The events I am about to submit began happening not too long ago, a few days ago in fact. The place that the hauntings have been taking place in is the place I work. I don't know if may know about the Brookshire Brothers food market, but anyway it is the place of my employment. I am one of two artists that work there, the other being my niece (yes, isn't that weird?). We have an office where we make our banners, posters, etc. You have to go up a flight of stairs, which you're out of breath by the time you get up them to reach our office. The store's directors office is just on the other side of the wall from ours. A very thin wall, too. It has always been terribly cold up there, even with the thermostat off. Like I said, this all started just a few days ago. My niece and I were drawing, painting, the things we do when we both heard an office chair from the other office began scooting around. We both froze because we knew that no one else was up there at the time. She asked me if I had heard the noise. I nodded. She quickly jumped up and ran around the corner into the other office to find no one inside. We kind of just shrugged it off, thinking there was some logical explanation. We were in our work deeply when we both heard the chair scoot around again. I got up this time and went into the directors office to find an empty office...again. My niece and I were getting a little spooked but we laughed about it to make ourselves feel better. We were laughing and talking about it when we heard the phone in the directors office slam down hard on its cradle. We know what it sounded like because of the many times the director had done that. We both walked in there to find no one in there and there was no way anyone could have left the office that quickly and for us not to see them.

Days of the same thing has been going on. One day my niece looked over at me and swore she saw a wisp of smoke or something quickly disappear behind my left shoulder. It has been colder than normal up there in that office too. Just this last Thursday, on August 6th I was up in the office alone when I felt a firm but gentle hand on my left shoulder. I looked up from my chair and saw nothing. The feeling of the hand left my shoulder. I was trembling. I haven't told anyone else about that encounter, especially my niece because I don't want to scare her anymore than she is. Each day I'm wondering what will happen next.

Thanks for listening.

Submitted from: Jonathan Blevins, Texas, USA