I thought I was just guarding an empty building for one long, miserable night, but something inside it knew exactly how to make me feel like I was the one trapped.

I took the job thinking it would be like every other cold, thankless security shift I had done before—just me, a torch, and a dead supermarket waiting to be torn down. But the longer I stayed inside that place, the more it felt like the building was holding its breath around me, as if something unfinished had been left behind and was quietly waiting for me to notice.

What began as small, unsettling moments became something far more personal, chipping away at my nerves, my pride, and the lies I kept telling myself just to make it through the night.

This was not the kind of fear that comes at you all at once. It was slower than that. Colder. It got under my skin in a way I still cannot properly explain, turning ordinary things into something unbearable—an empty checkout lane, the sound of movement where no one should be, the feeling that I was not alone even when every part of me wanted to believe I was.

More than anything, it left me with a kind of sadness that was almost worse than the fear, because whatever was in that supermarket did not feel angry at first. It felt lost.

And somehow, before the night was over, I felt just as lost as it did.

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Welcome to Paranormal Whisper. This is The Abandoned Supermarket.

Everything you are about to read in this short story is in the words of the person who submitted it to me. The only changes I have made are to the names of individuals, buildings, and places, along with minor grammar and punctuation edits where needed. The storyteller wished to remain anonymous, and I will respect that.

I have also asked them to include their age at the time of the incident so that you, the reader, can better place yourself in their shoes and experience the events as they did. Any images included in this short-read story are for illustration purposes only. They are not the exact images depicted in the story and are not intended to be.

This story is set in the United Kingdom.

I will leave it there and let the story begin.