let's begin today's episode by shouting out the folks out there that are working right now during these scary times medical workers grocery store workers Mel and delivery drivers and anyone and everyone right now who is still working outside their homes thank you for what you do and Godspeed in light of the chaotic situation in hospitals right now I figured some spooky story set in hospitals would be perfect of course these stories want concern current events because that just doesn't seem right enjoy these stories and remember to send me your scary experiences that's dark stories org I'm currently on the lookout for stories about lock downs unrelated to current events of course as well as sea creatures and out at sea stories now let's begin you get used to it from the other malfoy I worked as a security guard at one of the local hospitals and despite what I'm going to tell you it's a pretty great place to work plentiful hours pay is good and the nurses are downright sweet that being said it is still a hospital and as such it comes with it's bad things I confess and forgive me if I come across as a little bit morbid I've been in the presence of more death in the first six months on the job than the previous thirty years of my entire life but that's not exactly what this is about now this story is about the hospital basement I had initially been hired to work a specific area of the hospital and I had daytime hours but when a full-time evening shift opened up I went for it and kind of make that money this meant I had free range to patrol the whole property one of the areas I got to patrol was the basement contrary to what you might think it's a pretty busy part of the building x-ray Department custodian engineering food prep those are just some of the many departments that fill the basement so it's not exactly a spooky damp and dark place but once 8 p. m. hits and the vast majority of employees have gone home that basement gets quiet and that's when the incidents began it was my first week as patrol officer and so far it had been rather uneventful which I was fine with I had had five years experience with private security in other areas and I was hoping for less action for a while one night I was making my rounds in the basement when I heard footsteps normally this is no big deal but it was very late so it drew my attention still I wasn't thinking it was a big deal maybe a nurse had to grab something or a visitor took a hilariously big wrong turn so I wandered over in that direction as I approached the corner I checked the wall mirror for those of you who don't know hospitals have ball shaped mirrors to allow staff to check around corners thus preventing any gurney fender-benders when I did this I saw nothing no people no shadows no movement of any sort I rounded the corner to make sure and it was an empty hallway only place they could turn into were the elevators which I would have heard the Dean from if someone had entered them it was strange but I shrugged it off probably my brain messing with me a similar incident happened a few days later while checking to make sure engineering didn't leave their equipment in plain sight again I suddenly hear voices I couldn't make out what they were saying but it was for sure human voices I went to check out of curiosity more than anything else but no matter where I walked the voice has always seemed distant I didn't see anyone and I must have walked the entire basement but the voices always sounded so distant then suddenly it went quiet just like that it was as if they had disappeared left of the area how very strange Bunce again I chalked it up to nothing unusual maybe a custodian left a radio or podcast on in my mind it was all easily explained and no big deal while that could have been explained easily enough this next one was unnerving because I still cannot explain it it was another day another basement Patrol I was walking down a large stretch of hallway when in front of me I noticed a set of doors closing these are fire doors that are held open magnetically and automatically close upon the fire alarm going off which incidentally had happened earlier a false alarm though clearly these two hadn't been pushed open after the all-clear so why I walked towards them to do the job myself then one of them opened up not swung open aggressively but just casually opened up like someone was just passing through this caused me to stop in my tracks in shock these doors are quite heavy nobody could have just the ain't it open and ducked out of sight like that this door was pushed to the wall all the way in a smooth motion and not shoved not opened slightly unless there was a very specifically located hurricane in that spot those doors were not hit by a sudden draught needless to say I patrolled a more populated area that night there were also the cold spots so many cold spots in that basement it wasn't wind or air conditioning these were specific moments of cold that randomly disappeared shortly afterwards these were not normal they were everywhere not just the same spots every time different spots spots where it should have been warm like by the food prep kitchen or near the CT scan room and just didn't really make sense a few weeks of this and I was just doing my best to ignore it job paid well and I didn't want to abandon ship like that but that nearly changed one evening I was on another basement patrol woohoo I guess sadly I couldn't skip it or say that I did the higher-ups would know they always know so I'm back again late at night and the creepy empty basement reminding myself that my car will be paid off a lot faster with this salary I approached the corner from the first incident coincidentally instinctively I checked the wall mirror I froze there I saw a figure around the corner not a person but a human-shaped black mass just standing there just around the corner I'm horrified at this point my mind was already on high alert now it was on Red Alert I tried to reason with myself is it a smudge on the mirror no they clean those things daily I was scared shaking wishing I had a fellow guard with me but what good would that really do honestly I'm praying to god Odin raw freaking