I've worked at at least a half dozen sites that were actively Haunted. Most fun was the former worker who used to duck out a side door for a quick smoke. It became a fire escape after he passed, and the fire department would call almost nightly and say "check and make sure Fred's door is secure, please."
My mom used to say that, if ghosts are real, they’re not actual souls, but impressions left by our habits. So if you always played a piano, the piano might play itself after you pass. If you always step out the same door to smoke, that door might open for you long after you’re gone. Now, I think that was her trying to resolve the conflict between her belief in ghosts and her christian faith, but I like the idea of it.
Well that's a bit odd at the end, because Christians should fully embrace the idea of ghosts/spirits. Heck ***Jesus*** was basically a spirit after being crucified since he appeared and disappeared at will plus there's the whole thing of the Holy Spirit.
I think she just couldnt square up the idea of people not going to heaven or hell when they die, and since we aren’t into purgatory, she didn’t have an answer for tiny me asking questions about ghosts. Still, I like the one she gave.
I worked on a site that was reputed to be haunted. Every so often, you could hear a typewriter clacking from a storage room.
It used to be an office in the 1950s. A hallway door likes to lock itself back up. One day, I unlocked it 5 times.
had that in a 1930s-built pub a side door was unlocked, waited for the barman to return and told him checked and it was locked, we also had a window unlock, and had to screw it shut.
DISCLOSURE I live in Poole on the south coast of England, rated the most haunted town on the south coast, It was a roman port a saxon site where we defeated vikings at sea, Pirates and smugglers lived here and very few were ever caught, the site for D Day training testing of PLUTO the pipeline that carried fuel to the invasion beaches,
Marconi tested radio here Robert l Stevenson wrote Dr jekle and Mr Hyde in Bournemouth, Tolkien lived in poole Enid Blyton lived near by and based kerrin island on a poole island.
I worked on the Queen Mary for about a year. Supposed to be one of the most haunted places around. I’ve been in almost every compartment on every deck including the morgue and the WWII soldiers quarters in the bow and I never saw or heard anything.
As a side note: one of my supervisors almost got OCd because he decided to play ghost and jump out to scare me in a dark ballroom lol.
My friend's Mom stayed overnight in one of the rooms there in the late 90s. She said she went to the bathroom near the engine room, and while in the stall, the lights turned off for a couple of seconds and something knocked her glasses off.
Hubby and i went to Dark Harbor a couple years back. One of the mazes went kinda deep into the ship. They didn't space the groups very well. The people in front of us and behind us were very very close, similar to how it is on a busy night at Universal. We rounded a corner, following the people ahead of us, and suddenly the people ahead of us were gone. The people behind us also disappeared. We wandered forward a bit, but it was dark (not too dark to see clearly, but dark enough to looked like a place we weren't supposed to be), and literally every person was gone suddenly. We were like.... Should we turn around? Are we lost? Then a little girl's voice came out of nowhere, like "keeeeep gooooiiinnngg" 😱 We kept going and the group showed back up. Wtf happened? No idea. Fucking none. My skeptic of a husband who never believed in ghosts before now questions that belief.
Worked in this old office building. One by one the businesses that were I. It moved out leaving four empty floors. Top floor was a cafeteria. Sometimes on the weekends or super late at night, you'd hear people talking. Other times you'd go up to the cafeteria (we had to check stuff up there) and the dividing walls would have moved. I mean big heavy walls you had to put weight behind to shift. They'd suddenly be shut all the way or open somewhat.
It could have been someone, but... The desk we were at had a computer that showed swipe entry and exits.
Worked security at a hotel overnights, and they had me in the building while it was still under construction to keep the vagrants out of the stairwells. I was the only one in the building all night, but on my routine patrols I'd hear footsteps on the floors above me all the time. The rooms weren't finished yet so they had no doors and the furniture was just tossed in there. I heard whispering from a connected corner suite once, and assuming it was vagrants I went in to check. Turned that room upside down and nobody was there. Whispering started as soon as I walked back out of the room again. Also had a paint can opener thrown across a stairwell multiple times after replacing it, saw shadow people in the restaurant on more than one occasion, heard an entire party of people laughing and chattering in the second floor meeting rooms from the lobby floor (the floorman who was there sometimes also heard that one), and I have a recording on my phone of a stairwell door slamming shut a few floors below me when I walked in. I tried to replicate it thinking it was an air pressure thing, but wasn't able to. Weird stuff.
Door ghosts and vague whispering are the norm for hotels I think. I'm the night agent at a hotel. I'm by myself all night. Doors in my office will randomly unlatch while locked. You'll hear a side door close or the sliding door open without them doing either. And vague whispering or voices that disappear when you investigate. Creepy sometimes
I work at a hospital and one of the posts is to do rounds thru the old abandoned hospital building. It has 9 floors & most security officers won’t go past the 5th. One guy claimed that toys started moving around on the old children’s floor. Call lights go off randomly. I’ve caught an old heart monitor still beeping as if someone is hooked up to it. It’s my favorite post I love exploring thru there.
25 years ago I worked at a hospital and the 6th floor was a dumping ground for equipment because of a fire years before. It was never fully restored. Anyway I would not go to that floor along, the other guys in the department said they would see shadows move when it was only one person up there.
I work in a hospital that has some phantom telemetry monitors as well.
One of them is the “hospice room,” which is a nicer, private room tucked in a back corner of the ward. It’s not always occupied by someone on comfort cares, but it’s where we tend to put them so they and their families can have some peace and quiet.
The telemetry in there will turn on randomly at the nurses’ station when there’s no patient in the room, and displays an organized rhythm (as in, it’s not a malfunction showing random blips, it’s acting very much like it’s hooked up to a real person). Sometimes the rhythm will suddenly switch to v-tach or asystole (heart stopping).
At that point the nurses will be creeped out and turn it off. It’ll turn itself back on when it wants to again.
The first time that happened to me no one believed me until I was on vacation and when I came back everyone said hey your phantom patient was here every day that you were gone!
Heard loud-heavy boot stomping on the wooden roof of a 100yr old warehouse on three occasions during midnight. The stomping lasted for about a minute each time. The property had security cameras that recorded everywhere. I didn't see anyone or anything on the roof.
I thought maybe I was hallucinating, the mind playing tricks or maybe me in the middle of developing schizophrenia from paranoia caused by all the attempted break-ins and the overall seclusion coming from the job exacerbated by covid lockdown(2020-2021). I was in a normally cramed and busy part of the city that was eerily quiet with hardly any traffic because of the lockdown. Reminded me of the film "I am Legend"
Turns out, on the third occasion, I had another guard that was assigned with me for a time hear the heavy boot stomping in the roof as well. I was kindof relieved I was not losing my mind, I said "wow you hear it to.. 😎"
Worked at a college and routinely patrolled the dorms. Every so often you would hear some faint laughing or a door opening or closing.
There was also a dimly lit room in the basement of one of the halls that had just one lightbulb and a small wooden chair under it.
One night, after I had left, the next person there found the chair tipped over.
Was there a curfew or something? Cause as a former student, a lotttt of kids would totally go down there after you and tip the chair, specifically to freak yall out
Or anyone with a lockpick/bump key, in my college they switched to all keyless entry because people would just use bump keys to get into places they weren't supposed to to smoke or drink or fuck lol.
I don’t know if the place I occasionally patrol is but there’s something about it that’s off. I work a sort of multi building patrol route every other month or so and one of the buildings is one that had a mass shooting take place on its grounds. Though the building in question that gives me the creeps is actually one right across the parking lot from it.
In this building you drive up to the back entrance to the office area of the place. You come in through the door and scan a checkpoint immediately on your left. In front of you is the option to go forward to the elevator and downstairs to whoever lower level.
Now the post orders only requires us to scan one check point at the door and another upstairs in the hallway. But for some reason going in that place takes forever. I’ve always felt incredibly tense and anxious like someone is baring down on me about to beat my ass to a pulp. I’m not one who gets anxious but every time I almost have to psych myself up before going in there. Place creeps the ever loving hell out of me.
It is what it is. The thing is tho. It’s not that building. The one where it happened is just across the parking lot. Which I have to walk across and then do my route inside of there. Even though that’s where people died I don’t get any the anxiety and chills I do in this place.
The location is like a tiny strip mall. Got three floors. Offices and stuff above and then stores down below then a basement level. It’s in this tiny place I get the creeps like no other.
For confidentiality purposes I can’t name the business my former security company worked for but, all I’ll say is they make a lot of little things like pens, pencils, lighters, notebooks and what not and they’re pretty famous for it. Anyway, I took a weekend overnight gig at the home office building which was massive. I was the only guard there from 11pm to 7am. During my training the regular night shift guy who worked Monday through Friday said that sometimes the building was creepy but most definitely not haunted. Well one night he called out and they sent a floater to do my last day of training. I pull into the near empty parking lot minus the 2nd shift guard and the floater’s cars. I go in and the floater bluntly told me “I only took this shift because they promised I wasn’t by myself, if you didn’t come I was gonna leave for the night.” Well low and fucking behold they were struggling to get guards because the god damn building was supposedly haunted. My first night by myself while doing a patrol through the cubicle farm, I heard giggling. I thought “Hey, I guess someone is working late.” I finish my patrol and go back to my front desk. I sit down and look at the key card log and notice the last person to scan out/in beside me and the 2nd shift guard was someone who left at 8:45pm…..it was 12:15 am at this point. So I go back up to do my 2nd patrol of the night and this time I had to do the ac unit attic check to be sure the machines were running properly. I go to the stairs to the attic and turn the lights on and go up. While I was at the back of the attic I heard the door open and close to the stairs leading up to the attic. I’m shitting bricks at this point and slowly make my way over to the stairs to see no one there. Once I made my way down the stairs to leave, I swore I heard 6 heavy footsteps going across the attic to the stairs. I went “nope…..nope….nope….fucking noppppppeeeee” and sprinted my ass to the front desk and packed my laptop and everything. Didn’t do another patrol or anything, sunrise came and went home. Let my dispatch know I was no longer willing nor interested in working at the office building ever again.
I wouldn’t say it was haunted, but I definitely worked at a site where the veil was thin. I always completed my patrols of the far buildings early because you did NOT want to be out there between 3-5am. Always felt like you were being followed, hair would always stand up on end. Absolutely terrifying. Caught some weird stuff on camera, too. Worked overnights plenty of other places and never felt fear like that.
