I recently started a shift job at a new office and therefore sometimes spend the night there. For a bit of a backstory on my office building, it used to be a factory but was converted to offices around 20 years ago. In the area, there are like 10 office buildings in total, only 2 of which were part of the factory and the rest were built afterwards.
There has always been a kind of weird vibe in the office. You always feel like there’s someone watching you. Both my colleague and I have thought that we’ve seen things out of the corner of our eyes only for it to be gone when we turn to look. My cat and home started to behave strangely since I started working there.
He was never a “whiny” cat before and we hardly ever heard him meow, but now he does it constantly. When I come home from work he will stare at me for sometimes 20 minutes at a time.
We have a fan on most nights to keep ourselves cool as the office air con is quite lousy. The fan does have a timer option but we never use it (it’s not a smart fan). One night it wasn’t too hot in our office so we weren’t going to bother turning it on but as I was on my computer scrolling through data, I heard the sound it makes when it turns on and was blasted with cool air. I thought it was a bit strange but didn’t want to move to turn it back off. About 5 minutes after it turned on, it shut itself off again.. this has happened 3 times since then. We’ve also had our TV in the meeting room turn itself on and off and our tall lamp in the pantry as well. I’ve had doors that I could swear that I closed be open and drawers open as well.
We have had instances where things have gone missing only to show up in the weirdest places. For example, I use a plastic cover that clips my documents and I keep them in my drawer buit I couldn’t find it afterwards. I didn’t search too hard to find because on my shift job I am often very busy and none of my colleagues took it.
We’ve also had instances of pictures and decorations falling off the wall or files falling off shelves and have also heard some questionable noises. I know it’s not just me overthinking as my colleague who has been working there longer than I has been said “his used to it”. I feel like I’m going insane.
To confirm no one was pranking me, I checked and all our office appliances are non-smart nor IR.
If anyone has any theories to debunk these events or could just help me understand what’s going on that would be great. If it is something paranormal, it doesn’t seem to be harmful at all.. just a bit frightening and annoying at times.
Thanks for reading.