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Speaker 2: All right, everybody, Welcome to the Paranormal Portal podcast. I'm
your host, Brent Thomas. Hope you're having a great night,
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me again. All right, So, ladies and gentlemen, tonight we're
going to be talking about some spiritual stuff, some ghostly stuff,
and tonight the focus is going to be on haunted hospitals.
Oddly enough, don Yes, Dan message me after our after
our YouTube show last night, Ladies and gentlemen, we did
a show last night on our YouTube channel regarding an
investigation that was that Dan and I did in Colomba
ghost Town in Montana. If you're interested in checking it out,
we actually streamed a lot of it live, and we've
asked people to watch the video and stream segments of
that investigation and try to help us out with EVPs
and stuff that are on the recordings and other things
that we might have missed. So if you get a chance,
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But Dan, Dan contacted me. He was our guest last night,
as you know, and he said, we got to check
out and let me look this up. I want to
make sure I get the name right. He said. The
hospital in Collfax, OH.
Speaker 5: Hospital in Colfax, Washington.
Speaker 2: Saint Ignatius is the one he said we should check out,
and so we're gonna be looking into that.
Speaker 5: I typed in Collfax and cole Fact Haunted Hospital came
right up.
Speaker 2: Boom there it is, so.
Speaker 5: Ig Nasis. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Look at putting together an investigation over there, ladies and gentlemen.
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But uh, tonight we're going to talk about some haunted
hospitals don and Uh as you may or may not
know I think you do know because you've been doing
the show with me for a long time, that hospitals
are generally one of those hotspots for paranormal activity that
seem to come come off fun into the awareness of
the paranormal community.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah, because think of all the energy
that's been you know, expended there. You know that's expired there.
You know, that's that's walked through those halls, and and
the trauma and you know all of that, you know,
and and and not to mention you know, the joy
too of of like you know, the maternity ward, you know,
or things like that, you know, the right you know. So, yeah,
there's all kinds of energy through there. I'd imagine, right it.
Speaker 2: Almost by virtue of what it is is almost a
portal in essence anyway, because life is coming in and
going out through that very building. So that, coupled with
the pain and suffering that so many people experience in hospitals,
leaves a psychic imprint. And there is a wide belief
that there's a lot of entities that feed on that
kind of stuff, and on dark emotion and sadness and
and uh, you know, all of those things coupled kind
of make really the perfect storm for paranormal stuff to
be very prevalent and present. And of course, if you
watch any of the ghost shows on TV, one of
the most common settings that they investigate is old hospitals.
I mean, that always comes up on every show, old hospital.
So we're gonna look into doing that ourselves. But we
thought we would take some time tonight and share some
encounters people have had in these hospitals. And not all
of them are decommissioned. There seems to be a lot
of activity and active hospitals as well. So what do
you think of that? Don sound good?
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's dig into that.
Speaker 2: Let's just whip up a plate full of fun here,
all right. So the first one I'm gonna read you
is this is told by a nurse. So that was
a new nurse at our hospital and only begun working
there a couple of months. And I brought a patient
of mine up to day surgery from the er for
an endoscopy and endoscopy. How do would you say that? Endoscopy? Endoscopy? Endoscopy?
That's when we're going with ladies and gentlemen. Survey says endoscopy,
And they called back down and asked me to bring
her family up because she only spoke Italian and not
enough English, so and they needed someone to consent for
the procedure. After dropping them off, I walked past the
waiting room to head back down to the hall to
the elevators, and I took the backway to get to
the er, and the hallways are all deserted. They used
to be a pediatric wing in the hospital, but that
is all shut down for years, and the rooms are
just empty and full of broken equipment and beds and stuff.
So as I reached the old nurses station at the
tea junction between the pediatric hallway and the helm the
hallway that goes down the elevators, I saw a little
girl standing across from the nurses station further down the hall.
She had big pigtails and was wearing a brown dress,
white shoes, and holding a teddy bear. I thought perhaps
she was a family member who had walked away from
the day surgery waiting room.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: I was concerned that she would go into one of
the rooms and get hurt or lost, so I said, hey,
little girl, what are you doing. You don't need to
be over there. You're going to get hurt, and I
walked around the nursing station to go grab her hand
and bring her back, and I kid you not, she vanished.
As I got about fifteen feet away from her, every
hair on my body stood up straight, and I turned
and ran like a bat on a hell down to
the elevator. I pounded that button for what seemed like
an eternity until the elevator got to the floor. And
as I got back to the er, I walked up
to the nurse's desk white as a sheet, and one
of my older nurses looked at me and said, oh,
my god, what's wrong with you? And I remember babbling
like an idiot as I tried to tell them what
had happened. After listening to me for a moment or two,
the nurse said, oh, you saw the little girl ghost.
She's been around here for years, and I remember saying, well,
thanks for telling me about that before this. Apparently the
ghost has even been seen down in the er, ducking
in and out of patient rooms and peeking around curtains.
