Who you gonna call?........IT

Another follow-up to the 2/12 'Ghost in the Machine' post.

Today notes the weirdness escalating to the next level and then some.

First, a small back story:

I forgot exactly when but a few weeks back, a couple of coworkers were hanging in my department with me and another tech.  For whatever reason, the conversation led to me showing off my ghost-detecting app on my iPhone (maybe it was a couple of months ago because I did not have my work iPhone at the time, just my iPhone).

You see, in October of 2011, I downloaded a gag app that supposedly picks up spirits in the room.  After the download, I ran the app, which acted like a radar and was supposed to ping when it detected energy, different colors depending on how strong the presence was.

Sitting in the living room of my house, I ran the app at first for a few minutes and then for thirty minutes straight with no results.

I thought that, being a gag app, it would send out a few faux pings, but nothing.

Thinking I was doing something wrong, I read instructions and looked at the thing carefully, but sure enough, no matter how long or on what setting no pings.

So I dismissed it (I tried again a few times, you know, bored, nothing on TV playing with the iPhone, still no signs of ghosts in my house or a faulty app).

Fast forwarding back to the two coworkers in my office (one who happened to be the lady with the open office whose phone periodically calls the reception desk at night, this conversation either happened before the calls, or I did not put it together that she was the occupant of the office that the calls were coming from).

So my app got worked into the conversation; I told them it most likely did work because I had tried without success.

Sure enough, I booted the app, opened the radar function, flipped it on, and no more than thirty seconds later. A ping!

Okay, weird; I left it running, and the app picked up random pings as we conversed about spirits in the office.

Not thinking much about it, I let them know that this was the first time I saw the app working and explained I ran it numerous times at home without a single result.

Of course, as soon as I got home and days after, I ran that app without results, but I still receive results (to this day) at my workplace.

Now to the Present.

Today I received an email from one of the coworkers I was showing the app off to, also the same occupant of the open office late-night caller (by now, I put two and two together and realized it was her office calling).

She was complaining of mysterious happening with her computer, like files opening and closing and random mouse movements.

After a few back-and-forth emails, she recounted various 'unusual' happenings she experiences regularly.

Finally, she emailed me that faxes were being sent from her fax machine to an outside vendor of files that were not meant for them, and she never touched the fax machine today.
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I walked to her office with my iPhone and ran the ghost-detecting app.

This time I was getting regular pings, some yellow and others going as bad as red (green being the weakest and red being the strongest presence).

I ran the app in my office and received random pings, never more than green; right now, as I am blogging this at home I am running the app with absolutely no results, no pings, no colors, no presence.

Is that a good thing?

I believe she has an iPhone herself and is considering the download of the app, I do not blame her if she does not, but I know the siren call is too much not to know.

~ J
Not scared yet.