I never believed in ghosts in the past until something happened at work a few years ago. Apologies if I've told this story before.
I've been with the same company most of my career. Maybe 15 years ago, a woman who worked for us for a long time, I call her "Jennifer" (not her real name) passed, in a tragic way. Put it this way, if anyone had reason to leave this earth with a restless soul it was she. The story was incredibly sad.
She didn't come to work one day, and one of our employees had a bad feeling. She and another drove to her house and found her. It was awful. We never talked about. We still don't. Most of the employees from that time are gone, and there is no point.
My partner, I won't say she is superstitious, but she never placed another person at Jennifer's desk. We left it empty. Some how it just seemed like the right thing to do.
Five years later we had a new employee, I'll call her Mary. Mary is quite unusual in a few ways. One time she mentioned that she felt "connected" to things in ways that others weren't. I thought it was odd and really just blew it off.
Then a few years later she told me she was having a repeated vision of a woman walking from Jennifer's desk over to the reception area and back, over and over. She described the woman she was seeing and it was Jennifer to a T. Long brown hair, a scar on her cheek, tight jean pants, a jean jacket and leather boots. Jennifer was an equestrian, she lived for her horse, and the description was freakishly accurate. She always wore her jeans and boots.
Mary had no way to know any of this, we're sure of it. We never talk about it. My partner and I looked each other with eyes wide open, but never let on to the staff.
I still don't know exactly what to make of it, but I'm no longer a full on skeptic.
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