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Got locked in the back hallway of the Northgate Mall in Akron for 40 minutes
So last month I went to check out the old Northgate Mall in Akron before they tear it down, and I wandered down this back service hall behind where the Sears used to be. The door clicked shut behind me and the handle was totally stripped, just spun in my hand with no resistance at all. I tried my phone but there was zero signal back there, and I could hear the AC humming so I figured someone had to be around somewhere. I started banging on the wall with a loose piece of baseboard trim until a maintenance guy named Roger heard me from two halls over. Turns out that door had been broken since like 2019 and nobody ever put in a work order for it, he just laughed and said I was the third person this spring. Now I park near the loading docks and prop the door with an old paint can I found behind the food court. Has anyone else gotten stuck poking around these dead mall backrooms, and what do you keep on you to prop doors?
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