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Today's first midweek mystery comes to us from James.

James says, I work in a grade school as a custodian.

After I started doing paranormal investigations,

coworkers would occasionally tell me of their personal encounters.

One coworker who I have been working with for 20 plus years

fairly recently told me about the old man in a trench coat and hat that would walk out of her classroom when she was a kid.

She never told anyone about it all through her childhood and mentioned it once as an adult to which her aunt said,

you saw him too?

Aside from that, she never told anyone except for me.

Custodians in different schools within the district would also tell me of their experiences that they've had in their buildings.

We strip and wax the floors in the buildings during the summer months because there is less of a chance of someone walking in.

One of the custodians in the middle school in our district had waxed the girls' washroom

just before closing time after summer school had ended.

Again, to reduce the chance of someone walking on it and ruining

the floor.

When he returned the next morning, he came in to find the footprints of what appeared to be a child's

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