haunted ?

My lab has recently hired a new temp named Mark. Quite a nice guy. Despite years older than me, he actually looked much younger than I am (and needless to say, less macho as well). A stranger would have thought that he’s a high school student instead of someone in his early 30’s.

Part of his job was technical - analyzing defective computer parts inside the lab, which is known to be haunted. Yeah, the place that I spend almost 9 hours a day, is known to be haunted. But I’ve never seen anything abnormal happening over there before… save for a few times that the fire exit alarm went off by itself… just, nothing that resembled a ghost or something. (the scariest thing I’ve ever seen inside that lab were dead toasted lizards stuck inside power supplies…)

A couple days ago, Mark actually asked me about it, to confirm about the haunting. One of my buddies (which is also his buddies prior working here) actually told him - not to work inside the lab after 7pm and told him about the haunting. Needless to say, Mark was concerned … and there’s a hint of fear veiled in his question…

Not wanting to spoil the fun, I told him something like this :
“Well, I don’t know what to say. Just, if you hear something weird or funny when you’re alone in this lab … the best thing to do is, to switch off your monitor, calmly grab your belongings, and leave the lab.”

Mark responded “Damn… can’t I just bail without shutting off the monitor ??”

I’m trying hard not to laugh and said to him - “Nope. Help the company save electricity. You’ll have to shut it off dude. Oh, and don’t forget your car keys, you wouldn’t want to return back here to collect it with the weird things going on …”

“Man, looks like I got to pray a lot to get some peace here …”

I don’t know if Mark is taking this seriously but, it was damn funny to see his expression after that. I just hope he doesn’t smoke the whole place up burning paper offerings to buy some peace there…