10/31/2026
Crazy S**t We’ve Experienced in Real Estate — Episode 14
👻 MARY.
Yes.
We’re doing ghosts now.
Years ago, we bought this absolutely incredible turn-of-the-century mansion to use as our office.
And we were SO excited.
Our previous office had been a tiny little 2-bedroom, 1-bath house, so this place felt like we had ARRIVED.
We bought it from a couple of attorneys who were going to rent it back from us for a month before we moved in.
The day after closing, I was there talking with them when they casually said:
“Did we remember to tell you that it’s haunted?”
Um.
No.
No, you did not.
😂
Apparently they called the ghost Mary, after the original owner.
They assured me she was friendly.
“It’s kind of like Casper. She just wants you to know she’s here.”
Okay…
What exactly does THAT mean?
Well, their kids were scared to come to the office.
Sometimes the printer would randomly start spitting out paper.
Once, one of their cars somehow moved about half a car length backward in its parking spot.
You know.
Normal commercial real estate stuff.
But everything had been fine.
So naturally, we bought a haunted office building.
And then we started renovating it.
This, apparently, pi**ed Mary off.
😂
The first thing that happened was the attorneys called and asked if one of our contractors had accidentally cut their internet line.
Nope.
We hadn't touched it.
It took almost an ENTIRE DAY to figure out what was wrong.
Finally, they discovered the internet cable had simply been...
unplugged from behind a computer.
A connection nobody had touched in years.
Weird.
But explainable, right?
Except...
IT HAPPENED AGAIN.
Then the attorneys moved out and we moved in.
One night, our property manager was the last person to leave.
She was meticulous.
Lights off.
Doors checked.
Everything locked.
She said she had a weird feeling that night, but everything was fine when she left.
The next morning, we arrived at the office...
and MUSIC WAS BLARING FROM HER COMPUTER.
She wasn't even there yet.
And you needed her password to turn the computer on.
😳
Okay, Mary.
We see you.
Then there was The Light.
One particular office had a light that absolutely WOULD NOT turn on.
Our electrician looked at it.
There was no reason it shouldn't work.
Everything was connected correctly.
Nothing made sense.
So finally I said, half joking:
“Mary, could you PLEASE just let us use this light?”
We flipped the switch.
It turned on.
And it worked perfectly from that day forward.
😂
Then one day I was sitting at my desk.
My desk was covered in papers.
Nothing was moving.
No fan.
No breeze.
Nothing.
Suddenly...
ONE SINGLE PIECE OF PAPER LIFTED OFF MY DESK, FLEW DIRECTLY AT MY FACE AND WENT OVER MY HEAD.
Every other paper stayed exactly where it was.
What. The. Hell.
But the creepiest part was something we eventually ALL started experiencing.
If you were the last person in the office...
you would hear someone walking on another floor.
If you were downstairs?
You heard footsteps upstairs.
If you were upstairs?
You heard someone walking downstairs.
If you were in the basement?
You heard someone walking on the first floor.
And I don't mean a little creak.
It sounded like a PERSON walking.
You fully expected someone to come around the corner.
But nobody was ever there.
Then we figured something out.
If you acknowledged it...
it stopped.
You could say it loudly:
“Hi, Mary.”
Or quietly under your breath:
“I hear you.”
Didn't matter.
The footsteps stopped.
Apparently our ghost didn't want to murder us.
She just wanted attention.
Which, frankly, feels on-brand for our office. 😂
Mike didn't believe any of this for MONTHS.
Until one night...
he was the last person there.
He heard the footsteps.
Nobody else was in the building.
And that man—who had spent months telling me there was obviously a logical explanation—announced that he would NEVER BE THE LAST PERSON IN THAT OFFICE AGAIN.
😂😂😂
Eventually, I got tired of the whole thing.
One night, Mary started her nonsense and I finally gave her a piece of my mind:
“LOOK HERE. You cannot scare me. YOU'RE the stupid one stuck in a house for eternity. GET A LIFE.”
😂😂😂
And you know what?
She never bothered me again.
Apparently even ghosts eventually figure out which women they shouldn't mess with.
Unfortunately...
Not everyone in our office was quite so bold.
👻
And that's not even our only ghost story...
