Woman 'traumatised' as she yelled for help and nobody came

A woman was traumatised after being trapped in a lift in her office building. Char, who posts on TikTok as @charobcharob, was in her work building's office lift when it stopped on the floor before she was due to get off.

Char started to panic when the doors did not open and the lift stopped moving completely. Due to having no signal on her iPhone, she decided to share her experience, which she described as traumatic, with her followers. "What is happening? I'm in the lift at work, and it's stopped at floor 10. I need to go to floor 11. I think I'm stuck in the lift, oh f***, she said.

Char then briefly presses the lift's alarm button, which is described as being 'demonic' according to concerned commenters. She continued: "I don't know if you can hear that, there was like an alarm noise... nothing is happening.

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"S***, s***, s*** I'm getting hot, I'm actually quite claustrophobic. What do I do, no one is coming? No one has said anything.

"I feel like I'm not being very dramatic now, but I feel like I'm internally panicking. I'm getting really sweaty. I'm getting really hot, I think I need to take my coat off."

It became clear that Char was starting to panic as she clicked the alarm button a number of times. After holding the button for what she described as, 'ages', the digital screen that was once showing the floor the lift was on, turned off.

"I think I might be stuck in here forever." After 13 minutes stuck in the lift, Char debated on calling the police as she had no phone signal.

She said: "I know that's really stupid, but what am I supposed to do? No one is coming, I've been in here for 13 minutes. I don't know what to do. I'm running our of air, get me out of here."

Not knowing what else to do, Char took her headphones off and sat on the floor to think of what to do next. She then started knocking on the lift doors and shouting for help, but nobody came.

After shouting and knocking for long enough, another person in the office building heard her commotion and came to see what is wrong. Char said: "Hi I'm stuck, I've been ringing the bell for like half an hour."

The man on the other side of the lift doors then goes to get help. Once help arrives Char starts crying with relief, and after 42 minutes inside the lift the doors finally open.

"I made it, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god." Char shared the experience on TikTok, with dozens of people taking the comments to say how calm she was.

One user said: "You are ridiculously calm, I would be a goner." Another said: "I would have called 999 and never taken my finger off that alarm."

A third said: "If you don't have a signal you should still be able to call emergency services. You were very calm, really well done!" A fourth penned: "This is literally my worst nightmare."

Another TikTok user said "Can't breathe watching this." A sixth person said "That alarm sound is demonic. It would make me more scared."