For those of you that don’t know, CoHabitat is the premier coworking space in Dallas. For the past few years it’s been the home of many a freelancer and startup.
Recently, the first residential tenants moved in on the second floor.
Jason LeBlanc, from Lafayette, Louisiana, was the first. The next day I (Bradley Joyce) moved in as well… and all was well and good for a few weeks.
In late July I was working downstairs late one night… it must have been around midnight. I was sitting in the Dynamo Labs section of the big room, facing the wall, with the front room to my right. I could see past the room divider into the front room and out the front window.
As I was sitting there, out of the corner of my eye I saw something white move from the entrance of the front room, across the room towards the fireplace and out of my line of sight behind the room divider.
I didn’t think too much of it the first time.
But then it went back across the other direction. Then back and forth two more times over the course of the next 5 minutes. By this time I was pretty spooked and went upstairs to work in my room.
The next day I was telling Jason about what had happened the night before. He was like, “duuuuuuuuuude, the house is for sure haunted!”
Jason went on to explain that he had woken up in the middle of the night, various times, to the sound of footsteps above his bed. He’s also heard the sound of chairs rolling across the floor.
Jason’s room is right below the 3rd floor, which happens to house the office of Traxo.com. They do occasionally work late, but each time this has happened to Jason, it’s been between 2am-3am and the office lights were off and the door closed and locked. Nobody was there…
A week or so later Jason and I were both upstairs in our rooms working late, doors open.
I heard a beep, it sounded like the keypad to the one of the doors to the house. They have these keypads where you punch in a code to unlock the door. A minute later there were two beeps, then another.
Jason and I both came out of our rooms at the same time, looking at each other like “whaaaaaaaaat is going on here…. is someone trying to get in the house?”
The beeps were definitely coming from the front door. We went downstairs. Looked out the windows. Opened the front door.
Nothing. No one.
WTF?!
Had to have been the ghost, right? That’s what we were thinking.
Since then, we’ve heard random beeps from the doors (usually the front door) probably 6-7 times… including as recent as last night!!
Well, a week or so ago the third CoHab residential, Rob Carpenter, moved in and Rob had an experience HIS VERY FIRST NIGHT in the house.
Again, it was late… everyone was in bed. Rob was in his room winding down by watching some episodes of Big Brother. After the last episode he closed his laptop and was heading off to dreamland.
Not 30 seconds later, Rob heard two loud crashes in his closet! A bit frightened, Rob opted not to investigate, instead pulling the covers up to his head and making every effort to put the sound out of his mind.
Jason and I didn’t hear anything that night.
When Rob told us his story the next morning, we were more convinced than ever that there was something else living with us in this 100+ year old house!
Two nights later, I myself was awoken in the middle of the night by a crashing sound! I looked at my phone, 2am. CRAP I thought, not again… I decided to leave it be and tried to go back to sleep.
CRASH BANG! 5 minutes later another loud crash cause me to jump upright in bed. This time I scrambled to turn on my light.
HOLY #&$*%* … a bunch of stuff that had been sitting just fine for 4 weeks on top of my suitcase was now on the floor!!!!
Literally this stuff has been sitting in the same place for weeks!! Freaky!
It took me a while, but I was finally able to fall back asleep. Of course, I told Jason and Rob about it the next morning.
Two nights ago, Jason and I were watching TV late in the media room. As usual, Jason ended up falling asleep on the couch. I tried to wake him up a couple times but he was OUT. I turned of the TV and went up to bed.
The next day, Jason tells Rob and I that he woke up at 2am SUPER SPOOKED out. You know, that feeling you have after you come out of a super scary movie and every shadow and every sound is freaking you out?
Finally, last night all 3 of us were in the media room watching a movie on the big screen. 4 times during the movie we heard the front door beeping at random intervals. Each time, we looked at each other, knowing that our ghost was out there.
Any one of these experiences on its own probably wouldn’t be worth a second thought. But put them together and you have a growing body of evidence that there is something else here with us at CoHabitat.
All of this has prompted us to start this blog to record our experiences as they happen going forward. So stay tuned, there will be more…