Santa Claus at this point praying that this thing does not decide to move towards me I'm standing there for what seemed like forever when it finally walks the opposite direction of me defying all sense of reason I decided to poke my head around the corner try to get a look at this thing it was gone by then disappeared I even checked the mirror again and it was clear as well just me and the basement I scrambled upstairs on a sprint and spent the shift around the nurse's station expecting very little sleep that night when I made it home a couple of months later short of the after mentioned cold spots things had calmed down I began working in earlier shift and I was down in the basement with a coworker doing the rounds when I heard the sound of voices now admittedly this could be anyone that time of day but I was still quite paranoid about the basement so my mind instantly goes to the worst possible explanation I stopped then turned to my coworker that I asked probably sounding freaked out if they could hear the voices to my immense relief they said yes and I calmed down then my coworker said you get used to it I instantly stopped and stared at them what do you mean by that I asked voices weird noises all that crap work here long enough and you just get used to it especially down here I assume you've seen or heard something judging by how you looked like a in the headlights just now I nod and explain my experiences they say yeah most of us have all had similar incidents when patrolling down here don't worry about it you'll learn to shrug it off I'll add quickly that this co-worker is older than me and has been with the company for about 15 years which to me explained how they were so casual and nonchalant about it well I was losing my mind but why this area I asked never anywhere else do you really have to ask they laughed and didn't hit me and I almost kicked myself for not figuring it out sooner the silhouette the footsteps the voices the door even the majority of cold spots they all happened within a close proximity of the morgue I had been given a tour of the facility when I started but seeing as I was assigned a specific post when I began I kind of just forgot about the morgue and where it was located why wasn't I told I asked them because we had just told you outright you probably wouldn't have believed us admit it they responded and I can admit they were probably right if they had mentioned it on day one I would have laughed it off as either messing with the new guy or just silly stories so I can't blame him I worked at that hospital for a year before being transferred to a different site still a hospital but this one doesn't have an ER ICU or a morgue so I feel better about it my coworkers are great and the job still pays well and I genuinely want to be here but I still double-check those mirrors when I approach any corner and I still jump at any sound when I'm alone at night on the job and I hope against hope that I'll eventually get used to it my mom's experience with the dead from daniela s my mom was in the hospital when she was 23 she'd gotten in a really bad motorcycle accident and had broken both her legs she'd also hurt her head really bad it was late in the night and she woke up from a very restless sleep but she didn't open her eyes right away for some reason something in her told her to keep them shut my mom is from Vietnam and grew up in a very spiritual family this subject isn't something she takes lightly when she finally did open her eyes it was because of a murmur like someone was trying to talk to her her hospital bed was surrounded by pale people the whole room seemed to be filled with pale people all trying to get a good look at her but as soon as she looked at them they all began to look down at their feet she was in such shock that she kind of just calmed down and tried to make sense of it the murmuring grew louder and louder until it sounded like the whole room was quietly mumbling dozens of people mumbling to each other but she couldn't see anyone's lip section he move then one of them lifted their hand and tried to reach out to her still not looking at her that's when my mom began to panic and scream she says it felt like she blacked out until a nurse came running in but my mom was found sitting up in bed the nurse told her it was probably a hallucination from her concussion and after a long time of soothing her mom finally went back to sleep she didn't experience anything else until she got pregnant with me and we moved to Korea one day as she was taking the bus she noticed that amongst a line of people getting on was a very familiar figure a pale person who only looked at the ground they boarded the bus the bus driver didn't even seem to acknowledge them my mother began to cry and became hysterical when the person moved down the middle of the bus it was then she saw that they seemed to be floating their feet were flat against nothing beneath them an older woman came to comfort her and when mom looked back where the person had been they were gone from that day until we moved to America she had no further problems eventually she would be pregnant with my brother and she began seeing these people everywhere in the stores in the streets and even outside our home it was a difficult pregnancy she ended up going to the hospital a number of times with smaller complications when she was there she would scream and cry if she was ever left alone in the hospitals it's where she saw the most she said they were everywhere every which way she looked they were there the only way she'd feel safe was if someone was with her because then the strange pale people wouldn't come any closer the night after she gave birth to my brother we were all sleeping in one room because she'd been pretty wrecked by the delivery the hard pregnancy it was nothing compared to actually giving birth to him dad says she nearly died but I don't know how much of that is true she woke up again in the middle of the night with my brother next to her and again her bed was surrounded by those people one of them was holding her hand on the baby's forehead and at first my mom freaked until she noticed how my brother was pale but instead