Oh, I’m so jealous. I luves me some creepy old buildings, and that one looks awesome!
Have fun, and keep us updated.
Can you bring your dog with you?
Exactly. But…it was also a bank! Probably there’s some old boxes of money laying around!
When you catch the ghost and pull the mask off it will be
a smart guy whom I like quite a bit and find to be very level-headed
He found something valuable that he needs the bank to be clear during the night so he is trying to scare people away.
And he would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for that meddling Hal and that sheep, I mean dog.
that’s gonna be fun!! did you say if you are planning to take a recorder with you? you might want to in order to see if you can record some evps.
You do realize that this will be a perfect invitation for people to pull all kinds of jokes on you. Lots of prep time, access to the building, no one else is supposed to be there, previous reputation… Yeah, if it were me, I’d do a nice thorough walkthrough before settling down for the night, and make sure everything us closed and locked.
I was gonna say that those looked like a cozy place to spend the night. Just throw a sleeping bag on top and you’re good to go.
Then ralph pointed out those latches. Holy carp! You wouldn’t catch me crawling in there.
He already mentioned that he and his co-workers had no-prank agreement.
Fun! Methinks the best defense would be to have pedantic jerkwad gangsta baby with you. Nothing from this world or the next could possibly be her match.
I double-dog-dare you to sleep next to the corpse holes.
And I’ll raise you double-double-dog to spend the night on shrooms. 
[* Clap, clap, clap *] Very well played!
“…and I’d have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for that damn Hal Bristol!”
The body cot sticking out of the corpse hole would probably be the best place to sleep for maximum effect. Although I would definately need a fully charged and tested cell phone strapped to my nads just in case I “somehow” ended up in the hole with those doors closed.
I gotta wonder, are (were) latches like that normal? I could see something like that on a crude safe but for a dead body? What dead guy needs that much security? And looking at the work on them I imagine they cost a pretty penny even at the time they were installed. What could possibly make them worth the expense and effort? Am I being a little over obsessed with the corpse doors? Sorry but, damn those are some serious doors.
Yeah I saw that, I’m just not that trusting. The situation is too good.
Since the building is quite old, possibly the doors reflect the limitations of pre-electric refrigeration (ice). If you needed to keep dead (possibly diseased) bodies around for any length of time, you’d want to make sure that those doors were not just sealed, but double-dog-sealed. Otherwise I suspect that the gasses of putrefaction would tend to seep out rather unpleasantly after awhile.
We’ve actually explored the deep, dark corners of the attic and have come across ledgers from the early 1900s. Did you know a full-blown all-out funeral cost a whopping $350 back then?
For those of you who don’t know, kittenlm is the “my wife” in this story. And a lot of other stories too, but I’m not sharing those ones here.
To quote Count Alucard (Dracula): “there are worse things than death awaiting man”!:eek:
Update! (Jeff and Johnny are the mainentance guys):
I reserve comment.
ETA: No I don’t…Jeff and Johnny are fucking with the rest of the office. I’m going to have to watch out for those two, and make sure they stick to the “no pranks” agreement.