Story 3
My husband and I use to own a cleaning business about 4 years ago. We had about 5 different companies that we had to clean every week. All the buildings consist of a bus station, food corp., a daycare, a warehouse and an indoor sports arena. The nice part of it was that there were Hmong people that wanted to make extra money on the side so we gave some buildings for them to clean. I’ve heard a lot of strange stories regarding some of the companies but thankfully had never experienced anything too scary where. Note when I say the word owned… it does not me I own the companies but had a company contract with it and the fact that we clean their place.
The Daycare
My husband and I only clean the daycare and 2 other companies Monday through Friday. The daycare’s not as big with about 10 rooms (2 offices and 8 classrooms), and usually closes by 5:30 pm so we start cleaning by 6pm. One Friday night we didn’t get there until 9 at night because we decided to clean the one close to home first. I was in the front wiping the counters while my husband was mopping the floors. It was dead quiet…no noises except from me and my husband. All of a sudden I heard voices coming from the back of the daycare. It wasn’t an adult’s voice…it sounded like a child talking or playing around. I brushed it off thinking that maybe it might have been some people walking past the daycare. My husband walked up to me and asked if I heard anything because when he was moping one of the rooms in the back, he heard a little voice coming from the room next to it. (The 2 classrooms in the back had a bathroom for the kids in the middle which connects the two rooms together. The restroom has 2 waist length doors for each room to get into the restroom.) My heart started to beat faster than usual. I’m a person that loves horror movies but when it comes to the real thing, I’m scared as f**k. I told him that I did and that we should come back tomorrow morning to finish. He told me that we’re almost done so for us to keep going, so I followed him instead of wondering on my own. After that incident, we had my cousins help us clean the place and played music so our minds wouldn’t wonder. I know this might not be as scary but this was my first time ever experiencing anything unexplainable in my whole life.
The RTD Maintenance Station
This company takes care of training, maintenance and repair on RTD buses. There are 3 houses on top of the hill where training takes place for the bus drivers. Down the hill, there’s a break room and 2 maintenance garage. The break room and garage always had employees working, but for the 3 houses…it’s empty and dark by the time we get there. The first 2 houses are pretty small. The first house has a tiny kitchen, 3 offices, a bathroom and a very small basement (not as scary). The second house has 2 offices, a bathroom and a big training room (not scary at all). The third house is the creepiest house out of the 3. There were moments where creepy things had happen where you can’t explain how it could have happened. Also…just to let you know, these houses were actual small brick houses that were turned into company offices and training rooms.
Before my husband, my father in-law and I started cleaning this place, we had a Hmong Xiong couple that cleaned the place for about 5 months. A month before they quit, I was talking to one of my auntie about our cleaning business. She asked me what kind of companies we owned (meaning did we clean)…I told her all the ones we owned and how big some of them were. She then asked me if I had ever cleaned the bus station before or have I ever been there before. I told her no because I had someone else cleaning it. She went on telling me that before I owned the bus station, this African American guy use to own it. He had employed my auntie and 4 other people to help clean the bus station with him and his wife. My auntie told me that when she first set foot into the 3rd house she felt ok, but once she came close to the basement….she felt nervous. She cleaned that place for 3 weeks until she quit because she was needed at home to babysit her grandson. The whole time she was there, she felt a presence there and kept smelling a really bad stench coming from the basement. I was surprised but felt ok since I didn’t have to be there.
One day the Xiong couple told my father in-law that they were going to stop cleaning the bus station because it was consuming their free time. We were fine with that and were very grateful that they took the time to help us out with the cleaning. (They were cleaning another company for us at the time too) Later that night my husband and father in-law joined them on their last night at the bus station to get to know where everything was located. It was on an autumn night so it got dark quicker than in the summer time. Once that night ended they headed to where I was and pick me up to go home. In the car ride, my father in-law told us that the Xiong couple told him something disturbing the happened to the husband.
One night when they were cleaning the 3rd house, the husband went down stairs to vacuum the basement while the wife was still upstairs cleaning the bathroom. While he was making his way in the hallway he noticed a woman in one of the office. He turned off the vacuum cleaner to greet the woman, but the woman did not say a word. The woman was standing with her back towards him and was swaying from side to side. When the woman didn’t answer him, his hair on his arm and back stood up. He quickly unplugged the vacuum and jetted up the stairs. He told my father in-law that the room he saw her was a room with a gate instead of a door.