My wife worked up on the second seventh floor, and
she said that one time on the night's on nights,
a whole roll of patient rooms started yelling about the
little girl that was running around in their rooms. Well,
I guess she gets around now. That's you know, there
we go again with the little kid spirits. And I'm
not sure ladies and gentlemen what to think about that,
But apparently there are little kid spirits, right, so you
know on the podcast, I guess I haven't talked a
whole bunch about it, but I just think that it's
hard to get my head around the idea that these
little gentle spirits, if they are indeed little girls, are
just left to be wandering, that there wasn't something that
brought them home. But yeah, what a creepy experience. Huh duhn.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's it's kind of fun to think though,
that it's a little girl just just running around. I mean,
you know, and and as you have said, you know,
you don't feel that the child spirits would be left
behind uh this kind of thing. But you know, there's
got to be I think, you know, I think there's
got to be at least some out there that are
that are not nefarious and you know, you know, just
trying to lure you in. But you know it's yeah,
it's it's finding out in that way. You know, they
forgot to tell you. Oh yeah, ha ha, you know
there's a little girl ghost running around here. Yeah, that's
always kind of an interesting way to find out.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: It seems like everywhere you work, they've got like a
right of passage. You know. I used to work in
a cabinet factory years and years and years and years ago,
and I worked on the wall unit, and they'd send
these these cabinets down the down the way, and every
once in a while, everybody that was new we would
grab the wrong doors and hold them up and they
wouldn't be the right size for the cabinet that was
rolling down the rolling down the way, And of course
we would and the new guy around the plant to
find the frame stretcher, and they every every department they
would go to would keep them running, and they'd be
running for about a half hour and then just come
back pissed. But it was like a rite of passage,
you know. It's like one of those things. So maybe
the little girl ghost is kind of a rite of
passage at that at that hospital, like, oh, you finally
saw it, Okay, you're in now.
Speaker 5: Part of the crew, come on exactly a cigarette and
have more paranormal experiences.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that does seem to go hand in hand, doesn't that?
People having cigarettes and experiencing ghosts. That's always happens. I
went out trying to have a cigarette and I was
sitting there smoking with this friend of mine, and I
came in and found out he died yesterday. I was like,
oh my God, comes up a lot ladies and gentlemen.
I don't know why. Something about smoking, all right? So
I got another one here. You want to hear about
this one? Done?
Speaker 5: Sure? What does this one say?
Speaker 2: Well, let me let me tell you down. It says
a whole bunch of stuff. But I'll start reading now.
I work in in intensive care a small community hospital,
and we have a nine bed unit that is completely
closed off from the medical floor via two doorways. Two
nights ago, we were all sitting around at the station
charting and we all heard footsteps coming down the hall.
It's a completely open unit where you can see every
room from everywhere. No one was in the unit with us.
CT is below us, and they close at five unless
an emergency comes in, and we only have people on
the second floor. The third is used as storage, so
no one was above us. It happened two or three times.
Then last night cupboard doors kept opening and shutting in
two empty rooms, and I finally asked my coworker what
the hell was going on, and she just told me
that it usually happens after someone passes, especially if it
was sudden. We had two codes last week and we
lost that we lost, and I guess everyone has had
weird stuff happening for a couple of days. Wow, So
when somebody passes, it really rams up the paranormal activity, you.
Speaker 5: Know, that kind of that kind of does figure because
if if if we go back to if hospitals are portals,
you know, do they are they always open or do
they only open at a passing of earth?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 5: So maybe that passing is like you know, uh, you know,
just a brief portal that opens for that one soul,
say spirit whatever. And then when that portal opens, they
you know, it disturbs the things around in that area
right where the portal actually opens.
Speaker 2: So or what about Now that's an interesting thought, and
I think you're you're definitely onto something, But what about
this this possibility that there is maybe you know, there's
there's a certain amount of charge that we all carry
and of course our bodies have a biological charge as well.
I think we have a biological and spiritual charge, and
when our spirit transitions, maybe whatever is stuck there can
can grab the rest of that energy from whoever just
passed and can be active for a few days following that.
Speaker 5: You know, like a quickening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that could be anyone, and it's me, you know
what I mean? Though, It's like that energy ramps up
right after that for a period of time and then
we'll flatline again. So is there something energetically that's happening
as those spirits are transitioning that feeds the paranormal energy
of the place for a period of time. Very interesting
thought anyway, right, absolutely, Yeah, Well, you know that's what
we do down We just talk about stuff and we think.
It doesn't always make sense. It doesn't always think. It
doesn't always make sense what we think about, but we
are thinking, all right, let's get to the next one.
And this one says, it says, Now, this one's pretty short,
so it's not going to be a real big story.
