Hello again everyone..
Had a few odd experiences over the years and i've posted a couple on here.. Just thought i'd throw out there my latest quite unremarkable but worth mentioning oddity.
I work in an industrial unit and have for over 20yrs. I'm in a small team or often on my own - moreso in covid with furlough reducing staff and visitor numbers.. I dont think i'm going stir crazy - I dont mind working on my own - to be honest I prefer it. I dont get freaked out by opening or locking up in the dark or being in places on my own.
It's a trade outlet of the type thrown up on old brownfield land. Brick and breezeblock at the bottom with corrugated top sides and roof and a solid concrete floor. This unit is in good condition and was erected in the 1990's. All utilities are at the front of the building. Rear is racking and bare walls/floor.
It does not happen very often but sometimes you get the feeling someone is there or you are being watched. Mainly at the back of the unit. I seem to have narrowed it down to a particular aisle near the rear of the building. There are no electrical supplies or drainage pipes in the area, vermin or seemingly anything that would be causing an unease or noise. It just feels odd - with the old peripheral vision shadows I have experienced before in the house I used to live in. It can go months or even years without happening but then for a day or even a week the feeling is back. Also items slide and fall from shelves. Items we sell can and do slide around from time to time so this normally would not appear unusual. What is unusual is that the only aisle that it ever seems to happen on is this one aisle. I've moved stock around but the new products do the same. Sat in the office you'll hear a slide, a clang and it rolling along the floor.
I've had the main door open on a number of occasions and thought that someone has wandered in and to the back of the unit but there is no-one there. We used to get pestered by thieves years ago so it's best to be vigilant even though we have nothing worth nicking that could be sold on to anyone but a specialist field.
From my research the area used to be old terraced housing. The only thing of note in the newspaper archive is a sad death of a young woman who fell down some stairs in 1935. The yard she stumbled into and died would be around the area of this aisle. I find myself saying hello to "Ethel" occasionally just to be polite. A friend recently suggested laying some trigger items to see if they'd move or a recording device but "she" has gone again now. Hopefully I can try something next time whatever makes it's presence felt.
Had a few odd experiences over the years and i've posted a couple on here.. Just thought i'd throw out there my latest quite unremarkable but worth mentioning oddity.
I work in an industrial unit and have for over 20yrs. I'm in a small team or often on my own - moreso in covid with furlough reducing staff and visitor numbers.. I dont think i'm going stir crazy - I dont mind working on my own - to be honest I prefer it. I dont get freaked out by opening or locking up in the dark or being in places on my own.
It's a trade outlet of the type thrown up on old brownfield land. Brick and breezeblock at the bottom with corrugated top sides and roof and a solid concrete floor. This unit is in good condition and was erected in the 1990's. All utilities are at the front of the building. Rear is racking and bare walls/floor.
It does not happen very often but sometimes you get the feeling someone is there or you are being watched. Mainly at the back of the unit. I seem to have narrowed it down to a particular aisle near the rear of the building. There are no electrical supplies or drainage pipes in the area, vermin or seemingly anything that would be causing an unease or noise. It just feels odd - with the old peripheral vision shadows I have experienced before in the house I used to live in. It can go months or even years without happening but then for a day or even a week the feeling is back. Also items slide and fall from shelves. Items we sell can and do slide around from time to time so this normally would not appear unusual. What is unusual is that the only aisle that it ever seems to happen on is this one aisle. I've moved stock around but the new products do the same. Sat in the office you'll hear a slide, a clang and it rolling along the floor.
I've had the main door open on a number of occasions and thought that someone has wandered in and to the back of the unit but there is no-one there. We used to get pestered by thieves years ago so it's best to be vigilant even though we have nothing worth nicking that could be sold on to anyone but a specialist field.
From my research the area used to be old terraced housing. The only thing of note in the newspaper archive is a sad death of a young woman who fell down some stairs in 1935. The yard she stumbled into and died would be around the area of this aisle. I find myself saying hello to "Ethel" occasionally just to be polite. A friend recently suggested laying some trigger items to see if they'd move or a recording device but "she" has gone again now. Hopefully I can try something next time whatever makes it's presence felt.
I'd feel there was a man in the corner of the room watching. He didn't speak or intervene, he was just there.
