Gehr Industries | Commerce, CA
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Is the Gehr Industries warehouse in Commerce, CA haunted?
I got a message from an anonymous user that told me this particular location was “haunted as hell.” They claimed to have seen apparitions inside this warehouse, past employees that have passed away. And apparently the company just recently sold the warehouse.
Upon asking this former Gehr industries employee for more clarification on the hauntings that actually occurred there, she told me a haunting story involving a former employee named Ed.
It was the year 2000, and she was a new employee who began working at Gehr Industries.
During her lunch breaks, she would often eat in the upstairs warehouse area, and would always encounter a man named Ed, whom she assumed also worked at the company. One day, a coworker asked the new employee if they had encountered "the ghost." Confused, she asked about what ghost the coworker was referring to. The coworker proceeded to describe the ghostly figure: a tall, thin, older man with a bald head and mustache, typically dressed in a white shirt, red tie, and black pants. The coworker even offered to show the new employee a photograph of the man purported to be this ghostly apparition. The description left the new employee stunned, as it perfectly matched the appearance of Ed, the man they had been regularly interacting with since starting at the company.
It was then revealed that Ed had passed away two years prior to the new employee's arrival. Ed had been part of the collections department and had tragically died at his desk after two decades of service with the company. Coincidentally, the new employee now occupied Ed's former workspace.
The new employee recounted that they began seeing Ed merely a week into their employment. They would exchange greetings in the hallways, with Ed responding with a wave and a smile. During lunch breaks, Ed would inquire if the new employee was watching television, and upon receiving a no, he would change the channel to the news. One time she was sitting at another table, and Ed asked her if she liked her boss, and in response, she just politely smiled. He would say “oh come on, everybody knows he’s an asshole.”
The new employee found it peculiar that Ed always wore the same outfit and never seemed to eat. These encounters continued, unbeknownst to the new employee that they were interacting with a ghostly presence rather than a living coworker.
I asked the anonymous person if other people besides the guy who asked her if she seen the ghost also reported things in this warehouse. Apparently, a man named Gabriel who has since passed away, who worked in the warehouse would always refer to these apparitions as “friends,” even claiming to walk around and see if they wanted in on the betting pool. Gabriel would claim that he’s experienced doors randomly opening and shutting, things flying off shelves. With so much paranormal activity, Gabriel never vowed to work a late night at the warehouse. The owners of the warehouse never liked staying late either.
However, Ed wasn’t the only frequent apparition that the anonymous user experienced, apparently, she used to see a little girl. And it turned out that the little girl was the deceased child of one of the employees. The little girl had died in a car seat while her babysitter was driving. The little girls ghost would always follow the mother around the warehouse, however, the aninoymous user claimed she didnt know it was ghost the entire time she seen it, but when she found out she wasn’t a living person, she never saw the girl again.
Another frequent apparition was a ghost employees would refer to as the “conductor,” a heavyset man who would be spotted in striped overalls, and he looked grimy. He worked on the side where the traintracks were. 
Additionally, some of the offices within the warehouse were sealed off with fake walls and you could still hear people talking within these walls. It was a lot of cold mist in the warehouse… employees would frequently see orbs of light.
Apparently the building used to be one of Howard Hughes old buildings where airplane parts were made, and the anonymous users mom had met a lady in the hospital, her roommate, who used to be an engineer in the very same building when it was owned as Baker Tools, where she would experience the apparition of Howard Hughes.
After posting the video on Gehr Industries, I had someone reach out to me claiming that the place was 100% haunted, and that he and his cousin explored the place when they were children, since their uncle used to park their truck there. Here is the audio clip he sent me detailing his experiences at the location:
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If you thought that story was eerie, the same anonymous user told me that a man named Terry Peder Rasmussen, known as the "Chameleon Killer" had worked at Gehr industries roughly 20 years ago, stealing the identity of a salesman. ‘
Back in the 1980s, he was linked to the Bear Brook murders in Allenstown, New Hampshire. Between 1978 and 1980, Rasmussen killed Marlyse Honeychurch, her two daughters Marie Vaughn and Sarah McWaters, and his own biological daughter from an unknown relationship. Their bodies were discovered in two barrels in Bear Brook State Park—one barrel found in 1985 and the second in 2000.
Rasmussen's ability to assume multiple identities allowed him to evade law enforcement for decades. He used aliases such as Bob Evans, Curtis Kimball, Gordon Jenson, and Larry Vanner while committing heinous crimes across different states. His pattern of infiltrating families, forming relationships with women, and then disappearing with their children made him a particularly dangerous predator.
In addition to the Bear Brook murders, Rasmussen is suspected in the disappearance of Denise Beaudin in 1981, who disappeared after Thanksgiving, shortly before Rasmussen fled with her dughter, whom he renamed “Lisa.” He would raise her for several years before abandoning her in California in 1986.
According to the anonymous user, during the time Rasmussen was a salesman at the company, other salesmen often complained of little children running around the warehouse, even asking employees in other departments to stop bringing their kids. But the problem was, nobody was bringing in kids. They would hear nursery songs being sung… and unfortunately, the phenomenon was so disturbing, a lot of salesmen quit, shortly before Rasmussen was arrested for the murder of his wife, Eunsoon Jun, a chemist, whom he married in an unofficial ceremony in 2001. In 2002, Jun was found murdered—her body dismembered and buried under cat litter at their home. Rasmussen was arrested for her murder after purchasing large quantities of cat litter and was convicted in 2003. This conviction ultimately led to the unraveling of his true identity.
Watch the shorter versions of this story on my Instagram page @thescarecast featured below (also available on TikTok and YouTube Shorts):
The Man Named Ed:
The story of the two boys encountering the little girl:
