Hospitals are viewed in a positive light by most. They are a place where people find healing and come back restored, for the most part. For this particular set of people, however, hospitals represent their biggest creepiest fears. Read on as people around the world share their creepy, weird, and unsettling hospital horror stories. Some of these are sure to leave your jaw on the floor or goosebumps on your skin.
1. The big foot
I worked in the kitchen, so I was the lowly peon delivering food trays. Delivered to one guy who had a horrendously infected foot. Most of the toes were necrotic and black and the rest of the foot wasn't doing much better.
I wouldn't be surprised if he was waiting for an amputation. His dietary requirements were diabetic, so it was likely. The room smelled AWFUL.
Anyway, these rooms were small, with typically two beds in them. Because of the smell of his infection, the other bed was empty. I still had to squeeze by the foot of his bed, and as I was paying attention to the tray so that I didn't knock it into equipment.
I accidentally brushed my leg against his infected foot that he had been sticking out of the covers and hanging off the bed. His big toenail came off onto my leg. It just stuck to my leg. We looked at each other in horror.
I cleared my throat, asked my usual questions, cleared and adjusted his table, gave him his tray, and wished him a good day. I left calmly, and then ran to the nurse's station and asked for help getting this guy's entire necrotic toenail (with bonus flesh) off my leg.
The nurse who got it off soaked that portion of my pant leg in some disinfectant liquid that smelled like it could take the paint off a car.
RiotHyena
2. God Bless America
My wife is a nurse. When she was back in college she did a rotation at the local VA.
One day she heard some muffled yelling coming out of one of the rooms.
She poked her head in the door to see if the guy was okay. Turns out he was standing in the middle of the room completely naked and singing God Bless America whilst playing with himself.
[deleted]
3. Let the air out
My cousin told me about her co-worker whose husband started having chest pains at Thanksgiving. They called 911 and he was rushed to the hospital.
The wife is sitting at his bedside crying and fielding calls from friends and relatives when the doctor walks in and asks her husband to turn to his left side so he (the physician) can do a thorough cardiac assessment.
The husband lets out this huge, and I mean HUGE!!! fart and boom! The chest pain's gone. Turns out he was just full of gas.
Highlydoubtthat
4. “He pulled it out!”
A guy who pulled his catheter out. I worked in the kitchen and delivered trays. I walk into a dementia patient's room and see his entire crotch drenched in blood.
I quickly put his food tray down and told the first nurse I saw “Hey I might be wrong, but I think this patient pulled out his catheter, there’s a lot of blood.” He told the nurse it felt good to take out.
Kalexis12
5. Ghosts are better than what I have seen
The kitchen was in the basement, right across from the morgue door. A lot of people were worried about ghosts or whatever from the morgue, but since I did most of the work on the actual hospital floors, I saw a lot worse than ghosts.
I'd rather deal with a spooky apparition down the hall than what I did have to deal with.
These things included pinning myself against a wall trying to be invisible as a guy flipped out and got violent with the nurses, or having to deliver a tray to a dementia patient who lost it and started screaming like she was dying because the nurse forgot to mark that patient's food orders as Deliver to Nursing, so she acted like I was the bad person because she'd never seen me before.
RiotHyena
6. I wanna go home
My Mother had Sundowner Syndrome early in her dementia decline. She would call me every night, from the seniors' home, around 7:30 to tell me she was ready to come home from the hospital. When I told her that was her new home and she had nowhere else to go she would scream at me and ask me what she did to deserve this treatment.
We had to sell her condo to pay for her care which was over $4500 a month.
She would scream at me that she raised me and then I turned against her.
I knew it was the dementia talking but it was still pretty tough to take. Went on for about 4 months then the decline of her condition took away her memory of how to use the telephone. Eventually, I sort of missed the calls, at least I got to hear her voice every night. She passed on about a year later, we never talked again after the last call.
