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Fred Followed me to Oakville
Oakville, ON
by KLR

Well now, everyone is probably well aquainted with my ghostly friend Fred. When my particular hotel changed owners and names, I had made a transfer to a property with the same company I was originally employed with to Oakville, with a former General Manager I had known well and we liked each other, making it easy to get that job for me. However, little did they know when they got me, they got Fred!

I again was working at the front desk, this time on days and
afternoons not teh night shift. One day shift I was working, the front desk manager who originally was from out west was living in the hotel at the time. He told me he had a meeting, but was expecting a call from his fiance and to let her know he would ring when he was out of his meeting.

Well, I was alone at the desk, and I did not recieve any calls from her, nor put any through to his room. However, when the FDM got out of his meeting, he called me from his room to tell me he just spoke with his fiance on the phone, and that she swears she called the hotel, got through to the room and proceeded to have aconversation with him that never happened
according to him, he was in a meeting. I think Fred was playing tricks on my FDM, we both found that peculiar. I just laughed it off as some...weird experience.

Then another night, I had missed my bus back to hamilton and the lady working the desk for the night audit had put through
a wake up call for me to get up and catch the early bus, however, I got into bed and within an hour, my phone began to ring, thinking it was morning already I ran to pick it up and the line was dead. I put the phone down it continued to ring. Confused I checked the clock it was only about 1 a.m. in the morning the phone wouldnt stop ringing. I unplugged it, plugged it back in and it was still ringing. It went for at least another five minutes as I was getting dressed to go to the desk to tell the auditor. By this time it stopped, I picked it up the line was live. I
called the auditor and asked her to check the wake up calls she said mine was in and at the right time. I then asked her to hang up and call me room, line was live she called through no
problem. So, I went back to bed thinking the phone was just "buggy" that night. About 10 minutes later the phone began to ring again, again the same thing.....dead..but ringing. I wrote this next experience off as my friend "Fred" following me from the Hamilton Property.

I soon left the Oakville Property and never worked in the hotel industry again. However, Fred came with me wherever I went, and is still around only not as active as he once was. I fear he may be getting bored with me as Im quite used to his pranks by now.

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