He says, this isn't my story, but it's a fellow
nurse of mind. We were talking about patients hallucinations. When
he told me about this time, he was walking past
a patient's room, an elderly woman with dementia, and she
was chatting up a storm with someone, and he asked
her who she was talking to, and the woman replied
that nice man in the black and white striped suit.
A while later, he went into another room, patients with
dementia's room, and that different patient asked where the man
with the striped shirt had gone.
Speaker 5: Woh oh, well, mister many manifestations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like he's just the social butterfly of the unit,
no doubt. So he's just making the rounds like a
candy striper or something, right, Ah, yeah, that's strange. Well,
I mean it's nice. Excuse me, Wow, I out and
healed my whatever the hell that was, and heal it.
But it's like there's a presence there that's keeping people
company on the other side. They're not quite on the
other side yet, but.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's powerful, right, yeah, absolutely, all right.
Speaker 2: So we're continuing on here. This one is pretty short
as well, and says the best I've ever heard is
from a nurse who said that one night she was
floated to oncology at the hospital. She used to work
for and she was given a patient who was passing
away and has been unconscious for several days. At one
point during the night, the nurse went into the room
and the patient was at the top of the bed
and looked at her and said, don't let them take me.
The nurse was freaked out and asked who was going
to take her? And she said that black thing up
there and pointed up in the air. The patient died
within minutes. Wow is that creepy as hell?
Speaker 4: Or what?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 2: Dah, man, that's not good. That's not good at all.
Oh what I mean, what the hell do you make
of that?
Speaker 5: Don exorcist?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: I think he got the wrong kind of guy right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think that's what I want transitioning me over.
I don't want any black blobs or octopuses or stuff.
Just make you know, make it a lovely angel or
something would be great. That is that's really scary, And
you gotta wonder. I mean, I imagine if they're that close,
they'll probably see him things pretty clearly, right all right? Man,
that's that's just really sad. I feel really terrible for
that person. I hope they're okay, all right, continuing on,
that was and here's another short one. One night, I
was caring for a dying male patient and he was scared,
and I spent quite some time with him trying to
calm him and reassure him, and eventually he calmed and
I left to the bedside and went over to the
nurses station, which is about fifteen feet away. As I
sat down, I glanced over to him and there was
a black shape standing over the bed, looking down at
the patient. I was terrified, and I'm sure it was
something evil. Oh god, yeah, there you go again. Down
around a roll here. I think I want to die
at home.
Speaker 5: Keep me away from those open, painful portals and stuff. Man,
you know, yeah, that's the best, you know, if you
want to die, that's where you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, now you know. I again, I don't. I'm
not convinced that just because something appears dark that it
means that it's actually negative or evil. But it's certainly
not a good sign right off the bat, given you know,
our predisposition for white is good. Black is bad in
terms of you know, spirits and stuff. Every time we
hear shadow people, we think bad. We see you know,
a white apparition, and we think, oh, it's just you know,
somebody's stuck maybe or lost, but we don't automatically assume
it's evil. But that whole dark, shadowy thing, and I
think it goes back to the old cowboy movies, you know,
the the good guys wore the white hats the black
the bad guys wore the black hats, and and that
was just how we identified that with the visual and
I think that that's that predisposition is kind of stuck
with us. But yeah, it's it's I've heard many stories
where from psychics that say that spirits will sometimes choose
to appear shadowy just so as not to alarm somebody,
as machure to be, you know, less conspicuous. But I
you know, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I can imagine, I can imagine less conspicuous, but I
mean not to frighten somebody. I'm sorry. If I see
a ghostly operition of you know, a shadowy being, you
know it's gonna it's gonna raise the hair on my arms.
You know, it's gonna make me wonder what the heck's
going on? And sure, and so I think I don't
know where there I think it's faulty thinking on the spirits,
on a spirit's part, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, they can choose to not be seen
at all, so I don't know. But maybe that person
had just at that moment, was absolutely tuned in having
spent so much time around this person who was feeling,
you know, that there was transitioning going on and the
person was absolutely terrified. Well, maybe there was a form
of empathy there that brought that person into, you know,
some kind of clarity to be able to perceive the spirit.
You know, I don't know, just some thoughts, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't know. It's all guesswork here in the paranormal.
None of us know anything for sure, but it's certainly interesting. Okay,
here's a little longer one, thank god, because those short
ones are just hey, I saw this, can I? So
let's see what this longer one says. It says I
used to work in a state institute for the developmentally disabled.
We were temp relocated to another building for remodeling of
our building. And anyway, I was working one night, second shift.
We had a locked PIKA unit. I don't know what
that means.
Speaker 5: Pic Yes, yeah, it's a disease where people just kind
of eat random things.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I gotcha, all right. And I saw one
of the residents walking down the hall, very distinct gait
and very distinct yellow T shirt with a happy face
on it. I went to the ward to let the
staff know that they had an escapean. This was a
serious situation because this particular resident, Larry, would ingest absolutely anything,
from clothing depends to belts, to ug a bird's head,
it says literally anything. He was also very reluctant to
go back to his home ward, hence why I didn't
bring him back myself. He needed two escorts, and when
we got back into the hall less than fifteen seconds later,
Larry was gone. We searched the entire building outside, downstairs,
all the wards. He was absolutely nowhere to be found.