LOUDCO-HD
7. “Lazarus Sign”
I am an ICU Nurse. I had a patient who was declared brain stem dead. The family did not want him to become an organ donor so we withdrew treatment. I switched off the ventilator, pumps, etc, and extubated the patient.
A few moments later the patient displayed "Lazarus Sign" which is a reflex that causes the patient to raise their arms in the air. I was by no means new to the role but this really scared me as I had never even heard of it let alone witnessed it.
PsychologicalBus7357
8. Zombie Movie
I was treating a critically ill patient for extensive wounds from necrotizing fasciitis that required debridement from the ankles to the high thigh on both legs and most of the abdomen all down to the fascia.
The wounds were so extensive that we needed to sedate her to do our thing, but she wasn’t stable enough for that to be safe so we had an anesthesiologist at the bedside keeping her going with the pressors he was pushing manually from a syringe.
When he pushed the first big dose of ketamine of the KFV, she passed out and then stuck her arms straight up in front.
Apparently, this is not just Lazarus sign but also ketamine can give people the sensation of flying so they stick their arms up. The whole situation looked like something out of a zombie movie. The poor woman passed away a little while later. I think she was about 30.
Villageidiot1984
9. Lady in the ceiling
I got a fast bleep (ie. drop everything you’re doing and attend this emergency please) one night to a side room on the ward to find no patient in the bed. I was just about to leave the room and go back out to the nurses’ station, where there had been a bit of a hubbub when I’d dashed past the first time when something caught my eye.
Looked up to see a face with wide, slightly wild “psych eyes” peering down at me from a gap in the ceiling tiles.
She was a lady waiting for a bed in the psych hospital who’d clearly thought the ceiling was the best place to hide from the people trying to poison her.
Honestly, I can't think of another occasion that I’ve been quite so terrified.
The worst thing was that I had to walk (well, dash) back out underneath her to get help from the nurses and security to get her down.
Ebart175
10. The lady in a red dress
Worked in an ER for a long time at night while I was in the Air Force. All of the housekeepers would talk about the lady in the red dress. They would often see her down in the basement where the morgue was. We would have to go down there to the place where they did sterilizations to drop stuff off, and that was right by the morgue. No one ever saw anything.
One day, a patient came in for a knife cut on his finger and needed stitches. A young guy, with no history of mental illness or anything. He was telling me how difficult it was to find how to get to the ER and ended up in the basement until a nice lady in a red dress told him to go the other way and up the stairs and he found us.
We believed the housekeepers after that.
Kandrew2012
11. Whose sailfish is that
I worked in the ER as an AF medic. I took a body down to the morgue with another medic and shift supervisor. He had the drawer assignment and paperwork responsibility. We pulled open the drawer and there was a monstrously large sailfish that could hardly fit without its body curved and sail pushed down.
We stood there in surprise ... um, procedure? No idea.
The NCO said, "It would be a very good idea not to remember this. I'll deal with it in the morning. Let's see, how about this drawer?"
Later it was rumored it belonged to one of the senior surgeons.
Prpslydistracted
12. Ghosts are real
My wife is transitioning away from working nights at an assisted living facility.
She said for about a week after one resident passed on the memory care side, all of the nursing assistants would randomly hear someone with a walker moving around (walkers make an extremely distinctive noise when one walks with one), except they have sensors everywhere so they know when someone's up and every time nobody was up, and they could not find anybody that was up upon walking around looking for the source of it.
She also told me that this job has convinced her that ghosts are real.
Trainguyrom
13. Haunted living facility
My stepmom also works at an assisted living facility, on the night shift most of the time. She says she always hears weird sounds in the dead of night when all the residents are asleep, like running and whispering.
She also said she thinks a little girl haunts one of the stairwells. She says she always hears a little girl laughing and running up and down the stairs despite the fact that it'll be like 4 AM and no kids are in the building.
Reiami_
14. She changed her mind but it was too late
I was a supervisor in the admissions department of the emergency room in a VERY small hospital in a rural area. I had two people call in one night so I had to go in and work by myself.
