I recently got a job as a cage cashier (breaking large
bills for patrons, cashing in blackjack chips and cashing
in coin payouts from slot machines) at a casino in
Wisconsin. I won't say which one just in case. Further
more, I haven't had any direct contact with the ghost or
ghosts but sometimes you just "feel" him. Anyhow, I have
only been working there three weeks and here are a few
stories I have heard about "Ira" (For those of you who
don't know, casinos in Wisconsin are only owned by Native
Americans)
One night one of my fellow employees, Tanya, was rolling
coin and stacking it for the patrons to purchase. In
a "brick" of nickles, there is 100 dollars (50 rolls of 2
dollars each). She was finishing up her last brick and
could not find the last 2 rolls. Not all that unusual as
the rolling machine is old and likes to spit rolls all over
the room as opposed to the bucket it should. She looked
everywhere for them. SHe took the machine apart, looked
under the storage cages,but could not find them. Another
one of the cashiers came and did the same. Nothing. Well,
at this point it was closing time and they decided they
would get the closing duties done and look again later.
The door was locked (very important!) and only the first
employee had the key. Closing duties were finished and
Tanya went back to look one last time. She UNLOCKED the
door and immediately noticed the 2 missing rolls of coin
sitting on the coin machine, in plain view, a place she had
looked at a hundred times. Then she heard a chuckle coming
from the direction of the rolling machine, but there was no
one there. She still refuses to roll the coin in that
particular room.
Another one of our employee's, A supervisor, was finishing
up her paperwork in her office when she heard someone
approaching her desk. She looked up and no one was there.
Suddenly she heard a voice ask her for some candy. She
choked out that she didn't have any. She then heard a deep
sigh and the voice said laughingly, "If you bring treats,
I'll play nice!" And then she saw footprints on the carpet
walking away from her desk.
For some reason, the cage people have named the ghost Ira
in honor of one of the founders of the casino. Apparently
he is not scary, just playful. Hiding newly rolled coin,
stuff like that. He particularly likes our 5 dollar
tokens which have the circumference of about a campbell's
soup can and are gold and pretty hard to miss. But you can
look and look for those suckers and not find then until a
few minutes later they appear, in plain sight.
Now, we bring ourselves treats one in a while. Hard candy
miniature chocolate bars, chips, stuff like that. We always
leave Ira his own pile and everyone is VERY serious about
NOT eating it. But it is always gone. Then he will leave
us alone for a little while. But if he feels its been too
long since his last treat, he'll become pesky again.
My personal experience is just a strange feeling I get one
working in the northern cage area. I'll be out by myself,
late at night and the cage door will rattle. Now the only
way in the cage to by a security code programmed into your
license and swiped through a machine. Only cashiers and
the cage and security super's have those. A guard comes by
every 45 minutes (scheduled, not random checks) to make
sure the door is locked. They grab the the handle, pull
twice (thunk, thunk - so we know its them, they only pull
twice, no more, no less). Well, sometimes it will get
yanked at irregular intervals 5 or six times. And it can't
be a patron because they don't have access to the door.
And you just feel like some one else is there and on
occasion, you hear laughing. Not patron's laughing, but a
playful chuckle...then you find some coins or tokens
missing. It always shows up again. 5, 10,minutes or hours
later. But at one in the morning, when there are only like
2 patrons in the casino, the thunking of that door being
pulled scares the hell out of you.
Contact me here: theladymage36@yahoo.com
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