Metro reporters Gethin Hicks and Brooke Davies visited Pret A Manger in Bethnal Green (Pictures: W8media/Getty)
No corner of the capital is without its share of spooky tales about ghosts and ghouls taunting Londoners.
But the East End is an area particularly notorious for supernatural stories frightening enough to send a chill down anyone’s spine.
Tales of haunted forests, pubs, and dim-lit streets make Eastenders think twice about roaming the old patch of Jack the Ripper.
One café though – just a walk away from the foggy late-night streets of Whitechapel where the Ripper committed his heinous crimes – is so haunted that staff refuse to work alone.
Pret A Manger at 121 Bethnal Green Road is home to so many spooky stories that it cannot be just a coincidence.
Ginger Rivas, the café’s 28-year-old assistant manager, has been unlucky enough to have been left fearful on more than one late shift – and she’s now convinced her workplace is haunted.
Ghosts seemingly won’t leave assistant manager Ginger Rivas alone (Picture: Zeena Event photography)
Ginger was spooked when the store’s CCTV cameras began flashing one evening (Picture: Zeena Event photography)
One dingy autumn evening in 2022, Ginger recalls being spooked while closing up the café with a colleague.
She said: ‘My colleague and I were working in the basement where the kitchen is, when I noticed the CCTV screens start flashing up.
‘I went into the office to take a look and my colleague rushed in and asked me, “did you hear that?”
‘We went back into the basement and we could hear light footsteps upstairs – like a woman was tip-toeing – but there was no one on the footage.’
If that wasn’t enough of a fright, the same thing happened the following evening.
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Ginger has refused to work the late shift because of the oddities (Picture: Zeena Event photography)
She continued: ‘The very next day it happened again – two days in a row!
‘CCTV was moving and blinking. I didn’t want to go in the basement anymore. After that, I stopped working the closing shifts.
‘I am never closing the shop again because I know what it’s like to feel like someone or something is around you. Especially houses in London, a lot of them are old and could be haunted.’
The impressive old building, where the Pret is located, was previously a carpet shop selling old garments – ‘maybe the ghosts are from the old shop,’ Ginger said.
And mysterious activity in the East End Pret didn’t stop there. Just last week, Ginger heard scratching at the back door during an early morning stint in her basement office.
Ginger heard scratching at the back door one early morning (Picture: Zeena Event photography)
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Source:: Metro