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Episode 5: Clocked In and Creeped Out · Rumor Busters

• Rumor Busters Podcast: Hello! Finally back to the podcast! Sorry guys, I got the flu last week. I had a fever, a headache, my chest was burning, and I had a very terrible dry cough, but we're back. Excuse to sleep in. Okay, I lost two days of pay. I had no sick time. That's horrible. I know. Tell me about it. Are you gonna come cuddle? We have all the dogs plus my mom's dog, Maisie, here today. Welcome back to the Rumor Busters Podcast. Where we are FBI agents solving your spooky stories today. Yes. we're s since it's Halloween tomorrow when this episode comes out, we have all of our Halloween decorations. And of course, Jesus is watching. I saw that. So don't do anything inappropriate on Halloween. Dress very modestly. No devils. Be the Jesus. Okay, well, we're talking haunted houses, hotels, creepy co workers, mysterious guests, unexplained encounters. And all the terrifying things that can happen when you're trying to collect a paycheck. And the best part, Becca and I actually have some pretty creepy workplace stories of our own. Yeah, we do. we worked together at a hotel for a couple of years, and let's just say we weren't always convinced that everyone hanging around us was registered guests. So grab your fave blanket, turn on the lights, and let's get ready for some horror stories. First, do you believe in ghosts, Ellie? No. Now that's crazy because we worked at a hotel together and there was definitely ghosts there. And I'm bringing out my country accent apparently. That's last week. Whoopsie. you can't eat the paper. She's just a puppy. She wants to eat everything and everything. no. boopo. we got mic stands. How nice. More and more professional every freaking week. This is really nice actually. So we can go ahead and get started with the hotel where we worked. Because we got some splaining to do. Okay. There's gonna be a video posted in here at some point or a link to the video. It'll be here or something. And you'll understand why the hotel was so scary. before we get into stories from other people, we have to share our own experiences. We want to share our own experiences. Becca and I worked together at a hotel for a couple of years, and during that time some strange things really happened. I'm not talking about your average weird hotel guest. I'm talking about things that to this day we still can't fully explain. And though I don't believe in ghosts. This was a little spooky and there were spooky things that happened there. So we'll just leave it at that. so we were both front desk agents and breakfast connoisseurs. We were the pancake mixers. We actually got in a on a in an argument one time while we were working there. Little eighteen-year-olds getting upset with each other about how to mix pancake mix. I don't even remember what it was about. I know. I think it was something about how I was going to do something in the front, like make coffee or something, and I told Ellie to go mix the pancake mix. And it was a really bad day. Okay. It was a really bad day. And I overheard Ellie in our manager's office saying that I was really bossy. And I remember I sent you a text and I said, If you have a problem with me, you can just tell me. You don't have to go to my boss. Which is actually funny because many years later during COVID, because this was like I said, we were both fresh out of high school when we were working here. Just graduated. And years later during COVID, I had posted something about wearing a mask because I worked in a nursing home and I was fucking over it. And she's goes, she commented on it. And then she blocked me, but she commented and said, there you are, just as bossy as you've always been. Who? Stephanie. it was all because of me. Ma'am. That's so rude. How long did we work there together? I was there from March of 2013. No, April. Because it was spring break. Because that's a lot of trauma in that hotel for me, okay? I remember the whole thing. I don't know. So what happens when you work with a boyfriend? It's never a good idea. I worked with a boyfriend and I don't remember one bit. Well, you didn't have a dramatic event while you were working there. I did. We had to go down when the hotel flooded and we had to go work in the end of the hotel in Lacan. Well, you weren't there then. Yes, I was. you were? Yeah. Okay. I worked from I worked from spring break until January of twenty fourteen when I started at Squim Health and Rehab. So I was almost there a full year. Okay. I think I was there. I think I was there a little bit longer because you had left. Yeah. And I kept working and then I left because that Biatch started. Whatever the hell her name was. The manager or lady. I personally didn't hear any scary stories about the place until I started working there. Did you hear anything about it before? I don't think so either. You actually don't hear a lot about creepy hotels, creepy places around this town 'cause there's such old like imagine the granary, the new granary that I bottled. There's gotta be creepy stories about people dying in there at one point. There's gotta be some abnormalities. Yeah, like that house off of Old Olympic. Yeah. Yes. You know. If you know, what I'm talking about. Yeah. It you used to be able to go up to it and stuff, but now there's trust no trespassing all over the place. Because someone vandalized it and knocked the windows out and spray painted the whole walls. Yeah. People used to take really cool pictures there. It's like black and white stuff. Yeah. Really cool. Super creepy old house. Hello. Hello. let's see. Were there certain parts of the hotel that were creepier than other? Yeah. Definitely the pool room when it was dark. Yeah. When it was dark. creepy in there. Yeah. I don't know why the staircase. But like over in the back area where the office is, and then you go around and there was the w an ice maker right there and then the stairs. There was a back door that leads to the outside where like employees would go out to smoke or whatever. That creeped me out. I don't know why. And then also the laundry room, the back side of the laundry room, like where the washer was and everything. I don't know why. Yeah. upstairs at the very end of the hall, the laundry closet or whatever, the supply closet for the housekeepers. There was some weird stuff going on in there. I heard a rumor that the guy who first owned the hotel and he really loved it and he passed away in the hotel. Specifically I I can't remember if it was room two twelve or two fifteen, but it was the one that Stephanie stayed in. 