Creeping out Your Coworkers
I work in a really old hotel. My coworker, Sanchell, loves ghost stories. She enjoys sharing them with guests, and pretty much anyone who will listen. She's not very good at listening to other people tell stories, though.
For instance, one night, as she was getting ready to take over the shift, she asked if she'd told me about her "encounters" in the office. I said no, and settled in for her story.
"There was one night, I was sitting at the back desk, and I heard people talking. It sounded really close, too! I thought it might have been one of the guests outside the office door, but I went and checked, and there wasn't anybody there. The voices had stopped, too. I went back into the office, and sat back down at the back desk. About a minute later, the voices started talking again. I asked who was there, and it stopped. The maintenance guy told me it might have been a conversation carried down from one of the rooms above the office, through the vents, since the A/C vent is right behind the desk. It was still weird, though.
Then, there was the thing in the manager's office...that shelf is in front of it now, but it used to be that if I had the door at a certain angle, riiiiiiight there...I'd see the silhouette of a man. I mentioned it to the manager one day, and she started asking me all these questions about it, then told me I was imagining it...like she knew what I was talking about, and didn't want me bringing it up."
At this point, I felt the need to intervene.
"That's nothing," I said. "I might not have seen any of these mists, or heard voices, but I'll show you something that's been catching my eye since the day I started working here."
I pointed across the hall, to where our Coke machine is.
"Look at the marble wall, right next to the vending machine. You might not see it at first...but keep looking."
After a few minutes of looking at it, she gasped, and said, "Oooh...that's...why did you show me that?! Now I'll never be able to unsee it!!! How did you find that, anyway?"
"Got bored sitting at the front desk without a book or anything when I was being trained. I kinda spent my free time staring off into space. After a while of staring at the wall over there, I noticed it."
She didn't bring up her scary stories again after that. Not to me, anyway. Her latest caper involved trying to convince her niece that the hotel was haunted by the "Valentine's Day Ghost", who would call up to your room around midnight, and if you answered, it would wait outside your room. She got Aline to call their room, and completely freaked them all out.
For instance, one night, as she was getting ready to take over the shift, she asked if she'd told me about her "encounters" in the office. I said no, and settled in for her story.
"There was one night, I was sitting at the back desk, and I heard people talking. It sounded really close, too! I thought it might have been one of the guests outside the office door, but I went and checked, and there wasn't anybody there. The voices had stopped, too. I went back into the office, and sat back down at the back desk. About a minute later, the voices started talking again. I asked who was there, and it stopped. The maintenance guy told me it might have been a conversation carried down from one of the rooms above the office, through the vents, since the A/C vent is right behind the desk. It was still weird, though.
Then, there was the thing in the manager's office...that shelf is in front of it now, but it used to be that if I had the door at a certain angle, riiiiiiight there...I'd see the silhouette of a man. I mentioned it to the manager one day, and she started asking me all these questions about it, then told me I was imagining it...like she knew what I was talking about, and didn't want me bringing it up."
At this point, I felt the need to intervene.
"That's nothing," I said. "I might not have seen any of these mists, or heard voices, but I'll show you something that's been catching my eye since the day I started working here."
I pointed across the hall, to where our Coke machine is.
"Look at the marble wall, right next to the vending machine. You might not see it at first...but keep looking."
After a few minutes of looking at it, she gasped, and said, "Oooh...that's...why did you show me that?! Now I'll never be able to unsee it!!! How did you find that, anyway?"
"Got bored sitting at the front desk without a book or anything when I was being trained. I kinda spent my free time staring off into space. After a while of staring at the wall over there, I noticed it."
She didn't bring up her scary stories again after that. Not to me, anyway. Her latest caper involved trying to convince her niece that the hotel was haunted by the "Valentine's Day Ghost", who would call up to your room around midnight, and if you answered, it would wait outside your room. She got Aline to call their room, and completely freaked them all out.