Around 3 a.m., EMS arrived with a patient who shouldn’t have been brought to our hospital. She was DOA.
Being in the admissions department meant I had to do all the paperwork when patients came to the hospital.
I walked into the room with my clipboard and saw a woman on a stretcher with a dog chain around her neck. She had claw marks all around the chain where it looked like she had tried to get the chain off. EMS stated that in the process of hanging herself, she changed her mind but it was too late. Gave me chills.
Apprehensive_Sun1445
15. Creepy Old Man
In my senior preceptorship in nursing school, I was working the night shift. I once had a patient who was a good 400 lbs (man) in his 60s that I had to help to use a urinal. I am a 23-year-old female, by the way.
So I went in to help him (meaning I had to hold it in place) and normally patients are quiet in that situation but he awkwardly said "Yup, that's what 40 bouts of chemo will get you" and I said (because I wasn't quite sure)
"what do you mean?" and he said "it takes it all away (referring to his genitals).
I was like "Okay." and awkwardly stood there because I didn't know what to say. After that, he kept making weird flirty comments to me and I was just really not happy to have to go in his room.
Mrsgreenranger
16. Dummy!!!
I used to have to restock the medication machines down in the operating rooms. They used one of the rooms for storage for a while. It can be a bit creepy being down there by yourself.
But I walked into the operating room they had stored random stuff in, flipped on the light, and had a damned heart attack. They had one of those full-size CPR dummies laying on a gurney down there covered with a blanket, just its head poking out. My first thought was “omg a dead person!”
Amusement_imminent
17. A little adventure that turned into a horror movie
My very first office job was in a 10-story building that housed a nursing school on Floors 2 and 3. One day I was bored, so I went on a walk through the third floor. I'm not sure why, but when the elevator doors opened, the place was dimly lit and nobody was there. I guess school was off that day?
I wish a staff member had been there to tell me to get out because, within 2 minutes of snooping around, I came across a huge room filled with cots, on which lay bodies covered in sheets.
My heart dropped immediately and I ran back to the elevator to get out of there.
I tried to tell myself that they were dummies, but I'm pretty sure they were cadavers and I found a human anatomy classroom.
DepressedHermit1
18. I just wanted to get my tools
I do contract work in the local hospital, installing air systems mostly. We get an escort usually to get to where we are working but then they leave us alone once we are set up.
I forgot some tools in the truck one time and must have taken a wrong turn on the way back. I opened the door that I thought went to the roof and it was a storage room with 5 or 6 of those dummies leaning on the back wall. Nearly needed to change my pants.
Snakebiteloo
19. “Are you still there?”
I went to check on my patient for some routine observation and they proceeded to calmly tell me "I can't pick up my phone" and then they lifted up one of their hands with the other and let it limply drop down to demonstrate that it was 'dead'.
I immediately called a code stroke and they were rushed to the theater. It was just so disconcerting how nonchalant and unconcerned the patient was about it.
SlaveNumber23
20. My dead mother-in-law
About six years ago I was admitted due to an acute case of pancreatitis. While recovering I shared a room with an elderly patient of Italian origin. He was a very nice gentleman, and he and I got along very well.
I had the window side of the room, he had the hallway side. Due to the extremely severe pain of my condition, I was taking morphine, codeine, and Demerol. I was sleeping very profoundly then. One night a nurse walks into the room and turns on the lights. I wake up and hear a commotion.
A female elderly patient with mental issues managed to get into our room. She sat in front of my fellow patient in the dark for over 15 minutes. The problem was that he was awake when she walked in and according to him, she had an uncanny resemblance in the dark to his deceased mother-in-law. He froze and the woman sat down and started moaning and crying. He really thought it was his time to go and the lady came to get him.
The nurses, himself, and myself laughed so hard when we realized what had gone on. He froze so badly that he didn't even think of the emergency button.
