Haunted Work Places

[SJGee]

Does anyone think that the place where they work is haunted?

Where I work, we are convinced that the ladies loos are haunted!! You have to walk through a double set of doors before you enter the sink area, and there are two cubicles around the corner.

Whenever you walk in, you get the feeling that there is already someone in there and she/he rushes off into a cubicle before you enter.

But of course - there is no one there!!!

Spooky...............:fright:

[dutchie]

hmmmm, sounds like it's the entrance to the chamber of secrets. the ghost probably is Jenny. Can you speak snakeish, SJG?

[SJGee]

:lol:

Very funny, Dutchie.

But I am being serious here - there is a consensus at work that there seems to be some kind of presence in the toilets.

I've tried to invesitgate the history of the building - it used to be the headquarters for Outspan before we took it over - but I have no idea what was here before then.

[lotrfan55345]

They have Harry Potter in Holland too? WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO!:lol:


I think any closet/bathroom feels like it is haunted. I dunno why, I used to refrain for awhile not to go to the bathroom if my parents weren't on the same floor. :o


(PS Dutchie, it's Ginny not Jenny:p )

[dutchie]

Oh, Sorry - that's the miserable translation for you...

No SJG, I know what you mean. I think almost anyone must have had this experience: you come into a room (could be almost anything, as a child I had it in a wardrobe - I can still smell that musty smell, mixed with leather shoes) and you SENSE a "presence". But it's funny you only have it at work, I still have it in many rooms and places, but strange enough I never had it at work.

I talked about this with my wife. She's a psychotherapist, a hypnotherapist to be more precise. So she takes people into a hypnotic trance and guides them on a tour through their subsconcience to the point where their present problems come from. I used to be very skeptical about this (I thought she's entitled to choose any hobby), but now I'm starting to see there's more to this than meets the eye.

Now my wife is convinced that there is a "spirit world" surrounding us, where "impressions" of peoples spirits still are present. It's all related to dying people having a strong feeling that they still have some unfinished business on this earth, and leaving a small image behind. This unfinished business can be the fact that someone was very young, or that someone's left a very strong relationship behind. Now these images will fade through time, but they can reside in some places for many years. We would call them ghosts.

Now personally, I can see some point into this, I just don't believe there is any consciousness involved. But it's true that I sometimes really can sense a presence, although I am an as down to the ground person as anyone.

[keratas]

In response to the creator of this topic, funnily enough the females at work believe the loos are haunted as well!!!

Being the insensitive prick I am though, their claims are usually met with laughter but I do believe them anyway.

They claim that it is a female who haunts one of the cubicles, and many a time they have seen her walk either in the room or just outside the entrance.

A security guard had witnessed something and quit the same day!

Someone has reason to believe something tragic happened in our building, which was once a secondary school (It is now a Tertiary education institution)

[SJGee]

Thanks for that - glad I'm not on my own then.

I had an experience at the weekend in the toilet of a pub. It's a long story but I got incredibly spooked in there!

[dutchie]

Thanks for that - glad I'm not on my own then.

I had an experience at the weekend in the toilet of a pub. It's a long story but I got incredibly spooked in there!
Let's have it then...

[keratas]

Let's have it then...

Yes, please tell when you have time...

[lotrfan55345]

Yes, bathrooms are haunted. (Seriously) I haff no clue why.

[SJGee]

OK - you twisted my arm. This is a brief version of what happened:


I went to an old pub for a meal with hubby and friends. I went to the loo, and then when i was washing my hands i felt something was in the room with me. I didn't have the nerve to look in the mirror so I turned round - couldn't see anything but I just felt so spooked that I had to run out of there. For the rest of the evening I felt really weird - a feeling of dread and foreboding was in me and I couldn't shake it off. I feared for my children - and rushed home to see if anything had happened to them - that was how strong the feeling was. I'm happy to say they were ok and then feeling left me.

I have since found out that the pub resided in a village that was completely wiped out by the plague and that hardly anyone lives there now.

I believe that a presence was in the toilet that left an impression in me that was so strong I couldn't shake it off. It wasn't evil but it was obviously in deep despair.

[dutchie]

OK - you twisted my arm. This is a brief version of what happened:


I went to an old pub for a meal with hubby and friends. I went to the loo, and then when i was washing my hands i felt something was in the room with me. I didn't have the nerve to look in the mirror so I turned round - couldn't see anything but I just felt so spooked that I had to run out of there. For the rest of the evening I felt really weird - a feeling of dread and foreboding was in me and I couldn't shake it off. I feared for my children - and rushed home to see if anything had happened to them - that was how strong the feeling was. I'm happy to say they were ok and then feeling left me.

I have since found out that the pub resided in a village that was completely wiped out by the plague and that hardly anyone lives there now.

I believe that a presence was in the toilet that left an impression in me that was so strong I couldn't shake it off. It wasn't evil but it was obviously in deep despair.
Why always the toilets, I ask myself?!? At work, in the pub... Strange...

[SJGee]

I also think it is strange too.

However, my thoughts are that the toilets in the pub have probably not always been toilets - it was probably an old bedroom or something, before indoor plumbing came along.

The toilets at work, however, have always been toilets.

[dutchie]

I also think it is strange too.

However, my thoughts are that the toilets in the pub have probably not always been toilets - it was probably an old bedroom or something, before indoor plumbing came along.

The toilets at work, however, have always been toilets.
You're right about that. But still... the places where few people come, or where you have a high risc of being alone, seem to be most prone to these experiences of yours. When I was a kid, I used to have that too: when I was alone in my own bedroom I never felt any presence, but when I went to the attic (we had a very old, large house, with an enormous attic) where all the old stuff was stored, I always felt some sort of presence.
Is this in some way applicable to the experiences you had?

[Kohler]

now that i think about it, in one of the bathroom's in my school when i'm in there alone, the automatic sink will turn on by itself and sometimes you can hear the locks on stalls close and open.

i always just assumed it was mechanical errors which just needed a little fixing, but since you put it this way.... :confused:

[lotrfan55345]

O_o

It's Moaning Mertyl from Harry Potter

/just kidding

Really, most bathrooms are haunted. :Bog:

[Chrisboe4ever]

I believe that my apratment is haunted, or at least the building is, anyway. Occassionally, I will feel a strong presense mysteriously appear in my room, out of nowhere. And sometimes lights will turn on and off. Things also end up moved around when no one else was around to move them. I remember puting some masking tape on my kitchen counter, turning my back for a second, and then turning around and finding that the tape was all the way at the other end of the kitchen.