This whole search lasted less than ten minutes because I
had all the extra staff looking for him, and I
was just about to call the house supervisor to let
her know that we lost someone when out of the
bathroom walks Larry with one of the staff, and he
had been getting his bath in the bathroom for the
last thirty minutes or so. Really kind of freaky. Absolutely,
without a doubt. I saw Larry in the hallway. I
never would have short staff the words like I did
if I hadn't seen him, and like I said, very
distinct gait look clothing. I took a lot of razzing
that night. They all thought that I was crazy, and anyway,
come to find out the next day, after the story
goes around that I'm crazy, Larry had an identical twin
brother who died in that building ten years previously. H WHOA,
so his brother's still hanging out waiting for him.
Speaker 5: I guess, Oh, well, how was it a twin brother
ID identical twin identical?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that would that could keep somebody around. I mean,
the connection, you know, if it's not you know, if
I guess fully severed, you know, at the time of
death or whatnot. Right, Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: Well, they say that twins have that special kind of bond,
and I, you know, I don't know. I can only
assume I've never had a twin, but you hear those
stories where they know when each other is doing whatever
to a degree. Anyway, I don't know that that's always
the case, but there seems to be a pretty special
bond between identical twins usually all right. The next one says,
we had a black girl about ten. We had a
black girl about ten in ICU that was severely injured
in a car accident, lots of brain damage. She didn't
die there, but was moved to another facility after weeks
and weeks after that. I know of three other black
males in their fifties that, if they were even mildly sedated,
would ask about the little black girl with the ribbon
in her hair who was sitting at the door of
their beds, or at the foot of their beds. Rather.
One guy said, she asked how I was doing, and
then got up and walked that way. While he was
pointing towards the second floor window, he paused, A wide
eye look came over his face, and then he said,
but I best. I guess she really couldn't have left
the room that way. Huh. Personally, I think she was
taking care of grandfatherly figures. Well, that's kind of sweet. Yeah,
that's pretty crazy. And you know, I guess there's that's
pretty wonderful. I suppose I like that one. It's always nicely,
you know, there's these Not all of them are freaky,
not all of them are creepy. Some of them are
just sweet, right, and you know, work in a benevolent
way to you know, help people feel calm.
Speaker 5: Well, see now with those two stories that you were
just you know that she just wrote about children, the
girl or they ducked around the nurses station, and then
this one that's going from you know, patient's room to
patient's room. You know, do you think that those are legit?
Do you think they could be legit child spirits or
do you think that it's still something not necessarily nefarious
or malignant, but you know, a benign a benign spirit
that wants to appear in a in a in a
more friendly way, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And I think that that would be what makes
most sense to me, is that it's a benevolent spirit
just trying to appear in a calming fashion. I don't know,
I really think a spirit can appear however they choose, right,
you know, they don't they aren't bound to the physical
limited limitations that we are being in in these shells,
that they can manifest whatever they feel like. And that's
why I think some people see these spirits with half
a face and stuff, is because in that in those moments,
I think the spirits are trying to community, and by
that by communicating, they're saying, this is what happened to
me with just a glance, you know, something happened. That
person was burned or you know, I lost half of
their head somehow or or something. So I think that
the reason they appear in such ways like that, I
think is just to very quickly relay the information of
who they are in a visual representation, not not to
scare the hell out of people. It's just quickly like, hey,
this is how I died, and you can clearly look
at them and go, well, that person died in the fire.
They're all charred and you know obviously they burned. But
I think that also they can appear as these gentle,
you know, creatures that you know, who's going to be
really intimidated by a cute little girl with her hair
and pigtails and asking questions? Well nobody, Everybody's going to
be pretty at ease about the whole idea, I think.
So I just think it's just the least threatening kind
of manifestation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, then that would be.
Speaker 2: One way to do it. Yeah, yeah, So those are
my thoughts. I don't know if it's good or bad
or otherwise, but okay, so this one is really quick.
It's a short one again, says I worked in an
ICU where a prisoner convicted of murder died in ICU one,
and nobody would put a patient in that room after
because the air was too heavy and the room was
too spooky and dark. It was so bad that the
hospital eventually closed down the room and knocked out a
wall to make it a separate entrance into the unit,
because nurses would refuse to put patients in that room,
even if it was the last available bed. They'd triage
out a patient before they'd trust putting a patient in
that bed. Wow, that's pretty intense, right.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry I missed that one. I was looking at
sang Nacio A hospital.