FFredditt
21. He thought everyone was his wife
I worked in a care home very briefly and had to deal with a gentleman who behaved in a very weird way. His wife was still alive and being in her late 80s simply couldn't cope with his constant wandering at home any longer.
He always thought that the female staff were his wife, and they managed to tune out his constant requests to get into bed and have a cuddle, but when he started leaving his room and trying to get into bed with female residents it was obvious that a low-security facility where the residents could leave their rooms at will was not the right setting for him.
About a month after I stopped working there I happened to run into someone who still works there and who told me that (patient) was now in a facility where he was kept in his room and quite heavily medicated. Terribly sad situation
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22. The Psych patient
My father works in the ER of a major hospital in MA. One day they get a call to prepare for a man with a pen in his eye. Usually, it's no big deal except that this was a psych patient and he's the one who put the pen there by, holding it near his eye and running face-first into a wall.
Luckily it didn't penetrate his brain but he was completely catatonic. He did not respond to anything but was completely awake.
My dad, fearing that there is nothing stopping this man from just shoving it the rest of the way in with his hand, restrains the man just in case.
Surgery goes fine and they send him up to recovery. Sadly, as when many hospital accidents occur, there was a shift change. The new shift didn't know how to restrain the man and he ended up biting his finger off and wiping his blood on any person who came near and when no one would approach him he would just fling his bloody stump around spraying blood everywhere.
Cecorrieri
23. A dead body in the open
We have two hospitals in our county. One is a general hospital and the other is a level II trauma center that most people go to. Even then last week both ERs were filled to the point where the general hospital told us they could no longer accept patients due to being filled up and the level II would only take patients under certain circumstances.
While my partner and I were in the ER we kept noticing a man laying in a bed out in the open that looked so peaceful as he was sleeping.
We found out from an RN we knew that he had died from unknown circumstances but they had nowhere to put his body. The morgue was full and no one could track down the county coroner.
All they could do was make it look like he was sleeping so the other patients didn't take notice. I thought it was very unethical but the RN kept reminding me that they had absolutely no room for his body unless they put it in the janitor's closet.
Gil_beard
24. IV port
I was walking into the hospital cafeteria and I saw a guy crouched down behind a trash can wearing a gown and holding his IV port. He was an interesting-looking guy, sort of looking, and wearing ONLY the gown, so he was quite noticeable.
I saw security running in and watched him crouch down lower. Officer Man Pants (a female security guard I’ve affectionately nicknamed) finally spots him and yells at him to come with her.
He jumps up, and screams “Not YOU again!!” Then pelts her in the face with an open carton of milk.
Chase ensues. I go back to getting my breakfast.
Turns out, he was trying to leave with his IV port attached so that it gave him easier access to shooting up. A pretty common practice for drug-addicted individuals in a hospital setting. We always let these people go AMA (against medical advice), but we let them know we must remove the port, per hospital policy. It rarely works in our favor.
Funny-Quit-5804
25. She nearly lost 12 kilos
I'm a medical student and get to see pretty gross stuff on a regular basis, but this one time was unusual. In came a 16-year-old girl with a belly as large as someone who was about to give birth. The only thing is she refuses any history of intercourse.
We do a scan just to be sure, and damn she is right. It's just fluid. Difficult to determine what it was actually. Seniors docs were suspecting ovarian cyst.
Later in the operation theater, they went for an exploratory surgery, trying to relieve the girl of the pain and other problems that accompanied such a huge abdomen.
They suctioned out a total of 11.5 Liters of blackish turbulent fluid. It just wouldn't end. I like to joke about it with colleagues as she lost almost 12 kilos in there. Trust me it must have been so difficult for her.
sleeping_doc
26. Haunted patient room
I used to work in a catholic hospital and on night rounds on the orthopedic floor I finally asked a nurse why the patient room right off from the elevator was used for storage of extra beds/ IV poles. I assumed it may have been too noisy and had patient complaints from being by the elevator.
