When the Newsroom Gets Haunted

NBC Palm Springs Invites the Ghosts 

There’s haunted houses, haunted hotels… and now, apparently, haunted newsrooms.

In Palm Springs, California, staff at NBC started noticing something was off in their building. Doors closing on their own. Voices where there shouldn’t be any. Cold spots in the middle of the desert. (Rude.)

Instead of ignoring it or blaming it on faulty HVAC, they did something kind of brilliant — they called in a paranormal investigation team to check out their own workplace. Yep, right there among the cameras, scripts, and green screens, they ran a full-on ghost hunt.

And honestly? I love this energy. Because while most ghost stories start with “this old abandoned asylum,” this one starts with “I was editing footage and something whispered my name.”

According to reports, the team used audio recorders, EMF meters, and even pulled up historical records of the land — standard ghost-hunter procedure. What they found was weird enough to make even the most skeptical reporter raise an eyebrow: sudden temperature drops, faint knocks responding to questions, and (of course) that classic eerie feeling of being watched when no one’s there.

Whether it’s a haunting or just the building’s wiring throwing tantrums, I adore the symbolism of it. Newsrooms are places where stories are born, rewritten, and told on loop. If ghosts really are echoes of unfinished stories, then maybe this one just wants its airtime.

It also raises the kind of question that keeps me up at night (and occasionally sends my dogs staring into corners): what happens when your job becomes haunted? Do you call HR? Do you get a sage bundle and some PTO? Or do you grab a mic and start recording?

That’s what fascinates me — the blending of the ordinary and the supernatural. We expect hauntings in places drenched in history, but this is modern: fluorescent lights, cubicles, and copy deadlines. It’s proof that weirdness doesn’t need to lurk in the shadows. Sometimes it’s right under the buzz of the newsroom lights.

So, the next time your office printer acts possessed, maybe don’t kick it. Maybe just say, “Okay, Dave from Accounting, I know you’re still here. We miss you.”

Because ghosts, like deadlines, have a funny way of sticking around until they get your attention.