The Third Floor Doesn't Exist

Meghna had just landed her first job as a security guard at the Timeson hotel—government facility that housed old documents, microfilm, and records dating back centuries. The place felt more like a mausoleum than a workplace. Rows of locked filing cabinets, dark hallways, and a silence that felt… loaded.


During orientation, her supervisor, Mr. Robin gave her one simple rule:


“Do not go to the third floor.”


Meghna blinked. “But there’s no third floor on the blueprints.”


“Exactly,” Robin said. “And if you see a door marked 3, you walk the other way. You didn’t see it. You don’t talk about it.”


She laughed, thinking it was a hazing ritual.


The first week passed without incident—just long hours, cold coffee, and the hum of fluorescent lights. But on Friday night, while doing her rounds, she noticed something odd in Stairwell B. Above the second-floor landing, there was a rusty metal door she swore wasn’t there before. Faded numbers were etched into the surface:


3


Her radio crackled. Then silence.


She reached for the knob.


The door creaked open into a hallway bathed in flickering yellow light. Everything smelled of mildew and iron. The air was thicker, heavier—like it had been sitting still for decades.


The hallway was lined with doors. Each had a nameplate and a date.


Meghna opened one.


Inside was a small room with a desk. On the desk: a recording device and a sheet of paper with a name—Meghna—and the current date.


Her hand trembled as she hit play.


Her own voice came through the speaker.


“If you’re hearing this… you made the same mistake. You went to the third floor. Don’t stay long. Don’t answer if something knocks. And whatever you do—”


A loud bang echoed behind her.


She spun around.


At the end of the hallway, one of the doors was open. Something moved in the dark.


She ran.


Burst back through the stairwell.


The door slammed behind her.


Gone.


No “3.” Just concrete and silence.


When she reported it,Robin didn’t look surprised. He just handed her a folder. Inside were dozens of incident reports. All the same.


All from guards who “disappeared.”


He looked her dead in the eye. “You came back. That’s rare. Most don’t.”


Meghna quit that night.


But sometimes, late at night, she still hears the knock… on a door that shouldn’t exist.


Did she really come back? The remain part will be a suspected till now,that Meghna really to comeback to that way, story will never be end next will perhaps any one more........


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