The real story is that it was haunted by this woman who was acting very strange and apparently they had to call a priest in to see if she was possessed. He said she was and she had accused a nurse of stealing her baby (the patient was 70ish and her son died as an infant). Turns out that the nurse was pregnant and didn’t know it yet.
Anyway, she apparently “levitated” and died a few days later. They had hung a cross outside the wall of the room that was facing the elevators that fell off and broke. And the paper towel automatic dispenser (the one you wave your hand in front of) would constantly spill out paper towels and the automatic sink would turn on and off randomly.
They quit putting patients in that room. I never witnessed it myself but I also never went into that room after that.
9sock
27. Nurses are HEROES!
I'm a non-clinician but I worked in the ED of a large hospital for about 7 months (on process improvement, not patient care), and I would say the creepiest thing was the BCU patients, including detoxing patients who were just out of their mind by the time they made it into the ED.
These circumstances often require security because these patients were out of control of themselves. And of course that can get violent and often does.
Nurses are HEROES! In my time, I witnessed this tiny little nurse jump on top of a coded patient and manually give him chest compressions for nearly 3 minutes after he coded on the table, and she brought him back!
If you ever see that IRL, it takes A LOT of strength and effort to do chest compressions for any length of time (try it, it's physically exhausting) and he was so big and she was so small! But she saved him!
Prima_facie2021
28. My first
I recently had to confirm my first death. It was late at night and I had to deal with quite a few things first that were higher priority so it had been a while between the person passing away and me getting there.
I've seen dead bodies before but this was my first time getting really close to one because if you don't know there are certain things you need to do to confirm a death such as check for pulse and breathing for a decent amount of time which means you are in contact with the deceased for a fair while.
I don't like calling it creepy because death is natural and I don't want to feel as if I'm in any way being disrespectful but it was certainly unnerving because for one his skin was very cold and that's a really big deal when you're so used to the warmth of living people.
Second was that the person was caught in the position of their last breath and I kept sort of hoping that they would complete it. Also as it was late at night and I was near the end of my shift I was rather tired and a lot anxious out of the corner of my eye I kept seeing movement.
I'm still sure he was dead because I did really check but it messed with me a little.
Selfawareusername
29. It was too much for me
I worked in the ED doing registration. I hadn’t been there long, maybe two weeks or so, when I had to go to my first trauma call down (level I trauma center). I was not prepared to see EMS wheeling in a toddler on the gurney.
It’s been probably 12 years, but the sight of that little bundle taking up so little space on the stretcher is seared into my mind.
She was wrapped in blankets head-to-toe and the only thing I could see was her little hand sticking out.
She was completely motionless until I saw one tiny finger twitch. I lost it and couldn’t gather myself together enough to even get her name and DOB. It took me a good half an hour to pull myself back together enough to finish my shift.
Babyjitterbug
30. An unsettling evening
I was working alone overnight on a call-out for a radiology exam. The time was about 3 a.m. and my department was empty and no one else was around except for me and my patient. I heard something wheeling down the hallway which would have been odd for that time of night and the location of the department.
I poked my head out of the camera room and no one was there. I went back to my patient and camera. Again I heard the wheeling. I looked down the hall again and no one was there.
So I was standing near my patient and moving the camera to the next position and I got the feeling I was being watched.
I turned around and there was a completely dark human-shaped figure standing in the doorway watching. I immediately turned to investigate who was in the department and no further signs of the human-shaped figure and no one in the hallway.
It was very quiet after that and no other strange sounds that night. It made for a very unsettling evening.
MrsCaptnKirk2009
31. “I can sleep well now”
I work at a nursing home during the summer and winter when I’m back from college. One evening, a resident asked me to stay late to help him organize his room. He had recently been admitted to the facility and had end-stage renal failure, so he had to go on dialysis regularly.
I spent about 45 minutes with him getting everything just the way he wanted it, which I was fine with because I needed the extra overtime, but when I was finished he said something I will never forget.
He told me, “Thank you very much, I can sleep well now.” I wished him a good night, clocked out, and went about my evening.
