EP 56: Anna the Nurse | The last nurses on the shift (Halloween Special)
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I beg your pardon? Ho ho ho ho ho

Welcome to your horror Halloween episode of your favorite caffeinated, medicated, and never hydrated nurse podcast. I beg your pardon, Bestie. Welcome back to your favorite podcast. And for this episode...

You're going to hear all the creepy stories sent by all your favorite healthcare workers. So are you guys ready to dig dive into it? But before we hit that, if you're listening right now, do me a quick favor. Make sure that you download this episode and all other episodes on Apple and Spotify podcast.

And make sure that you follow us too and leave us a five-star review. And make sure that if you love this episode, share it to your Instagram, Facebook, anywhere else. So, Bestie, are you ready to meet your special guest for this Halloween podcast? It is none other than my one and only Bestie.

Anna, the nurse. Hello, everyone. Thanks for having me. Finally. Of course. We've been talking about this, but...

Forever. Forever. We've planned so many times for us to be in the same podcast and do a podcast for I Beg Your Pardon. But I think we've just had so many trips and vacations and like we were just enjoying our lives basically. So I'm glad you're here. Thank you for making it here. Thanks for having me. And the funny thing is that one of the reasons why you make it here because you live two hours away from here. Northern California.

California. We are actually currently in Sacramento, California because your bestie has a three sold out show in here. Yes, ma'am. Sacramento loves you. I know. All the Filipinas are here. All the besties are here. Yes. And if you guys don't know, Anna is also half Filipino. That's why she's my bestie. Oh, shit. Oh, my God.

That's kind of cute. That spider was a paid actor. That's a paid actor. There you go. Do you want to introduce yourself first to them? Sure. Give them a little introduction as who's Anna the nurse. You probably already know Anna. You've seen her on my videos. You've seen her own videos. She's always with me. We're always together. She is my favorite, favorite person in the world. Come on there, baby. So like you said, my name's Anna. I am a labor and delivery nurse.

mother of two I do a lot of other things content creator did not plan my life to end up like that but it just did and some of you might think John is my husband period or I'm his wife no matter how many times I say I am not nurse John's wife

No, but I still understand. But actually, Anna is married to John. Yeah, that is true. His name is John as well. John and Finn. So it gets a little confusing. Exactly. So as you were saying, like you didn't plan to be a content creator. How did it happen? I think people want to know that. How did you become a content creator? I feel like it always starts like this, like during the pandemic. Yeah.

Anyways, our birthing classes got stripped away from us. The morale was down. We know what happened in the pandemic. There was a lot of negative things happening.

and just one night shift, a night shift. I just made a like funny video and it got pretty popular. It was, oh yeah, it was like if Cardi B was a nurse or something like that. And then I put like tape on my fingers, like really ridiculous. And people thought it was funny. And I was like, okay, well, let me try to do an educational video. And then

that got some popularity and then I just kept doing it and I was like, okay, I'm just gonna set a goal. I'm gonna post something every day no matter how bad or how good it is and it just flourished and I enjoy it and then I've met amazing people along the way. John and I met through social media, which I always joke, we travel the world this year. We went to Japan, Hawaii,

sure so many other places i'm in l.a yeah i go to l.a all the time um to hang out with him and did i reach out to you or did you reach out to me oh no you were following me then i followed you back because i really like you yeah yeah i remember i saw a video of him you were like in the um closet supply closet and like you were shaking your ass or something like that and i just thought it was so funny

and i was like nurse john's my spirit animal or something like that and you commented on it and that was when he only had like 10 000 followers he was very very new yeah oh my god we just uh we just we just connect we just connect i love anna from the very beginning because i'm just always so like very intuitive with people he really is and like you know anna just gives me such a good vibe like i feel good when i'm with her and like she's the type of friend that i could just sit in a couch we do nothing we literally will sit for

hours for hours that parallel something i know right hanging out like we won't even talk that's it and we would just be on our phone and that's hanging out for us and it's so good and so great i just love the fact that our friendship is built on like traveling and doing things and like we can do it with our families and stuff like that find yourself a friendship where you don't have to entertain someone

