The Twilight Zone


Oh my.

People. If you like supernatural phenomena, come work in my office building.

All throughout the time that I've been working here, there've been small incidents that can be brushed off as electric faults, wind blowing, or just plain weird smells wafting around.

Like the time both the male and female toilets started flickering as soon as I stepped into the toilet. Normal, right? Wait, there's more.

The mini fan in the toilet turned on by itself while I searched for the on/off switch. Later on I was to find out that the fan turned on by itself, while the switch was off.

Then there is this Bangladeshi smell in the female toilet on the ground floor. Sometimes it's strong, sometimes it's weak. But there are no Bangladeshi workers anywhere nearby.

I've heard a high-pitched crying on the second floor aisle along the boss's office. Figured it was just one of the accounts girl being bullied again, but nobody was there.

There is this room in which we keep the engine oils and oil filters and some smaller parts. The stairway is totally blocked with junk/stuff/whatever to prevent anyone else from coming into the room. There is totally no ventilation in the room at all, which means the air in the room is pretty much stilled. There was this once when I went in to collect something, and left the door wide open while looking for parts. Suddenly, I felt breathless and I whirled around. The door was slowly closing by itself.

So I dropped whatever I was carrying and ran out. I babbled about what happened to my colleagues, and found out that some of them have seen a child hanging around inside the room sometimes.

The forth floor was a constant pain in the neck, because there were two seperate occasions whereby some thing kicked the door in displeasure, almost breaking the door. The first time it happened to our previous accounts girl in broad daylight. We thought someone was playing a prank on her, trying to scare her. But when it happened at 4am in the middle of the night to the entire leather department crew who were burning the midnight oil to hit their quota, we started taking things seriously.

Eek.

Those were the smaller things that probably had good logical explanations as to why they happened.

However, yesterday my store manager met with something so scary that he fell ill and had to take MC for today.

There are 4 stories in my office building, the first and the forth stories being the most normal despite the things I've just described and a couple of my colleagues having seen the aforementioned child and some seeing another non-existant Indian guard in broad daylight (one of our previous colleagues actually rubbed shoulders with the Indian guard, then finding out that we DON'T have an Indian guard).

The third story supposedly holds the most sightings, but they're relatively peaceful and don't really bother the living much.

The second floor, however, is the most malignant. There is a locked magnetic door leading into the second story store for tyres, and that door leads into another locked door leading into another part of the second story store. Both locked doors have only just been installed recently.

My store manager, let's just call him KC, unlocked the first door and proceeded towards the second door on his right. When he had unlocked and opened the second door, the first door SLAMMED shut. And the best part of it is, after the slam, he could hear the distinct "click" of the door locking.

He let go of the second door and ran back to the first, kicking and pulling at the lock. During the course of doing that he let loose a whole string of expletives, so our guess is that he offended that something even more because the second door slammed and locked itself, thus locking him in. With both doors locked the only thing he could do was to keep screaming and kicking and pulling at the first door until it burst open and he ran out, his face a pale as a sheet.

He had high fever today and took an MC.

Our boss got wind of this and went to investigate that very door with the store supervisor, EL. Keep in mind that this happened earlier on today. They investigated, with no results, until EL locked the first door before they were about to go off. As they waited for the elevator, they heard a "pop", and looked back. The first door that EL had just locked, was hanging ajar.

The boss was here just now with a couple of the mechanics and the store supervisor and workshop supervisor, discussing the matter. Previously when I told him that I heard mutterings on the second floor he dismissed it, saying that it might be some store guys eating snake in a corner, hidden from view. Today he talked about the thing freely, and the conclusion was that the "things" up there did not like the doors locked. He also related a couple of strange things that happened when they first moved in here, such as getting lost in the stairway and certain items disappearing.

Eek.

As of now, the boss and one of our tyre guys are upstairs in the second floor, both armed with very strong flashlight, investigating the door. Let's hope we don't hear screaming anytime soon.