At the time I thought nothing of it, but the next day I heard that he had passed overnight. I think that he knew he was at the end, he was at peace with it, and he was able to die happily. Couldn’t ask for a more peaceful way to go.
Abject-Preparation18
32. Flank Steak Stuck inside
I have a friend who has worked as a CMA in a clinic for a few years, she's told me some pretty gross stories. One was that there was an older woman who came in complaining that her genitals had a horrible stench that she couldn't get rid of.
She came to find out, her and her husband were into foodstuff during intimacy, and he had put flank steak inside of her almost four months earlier and didn't get it all out.
It was just one small piece, but it had rotted and caused some infection.
fire_marshall_ill
33. My first surgery
I’m a scrub nurse. My job is to assist the surgeon during surgeries. One of the very first surgeries I ever sat in on about a year ago was a hemicolectomy (removal of part of the large intestine).
Halfway through the surgery the patient’s arm came up and hit me in the leg. I screamed and jumped and immediately thought the patient had woken up mid-surgery.
The surgeon who was performing the surgery sighed loudly and said “Whole-body twitches during surgery are not common, they are not impossible. Please calm yourself.”
It was the creepiest moment feeling someone I thought was unconscious touch me but then quickly turned into an embarrassing teaching moment for me.
hey_now111
34. Murder down the hall
I’m not a hospital worker but I have a disorder that caused me to be in the hospital for multiple nights in a row when I was younger. I remember one night I was awoken so a nurse could take my blood pressure. I looked out into the hall and heard another patient a few rooms down screaming.
I then saw a nurse walk by with an empty wheelchair and blood-soaked scrubs right as it stopped.
It could have been completely unrelated but in my 13-year-old brain, some guy just got murdered down the hall.
MediocrePen8710
35. Some things you can’t un-smell
When I was an intern (radiologic technologist), I ended up having to take the portable X-ray machine down to the morgue to X-ray 3 garbage bags full of chopped-up body parts that had been found buried on a farm in the area.
This was done to determine what was in which bag and whether there were any bullets pointing to the cause of death.
I had to physically move these squishy bags with a two-week-old corpse in them in order to put the plate underneath them and get a face full of rotting air from the bag.
Some things you can't un-smell.
But hey, I had the best case study in class, complete with a news report video to include as part of the "patient history".
Ohdoubters
36. “Mellow Yellow”
When I was 16 I was a hostess (so I worked in the kitchen and brought food to patients). I worked in a psych ward mostly and saw a lot there. There were a ton of court-ordered psych holds for people who were coming down hard off of hard drugs, some in drug-induced psychosis.
People would try to trap me in their rooms while I took their orders, people lunging at me. I once had a guy hold my hand (like a vice) and then try to stab an orderly with a pen when she tried to pry him off me.
I was walking through the hall trying to collect trays and someone in the geriatric (old) section must have gotten permission to keep a radio in their room. They were absolutely BLASTING “Mellow Yellow” by Donovan. I left the trays and went back downstairs for a while before I could come back up.
I can’t really say why it scared me so badly. Maybe because the psych ward skewed me out a bit, especially the geriatric section. But something about that song playing super loud in there made me feel like I was in Uncanny Valley.
IJustHopeWeAllMakeIt
37. “No thanks”
Back in the '90s, I was doing my psych rotation for school. We went to the lockup section of the local psych unit. A buddy of mine was telling me we could make good money doing psych nursing as a side job. We both were ER types at the time.
Right about then a guy comes out eating a turd like it was a 3 Musketeers bar, all nonchalant-like. I looked at my compadre and said no thanks
Cswank61
38. Leaking hot waste alarm
I’m a dispatch attendant, so I only get told the patient’s name, age, weight, where they’re coming from, and where they’re going, so I don’t get told what the patient has/is going through. The creepiest thing I’ve ever seen was when I was getting an adult transport box from the basement storage room, and the alarm light next to the morgue elevator started going off.
