I love talking to "ghost" people......

A friend of the new chef came in last night, he was checking out the building, roaming around, stopped in the lounge for a minute…so we started talking. He was commenting on what an interesting old building this was. I asked him if the chef told him it was haunted. He lit up like a light bulb! Started telling me about other old buildings he had been in, a couple old restaurants the chef had worked at, that were similar to this one, in that they too were haunted. He told he was one of those people who was “susceptible” to feelings of things supernatural.

I love talking to these “ghost” people! I started doing my own little independent study of this a while back. (I’ve been doing some research on the history of the building and it’s former occupants. The local library and historical museum have a wealth of information.) Anyways……it was slow last night, and I had some time to kill, so I told him I was gonna take him on the “ghost tour.” Now, when I do this, I don’t tell them what room or rooms, anyone else has had feelings about…..I just take them through the building and watch their reactions. It’s getting really interesting….they all have the same reaction to the same areas. It’s not so much what they say, but their actual physical reaction is what intrigues me.

It always starts on the staircase leading up to the second story. They take a step or two up and hesitate…their entire body starts to tense up a little bit…...they start looking around in every direction…..walk a little slower….say they can definitely feel “something”……(okay, so far the same reaction as the others that can “feel things,” that I have taken on the ghost tour)…..near the top of the staircase is a landing, and then two more steps up, to the left. Now we are in a hallway……I let them look around for a moment ……”Okay, let’s look in this room first”…..(I always do this in the same order)…and lead them to a small room at the back of the building…..I enter the room, they slowly follow me….and you can see them relax…..shoulders drop….they look around…..”Nothing”…..then we go to the next room…..you can see them tense up again immediately upon entering the room…..they nervously look all around, several times…..(this guy from last night was getting goose bumps) …you can tell that they can’t wait to leave the room…..as soon as we exit, their bodies start to relax again. On to the third room…..by this time they are really hesitant to enter…but as soon as they do….they remain relaxed, casually look around, “Nothing.”

After that, it’s always back to the second room again, as if to reassure themselves of their earlier feelings. This time they exit quickly, and seem to be in a hurry to go back down the stairs.

I’m noticing the same reaction, to the same room, every time. Interesting. Hmmmm…..