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The Apparition Engineer

I used to run the vehicle preparation centre for the Old Oak Motor co Enfield from 1986 to 2000.
We were based at the bottom of Millmarsh Lane Brimsdown, on the old power station site. Early days, not many people or cars headed that way then, especially as it was a no through road and the place was pretty much derelict. We used to get bothered by salesmen coming in and trying to sell us one thing or another and it became very tiresome. We had only one site entrance and on one particularly gloomy day, during normal work, I looked out of the window and saw a man, dressed in a tan coloured boiler suit walking towards our workshop entrance.

The distance from the site entrance to our workshop was around 100 metres, so it would take some time to walk up to us. I suppose the man was around 45, quite tall, with black hair, almost like it was greased back. I was fed up with having to chat with visitors that stopped me from working, so I asked Lee, my work colleague, to go and see what this guy wanted. Lee also saw him out of the window and made his way to the end of the workshop to confront him. Lee came back, almost immediately, and I asked him what the guy wanted. Lee said, there was no one there. Our compound was completely surrounded by high chain link fencing, only one way in and out, but you could walk around the site, as the workshop and office were in the middle. I said to Lee, ok I think he may be walking around the buildings, so you go one way, I will go the other and we will see him.

We walked from either side and met each other with no sign of the man we saw. I said to Lee 'did we really see this man'? Lee confirmed we did. T here was no way he could have left without us seeing him leave as the distances could not have been covered in the timeframe. Just one other incident was, there were three of us technicians working at the site and all had large tool chests that were closed by lifting the cover up and over the whole chest and locking at the bottom. One morning we all turned up for work and my tool chest was open. I moaned to the other two, Lee and Steve, that one of them had been using my tools. They said they were going to say the same thing to me, as all three were now open and not one of us did this.

Mark Durham Via email 21st January 2026

The Disconnected Voice

This happened in the old site of Ponders end youth centre on South street, long before the redevelopment and the building of the new centre. The year was 2007, I was running a successful music project and we to perform at a soiree Bishop's Stopford school were holding in the evening. We had put together a band of 7 young people aged between 14 and 17 and we rehearsed for 2 weeks to get ready. On the night the night of the event , which started at 7pm, we met at the centre for 4:30 for one last rehearsal and to organise who was carrying what. There wasn't any point in getting a minibus due to the proximity of the school to the centre, so we opted for walking.

In the old youth centre, as you enter off of south street, there was a large car park and a ramp leading up to large red doors. To be DDA compliant, the doors were replaced with large double white automatic doors. This was at a time when we had the red doors and a window in the main door to see in and out. As you walked in through the main doors, the female toilets were directly on the left before you arrive at the main desk.

We met at the main desk. I asked if anyone wanted to visit the sweet shop before we left. The group mumbled among themselves. Some said yes, but I knew that some teens would tag along. I turned my back to pack the cables and gather the equipment. Then, I noticed the door close and silence fell over the reception area. I sat down at the front desk chair and took a moment to enjoy the quiet and wait for their return. Out of nowhere I heard a noise coming from the female toilets, so I got up and walked towards the entrance, believing I was alone in the centre. I shouted "Who is in there" and I heard a voice say back echoing off of the tiles "It's me". The voice I reconised as Alex one of our guitarists, who timbre was quite distinctive. At that point I felt satisfied, thought no more of it and walked the 3 yards back to me chair and sat down. 3 minutes later I hear bustle of noise getting louder coming up the outside ramp, and I see faces appear at the window. they hilariously (to them anyway) start banging on the door and pressing the buzzer and at the back of the group because she is tall, I see Alex. I let them it and I asked hang on Alex if you're here, who's in the toilet. I explained to them what had happened. One of the girls went to check and returned, saying they were empty. I asked if the window was open. It was daytime, so it shouldn’t have been, but she said it wasn’t. I definitely heard a voice interact with me and respond. To this day I have no idea what that was and now the centre has been demolished, we will never know.

Author M.R. Feb 2026

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