I hate to be covering this, but there's just so little room in a Facebook or Twitter update to fully convey my amazement at something like this being true.
I mean, I really hope it isn't because I can't find it on Reuters (thankfully) so it could just be something that was quickly churned out by one paper and spread like wildfire.
Anyway, let's get onto the main stuff here shall we?
Here's a Google News search for the story: [CLICKY]
And here's the article I'll be mostly refering to: [CLICKY]
So, workers at a construction site for a new attraction at Thorpe Park have apparently been experiencing some strange phenomena. According to Sky News:
Staff building the water ride at Thorpe Park said they had encounted several strange phenomena, including what appeared to be a headless monk.
There were reports of objects being moved, workers feeling like someone was watching over their shoulders and sudden cold feelings being experienced.
There are 3 ways you can deal with a situation like this:
1 - Tell the workers to grow up. At this point you run the risk of offending your workers if they seriously hold the belief that they are being haunted, and in this day and age we all know that offending your workers beliefs can lead to massive financial loss on the part of a company.
2 - Get a Scientific team in. At this point, you're pandering to the beliefs of your workers, but you're doing it with an un-biased and objective group, they will go over the evidence and reveal their results. It may or may not be effective in convincing the workers, but would probably work out cheaper than being sued or by moving the entire construction location and delaying construction by a number of days.
3 - Call in Ghost Hunters. This is possibly the worst option. You're pandering to the beliefs of your workers, you're using a heavily biased group to provide what they consider evidence (photographs of dust, funny feelings, and wiggling a piece of plastic around on a board), and you're spending even more money.
Guess which one they went with?
A paranormal detection agency was called in by park bosses to carry out tests and found that an ancient burial ground or settlement could have been disturbed.
Managers at the theme park decided to relocate the ride to another area and also called in a forensic team to carry out further investigations.
So, here's the end result:
- Thorpe Park Bosses have to spend money on delays to the construction of their new attraction.
- Thorpe Park Bosses have to pay for a group of Ghost Hunters to check out the area, and "confirm" the fears of the workers.
- Thorpe Park Bosses have to pay for a Forensics Team to come in and check out the original location, and no doubt check out the new location.
Do you know how they could've saved most of this money?
Well, you tell me...what exactly is the difference between a Forensics Team, and
?
2 - Get a Scientific team in.
Exactly...
But money issues aside...why did this go this far anyway? Why did nobody sit the workers down and explain reality to them? Why, after doing this, did they not just ignore the rest and tell them to get back on with their work?
Have we really come to a point in our society, a point that many might consider full-circle back to the Bronze Age, where construction work (infact, any work) is delayed by FEAR. OF. GHOSTS?
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