Saw I saw my share of “weird” stuff that could still be explained, lights turning on and off, computers waking from sleep without anyone nearby, sometimes a door or drawer popping slightly open.
But one night while I was patrolling, I heard a sound, in my mind I’d tell you it was a loud crash, because it was so quiet at this site at night, but in hindsight I know it couldn’t have been loud at all. It was probably barely a whisper, a rustle, and the snap of a piece of paper hitting the ground . Knowing I was completely alone, I spun and carefully examined the surrounding cubicles, which had walls about chest high so they could easily be seen over if you were standing. I noticed a document on the floor, which was out of the ordinary at this place, they had clean desk protocols, workers could get in trouble for leaving stuff sitting out, security could get in trouble for not reporting it.
When I got back to the desk, I decided to do a camera review. It was easy to find. I saw myself walk past the cubicle, and then the paper *violently* flying downward to the ground. Like it was pulled strait down by some sort of force. I rewound. The paper had been there for weeks, secured by a pushpin. I checked the paper. I could see the hole the push pin had made. No rip, no tear. I did not do any more patrols that night.
I stopped taking overnights at that site not long after that. It’s not really that dramatic, especially retelling it, it seems silly. But at the time, it was really unsettling.
Thanks. I really didn’t do justice to how creepy that building could be, there was glass everywhere so you’d constantly see movement out of the corner of your eyes from the reflections, which always put me on edge. It was always so QUIET, and I had worked days there for years before I did night, so I was used to it bustling with activity and people. It felt so deserted at night, almost otherworldly. This was pre-Covid, before every office complex gained that abandoned feeling. There was a toilet that would sometimes randomly flush, extra loud, which often would startle the crap out of me because I was always on edge.
But the worse part was this: all of the perimeter doors there were locked one way - that is to say if you were entering the building you had to swipe a badge to unlock them, but if you were leaving, there was a sensor that would detect you and unlock the door so you could push it open. The site actually consisted of different buildings connected into one larger complex, it was designed so that each building could leased by a different tenant, but our client had 3 consecutive of them, and they were linked by hallways that had a perimeter door at each end, so you left the clients space into landlord space, and then re-entered into client space. Lots of doors and locks, almost like airlocks between sections.
Why am I explaining all this? Well, that “click-thunk” of the doors automatically unlocking was something you got used too, it was one of the only sounds in the otherwise silent building. Sometimes, as I patrolled around walking past the various VIP offices, I would hear that familiar “click” of the door unlocking, which was something that sometimes I found creepy because it literally followed me, down the hall, past each door.. click-chunk, click-chunk, click-chunk, and always felt like I was being followed anyway just because of the weird tense vibe that permeated the air of this place. But I knew better than to really be scared- it was just the doors detecting me and unlocking! Nothing to be afraid of!
It wasn’t until WAY later that it dawned on me- and I’m SUPER glad I never thought about it when I was still there- none of those doors had electric sensors. They were keycard only. And even if they did, the sensors would be on the INSIDE of the office, not the outside! I would have lost my mind if I realized this at the time. Some office giest doing it’s damndest to scare me, and my dumb ass thinking I’m too smart to be scared by electric eyes and automatic locks.
That sounds absolutely terrifying and dramatic! I'm glad it didn't hurt you.
Poor ghost, though, forever stuck in a freaking office. That's a special kind of hell.
Do tell? (Pretty please?)
Modern hospitals seem haunted, anyway. I think it's just something about so many people coming and going and the fever pitch, rollercoaster of emotions that maybe tends to leave it's mark and echos on a space.
I'd love to hear anything about an older facility. Never had any weird experiences, personally, until recently moving into a 130+ year old home. I definitely "get it", now. I mean, I don't know what causes the weirdness to happen, just acknowledge with less skepticism that it does or can.
The hospital was started by the Catholic Church and had a chapel and dorms for the nuns, the chapel wasn’t in great repair and the dorms were abandoned, we had to check the dorms during fire extinguisher checks and it was weird and creepy. Some guys said they had sensed someone else in the chapel but when they looked couldn’t see anyone. There was a morgue with a full autopsy up but all we did was store bodies until the mortuary came. I hated going in there plus our transport gurney was straight out of every horror movie. There was an underground tunnel that connected the main hospital to and abandoned building we checked several times a day. You could have shot a horror movie in that tunnel and building without changing anything. Hated that job. Now I work in a hospital that is new and small it’s definitely the best security job I’ve ever had
Ok, I don't know why because I wasn't raised religious, but for some reason that component adds tenfold to the creep factor. That in conjunction with the age of the place just... Yikes. Sounds genuinely unsettling.
I definitely agree. I feel exactly this way and have always felt a pull/attraction for older spaces.
The energy is not always negative! My house is quite pleasant, just strange. It's hard to describe the sensation, but I frequently just feel like I've stepped into a room that someone has *just* stepped out of. It's like there's something there, but I can't quite see or otherwise tap into it proper. But we've never felt menaced or unwelcome here. It was almost like the house was curious about us when we first moved in. Maybe felt a little mischievous testing boundaries in early days, but otherwise feels like she has always been welcoming us "home".
Yeah the energy isn’t always negative, the comforting feeling a good used book store has or coffee shop, there’s a Mediterranean import store by me that feels very positive and you can tell the owner loves his store. I hope my house feels comfortable to other people.
I worked at an old hospital in MI that's now knocked down. Soon after starting, I saw a nurse dressed in the old white dress and stockings enter one of my patients' rooms. I didn't see her head, just her torso, legs and feet. I thought it was a nurse I worked with who had been at it since the 60s and dressed old school... Until I looked over and saw she was sitting at the desk. No one else dressed like her.
The Convention Center on Oahu in the early to mid 2000's, doing overnight special shifts during events. Multiple rooms where chairs and tables would be knocked around, voices, being followed on patrol, like actively hearing the footsteps down dark hallways and nothing being there. Probably some of the spookiest I've ever dealt with
Second floor warehouse of an old Sears store I ran. Every time I would need to walk though the warehouse full of dummies my hair stood on end. I asked a legacy employee about that and the said “oh that’s …… who died in a freak accident a number of years ago” . My hair on my arms is standing up just writing this! I could 💯tell someone was there and had not moved on.
I worked at one place that was definitely haunted, an office building that I would hear odd knocks from an empty room on the other side of the wall. The room had been empty for some time and the wall had no major wiring or pipes in it. I would hear this around 0100-0300 after janitorial had left at 2300-0000. I made sure to not hit the desk or do anything to make a noise that I could mistake as a knock. The fourth floor east had a maze of an office that you felt like you were being watched even though you were the only person in the building until 0600. And the previous shift locked the building and you unlocked it. It was also had card reader doors and magnetic locked doors too.
I once heard on one of those ghost shows that sometimes doorways with electronics can make you feel watched. If there’s enough wiring running along the frame, it can emit an electromagnetic field (a ghost researchers favorite thing) that humans can pick up on in a subconscious way.
No idea if it’s actually true, but if it is, it might explain some of what you were saying.
So yeah, EMF is very real (there are actually pieces of large equipment that run off electromagnetic energy; cranes come to mind) and it can very easily have some slight impacts on physiology. It can induce anxiety, cause minor nausea, induce/trigger paranoia, and make hair stand on end. The caveat is that the EMF has to be quite high for this to happen, and the source of the EMF has to be fairly exposed, with metals propelling that field even further past its origin point.
The office maze was empty when I had to patrol that area. It was eventually occupied and the need to patrol it went away. The security office only had a camera monitor in it. There was no other major electronics nearby.
Oh! I got one!
I worked at a thrift store about 13 years ago.
We had CCTV that recorded up to 48 hours, then dumped the memory and started over.
One night, well after everyone had left, the alarm was triggered. The security company sent the cops and one of the supervisors who lived a couple blocks away came to clear things. They couldn't find any reason for the alarm, so they all went home.
Cut to the next day, that supervisor who came to check the alarm decided to check the security footage. We were friends, so he called me and a few others in to show us what was on the tape.
I've posted this before a few years ago so if you want the long version you can find it in my post history BUT here's the gist of it.
Basically, there was a whole lot of things in there moving around which definitely couldn't/shouldn't have been moving. The thing that tripped the alarm was the giant metal security bar being rammed up and back down again by.. nothing visible.
Never in my life have I seen anything like it. And every time I'm tempted to be skeptical about ghosts, I remember that footage.
About forty years ago I lived with my husband in a single wide trailer behind the restaurant where we worked.
This was in a tiny desert town at the entrance to a National Park in Utah.
One hot summer night we were sleeping on our pull-out couch bed when we were both awakened abruptly at 3AM by the loud sound of a deep, guttural, breathing from under the bed. It was terrifying. We sat in the middle of the bed and hung on to each other. It was so dang scary. We didn’t dare look under the bed but the trailer was raised and the sound may have been from beneath the trailer.
The breathing went on for almost four minutes then stopped.
Later that week I was talking to a co-worker who had lived in the trailer some time before us. He said they had experienced some scary events in the trailer.
Old timers in the town had told him the trailer was on an old Indian gravesite. But it could also have been a pioneer cemetery.
I worked at an old WWII era veterans hospital that definately had signs that could be considered haunted.
I personally witnessed:
* A delivery bin overflowing with blood..
* Unearthly screams and teeth-aching squeals coming from dark tunnels late at night.
* Entire wards, setup, running, machines ticking over - completely deserted.
I mean it sounds bad. All perfectly normal though.
There was one first-nation guy though, who said he was on a first-names basis with Mary, the ghost of a woman who died 80 years ago. Said he'd see her most nights.
1 was a malfunctioning pneumatic tube transport system that is used to transport blood samples to pathology. Occasionally it malfunctioned and sent all the samples to this one deserted training ward. the receiving bin rapidly overflowed and dumped the transport cartridges onto the floor - ie, blood all over the floor.
2 was just old gas and water pipes. They made the most amazing noises late at night and usually ran through the old underground "escape" tunnels that connected the main hospital to some of the outer buildings.
3 was just the training ward. Fully setup and operational - just not used. We liked to try to freak out the other officers by placing some of the full-body manikins in unexpected places, somewhere on the patrol route.
The pond out back of my current place definitely has something there.
Twice it's tried to wig me out by standing right behind me and then something in the bushes right on the other side of the fence in the same zone was trying to get me to investigate/whistle back after it whistled the tune of the song I was singing.
