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Restaurant Ghost
by Ron A.
This event took place about 20 years ago. I was working on the electrical system of a restaurant called the CAFE in Kensington High St SW7 in part of the building which used to house Barkers store in the 1930s opposite where the present store now is, called Ladymere House.
All the customers had gone home. It was the early hours of the morning and I had just turned all the power and kitchen fans off, but all building lights were on. I was standing in the kitchen doorway when I glanced toward the rear stairs. I saw a man wearing a boiler suit with an old-fashioned type of shirt collar. I then went back into the kitchen. A few seconds later, I remembered that there was not supposed to be anybody in the building. I looked back and saw that he had gone. He did not pass the kitchen door, so he must have gone down the dead-end staircase to the toilets.
I went to the cash desk at the front of the restaurant where the manager and a security man were cashing up, telling them what I had seen. They deadlocked the front door, locked the till and went with me to find the man who they said must be a customer. The only other exit was a fire door with a push bar on it at the rear of the rest where I had seen the man. It was locked with a padlock and chain, and the alarm system was switched on, so had anybody touched the door a siren would have sounded. We searched the place in such a way that no one could have hidden or doubled back.
The man was never found, nor could he have left the building in any way without setting off more than one burglar alarm system. I think that he was a workman who died there in the 1920s-1930s. When I saw him, I did not feel worried or fearful in any way. I only thought I may have been a ghost.
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