Staff at a city-centre electricals shop say they’re being hounded by eerie goings-on that 'make your skin crawl' – including barefoot 'child-sized' footprints and handprints mysteriously appearing on freshly mopped floors.
Mysterious Marks Appear Overnight
Workers at the appliance store, located in the heart of Mendoza, Argentina, told the Mendoza Post that the activity has ramped up in recent weeks and they now feel it's impossible to ignore.
According to the team, the spooky streak began as a series of odd, explainable moments – strange noises out back, the odd scuff mark where none should be. But then came clear prints that looked like the wet impressions of little feet and tiny hands, dotted around the shop floor come morning, despite the place being scrubbed spotless at close.
'We thought, let’s document it – we took photos, we checked the cameras to see what was happening,' one salesperson said. Another added: 'It gives you a weird feeling, like there’s something else here.'
Crucially, the store’s alarms reportedly never triggered, the CCTV showed 'no one in, no one passing', and yet the marks kept turning up by opening time.
Shape and Size of Impressions Rattle Staff
What really rattled the staff was the shape and size of the impressions. 'When we close, we clean, we wash the floor,' a worker told Mendoza Post. 'When we arrive in the morning, there are footprints like barefoot children’s feet in different parts of the store.'
Alongside those were small palm prints, sometimes lined up in a way that suggested someone – or something – had been moving low to the ground. 'It’s like they’d been crawling through the shop,' another employee remarked.
The pattern, they claim, has turned into a strange routine: the evening clean banishes all marks, the morning reveals fresh ones in new spots. 'It leaves you with a strange sensation,' said a warehouse worker. 'At first, we thought the noises were bleeding in from nearby businesses. Now… we don’t know.'
Warehouse Whispers and Chilling Backstory
In the back, where boxes of blenders and TVs sit stacked high, the team reports bumps, shuffles and the odd clatter even when just one person is working alone. 'There are sounds, movement,' one said. 'We thought it could be from neighbouring shops, but now we’re not sure.'
With curiosity morphing into concern, the crew dug into the site’s history – and claimed they uncovered an eerie echo of the past. Before it was an appliance showroom, the corner of Calle España and General Paz was once an area of modest, low houses and bustling tenements, according to the staff’s research. Nearby ran the railway, and the neighbourhood teemed with immigrant families seeking a start. In the past, the place would have had children scurrying about from dawn till dusk.
That has the shop’s workers wondering whether yesterday’s footsteps are somehow imprinting on today.
