Ghosts in the Lost and Found

Hello Jane and Vince! Vane or Jince if you will! I’m gonna start with a little introduction to Lost and Found. It’s an awesome antique/thrift shop/“you name it, they’ve got it” shop in Bountiful, Utah. The owners are Rex and Cheryl, two of the most genuine, down-to-earth people you will ever meet! The store is packed with a crazy assortment of treasures that are constantly changing and rotating!
As shops like these go, they have a cuss ton of paranormal activity that happens there. They have a bunch of stories and videos of things that have happened to themselves and to paranormal investigators, but I’m going to tell you about all of the ones that have personally happened to me!
My family is very close to the veil, so we have always been hyper-sensitive to paranormal things.
The first day I started working there, Rex took me into the basement, which isn’t open to the public unless you get special permission from the owners. As I was following him down the stairs, the air started feeling muggy and heavy, and the hair on my arms started to tingle. I felt a very clear feeling of, “Who are you, and why are you coming down here?”
I tried not to focus on it and listened to what Rex was saying, seeing as he was telling me things he wanted me to do down there.
The basement was full of different rows of backstock and such to refill things that sell upstairs. The whole time he was walking me through each aisle, explaining what went where and what he wanted me to do, it felt like someone was walking right behind me—like, right on my heels.
I looked behind me a couple of times, thinking maybe Cheryl had come down to talk to Rex or something, but every time I looked back, no one was there! It felt like I was a kid that the owner of a grocery store or pharmacy was following, waiting for me to shoplift or steal some candy or something—just not very subtle!
The rest of the day, as I was down there alone organizing, taking things upstairs, or bringing them down, I felt like someone was standing or sitting behind me at a distance, just watching me and making sure I wasn’t messing anything up.
After that day, the feeling kinda mellowed, but it’s still there!
On another occasion, I was helping upstairs, and the vibe was just kinda off in the store. One of the owners’ friends was in the shop going through the basement looking for things. The owners and I were just sitting around chatting, but as soon as their friend came back upstairs and joined us, I saw something in the corner of my eye.
I turned to look. A small sign moved slightly and then fell. Seeing as it wasn’t nailed to the wall, I didn’t really think anything of it, but a couple of seconds later, on the opposite side of the store but still in eyesight of all of us, we heard a huge thud that made all of us jump because the store was empty!
Cheryl walked over to look at what fell. As soon as she walked over there, she looked up at her friend and said, “Seriously!?”
Her friend quickly said, “Oh man, I felt them following, but I thought they stayed downstairs.”
Cheryl then lifted the item that had fallen off the shelf with a shocked look on her face. She lifted it up, and it was one of those huge, thick-glass novelty wine glasses. I was still kinda trying to process what her friend had just said and was like, “Oh man, good thing that didn’t break!”
Cheryl then responded, “No, that’s not why I’m shocked. I’m shocked because the shelf this was on has a wooden lip at the edge of the shelf to prevent things from falling off.”
She then put the goblet back on the shelf and proceeded to jump up and down next to the shelf to prove it couldn’t have just fallen on its own!
After getting to know the friend who had been there, I found out she is highly attuned to the paranormal and is the person who stays at the shop at night when they have paranormal investigators there, basically as security/just to make sure things at the shop go alright.
I started being able to tell very quickly when they had had an investigation because the whole week afterward, things upstairs would move, or a whole power strip would get turned off when no one was by the switch or even close to it—usually the one in the corner by the goblet shelf.
But the biggest indicator for me was when I would go downstairs. The air would be weirdly sticky and muggy but cold at the same time. The energy was very heavy, dark, and extremely pissed off!
Anytime I go down there, the tension is so palpable that it feels like it’s going to snap at any moment—like a drunk just waiting for the right thing to set him off, or a coworker who has had enough of a customer’s BS!
My most recent experience: the shop kinda felt off, but nothing too crazy.
The shop was empty, so Rex asked me if I could watch the shop while he grabbed some food real quick. I said, “Of course!”
I was in a side room that still had a view of the front door, looking at Cheryl’s new additions to her witchy room, when out of the corner of my eye, I very clearly saw someone peek their head in, like they were looking to buy something or had a question.
Startled because I didn’t hear the bell on the door, I quickly turned to ask how they were doing, but no one was there.
I walked into the front to see if maybe they had walked to a different part of the store, but no one was in the shop. I decided to just hang out at the counter to make sure I didn’t miss them, but no one came in or out until Rex came back.
Shortly after he came back, Cheryl and the same friend got to the shop. As soon as the friend saw me, she was like, “Dude! Did they tell you what happened to me last night?”
I said, “No, but I wanna hear it!”
She then told me that the night before, she and a friend were in the shop doing an investigation where they clearly saw a shadow figure come up from downstairs and peek around the corner at them!
I responded, “You guys were in the witchy room, right?”
She then responded, “Oh, you saw the video!?”
And I was like, “Nope! The same thing happened to me like 20 minutes ago!” She showed me the video and it gave me full body chills because it was exactly what I had seen! All of these events happend to me in the middle of the freaking afternoon! I still work there once a week so once I have enough for a part two! I haven't added the friends name or the social media accounts that have all the investigations of them because im still waiting to hear back on if they're cool with it! If they are down I can send an email with all the info if you guys are down! Thats all I've got for you guys today! Thank you for keeping the weekends spooky!
Chris