I worked in my local pub and over the weekends and some times during the week I would stay over there with the other bar manager. We shared a room. It wasn't strange to us to hear things at night. Sometimes the juke box would come on; sometimes you could hear voices and laughter coming from the bar. I used to like hearing that, as if those people who had really enjoyed coming to the pub still liked to pop in for a late drink!
Every morning, no matter how much you had scrubbed and polished the bar top the night before, you would find three water marks, as if the landlord and two regulars had stayed and had a drink together. Then other things started happening.
When I was in the bathroom there would be knocks on the door. I would call out but get no answer, and sometimes find there had been no one upstairs but me. I would hear running footsteps and a child's laughter. The sash window in the room I stayed in would never close fully1 and condensation2 used to build up on my full length mirror. In the morning you could see two small hand prints at the bottom of the mirror. Again, these occurrences didn't bother me; in fact it was quite comforting.
At night I would sometimes feel someone get into bed with me and feel two little hands in the small of my back. However, things started happening that DID bother me.
After locking up one night I and the other bar manager were cleaning up. Now, in the ladies toilets there was a door that opened up into a courtyard, however no one had ever found the key. As I was checking out the toilets, I saw the door handle move. I thought someone had managed to get into the courtyard and called to my friend to look through the window. He didn't see anyone. Then the door handle started moving much more violently and I ran out to my friend.
We both watched through the window as an unseen hand rattled3 the door handle. We took off upstairs quite quickly, put all the lights on and slept in the living room that night. I hated having to go to the toilet at night from that point on.
The bathroom was at the end of corridor and I would always feel as if something was walking right behind me. I once saw a tall, dark shadow walk around the corner and into the kitchen, but there was no one there. I started to feel scared to be upstairs on my own.
Downstairs, in the bar, it had a much more friendly atmosphere, but upstairs felt oppressive and claustrophobic. One night I woke up to find my sash window open and the tall figure standing4 on the balcony, looking out across the town. It then jumped off the rooftop. The child I had sensed, in such a comforting way, now began to scare me too. It was a little girl, and it seemed that with the appearance of this dark man she became intensely scared. I would see her standing in the doorway5 screaming while the black shadow approached behind her. I would hear cries and screams in the dead of night. My friend ended up pulling down the old fireplace that had been bricked up in the room we shared. That did it for I sensed something dreadful in the entire pub after he did that. I never worked or stayed there again.
我和朋友在本地開了家酒吧，周末的時候，并和朋友一起住在酒吧里，偶爾工作日也會住在那兒。我倆共用一個房間，晚上聽到動靜對我們來說并不是什么新鮮事。有時候是唱片點唱機，有時是從酒吧傳來的談笑聲。我曾經(jīng)是很喜歡聽到這種聲音的，就像那些非常喜歡泡吧的人大晚上也要來喝一杯一樣。
不管我們頭天晚上是如何認真仔細得擦洗吧臺，第二天早上，總能在上面發(fā)現(xiàn)三個水印，看起來就像是酒吧老板和倆位老主顧呆到很晚，一起喝了酒似的。還有其他奇怪的事情發(fā)生。
我上洗手間時，會聽到敲門聲，但當我大聲的問是誰時，卻沒人回答。有幾次我從洗手間出來，卻發(fā)現(xiàn)二樓只有我一個人。我還會聽到人跑動的腳步聲和一個小孩的笑聲。我房間的上下推拉窗總關(guān)不嚴，所以夜里我的大穿衣鏡上會凝結(jié)水汽，第二天早上，就會在鏡子下方看到兩個小手印。這些事情并沒有讓我感到煩惱，實際上，我還覺得挺欣慰的。
到了晚上，我有時會覺得有人鉆到了我的被窩里面，能感到有兩只小手在背后摸我的腰部。 (這也算不了什么)，但是，這之后發(fā)生的事情真的讓我感到不安。
一天晚上打烊后，我和朋友開始打掃酒吧。女洗手間有扇門能通到院子里，但那門的鑰匙我們始終沒找到。但當我在檢查女洗手間的時候，卻看到門把手在動，我以為是有人在后院，便從洗手間里喊朋友到窗邊看看。他沒看見院子里有人，但此時，門把手動得更厲害了，我趕緊跑出去和朋友呆在一起。
有人在咔噠咔噠得轉(zhuǎn)動門把手，但我和朋友從窗戶看出去的時候，卻看不到院子里有任何人。我倆趕緊跑到樓上，把所有燈都打開，當晚我們都睡在客廳里。從此之后，我痛恨晚上上洗手間。
洗手間在走廊的盡頭，每次我去那的時候，總有種身后有人跟著的感覺。有一次，我看見一個高大的黑影轉(zhuǎn)過墻角進了廚房，但那兒根本沒人。我開始害怕一個人上樓。
樓下酒吧里的氣氛很好。但樓上卻讓人感到壓抑恐懼。一天晚上，我醒來看到推拉窗開著，陽臺上有個高高的黑影，正看著整個鎮(zhèn)子。然后它從屋頂一躍而下。我曾經(jīng)深感欣慰感覺到的那個小孩也開始讓我害怕。那是個小女孩，看起來那個黑影的出現(xiàn)把她嚇壞了。我曾看到那個黑影從背后向她走去，她就站在門口尖叫。寂靜的夜里，我可以聽到哭喊尖叫聲。最后，我朋友把我們房間里的壁爐給拆了。之后，我開始在整個酒吧都感覺到可怕的東西。從此，我再沒在那兒工作或是住過。#p#分頁標題#e#
