It all started with a few innocent questions from Nick, our Interactive Associate Creative Director (see @nzink on Twitter). Questions he may not have really wanted answers to.
Being one of the more recent additions to the E.B. Lane team, he’d experienced a couple things he couldn’t explain:
Sounds of people walking the halls when he knew he was the only one in the building – plus the occasional, yet sudden, case of the heebie-jeebies.
Naturally, he wanted to know: Could E.B. Lane be haunted?
This simple inquiry brought forth a rash of other stories from other EBLers known to burn the midnight oil. They, too, had heard the walking sounds. The conversation grew to include former agency regulars sharing their experiences over social media. These alumni spoke of the footsteps and other instances of copiers or lights coming to life on their own. Less-substantiated reports also claimed that items would inexplicably move around offices when attention was drawn elsewhere.
Of course, this prompted us to want to know more. That’s why we contacted a local ghost-hunting organization.
So far, our supernatural experts have encouraged us to delve into the building’s history. What we already knew is that our building consists of a few Encanto-style homes built in the late 1920s. What we didn’t is that one of them was a tuberculosis clinic, then a psychiatrist’s office before being purchased by Ed Lane in 1972. Shock treatments, anyone?
The next step is to have our spirit-seekers come in and conduct a full-scale phantasmic investigation, which should include all manner of white noise- and infrared-recording equipment. That should happen in the next few weeks.
We’ll let you know what they find. That is – if we all make it that long.
It seemed that the Fates had lined everything up perfectly.
Gary S