Speaker 2: Oh well, they had an ICU room. Glad you cout
joined us done. Probably they had an nice U room
that that was they had a convicted killer die in there,
and after he died, it was such a dark and
just a terrible vibe in that room that they refuse
to put patients in there. And even if it was full,
they would trioge someone else out of a room to
put him into that rather than put someone in that room,
they just didn't do it, so they ended up knocking
out the walls and making it another entrance.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, yeah, so yeah, yeah, you know, because we
talked about you know, intelligent energy that you know, you
know in stone tape theory, you know, that kind of thing,
and and who knows what what you know, what parts
or what energy was, what was disseminated into that room
and seeped into the walls or whatnot. So yeah, crazy, I.
Speaker 2: Think, So, I think that's pretty pretty intense. But yeah,
that's the story and they're sticking with it. So, ladies
and gentlemen, this is a good time for us to
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are back, and we're
back at it. We've got a bunch more to bring
you in terms of these haunted hospitals and uh lots
of the spooky crap that's going on out there with
people experiencing ghostly apparitions and manifestations in uh in these hospitals,
and and like we're saying at the lead end of
the show, these these places are are kind of the
perfect storm for paranormal activity, wouldn't you agree.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir. Yeah, And and the stories that you know,
you've you've already brought up. You know, I'm still real
in about the two Little Girls spirits. Those are those
are kind of cool. I really like those ones. But
you know, like you said, you know that we've talked about,
you know, portals opening up, when when spirits pass and
things like that. So yeah, yeah, all kinds of things
that can go on there.
Speaker 2: Pretty incredible stuff. But you know, it kind of gives
you a new appreciation for hospitals.
Speaker 5: It doesn't make me exactly want to go visit a
hospital if I break my finger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I've thought about the same thing, but
I think if you break your finger, you're probably going
to be an outpatient, which is okay. You know, being
an inpatient is probably more nerve wracking. But I you know, unfortunately,
I had a bunch of surgeries when I was younger,
and I spent quite a bit of time in hospitals,
and I can't I got to say I never experienced
anything out of the ordinary and all of that time.
But I guess I was in a small town too,
and maybe they're just isn't as much energy in those locations.
I don't know, maybe there's not as much tragedy or something.
I don't know, But I don't know how big these
hospitals are that we're talking about. They don't let us.
They're not giving us the hospital they're working in, obviously,
which I imagine they can't. But I assume that many
of them are pretty big city hospitals or big establishments
that have seen a whole lot, and especially if they're
in an urban area, that can probably get quite a
bit of activity and tragedy, which I think would certainly
lend to more activity happening. But I got more stories here.
Load them up, Load them up, you're already want to
hear it. Here go. I was working in an n
I see you when we had a threat of a
tornado and some nurses got pulled to a sister hospital
in town to assist with the disaster plan. And when
all was over, one of the nurses returned with this story.
She was assisting the nurses in giving some meds before
pulling all into the hallways, and every patient she went
to they already had their mess meds from the nice
nurse in the white uniform and hat. And she realized
after she left that it's been a while since nurses
have worn a hat. And that story revealed the urban
legend of Nurse Betty. Story goes she had an affair
with a married MD, became pregnant, and agreed to allow
him to perform an abortion on her in the second
floor operating room. Well, she died and he went to jail.
She never left the hospital and has been seen frequently.
The local newspaper would do an article every year around
Halloween on her sightings in the hospital has since been
replaced with college dorms. Hmmm, the wonder if any students
are seeing her? Yeah, that's great. He was studying for finals.
And you get this nurse pulling up with med cart. Yeah,
that's kind of that's a little different.
Speaker 5: I didn't ask for a flebotanist.
Speaker 2: Hey, what are you doing with that weird bag and
a hoes get out here? Yeah, well, there you go,
ladies and gentlemen. That's pretty strange. But we got more
of them. We got a full course of these things
ready to roll. Here's the next one, the story of
Rocking Mary. We closed Room twelve and our mi SU
because just about every patient there has been there. Let
me start that over the story of Rocking Mary. We
closed Room twelve and our MIICU because just about every
patient that has been there since Mary died complains of
seeing a woman in wearing a white habit rocking back
and forth by their bedside. Apparently, this nun never makes
eye contact. She just stares outside the window, which happens
to be on the patient's left side, over their head.
The window overlooks the hospital cemetery where nuns that have
died are buried. And Mary was a nun that died
in a car accident outside of the hospital back in
the fifties. She was only about thirty years old, and
all patients describe her as a young woman. We all
thought that it was the sundown syndrome. Anyways, since then,
Room twelve became our storage room where no one goes
in by themselves unless it's absolutely critical. But it doesn't
sound like she's really a threatening, menace kind of thing.
She just appears and rocks in a chair. I don't know,
maybe that's really creepy. I don't know. I'm just of
all the stories I've heard, I guess if a nun
was rocking in a chair, that one wouldn't be the
most scary for.