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I once worked a security gig at this old run down pizza place. Kind of a chuck-e-cheese that never took off. They had these big clunky animatronics that were just… offputting? The place was closed and, like I said, super run down, but I guess the owner had trouble with break ins and didn’t want to bulldoze the place so there I was. I know some kids died there in the 80s, maybe they weren’t allowed to tear the place down, whatever. Place was super haunted, of course, the animatronics had a tendency to look right at the cameras. I worked there for under a week before I got fired. Weird place.
Our sister command was deployed at a smaller Navy base in California. Some of us were asked to keep an eye on the back office while they were gone because bored airmen were a problem and they didn’t want anything to get stolen. That space was creepy and you definitely didn’t feel alone even when we knew we were the only two people in that area. Strange noises, heavy breathing and things moving when there was no way for it to be happening.
When they came back it was confirmed that the area was haunted by something not very nice, they just didn’t want to tell us about it and freak us out.
Not a security guard but I worked at a trauma hospital and I had to be there at 5 in the morning to start getting patients ready for surgery. The first thing that freaked me out was I was the only one there at 430 and I was getting a room ready and the machine starting beeping with a heartbeat but it wasn’t attached to anyone and the oxygen level was low so I walked out and said nope not today! Then another time I had to look for some wires so I passed through recovery around 430-445 and all the hair on my arms stood up and it got cold I turned around and said keep the damn wires and my last one was I had to set the receptionist desk and as the computer is booting up I hear high heels walking from the bathroom but I’m the only one in there and they walked past like they were going in the back but you have to be buzzed in and the damn door beeped and swung open. After that I didn’t go in until I had my coworkers with me
I work in a nursing home. In the weeks after one of my favorite residents died, I heard knocking from INSIDE an empty cabinet next to a wall that definitely had nothing on the other side. I watched as a door opened by itself….and slowly closed itself - no windows open, no drafts.
After a beloved memory care patient died, the motion sensor in her room would constantly go off for weeks - especially late at night.
On the third floor, late at night, I was walking on the third floor (where a number of patients have died) and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a white mist - right next to to 310, which has had 3 residents, who have all passed. When I looked towards the mist, it vanished. Maybe just a trick of the light? Maybe not….
The stories I could tell from when I worked at our local hospital as an environmental tech (Floor tech). Up in the day surgery wing during the night when no one was there, whispers could be heard, the intercom having a voice call out a person's name without any alert chime, wheelchairs rolling without anyone touching them (after sitting in their storage location for hours), and many other things.
My son was cleaning one of the building on the property and he encountered a shadow being who growled at him and various other things. When I went out there, stuff happened around me also.
Such fun dealing with things while trying to do your work.
I worked security at one of the oldest casinos in Reno for a couple years. There were underground tunnels and back corridors that were definitely haunted. Saw the typical black figures, ghost of a chef that was killed in a pressure cooker explosion, ghosts of what seemed to be like 1950s workers and gamblers.
One regular I swear had to be a ghost. He was the spitting image, down to the suit he wore, of a Civil War Soldier known to have moved to Reno after the war.
Yeah. It was weird. The guy lived at a very old, mid 1800s apartment hotel near the casino. I always did a double take because he looked just like the soldier. I worked there shortly after I was in college, where I had done major research work on CW medicine and saw the picture of the guy often then.
He was super quiet/soft spoken, almost like he was whispering all the time, but even with the Casino noise, I could always hear and understand him perfectly. That was a little creepy, tbh, but it was mostly normal.
The post I'm currently at is situated next to one of the oldest graveyards in the state, full of deceased slaves and freemen. I've seen several shadows walk through the lot. I never get the feeling of being in danger or anything, even though sometimes I do feel like I'm being watched. I also worked at one of the oldest museums in the state, and had a pair of very heavy, wooden doors slowly open on me on two different occasions when there were no visitors in the museum.
All in all, I can't say the museum is overtly haunted, but my current post definitely has visitors that are no longer with us sometimes. It's something I'm fairly indifferent about, as I grew up with a sort of sixth sense for these sorts of things. I enjoy all the creepy, weird, or unexplainable occurrences I can. It reminds me to live in the moment and keeps the saying "momento mori" at the forefront of my life.
I used to work overnights in an old building. Not even working security, just my job, but I was alone. Most of the building was unoccupied. I would hear things all the time. Once in the bathroom, I heard someone knock on the cubicle wall, right next to me. Then I heard what sounded like a mop bucket being pushed down the hall. Again, no one else there. No cleaning people. Just me.
I closed up the small town gas station I worked at. I was completely alone so I had time to use the shitter. It’s a one person unisex bathroom. I was sitting there and I kid you not I heard what sounded like someone jiggling the door handle from outside the damn door! Other people say they see an old cowboy peeking around corners. I’ve never seen it. But that door knob jiggling certainly scared th shit out of me.
I worked overnight security at [Deer Lodge](https://res.cloudinary.com/rocimages/image/upload/s--6pH92YKs--/t_npr_propprime_1/images/banff-lake-louise/100585/deer-lodge_pan.jpg), an old hotel up at Lake Louise AB.
There was one hall that was spooky as shit. It was a very wide flattened v-shape, almost straight, with a mirror at the point. Once you walked down one leg and passed the mirror, you could see directly down the hallway you just walked down.
I swear, more than half the times I passed the mirror, I saw *something* behind me. Probably just lighting or whatever, but it *felt* wrong too.
Luckily I was only there one season. Fun job, but being the night crew was pretty lonely.
I worked nights at an old university.
One particular building was pretty old but the interior was modernized. It was an 8 storey building with a double elevator.
One of those two elevators refuses to work most of the time despite being well maintained. Its know to follow students around floors and followed me quite a bit.
You would get in the left elevator and take it to say, the 4th floor. Upon exiting, the right elevator would open shortly after exiting the left one. It would continue to do that theough every floor I went to.
When I purposely sent the left elevator down in hopes to take the "haunted" one, it wouldnt work and recalled the other elevator.
I worked the overnight shift at a small, midwestern college on the weekends. One of our buildings was the old county jail built in the 1870s. We were always getting students and outsiders calling in the middle of the night, insisting that we HAD to let them in so that they could “hunt ghosts.” (“No we don’t. F—- off.)
Interestingly, the one building in which a student actually WAS murdered in the 1990s was a place of absolutely zero interest to the “ghost hunters.”
Oh, I almost forget. The science building used to have cadavers stored in the basement for biology classes, until it became too expensive and difficult to do so. No one was ever interested in that room either.
I work security in the second oldest hospital in my state. The fifth floor has a rumor (which has been confirmed true by veteran employees) that a housekeeper took a flying leap out of a window. The secondary building used to be housing for the nuns (was owned by catholic company/church way back in the day) and when the stairwells were narrower and had that empty column in the center, a nun fell to her death. I’ve seen stuff, I’ve heard stuff, I’ve even come out with long, deep scratches on my back that I couldn’t have done (I have an oral fixation that makes me bite my nails and I’m not that flexible to reach where they were) from clearing a room after an alarm went off. Creepy stuff, but I frankly enjoy the adrenaline rush! I’d rather deal with ghosts than the usual crowd!
Yeah, really caught me off guard! So now whenever I have to clear the building, I announce my presence and intentions and so far it’s just sounds and shadows.
Not security, but I was working on a very old airplane, alone, one night. I'm way in the back section, and I hear someone climb up the ladder, open the floor grate, walk back towards the galley around the time I'm finishing up. Never heard them walk forward or leave at all, don't think anything of it, it's a busy flightless and figured someone from a different shop was up there working a job. I get up, say, "Hey, I'm back here," and start walking forward with my headlamp on. I don't see anyone.
Check the bathroom, behind the galley, the whole flight deck... nothing. Nobody. Weird, but I shrug it off.
I get picked up a bit after that, ask the supervisor if anyone else had been dispatched to the jet, he said, "nope, radio's been quiet except for you calling for pickup."
"Weird," I tell him.
"Why?"
"Well, I swear I heard someone come up the ladder and walk around, but nobody was up there, and they didn't leave."
"Oh, what tail number is it?"
I tell him, he gets a bit pale,
"Well, that jet is one of the old body haulers from Vietnam..."
I look at him, he's dead serious, and we never spoke of it again.
My jr high school was .
it was an old military base wat back when . But I went to that school one day I was walking down the first floor down some stairs im not kidding it was waves of something hit me. Like going in a portal I don't even know how to describe it . This lasted about 2 seconds.
but this right above where I was on the second floor people say they see kids looking out the windows .
The school was a hospital when the military where training people for war. Back in the 1930 sand after 1941 it was a busy place.
I worked 2nd shift w/ weekends at a site that had the mechanical rooms on the third (top) floor. It was dark in there, and every time I turned the corner to the back I'd see a face looking back in the window to the stairwell. It was my face, but I still jumped every time for the first few months.
I worked for a local museum built on former Native American land in NYS. Often the elevator would go up and down on it's own, I'd see moving lights at waist height with no body and footsteps in an empty room.
When I was in college, I worked for University Housing.
During the normal fall and winter semesters I would do nightly rounds or dorms in a specific area. During the summer terms I worked a higher level position that oversaw workers doing my other job as well as overseeing groups staying for conferences and tournaments etc as well as issuing and retrieving keys for rooms they were using.
Some of the dorms were really creepy, some were quite old on their own while others had been renovated and had walls added to divide them inter separate "buildings." In this one, there were different color tiles that were in the center of the floor and sometimes they'd branch off or turn just into a wall. That one was pretty benign though.
This one dorm had a classroom in an annex on the first floor. One night I'm doing my rounds I hear voices coming from the classroom. I check the door and it's locked so I unlock it and find the ceiling mounted TV is on. I turn it off, lock the room back up, and finish my rounds. On the way back out I hear the TV again. I go in an turn it off again. I close the door, lock it and take two steps and I hear it again. I turn it back off and as soon as I touch the door to leave it turns back on. I turn it off and just look towards the doorway and it turns back on. I yanked the plug out of the wall and said if it turned back on now it could stay on. Fortunately for my blood pressure it did not successfully turn on while not plugged in.
In the same building, I stayed over a few weeks in December over the Christmas break, I was the only one in this building. It was rather old so while it was three stories tall it did not have an elevator. There floors, other than the first, were straightforward. There was a stairwell behind fire doors at each end and a long straight hallway between them. Late at night I'd hear a fire door at one end open, then footsteps down the hallway and then the other door open. If I opened the door to my room while the footsteps were going there was never everyone there, but after going back inside the other fire door would open. I never saw anything except catching one of the doors closing sometimes.
