February 27, 2008
My Haunted Office
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Sean, Las Vegas, Nevada, Summer 2005
It was the summer of 2005, just a few months after I had taken a new
position at my job in the warranty department. Right before I had begun
working in this department, there was an encounter with the woman I had
replaced, and the two others in the department, where several items at the
top of the Manager's desk had come tumbling off as if someone had swept them
off with their arm. This was a large open office. As you walk in the door
you had three desks, two to your left, and one across from the door. To your
right were several filing cabinets forming a horseshoe shape, with the only
opening close to the door-side of the room. The file cabinets were too tall
to see over, bit didn't reach the ceiling.
My first experience here: I was returning from lunch, and as I walked in the
door, I noticed the other two desks were empty. My desk was in the far left
corner. I sat down and immediately heard the very common sound of paper
rustling in the file area. I assumed of course one of my co-workers was
going through the files. I called out, "Who's over there?" in kind of a
jokingly way... no answer. I continued to work, my radio was playing and the
paper continued to rustle. After maybe five minutes, my curiosity go the
best of me since I didn't get an answer to my question. I began to wonder if
it was someone who wasn't supposed to be there. The rustling stopped, I
turned to see if someone was coming out from behind the row of file
cabinets. After a few seconds I got up, walked over to the filing area, and
found nobody there, no papers out of place, no drawers open, nothing. My
boss walked in as I was still standing there, and I told him about what had
happened.
Approximately a year later I was again alone in the office. I got up to take
some files over to the cabinets. When I reached about five feet from the
opening to the file area, I heard what (to me) was the unmistakable sound of
a child running barefoot away from me and rounding the corner of the file
cabinets. I could not find anything downstairs or outside that could have
made that sound.
