OLD NWTH - HELEN

Lois Cook Cruz

We went under a renovation in 2010 and one of the residents that lived on the 5th floor wanted to see the final results but didn't want to be there during it.

She fell a few months before they started work on the 5th floor and ended up passing away.

One day the job supervisor took the carpenter up to the 5th floor to that particular resident's old room and before he let the carpenter in, he told "Helen" to behave.

The carpenter asked what he was doing and the supervisor told him that the apartment was haunted by a sweet mischievous old lady. The carpenter just brushed it off and went in.

About 10 minutes later the carpenter called the supervisor and told him he couldn't get out of the apartment.

The supervisor went up there with another worker to see what was going on and sure enough, the door wouldn't open, even though both doorknob and deadbolt were unlocked.

All three men tried to get it open but it wouldn't budge.

Finally the supervisor got fed up and told "Helen" to behave and open the door. The door suddenly opens by itself and the carpenter ran out of the apartment and down 5 flights of stairs and out of the building and refused to come back on the property.

That's just one of many concerning that floor.