Speaker 5: Me, right, I would have to agree. It'd be like,
you know, you you know, if you woke up and
she was very kind of, you know, asked the question,
you know, who are you and why are you in
my room rocking back and forth in that chair, and
we don't get an answer, but she doesn't do anything else,
you know, then you could certainly, you know, freak out
but yeah, I don't see anything too terry weird about that.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's all kinds of weird, but it
doesn't seem at least threatening. You know, it's not like
she's going you know. You know, maybe for people that
have been to Catholic school, it's more intense. Always heard
horror stories from people who went to Catholic school. Oh,
them nuns are so hard on us, you know. So
I don't know if that's true or not, but just
the stories I've heard. Are you ready for another one?
Speaker 5: Yeah? What you got?
Speaker 2: Well, I got this really longer one here. It's not
really really long, but let's see what it has to say.
It says we had a patient chronic CCHFR. What's CHF for?
Don do you suppose af? Let's see?
Speaker 5: Hearestive heart failure.
Speaker 2: Congestive heart failure, always on the call button, hated being
on fluid restrictions, you know the type the nurses have
to take turns during the shift answering the call button
so the primary can actually do other work. Well, this
is a frequent flyer because he was very chronic, very
borderline in the huh, hospital was the only place he
wouldn't fluid overload. I work seven p to seven am,
and he died at about eight pm. All the look
on his face like how could you let me die?
Like it was our fault anyway. Family came and gone
by nine pm. Funeral home gone by nine point thirty.
And at about ten pm the call button starts going off.
I was there, call button going off every five minutes.
One of the nurses was a very spiritual girl. About
two am, after like four hours of this, nurse Mary
snaps enough. She walks down to the room and practically
screams into the entry room, mister X, you've died and
you can't be in here bothering us anymore. Move along,
in the name of Jesus, I'm exercising you from this
plane of existence. Go to the light and be happy.
And I kid you not. The call button stopped going
off then and there. Wow, so she just got it done.
She just was done.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's okay, that's enough of you mis or mischief
over there.
Speaker 2: Jeez.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think i'd obey too, though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I probably would have left myself. Okay, you're not here,
You're no plot exactly, all right. This one is another one.
Not a spooky story, but a lonely ghost one of
the rooms. If it was being used regularly, fine, no problems.
But since it was a room at the end of
the hall, it was used for storage lots of times,
and if a couple of weeks went by and there
were no patients or activity in the room, the call
light would start going off about four to five times
a shift. But if you went into the room and
turned off that turned on the TV, the call light
wouldn't go off anymore, so needless to stay. When the
room was being used for storage, the TV was always
on with the volume down low. Now see, that's kind
of cool because it's like they're acknowledging that there's a
presence there and they found a workaround, they found a
way to keep it peaceful. Now that's that's a cool story.
I like that one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean it's like an official acknowledgment by the people
working there that yeah, there's a ghost here, and this
is how we take care of it. This how we
deal with it, you know, you know what I mean.
It's like that that acknowledgement I think is pretty powerful.
Speaker 5: I think I think they need the nurse from the
last story though, just walk in there and say.
Speaker 2: It's all for you to go. I know that woman
could probably make a living go into hospitals doing.
Speaker 5: This in the name of Jesus, get out cheap easy exorcisms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Although nurses, I don't know if they're cheap.
You know, they're probably probably comand a pretty pretty uh
pretty steep price. I don't know, all right, So let's
go to the next one. There's another nun story, don
sweet in case you didn't get enough none before.
Speaker 5: There's get it to that habit though.
Speaker 2: Ah like what you did there, But I'm bumped. Thank you,
ladies and gentlemen. Donal'll be here all night. I don't
know about that so far. He's here, all right. So,
like most very old hospitals, at one time, our hospital
was run by nuns. One particular unit had been converted
into a sleep study lab area for outpatient tests. One
shift in the middle of the night, I was watching
the video monitor and five patients simultaneouss five patients, okay,
One shift in the middle of the night, I was
watching the video monitor and five patients simultaneously began removing
their monitoring equipment and I went into the first room
to ask what was going on, and the patient said
that the old nurse with the cap told her the
study was over and that she could leave. All the
patients reported the same story. Wow, so she didn't want
none of that sleep study going on.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I didn't get none reaction on that done.
Speaker 5: I was I was just thinking, you know, five, how
weird it is that five patients all of a sudden
just start removing, you know, the equipment. Why would why
would they do it? You would think that a nurse
or someone would come in and remove it, you know,
or say you know, yeah, it's done, somebody will be
right with you, instead of, you know, people just starting
to rip the stuff off. You know, that'd be kind
of scary.
Speaker 2: All five of them, all five of them got the
message from the noun the sleep study was over, it
was time to go. That's crazy. That's pretty powerful, pretty
powerful story, if I do say so myself. Sure, let's
go to the next one, and it says, I work
in a coronary care unit and most mostly post heart
attack patients, and my charge nurse told us a story.