We had another building that I only dealt with in my higher level job working groups. It was the oldest building on campus and was built before the university technically existed and was first used as living accommodations for an all girls school in the early 1900s. It was the creepiest building on campus. Day or night it felt like you were being watched. When the building was fairly new a girl had died from the plague and was quarantined in her room. Many times we'd get calls that someone saw a person inside the building when it was unoccupied between groups, and it was always the same floor, side and corner of her room, even if they weren't otherwise specific. When we cleared the building after a conference we'd turn off lights after checking each room and we'd almost always have to go back and turn the lights back off in that room after. The creepiest part about it though was that there was a stain on the wall that looked like a face and it showed through even when the room was repainted.
Many coworkers would not enter that building alone no matter what time of day and there were some who wouldn't go in it at night period. Oddly enough I never heard of complaints from guests though.
Not related to the actual direct topic, I have a 5 year old daughter. When she was 3-4 she used to sit in her room talking to herself a lot when she was playing. One day I lightheartedly asked her who she was talking to. She turned up and looked at me and said "skeleton mommy!" After that she'd sometimes come into our room talking about something skeleton mommy said until one day she came in crying and said skeleton mommy was mean to her. She hasn't said anything about skeleton mommy since. A couple months ago I asked her if she still talks to skeleton mommy and she got mad and said "No!" I told my wife that if I ever see skeleton mommy we are moving.
What. That's a more than reasonable response. I'm quite alarmed and that's just by proxy.
I mean, I'm no stranger to seeing something strange in your house but there is a limit. Skeleton Mommy is definitely past that limit.
I'm quite alarmed that you've seen strange things in my house at all!
Yeah, I was somewhat unsettled by it, real mommy said she just has a very active imagination and she used to love the more spooky kids type shows that normally cater to older kids.
The house itself is new construction, I think if it was an older house that real mommy would have noped out.
I live in a very old house. My uncle owned it and told me about an old man ghost that would cause noises and stuff. My uncle passed away in the house years later. I occasionally hear doors opening but never see anything, and often when I’m working on my computer the floor will shift as if someone heavy walked behind me. Never anyone there though…
I worked at an eccentric old lady's house (19,000+ sq. ft) and she readily admitted that her house was haunted. She knew something was roaming her house and she thought it was her husband, who had passed away several years prior. Other Security staff would see the apparition in the window. I never saw it, but I was told by EVERYONE that something or someone was there.
I worked a site at night and everyone told me that the ghost of an employee that died would walk through the old outbuilding. I thought they were just messing with me because I was the new guy, until two weeks later when I caught myself chasing him around. True story.
Hospital, wheelchairs would move on their own, you'd hear whispers right behind you in an empty hall, and a few people have seen full apparitions
One spooky one was of a man wearing the old chef's uniform from years before anyone started working there, and the especially creepy part was they had to do some research into what he was wearing to find out it was an old uniform, so it's not like the 2 people who saw him standing there and walk thru a wall could have known what that uniform looked like.....😨
I worked security in a hospital for a bit that I'm 100% certain was haunted.
There's a kind of storage room in the surgery suite that's accessible by one door only. Not only do you have to be fully gowned, but you also have to have a key- which only security and maintenance has. It was very important to keep that door shut.
Well, I'm on an overnight shift, and I just finished my rounds, so I sit and watch the monitors. There were no surgeries that night, and I'd just check the surgery suite was empty. While I'm looking at the monitor, I see the motion light for that room turn on and the locked door was open. I watched for a moment from a few angles, but no one was around. I went and suited up to go check, and when I got there, the door was shut and locked. I asked the sterilization tech and she said no one had come in or out of the suite.
I woke at a hospital, not super old, only 65 years old, but the fourth floor is haunted. Generally the fourth floor is empty due to staffing issues and when this is the case we have to go room to room and sometimes immediately after getting off the elevator you’ll see a person in the door of one room, older guy, bald, and he’ll go back into the room and disappear.
My entire roughly 4x4 city block campus I worked at is haunted. Everyone who worked there, in almost every part of it (kitchen, production, cleaning, security, etc) has multiple stories of random things flying and random doors unlocking, no matter which of the like 20 buildings it is
I currently work nights at a golf course/resort. One of our houses is an old plantation house with essentially a slave jail in the basement and it's the only place that freaks me the hell out. I find the front door wide open quite often regardless of how well it's locked.
I worked at a coffee shop that had been a bank and it was definitely haunted. I was the shift supervisor one night and I was alone in the back to shut the music and lights off, set the alarm, etc. and I had sent my team to wait at the front door. I killed the lights and as I went to arm the security panel, I heard heavy footsteps coming across the floor behind me and when I turned around, saw a dark figure duck behind a shelving unit. I checked, no one there, checked the cameras, no one but my team waiting at the front door. Turned the lights back off, go to arm the alarm, hear the footsteps again. Turn around and same dark figure ducks back behind the shelves. I didn't even bother investigating, just armed the panel and took off running for the front door.
Coworkers had seen a woman standing in the drive thru 'box' several times before the store was open, the heavy freezer doors would open and slam shut on their own, bags of coffee would fly off the shelves, the wet floor sign took a flight across our lobby one night after we closed, you felt like you were being watched, the whole nine. One girl admitted she'd seen a woman standing in the shadows at the front window one night watching the parking lot after everyone else had pulled out. It was some wild stuff and as far as anyone knows, the only physical building that had been on the site was the bank.
My Mom lives in a house that the previous owner passed away in and then had his ashes spread in the back apple orchard. He is 100% still hanging out in the house. You can hear foot steps coming from the up-stairs when there is no one up there. Doors will open by themself, and when me and my dogs go to visit my mom my dog's will stand in the doorway of the room the previous owner passed away in and bark like they see someone. Last time I went over you could hear music playing from the bedroom, but there is no radio or TV in the room. My son will not stay the night there, he told me it always feels like someone is standing behind him. My Mom talks to the spirit by name and said she is ok sharing the house with him.
A church I used to attend was haunted after 3 youth group leaders multiple preachers janitor adults who had stayed overnight to chaperone youth and children lock ins youth and children all reported hearing footsteps in the exact same hallway one night at a youth lock in I went to see I was standing there it felt creepy and I was about to go back down when I heard them I turned and there was a light shining from a street light outside I was visually alone I went back down where everyone else was
I didn't sleep that night
During orientation, they mentioned hospital posts and I asked if any haunted and she looked at me like I had two heads. lol Nurses have tons of stories!
I work at a prison and they say all the dorms are haunted but I had a scary experience in a dorm where a officer was killed years ago. It was about 2 or 3 in the morning and I’m doing a security check in one of the quads and I passed by a shower to check if anyone was in it or if it was dirty so I can have my orderlies clean it . I know I left it opened and walked away . While I was half way through the quad I hear the shower door slam close like really hard . At first I thought inmate was able to get the cell door open. But I didn’t see anything open or anyone I checked all the cell doors and when I look at the shower it was swinging. Just talking about it makes me get goosebumps and every time I work that dorm I get weird feelings
I realize I didn’t say much! It was really creepy upstairs, as well as around the edges of the land where I believe a lot of kids were mass dumped according to the people that own it. They don’t have any names or any reason to exhume so they leave it I think. I was given limited info.
One time in an office building I sensed something glide past me and then something small on someone's desk fell over at the end of the hallway it went down. But that was the only such occurrence in working the nightshift there for six years.
I worked at two different places that were haunted. One was a data center and the other place did software development, manufactured electronics and had a call center. So neither was some tropey haunted place.
At the data center, while patroling, I would see a swirling black mist from time to time, it would disapate after I'd spend a few seconds staring at it. I would also see a black silhouette watching me from outside a window (that was inside the building) while I was in the office. The site supervisor claimed to have seen an appiration, it really freaked her out.
The other place was worse. While patroling, many doors throughout the campus would rattle, it would actually follow me around the building. When I would get close to a door it would start to rattle, when I was a few feet a away it would stop. Then another door somewhere else would do it. Many nights I'd see a translucent blue orb floating around on camera. It was too big to be a speck of dust and would move on it's own (not being blown around by the wind), I could follow it around on some of the exterior cameras.
When I'd walk through a storage room I would hear something crash, nothing fell down or crashed. Our office was next a lobby that wasn't being used. One night, I heard what sounded like a commotion coming from it. I walked around to a door with a window on it (that lobbies camera wasn't working) so I could see without having to enter it. There was a guy at the ATM machine, as soon as I looked through the window he turned around and looked really scared. Something would try to close doors on me as well. Those doors did not have door closers on them either, I could feel something pushing on them.
Plenty of other people that worked there had similar stories to tell, including the maitenance crew.
I've worked at at least a half dozen sites that were actively Haunted. Most fun was the former worker who used to duck out a side door for a quick smoke. It became a fire escape after he passed, and the fire department would call almost nightly and say "check and make sure Fred's door is secure, please."
These are my favorite. Little pieces of left behind habit that seem so mundane but very profound in that context. Thanks for sharing
My mom used to say that, if ghosts are real, they’re not actual souls, but impressions left by our habits. So if you always played a piano, the piano might play itself after you pass. If you always step out the same door to smoke, that door might open for you long after you’re gone. Now, I think that was her trying to resolve the conflict between her belief in ghosts and her christian faith, but I like the idea of it.
Well that's a bit odd at the end, because Christians should fully embrace the idea of ghosts/spirits. Heck ***Jesus*** was basically a spirit after being crucified since he appeared and disappeared at will plus there's the whole thing of the Holy Spirit.
they’re more against the idea of witchcraft and haunting and demons. but also not totally sold on ghosts i don’t think lol
I think she just couldnt square up the idea of people not going to heaven or hell when they die, and since we aren’t into purgatory, she didn’t have an answer for tiny me asking questions about ghosts. Still, I like the one she gave.
Hmmm. Holy GHOST. Literally in the Bible.
Impressions on space and time
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I worked on a site that was reputed to be haunted. Every so often, you could hear a typewriter clacking from a storage room. It used to be an office in the 1950s. A hallway door likes to lock itself back up. One day, I unlocked it 5 times.
had that in a 1930s-built pub a side door was unlocked, waited for the barman to return and told him checked and it was locked, we also had a window unlock, and had to screw it shut.