of calling out for help she didn't move the pale woman stroked the baby's hair over and over until he began to grow pink again and finally he took a breath then she woke up in the morning as a nurse came in to look at the baby the pale people were gone dad and I were still sleeping and nothing seemed different the nurse looked over my brother and said that he was fine mom says that at that moment she realized that whoever they were they weren't trying to hurt or scare her she thinks they're just lost souls or something of the sort and that her son did almost die that night but one of them helped him back to life then again maybe it was all dreams hallucinations but she tells this story with such sincerity but I can't help but believe her now she only sees a few and times of great stress and she never gets scared of them now but I still worry I'm not 100% sure they're good guys I'm scared that the one who held her hand on my brother wasn't giving him life but perhaps had been the one taking it I've heard of spirits taking living bodies to come back to the real world I just hope mom is right about them the cold hallway from CES Gravano everyone has different beliefs in the paranormal but I've always been fascinated by it it's sort of a hobby for me I guess but after this experience I'll forever have a new perspective on the unexplained this happened a few years ago when a friend of mine was in a serious car accident me and a group of our friends went to the hospital to visit but he was still in surgery so we sat in the waiting room for any news at one point I got restless and decided to make my way to the cafeteria for some coffee it was the very early hours of the morning as I'm making my way down the somewhat empty halls I hear footsteps approaching me from behind I turned expecting to find a nurse or maybe one of my friends coming to join me but there was no one in the hall the corridor was silent save for the few normal noises like machines or the muffled distant chatter of workers something felt off but I tried to ignore it as me not being a fan of hospitals I turned to continue walking that's when a sudden feeling washed over me and I froze in place you know that tingling feeling you get when someone is standing behind you goosebumps wash over you and you turn expecting to see someone this is what I did but I was once again met with the emptiness of the hallway the feeling persisted and I felt all the hair on my body standing on end the air became cold to the point I could see my breath I couldn't hear the previous sounds of machines are chatting now it was like a switch was flipped and everything became muffled I was petrified I didn't know what was happening nor what to do I wanted to run but my legs wouldn't work I tried to speak but no sound came out it was like something had taken complete control of me for what felt like hours being held by this cold unseen force I then felt a sudden rush of coldness as if something had just passed right through me and just like that it was gone I stood there in shock trying to figure out what had just happened to me you felt it didn't you I suddenly heard a voice and I looked to find an old woman in a hospital gown walking past me too what I assumed was her room what do you mean I asked confused and she looked back and smiled at me it comes whenever someone dies around here don't worry it won't hurt you she spoke almost amused by my shock what comes I asked not really sure if I wanted to know the woman gave me another smile the Reaper honey after that exchange I nope doubt of their at record speed nearly falling over my own feet until I made it to the waiting room and I chose not to share my experience with my friends they would have just told me I was tired but I knew it was more than that sadly soon after that experience we received the unfortunate news that our friend had passed away his brain injury was too severe we went home in complete silence and the next day I could not stop thinking about what happened what I felt that day I know was not natural could I have really encountered a reaper and I can't help but wonder was it there for my friend ghost in the asylum from insulting I have a very real ghost encounter to tell you it happened at a very populated haunted attraction the trans-allegheny lunatic asylum is a hospital in Weston West Virginia that is rumored to be haunted and let me tell you that there is no rumor about it because I know it's 100% true it was Halloween I was 17 and had a bunch of friends with me at the time first I've got to explain that the trends allegheny lunatic asylum offers you a deal if he pay $100 a person you can stay the night at the haunted hospital and if you stayed till 5:00 a.
m. you get 70% of your money back we all decided that this year was the year we were going to stay the night the nighttime stay didn't start until 11:00 p. m.
so we decided to go do the haunted house tour and a couple of other spooky things to wait it out when 11:00 p. m. came around we hurried and ran to the front doors of the asylum and walked in there were six of us in total three guys and three girls it was $600 to do this haunted night stay when you stay the night at this haunted Hospital you're a given an EMF reader and a flashlight they took our phones because they didn't want us to use the flash or to use the flashlights on them we were so lucky because we were the only group that was staying the night on Halloween so after they went over the rules with us we would be on our own until 5 a.
m. well if you could last that long I'll tell you a little bit about the Haunted asylum it has a total of three floors and was constructed in the 1800s at first it was a hospital meant to house older sick patients and to give them the best care they could but the 200 limit quickly turned to 2,000 and the hospital was so packed they had people on hospital beds in the hallways now our group was aware that this place was a place where people would send their loved ones it said their loved ones would be experimented on and often killed but of course this is what excited us about staying the night as well as the thought of catching a glimpse of a ghost at 2:40 a. m.