'Cause sh our manager lived at the hotel and so she stayed in that room. And I remember her telling us a couple of times she would take a shower and then the mirror would fog over and there would be like weird words like somebody had gone and written on the mirror. Yeah. So okay, we have to talk about the video that I was saying here just a moment ago. because it's definitely one of the creepiest things we have from our time there. There's actually footage of what appears to be an human-shaped orb that goes around the front desk, around the corner, they're going to get coffee. And I don't know how else to explain it. it's not like a little, one of those little dust orbs that you normally see in a picture, and everyone's like, there's a ghost. There's a ghost. No, this is like a full human being-shaped white figure walking all the way across the creepiest thing ever. Thank goodness it's still on YouTube. so we can go ahead and share that with everybody because that's really crazy. Crazy. Come on, Kate. So right here in this part of the podcast there will be the video. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, well, there's the video. I told you guys it was really freaking creepy. and how it was discovered was my ex who worked with us as well, he had been looking, I think he was talking with our boss, and and I could be totally telling this wrong. I don't really remember the whole story, but he was talking to our boss and he out of the corner of his eye saw something on the security camera and asked her to play it back. And then he recorded it on his phone and posted it on YouTube. Thank you. Very nice. It's still on YouTube. Still there. It's very old video. But the phone that it was recorded on was very old. But you know, 20, 2013, 2014. Well, we were on the iPhone one. One. So iPod. Yeah, the iPod literally. I don't remember what everyone's reactions were like. I know all of us in the moment were like, Holy shit, that's scary. Yeah. That is so creepy. I did not like working in the mornings after seeing that video. I didn't like working there at all. And I had to work there sometimes till ten PM. Yeah. And then the night agent, she or the night auditor, she would come in and she'd sometimes like ten, fifteen minutes late sometimes, and you're just sitting there and you're It just feels creepy, my gosh, did something eat her in the parking lot? Yeah. And I rem I didn't have a car at the time, so I had to walk down to the hotel, which was fine because I lived at the apartment complex right next door to it. And there but there was a trail to get down there. And as the grass would grow, it was always creepier and creepier. There were so many mornings where I'd be walking down there at like five thirty in the morning when it's so pitch black and I'd be like, Mom, can you just drive me down there? Cause I don't want to walk. No, I'm not getting up at 5 30 in the morning. So I walked that way a lot and it was really creepy. She's so asleep, beanie little girl. We've been very busy. we tried to find a new way to record this so we can monitor the microphone volume. Couldn't figure it out. so if you know anybody again who knows how to do podcasts. We also mics and stuff. A dinner tonight called the shepherd pie. Anyone's ever ate shepherd pie before? Ours, it looks very, very, very delicious. You'll probably see us eating it here in just a little bit. Yeah. In like the middle of the podcast. let's see. Did anyone ever come up with a reasonable explanation? No, it's a ghost. Period. What do you think it is? I don't know, paranormal activity. Exactly. That's a ghost. Now I know some people are going to say it's dust me. Lighting or a camera glitch and maybe it is, but we want to know what you think. Can you put your thoughts and theories in the comments, please? 'Cause I wanna know what you think it is. Let us know your paranormal activity story. You think it's a do you remember that movie? Paranormal activity. How could I forget about it? That movie freaked me out and killed me. I died while I was watching it. I remember consciousness. We all went, me and a bunch of friends went to the movie theater, and me and one of my friends were cracking up the whole time because it's so cheesy. And my other friend was crying because she was so scared. that is so funny. I love scary movies. We used to always every weekend, every Friday, my mom would pick us up from school and we'd go to the little video shop. It wasn't Blockbuster, it was just like an independently run little video shop in Sultan, Washington, because I didn't live here. And they had we would always get two family movies and then A scary movie, so me and my mom could watch the scary movie and we'd w watch scary movie every single weekend. Loved it. Until like we moved we lived in this house in the middle of the woods and then it kinda like got creepy to watch scary movies 'cause it was kind of like last house on the left kind of vibes where you're in like the woods and there's a cre there was this really creepy house that was right behind our house, like right besides behind it, through the woods and You would drive you could drive around, it was like around cul-de-sac and nobody lived there. the mailbox would be completely full, but there was a car in the driveway. But everything was overgrown. And sometimes you'd and I don't know, maybe it was because we were so young, we were just kids, but I swear that there was a couple of times we would see somebody standing in one of the windows with the light. They just didn't never leave. Yeah. How do you do that? People are that wasn't in the days of DoorDash and stuff. how did they get groceries? And they probably had a family member who so weird. So crazy. It was the craziest thing ever. But, anyways, back to the hotel. apparently, whatever was hanging around the lobby also seemed to enjoy recreational activities. because there were some weird things that happened in the pool room. there was one time that there was legit beach balls that were boop. They would just all of a sudden it would just be at the other side of the pool. Uh-uh. Yeah. They were playing playing ball. Yeah, the ghosts were playing ball. Yeah, I don't like that. Yeah, I didn't like it either. I was like. But also, I was kind of oblivious to things. I was like, huh. I mean, was oblivious to the point where I couldn't find the maintenance person and he was upsta upstairs smoking meth in the maintenance person. Gotta love small town shit. I basically walked in and I'm like, that's where you've been, smoking your drugs. that's cool. Like, can you help me please? Toilet paper flowing in this room or whatever. We also had a like remember there was two there was like two teenage girls that started working there and they were doing housekeeping and one of them would always wear yoga pants and whale tail her thong. And she had to get fired because she would never I think she got talked to a couple of I don't remember her name, but she got talked to a couple of times and she just wouldn't listen. So finally they had to fire her because she was just whail tailing her thong everywhere. Whale tailing, huh? Ellie. Yeah, like when it comes over your out your pants. You know, the the Y2K style that's coming back. Kevin's attacking me because I'm picking a scale. We leave your poor dog alone. It's been there for years. It's been there for years. Brush his hair, put some detangler in there. So, Becca, after all that, do you think that the hotel is actually haunted? Yes. Okay, I do too. She changed her mind. Look how easy it was. Well, apparently we're not the only people who've experienced some seriously creepy things. While trying to do our jobs because the internet is full of terrifying workplace stories. my god. Here we go. Story one. Story one. Yay. And you guys have been really bad at submitting your stories, so we're still using Reddit. Please. So get to it. Now hurry. Some of these are really old. Halloween, creepy stuff. Please, anything. Anything. I know you all Starting in January, we were gonna start having guests because we know it's a little crazy because it's during the holidays. I don't know why we decided to start the podcast right during the holidays. It's gonna be way crazy. I don't even know. Sometimes we have a week or two. Yeah, so we might have to like spend a Sunday just doing twenty episodes in a row. They did say that we're very inconsistent. And I'm like, so you are watching our videos, huh? I'm keeping up with it, he says. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. And all of you who work at Airflow better start watching and supporting us. Yeah. Because we say nice things about all of you. You know what? We don't talk about you guys. Not badly, anyways. I'm so sorry. Such a big scabby. Okay. Story one. This is from the subreddit. Let's not meet. Again, all of these will be posted down in the link or in the description. So you can read them for yourselves and explore the comments and blah blah blah blah blah. Here we go. R slash let's not meet creepy hotel guest posted seven years ago. When I was 19, I worked as a receptionist in a less than savory hotel and encountered a very creepy guest. During the winter season, the staff members were reduced significantly on the this night. It was only me and the bar bar man on the floor above the hotel. I checked in on an older gentleman, mister White, who was probably in his early fifties. Everything seemed normal, except for the fact that he star stared at me a lot. I put this down to him being just a regular pervy old old guy who liked to stare at young female receptionists. Typical. At around 10 p.m., Mr. White turned to the front desk and complained that there was a stain in his bed that resembled feces. Ew. Obviously this was a big problem, but due to maintenance work going on, half the hotel was shut and I couldn't move his room. So I said I'd go up and change the bed if he wanted to wait in the bar with a complimentary drink. Mr. White refused and said he wanted to make sure I wouldn't take anything from his room. So he would follow me. No. No, no, no, no, no. What if he locks the door, girl? Do not follow him. This is like the beginning of a scary movie. Don't follow. Don't go looking. Don't no no no. floor. It occurred to me then that Mr. White was wearing strange clothes. He had trousers on, but bare feet, and a zip-up jumper, but no shirt underneath. He complained for a minute that he slept naked, so he was annoyed when he got out of bed to go to the bathroom and stall saw a stain in the bed. Why didn't he check the bed before he even got in it? I always pull the sheets back before I get into the bed. God. I begin. Let's see. god. The dog. He said it was left by the cleaners, but I think he made it himself. I went to put the light on when I arrived, but he refused and said he put the bedside lamp on instead and drew the curtains. I began to strip the bed as quickly as possible, as I got a bad vibe from him, and all the time he watched me. He then began asking questions like How many people work here and where are all the other staff? I lied and said there were a lot of staff, but usually they worked inside rooms doing deep cleans, so guests didn't see them. He then said he hoped no one saw me come into his room, as people would think it was inappropriate that a man of his age had a girl of my age in his room, which I replied, There's nothing inappropriate. I'm clearly working. The question's Started to freak me out, and it occurred to me that I hadn't told the barman that I was going to the man's room. I got a sick feeling in my stomach. I got that sick feeling in my stomach when you've made a very, very bad decision. Then he asked, What would happen if I attacked you right now? No one would know you were here, and I'm much larger than you. At that point, I'd stopped what I was doing, looked him squarely in the face, and said, We don't need to worry about that because you aren't going to do that, are you? At that moment I felt genuinely scared. I was a four eleven, nine pound ninety pound girl standing in front of a man standing in a man's room with no one around if something were to go wrong. I decided the best course of action was would be to lie. So I pointed to a device clipped to my blouse and told him that it was a monitor and that wherever whenever I entered a guest's room, it tracked my location and recorded conversations as a safety device. In reality, it was simply a buzzer that vibrated when someone pressed the front desk buzzer. But he seemed genuinely convinced by this because he asked if he was being recorded now. I told him that it was being linked through to one of my colleagues who was actively listening. All this was said in a very polite way, but I made sure to look him in the eyes as I did it and maneuver myself towards the door. At one point he tried to come closer to me and position himself between me and the door, but I made it out as if I needed to get to the other side of the bed and pushed past him. At that point I had a buzzer come through, so I made my excuse to leave and went back to the front desk. I stayed there until eleven when the next recessionist took over. I didn't Mr. White again, but his whole demeanor creeped me out massively and stood out amongst all the negative encounters as near miss very inappropriate men. That's sick. That is so scary. Sick. And disgusting people are like that. And they like doing that to people who are vulnerable. It's so gross. get over yourself. Why don't you find someone your own age? Old man. Literally, would you have followed him to his room? No. Absolutely not. Why would anyone do that? I would have given him new sheets for himself. You haven't watched any horror movies? I definitely would have just given him new new sheets and said, Here you go. Yeah, we wouldn't do that too. We wouldn't go to his room and change the sheets for him. But here, here's some new sheets. Sorry, we're not housekeeping, we're reception. I that's what she had to do when we worked there. Yeah, literally. People would come up and ask for shit all the time and you'd have to give it to them. And sometimes you'd be like, sorry, we're actually we're really cheap and broke hotel and we don't have any extra stuff to give out. Yeah. would you have Mr. Kim would never buy stuff for that place? Terrible. Terrible, terrible. Would you have what what would at what point if you would have followed him to his room, would you think that you would have left? Like Yeah, I think when I realized he had no shirt on under his jacket and no shoes on, yeah. I've probably been like, okay, this is weird. As a 19 year old girl, I don't know if I would have realized as much, but because you're kind of naive when you're so young, you know, kind of kinda give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but definitely as I've gotten older, nobody gets the benefit anymore of any of my doubts. No. Ugh. You're sick. Do you think that the bedding complaint was simply an excuse to get her into the room? I think so too. Could have been. I don't think there she didn't even say if there was anything on the bedding in the story. So that would definitely be an interesting like poop. Yeah, question to be answered if there was actually something on the bed or poop bedding. And then to know how like how fresh it looked, because what if he did do it himself to get them in the room, you know? Yeah, like I just poopied the bed for you. Yeah. Although I will give her props, her pager, her little pager story was really smart. Yeah. Just go to sleep, honey. She's She's so pooped from all the other binos. She's so cute. And compared to her, he's large. Gosh. And now she is. She is just so sweet. It's so cute. Tired girl. She's so tiny. Come on, Kev. Come on, Kiv. Come on, Kevin. You can Kevin. Hi. Come on, Kev. Kevin. She loves him. It's so sweet. Damn you, Kevin. Hey, where you going? We should just have a dog podcast, honestly. Talk about all our dog stories. right. And now we can safely say that the living are a whole lot scarier than the dead. And now on to the next story, which Ellie will be reading for us. Yep. Here we go. Where is it? Found it. Number two. Okay, story two. Paranormal. I work at a hotel. This was posted five years ago. I work at a Ham Hampton Inn and Suites and I've always had paranormal experiences throughout my life, but I recently started work from 10 p.m. to six a.m. doing audits at a hotel. I'm by myself and things seem to be more active on the shift. I've spoken to other employees and they've noticed weird things happening and a few have seen figures. They have told me about elevators opening and closing without anyone in them, things rolling over across the room. The movement sensor lights going off in locked rooms that no one has access to things like that. Innocent things and I don't think much of it. I noticed things like that on my two to ten PM shift when I first started working, but I kind of just brushed it off. I was the only one on shift, but there was a constant flow of people in and out of the lobby, so I was around people a lot. My first night working 10 to 6, I was with someone so he could train me. The radios got staticky and loud at around 2.30 to 3. He said we just have to turn them off because they do that sometimes. Ghost. Literally interfering. So the next day I came in and made sure to turn off all the radios when I got there so I wouldn't have to hear it at two to two two. 30 to 3 rolled around and the radio started making their sound again. You can understand my confusion and fear. I made sure that they were all off. The motion light in the PBX room, it's pretty much a big room full of computers and it's controls all the Wi-Fi and systems and computers that run turned on. I'm the only one on shift and no one else is allowed in the back. I walk back there, no one. I shrug it off and head to the kitchen. It's about 3 30 at this point, and again, the motion light turns on. Ugh. In the pantry the door was closed, but I could see the light turn on from the crack underneath the door. No. So fuck. There might be some really crazy electrical problems going on there. Yeah. Or there's ghosts. Things like this happen a lot now, but it freaks me out the most when I'll be walking around and feel something tug on my ponytail over here. Again, only one on shift and no one else around. I'll be walking so there's nothing for it to snag on. We also have plexus glass dividers to separate us from the guests and I can see my reflection in them and I tend to see movement behind me in the glass sometimes. A wall is behind me so no one's walking behind me without noticing. It freaks me out, but I don't think it's out to hurt me. I don't know what entity it is at this hotel, but it seems to be much more playful than the others I've encountered tonight. I heard something fall over when I was walking into the back office. The top to a large hand sanitizer bottle was taken off and laying on the floor. The bottle spilled on the counter, and my hair gets tugged a lot more often now. This is just a short list of things that happen on my shifts. I'm getting used to it, but still it freaks me out. my god. I don't having your hair pulled? Or your lanyard? What if the ghost paranormal activity? The ghost is gonna kill ya. I'd go to a different job. Literally. my gosh, that's so crazy. Ugh. Ugh. I don't like it. That's just so weird. And it always happened at the same like around the same time. the same times in the middle of the night. Yeah. Between 2 30 and 3. The witching hour. And then the light on in the pantry. And you can see it turn on yourself when the door's closed. Cause you could see the light from underneath the door. Maybe they had a I know you haven't watched the movie yet, but you definitely need two back rooms. I don't know how many of you have watched it, but y'all need to watch it. but it kind of reminds me of that. There's like These lights that keep flickering and then they go to the electrical panel and there's these random switches that are just placed on there randomly and they turn them off and the lights stop flickering, but then the guy can go through the wall into these rooms that just go on and on and on, and there's like weird monsters and creepy people and just every it's like a separate reality and it's just like the weirdest thing ever. That's what it reminded me of. You think it you just think it's some electrical problems, but really there's some people in their graves leaving their graves and haunting the hotel. Special police Ghostbusters. That's what we should have dressed up as for in this podcast. Damn. Gosh. Remind us next year, guys. Gosh, yeah, that's so crazy. Yeah. What would you do if something physically pulled your hair? I think I would honestly leave. yeah. I would call my manager and say bye. I think it's time for me to go. There's definitely something here and I am very uneasy. Something Something or someone or call the police a bajillion times. I think it's just best for me to leave. I think everyone will be just fine without someone working. Ugh, yes. A lot of place go rant can run without people there. Yeah. Like people are just staying the night. I wonder if guests ever any ever said anything about it. Because we had a guest that stayed at the hotel one time and he was a ghost hunter and he asked us to stay in his stay in our most haunted room and he recorded stuff in the middle of the night. And he didn't know that. He was supposed to email it to us, but he never he never did. He was just there to steal our pride. Probably. Our