Terrified council workers say unplugged printers have started printing, computer keyboards have suddenly flipped over and furniture has mysteriously moved.
One said: "It's a very scary situation - staff are not willing to work there at night at all. Things have been going on for years but it's worse now than ever." Workers at the Wintern Day Centre in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, believe it is haunted by two maids who used to live in the attic - and hanged themselves after they both got pregnant.
The tragedy is said to have happened while bluebells were blooming - and centre staff claim the place now smells of the flowers. And they insist they will work there in daylight but not after dark.
Council chiefs sent in a structural expert to investigate but he found nothing wrong and now they may even hire ghostbusters.
A Pembrokeshire county council spokesman said: "We will consider further investigations - including paranormal experts."
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Give me a break! I'm not saying there are not stupid, hysterical people who actually believe in these ghosts in the staff, but I think most of them are just going with the flow because it means they don't have to work after dark. And the council is actually going to be spending more money because of this bullshit! "Paranormal expersts" - the idea of giving tax payer money to that kind of people is just awful. If someone refused to work because they were afraid of pixies or demons or elves living under their desk, they wouldn't get away from it. What's so special about ghosts? They are just as real.
Insolitus this ghoststory is not situated on Mainland Continental Europe, but in a country where ghosts and old history is about part of daily life as baguettes and the drinking of wine is in France.
So that makes their reaction on phenomenons like that quite different from when this would happen in other countries.
I am not so easily convinced that the majority of modern day Brits take ghost stories this seriously. Horoscope-seriously, maybe, but not like this.
My father was born in the 40's in rural Finland and he remembers how back then old people were extremely superstitious, believed in ghosts and magic and the like. But that was over 60 years ago and people have wisened up. I find it hard to believe that educated people in England genuinely act like barely literate, spell-making, ghost-fearing old women in an agrarian village in the edge of civilization at a time an automobile was a rare sight.
I might be wrong, of course, in which case my image of the UK has suffered another unfortunate blow.
I agree. But take this history and culture of theirs of ghosts and old stories in old buildings and stirr it with some group-hysterics and you could get a pretty potent cocktail -even in the UK Anno Domini 2010.
I am still inclined to believe most of the staff is just playing along - nobody wants to be left working when the genuinely hysterical flee the workplace and the employer accommodates them.
Just have them come to work when the sun comes up - 6 AM.
Even if there are ghosts... so what? Is a mysteriously printing printer going to hurt you?
Can someone who believes in or knows something about ghosts explain to me why they only act up at night?
Isn't it obvious? Ghosts are scary, as are darkness and night. That's also the reason ghosts prefer old creepy buildings. Scary attracts scary.
Those ghosts most likely also act up during daytime, but then there is to much clutter from the living to be noticed.
That, or ghosts are like vampires- Thhhhhheeeeeeey Arrrrrrrrrrre CCCCCCccreaturesssss offfff the NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
... Yep, Cath you have a point- Never thaught of that one before.
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