This is a pretty simple one and I didn't get any backup stories from the owners. I think this story is probably similar to alot of what is typical harmless paranormal experience.

Last summer my bf and I were shopping for a dresser so he had somewhere to keep his clothes after he moved in with me. We went to several stores and hadn't found anything, but were having fun looking at all the expensive stuff we can never afford and sitting on fancy couches, etc.

We went to this one really old building downtown in the town we were shopping in. The building was huge and even small things there cost thousands of dollars. There was just one young girl working and no one else there. We asked her where the dressers were and she replied "eew they're upstairs with the bars, and uh....I don't go upstairs." She ended up unlocking the elevator for us and let us go by ourselves.

It took us to a loft space. We wandered to one end and saw some amazing fancy bars for entertainment rooms all set up. Next we went down one side and looked at overpriced ugly dressers. As we made our way to the other end of the long rectangular space, they had a small room partitioned off and staged like a sitting room.

My bf went to walk thru the doorway when I grabbed him and told him not to go in there. The closer we got to that room the more I had a strange feeling in my stomach like we weren't supposed to be in there and that something else was in there. He ignored me and went in and flopped on the couch anyway. Maybe he thought we could do a ghost investigation idk.

Anyway I was in the doorway when he got on the couch and the lights flickered and we both saw a grey shadowy shape fly off the couch and dart around the corner. I was like "I told you not to come in here and mess with it!"

I swear it was not a real animal. It wasn't a cat or bird or raccoon. It was grey and see thru. I was afraid it was a demon. I'm still not sure what it was but my bf decided to chase it into the next room, which was dirty piled up storage. It looked like they stored stuff to repair upholstery in there. I saw it again peeking out behind something, then it disappeared. It looked like a monkey.

I made him run back to the elevator with me and we left. I was afraid it would attach to us and follow us home. We contemplated in the car if maybe the thing was why the woman who worked there wouldn't go upstairs.

Whatever it was, it wasn't good and didn't want us there. I had a sick disturbed feeling when I went in that room. It was like walking in on a crimescene, or some sick sex act. Not that that is what happened there, I just had the feeling like something bad I wouldn't want to see happened there. I also felt like there might have been an old bathroom there along time ago, with a clawfoot tub. Maybe someone committed suicide in a tub there, but then why did we both see what looked like a monkey?

I never looked up what the furniture store used to be. It has always been a furniture store for as long as anyone I know can remember. Maybe I should investigate more, but I felt creeped out and didn't think it was a big enough problem to look into.