Before I jump into the story of how witches are invading ‘THE SECRET CIRCLE’ office, let me start with a little background information:

I’m working on a new CW Show called ‘The Secret Circle,’ and I’ve been with them for a little over a month now. I seriously couldn’t ask for a better job; I love the show, the concept, witches, my coworkers, and I’m learning so much.

There’s just one little issue: My boss and I disagree about how low we should keep the thermostat.

Andrew Miller is an amazing guy— he wrote the pilot for ‘The Secret Circle,’ he’s smart, funny, has a beautiful wife and a newborn baby who is adorable. But he also likes to keep our office to the temperature of an igloo.

I’m not exaggerating here— we had the temperature on so low the other day that it burst a pipe and caused a leak in our kitchen.

So, sometimes, I fiddle with the air conditioner… I can’t help it! I’m from Florida, and I’m used to tank tops and flip flops. Plus, it’s right next to my desk, and when my parka is up over my head and my teeth are chattering as I type, it’s just too tempting not to try and make it warmer.

I tried to do this about an hour ago. The temperature was at 70 (which, may not sound chilly but to my wimpy skin it is), and I went to turn it up to 73— an even compromise, no?

So, let me walk you through this: I stand up, go around my desk, remove the cover for the thermostat, and turn it up to 73. When I finish I put the cover back on very tightly and go around to my desk. A few minutes later the cover falls off the hinge and lands with a loud thump on the ground.

Okay, so this alone is a little odd. Because it’s a cover that’s secured with a latch and it shouldn’t be able to just fall off. That being said, I got up and went to put the thing back on.

Here’s where the creepy comes in.

As I held the cover in my hand and stared at the thermostat, I saw the numbers falling down from 73, then 72, then 71, and finally landing back at 70.

Let me explain: In order to decrease the temperature you have to hit the down arrow buttons on the thermostat. Somehow this thermostat was changing temperatures all on its own, without me touching it and while I was LOOKING at it.

I nearly screamed.

I ran out of the office and into the hallway. I have never felt colder in my life, my whole body stiffened and I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I had to take a walk outside and convince myself that no one was trying to hurt me.

It’s only now that I’ve calmed down and come back into the office.

The maintenance guys were called to come check on “the problem” but they said everything looks fine and there’s nothing wrong with it.

Yeah, nothing wrong, except for the fact that there clearly is!

I am super freaked out right now. And this isn’t the first time a weird something has happened in this office.

Right now I am trying to look at all of the rational explanations for why this could have happened or how. But as things stand, it looks like whoever or whatever is in this office also likes to keep the temperature low and cold. The witch/ghost/what have you is on Team Andrew, and so the thermostat will remain at 70.

I just have to ask though— has this ever happened to anyone else out there? Maybe this is totally normal?

As some of you know, I’ve been blogging about the rather odd and spooky office happenings that have been going down where I work on THE SECRET CIRCLE.

We have a possessed printer, writers are showing up wearing the same outfits, and there’s something or someone who keeps turning on all of the lights and computers at night, after we’re all long gone and have already turned them off.

It has all gotten me a little concerned and, to be honest, nervous.

Not to mention the fact that the folks who run the Twitter for @SecretCircleTV brought it to my attention that during the filming of the movie “The Craft” they had similar freakish happenings: “I’m guessing the show might be cursed. Weird stuff also happened during filming of The Craft… Those computers are just the beginning. During The Craft couple crew members died, equipment inexplicably turned on or off etc”

I found this article to back that claim up:

• About the invocation scene, Sony Pictures’ World Wide Web site at the time the film was featured on its website has to say: “The crew had to return to the location a second time to complete filming interrupted by several weird occurrences that even caused witch consultant Pat Devin to raise an eyebrow. As the fog rolled in at midnight, the four actresses used actual Wiccan rites and language to invoke powerful forces. Then, as Fairuza Balk’s character Nancy attempts to invoke the deity Manon, a flock of bats hovered over the set and the tide rose dramatically, extinguishing the circle of candles. Witchcraft consultant Devin recalls that ‘Manon, a fictitious creation for the film, sounds very close to Mananan, the Gaelic god of the sea. Luckily, we weren’t all swept to sea!’” The Web site quotes director Andrew Fleming: “‘Every time the girls started the ceremony, and only when they would start the ceremony, the waves would start coming up tremendously fast, pounding heavily. Then, right when Nancy says her line, “Manon, fill me,” right at that exact moment, we lost power. It was a very strange thing.’”

Okay, so maybe we’re cursed!

I’m not sure what to do. Maybe it’s something we should worry about later if anything else happens, but I am going to keep a lookout for any more witchy weirdness.

So, everyone who reads this blog knows that I work on THE SECRET CIRCLE.

Is it normal to be the first one to come into work and have all of the lights and computer screens be on? Even though you clearly turned them all off the night before…?

WtF is going on here?

Yes— that is my cryptic handwriting and it’s also a legitimate question.

This morning, I walked into the kitchen in our office and 3 out of the 4 male writers were wearing the same color shirt of almost identical style. Now, true, when people are holed up together for long stretches of time their fashion choices tend to rub off on each other, women start cycling together, etc. In college my best friend and I would show up to parties in matching shirts, looking like weird non-twins.

I get it, this kind of thing happens, but is this coincidence or tapping into something else??

Then I walked past the Writers PA desk, and Charlotte told me that her printer has been acting very strangely… apparently, when you walk by the thing, it will start printing and no one has sent anything to be printed. It just spits out blank pages.

That’s kind of weird to me, all of this happening in the same week, not to mention the fact that we are writing a show ABOUT WITCHES and these odd things keep happening. It would be cool if there was a witch in our midst, don’t get me wrong

Is there a witch in ‘The Secret Circle’ office?