Thank you. We don't feel like we have to exert energy when we're together. It's just like, oh, she want to take a nap. I also want to take a nap. Maybe because we're just also getting old. Yeah, maybe. Oh, my God. We don't talk to each other. We take naps. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So that's Nurse Anna, you guys. And there's more to know about Nurse Anna. And we will have another episode where we're going to talk about more of her. But you guys, this episode is dedicated for y'all Halloween creepy. So if you're listening right now on Night Shift...

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one so here it is i've worked in healthcare for over 20 years now and i have a couple from working in nursing homes of seeing the figure in black shooting across the hall and then in the next 24 hours a resident will die and then in less than a week another one will pass as well no no

but my favorite story is this i work at a very small hospital maybe 30 beds it has been around for many years in the basement is of course the old morgue and there's one elevator that goes from the basement to the main floor outside the nurse's station this elevator would come up in the middle of the night randomly and the doors would open all the staff would get up to go find a patient who just passed away

One night my coworker and I were sitting at the nurse's station and down the short hall to our right where we hear the TV comes on and the volume is up as loud as it can go. My CWs and I walked down said hall to find a TV to turn it down. There's one room down the hall that maintenance has the door closed and do not enter sign on the door.

After looking in all the open rooms, there is no other room but the closed one to look in. We open the door. There is nothing in this room except the TV. I walk in, turn the TV and said, "Stop that. There is a sick baby next door who needs to sleep. So please be quiet." I walked out and closed the door with no further incident with the TV.

So she talked. She's talking to the TV? Yeah. Or she's talking to whoever entity was there in the room. Okay. Oh my God. Have you ever had a situation in labor and delivery? Because you live in a very small town. Yes. And I feel like small town has always like, you know, old hospital. For sure. Not very like...

not from the 90s kind of thing you know right well i will say it makes me wonder i'm very skeptical just because i am the kind of person who messes with my co-workers like i will turn the tv on and run i will hit the call light and run out of the room just to mess with them

That's a very night shift thing to do. Literally. I mean, I don't know why I do that. I'm just kidding. I love scaring people. So that is super creepy. I do have a story similar to that. Like I said, I was a new nurse too, first year. I went into this room. People were scared. It was a night shift. And...

people were scared of that room and this my charge nurse she was so old like she probably should have been retired but uh i was like i'm a mess with her and so i go into that room and i hit the call light button and then i hide in the closet oh my god she like comes down she's like that's weird and then for some reason i wasn't i don't know i didn't know what i was gonna do but i

For some reason, she opened the closet I was in. I wasn't even going to do anything. I was just messing with her. And she opens and screams bloody murder. And then like I scream and then I'm like laughing. She was not laughing. She was so mad at me. Oh, my God.

- I would have been too if it was night shift. - She was so happy. - Holy shit. - She like did not talk to me the rest of the night. And then I was like, oh shit. I'm like new. I'm like, oh, I probably should have done that. But I never got fired. But yeah, honestly, if things like that happen in the hospital, I lean into it. I'm like, oh my God, yes.

I want to be in a haunted hospital. And I feel like, have you ever seen like a death of like a newborn? Because you work in labor and delivery, right? Yeah, it's dark. Yeah, I have. You have? I have. And I, you know, I feel like that's so like sad. But at the same time, like, I feel like that's the first place like that little baby was

Right. And I feel like they would never leave there. You know what I mean? Kind of thing. I don't know. I don't know. But I feel like for me, it's like the hospital is just so scary because like so many people die in the hospital every single time. And like to just think about it, that very specific location, that very same spot, there's at least a thousand dead souls. Right. It makes you, you know, think. For sure. You know, when I work night shift and we don't have enough like beds,

beds or like let's say the the the break room is too full or too nasty and there's an empty room i cannot sleep on like the empty patient's room because like just lying down on that bed first of all gross second just to think that somebody was bagged in this oh god you know okay luckily my unit it's not like mm-hmm

I don't have people dying. But yes, the rest of the hospital, I get that. It's crazy. I don't know if I could sleep in a room. No, I could never sleep in a patient's room. And just even if I'm a patient or anything, I feel like I could never just sleep in a room.

