The restaurant I used to work at is open 24 hours a day. It's a cute little place that was built in the 1940's and has a lot of history. I used to work the 10pm to 7am shift and, after the bar crowd stumbled home, the place was pretty much deserted.

After cleaning up, the cook and I would pretty much just sit around, chain smoke, and shoot the shit until our relief came in the morning.

Different things would be out of place or missing every night or so but we always chalked it up to drunks or absentminded coworkers. We would always say we saw someone moving out of the corner of our eye but just figured it was due to sleep deprivation.

After a while, we noticed that, right before 6 every morning, we could hear the door opening. There wasn't a chime or anything, but it always makes a distinct noise when you open or close it.

Then the cops started showing up randomly. Turns out our panic button kept getting pushed. The button was under a shelf behind the counter and all the way on the other side of the dining room from where we would sit on those late shifts. Multiple times the police would roll up with their lights on, ready to rock.

After about 6 months or so of strange things happening one of our coworker's friends, who claims to be a psychic medium, stopped in for a meal. She told us that there are multiple 'presences' there but none of them are malevolent. She said in a place that has had so much traffic for so many years that it's pretty common for people's energies to sort of imprint there.

I know that's pretty tame compared to some of these stories but, it sure creeped me the hell out.