I didn’t suspect much because these things happen all the time, but it didn’t stop and after I left and came back 5 minutes later, it was still going off.
Again, I didn’t think much of it, but I later found out that it was the leaking hot waste (radioactive waste from radiology) alarm.
I had narrowly avoided getting a not-so-good dose of radiation from the waste technetium-99; at least, I think that’s the isotope they use. Everyone was fine, but that stuck with me.
R4o2n0d6o9
39. Call light
I was a tech on a medical surgery unit for a while and one night while we were sitting up at the nurses' station (pre-COVID so not as awful as it is now), a call light started going off in one of the rooms.
It’s not my patient, but I answer the call light and ask if they need anything.
No one answers. Okay, maybe they rolled over on the call light in their sleep or something, no biggie.
Come to find out there wasn’t a patient in that room. Also checked down the hallway to see if maybe housekeeping was in there (sometimes they’ll bump the call light or pull it out of the wall by accident) and there’s NO ONE down there.
[deleted]
40. A dog’s head
I work in an operating room and we frequently get dog bite victims.
Once when I went out to the waiting room to update the parents, the child’s father handed me a trash bag with the head of the dog that bit his son in it. He said he thought we’d need it to test for rabies.
Susan244a
41. Slip up
I'm not a hospital worker, but I work in hospitals, delivering surgical supplies and equipment. I have access to a lot of places that most people don't. One day, I'm making a delivery and I'm in the back hallways, down by the morgue.
It must have been a busy day, they had 4 corpses lined up in the hallway, waiting for transport to funeral homes. The transporters brought out another corpse on a gurney, and one of the wheels got caught in a crack in the floor.
The transporters tried to catch him but failed, and one of them knocked over another gurney, spilling another corpse onto the floor. What was really bothersome was the way they treated the bodies.
They picked one of them up, cursing, and threw him back onto the gurney, so disrespectful. The other corpse was picked up by two workers, and they raised him overhead and dropped him from about 3 feet up onto the gurney, and the poor guy's head rang like a gong on the metal, and these idiots just laughed and laughed.
Blankwillow_
42. Silent Girl
There was a girl in the psych ward who didn't say a single word during her stay, not to patients, not to staff. She wasn't nonverbal, just chose not to talk. The staff kept pressuring her to talk and threw her in a padded room because they didn't know whether or not she was a danger to herself, since she didn't say anything.
When she was being thrown in there we heard her say, "I'm going to kill you." It was nonchalant and very ominous. Of course, later in her stay, she tried to kill someone.
Cactusbishh
43. Floor 2
I was in a hospital one day with my mom and we entered the elevator. The hospital we were in was pretty small and only had 3 floors. We hit floor 3 but for some reason ended up on floor 2.
We saw that floor 2 was completely abandoned and that there was a stretcher thrown in the middle of the room as the lights were off everything was messed up and only one red light was working in the back.
My mom and I immediately got terrified and we just sat there waiting for the doors to close and for us to start heading up to floor 3. There was also another woman in the elevator with us and she was freaked out also. She also only wanted to go to floor 3.
Unknown0110101
44. Spread love not diseases
I had to do a trach change on a patient with dementia, an incurable disease (in the lung). This patient was out of their mind and tried to bite people. While changing the trach, the patient gave me a demon stare the whole time.
The patient then coughed at me, spraying blood on my face shield, almost hitting my eye with their infected blood.
PinkFlute
45. Elevator horror
There are lots of stories about hospitals being haunted. Basically, if you believe in ghosts, you have to believe a place where probably 95% of deaths occur in Western society is gonna have a few extra spirits lurking.
So a woman I work with tells this story about how she showed up to work early for her shift, around 6:30 a.m., and things are pretty much dead quiet.
She gets on the empty elevator, hits the button for the 9th floor and the elevator goes up to the 11th floor, and doors open but no one is there.
The doors close and it goes back down to the 9th floor. As she gets off, she sees an old woman standing behind her in the elevator.
Tjah