In a hospital, there's just like so eerie, creepy kind of thing. And I'm just so happy I don't have like a third eye or like some kind of like sixth sense or something like that. You would have to be medicated. Oh, please. You would have to be medicated. Put me on Ativan or something. Yeah, give me the good stuff. Give me the good stuff. Give me something. All right, moving on to our next. I used to work on a floor back in the day, had a patient who was being discharged the next morning only on PRN pain meds and hadn't had anything mind altering all day.

I go in his room at 3 a.m. and ask him why he can't sleep. He says, I'm not hurting or anything. And don't get me wrong. I love kids. But why are y'all letting children run around the unit so late? Oh, yeah. No kids. Okay. Honestly, like the kids stuff freaks me out.

I asked what he was talking about. He said, the kids in the dinosaur and cowboy costumes. I said, I hadn't seen them, but I'll let the other staff know to send these kids back to their parents, thinking to myself, who the hell let them in here this late in the first place?

So she like believed him. Oh my God. I head back to the nurse's station and tell the charge who has worked there for years. I tell him, Hey, the dude in room X, Y said he can't sleep because some kids keep coming in his room. He looks at me and says less alarmed than you'd expect. Oh, the kids in the dinosaur and cowboy costumes.

what wait she knows what i asked a couple other more veteran staff and they all had stories of patients telling them the same thing oh no my god if they were all messing with me that would be a good joke that's that this is a good joke then half the unit and my patient were phenomenal liars okay i literally got goosebumps okay that's oh you literally had goosebumps um

that like I said, I like anything spooky haunted kids. It kind of creeps me out. But if that were, I would lean into that. First of all, like, why would you not tell your coworker about those kinds of things? I feel like, I feel like it should be like a warning thing. Like when you get hired or something. Right. Like we just want to let you know that at night there's like kids on a cowboy costume just in case. Like, are you okay with that? Um,

And I'd be like, well, would I have to float? And they're like, no. And I'd be like, oh yeah, I'm fine with it. Absolutely not. Let me sign the contract. You know what this feels like? You know those horror movies where they're like, the house is, you know, 5,000 people died in this house. But they're like, you know, honey, we got $250,000 budget, but we'll take it. Yeah, absolutely. And then some creepy shit happens and they're like, it's okay. That's just, you know, our chandelier just fell down. That's fine. Yeah.

No big deal. No big deal. For that price? Okay. I mean, like, that's crazy to me. Like, I would have lose my shit. And, like, working in night shift is also so creepy because it's just so quiet. Yeah. You know, like, my fear on night shift is someone dying on night shift, which happened to me many times, but it's just...

Like there's this one time where a patient literally died on me at 3 a.m. like right after I came back from break because I check on my patients whenever I come back from break.

And then so I went to the patient's room. It was my mister. And the mister had a liver cirrhosis. And, you know, he was kind of like in the end of life. But I was not expecting him to pass that night. So I checked on him. Like, I usually just touch them to see if they're like, you know, like hot, like still juicy and everything. And then I held him. He was cold and like rock solid. Yeah.

And then that's when I know he died. And no one else is with me because the other nurse was in another section of the unit. You know, because our unit is like a U. We have a north, center, south. Was he a DNR? He was a DNR. Okay, that's fine. But I was in the north. The other nurse was in the center and south. So I was the only one in there. Oh.

