Tales of the Ouija

THE SPURNED SPIRIT

I had some strange experiences while working in an office about 13 years ago. When I started working in the office, my colleagues told me that one of the filing rooms was haunted and that they always went down to the room in pairs. Curious, I started asking questions about this so-called "ghost," but it was not long until I experienced it myself.

One morning as I arrived, I passed the stairwell and saw what I thought was one of my colleagues out of the corner of my eye.

I stepped back to say good morning, but the figure suddenly disappeared. I was due to get married soon and for some reason, the "sightings" became more regular as my wedding approached. We used to smell a strong scent of lavender in the air just before or just after a sighting, and on the day that I was leaving to get married, one of my colleagues was whistling "The Wedding March" when all of a sudden she heard a woman's voice saying, "Sshhh."

I couldn't get this out of my mind, and when I returned from honeymoon, I decided that I would try and contact this "woman" on a makeshift Ouija board. I know this was silly, but I had to get answers.

As soon as the glass was put on the board, it started moving. The information given was as follows: The spirit's name was Anne and she died in the 19th century; she drowned herself after she was spurned by her lover. She kept saying that she was sorry for what she had done and could not rest in peace. She did not appear to be a "bad" spirit and, funnily enough, after that we did not feel frightened when we felt her presence.

The reason that we felt that the filing room was haunted was that the office had been built on part of a graveyard and Anne's grave would have been directly under the floor of the room.

Our department closed down and we had to move out of the building, but I am sure that Anne is still wandering that corridor today. ~ Marie F.