Once we started cleaning the place, I finally got to see how the basement was structured. To turn on the lights, you had to walk across the room…in the DARK. There was a room that instead of a door, it had a metal gate that was always locked. In that room, there were a bunch of boxes and filing cabinets.
We cleaned that place for about a year ½ until our contract ended, and during those times we cleaned that place, things had happened. Around winter, my husband and I had a friend and his wife help us clean the place. When we got to the 3rd house, we weren’t able to open the door. Every time you push the door to open, it felt like someone from the inside was pushing back at you. Another time we decided to clean the break room and garage first then the 3 houses. When we drove back up the hill, we noticed that the door was wide open. We told each other that it couldn’t have been an employee because it was pitch black in there. One day we went early to go clean. A woman was still working at the time so she ended up starting a conversation with me. She told me that one night when she was working late by herself, (before we started cleaning the place) she kept hearing footsteps. She thought that it might have been the pervious cleaners coming back because they left some keys in the restroom. She opened her door to a pitch black lobby (basically the living room). She freaked out and closed. She thought to herself that maybe if the cleaners were to come back then she would leave with them. The whole time she kept hearing footsteps as if someone was dragging their feet on the floor. All of a sudden she saw head lights turning in. the cleaners came knocking at the door so she jetted towards the door to let them in. they asked her if she was leaving because the lights were off so she replied yes.
I would like to tell you more but then it might be too long so this is the end of this story
The Food Corp (not the real name)
So by far this is the biggest company we’ve ever cleaned. It has 3 floors, the 3rd floor has about 15+ offices and cubicles and a break room, 2nd floor has 3 offices and the 1st floor has a break room, a restroom and a warehouse. The 1st and 2nd floor isn’t as scary since there are people working 2nd and 3rd shift. As for the 3rd floor, it’s pretty creepy since everyone is off work be the time we get there. To understand the story, I have to explain the structure of the company to not confuse you readers.
When you first enter the company, you go through a sliding door into a square shape room. On your left is a door to the custodians’ closet, in front of you to the left is the door into the warehouse and to the front right is an elevator to the 3rd floor only. Once you get on the 3rd floor, you see a lobby in front of you. When you turn to the right, you see the front desk (that’s where I get all the good candies lol). To the right of the front desk (when you face it) is a very long hallway that splits into 2 parallel hallways with cubicles in the middle and offices on the sides. There’s a restroom across the front desk behind the elevator. This restroom is supposedly haunted by a male ghost. I personally have not witnessed anything.
Okay back to the story….so that night my husband and I decided to take my parents and siblings with us to clean (sister 18 yrs old, brother 14 yrs old). Before we left to the company, I told my husband that we would not tell my family that the place is haunted until after. My dad and husband started vacuuming while my brother grabbed all the trash. My mom, sister and I were the ones cleaning the restrooms. My sister was using the restroom up front by herself as we all took off in different directions. While she was in there doing her business, she heard someone open the door. She called my name twice but no one answered. At first she didn’t think anything of it and kept to herself. Then it happened again so she got scared and left towards where we were. After that my brother got lost looking for us and ended up in the front. He looked around but didn’t see anyone so he walked towards the break room. He had this intense feeling but kept calm.
Once we were done we went down to the main entrance. For some odd reason the sliding door kept opening and closing. When my husband gets close to it…it would act normal, but when he gets back to the car, it would go crazy again. I told him to forget it and that we’ll just let the night supervisor know what’s going on. Once we left was when I told my family that this place was supposedly haunted but yet to see or hear anything. My sister and brother got so freaked and told us what had happened to them. Ever since then, they still get the chills just thinking about what had happened to them.
It might just be me but I have this saying that I would say to myself to keep myself from thinking that I will someday see a ghosts. It might not be true but I make myself believe it lol. I say to myself that if I’m a person that has never seen a ghost then I will never do because I’m not the types that are very sensitive towards ghosts. When I mean Sensitive, I mean six senses or clairvoyant. It somewhat works when we use to have that cleaning business because during those times....I have yet to see one and hope to never see one…why…because I’m a chicken. lol
