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Author	LexyNoise
Comment	I was a DJ in The Polo Lounge for years, which meant I was often in that creepy old building alone setting up sound equipment and moving decks around. I don't massively believe in the supernatural or ghosts, but there was a lot of weird stuff that happened in that building. You'd see things out of the corner of your eye. The first time, you'd be rational and think you'd imagined it. But the fifth time you saw the exact same thing in the exact same room, you'd think "no, I definitely saw that". Things would move when nobody was in the building and it would be caught on camera - one time an entire glass shelf. You'd be alone in a room and hear chairs scrape across the wooden floor. People would hear things and see things and stories would be passed between the staff. I typed some of the stories here but the post got stupidly long, so I deleted it and here's some bullet points instead. For reference, Polo only use the ground floor and basement of the building. There are five abandoned, derelict floors above the ground floor. The only thing upstairs is the CCTV office used to watch the cameras. There's a dark, nasty staircase with no lights above the ground floor that you use to get to the CCTV office. It was common for staff to dare other staff to go all the way to the top of that staircase. I never made it past the second floor. It was just a horrible place to be. 'The nasty staircase' below refers to this staircase. * A big, bearded, biker, take-no-shit-from-anyone bouncer ran out of the building one night and refused to ever come back. He was walking down the nasty staircase from the CCTV office and he heard and felt something growl right in his ear. * One of the managers was in the CCTV office watching the cameras, with her back to the open door and the nasty staircase. She felt like something was watching her, and turned around to see a face peering round the door at her, right at the top corner. * I was wandering about the building one night, after closing time, looking for one of the managers. I walked into the small cocktail bar (Riding Room) and saw him standing at the other side of the bar. Tall figure wearing a white shirt, with black hair, facing away from me. I shouted his name and walked around the big pillar to the other side of the bar to talk to him... nobody there. I was so confused I walked back to the door to see what I could have possibly mistaken for him. There was nothing where the figure had been. Just a red curtain. Just then, a chair on the other side of the bar scraped across the wooden floor, as if someone had just stood up from the table quickly. * Several staff reported seeing a man sitting in the big upstairs lounge, reading one of those huge, old-fashioned broadsheet newspapers. If you said something, he'd completely ignore you. If you looked away then looked back, he'd be gone. * I mostly DJ'd in the small R&B club in the basement. It was a very creepy room to be alone in. I'd often see dark shadows walking around the room when I was in there on my own setting things up. A few times, I saw an old man's face peeking over the edge of the bar at me. That always gave me a wee fright. Taps would turn on full-force by themselves – you'd hear the squeak of the tap being turned. The light switch for that club is behind the bar, so if you're the first person in you need to walk through the pitch-black club to turn the lights on. Everybody used their phone flash as a torch to do that walk. * One time, while the building was empty and locked, a glass shelf went flying across the room in the upstairs lounge. It didn't fall down - it was held in by clips - it lifted up and flew diagonally across the bar. It was caught on camera and I've still got the video somewhere. Bonus Polo Lounge Fact: In the big lounge upstairs, there's a painting of a murder scene. It's a man lying dead on the ground, but they've hung it sideways so it looks like he's standing up. If you look at it closely you can see the guy is clearly dead and the painting is sideways. It's on the wall beside the front door, at the opposite end to the cloakroom. Have a look for it next time you're in.
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Created	Wed 2nd Nov 2022 4:55pm
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I was a DJ in The Polo Lounge for years, which meant I was often in that creepy old building alone setting up sound equipment and moving decks around. I don't massively believe in the supernatural or ghosts, but there was a lot of weird stuff that happened in that building.

You'd see things out of the corner of your eye. The first time, you'd be rational and think you'd imagined it. But the fifth time you saw the exact same thing in the exact same room, you'd think "no, I definitely saw that".

Things would move when nobody was in the building and it would be caught on camera - one time an entire glass shelf. You'd be alone in a room and hear chairs scrape across the wooden floor. People would hear things and see things and stories would be passed between the staff.

I typed some of the stories here but the post got stupidly long, so I deleted it and here's some bullet points instead.

For reference, Polo only use the ground floor and basement of the building. There are five abandoned, derelict floors above the ground floor. The only thing upstairs is the CCTV office used to watch the cameras. There's a dark, nasty staircase with no lights above the ground floor that you use to get to the CCTV office. It was common for staff to dare other staff to go all the way to the top of that staircase. I never made it past the second floor. It was just a horrible place to be. 'The nasty staircase' below refers to this staircase.

* A big, bearded, biker, take-no-shit-from-anyone bouncer ran out of the building one night and refused to ever come back. He was walking down the nasty staircase from the CCTV office and he heard and felt something growl right in his ear.
* One of the managers was in the CCTV office watching the cameras, with her back to the open door and the nasty staircase. She felt like something was watching her, and turned around to see a face peering round the door at her, right at the top corner.
* I was wandering about the building one night, after closing time, looking for one of the managers. I walked into the small cocktail bar (Riding Room) and saw him standing at the other side of the bar. Tall figure wearing a white shirt, with black hair, facing away from me. I shouted his name and walked around the big pillar to the other side of the bar to talk to him... nobody there. I was so confused I walked back to the door to see what I could have possibly mistaken for him. There was nothing where the figure had been. Just a red curtain. Just then, a chair on the other side of the bar scraped across the wooden floor, as if someone had just stood up from the table quickly.
* Several staff reported seeing a man sitting in the big upstairs lounge, reading one of those huge, old-fashioned broadsheet newspapers. If you said something, he'd completely ignore you. If you looked away then looked back, he'd be gone.
* I mostly DJ'd in the small R&B club in the basement. It was a very creepy room to be alone in. I'd often see dark shadows walking around the room when I was in there on my own setting things up. A few times, I saw an old man's face peeking over the edge of the bar at me. That always gave me a wee fright. Taps would turn on full-force by themselves – you'd hear the squeak of the tap being turned. The light switch for that club is behind the bar, so if you're the first person in you need to walk through the pitch-black club to turn the lights on. Everybody used their phone flash as a torch to do that walk.
* One time, while the building was empty and locked, a glass shelf went flying across the room in the upstairs lounge. It didn't fall down - it was held in by clips - it lifted up and flew diagonally across the bar. It was caught on camera and I've still got the video somewhere.

**Bonus Polo Lounge Fact:** In the big lounge upstairs, there's a painting of a murder scene. It's a man lying dead on the ground, but they've hung it sideways so it looks like he's standing up. If you look at it closely you can see the guy is clearly dead and the painting is sideways. It's on the wall beside the front door, at the opposite end to the cloakroom. Have a look for it next time you're in.