My name is Nathaniel Rand. I guess you'd call me an office drone, a somewhat capable

generalist, who's most at home in antiseptic white collar environments and has never had

any special skill except knowing how to get along in the cubicle live. The only difference between

me and millions of other slacks wearing zombies is that I once worked in the Nordhagen building.

1060 Technology Lane Black Hawk, Colorado 45 minutes outside Denver.

In my second week at Nordhagen as a marketing coordinator in 1998, a coworker named Billy Shell

began to tell me all the stories about the building I would come to know so well. It was famous

only to the people who worked there. A slowly changing roster of six or seven companies spread across

just a few floors. The glass and brick building was situated at the tip of a maze of a dozen others

built on a giant boring loop. They were all depressingly alike but everything on the loop was

verdant and shaded. 1060 backed right up against the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park

and deer wandered through the parking lot constantly, even a wild turkey once. Very nice

tree line views out there in the middle of nowhere and if I was outdoorsy at all I could get on

two long trails, leaving into the woods just a half mile from where I left my Honda Civic each morning.

The real attraction of number 1060 though, Billy explained to me as we microwaved our lunches in

Nordhagen's break room, was its history of the bazaar. I got three stories for you. I remember him

saying that day 21 years ago now. According to Billy back in 1990 there was a poor customer service

rep at a pharmaceutical call center on the second floor who kept getting these weird calls from

a strange man named Rolf Berba. He would dial in and tell the rep that there were faces growing

in the trees around the building, building 1060. He called them crazy graveyard faces. He claimed

he kept driving through the parking lot in the middle of the night to try to catch them growing.

He made five or six calls over the course of a month. The rep could almost always hear in the

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