pride and joy. Ugh. Screepy scary. I don't like it. Spooky dookies. I don't like that. Listen, I don't care if you're a ghost or a paying guest, if you start to pull on my hair, we're going to have a problem. I'd be punching the air. Yeah. I'd yeah. Maybe watch it on the security camera. See like, what the hell is going on? Yeah. I'd get a vacuum and suck you up, ghost. Now on story four. gosh. Story number three. R slash night shift. I might have just wrote the wrong thing on there. Scariest night shift experiences posted six years ago. Isn't it funny that all of these were posted during COVID? People must have been really bored. I just started at a I just started nights at a crisis safe house. Earlier in the night, everything was chill. Clients had taken their meds earlier and were sleepy. Everyone was making small talk. Before my shift, I Talked with the previous coworker. They said everything was fine, but kept an eye on the cameras. There was an incident of a suspicious vehicle circling the place. Ooh, I don't like that. They called a security check. Other than that, they wished me good luck and left. Clients started to go to bed. I did paperwork. I made a special coffee. I heard what I thought was rain against a window. I listened more and realized that. It sounds like a teeny singular piece of hail. I try pulling up the cameras, but the previous ship shift logged out and I couldn't find the login info. A bunch of reach behind me. How rude. Five minutes later there was a loud and sundi sudden pounding on the door. It's a reinforced metal door and we keep it triple locked, especially at night. I am not supposed to answer it. I immediately stomped down the hall and assertedly yelled. Can I help you? The person on the other side gives a drunken growl and asks for blink. that they that they know she's fucking in there. The person is a current client and cannot and we cannot tell anyone who is and isn't there unless they're cleared by the clients first, of course. Right. Clearly this person has it out for someone in here. I say, hold on, and I'll get the client. Psych. I called the cops. Yeah. Who were stationed three minutes away. I explained the situation and they took care of the unwelcome guest. and they they couldn't catch him driving up drunk 'cause he was parked in a side lot. However, I called a tow company to get his shit so he can enjoy that on top of a couple of trespassing and harassment charges. I got to the camera, I got the camera login info from a coworker who answered the phone, pulled up the footage. The person who was pounding on the door had been standing outside silently for ten minutes just menacing. I couldn't tell if they were holding a small knife or a car key. It's not unusual for client clients to have people they testified against or flee come after them. It's a small town and people know where the safe house and centers are. I don't appreciate fuckery and the adrenaline rush kept me awake the rest of the shift. Yeah. Well thank you. That's definitely scarier than something paranormal. Yeah, I don't know. Sorry. A real person and you can't tell. you put a blanket. Yeah, and a defeated one. Okay, so nice and warm. That's so nice. So sweet. Thank you, Walmart. Ugh, I just can't. Yeah, would you have checked the cameras? Of course. Yes. I would have called somebody before. for sure. And been like, You guys didn't leave the login for me and you told me to keep an eye on the cameras. Yeah. Then I would save it on my phone so I'd never lose it again. Ugh. What would you do if someone was standing outside just watching you? I would call the cops. Yeah. I'd or well, just get your own bang bang and bang bang buy away. Yeah. See you later. Fucker. Ooh, have either of you ever dealt with a frightening or suspicious guest? Yeah. I don't remember if you were there that day. There was a really angry person, I was working in the conference room when that was our lobby because we had a big flood in the hotel. Yeah, some pipes burst. Pipe spurse. There was water everywhere. They had big, massive water damage. Surpro was there. It was like that for weeks. So we had to move our lobby temporarily down to our conference room, which was at the other end of the hotel. That was so with no lights down there. People would just walk in. You had no security footage over there. it was it was dark. It was dark in the conference room. There wasn't an actual desk. We had like a table, yeah. That we used and we put our computer and our phone on and everything. And this lady comes in and I was there by myself. It was late at night. There was a guest there who was like he was there for couple weeks, I think. I don't know what he was there for, but he was like around our age and he would come down and hang out and just talk and whatever. He was just there to I don't know, kill time. He was just bored 'cause he was at a hotel with nothing to do. And our pool wasn't working 'cause none of that area down the yeah was even accessible. You couldn't even get to the laundry room. I mean you could but guests couldn't go down that far. And so we couldn't let them have any fun. We didn't we had I think we had a breakfast. But it was just like it was basic. Yeah, grab and go kind of stuff. because we couldn't like cook stuff. Yeah. There wasn't a whole lot of plugins in there and the more plugins you put into that one room, because it was technically a room, but it was like a conference room. So you can't like plug too many things into one room, otherwise the power would like surge. Because there wouldn't be enough power. And so this lady comes in and it's pouring down rain. I could hear the rain through the window. pouring down rain. They come in. She is like obviously on drugs, like tweaking, and then comes in with like a semi-normal dude. He didn't seem like he was on drugs. He they seemed like they were homeless. Both of them did. She had these black leather pants on with high heels. And like this tube top, spaghetti strap tube top that her half of her bigger belly was like hanging out. Or she was a prostitute. Yeah. So we get in there and she's like tweaking out and I like book them a room and then I tell them I need X amount of dollars for the payment. And they're like, Well we don't have any cash and we don't have a card, we have a check. And we couldn't accept checks then. I'm like, I'm sorry we don't accept checks. They were like freaking out. She grabbed this crystal brick. those bricks that you can hang in the window and it'll spin and reflect on the clear string. She had one of those, but it was like a gigantic one and she had it. She was like holding it like this. She's like, You're not gonna let us in. Like she was gonna like huck it at me. And I'm like, no, I'm sorry, like we can't do that because we don't accept checks. I we don't know that you have the money in your account and check and bounce and then we wouldn't get paid for the room. I'm sorry, we just don't do that. And she freaked out. The boyfriend then at that point was mad, pissed off, freaking out. So finally I just