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Heather Files - Winter Haven, Florida - November 2007
When I was 20 years old I moved to Haines City, with my boyfriend at the
time. I was working in Winter Haven at a furniture and home decor store.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, myself and my assistant manager used to show up
at the store at 6 AM to unload a shipment off of a 40-foot truck. That
morning I picked my assistant manager up and headed out to the store. We
walked in the front doors and locked them behind us. He and I were the only
two people in the store. As we walked in he told me that he was going to the
bathroom to change. The bathrooms are located in the far-back corner of the
store and I watched him walk into the hall where they are at. I walked into
the stock room to get ready to unload a truck. I was alone in the stock room
and all the doors in the store were locked. We were completely alone.
I set my stuff down and grabbed a box and started to take the contents out
of it. As I was doing this I looked up and saw a shadow figure standing
behind some boxes that were stacked waist-high. It was just like a cardboard
cut-out of a person, but they were completely black. It didn't move its head
or anything, it just stood there looking straight forward. But I had the
feeling that it was looking around to see if the coast was clear.
I was looking at this thing for about five minutes. Then, all of a sudden I
had the feeling it was looking at me and realized that I knew it was there.
That's when it ducked back behind the box as if it was hiding. I ran to look
behind the box and there was nothing there. I checked the whole stock room
and I even went back to the bathrooms to see if my assistant manager was
still there. I thought it was someone messing with me. When I went back to
the restrooms and my assistant manager came out and asked me what was wrong,
I told him what happened and he looked stunned. He said that I was the first
person to actually meet the "Stock Room Ghost" face-to-face. Apparently
everyone who worked there knew something like that was in the store. They
were all experiencing little things, but I was the first person to come
face-to-face with it. I love having experiences like this, and that, among
other experiences I've had helped me found my paranormal group in Central
Florida.
