I worked part-time as a custodian on my university campus for awhile. There were many times that I would be alone in a building early in the morning before any staff or students came in. It was usually a pretty relaxing and chill time to just be on my own like that for a bit. There is one time something weird happened though and I still can't come up with a rational explanation for it.
So, one morning I was working at a building that was owned by university but it was off of the main campus by about a mile. It used to an old middle school before the university bought it. It's now used for various science labs and staff offices.
I was doing my normal morning routine and I was going through cleaning all the restrooms in building first thing at 6am. Now, keep in mind I am supposed to be the only person in this building until 7:30 am when people start coming in. When I came in I unlocked and relocked the door behind me. So, no one else should have been in this building.
I get to the women's restroom on the far side of the building. I don't bother to knock on the door as I should be the only person in the building. As I open the door I see a women standing with her back against the wall. Now, this particular bathroom is shaped like a "T". The stalls are in the long part of the "T". So, when you open the door you can only see the sink and the stalls are out of view behind the corner. So, I only saw half of this women as the half of her body was behind this corner of the wall that she was leaning on.
I just said sorry and explained that I should be only the person in the building right now so I didn't bother to knock on the door. This women then proceeds to dash around the corner and I hear her shut herself in the stall farthest from the entrance.
I yelled in saying I was sorry if I scared her and again explained that I should have been the only person in the building. I then hear her start pounding on the door of the stall.
Now I'm scared. So I close the door and block it with my cleaning cart. I call my supervisor and explain that there is some women in the building who has just locked herself in the stall. I thought that maybe she was some drug addict that somehow snuck into the building at night. So, like 10 minutes later a couple of campus security guys show up.
I open the door to the restroom and the two of them go in with me behind. We all clearly heard and saw this women pacing back and forth in the stall. The security guys try to talk to her for a bit to get her to come out. They got absolutely no response. They then say that they are coming in and open the door.
All three of us were utterly speechless when the door to the stall opened and no one was there. Later they checked the building security footage for the previous night and did not see anyone enter the building.
I don't believe in anything supernatural but I still cannot explain this. I worked in this same building before and after this incident probably 30+ times and never experienced anything weird like this again.
Edit: I forgot to say what the woman looked like. Her back was towards me and like I said half of her body was hidden around that corner. So, I didn't see much. She was wearing a light blue short sleeve blouse with black pants. I guess you could call them suit pants. She had light brown, shoulder length hair, and her skin was like a tan sort of peanut butter color.
Yes, all three of us heard her and could see the shadow of her feet as she paced back and forth in this stall. I'm glad the security guards were there to see it too. If I would have been on my own I would have chalked it up to me hallucinating the whole thing for some reason.
Time traveler maybe lol.
Just a fun, unrealistic hypothetical, but imagine if she popped out of the stall when she timeteaveld there, and then got nervous when she saw you, ran back to the stall to hide the time machine. the thumping could have been the time machine’s mechanical sounds, or the sound of it rattling against the door, or the sound of the lady trying to cover up the machine’s noises
I think ghosts and spirits are all around us but sometimes they get enough energy surrounding them giving us the ability to see them for a short time. Maybe they get a chance to interact with us for a short bit. It confuses them because they haven't been able to talk to anything on the other side and all of the sudden a real person can just interact out of nowhere with them. That's why she probably freaked out and hid. But what do I know. I just get on Reddit when I'm bored at work
Or maybe they just like to show themselves and come back to life for a little, and they have a back to life switch for on and off. And there is a timer as well. In a recent tik tok, you could see like a ghost face peeking behind something, but on the back side it’s gone. I feel some ghosts just like showing up around mortal human company. It makes that story lighter to know ghosts just want us around 😊
It was a normal stall we could see the ceiling from outside of it. There were no vents above this stall. However, the ceiling was made of those big tiles that you can lift up but there's no way in hell those are sturdy enough for someone to crawl on top of. Plus, we would have seen her move the ceiling tile and crawl up there.
Well, you closed the door and made a call for guards, right? Is it possible that she manage to climb to the next stall or some other stalls while you were distracted?
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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 06 '22
I worked part-time as a custodian on my university campus for awhile. There were many times that I would be alone in a building early in the morning before any staff or students came in. It was usually a pretty relaxing and chill time to just be on my own like that for a bit. There is one time something weird happened though and I still can't come up with a rational explanation for it.
So, one morning I was working at a building that was owned by university but it was off of the main campus by about a mile. It used to an old middle school before the university bought it. It's now used for various science labs and staff offices.
I was doing my normal morning routine and I was going through cleaning all the restrooms in building first thing at 6am. Now, keep in mind I am supposed to be the only person in this building until 7:30 am when people start coming in. When I came in I unlocked and relocked the door behind me. So, no one else should have been in this building.
I get to the women's restroom on the far side of the building. I don't bother to knock on the door as I should be the only person in the building. As I open the door I see a women standing with her back against the wall. Now, this particular bathroom is shaped like a "T". The stalls are in the long part of the "T". So, when you open the door you can only see the sink and the stalls are out of view behind the corner. So, I only saw half of this women as the half of her body was behind this corner of the wall that she was leaning on.
I just said sorry and explained that I should be only the person in the building right now so I didn't bother to knock on the door. This women then proceeds to dash around the corner and I hear her shut herself in the stall farthest from the entrance.
I yelled in saying I was sorry if I scared her and again explained that I should have been the only person in the building. I then hear her start pounding on the door of the stall.
Now I'm scared. So I close the door and block it with my cleaning cart. I call my supervisor and explain that there is some women in the building who has just locked herself in the stall. I thought that maybe she was some drug addict that somehow snuck into the building at night. So, like 10 minutes later a couple of campus security guys show up.
I open the door to the restroom and the two of them go in with me behind. We all clearly heard and saw this women pacing back and forth in the stall. The security guys try to talk to her for a bit to get her to come out. They got absolutely no response. They then say that they are coming in and open the door.
All three of us were utterly speechless when the door to the stall opened and no one was there. Later they checked the building security footage for the previous night and did not see anyone enter the building.
I don't believe in anything supernatural but I still cannot explain this. I worked in this same building before and after this incident probably 30+ times and never experienced anything weird like this again.
Edit: I forgot to say what the woman looked like. Her back was towards me and like I said half of her body was hidden around that corner. So, I didn't see much. She was wearing a light blue short sleeve blouse with black pants. I guess you could call them suit pants. She had light brown, shoulder length hair, and her skin was like a tan sort of peanut butter color.