I spent a few years working at the IPSCO steel mill in SE Calgary (Ogden) in the mid-1980s. There was a story that the place was supposed to be haunted by the ghost of a foreman that had been killed there when it used to be Phoenix Steel. The only thing I ever encountered to suggest it might be true was I'd often get bumped from behind by someone walking past me while I worked at my job station. When I'd turn around to see who it was there'd be nobody in sight. This usually only happened on night shifts for some reason. It wasn't spooky or anything ... I'd just get bumped by something or somebody who wasn't there. On the odd chance there's somebody on the board who's familiar with IPSCO, this would happen at the #2 beveller.
My parent's house had lots of weird stuff happen too ... footsteps in the night when everybody swore they were in bed, puddles of water appearing in the middle of the floor for no reason, the dog getting let out of the house in the middle of the night (and barking like an idiot at nothing). Like the IPSCO experience, these incidents never felt creepy, frightening, spooky or whatever ... just kind of WTF. The lack of eeriness makes me wonder if they're even "ghost" stories, but whatver they are they cant' be explained within the parameters of normal sensory perception. Since I experienced them first hand I know these events occurred ... not like getting them second or third hand. But I can't say what caused them. I certainly didn't see or sense any "ghosts".
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