Not sure if she's just messing with us, but she
sounded serious. So our unit was empty. We consolidated our
last couple of patients into the ICU because we had
low patient senses, and my charge nurse was over in
the CCU at the nurses station doing something on the computer.
All of our rooms were empty, and she heard a
bedside monitor alarm. So she went into the room where
the noise was coming from, and there was an EKG
strip coming out of the bedside printer, which we never
use ever, and it was long continuing strip of clear
v TAC. She said she had just codd someone there
last week who had been in VT. Creepy as hell. Wow,
so it was spitting out the tape of the heart rate.
I guess it was all flatline, but still, huh, that's
pretty bizarre.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now the equipment's pozast.
Speaker 2: Apparently apparently all right. So let's see how we're doing here.
We got this one. This one looks good. I do
enter facility transfers as an EMT, so I get to
see all the skilled facilities and hospitals in the state.
Two places give me the hair raising, just bad negative
juju creeps, an abandoned school of the feeble minded and
the state's prison mental health facility that used to be
huge tuberculosis ward when there were massive outbreaks back in
the day. A third place is an old birthing hospital
that got turned into a long term care facility. The
top floor is mostly padlocked off. Jokingly, I asked a
nurse on the elevator if the building was haunted, and
she matter of factly said, yes, little kids shapes on
the top floor, and residents report older women in dresses.
She said that there were areas of the buildings she
refused to go without another person. WOWSA, that's a lot creepy.
Huh yeah, very strange. Okay, so let's see what this
one is. This is a very short one. It says
in the Morguet my hospital, I'd always hear knocking coming
from inside the freezer. Oh god, your freezers. I got
all kinds of different issues though done. It really creeped
me out, especially when the pathologist locked up, grabbed me
by the shoulders, stared me straight in the eye, and said,
you hear that you never open that door when they're knocking. Never.
It turned out to be some loose pipes. He thought
it was hilarious, but I didn't sleep that night knocking.
Oh my god, that's awesome. Wow, that's horrible. What a
horrible thing to do, somebody. I mean, because no matter what,
even if you know it's knocking pipes at the end
of that, you're always going to remember that that's going
to be that fear response is in you somewhere. What
a jerk. Oh man, that's harsh some people. Oh man,
all right, Okay. So I work in a long term
care facility and within lies the legend of the little girl.
Many people have seen her, and few have survived to
talk about it. Quite a few residents have asked me
who's the little girl and pointed to her. Coincidentally, these
people would be dead within seventy two hours of seeing her.
Oh turns out, about ten years ago, there was a
fatal car accident in front of our long term care
facility and the victim a little girl about ten years old.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: So now that's curious, don And the reason I say
that's curious is does she see the light coming to
get them? Like, does she see that transition about to happen?
Like she's earthbound but she's unable to go through herself.
Speaker 5: Oh, maybe she's trying to chase it and find it.
When you know, find her opening, you know, to exactly.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking. It's like, is she is the
reason that she's there because she sees that it's going
to happen, and maybe she thinks that maybe it'll be
her turn to go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 2: That's a weird one. I mean, it's just what jumped
into my head, Like, Oh, I get it, but maybe
I'm wrong. It makes sense though, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
I got another one here, you ready, yep. A couple,
retired military captain and his wife, Margaret, sold their house
to move to Florida. It so happens that they sold
their house to the state. The state was going to
use it as a resident home for mentally disabled teens
after the closing. But they but they before they moved,
Margaret died in the house. Oh, the captain had to
move because the house was already sold. And do you
know where I'm going with this? Residents always refer to
the old lady that they always saw. Nursing staff just
referred to as Maggie. Now late at night when the
residents were asleep, if the staff put the TV on
more adult programming like Red Shoe Diaries, et cetera, the
TV would turn off and when turned back on, would
come onto a different channel. There was this one nurse.
It was like the house was out to get her.
She'd swear that the carpet tripped me, and the cupboards open,
Knives would fall out, aimed at her. Turns out, this
nurse was eventually fired for abusing and stealing from the residence. Wow,
Maggie takes care of her children. Wow, that's that's kind
of a cool presence to have, right, Yeah, you know
she's watching out good for her. I mean, if you've
got to be earthboumb that's the way to be. You know,
you're at least protecting someone, right, That's awesome. I like
that story. Okay, here's another one. I worked as a
CNA and a long term care We had one resident.
Betty was always independent. All ADL's were done on her own,
and she did fine on her own, never had an accident.
The only time she wanted help was with the showers,
and then she only wanted you around to make sure
she didn't slip and fall. Betty came down with pneumonia
and had to be hospitalized, but when she came back,
she was too weak to do things on her own,
but too stubborn to ask for help. And the last
thing the CNA told her before going to bed was,
if you want to get up, hit your call light,
I'll come and help you. Of course, she didn't and
got rid of her bed alarm, climbed out of bed
and fell. Betty died from the fall, and no one
was moved into Bed C Betty's bed afterward. The following week,
the call light for the room went off at night.
