A friend of mine who is really into paranormal stuff, though, says that in cases like that, it could very well be poorly shielded or deteriorated electrical wiring. It’s actually the electromagnetic radiation that people are sensing subtly and they find it unpleasant and off-putting.

My building here at work is a former Masonic temple (the temple itself is still there on the fifth floor!), and is supposedly hsunted, but I often work until 8:30 or 9:00 at night and have never seen or felt anything.

When I first started, I was training on the evening shift, and went to get supper trays w/ my trainer. They weren’t ready, so he went out for a smoke and I decided to hit the ladies’ room nearby. This bathroom had showers as well, with toilets in a room behind them. I heard the showers running, and a couple women chatting back and forth, laughing (I think they were ragging on men, not sure though, I was trying not to listen. Kinda wish I’d listened). I opened the door. All noise stopped. The room was dark, showers not on, nobody there. I flipped the lights on and went into the other room. That one was empty as well. I decided I didn’t really need to go that bad and left ASAP.

Last Halloween (how cliche is that? though it was actually early morning Nov. 1, near 2 or so), I was mopping the floor next to a dark, locked, empty room. (general patient group space) I glanced up at the window in the door. There was someone sitting on a chair in the middle of the room. Leaning back, one leg crossed over the other, arms folded across chest, head turned to the window in the door, lit mostly from behind by a light in the parking lot. Couldn’t see a face, but from head and body position, it was looking at me. At first I thought it was one of the patients we had at the time. I looked down the hall to my coworkers, thought to myself “how could [patient] have gotten in there?”, glanced back. Nobody. Not even the chair.

There were 2 schools of thought at the place. Those who thought it was haunted, and those who hadn’t experienced anything.

(I’m also usually pretty skeptical when it comes to the paranormal, but I’ve had some friends here who’ve experienced some pretty freaky late-night things.)

When I was about 14 I was doing a school project in living room and I was home alone. All the sudden a paper grocery bag that I had cut apart started spinning in circles. I put my hand on it to stop it and I looked to see if the ceiling fan was on, it wasn’t. I went back to working and it started spinning again, not quickly either. Then all the map pencils I was using I had lined up in a row. They started rolling away, 10 would roll I’d push them back, 5 would roll, the whole pile would roll. I just kept pushing them back. Finally, I got frustrated and I said alound” I’m trying to do my work so I can go to bed, please stop playing with me now. And it was over.

Lots of weirdness always happened but thats the one that was most interactive.

@ Jenny-my mom does that to me all the time! Although I’ve done that to her too, so maybe it’s just an odd mother-daughter bond.

When I was 14 though, I had a friend sleep over. Being 14, we had lit a scented candle in my room around 8pm or so, but blew it out a couple of hours later. We went to bed, I think around 1am, and the lights had not been off long before I heard my friend go “Kate….look at the candle….” The candle, which had been out for easily 2 hours, was suddenly burning like it had just been lit. We ran out of the room to my parents, who were in bed, and when they came back with us the flame was very, very low. It was seriously creepy.

Another time my mom and I were in the living room near one of our lamps, when it slowly went out and then slowly came back on. Not flicker. It was very odd.

Thankfully, I never saw anything. The candle incident made me terrified to be the only person awake in the house, and I think if I ever saw anything my fiance and I would need to get a hotel room when we go visit.