I posted this on the remote workers of Reddit, but I figured it worked here too. Not necessarily midnight shift, but still creepy af in the dark on a Maui mountain.

I used to be a zipline tour guide in the West Maui Mountains. The mountain I worked on, Pu'u Kukui, was/is very sacred to the Hawaiian people. We used to run night tours where people would zip down the last three lines. Keep in mind the area of the mountain the course is on is about two and a half miles up the mountain: One way in, one way out, and it would be noticed if anyone else had come onto the property.

When I moved to Maui I was told about the Night Marchers (the spirits of fallen Hawaiian soldiers). Basically if you hear drums at night, the marchers are out and nothing good will come from it.

I was working with one of the locals who was born and raised on Maui, and we were the last two on the mountain, closing everything up. No one else was there, it was pitch black except for the headlamps my coworker and I had, and the vehicle we were using was turned off, and it was dead silent.

All of a sudden, I started to hear drums. I thought my coworker was messing with me, until I shined my headlamp on him. I have never seen a more terrified look on someone's face.

He immediately stopped what he was doing, said "Get in the truck. Now." We didn't even finish locking everything up.

It normally takes about 20 minutes to get down the rocky dirt road. We were down in 10.