Story Submitted By: Paul November 12, 2001 |
Alright, I don't know a lot of info about who a few people think the ghost
is, just that her daughter and son-in-law owned a restaurant about 8 or 9 years
ago. Betty XXXXXX died of natural causes, as far as I know. She didn't
get paid for what she did around the restaurant. She just liked to
lend a hand washing glasses, helping the cooks and that. She was there
a lot, says the ex-head chef of 15 years. I worked there for almost 4 years and I'd seen things and heard things
before. Such as one instance where I was straightening out tables in the
non-smoking section, which has a little hallway that leads past it into
another dinning room. We weren't open yet, so I was rather curious when I
saw an old woman breeze right past me out of the corner of my eye. She
was heading towards the 2nd dining room. I finished what I was doing
and walked back there to find nothing. I was startled, so I went to the
kitchen and asked the only other employee there if they'd let anyone
inside the building, to which he replied "no". I told him I'd just seen
someone walk through the hallway and he insisted that he hadn't let
anyone inside. I told him what she looked like and he turned a shade of
white and told me he's seen her before, too, but he didn't want to say
anything out of fear of ridicule. He worked there for many years while
the XXXXXX's owned it and said the ghost he'd seen looked just like Betty
XXXXXX, the ex-owner's mother. I've seen and heard things a few different times. But the one time I had
physical contact with it, was one late afternoon about 2 hours before we
opened. Once again it was just me and the chef there at the moment. I
was in a hurry to try and get my setup work done. I was down in the
basement inside the walk in cooler, grabbing a few boxes of lettuce, when
I felt someone pat me on the back. I spun around and there was nobody
there. I dropped the boxes and hauled ass, like I stole something, up the
stairs and into the kitchen where the chef was busy working. I asked if
he was just down in the basement and he gave me a look like I was stupid
and said "no" and asked me why. He knew Betty and when I told him someone patted me on the back he told
me that Betty was known for patting employees on the back when they were
working hard. I never felt the same in that basement after that. Even
before that instance I had heard the sound of a woman coughing down
there while I was getting supplies. It came from an old storage room
that wasn't in use anymore. Any employee who has ever been down in that
basement will tell you that place is down right creepy. There is always
this sense that someone else is in the room. It gets stronger the
closer to that old storage room you get. Not to mention the several accounts of glasses sitting on perfectly flat
surfaces, just crashing to the ground for no reason. It's been witnessed
by regulars and employees. |