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The original was posted on /r/paranormal by /u/Silent_Ad_758 on 2025-08-04 14:51:48+00:00.
I worked late Friday and it was about 1am when I decided to take an uber, coz subways are very weird at this hour, though it's NYC. The city was safer before Covid, but lately it's been filled with awful late night events as there is so much lawlessness in late night New York.
I'm on floor 51 and the elevator stops at 31 and noone enters and I am hitting close and then I hear footsteps and I wait with my hand on the elevator door to keep it open, thinking it might be building security looking to go down, and here comes a firefighter who is in full gear and is filled head to toe with ash like debris but I look at his feet and no debris is falling off him and there is no debris or dust on the floor considering how dusty he is and i look into his face, it's a white guy and he has blue eyes and I nod and he nods. I said Hi and he doesn't speak back. And we get to the ground floor and he walks in front of me and he exits the building. And I find it very odd and then I head out and wait for my uber.
Then I go back in and there are three security guys at the lobby and I ask them if there is any fire in the building and long story short, I tell them, listen there was this firefighter in gear and filled with dirt walking right in front of me and we both walked out together.
All three of them swear they saw nothing, they just saw me coming out of the elevator and head out. I haven't slept properly since Friday. I already spoke to my priest Sunday and he asked me to keep praying the rosary or have a prayer to archangel Michael handy.
I won't tell you which building coz I don't wanna give out my place of work - but it was one of the buildings which went down during 9/11
I changed the floor numbers to further obfuscate my place of work.
I have heard of others run into paranormal events at ground zero. I personally witnessed people in suits sitting by one of the pools circa 2016 and then they vanished, but this one was 1:1 and it's giving me nightmares.
Just throwing this out into the cyber ether. This message will self destruct in a few hours, I felt like I had to share, but might delete later.