Thinking it was the resident in bedbe I walked down
to the room to see what she wanted. And I
walked into the room only to see the call light
for bed B and A were off. The call light
was for Bed C Betty's unoccupied bed, and that was
on My eyes filled up with tears. I backed out
of the room and made someone else turn the call
light off. Ah, that's sad, yep, that is sad. Well
there you have it.
Speaker 5: Well, well, probably that's probably actually going to be me
being hard headed and just doing what I want.
Speaker 2: I got it, I imagine I will too. To be
honest with you, I don't know. I'm not much for
asking for help, you know, right, all right, So here's
another one we have a gentleman that we call the inspector.
He appears at the end of the long haul. Our
wings are l shaped and he carries a clipboard in
his hand, and when he shows up, residents usually die
within the next couple of days. Also had residents ring
and tell us that there was a man standing next
to their roommate's bed and that we should tell him
to leave. No men on nights. The roommate usually dies
soon after. And then there's the children. Several Lucid residents
have reported children in the halls at night and there's
a children's home behind us where the children have been
abused in the past. Oh wow, that's weird.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The clipberd, the holding a clipboard to me is the
weird part. It's like, what's on there? Does he have
a list? And he's like the collector or what? I
don't get it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the inspector, they called him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: Wow. Yeah, that's crazy, right, I.
Speaker 2: Think so too. Okay, here's another one. I was working
night chief job as an aid, caring for a lady
with terminal cancer on hospice at home as I have
for years. She was starting to slip up and I
woke her family. I woke her family, two girls and
a dh, and we were all sitting around and she
was pretty quiet and peaceful. All of a sudden, she
looked down towards the door and said, Rex, Rex, you're
here for me. I'm ready, and they won't let me go.
I saw a shadowy figure come into the room and
felt the creepiest evil spirit. I'm not normally spooked, but
I was so glad when it was time for me
to go home. I turned to watch the spirit, and
the family was looking at me, like, what are you
looking at? The lady died later that day. A few
months later, her daughter had been sick, just not well,
not terminal, and they called my agency to see if
I would come over and stay with him at night
for a few days until he was a little stronger.
I stayed two nights, and all kinds of weird paranormal
stuff happened in that house. Voices and rooms that were empty,
sound of people moving around when everyone was asleep, and
I decided I didn't care how sick he was or
how much that family liked me. I was not doing
another shift there. Wow that's pretty intense.
Speaker 5: Huh yeah, you know, yeah, he I wish there would
have been more information on what kind of paranormal events, but.
Speaker 2: Right, well there is that. But these I think these
are pretty much nurse submissions, So I mean they're probably,
you know, just saying, hey, there was stuff happening and
that was good enough. This isn't necessarily necessarily their wheelhouse.
They just got to experience things that they didn't quite
know what to do with. I think we've got time
for one more and this will be the last one
for the night. But it says a couple of stories
from the unit. In bed number three, there was a
homeless patient, Willie, who thanks to modern medicine, was kept
alive for I believe around three months. No family that
would be able to stop the Karen. Willie eventually died,
but patients who were in Bed three will talk about
their friend Willie, who has brought them a blanket or
stop by to talk. Bed three is at the end
of the unit and has an ante room before you
go in, and you can't see directly in bed three
unless you're in the ante room or looking at the
room on the monitor. One night, with no patient in
Bed three, the monitor flips to the room and a
body was seen laying over the side of the bed
over the side rails, kind of floating. The room was
checked and nobody was in there. Another night, a nurse
who has worked in the inn a few years saw
someone sitting in a chair behind the door in bed
three with their legs crossed, and she wondered, since we
have limited visiting hours, how a family member got in
the room. She went in the room and no one
was there. Needless to say, she was plenty freaked out.
There was also another patient who was a young woman
in her twenties who contracted contracted necrotizing fast facilitis flesh
eating disease from one of her kids who had STRAP,
and she was in the unit a while and eventually died.
One of the nurses coming on to the next shift
wanted to know why the patient was standing in the
backside of the unit with her twin daughters holding their hands,
wondering how she made such a miraculous cup recovery. She
was informed the patient had died earlier that day. Wow,
how tragic is that. I mean, you're taking care of
your kid who has STRIP and you get the flesh
eating disease. Oh, how horrible, you know?
Speaker 5: And she got it at she got it at the hospital, right.
Speaker 2: Well, it says she got it she contracted it from
a child that had strap her child, So I don't
believe she got it from the hospital, but that's where
she ended up staying as she was battling that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just weird how that transmits. It's weird, I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, God, oh horrible, horrible stuff. But anyway, I guess
that's going to wrap it up for me tonight. Don
you got anything left?
Speaker 5: No, I'm pretty much done.
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