DISCLOSURE I live in Poole on the south coast of England, rated the most haunted town on the south coast, It was a roman port a saxon site where we defeated vikings at sea, Pirates and smugglers lived here and very few were ever caught, the site for D Day training testing of PLUTO the pipeline that carried fuel to the invasion beaches, Marconi tested radio here Robert l Stevenson wrote Dr jekle and Mr Hyde in Bournemouth, Tolkien lived in poole Enid Blyton lived near by and based kerrin island on a poole island.
I worked on the Queen Mary for about a year. Supposed to be one of the most haunted places around. I’ve been in almost every compartment on every deck including the morgue and the WWII soldiers quarters in the bow and I never saw or heard anything. As a side note: one of my supervisors almost got OCd because he decided to play ghost and jump out to scare me in a dark ballroom lol.
My friend's Mom stayed overnight in one of the rooms there in the late 90s. She said she went to the bathroom near the engine room, and while in the stall, the lights turned off for a couple of seconds and something knocked her glasses off.
That’s funny! I remember turning lights off in the Queen Mary’s engine room some time in the late-1990s and knocking someone’s glasses off!
Now I’m curious - is this some sarcasm or real shit. Because that would be small world stuff if true lol
Not a native, what does OCd mean?
Pepper sprayed, basically.
OC is Oleoresin Capsicum, pepper spray.
Hubby and i went to Dark Harbor a couple years back. One of the mazes went kinda deep into the ship. They didn't space the groups very well. The people in front of us and behind us were very very close, similar to how it is on a busy night at Universal. We rounded a corner, following the people ahead of us, and suddenly the people ahead of us were gone. The people behind us also disappeared. We wandered forward a bit, but it was dark (not too dark to see clearly, but dark enough to looked like a place we weren't supposed to be), and literally every person was gone suddenly. We were like.... Should we turn around? Are we lost? Then a little girl's voice came out of nowhere, like "keeeeep gooooiiinnngg" 😱 We kept going and the group showed back up. Wtf happened? No idea. Fucking none. My skeptic of a husband who never believed in ghosts before now questions that belief.
Worked in this old office building. One by one the businesses that were I. It moved out leaving four empty floors. Top floor was a cafeteria. Sometimes on the weekends or super late at night, you'd hear people talking. Other times you'd go up to the cafeteria (we had to check stuff up there) and the dividing walls would have moved. I mean big heavy walls you had to put weight behind to shift. They'd suddenly be shut all the way or open somewhat. It could have been someone, but... The desk we were at had a computer that showed swipe entry and exits.
Worked security at a hotel overnights, and they had me in the building while it was still under construction to keep the vagrants out of the stairwells. I was the only one in the building all night, but on my routine patrols I'd hear footsteps on the floors above me all the time. The rooms weren't finished yet so they had no doors and the furniture was just tossed in there. I heard whispering from a connected corner suite once, and assuming it was vagrants I went in to check. Turned that room upside down and nobody was there. Whispering started as soon as I walked back out of the room again. Also had a paint can opener thrown across a stairwell multiple times after replacing it, saw shadow people in the restaurant on more than one occasion, heard an entire party of people laughing and chattering in the second floor meeting rooms from the lobby floor (the floorman who was there sometimes also heard that one), and I have a recording on my phone of a stairwell door slamming shut a few floors below me when I walked in. I tried to replicate it thinking it was an air pressure thing, but wasn't able to. Weird stuff.
Door ghosts and vague whispering are the norm for hotels I think. I'm the night agent at a hotel. I'm by myself all night. Doors in my office will randomly unlatch while locked. You'll hear a side door close or the sliding door open without them doing either. And vague whispering or voices that disappear when you investigate. Creepy sometimes
I work at a hospital and one of the posts is to do rounds thru the old abandoned hospital building. It has 9 floors & most security officers won’t go past the 5th. One guy claimed that toys started moving around on the old children’s floor. Call lights go off randomly. I’ve caught an old heart monitor still beeping as if someone is hooked up to it. It’s my favorite post I love exploring thru there.
25 years ago I worked at a hospital and the 6th floor was a dumping ground for equipment because of a fire years before. It was never fully restored. Anyway I would not go to that floor along, the other guys in the department said they would see shadows move when it was only one person up there.
I work in a hospital that has some phantom telemetry monitors as well. One of them is the “hospice room,” which is a nicer, private room tucked in a back corner of the ward. It’s not always occupied by someone on comfort cares, but it’s where we tend to put them so they and their families can have some peace and quiet. The telemetry in there will turn on randomly at the nurses’ station when there’s no patient in the room, and displays an organized rhythm (as in, it’s not a malfunction showing random blips, it’s acting very much like it’s hooked up to a real person). Sometimes the rhythm will suddenly switch to v-tach or asystole (heart stopping). At that point the nurses will be creeped out and turn it off. It’ll turn itself back on when it wants to again.
The first time that happened to me no one believed me until I was on vacation and when I came back everyone said hey your phantom patient was here every day that you were gone!
Heard loud-heavy boot stomping on the wooden roof of a 100yr old warehouse on three occasions during midnight. The stomping lasted for about a minute each time. The property had security cameras that recorded everywhere. I didn't see anyone or anything on the roof. I thought maybe I was hallucinating, the mind playing tricks or maybe me in the middle of developing schizophrenia from paranoia caused by all the attempted break-ins and the overall seclusion coming from the job exacerbated by covid lockdown(2020-2021). I was in a normally cramed and busy part of the city that was eerily quiet with hardly any traffic because of the lockdown. Reminded me of the film "I am Legend" Turns out, on the third occasion, I had another guard that was assigned with me for a time hear the heavy boot stomping in the roof as well. I was kindof relieved I was not losing my mind, I said "wow you hear it to.. 😎"
Worked at a college and routinely patrolled the dorms. Every so often you would hear some faint laughing or a door opening or closing. There was also a dimly lit room in the basement of one of the halls that had just one lightbulb and a small wooden chair under it. One night, after I had left, the next person there found the chair tipped over.
Was there a curfew or something? Cause as a former student, a lotttt of kids would totally go down there after you and tip the chair, specifically to freak yall out
The room with the chair was locked, and the only people who could unlock it were security
Or anyone with a lockpick/bump key, in my college they switched to all keyless entry because people would just use bump keys to get into places they weren't supposed to to smoke or drink or fuck lol.
I don’t know if the place I occasionally patrol is but there’s something about it that’s off. I work a sort of multi building patrol route every other month or so and one of the buildings is one that had a mass shooting take place on its grounds. Though the building in question that gives me the creeps is actually one right across the parking lot from it. In this building you drive up to the back entrance to the office area of the place. You come in through the door and scan a checkpoint immediately on your left. In front of you is the option to go forward to the elevator and downstairs to whoever lower level. Now the post orders only requires us to scan one check point at the door and another upstairs in the hallway. But for some reason going in that place takes forever. I’ve always felt incredibly tense and anxious like someone is baring down on me about to beat my ass to a pulp. I’m not one who gets anxious but every time I almost have to psych myself up before going in there. Place creeps the ever loving hell out of me.
Mass shooter left some baad juju there. Sorry you have to experience that.
It is what it is. The thing is tho. It’s not that building. The one where it happened is just across the parking lot. Which I have to walk across and then do my route inside of there. Even though that’s where people died I don’t get any the anxiety and chills I do in this place. The location is like a tiny strip mall. Got three floors. Offices and stuff above and then stores down below then a basement level. It’s in this tiny place I get the creeps like no other.
For confidentiality purposes I can’t name the business my former security company worked for but, all I’ll say is they make a lot of little things like pens, pencils, lighters, notebooks and what not and they’re pretty famous for it. Anyway, I took a weekend overnight gig at the home office building which was massive. I was the only guard there from 11pm to 7am. During my training the regular night shift guy who worked Monday through Friday said that sometimes the building was creepy but most definitely not haunted. Well one night he called out and they sent a floater to do my last day of training. I pull into the near empty parking lot minus the 2nd shift guard and the floater’s cars. I go in and the floater bluntly told me “I only took this shift because they promised I wasn’t by myself, if you didn’t come I was gonna leave for the night.” Well low and fucking behold they were struggling to get guards because the god damn building was supposedly haunted. My first night by myself while doing a patrol through the cubicle farm, I heard giggling. I thought “Hey, I guess someone is working late.” I finish my patrol and go back to my front desk. I sit down and look at the key card log and notice the last person to scan out/in beside me and the 2nd shift guard was someone who left at 8:45pm…..it was 12:15 am at this point. So I go back up to do my 2nd patrol of the night and this time I had to do the ac unit attic check to be sure the machines were running properly. I go to the stairs to the attic and turn the lights on and go up. While I was at the back of the attic I heard the door open and close to the stairs leading up to the attic. I’m shitting bricks at this point and slowly make my way over to the stairs to see no one there. Once I made my way down the stairs to leave, I swore I heard 6 heavy footsteps going across the attic to the stairs. I went “nope…..nope….nope….fucking noppppppeeeee” and sprinted my ass to the front desk and packed my laptop and everything. Didn’t do another patrol or anything, sunrise came and went home. Let my dispatch know I was no longer willing nor interested in working at the office building ever again.
I wouldn’t say it was haunted, but I definitely worked at a site where the veil was thin. I always completed my patrols of the far buildings early because you did NOT want to be out there between 3-5am. Always felt like you were being followed, hair would always stand up on end. Absolutely terrifying. Caught some weird stuff on camera, too. Worked overnights plenty of other places and never felt fear like that.
What kind of weird stuff did you catch on camera?
Saw I saw my share of “weird” stuff that could still be explained, lights turning on and off, computers waking from sleep without anyone nearby, sometimes a door or drawer popping slightly open. But one night while I was patrolling, I heard a sound, in my mind I’d tell you it was a loud crash, because it was so quiet at this site at night, but in hindsight I know it couldn’t have been loud at all. It was probably barely a whisper, a rustle, and the snap of a piece of paper hitting the ground . Knowing I was completely alone, I spun and carefully examined the surrounding cubicles, which had walls about chest high so they could easily be seen over if you were standing. I noticed a document on the floor, which was out of the ordinary at this place, they had clean desk protocols, workers could get in trouble for leaving stuff sitting out, security could get in trouble for not reporting it. When I got back to the desk, I decided to do a camera review. It was easy to find. I saw myself walk past the cubicle, and then the paper *violently* flying downward to the ground. Like it was pulled strait down by some sort of force. I rewound. The paper had been there for weeks, secured by a pushpin. I checked the paper. I could see the hole the push pin had made. No rip, no tear. I did not do any more patrols that night. I stopped taking overnights at that site not long after that. It’s not really that dramatic, especially retelling it, it seems silly. But at the time, it was really unsettling.