And for me to like, you know, they were all busy. So I have to like get the bag and then put my man in the bag and take off all the stuff in his body. And like his eyes were open and like it was really creepy. I mean, like I don't know about that. I feel like that is something that we nurses go through. And it's such like...

It's so normalized for us to just see death. Like, it's nothing. Yeah, depending on what unit you're in. I mean, a lot of units. For sure. It definitely... I could see people be desensitized to it. But I always say nurses do and see things people shouldn't do, honestly. That's why we have such dark humor. And it's so easy for us to talk about death and all the other things. I mean...

That's it. That's it. And like, you know, like, don't you ever guys think that we're heartless? It's just because we numb ourselves from like the same experience every single time. Yeah. I feel like to be a nurse, you need to have emotions. You have emotions and like you're very intact with your emotions. But as you go through your career, your emotions just gets less intense.

like you know it just gets less like oh like i'm not gonna cry because i just cried for room two like i'm not gonna cry from room three now and like you know it's the same death like you know what i mean it just gets crazy and like i feel like more people have to understand that we go through so much as nurses like no one can ever like understand the things we go through unless they take a shift with us right you know that's why when i see a nurse i'm like

Yeah. I know. Yeah, girl. You know what we're going through. Exactly. And you know, it's no matter what kind of nurse or specialty you are, you go through some fucking shit that no one else knows. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Moving on to our next story.

On one of my old floors I work on, we always had a weird occurrence happening at night. It was a neuro step-down unit. This unit had a glass wall so you could chart and monitor your patient. We had a patient who had a severe stroke and was nonverbal. Feeding tube, restraint, total care, etc. They rarely had family visits too. In the middle of the night, their call light went off. When I answered it, a woman said, he is really hurting. He is really hurting.

He needs his pain medicine. So I walk into the room to check on him. The room is dark. Nobody's in there and the patient is sleeping. I tell his nurse what happened and I go and sit back down at the CN desk. The call light goes off again. It is his room. Same voice. Please. He is hurting. No. I get up and walk back to the room. Same story. I tell his nurse and she gives him pain medicine through his bag and we reposition him in bed.

The call light does not go off again. It was really eerie. Strange things happens on that floor. So who... How can you even explain that? That's crazy. So it looks like somebody's watching that patient and they call the nurse to give that patient a pain medicine because they're...

Dude, I would set up my phone. I would set up my phone and record. And then when it goes off, I'd look back. And then if literally... Baby. No. First of all, if visitors at night... You know which exactly room has visitors. Yes.

You know what I mean? Because when you get a report, they would tell you like, oh, we just want to let you know that room number two's sister is in the room. To know that that patient doesn't have any family visitors, which they probably know, and to answer their call. Twice. Twice? Girl, you have all the balls to do it. Like once, maybe twice. But the second time, I don't think I'm going to do that because that's crazy to me. To go back into that room and actually...

But hey, what if that voice was a ghost nurse? And she's like, baby, I'm working full time too in the other side. She's like, I can never get a break. We have some of those coworkers that literally...

will kill themselves i i swear i feel like we're all gonna die and we're still nursing at the other side of the you know that's crazy that's my life at work and then i go home and i take care of people so you went to wipe asses right you go from adult to pediatrics 24 7 who's gonna wipe my ass okay when is it my turn

That is so true because that's my question too. I was like, you know, when I asked like nursing students, I was like, oh, what made you want to become a nurse? Oh, I like helping people. I was like, well, who's helping you? That's deep.

Who's helping you? I was like, baby, we've been helping people, but the problem is nobody's helping us. And we don't help ourselves. That's it. But we do help ourselves with alcohol and food intoxication. That's way too funny. Okay, moving on to our next one.

