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The Woman in the Tree

A mysterious figure haunts a tree at night

Brian Loo Soon Hua
Haunted Office
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4 min readDec 6, 2024

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A creepy old tree.
Photo by David Amis on Unsplash

In 2010, I was in charge of overseeing a small packing plant and warehouse that specialised in powdered drinks. Stuff like coffee, tea, creamer, chocolate etc. My boss had rented a small lot and had various machines installed. We had over a dozen workers who would work round the clock sometimes to fulfill orders.

When I signed up for the job what puzzled me was the large old tree inside the compound of that factory. For some reason, it was left alone when everything else around it had been cleared to make way for the parking lot.

That was the strange bit, parking our cars next to an old tree that seemed totally out of place there. But no one seemed to mind. No one also said a word to me.

Then something happened one night.

Thankfully, I was not on duty. But the night manager reported the strangest thing to me.

One of the workers, an immigrant from Bangladesh, was walking out the back of the factory to smoke a cigarette. He saw something that made his skin crawl.

In the moonlight, he could make out the silhouette of a woman wearing a long white dress, standing on the large branches of that tree. Her face was hidden by long black…

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I used to work the graveyard shift in several haunted buildings. All stories written here are true ghost stories from personal experience.

Brian Loo Soon Hua
Brian Loo Soon Hua

Written by Brian Loo Soon Hua

I create daily sci-fi and fantasy art at Xenolocution: https://medium.com/xenolocution I also write true ghost stories at https://medium.com/haunted-office

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