This happened on November 18, 2003 just a few days ago.
My friends and I were always in charge of the Christmas decors
in our office because we really take time in designing
everything from scratch, we don’t buy the ready made
decors, we design our own wreaths, garlands and such.
We have been wanting to put up our finished decors but we
wanted to do them after office hours so our nosey
office mates wouldn't be in the way so we decided to stay
behind and decorate our office. There were five of us,
Nity, Tan, Yam, Arni, and me.
We were so relieved to have finished a particular décor for
we really made it from scratch, we formed the Happy
Holidays letter from dry grass and put them on sinamay or
Christmas lace (try bending 3 feet dry grass with a flimsy
cutter that five people have to share and wires to hold
them down!)
The three of us were on the second floor decorating while
Nity and Tan were at the stairwell putting up the Happy
Holidays décor. All the time we were decorating, I could
see ‘someone’ in the corner of my eye, but dismissed it to
fatigue and overactive imagination.
Nity and Tan were so proud to have put up the décor by
themselves at a good height taking in consideration they
were the smallest in all five of us. Nity left first
because she had an appointment at 6:30. So only four of us
were left to do the other decors. One of the managers checked on us and left us the keys to the building and
reminded us to lock everything before we left.
At about seven we were getting hungry so we decided to get some food
downstairs, but I first checked with the guard at the
parking lot to make sure that the manager who left us the
keys have left (he’s very strict and really doesn’t approve
of anyone staying behind after 5:30). The guard confirmed
that he had gone home so Tan and I went downstairs to get
some food. I saw how they have put up the Happy Holidays
décor, I thought how dull it looked, Tan said it’s hard to
put anymore garnishing because it may fall off. So we went
downstairs got some chips went back upstairs and again saw
the Happy Holidays décor still dull as ever. After snacking
we commenced decorating. The feeling of someone watching
heightened on me, I was getting more nervous, especially
when I ‘saw’ a woman peering at me from a door! It was then
when Arni asked about the Happy Holidays décor and wanted
to see it, so she went to the stairwell , came back after a
few seconds with a disappointed look on her face. “You
haven't put it up? You just rolled it to a corner.”
I looked at her for a long time and thought she was kidding
and I said “Did it fell of already?” (we used duct tape).
So me and Arni went back to the stairwell and I froze when
I saw that only the traces of the tape was outlined on the
wall and my eyes fell on something in a corner. It was the
Happy Holidays décor, all rolled up carelessly in a corner
as if someone took it off the wall and threw it there.
I thought at once that ‘they’ didn’t like it, we called the
guard at the parking lot right away and asked if anyone had
come in after the manager left, he said no one but us were
in the building. Yam took no care on our discovery but the
three of us were scared and worked fast to get out of
there, especially when I felt a cool breeze brush by me,
and all the while Arni felt chills and goosebumps, saying
as if there was something very cold behind her. We still
finished the decors (foolish aren’t we) though we were
feeling something watch us.
In the morning we asked the guards if any of them went
inside to check on us, they all said no, besides they
weren’t allowed inside the building. So who took the décor
off? It couldn’t have been the manager who gave us the keys
because after he left, Tan and I went downstairs and I
myself saw that the décor was firmly on the wall, if it
fell due to lack of stickiness why was it all rolled up in
a corner? As in rolled up! We know how delicate the décor
is and none of us would manhandle it like that.
One day after that, my friends again stayed behind after
office, I couldn’t join them because I had to cook dinner
for my dad, in the morning Arni told me that they heard
voices, of people talking in the building, but there was no
one there! Then she distinctly heard someone breath on her
ear and someone pushed her chair gently away from what she
was doing!
The decors are all put up now in our building, but the
problem is, we have to decorate the rooftop where the
Christmas party is going to be held. Anyone of you want to
help put it up?
(Below is the décor after we put it up again, the arrow
points where we found it all rolled up any explanations
email me please quesmer09@yahoo.com)
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