The Pale, White, Bony Man

Fortunately I’m not the only person in the station to have seen the strange sight of the pale white, skinny, bony figure. But I am the only person to openly write about my sighting.

It’s one of the reasons I don’t like to go into the Claire Wilson Conference Room without having the lights on. I used it one late evening as a short-cut between the kitchen, where my locker is and the newsroom.

This particular night the room was dark as I strolled through it with a cup of coffee, my brief case and my headphones. Jus’ as I reached the other side of the room I noticed someone standing near the end of the table by the door.

At first it didn’t fully register that I had seen a person standing there and I continued walking. Then, like a light flicked on in my brain, it dawned on me was I had seen — so I took a couple of steps back.

There was nothing there. But I know I had seen someone — or should I say something.

The figure was between 5′ 10″ and six-feet tall, extremely skinny and bone and very pale, almost translucent. It was the only time I have seen this thing.

A co-worker, R. Boogie, told me that he also saw the figure, though we couldn’t agree exactly on a description. Yet it had some striking similarities including the skinny, bony features I had seen.

Boogie was walking down the hallway after take transmitter readings when he spotted someone out of the corner of his right eye. The person, as he calls it, was standing in a production studio, looking out the window as he passed by.

And like me, it didn’t register right away that he had seen something. And jus’ like I did, he had to stop, step back and look.

Once again, whatever had been there — disappeared. Boogie even opened the studio door to look behind it in order to make certain.

Still another person, who works in the building during the day, claims she saw the same thing out of the corner of her eye.  She says that whatever it was, she was unable to focus on it when she’d turn her head to look at whatever was moving jus’ outside her vision.

Perhaps this is the energy that has been reported to make noise walking up and down the hallways, opening and closing doors and rattling desk drawers. Half-of-me wants to know, while the other-half says, “Leave well enough alone.”