Ad Business
By Jack Rossin

I owned an advertising agency and we had the entire top floor of the Exeter Street Theater building. The building was originally a Masonic Temple and has all of the symbols of the Temple built into the brick finishes on the outside of the building. When we moved in the previous tenant told us the building was haunted. We started noticing that at the end of the day if most people went home and only one person was on the floor, that person would hear foot steps, door knobs jiggling and other sounds. I experienced it as well as many of my employees. One Saturday morning I came to the office to write a speech for a client. I was the only one in the office and was deeply focused on the speech. I had been at the computer for about an hour when a child's voice, a girl, clear as a bell spoke to me. She very angrily said "Daddy, come home now!". I put my coat on and ran out of the building.

A post script. I told that story to our PR guy who repeated the story to a friend of his in another city. The woman he told was a tarot card reader. She said that she could sense from the story this was authentic. She went on to say that she can visualize the building and described it perfectly except she said our offices were on the sixth floor. Our offices were on the fifth floor, said the PR guy. When he repeated that to me I corrected him and said originally it was the 6th floor but they renumbered the floors after a rehab of the building. She was right.

Finally, we moved out of the space and another ad agency moved in. We told them about the ghosts and they laughed at the very idea. A few months later there was a fire in the basement of the building. The fire skipped every floor but came out of the HVAC system on the top floor and burned everything that agency owned to ashes. Don't mess with ghosts.

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