say, Okay, whatever. I'll take your fucking check. Okay. and if it bounces, I need your number, I need your email, I need your address. We had to get all this information if we were gonna take we could take checks, but we weren't allowed to. without permission. Well, I wasn't gonna call and ask for permission that night because it was super late and everyone was probably sleeping and they were tweaking. So I'm like, just do it and let them go. Right. So I did. I booked them into a room. Next thing you know, she's back in the lobby, in the conference room lobby, and she's screaming and she's like Saying all this profound language, she didn't know where her husb her boyfriend went, she was looking all over for him. He jumped out the window. He left, he ran away, he got abducted. Something it was like insane. And I'm like, okay, what the fuck is going on? She was freaking out so much that I seriously thought she was gonna kill me. And so I called the cops, because I'm like, all right, this is obviously like freaking something I can't handle myself. I was also like what, 18? at the time. I'm like, I'm calling the cops. So I called the cops. I couldn't talk to the cops 'cause so I held the phone down underneath the thing. And then the kid comes down and is like like looked at me and I'm like, can you call the cops, please? I'm like on the phone with them, like waving the phone at him. And so he called them. They come. They ended up Arresting the dude who was laying outside the window. He jumped and fell into the bushes. She ran. my god. They said where she was. I go into the room to go and inspect it after they had got him arrested. And obviously it was like, I don't know, drugs or harassment. We we trespassed them because we're like, we don't want them coming back here. We don't want them, especially like with girls working alone at night. Like that's Not okay, especially just one person. And so I go into the room and I kid you not, there is a mound, a mound up to that light of clothing. That much clothing they brought into that fucking room, like they were going to stay there for a long time. They were gonna try to be squatters. I don't think you have squatting rights in the hotels though. I was like were like what's going on and then the door was wide open there was blood in the bathtub and stuff like they were like shooting up and getting bloody everywhere whatever I don't know it was crazy there's needles all over and so they find the guy in the bushes they arrested him they couldn't find the lady so we didn't end up getting paid for the room and then I was like looking at all the Mound of clothing and I put gloves on to put into bags to bag everything up. There's 12 bags that was theirs. I don't even know how the fuck they got all that shit in there past me. I didn't even see them cut. They must have brought it into the window. Probably. Maybe that's why he fell out trying to get another bag of clothes. It was too heavy though. and they were the whole whole mound of clothing, you know what it was? What? Thong underwear. What? All of it. Every single fucking. Come here, Kevin. You can't jump up there. You can't get around. rats. Come here. Fumsies is in the way. Come on, Kev. Come on, baby. Come on. Come on, good boy. Come on. Come on. Come on. He's such a lazy bum. Kevin. That was ridiculous. What? He's very dramatic. I'm not leaving you. Now he's stuck. He's stuck and can't move. Get cozy. Come on. my god. What crazy stories do you have? So, definitely not that crazy, but it was a little spooky. there was a a gentleman who worked nights who was staying at the hotel for a while and he had told the the night shift that he was gonna be staying one more night before he left, or one more day before he left. And it she forgot to add that day onto it, and she didn't add any notes into it either. And so it's like 11:30, and checkouts at 11. And so it's 11:30. So I call up and I'm like, hey, I'm just curious if you're staying another night, or blah, blah, blah. And it's like 10 minutes later, you hear somebody just stomping down the stairs. And he comes to the desk. And this guy is like, you can tell it's the kind of person that you probably don't want to mess with. And he me and Stephanie thought he was gonna shoot the place up. That's how how it was. And he comes down and he goes, I told you guys I was staying another night. I work nights and you just woke me up and that's really shitty. And like just started going off, like screaming at me. And thank God she was in her office. Cause she opens the door and she comes out and she goes, I don't think this is a good fit for you anymore. Like, I think you need to go find somewhere else to stay. Like, you're not staying here another night. And we were We were both on edge that whole day though, just waiting for him to come back. Yeah. he was just it just gave you that weird feeling like he was probably like abuses his wife or his girlfriend, like that kind of feeling. What are you doing, Kevin? Just getting on the table with all this stuff. he's trying to do his food dish. There's nothing in it, Kevin. You silly. Yeah. Like great, how do I get around? So that definitely that was the creepiest work experience. Yeah, that's scary. There was a time where we overbooked and some lady like we she paid for it through Expedia or whatever and the hotel got overbooked. I hated when that would happen. A fax in, but someone had just walked in and booked that last room and she called and flipped out. I was so pissed. Diesel, go lay down. Go. Go lay down somewhere else. Buddy, you're all over the cords. Go. Go over there. Go. Go. Go. Tisa. Go. Go. Go. Good boy. Good boy. Good job. Tisa. Gosh. Yeah, she was really mad though. Like, I'm so sorry. I don't know what to do. We'll refund you your money. She's like, No, I have no place to stay and it's the Lavender Festival. Like, no. That happened one time with too, there was an a British family who came from a different literally from a different country. And they booked a non smoking room and we put in a smoking room and we were like we don't have anything left. I know. I don't think many hotels do that anymore. Maybe motels, but no hotels. Even the non smoking rooms still that were smoking rooms before that we changed into non smoking still smelt like smoke. Terrible. So bad. And now it's the Red Lion Hotel and it's beautiful and so nice. Yeah. So nicely remodeled and redone, but it's still fucking haunted. Yeah, I bet. I'm sorry. We should go there one night. We totally should. We should be like we used to work here and we show them the video. And we're like, we want to see if it's still haunted. We should see. That'd be fun. All right, Ellie. Our next story is actually a two for one special because apparently this person managed to get hired at not one but two supposedly haunted movie theaters. And I'm starting to think maybe the ghosts were following them from job to job. This is from six years ago. I managed to work at two haunted movie theaters. The first theater I worked at was a decently old building. I