I need answers pertaining to something odd that happened yesterday at my work.

Please move if this is not in the right forum. I really don't know what to think about this.

So yesterday was an extremely odd day at my work.

Let me give you a little bit of background on this. I work in a very prestigious salon and about 3 months ago, a woman in her mid 20's came in for an appointment that she scheduled 2 weeks ahead of time. Mind you I booked her appointment and this woman sounded completely normal on the phone.

So it's a sunny Saturday morning at 8, she's the first client of the day, and she walks in 20 minutes late. Her hair looked like a 5 year old cut it. The stylist was absolutely speechless and had no idea how to fix the tragedy on her head. So she did her best, colored it and put her in the "cleansing room" to let her hair process.

This is where it gets weird. The girls starts making faces, making evil grins, laughing hysterically, and talking to people that aren't there. Every once in a while she would catch a glimpse of some one in the mirror and sort of make an evil smile, showing her teeth, and furrow her eyebrows. Then she started telling someone that wasn't there that "this party is lame, we need to get out of here, we can't stay, we just can't stay here." and she kept repeating it. Finally it was time to rinse out her color and she snapped out of whatever was going on with her.

She left the salon about 30 minutes later and waited outside for another 30 minutes for her rise, but the whole time she was laughing hysterically and acting as if she were in the middle of a crowded room. Hugging and casually touching people that were not there. I honestly hoped that I would never see the woman again.

Fast forward to last Tuesday. She calls back again and I book her an appointment with one of our newest stylists, who is extremely religious. I tell the woman that we look forward to seeing her at her appointment on Saturday and just gave my boss a heads up that she was coming in.

So yesterday was basically a nightmare and I want to know everyone's opinion about what this woman is going through and advice on what we should do with her.

She comes in for her 8 am appointment late again and we introduce her to the stylist that took care of her. They start consulting and my boss, who is a curious woman and who loves to make people feel welcome in our salon, sits down next to her and asks her about herself. The woman, who seems normal at this point, tells my boss that she recently became an ordained minister online. She then tells her that she makes religious music videos in the nude with jewelry on and posts them to YouTube. She even gives my boss a user name to look up. So, curious, she goes to look it up, and the spider name doesn't exist. She tries to search her on Facebook, google, you name it, but we cant find information on this woman...

In the meantime, the stylist asks the woman what church she goes to and she replies "every one of them". Then she cricks her neck and in a slightly different voice she says "I work for Satan." the stylist, baffled, gets really quiet and moments later the woman starts singing in a quiet, child-like voice "here's the church, here's the steeple, open the doors and I'll kill 22 people... with a silencer and rifle... I love homicide... Homicide is my favorite thing."

Guess how many people are on staff at our salon? You've got it... 22!

How she knows that, I have absolutely no clue but everyone basically flipped the f**k out when word got around the salon.

This woman proceeds to tell her stylist to put more bleach on her scalp because she likes "feeling the burn". She snaps out of it again and walks to the back of the salon. About 10 minutes later, my boss hears her saying " vroom vroom", she looks around the corner and the woman is pretending to drive a car. So of course she is curious about what going on and she says, "hey! Whatcha doin?" The woman turns around and says, " I'm pretending to be a mailman!! By the way, did I tell you that I love homicide?" ok.. Weird.

One client said that she saw blood on her arm and thought the woman had cut herself. She kept saying that she wanted to get it out.

Snaps back out of it again and proceeds to check out at the front desk like a normal person. She then cricks her neck again and almost in an evil way, asks my boss for a lighter. " you have a lighter, I know you must have a lighter." She goes outside and waits for her ride... And does the same things outside that she did before 3 months ago.

Please keep in mind that I, myself have been an athiest since I could remember, I have always felt uneasy in a church... Even when I was 7. My boss is also an athiest, but she says that she is starting to question everything after she saw and heard what she heard from this woman yesterday. Se said that she honestly thinks that something is in this woman.

From the get go, I thought that the woman has some kind of schizophrenia. But the vibe in the salon was just weird yesterday. Every single person that was working that day felt uneasy, and on edge... Half of them didn't even know the woman said these things.

We are going to watch the security footage on Tuesday and see if there is anything odd on it.

So my question to you guys is, what do you think is wrong with her. Schizophrenia? Possessed?

And my last question is do you think that we should contact authorities and tell them what she said about killing 22 people. I'm honestly afraid to go to work on Tuesday. I don't feel safe.

Please help and give me any insight that you guys may have!! Thanks!

She definatly sounds like she has some very serious mental health problems. Multiple personality, psychosis and homicidal tendancies aren't really going to make for a well mind. It could be all talk, but she could be on the brink of a psychotic killing spree. She obviously needs help, but professional help, there really is not alot you can do until she becomes dangerous in your salon and you call the police. It's very sad, but there are unfortunatly alot of people with serious mental health problems who don't get any help.

reply to post by Acidtastic


Sad thing is, she seems like the sweetest person when she is "normal". She's very polite and well mannered until she snaps into something else.

If she were possesed she wouldn't be pretending to be a mailman. I think multiple personality or schizophrenic. Though most schizophrenics arn't violent, some are. In any case, I would report her to the police and ask their advice. She is definitley unstable and could be a danger to herself and others.

Wow. Just wow. That is a seriously disturbed individual.

My first thought, like yours was that she is schizophrenic. I would think that someone this mentally ill surely wouldn't be out in public without an escort/caretaker, right? Anyone familiar with these types of cases might be able to correct me on that.

