I work in security at a northern michigan ski/golf resort. The resort spans 2 properties and has a combined total of roughly 3000 acres. As you might expect, it can be a tough job at times, with drunks, noise complaints, safety issues, etc but wtf do you do when your job is mostly just tough for simply feeling “creepy”? There’s a chunk of buildings on the main property that have wigged me out since day one of my employment. The buildings in question are the restaurants (3 in one building) at the top of one of our ski hills, the daycare (located at the top of another one of our ski hills), both our ski services and ski rental buildings (both buildings are located at the bottom of one of our ski hills), the cafe, and our convention center, along with our shop on the north property (also creeps me out), which sits amidst 4 massive golf courses. It started with me hearing a mans voice in the convention center that sounded nothing like any of my coworkers there with me, then a few weeks later a loud BANG I heard when patrolling the convention center one night alone. At first, I thought nothing of it until one slow night when I decided to do some digging into the resorts past. It turns out that at the time, there were 4 deaths on or associated with the resort that i could find either through google or word of mouth. The original owner was dead and apparantly “shows up” in the convention center, rarily. One skier died on the bottom of one of our ski hills (the one located by the daycare), one death was an employee who worked ski patrol (they have an office in the cafe that rests between our ski hills) that was off site, and one was a guest who died on one of our courses over on the second property due to hundreds of bee stings after hitting a ball into a thicket of trees. These areas creeped me out already, but now they’re even creepier. Then, a weird stretch of deaths started occurring, starting last September 20th, in the restaurant building, which I was part of. A guest choked to death, and we couldn’t save him. Then, a dishwasher died in the breakroom of the building, another employee died off property who worked in the spa of our main hotel, and then another employee, who was a cook in the restaurant building, suddenly died off property. Each death occurred almost once every month. Is this place cursed? Haunted? Both? I don’t know, to be honest. The entire place just creeps me out now. I don’t know where else to put this on Lemmy, so here I am. Is this shit weird, or am I overthinking it?
People die in resorts all the time, both as a result of natural and accidental/unnatural causes. In larger resorts, like Whistler there are at least a couple of deaths every year. If you add backcountry deaths, murders, drownings, etc, you can get up to a fairly large number just for the Whistler area.
Having worked and lived there for over a decade, I have yet to see any supernatural activity. However, I have seen people taking advantage of some of our more gullible friends by making noises, telling stories, and orchestrating pranks that make them think there is poltergeist activity. It can be a good laugh.
It has always surprised me how some people can believe in ghosts without any solid evidence. All it takes is some noises, some clacking and clanking, and a good story.
Ain’t afraid of no ghost…
I know death happens alot. It just weirds me out that we went a whole year since I hired in with no issues then bam, bam, bam one after another. Personally I do believe in ghosts, but I’m also not immediately saying my resort is 100% haunted, though I have my suspicions, since all the weird shit has happened to me when there’s only me on patrol and someone at front desk. There’s only 2 of us here every night, and front desk can’t leave its post, plus it’s happened to me in areas only we in security have access to at night.
Downvoted for believing in something you don’t? Go for it I guess
Are you familiar with the term phrogging? Is it possible someone is secretly living at the resort and that was what you heard? Is there anything preventing random people from sneaking in at night?
Yeah, we have alarms on every building, very high security locks that use programmed cards (which we personally make and distribute to employees and can interrogate at will any time to see the locking/unlocking history-suffice to say our systems report nothing unusual), cameras in every building, and a very detailed, very thorough patrol protocol. It’s our job to know this place inside out, all the hidey holes, all the nooks, all the crannies, all the hideaways, etc, which is to prevent phrogging situations. Plus, we have a huge building maintenance team and housekeeping team as well, and they would know immediately if something was off or hidden away. Sure, it could be possible, but it’s extremely unlikely. Nothing hides from us on the resort. People can’t set foot in any of these buildings without either triggering alarms or disarming them, and we, security, along with only the higher ups know these codes. We are alerted every time an alarm gets disabled and we have means to roll back and look at every single alarm panel to see who and what enabled or disabled them (we assign people their own codes).