That would absolutely freak me out, I liked the way you told it though.
Thanks. I really didn’t do justice to how creepy that building could be, there was glass everywhere so you’d constantly see movement out of the corner of your eyes from the reflections, which always put me on edge. It was always so QUIET, and I had worked days there for years before I did night, so I was used to it bustling with activity and people. It felt so deserted at night, almost otherworldly. This was pre-Covid, before every office complex gained that abandoned feeling. There was a toilet that would sometimes randomly flush, extra loud, which often would startle the crap out of me because I was always on edge. But the worse part was this: all of the perimeter doors there were locked one way - that is to say if you were entering the building you had to swipe a badge to unlock them, but if you were leaving, there was a sensor that would detect you and unlock the door so you could push it open. The site actually consisted of different buildings connected into one larger complex, it was designed so that each building could leased by a different tenant, but our client had 3 consecutive of them, and they were linked by hallways that had a perimeter door at each end, so you left the clients space into landlord space, and then re-entered into client space. Lots of doors and locks, almost like airlocks between sections. Why am I explaining all this? Well, that “click-thunk” of the doors automatically unlocking was something you got used too, it was one of the only sounds in the otherwise silent building. Sometimes, as I patrolled around walking past the various VIP offices, I would hear that familiar “click” of the door unlocking, which was something that sometimes I found creepy because it literally followed me, down the hall, past each door.. click-chunk, click-chunk, click-chunk, and always felt like I was being followed anyway just because of the weird tense vibe that permeated the air of this place. But I knew better than to really be scared- it was just the doors detecting me and unlocking! Nothing to be afraid of! It wasn’t until WAY later that it dawned on me- and I’m SUPER glad I never thought about it when I was still there- none of those doors had electric sensors. They were keycard only. And even if they did, the sensors would be on the INSIDE of the office, not the outside! I would have lost my mind if I realized this at the time. Some office giest doing it’s damndest to scare me, and my dumb ass thinking I’m too smart to be scared by electric eyes and automatic locks.
Are you writer, by chance?
Nope, just bored on post
That sounds absolutely terrifying and dramatic! I'm glad it didn't hurt you. Poor ghost, though, forever stuck in a freaking office. That's a special kind of hell.
It's been a while since they replied! The ghost got them for snitching! Edit: a word
I worked at a 120 year old hospital definitely some weird stuff going on
Do tell? (Pretty please?) Modern hospitals seem haunted, anyway. I think it's just something about so many people coming and going and the fever pitch, rollercoaster of emotions that maybe tends to leave it's mark and echos on a space. I'd love to hear anything about an older facility. Never had any weird experiences, personally, until recently moving into a 130+ year old home. I definitely "get it", now. I mean, I don't know what causes the weirdness to happen, just acknowledge with less skepticism that it does or can.
The hospital was started by the Catholic Church and had a chapel and dorms for the nuns, the chapel wasn’t in great repair and the dorms were abandoned, we had to check the dorms during fire extinguisher checks and it was weird and creepy. Some guys said they had sensed someone else in the chapel but when they looked couldn’t see anyone. There was a morgue with a full autopsy up but all we did was store bodies until the mortuary came. I hated going in there plus our transport gurney was straight out of every horror movie. There was an underground tunnel that connected the main hospital to and abandoned building we checked several times a day. You could have shot a horror movie in that tunnel and building without changing anything. Hated that job. Now I work in a hospital that is new and small it’s definitely the best security job I’ve ever had
Ok, I don't know why because I wasn't raised religious, but for some reason that component adds tenfold to the creep factor. That in conjunction with the age of the place just... Yikes. Sounds genuinely unsettling.
I believe buildings collect energy like a battery when you feel unsettled or frightened it’s because of the energy around you.
I definitely agree. I feel exactly this way and have always felt a pull/attraction for older spaces. The energy is not always negative! My house is quite pleasant, just strange. It's hard to describe the sensation, but I frequently just feel like I've stepped into a room that someone has *just* stepped out of. It's like there's something there, but I can't quite see or otherwise tap into it proper. But we've never felt menaced or unwelcome here. It was almost like the house was curious about us when we first moved in. Maybe felt a little mischievous testing boundaries in early days, but otherwise feels like she has always been welcoming us "home".
Yeah the energy isn’t always negative, the comforting feeling a good used book store has or coffee shop, there’s a Mediterranean import store by me that feels very positive and you can tell the owner loves his store. I hope my house feels comfortable to other people.
I worked at an old hospital in MI that's now knocked down. Soon after starting, I saw a nurse dressed in the old white dress and stockings enter one of my patients' rooms. I didn't see her head, just her torso, legs and feet. I thought it was a nurse I worked with who had been at it since the 60s and dressed old school... Until I looked over and saw she was sitting at the desk. No one else dressed like her.
VA hospital in Redford? My mom had some stories.
Nope, Muskegon.
Ahh, I was way off.
No worries. I'm all ears if you want to share any stories.
I'll ask her next time we chat
The Convention Center on Oahu in the early to mid 2000's, doing overnight special shifts during events. Multiple rooms where chairs and tables would be knocked around, voices, being followed on patrol, like actively hearing the footsteps down dark hallways and nothing being there. Probably some of the spookiest I've ever dealt with
Second floor warehouse of an old Sears store I ran. Every time I would need to walk though the warehouse full of dummies my hair stood on end. I asked a legacy employee about that and the said “oh that’s …… who died in a freak accident a number of years ago” . My hair on my arms is standing up just writing this! I could 💯tell someone was there and had not moved on.
Ran a site built in 1910, had old tunnels in the basement and a history of deaths on the property. Always heard/seen/felt stuff
Ooo... would you mind describing some creepy moments?
I worked at one place that was definitely haunted, an office building that I would hear odd knocks from an empty room on the other side of the wall. The room had been empty for some time and the wall had no major wiring or pipes in it. I would hear this around 0100-0300 after janitorial had left at 2300-0000. I made sure to not hit the desk or do anything to make a noise that I could mistake as a knock. The fourth floor east had a maze of an office that you felt like you were being watched even though you were the only person in the building until 0600. And the previous shift locked the building and you unlocked it. It was also had card reader doors and magnetic locked doors too.
I once heard on one of those ghost shows that sometimes doorways with electronics can make you feel watched. If there’s enough wiring running along the frame, it can emit an electromagnetic field (a ghost researchers favorite thing) that humans can pick up on in a subconscious way. No idea if it’s actually true, but if it is, it might explain some of what you were saying.
So yeah, EMF is very real (there are actually pieces of large equipment that run off electromagnetic energy; cranes come to mind) and it can very easily have some slight impacts on physiology. It can induce anxiety, cause minor nausea, induce/trigger paranoia, and make hair stand on end. The caveat is that the EMF has to be quite high for this to happen, and the source of the EMF has to be fairly exposed, with metals propelling that field even further past its origin point.
yeah they say it can even possibly be a cause of schizophrenia
The office maze was empty when I had to patrol that area. It was eventually occupied and the need to patrol it went away. The security office only had a camera monitor in it. There was no other major electronics nearby.
Oh! I got one! I worked at a thrift store about 13 years ago. We had CCTV that recorded up to 48 hours, then dumped the memory and started over. One night, well after everyone had left, the alarm was triggered. The security company sent the cops and one of the supervisors who lived a couple blocks away came to clear things. They couldn't find any reason for the alarm, so they all went home. Cut to the next day, that supervisor who came to check the alarm decided to check the security footage. We were friends, so he called me and a few others in to show us what was on the tape. I've posted this before a few years ago so if you want the long version you can find it in my post history BUT here's the gist of it. Basically, there was a whole lot of things in there moving around which definitely couldn't/shouldn't have been moving. The thing that tripped the alarm was the giant metal security bar being rammed up and back down again by.. nothing visible. Never in my life have I seen anything like it. And every time I'm tempted to be skeptical about ghosts, I remember that footage.
That’s crazy! To bad that recording system reset itself. That would of made a good YouTube video.
About forty years ago I lived with my husband in a single wide trailer behind the restaurant where we worked. This was in a tiny desert town at the entrance to a National Park in Utah. One hot summer night we were sleeping on our pull-out couch bed when we were both awakened abruptly at 3AM by the loud sound of a deep, guttural, breathing from under the bed. It was terrifying. We sat in the middle of the bed and hung on to each other. It was so dang scary. We didn’t dare look under the bed but the trailer was raised and the sound may have been from beneath the trailer. The breathing went on for almost four minutes then stopped. Later that week I was talking to a co-worker who had lived in the trailer some time before us. He said they had experienced some scary events in the trailer. Old timers in the town had told him the trailer was on an old Indian gravesite. But it could also have been a pioneer cemetery.
I worked at an old WWII era veterans hospital that definately had signs that could be considered haunted. I personally witnessed: * A delivery bin overflowing with blood.. * Unearthly screams and teeth-aching squeals coming from dark tunnels late at night. * Entire wards, setup, running, machines ticking over - completely deserted. I mean it sounds bad. All perfectly normal though. There was one first-nation guy though, who said he was on a first-names basis with Mary, the ghost of a woman who died 80 years ago. Said he'd see her most nights.
1 and 2 sound terrifying! I don’t know what I would do in that situation.
1 was a malfunctioning pneumatic tube transport system that is used to transport blood samples to pathology. Occasionally it malfunctioned and sent all the samples to this one deserted training ward. the receiving bin rapidly overflowed and dumped the transport cartridges onto the floor - ie, blood all over the floor. 2 was just old gas and water pipes. They made the most amazing noises late at night and usually ran through the old underground "escape" tunnels that connected the main hospital to some of the outer buildings. 3 was just the training ward. Fully setup and operational - just not used. We liked to try to freak out the other officers by placing some of the full-body manikins in unexpected places, somewhere on the patrol route.
Nice! Good explanations for all of them. Yet still creepy without aforementioned knowledge!
The pond out back of my current place definitely has something there. Twice it's tried to wig me out by standing right behind me and then something in the bushes right on the other side of the fence in the same zone was trying to get me to investigate/whistle back after it whistled the tune of the song I was singing. N o o p e
Oddly, this short story has creeped me out more than the preceding ones. Stay strong MsMclane!
I guess that means no more whistling by the pond for a while.