started working there during the summer and my friend got me the job. Smith and her, that's so sweet. During the summer day shifts, we would usually have three people working the ticket booth and concession stand, and having no customers was pretty common if no good movies were released that week. One of my first shifts was with my friend who got me the job and a woman who I'll call Jerry for the story. Since we were absolutely dead and had a lot of downtime since all the movies were showing, Jerry decided to take a nap in one of the empty theaters that had no customers. I don't like that. Don't take naps in at in the theater rooms. That's creepy. I don't know. I couldn't do that. I if I take naps, I take naps for like twenty-five years. My friend and I stayed behind the concession stand just in case any customers came in to talk about video games and nonsense. Jerry goes to theater two. We were talking for about 15 minutes when Jerry came out of theater two pissed off and told us to stop messing with her and that she was really tired and just wanted to sleep. I told her that we were out here talking the entire time and that no one went into the theater. She doesn't believe us and just tells us to let her sleep. She goes back into the theater. About twenty minutes later she comes out again, pissed off, and hers yells at us to stop shaking the back of the seat she was sleeping in. She said that it felt like someone grabbed her seat and shook it with all their force. We told her again that it wasn't us and she decided not to go back into the theater she was sleeping in. What would you do? Uh-huh, I'd quit. Yeah. especially in Deer Park cinema. That place has always creeped me out. I don't know why. so creepy. I wish that they would theater do all the I went there right before they shut down and watched the first purge right before my graduation party. My mom was so mad she was like, You're gonna be late to your graduation party, blah blah blah blah blah. No, I was early. I was back home right on time. I don't like the mm-mm. I love see there's another set of scary movies that I love. The Purge. I cannot do the purge. Or Strangers. Another one that I love. Huh. You know, that's so funny. You love the stranger movies. I love scary movies. I really do. They jump and scream at the strangers and the purge freaks me out. I do not know what it is about it. They probably like I feel like you don't like movies that are seem real. Yeah. Yeah. It's too I like Jason and I like or Friday the thirteenth and Halloween and like those types of scary movies. Even though Halloween freaked me the F out when I was a child, like traumatized me for life. I'll still watch it 'cause I'm like, ooh ch ch You know so cheesy now. Like watching it now as an adult. The Twilight Zone or whatever. I don't know. Just those yeah, the old ones I I'm not too scared of. Like Sex chainsaw massacre. Hmm. Anyways. Mm-hmm. After that, my coworkers told me rumors about the theater being haunted. Usually some nonsense about murders that happened there a long time ago or a dead body found in the bathroom. Of course, there was no evidence to back that up, but it was fun to talk about. Ooh, occasionally you had the feeling of being watched while cleaning theaters, but that seemed expected since you're in those giant dark rooms. However, the experience that I had while opening made me believe that the theater was haunted. I was working an opening shift where it's just you and the manager. These usually happen on weekdays when we knew we were going to be slow. All three managers of the theaters were known for being late for a variety of reasons. The head manager was just lazy and smoked a lot of weed. The other manager had to take the bus, which was always unpredictable, and the third manager really didn't have an excuse for being late, but since the other two were always late, it seemed okay. Because they were always late, we had the idea of giving a key to the restaurant next door so that the worker who had to open could get into the building without having to wait for the manager. When I arrived I got the key to the next door. I got the key next door, opened the door, and went inside. When opening, the first thing you had to do was turn on the lights in the electrical room. To get to the electrical room you had to go through a door without with a keypad. When you opened that door there was a staircase that led to the manager's office. To the left on the bottom of the stairs that was the electrical room. I opened the door, saw that the manager's office door was closed, so I went to the electrical room and turned the lights on. As I'm leaving the electrical room, I hear the manager's office Ayo, watership down eighty-two, what's good? It sounded like my manager with a very deep, distinct voice, and that's how he always greeted me. I yelled back up. You knew I was opening. Why didn't you keep the door open for me? And I went about my opening duties. I just finished making popcorn when my manager walks in and says, Hey yo, watership down eighty-two, sorry I'm late. I asked him, When did you sneak out? He asked me what I was talking about, told him I heard him upstairs before. He then tells me his bus was forty minutes late. He just got here. Maybe you go upstairs with him to check that no one was hiding up there. There wasn't anyone there. Maybe he's just hearing things. Maybe he's schizophrenia. my god. Just a ghost mocking your boss's greeting. It well I worked at that theater for about two years before the company decided to close it down because the building owner wanted to raise the rent. They transferred all the workers to other nearby theaters and I was transferred to a theater that was in the town over. I knew the theater and I knew the that the theater was old, very old. So old that it was grandfathered in with not being handicap accessible for some of the theaters. On my first day there I was asked to clean one of the upstairs theaters. Being the new guy, I obviously said yes and went up there to clean it. The theaters were small enough that one person could clean it on their own. I went up to this theater and as soon as I walked in I felt I was in danger. I checked the aisles to make sure that everyone left and Paid enough to deal with the demons. After that, my co-workers told me stories about their experiences. One manager saw a little girl in the stock room. Another heard voices coming through the from the stock room. Another saw the bathroom stalls doors swing and slam open by themselves. Another would see people sitting in the seats in the theater who would disappear when they blinked. A closing manager h heard footsteps in laughing in the lobby hours after we closed. No one knew why exactly, but we figured that the building was so old, some people must have died there. I don't like that. I've never work at a theater. I'm sorry. That freaks me out. That is crazy. So creepy. I don't know why it it's so creepy. Working in a theater. It's just so creepy. That's so weird. I think it's creepy because in the scream