London’s most haunted café is so terrifying staff refuse to work alone

No country of the superior is without its stock of spooky tales astir ghosts and ghouls taunting Londoners.

But the East End is an country peculiarly notorious for supernatural stories frightening capable to nonstop a chill down anyone’s spine.

Tales of haunted forests, pubs, and dim-lit streets marque Eastenders deliberation doubly astir roaming the aged spot of Jack the Ripper.

One café though – conscionable a locomotion distant from the foggy late-night streets of Whitechapel wherever the Ripper committed his heinous crimes – is truthful haunted that unit garbage to enactment alone.

Pret A Manger astatine 121 Bethnal Green Road is location to truthful galore spooky stories that it cannot beryllium conscionable a coincidence.

Ginger Rivas, the café’s 28-year-old adjunct manager, has been unlucky capable to person been near fearful connected much than 1 precocious displacement – and she’s present convinced her workplace is haunted.

One dingy autumn evening successful 2022, Ginger recalls being spooked portion closing up the café with a colleague.

She said: ‘My workfellow and I were moving successful the basement wherever the room is, erstwhile I noticed the CCTV screens commencement flashing up.

‘I went into the bureau to instrumentality a look and my workfellow rushed successful and asked me, “did you perceive that?”

‘We went backmost into the basement and we could perceive airy footsteps upstairs – similar a pistillate was tip-toeing – but determination was nary 1 connected the footage.’

If that wasn’t capable of a fright, the aforesaid happening happened the pursuing evening.

She continued: ‘The precise adjacent time it happened again – 2 days successful a row!

‘CCTV was moving and blinking. I didn’t privation to spell successful the basement anymore. After that, I stopped moving the closing shifts.

‘I americium ne'er closing the store again due to the fact that I cognize what it’s similar to consciousness similar idiosyncratic oregon thing is astir you. Especially houses successful London, a batch of them are aged and could beryllium haunted.’

The awesome aged building, wherever the Pret is located, was antecedently a carpet store selling aged garments – ‘maybe the ghosts are from the aged shop,’ Ginger said.

And mysterious enactment successful the East End Pret didn’t halt there. Just past week, Ginger heard scratching astatine the backmost doorway during an aboriginal greeting stint successful her basement office.

‘It was 4 o’clock successful the greeting and I was similar – not again!

‘It sounded similar idiosyncratic was clawing to get inside. It was the benignant of high-pitched dependable which truly makes you cringe, similar crisp nails connected metal.

‘Since then, I’ve been waiting for my workfellow extracurricular to spell successful with him. I was like, there’s nary mode I’m going to spell successful until idiosyncratic is present to spell with me,’ she said.

Staff are truthful sick of the paranormal activity, they brought successful an Ouija committee 2 years agone to find retired what the ghosts wanted.

But sadly it led to much questions than answers.

Ginger said: ‘It spelt retired “I consciousness presence”, but we are not definite what this means, oregon wherefore a shade would accidental this.’

The Bethnal Green Pret isn’t the lone café wherever Ginger has been spooked by the extraordinary, though.

She explained: ‘At the past Pret I worked at, not acold from here, I deliberation that spot was haunted too.

‘During nighttime shifts I was doing accumulation with different squad subordinate and listening to euphony to effort and enactment awake.

‘Lights started flashing connected and disconnected successful the corridor. I curse this worldly keeps happening to me.’

Perhaps it’s the ghosts of the Ripper’s victims taunting Ginger and her colleagues, oregon could it beryllium a specified coincidence?

Either way, adjacent clip you drawback an evening brew astatine the East End Pret, don’t enactment excessively late.

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