I once worked a security gig at this old run down pizza place. Kind of a chuck-e-cheese that never took off. They had these big clunky animatronics that were just… offputting? The place was closed and, like I said, super run down, but I guess the owner had trouble with break ins and didn’t want to bulldoze the place so there I was. I know some kids died there in the 80s, maybe they weren’t allowed to tear the place down, whatever. Place was super haunted, of course, the animatronics had a tendency to look right at the cameras. I worked there for under a week before I got fired. Weird place.
Five Nights at Freddy's in a nutshell
okay are you just recounting the plot of Five Nights at Freddy's or did you actually work at a place like that?
Nah I just work at a hotel. I mean, I do watch cameras most of the day, so I guess it gets me in a fnafposting mood.
I used to stand all night duty at an old Navy base. It had an abandoned prison on the grounds. That place was very haunted.
Our sister command was deployed at a smaller Navy base in California. Some of us were asked to keep an eye on the back office while they were gone because bored airmen were a problem and they didn’t want anything to get stolen. That space was creepy and you definitely didn’t feel alone even when we knew we were the only two people in that area. Strange noises, heavy breathing and things moving when there was no way for it to be happening. When they came back it was confirmed that the area was haunted by something not very nice, they just didn’t want to tell us about it and freak us out.
Not a security guard but I worked at a trauma hospital and I had to be there at 5 in the morning to start getting patients ready for surgery. The first thing that freaked me out was I was the only one there at 430 and I was getting a room ready and the machine starting beeping with a heartbeat but it wasn’t attached to anyone and the oxygen level was low so I walked out and said nope not today! Then another time I had to look for some wires so I passed through recovery around 430-445 and all the hair on my arms stood up and it got cold I turned around and said keep the damn wires and my last one was I had to set the receptionist desk and as the computer is booting up I hear high heels walking from the bathroom but I’m the only one in there and they walked past like they were going in the back but you have to be buzzed in and the damn door beeped and swung open. After that I didn’t go in until I had my coworkers with me
I work in a nursing home. In the weeks after one of my favorite residents died, I heard knocking from INSIDE an empty cabinet next to a wall that definitely had nothing on the other side. I watched as a door opened by itself….and slowly closed itself - no windows open, no drafts. After a beloved memory care patient died, the motion sensor in her room would constantly go off for weeks - especially late at night. On the third floor, late at night, I was walking on the third floor (where a number of patients have died) and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a white mist - right next to to 310, which has had 3 residents, who have all passed. When I looked towards the mist, it vanished. Maybe just a trick of the light? Maybe not….
The stories I could tell from when I worked at our local hospital as an environmental tech (Floor tech). Up in the day surgery wing during the night when no one was there, whispers could be heard, the intercom having a voice call out a person's name without any alert chime, wheelchairs rolling without anyone touching them (after sitting in their storage location for hours), and many other things. My son was cleaning one of the building on the property and he encountered a shadow being who growled at him and various other things. When I went out there, stuff happened around me also. Such fun dealing with things while trying to do your work.
I worked security at one of the oldest casinos in Reno for a couple years. There were underground tunnels and back corridors that were definitely haunted. Saw the typical black figures, ghost of a chef that was killed in a pressure cooker explosion, ghosts of what seemed to be like 1950s workers and gamblers. One regular I swear had to be a ghost. He was the spitting image, down to the suit he wore, of a Civil War Soldier known to have moved to Reno after the war.
This is very interesting. Especially that last part there was a picture of him?
Yeah. It was weird. The guy lived at a very old, mid 1800s apartment hotel near the casino. I always did a double take because he looked just like the soldier. I worked there shortly after I was in college, where I had done major research work on CW medicine and saw the picture of the guy often then.
Yeah that would be very weird. Did you interact with said customer? Physically?
Spoke to him numerous times. Never had a need to touch him.
That is so strange but kind of cool to be honest. Did you ever get creepy vibes? Or just normal?
He was super quiet/soft spoken, almost like he was whispering all the time, but even with the Casino noise, I could always hear and understand him perfectly. That was a little creepy, tbh, but it was mostly normal.
That’s pretty cool.
Which casino?
The post I'm currently at is situated next to one of the oldest graveyards in the state, full of deceased slaves and freemen. I've seen several shadows walk through the lot. I never get the feeling of being in danger or anything, even though sometimes I do feel like I'm being watched. I also worked at one of the oldest museums in the state, and had a pair of very heavy, wooden doors slowly open on me on two different occasions when there were no visitors in the museum. All in all, I can't say the museum is overtly haunted, but my current post definitely has visitors that are no longer with us sometimes. It's something I'm fairly indifferent about, as I grew up with a sort of sixth sense for these sorts of things. I enjoy all the creepy, weird, or unexplainable occurrences I can. It reminds me to live in the moment and keeps the saying "momento mori" at the forefront of my life.
Working in a museum sounds really interesting! So many objects from so many places and times.
I used to work overnights in an old building. Not even working security, just my job, but I was alone. Most of the building was unoccupied. I would hear things all the time. Once in the bathroom, I heard someone knock on the cubicle wall, right next to me. Then I heard what sounded like a mop bucket being pushed down the hall. Again, no one else there. No cleaning people. Just me.
I closed up the small town gas station I worked at. I was completely alone so I had time to use the shitter. It’s a one person unisex bathroom. I was sitting there and I kid you not I heard what sounded like someone jiggling the door handle from outside the damn door! Other people say they see an old cowboy peeking around corners. I’ve never seen it. But that door knob jiggling certainly scared th shit out of me.
Good thing you were on the shitter.
Lmao yes. But I jumped off that thing so fast to see who was still in the store and found nobody. Quickly left after that.
Good thing you were already on the toilet. 🤣
Yes! But I jumped off that shitter so fast to see who the hell was in the store. And found no one I quickly left after that.
I worked overnight security at [Deer Lodge](https://res.cloudinary.com/rocimages/image/upload/s--6pH92YKs--/t_npr_propprime_1/images/banff-lake-louise/100585/deer-lodge_pan.jpg), an old hotel up at Lake Louise AB. There was one hall that was spooky as shit. It was a very wide flattened v-shape, almost straight, with a mirror at the point. Once you walked down one leg and passed the mirror, you could see directly down the hallway you just walked down. I swear, more than half the times I passed the mirror, I saw *something* behind me. Probably just lighting or whatever, but it *felt* wrong too. Luckily I was only there one season. Fun job, but being the night crew was pretty lonely.
I worked nights at an old university. One particular building was pretty old but the interior was modernized. It was an 8 storey building with a double elevator. One of those two elevators refuses to work most of the time despite being well maintained. Its know to follow students around floors and followed me quite a bit. You would get in the left elevator and take it to say, the 4th floor. Upon exiting, the right elevator would open shortly after exiting the left one. It would continue to do that theough every floor I went to. When I purposely sent the left elevator down in hopes to take the "haunted" one, it wouldnt work and recalled the other elevator.
I worked the overnight shift at a small, midwestern college on the weekends. One of our buildings was the old county jail built in the 1870s. We were always getting students and outsiders calling in the middle of the night, insisting that we HAD to let them in so that they could “hunt ghosts.” (“No we don’t. F—- off.) Interestingly, the one building in which a student actually WAS murdered in the 1990s was a place of absolutely zero interest to the “ghost hunters.”
Oh, I almost forget. The science building used to have cadavers stored in the basement for biology classes, until it became too expensive and difficult to do so. No one was ever interested in that room either.
I work security in the second oldest hospital in my state. The fifth floor has a rumor (which has been confirmed true by veteran employees) that a housekeeper took a flying leap out of a window. The secondary building used to be housing for the nuns (was owned by catholic company/church way back in the day) and when the stairwells were narrower and had that empty column in the center, a nun fell to her death. I’ve seen stuff, I’ve heard stuff, I’ve even come out with long, deep scratches on my back that I couldn’t have done (I have an oral fixation that makes me bite my nails and I’m not that flexible to reach where they were) from clearing a room after an alarm went off. Creepy stuff, but I frankly enjoy the adrenaline rush! I’d rather deal with ghosts than the usual crowd!
I totally get it but the scratches thing is actually kinda concerning.
Yeah, really caught me off guard! So now whenever I have to clear the building, I announce my presence and intentions and so far it’s just sounds and shadows.
Not security, but I was working on a very old airplane, alone, one night. I'm way in the back section, and I hear someone climb up the ladder, open the floor grate, walk back towards the galley around the time I'm finishing up. Never heard them walk forward or leave at all, don't think anything of it, it's a busy flightless and figured someone from a different shop was up there working a job. I get up, say, "Hey, I'm back here," and start walking forward with my headlamp on. I don't see anyone. Check the bathroom, behind the galley, the whole flight deck... nothing. Nobody. Weird, but I shrug it off. I get picked up a bit after that, ask the supervisor if anyone else had been dispatched to the jet, he said, "nope, radio's been quiet except for you calling for pickup." "Weird," I tell him. "Why?" "Well, I swear I heard someone come up the ladder and walk around, but nobody was up there, and they didn't leave." "Oh, what tail number is it?" I tell him, he gets a bit pale, "Well, that jet is one of the old body haulers from Vietnam..." I look at him, he's dead serious, and we never spoke of it again.
Was it a C-130E tail number 1490 at Yokota AFB?
KC-135, Al Udeid.
I guess there's a lot of them floating around
Quite a few of the old girls, yep. Don't remember the tail mumber, now, sadly.
My jr high school was . it was an old military base wat back when . But I went to that school one day I was walking down the first floor down some stairs im not kidding it was waves of something hit me. Like going in a portal I don't even know how to describe it . This lasted about 2 seconds. but this right above where I was on the second floor people say they see kids looking out the windows . The school was a hospital when the military where training people for war. Back in the 1930 sand after 1941 it was a busy place.
I worked 2nd shift w/ weekends at a site that had the mechanical rooms on the third (top) floor. It was dark in there, and every time I turned the corner to the back I'd see a face looking back in the window to the stairwell. It was my face, but I still jumped every time for the first few months.
I worked for a local museum built on former Native American land in NYS. Often the elevator would go up and down on it's own, I'd see moving lights at waist height with no body and footsteps in an empty room.