movies, like They were in the theat not the screen movies, the scary movie movies. It's not even scary, but it's like kinda freaky a little bit, you know, but it's funny, comical, but they're in the movie theater when sh shit happens. I don't like that. Mm mm. Thanks. Scared of a movie theater. gosh. Yeah. Especially old ones. I mean like the one in Well, 'cause that's how it is the Lincoln Theater and I think the one in Kingston, the little tiny theater, you both I think both of them you like go downstairs. That's definitely makes it creepy. Yeah, go ahead instead of it just being, you know, one level. Yeah. Yeah. Ugh. Ugh. Could these strange experiences have an ordinary explanation? I mean maybe. Maybe the person telling them is the one who's the schizophrenia. Yeah, maybe they're just hearing things. Ugh. I don't like it. I don't like that either. No, no, no. Bobs, Bobs, I love you so much. one thing I know for sure, if I'm cleaning a movie theater and empty seats start filling themselves. I'm leaving the popcorn and paycheck behind. Hell yeah. All right, Ellie. We've heard some scary stories from people just trying to make a living. Now it's time we decide what we actually believe. For each story, we have two scores. Scare factor. We're playing a game. Okay. Scare factor, one through five. Okay. Believability, one through five. Okay. So our haunted our haunted hotel. Scare Factor. Scare Factor four. Believability? Five. Five because we were there. Yeah. Now you guys ha these are for you too. You guys have to answer these two. Please, come on, interact with us. Creepy hotel guest. Say something. Second story. Creepy hotel guest. Scary factor. Definitely a five. Yeah. Somebody trying to lock you in a room. Believability. Five. Yeah. If it happened, it happened. Definitely feel like I've heard of similar kind of things happening. You took a big head. Haunted night audit. I don't like that shit. No. Five. Five. Believability. Five. I think it's pretty real. Yeah. She wasn't adding a bunch of ex extra shit in there. Yeah, five. I think everything's a five. The safe house visitor. Definitely a five, definitely a five. Yeah. It's so scary. And the two theater hauntings. Five, five. That's five. Ugh. Which story scared you the most? Which story? Mm-hmm. Mostly the theater. Yeah. I think the girl getting her hair pulled. I don't like that. Yeah. Physical contact with a ghost. It's one thing like to see things and feel things, but to actually physically experience it. No. No, thank you. I don't like that. I wonder what dogs think about ghosts. I wonder if ghosts ever mess with dogs. I think they might. I'm sure. I wonder if they like They probably just I think that they dogs don't care about them. They're probably just whatever they're like it's normal. That's the norm. Yeah. there's tons of ghosts everywhere, so they're just friends with all of them, I think. kids. Yeah. kids always say that they see things. Yeah. huh. talk about their their imaginary friends, but it just seems real creepy, Ugh. Or like when kids like make up like come up with these stories about their past lives. Ugh. You guys should tell us if your kids ever told you anything really freaky. Yeah. Are your kids told? Creepy. Creepy stories. Do you believe ghosts haunt workplaces? It's kind of a weird place to haunt, but yeah. I mean, if it was their favorite place, or you know, it was a maybe it was a burial ground that the place was built over, or somebody was killed there. Airflow's office used to be a house. It was a house, someone's house. Like where we're at was a home. And then the next door was where the home got bulldozed. Right. So they were neighbors. wow. And then they built on to the back area, like where Janine's office is. So only the front where me, you, Kim and Mark are, that was the house. Is it like a mobile home? No. It's just a tiny little house? Huh. Yeah. Interesting. I think airflow's haunted too, but I'll keep that to myself. The A T alarms always go off. For no reason. It says there's motion. and there's always motion in the shop. And guess what? The cameras never catch anything. So either it's a damn rat, which we have rat traps, and I can't see anything on video. So it has to be a ghost somewhere. Yeah. Like triggering the alarm. There was then I thought it was cobwebs. No, we got rid of every single cobweb that would have been near a sensor and they still go off. They haven't in a very long time, but it's weird how sometimes they'll just go off and then they'll go off like a bajillion times, especially when the owners are on vacation out of the country. That's so weird. And then when they get back they stop. It's like what who's playing tricks? Yeah, who's playing tricks? I don't like that. Well, there was one time I was upstairs all by myself and I had the door open 'cause it was so warm up there and I needed some fresh air, so I left the filter room door open and I sent a video to you and Jara because I was like, there is a ghost up here 'cause the door kept going And then it would just stop and then it would op it would open err and then it would close err. Probably the suction. Yeah, probably. But also though, that place when I did go there on a weekend when the alarm was going off, a cop it had like ADT had called the cops already because I didn't catch it in time because I was sleeping when it happened and I don't always like hear my f my it takes a lot for me to wake up to something. Like I'm a very hard sleeper, so even if my phone's on full blast, I sometimes won't hear it. And it wasn't on full blast, it was just on vibrate. And normally I can hear it when it's vibrating a whole bunch when I'm getting a phone call, but I had it on do not disturb that night. And so I didn't get the phone call until I woke up and it was literally 20 minutes after the fact that it happened. So then I ran down there and then I see a cop like parked down the road and pulled into the parking lot. And I like start to go into the front and he's running down the sidewalk. He's like, ma'am, ma'am, stop. And he's like holding his gun. He's my god. You can't go in there right now. I can I please go in there with you. fine. I looked in the camera and no one's in there, I promise. But you're welcome to come in with me. And so I'm back there searching, in the shop, and he's just standing at the front door with his gun and I say you didn't even follow me. my God. What a baby. I don't I really don't think anyone's in here, but you're welcome to come in to help if if you need to help. Yeah, literally. Gosh, that's so crazy. But also it's excitement for them too because they're right next door. Right, nothing to do. Right there. Well, I think it's safe to say that after today's episode, neither of us is volunteering for the graveyard shift anytime soon. Whether you believe in ghosts, unexplained coincidences or just really questionable hotel guests, one thing is certain some workplaces are a whole lot more creepier than others. Now we want to hear your stories. 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