Where I work there are strange legends. I know some of these legends to be true. I would like to tell of two monsters that reside in the building I work in. An then I will tell of a monster I believe may exist where I work.

1. The vacuum: I use a certain machine to clean the carpet in my building. I think in an earlier life it would have been called a vacuum cleaner. This thing is so beat up and so mangled that no one is sure what it once was. All I can tell is that when activated and pushed, shoved, kicked, or otherwise forced across the floor it cleans up crumbs. This beast is so loud that I'm embarrassed to use it when people are around. Just yesterday I was pushing it around, and it was giving it's usual deranged war cry, someone walked into the room and I didn't even hear them. I turned around only to jump in startlement. This creature also gets very upset if i run it into a wall too hard. The other day I figured this out. I hit a wall dead on with it's front end and for the rest of the night it made a slightly higher pitched war cry than normal. All right, now that you know about that one, lets move onto the next...

2. The toilet: In the women's restroom on the end closest to the door there sits our next monster. I have to flush this thing every night after I've cleaned it. You may be laughing right now but I fear it. I actually made out my will the other day because I have this feeling it may actually claim my life one day. (Ok, no I didn't but...) When flushed it sucks the water down so violently that sometimes it actually shoots it out onto the floor. Once time it hit the stall wall three feet up! I'm dead serious. It's a bear! I get done scrubbing and the hit the flush handle and then jump away as quickly as possible. I just know it could take a full grown human down to it's watery depths. The sheer power this monster holds is unbelievable. I think the city would be glad to have it to bring along and flush branches by the side of the road. Believe me, it would take them. If it ever got ahold of my arm...I don't even want to think about it. Onto the next.

3. The Captive: Now this one as I said before has not been proven. I have never seen it and to my knowledge no one else has either. Out in the warehouse there is a tall ladder. This ladder is built right onto the wall. It cannot be moved. Way high up where it ends is a small platform not much larger than a small closet. On this platform there is a door. I do not know what is behind that door. One night when everyone had left for home (it must have been about 9:30 or so) and I was the only one in the building I climbed this ladder. Now me being a janitor and all I have the master key to the building. I can open any door I want. So after laboring for some time to get up this ladder I was finally standing on the ledge. Now the first thing I did was look down. I know they say not to, but everyone does it. Now I'm seriously high up. I didn't even realize how high it was until I was standing there looking down at the floor so far below. I almost climbed back down, but I had come so far on my quest. I slowly removed the keys from my pocket. I could almost sense a presence behind the door as I slowly lifted the master key into position. But to my great despair the key didn't fit! I was shocked because I had been told that this key would open any door in the building. I slowly climbed back down the ladder. (not because I was sad but because I was terrified of falling!) So I've come to the conclusion that they must keep something in there that they don't want anyone to see. The building that I clean has six laboratories in it and they do lots of work with different kinds of chemicals. Therefore it is very possible that someone may have inadvertently created some sort of monster. Or maybe it's a poor scientist who got chemicals spilled on him and they hid him away never to see the light again. Any of these theories is possible. I will keep you updated on the mystery of 'The Thing Behind The Door.'

My next update will contain some of the strange things that go on in this building at night. Things I simply can't explain. Until next time.