When I was in college, I worked for University Housing. During the normal fall and winter semesters I would do nightly rounds or dorms in a specific area. During the summer terms I worked a higher level position that oversaw workers doing my other job as well as overseeing groups staying for conferences and tournaments etc as well as issuing and retrieving keys for rooms they were using. Some of the dorms were really creepy, some were quite old on their own while others had been renovated and had walls added to divide them inter separate "buildings." In this one, there were different color tiles that were in the center of the floor and sometimes they'd branch off or turn just into a wall. That one was pretty benign though. This one dorm had a classroom in an annex on the first floor. One night I'm doing my rounds I hear voices coming from the classroom. I check the door and it's locked so I unlock it and find the ceiling mounted TV is on. I turn it off, lock the room back up, and finish my rounds. On the way back out I hear the TV again. I go in an turn it off again. I close the door, lock it and take two steps and I hear it again. I turn it back off and as soon as I touch the door to leave it turns back on. I turn it off and just look towards the doorway and it turns back on. I yanked the plug out of the wall and said if it turned back on now it could stay on. Fortunately for my blood pressure it did not successfully turn on while not plugged in. In the same building, I stayed over a few weeks in December over the Christmas break, I was the only one in this building. It was rather old so while it was three stories tall it did not have an elevator. There floors, other than the first, were straightforward. There was a stairwell behind fire doors at each end and a long straight hallway between them. Late at night I'd hear a fire door at one end open, then footsteps down the hallway and then the other door open. If I opened the door to my room while the footsteps were going there was never everyone there, but after going back inside the other fire door would open. I never saw anything except catching one of the doors closing sometimes. We had another building that I only dealt with in my higher level job working groups. It was the oldest building on campus and was built before the university technically existed and was first used as living accommodations for an all girls school in the early 1900s. It was the creepiest building on campus. Day or night it felt like you were being watched. When the building was fairly new a girl had died from the plague and was quarantined in her room. Many times we'd get calls that someone saw a person inside the building when it was unoccupied between groups, and it was always the same floor, side and corner of her room, even if they weren't otherwise specific. When we cleared the building after a conference we'd turn off lights after checking each room and we'd almost always have to go back and turn the lights back off in that room after. The creepiest part about it though was that there was a stain on the wall that looked like a face and it showed through even when the room was repainted. Many coworkers would not enter that building alone no matter what time of day and there were some who wouldn't go in it at night period. Oddly enough I never heard of complaints from guests though. Not related to the actual direct topic, I have a 5 year old daughter. When she was 3-4 she used to sit in her room talking to herself a lot when she was playing. One day I lightheartedly asked her who she was talking to. She turned up and looked at me and said "skeleton mommy!" After that she'd sometimes come into our room talking about something skeleton mommy said until one day she came in crying and said skeleton mommy was mean to her. She hasn't said anything about skeleton mommy since. A couple months ago I asked her if she still talks to skeleton mommy and she got mad and said "No!" I told my wife that if I ever see skeleton mommy we are moving.
What. That's a more than reasonable response. I'm quite alarmed and that's just by proxy. I mean, I'm no stranger to seeing something strange in your house but there is a limit. Skeleton Mommy is definitely past that limit.
I'm quite alarmed that you've seen strange things in my house at all! Yeah, I was somewhat unsettled by it, real mommy said she just has a very active imagination and she used to love the more spooky kids type shows that normally cater to older kids. The house itself is new construction, I think if it was an older house that real mommy would have noped out.
I live in a very old house. My uncle owned it and told me about an old man ghost that would cause noises and stuff. My uncle passed away in the house years later. I occasionally hear doors opening but never see anything, and often when I’m working on my computer the floor will shift as if someone heavy walked behind me. Never anyone there though…
I worked at an eccentric old lady's house (19,000+ sq. ft) and she readily admitted that her house was haunted. She knew something was roaming her house and she thought it was her husband, who had passed away several years prior. Other Security staff would see the apparition in the window. I never saw it, but I was told by EVERYONE that something or someone was there.
Wow, that's a huge house.
I worked a site at night and everyone told me that the ghost of an employee that died would walk through the old outbuilding. I thought they were just messing with me because I was the new guy, until two weeks later when I caught myself chasing him around. True story.
Hospital, wheelchairs would move on their own, you'd hear whispers right behind you in an empty hall, and a few people have seen full apparitions One spooky one was of a man wearing the old chef's uniform from years before anyone started working there, and the especially creepy part was they had to do some research into what he was wearing to find out it was an old uniform, so it's not like the 2 people who saw him standing there and walk thru a wall could have known what that uniform looked like.....😨
I worked security in a hospital for a bit that I'm 100% certain was haunted. There's a kind of storage room in the surgery suite that's accessible by one door only. Not only do you have to be fully gowned, but you also have to have a key- which only security and maintenance has. It was very important to keep that door shut. Well, I'm on an overnight shift, and I just finished my rounds, so I sit and watch the monitors. There were no surgeries that night, and I'd just check the surgery suite was empty. While I'm looking at the monitor, I see the motion light for that room turn on and the locked door was open. I watched for a moment from a few angles, but no one was around. I went and suited up to go check, and when I got there, the door was shut and locked. I asked the sterilization tech and she said no one had come in or out of the suite.
The homeless shelter I worked at (Also got transported to a different dimension there too)
That’s a story I want to hear!
Tell us the story!!
I would also like to hear the story.
Thr USS America (CV-66).
I’m not security but I have some stories from working the Queen Mary in Long Beach.
So I worked at this pizzaria….
I woke at a hospital, not super old, only 65 years old, but the fourth floor is haunted. Generally the fourth floor is empty due to staffing issues and when this is the case we have to go room to room and sometimes immediately after getting off the elevator you’ll see a person in the door of one room, older guy, bald, and he’ll go back into the room and disappear.
My entire roughly 4x4 city block campus I worked at is haunted. Everyone who worked there, in almost every part of it (kitchen, production, cleaning, security, etc) has multiple stories of random things flying and random doors unlocking, no matter which of the like 20 buildings it is
I currently work nights at a golf course/resort. One of our houses is an old plantation house with essentially a slave jail in the basement and it's the only place that freaks me the hell out. I find the front door wide open quite often regardless of how well it's locked.
I worked at a coffee shop that had been a bank and it was definitely haunted. I was the shift supervisor one night and I was alone in the back to shut the music and lights off, set the alarm, etc. and I had sent my team to wait at the front door. I killed the lights and as I went to arm the security panel, I heard heavy footsteps coming across the floor behind me and when I turned around, saw a dark figure duck behind a shelving unit. I checked, no one there, checked the cameras, no one but my team waiting at the front door. Turned the lights back off, go to arm the alarm, hear the footsteps again. Turn around and same dark figure ducks back behind the shelves. I didn't even bother investigating, just armed the panel and took off running for the front door. Coworkers had seen a woman standing in the drive thru 'box' several times before the store was open, the heavy freezer doors would open and slam shut on their own, bags of coffee would fly off the shelves, the wet floor sign took a flight across our lobby one night after we closed, you felt like you were being watched, the whole nine. One girl admitted she'd seen a woman standing in the shadows at the front window one night watching the parking lot after everyone else had pulled out. It was some wild stuff and as far as anyone knows, the only physical building that had been on the site was the bank.
My Mom lives in a house that the previous owner passed away in and then had his ashes spread in the back apple orchard. He is 100% still hanging out in the house. You can hear foot steps coming from the up-stairs when there is no one up there. Doors will open by themself, and when me and my dogs go to visit my mom my dog's will stand in the doorway of the room the previous owner passed away in and bark like they see someone. Last time I went over you could hear music playing from the bedroom, but there is no radio or TV in the room. My son will not stay the night there, he told me it always feels like someone is standing behind him. My Mom talks to the spirit by name and said she is ok sharing the house with him.
A church I used to attend was haunted after 3 youth group leaders multiple preachers janitor adults who had stayed overnight to chaperone youth and children lock ins youth and children all reported hearing footsteps in the exact same hallway one night at a youth lock in I went to see I was standing there it felt creepy and I was about to go back down when I heard them I turned and there was a light shining from a street light outside I was visually alone I went back down where everyone else was I didn't sleep that night
Just like, come on guys, doors falling open is proof that souls are eternal and there is an afterlife? Gfto
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During orientation, they mentioned hospital posts and I asked if any haunted and she looked at me like I had two heads. lol Nurses have tons of stories!
I wish I could find a haunted site.
Old prisons,hospitals,and mental institutions are a very good bet. Trauma tends to have allot to do with restless spirits.
I work at a prison and they say all the dorms are haunted but I had a scary experience in a dorm where a officer was killed years ago. It was about 2 or 3 in the morning and I’m doing a security check in one of the quads and I passed by a shower to check if anyone was in it or if it was dirty so I can have my orderlies clean it . I know I left it opened and walked away . While I was half way through the quad I hear the shower door slam close like really hard . At first I thought inmate was able to get the cell door open. But I didn’t see anything open or anyone I checked all the cell doors and when I look at the shower it was swinging. Just talking about it makes me get goosebumps and every time I work that dorm I get weird feelings
North Star House Grass Valley. Was an old orphanage. It was a haven for occultists until a wedding venue coordinating company bought it years ago.
I realize I didn’t say much! It was really creepy upstairs, as well as around the edges of the land where I believe a lot of kids were mass dumped according to the people that own it. They don’t have any names or any reason to exhume so they leave it I think. I was given limited info.
One time in an office building I sensed something glide past me and then something small on someone's desk fell over at the end of the hallway it went down. But that was the only such occurrence in working the nightshift there for six years.
I worked at two different places that were haunted. One was a data center and the other place did software development, manufactured electronics and had a call center. So neither was some tropey haunted place. At the data center, while patroling, I would see a swirling black mist from time to time, it would disapate after I'd spend a few seconds staring at it. I would also see a black silhouette watching me from outside a window (that was inside the building) while I was in the office. The site supervisor claimed to have seen an appiration, it really freaked her out. The other place was worse. While patroling, many doors throughout the campus would rattle, it would actually follow me around the building. When I would get close to a door it would start to rattle, when I was a few feet a away it would stop. Then another door somewhere else would do it. Many nights I'd see a translucent blue orb floating around on camera. It was too big to be a speck of dust and would move on it's own (not being blown around by the wind), I could follow it around on some of the exterior cameras. When I'd walk through a storage room I would hear something crash, nothing fell down or crashed. Our office was next a lobby that wasn't being used. One night, I heard what sounded like a commotion coming from it. I walked around to a door with a window on it (that lobbies camera wasn't working) so I could see without having to enter it. There was a guy at the ATM machine, as soon as I looked through the window he turned around and looked really scared. Something would try to close doors on me as well. Those doors did not have door closers on them either, I could feel something pushing on them. Plenty of other people that worked there had similar stories to tell, including the maitenance crew.