Case File – The Warehouse Entity

A few years ago, I was working for a company that made hairdressing furniture and we were based in Watford.
The building was turn of the century and had been converted into units, we had a ground floor warehouse a second floor where I worked and a mezzanine above me where the office was.

I would finish work at 4 pm but our secretary worked till 5 pm and she often told us that when she was on her own she heard strange noises and she felt uneasy being on her own but we just told her she was imagining it.

When I was at my workbench the entrance to the stairs was to my left and quite often I could see a figure standing in the doorway but as soon as I look directly at it there was no one there, I remember telling colleagues who worked in the warehouse about this and one person told me that he would see a dark figure in the warehouse but like me when he looked straight at it no one was there.

On a Friday afternoon my boss came to see me he said that he had taken an order, so I came in to work over the weekend. I arrived at work Sunday morning just after 7 am, behind me were two rows of industrial shelving and as I was working I could hear what sounded like people whispering as I walked alongside the shelving, but of course no one was there.

So I carried on but I could still hear voices. A little time later there were three loud bangs on the shutter doors in the warehouse my first thought was who the hell can that be so I went to the window opened it and looked down but there was no one there so I went back to my workbench and again another three bangs on the shutter doors, this time I went downstairs and outside but could not see anyone.
I then went into the warehouse and looked around but there was no one around. So now I was feeling nervous because I could not understand what was happening.

I decided that if it happened again I would run down the stairs as quick as possible and try to catch who was doing this and sure enough three loud bangs, I was outside in a matter of seconds but again no one there, I remember thinking that I did not want to be here I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck standing up and I had goose bumps on my arms but I decided that if I could do a bit more I could finish my work.

All of a sudden there was a loud bang behind me, and when I looked between the shelving a box was on the floor, I had put the box there a couple of weeks before, it was full of wooden chair arms and weighed about thirty pounds, the shelves were flat and there was a lip at the front of the shelving so if you wanted to take something off the shelve you had to lift it first before pulling it forward so nothing could just fall off.

At that point I had had enough and went home, on Monday I told my boss what had happened and he of course found it hard to believe. But some time later when we had moved to a new building in Berkhampstead, he told me that when he was working late in the old building he had come down the stairs from the office to the floor I worked on and something grabbed him from behind he said he felt cold breath on the back of his neck and he was pushed towards the stairs, he said he felt he was going to be pushed down the stairs but he managed to grab the door frame and wriggle loose and run down the stairs.

I still think about what happened it felt like a game where someone was testing me to see how far they could push me before I had had enough and would leave, and I have thought about talking to the people who are in the unit now to see if they have witnessed anything but they would think that I am mad, regards member of the public.