- Hopefully I don't get fired for this.
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- Hi, I'm Swasti and I have the most ridiculous
work-from-home horror story.
So I was sitting, working from home, as one does
in the middle of a global pandemic,
and I needed to use the restroom.
So, I go over, I open the door,
and I kid you not, I saw 10 wasps
just buzzing around like it was their hive or something
or their nest
and it was truly one of the most terrifying things
I've ever seen.
So, obviously I screamed.
And called my fiance, slammed the door shut.
He opened the door and we saw 10 more at least
wasps just falling out of our vent.
So, we're both freaking out.
We realize we have to call the exterminator
'cause obviously, neither of us
are equipped to handle a wasp infestation.
I can't use the bathroom.
I only have one bathroom in my apartment.
Couldn't use it, so that was a pain.
It took the exterminator around two hours
to get to our apartment.
So, we wait for him.
I'm kind of doing a little bit of this
while I'm working on my computer
freaking out about these wasps
hoping that they're not gonna like
come through the cracks of our door.
So, the exterminator gets here,
he's got all his supplies,
he's ready to bomb out our bathroom.
He opens the door and all the wasps were gone.
Kid you not.
Not one wasp in sight.
It's like we made the story up.
So, he goes to the roof
and checks to see if there's a nest up there,
and there was no nest.
So, no idea.
It's like the tale of the disappearing wasps.
But it was truly terrifying
and that's my work-from-home horror story
about the time a bunch of wasps flew into my bathroom.
- My name is Sean.
I'm a talent resident here at BuzzFeed
and this is my work-from-home horror story.
Hopefully I don't get fired for this.
Working from home has honestly been great
even though most of my work revolves being in the studio
and shooting content.
I've been able to do the same thing here at home.
And I'm super, super grateful,
however, I've also learned that working at home
has it's challenges.
One of them is that I had to recreate an iconic photo
for a video at BuzzFeed.
I was trying to look like this picture to a T.
And the last step was getting a outfit.
And this person had this material around their chest
to make it look like a dress.
I set up my little photo shoot area.
I got bedsheets to make it look like the background.
I opened up the window to get natural light in.
And I started posing, taking pictures.
You know, living, giving my best life.
However, it's in the middle of the day
and I totally forgot that when you have a window open,
people can come by and watch you.
So, here I am, and then I just turn my head
ever so slightly.
These two cute grandmas that I love to death
were just staring at me
and giving me the thumbs up, you know.
And I was so shy.
I wanted to like hide but I couldn't.
So, I just gave them the thumbs up again,
me literally like half naked, just like.
And then I went to my window, closed the curtains,
and I was just all red.
Eventually I went outside with a shirt on,
and they were just like oh scandalous.
They're like, oh what kind of shoot is this?
I'm just like it's just for a video, y'all.
It's not like that.
They're like sure it is
and they give me like this wink
and I'm like, okay, girl, calm down.
Ever since then I made sure that when I do shoot videos
like now, that there's no one outside.
And I'm gonna give the grandmas a photo
just because they're now my number one supporters.
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- Hey, I'm Tenn.
There's been some stuff going on in my apartment
that's definitely made this quarantine
a lot more interesting.
So, I don't have a whole lot of experience
with paranormal activity or supernatural occurrences,
but it is something I'm very interested in,
so something I often find myself discussing with friends.
Little things would happen here and there
that would creep us out.
But now that quarantine
got us spending a lot more time in the crib,
now I feel like we have the opportunity to notice things
that we otherwise wouldn't notice.
For example, something that's been happening
that's really creepy is in the living room of the apartment,
there's one big window that has blinds.
So, every evening before we go to bed, I close the blinds
and every morning when I wake up, I open the blinds,
you know, let the sunlight in.
So, that's like my normal ritual.
What I've been noticing recently
is that I'll close the blinds at night time,
and go to bed and then when I come out in the morning,
they're open, like I did not open them,
they're just open.
It's not my fiancee.
We're both asleep.
So, we were discussing that situation with the blinds,
and I kinda jokingly made the statement
like hey, you know if there's any ghosts in here,
any paranormal stuff going on, like knock it off man,
you're pissing me off, you know what I'm sayin'?
So, the morning after I said that,
I come outside and not only were the blinds open,
but there was a hoodie on my couch.
And it happened to be my favorite hoodie.
It's a Bruce Lee hoodie that I have.
The creepy part about that specific hoodie
being on the couch more than the fact
that I didn't put it there and neither did my fiancee
is I had lost that hoodie weeks ago.
When quarantine had just started, I did laundry one day.
That hoodie was part of the laundry.
Put it in the washing machine
and when I went downstairs to switch stuff to the dryer,
I noticed that it wasn't in the washing machine anymore.
And I was devastated
because like I said it was my favorite hoodie.
I've had it for years.
I actually asked to see the security cameras
for the laundry room and I didn't notice anything.
Like nobody went in there
and messed with the washing machine,
so it was really, it made no sense
why my hoodie wouldn't be in there.
So, come outside and that hoodie, my favorite hoodie,
is chillin' there on the couch
right after I had like called out this ghost or whatever
the night before.
I (beep) you not, even as I'm telling you this story,
right now, my camera stopped recording
and it switched from selfie cam which it's on right now
to like the other way, to normal.
So, like I said, nothing malevolent has really happened.
If anything, it's been kinda helpful.
I don't have to open the blinds.
My favorite hoodie that I lost been found.
And it was laying right there and waiting for me,
so that was really nice.
I got my favorite hoodie back.
But it is still kinda unnerving.
I don't really know how to explain these events.
Interesting quarantine.
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