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?

  • dnick@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    well, unless the deaths were suspicious, you could pretty much discount the ones that occurred off-site, and things happening relatively close together is often just a coincidence. Seems like a pretty large property, and with lots of guests and lots of employees it doesn’t seem unusual to have a ‘string’ of odd occurrences occasionally. As far as feeling creepy, there’s a good argument for the acoustics of a building adding to it’s creepiness…and once you’re creeped out about one thing it’s not all the unusual for that association to carry over into other areas even if the similarities that associate them together aren’t immediately obvious.

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      6 months ago

      That’s all true. I get downvoted for it alot, but I do believe in the paranormal, however I debunk everything I can before jumping to that ship. What you say could definitely be valid thing at the CC at least. There’s a huge ass banquet hall in the center of the building. Although, I will say… the main property pro shop, abandoned golf academy building, the lodge, the inn, vehicle maintenance, and north maintenance building (2nd property), along with all our halfway houses, all feel fine, not creepy at all despite being further in the boonies (I’m talking in the woods, pitch black at night). It’s worth noting that the buildings I mentioned that feel creepy are the only places like that on the entire property(s). Kinda weird.