Maybe that’s why we don’t hear so much about haunted escalators but can recite stories of spooky or mysterious elevators. The door shuts, and who know where the hell they’ll open, if they will at all. There is that moment sometime in a person’s life when those gates close and you wonder what would happen if they don’t ever move again. We have all seen a movie where the broken elevator is opened and the hero gets out to climb to safety, but that is the extent of most people’s knowledge on how they work. What would you do if you were trapped? Can modern elevators drop all the way to the bottom and how far does that fall need to be to kill? And how modern is this machine I have just stepped into anyway? All these thoughts come rushing like the ground whenever we feel that unexpected, unnatural lurch as we ride.