My first job out of LPN school was nights in a hospital-based sniff. After my first rounds, I'd park the med cart about halfway down the hall so I could just start six o'clock Synthroid and finger sticks on my last round. One night, the cart moved itself to the end of the hall. My aide saw this and declared someone was going to die tonight,

Because the ghost knows they were discussing likely candidates. I was assessing extra hard, but everyone was fine. At their baseline is what I mean. And I just thought my aides were giving me a leg pull. Sure enough, last rounds came and they found the body. Wait, what? What? Wait, what? Wait a fucking minute. When...

I talked to the day nurse who had been there for like 30 years. She said it only happened on nights and she was totally nonchalant about it. I worked there for two years and every goddamn time someone died unexpectedly, the cart had moved down the hall. Interestingly, it didn't move when we were aware of and treating someone circling the drain, just the unexpected ones. Oh,

I was creeped out and grateful for the heads up at the same time. I mean, in the Philippines, we're like superstitious. Very superstitious. Oh my God. So like one thing like I've learned about deaths is, well, first of all, starting with my grandpa.

So like when we were treating him because he had like lung cancer. When he was getting worse, I've noticed one thing is that when he was about to die, first of all, he was seeing relatives that he did not even met in his life. And he always see them. And he would say like, oh, your auntie something is there. And he's waiting like she's waiting for me with a boat or like, oh, your uncle and auntie's there.

They're trying to tell me that I should go with them. That was what he was telling me.

What did you say? Of course, we didn't kind of like believe him. But what I've seen as a pattern is like this always happens with a lot of people or a lot of like patients I've treated and was dying and actually died like 24 or 48 hours later is that they always see like a relative or someone they know in the room. And it's always like a sign. It's always like a sign of like they're dying. And another thing that I noticed is if someone is about to die, like

in the next 24 48 hours they get like rock hard solid like if you touch their leg like it's like a dumbbell like a 25 pound dumbbell that you have to lift when you're like oh you feel a little heavy tonight exactly and i just know that they will die and at least like 10 patients of mine who died experienced the same thing as what my grandpa experienced and i'm not really superstitious but this kind of

occurrence and things of like the same same situation happens when it comes to death just tells me that there is really something out there we need a hospice nurse to chime in here oh my god we need a hospice nurse to tell us all the stories because i feel like to be a hospice nurse you have to believe in this kind of things because it happens death is a normal part of life

that's it that's why i keep telling people i was like i'm more scared of life than death because i feel like death you don't even know you're dead like once you die you die but then life is so unpredictable and like unless you believe in reincarnation period and the next reincarnation you are is a spider and you're like well i got i got killed would i slip but yeah like i feel like life is more scarier than death because life you never know where it's gonna take you you have to make the decisions in life and

Death chooses you. Death chooses you. And I think it's as scary as it is. I think, yeah, there's just way too many things that happens in the hospital. And sometimes as science explains things with medication and body and things, I feel like there is a supernatural thing that happens around. I like to think so. I just like to think that. Because again, I like everything spooky, scary, scary.

Next story.

One night, we had to do a reasonably emergent C-section on a patient who was from out of town, meaning she didn't have a support person with her. As far as I remember, the C-section was going well. I was scrubbed in. We were in the middle of it when the patient stopped responding to the anesthetist. Her vitals were all normal, but she just stopped talking to her.

Stop responding to question. I could hear the anesthetist ask her, hey, are you okay? A few times after a few minutes, the patient started responding again and all was well. I had her in recovery room. Just me and her. The baby were in the NICU and things were pretty straightforward. But I did mention to her about the strange episode during the C-section. She said, I saw my grandmother in the OR.

I was so scared and I asked her to hold my hand, but she told me that she couldn't touch me. That sure was something for a 23-year-old to hear at 3 a.m. in a room far away from any of my coworkers in a very, very old and empty hospital. Well...

I do believe, though, that your loved ones do watch you in many, many ways. I would like to think that. Yeah. Have you seen those videos where it's like an abandoned hospital and then someone goes and tours it? Or they just, I'm sure, illegally go in there and then film everything. I know. And syringes are still in there. Medications are still in there. That is creepy to me. It's so creepy and so awesome. A part of me would love to.

to check that out. In the dark, I don't know, maybe just daylight. Would you rather visit like a haunted house or a haunted hospital? Hospital for sure.