On a similar note you said she waited for a ride. Did you see who picked her up? Who would just drop this distutbed person off for you and your coworkers to deal with??

Another thought I had was that maybe she was having a bad reaction to the hair chemicals? Easy to rule out if she was crazy before you dyed her hair.

I would have a conversation with the person dropping her off if she returns. Then we can exercise the subject of demonic possession, which excluding all other scenarios would seem almost plausible.

Great post, starred and flagged and thanks so much for sharing it with us.

The woman obviously has psychotic issues. If she makes the staff uncomfortable, then next time she calls have whoever is in charge tell her that she won't be served there because of her conduct.

reply to post by martianmallow


Well when she books her appointments, there is a guy in the background talking... Sounds normal too. I remember asking her if 8am was ok for her appointment time and she then asks the guy if that's ok. I always see him in a red truck picking her up, but he picks her up away from the front of the salon door, so I have yet to see him. I don't think it's from the chemicals as the stylist was adding highlights to her hair and we try to stay 1/4" away from the scalp. But she kept asking up to apply it to her scalp so that she could feel the burn!

reply to post by N3k9Ni


Oh I agree! That's already been taken care of. We have a note in her file that say that if she tries to make an appointment, to let her talk to the manager. I'm just scared of what she will say.

Buy a gun. Learn to use it and carry it with you to work.
My condolences if you do not heed my words.

reply to post by DoxieCircus


Well definitely try to touch base with the person picking her up if you can. If she is making you and your coworkers too uncomfortable it would not be improper to call the police either, especially if she turns violent. Good luck to you.

Report it to the authorities. It will make you feel safer and may stop a tragedy.

The woman obviously needs mental help. If necessary, show the security footage to the police. It might help for an involuntary committal.

Best wishes to you, your co workers, and this poor soul.

If she has a disorder you cant really hold that against her IMO. If you feel frightened then that is a natural reaction to something different. People feel unconfortable with things that are unusual.

As for her saying she has killed people, it may or may not be true. Talking to the authorities will probably not help in this day and age IMO, they have killed far more than 22 and will only abuse her through electro therapy and hard drugs. What I would do is gently gain her trust but not overly, maybe she will open up more.

If you can find out her name then maybe you can contact one of the health services to see if they have a record of her, if she is like this with you guys then I am sure she if like this with everyone so they should have a record.

These days the authorities like to throw mentally unstable people out onto the streets, in the old days they just burnt them as witches.

reply to post by Smack


Lol. Check, check, and I'm thinking about your last suggestion. Thankfully I have a knowledgable and gun obsessed boyfriend and we go to the range all the time. He's says Ive got a pretty good shot!

Originally posted by DoxieCircus
reply to post by martianmallow

 

Well when she books her appointments, there is a guy in the background talking... Sounds normal too. I remember asking her if 8am was ok for her appointment time and she then asks the guy if that's ok. I always see him in a red truck picking her up, but he picks her up away from the front of the salon door, so I have yet to see him. I don't think it's from the chemicals as the stylist was adding highlights to her hair and we try to stay 1/4" away from the scalp. But she kept asking up to apply it to her scalp so that she could feel the burn!

The blood on her arm is likely hers. If you were able to see all of her body you would likely see quite a few scars.

Curling irons, cigarettes, razors, you name it they use it inflict small painful injuries on themselves.

If she makes another appt I'd call county social services and ask to have someone available if she makes more threats. Odds are they know her well, but just in case they don't I'd call.

Bath salts.

You said that her arm was bleeding.

This is probably from shooting the salts up with a needle.

I have a friend and he is a cook. He came home one day and said that the girl that work with him started talking to her sister and father right next to him. The problem is that the girl and him were the only one's there. It just so happens that the girl is the owners daughter and after the owner got wind of it she sent her home for a while.

She is most likely losing it from bath salts.

I would refuse her business. I would not let her come back in after those kinds of remarks.

Why did you all let her come back anyways?

reply to post by liejunkie01


She's no doubt on something. I know a lot of people that have severe schizophrenia use drugs, but I just don't know what. Which reminds me that she spent 20 minutes in the bathroom each time she comes in.

We keep her business because she did nothing wrong the first time, but after what we saw yesterday, we will refuse service to her.

reply to post by DoxieCircus


"And my last question is do you think that we should contact authorities and tell them what she said about killing 22 people. I'm honestly afraid to go to work on Tuesday. I don't feel safe."

Call the fricken Cops.. let them see the video.. have them find out who she is.. where she lives.. maybe she is nuts and planning something bad.. maybe the voices in her head are at least... I wouldnt do her hair again..

reply to post by liejunkie01


I didn't even think about the possibility of drug use and it was like it clicked into place in my head. Haha. Im not familiar with the effects of bath salts. Would you snap in and out of it like that if you were in a drug induced psychosis?

Glad you brought that up. It would escalate the situation from mostly harmless nutball to a real possibility of a violent or out of control situation. If drug use is indeed the culprit it explains why the person who drops her off might be reluctant to stick around.

Report this to the Cops. How would you feel if she did do something violent and insane. Anytime someone is acting out with the voices in their head, is not a normal, nor sane thing.

Since she calls in to make appointments, I know you have a contact phone number for her. Report it today. Do we really need anymore Aurora mass killings. This is not something to ignore.

jmoho....Des

She is inhabited with "the other" with a side order of schizophrenia. It's the cover.