From: "nancy ann" (nancy102077@yahoo.com)
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Ghost chair!
Date: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:37 PM
Location: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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From 1999 to 2001 I worked for a company in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The company I worked for was located in a building which was built in approximately the 1930's. After I had worked there for a while, I began to hear rumors circulating about the "ghost" in our building. Mostly I just heard talk about "oh...such and such happened...it must have been the ghost". Somehow I sensed that they weren't kidding. Being the paranormal enthuisiast that I am, I began to ask questions. At first, my supervisor denied knowing anything. Finally she gave in and told me that sometimes the walls of the cubicle would shake without any encouragement, or you would see someone walk past you out of the corner of your eye and no one would be there. Another supervisor told me that sometimes if you got off the elevator in the basement, it would be really cold in one spot and warm in others. This sounds like typical ghost behavior right? Well one day the owner of the company heard us talking about the "ghost", and he asked me if I knew about the chair in the warehouse. I had heard something about the chair riding the elevator at night and then being found on a different floor the next morning. I dismissed that as bologna because I thought surely the chair would trip the sensor and the alarm would go off if that were true. Well he took me back to the warehouse and showed me that the chair had been weighed down and placed behind some large creights to prevent it from going anywhere. The owner of the company told me that he didn't care if the chair wanted to ride the elevator durring the day, however he kept getting calls from the police in the middle of the night because the alarm had been triped in the building. When the owner would show up, he would find the chair on one of the other floors. He would be too embarassed to tell the police about the chair, so he always pretended like it was a false alarm. Finally he had the chair weighed down and placed behind crates. He told me that another time, he and his son were in the building preparing for a sidewalk sale. He sent his son downstairs to get something get something for him, and when the owner pressed the button for the elevator, it opened up and there was the chair! He asked his son about it and his son denied doing anything with the chair. Later that day they were working on the third floor (still just the two of them)when all of the sudden the doors of the elevator opened and they heard the **squeak squeak squeak** of wheels. They looked over and saw that the chair got out of the elevator and had rolled itself into the middle of the warehouse! As long as the chair was weighed down, things in that building were pretty uneventful. A few months later, the company was being relocated to another building on the Kansas side. I guess one of the workers didn't know the story about the chair, because the crates were removed and the weights were taken off of the chair while things were being arranged. Sure enough, the owner of the company was called that night by the police because something had triped the alarm. When he arrived, he found the chair in a corner on the opposite end of the warehouse.
From what I understand, years and years ago a worker in the building got his arm caught in the elevator in the basement and bled to death. I'm not so sure that story is true, but it certainly would explain the cold spots in the basement, and the connection to the elevator.
The building is currently empty, however you can kind of see inside the building because of the Exit signs and emergency lights and whatnot. When I drive by there at night, I try to look in the windows to see if I can catch a glimpse of something. I never felt afraid of anything when I was there...I think whoever it was just wanted to let us know that it was there.