spies hide out in every corner

If, when I had started this job, Aaron (the editor at the time) had informed me that a few other people worked nights here as well, but that you didn't really see them that often, I would have believed him. As it happens, nobody else works here, but it seriously does sound like it sometimes. There is an appliance that regularly makes the exact same noise, which is what leads me to believe the noise is in fact mechanical and not human, but it still sounds exactly like someone dropping something then sighing as they bend over to pick it up. Perhaps not exactly that, but it sounds like a person made it, nonetheless, and I jump every time I hear it.

To be honest, if he'd told me that these people were all spies whose job it was to mark my every movement, I would have bought that as well. I guess I am pretty paranoid.