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I used to manage King's Row Formalwear Lake. A few events happened to me while I worked there which lead me to believe that the old building is haunted. I didn't think so at first, but after several completely inexplicable events, I came to believe that the "King's Row Ghost" was real.

The first event occurred when I was working by myself upstairs putting together tuxedos. The air-conditioning was terrible so we placed a big floor fan on a box near the cooler vent to try and blow air towards the work area. I looked up from my work to see the fan fly off of the box and crash into a door a couple of feet away. Thinking someone had knocked it over, I walked over and looked around. No one was upstairs but me. I asked the employees who were working the floor and they didn't know anything about it.

Another time, I was looking for some important papers that I had set down on the counter. I couldn't find them anywhere. I looked for several days and asked every employee if they had seen them, no one had. Finally I gave up. About two weeks later, the papers were sitting on the counter where I had left them before they disappeared. Not a mean ghost, but certainly a tricky one.

The final experience, which was the most conclusive to me occurred first thing in the morning. I came in, unlocked the door, and turned on the lights. I had to turn off the alarm system, so I knew no one else had been in. I went down into the basement to turn on the boiler. When I came upstairs I started getting the cash register ready. While I was counting out, I heard the floorboards creaking above me as someone walked around upstairs. I didn't think anything of it, I just assumed one of my employees had come in while I was downstairs. However, to my surprise, both of the employees who were working that day came walking in the front door. Whoever had been walking around upstairs wasn't anyone who worked there, and no one else was in the building.

There are other signs, a shadow glimpsed out of the corner of the eye, but no one there when you look straight on.

The new owner of King's Row can undoubtedly corroborate some of my stories. I suspect he has a few of his own to tell.