Did anyone else see the shadow figure at the old Mercer Hotel before they tore it down?

Never went inside but I drove past that place loads of times and there was something off about the upper floors, specifically the windows on the left side facing the old car park. My mate Darren actually got into the building about three months before demolition and he said he kept feeling watched in one of the stairwells and his torch kept cutting out. Classic stuff, could be explained away easily, but he's not someone who spooks easily so I took it seriously.

What's the shadow figure like - are we talking a full silhouette or more of a peripheral thing that disappears when you look directly at it? Because those are very different experiences in my view. The peripheral ones I'm actually more convinced by, paradoxically, because people tend to fabricate the dramatic full-on apparitions more.

Anyone got photos or know which floor this was on? Would love to compare notes before all the eyewitness accounts scatter now the building's gone.

The upper floors of old hotels are almost always the most active in reports like this - something about the combination of isolation, years of human emotion, and structural decay seems to generate a lot of residual energy claims. Whitby's full of similar spots and I've noticed the same pattern: left or north-facing windows, overlooking disused spaces like car parks or courtyards.

What specifically did Darren see? Shadow figures vary massively in what people report. Full black mass, peripheral movement, defined outline or just a vague darkening - the details matter a lot for working out whether this fits a genuine pattern or is more likely environmental (reflections off windscreens, condensation on glass etc.).

I'm not dismissing it at all, just want the details before drawing any conclusions. Too many of these threads go off the rails when people jump straight to "definitely haunted" without establishing the basics.