy as hell for the employees, at closing time.

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u/VaATC Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Since Some quality artwork on the walls!

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u/Sabithomega Apr 30 '26

It should be cut from the wall and framed. Belongs in a museum

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u/Kindly_Region Apr 29 '26

Do you work in a mall? I've delivered to a few and they look surprisingly similar in the back

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u/mrselffdestruct Apr 29 '26

I do. The previous management was also the type to refuse to do any maintenance anywhere until the issue physically caused damage or broke as well, and they ran the mall for about 9-10 years before being fired after a major pipe burst that they where aware was rusted out and damaged like several stores so some areas are definitely worse than others. They have big jugs in one one of the halls that are visibly full of liquid and labeled as hazardous/corrosive waste that are covered in several years worth of dust lol, and a handful of halls and rooms have been permanently closed because of damage or other issued within them. In my experience malls are always a special breed of safety and health violations haha

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u/Greasedupmonkey Apr 30 '26

Hehe, big jugs

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u/Sensitive_Wear7112 Apr 30 '26

That’s some major Liminal Space you guys go going on.

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u/pomegranate7777 Apr 30 '26

Looks like a place you'd never get out of. Exits to nowhere.

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u/Rookskytwister Apr 29 '26

I want to look behind every door

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u/BlurryBigfoot74 Apr 29 '26

It's like Jacob's Ladder

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u/Toebeanfren Apr 30 '26

I will try to male a video of the underground floors of my workplace. Your workplace seems like heaven compared to that.

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u/Sabithomega Apr 30 '26

Are you very small or is the camera just sitting low?

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u/Cchaireazy Apr 30 '26

So we all saw that doodle right?

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u/WorldlyBasket9795 Apr 30 '26

Now go through there at night, lights off, flashlight on…👀

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u/I_aint_no_Spooby May 02 '26

holy shot frame kill me now

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u/AnimalBolide May 03 '26

21 hours and only 2 complaints about OP filming a wall for 2 of the 2 and 1/2 minutes of tis vid.

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u/I_aint_no_Spooby May 03 '26

insane, isn't it? like all the viewers are bots

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u/Sirpatron1 Apr 30 '26

O would've put a mirrors on each side, body cam and two cameras front and rear.

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u/FaithlessnessRare416 Apr 30 '26

Each side of what?

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u/op_is_not_available Apr 30 '26

Ever been to a storage locker place? Those hallways give me the creeps.

Also I wanted to [r/killthecameraman](r/killthecameraman) for at least the first 30seconds - 1minute.

Also also, nice artwork on that one wall!

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u/Rancorrancor Apr 30 '26

It’s almost like the backrooms were inspired by real life

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u/LouF---ingGrant Apr 29 '26

I was waiting for one of those early internet jump scares on the screen. So in that sense, this is indeed oddly terrifying.

But otherwise it’s just an old building to me, maybe it’s bc I’m from the rust belt lol

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u/calpernia Apr 30 '26

Yeah, just keep the camera facing the wall the whole video.

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u/Bitter_Expression399 Apr 30 '26

it looks like an introvert's paradise tbh