I feel like the hospital is the scariest one. Because the deaths that happen in there, insane. I feel like the amount of stuff that happened in the hospital is not comparable to the amount of things that happened in the house. Right. You know what I mean? That's why I would totally want to do the hospital. A house could have a shooting thing situation, but a hospital had someone...

in pain someone who was not supposed to die or someone like all the things just happens in there and like I feel like and you make up these stories in your head like if you were to go you'd be like why is that syringe there why are these medications not used I wonder what happened in this room oh there's blood that's it so it's just like it's super creepy it's insane so I have an assistant and he's

like in his early twenties. And I don't know. Oh, oh, um, we were watching videos and it was like abandoned mansions. It said like whose mansion it was. And you, I don't even know if you know who this person is, but, uh, he was like, this was Ron Jeremy's abandoned mansion. And he's like, who's Ron Jeremy? You probably don't know who that is. Oh, Ron, the porn star. The one with the big dick. The biggest dick. He, he was like, who's Ron Jeremy? I was like,

Um, feel free to look them up. Yeah. Next question. I was working in an ICU and had a patient who would only repeat what was said to her and was with her all night. One time I went into the room and she started telling me

All the ways she died. Okay. I died because of a narcotic overdose. I died because I took too much insulin. I died on a sunny Sunday afternoon, et cetera. Then later she looked up at the ceiling and said, they're still here.

Oh my God. Okay. I ran. Why am I getting goosebumps? I ran out of that room as fast as I could. Another time I had a blind patient who kept asking me what time it was all night long. One time I went in to check on him and he says to me, it's the witching hour. It was three 33. I walked out.

yeah oh my god when things happen like that coincidence or i don't believe in coincidence i think it's it's meant to happen what'd she say they're still here and i don't know it's true though like the witching hour is so true and for some reason like i feel like something always happens on those times i'm fighting for my life

working night shift at 3am i swear god that's also when the coffee like starts to like go down on your system and you're just like you get delirious yeah i get super delirious like laughy and you don't have to laugh or cry exactly and it's like the quietest time in the unit at three when everybody's like sleeping tucked in in bed and the only thing you're hearing is like palms like no she did the right thing or she'd do the exact same thing as i was

I would walking out. I just walk out when someone's like, they're still here.

Okay, I'm done. I'm done. But, you know, for me, like, baby, if you tell me there's something in here and it's just you. I'm going to believe you. You're going to figure out it yourself because I will not be the one. I am not getting paid enough for this. No, I'm not getting paid to be a Ghostbuster. That's why I'm telling you, like, again, I feel like the hospital is the creepiest. Like, I don't understand how people go to, like, Haunted Mansion. I would say, just go to a hospital. You will find it everywhere. Yeah.

or like oh my god i don't know how morticians do their job i feel like i feel like you have you need to be numb in emotions and fear and like to be able to yeah i agree to be able to touch someone's face who's dead and like be close to their face to do their eyebrows and lips and everything i could do it i could do it you could do it i think i might even want to do it if i could like go back i'd yeah

Not you putting like... Let me put a little like pink blush in you. I would... Yeah, I would take some lessons. I cannot. Well, you know like when they do that, they like sew certain things to make their face look... Or at least I think. Good. Yeah, for sure, for sure. But like...

Again, like I cannot... Like someone would have to sew my mouth shut. Yeah, for sure. Because like my resting face is... Next. It was my second night with this patient in his late 80s. He was terminally ill and was leaving for home hospice. In the middle of the night, I go to do vitals and he's talking out loud in his sleep and fidgeting.

Well, that's kind of me. Hmm.

My patient was on portable video because he could be forgetful at times. On the camera, they had witnessed multiple orbs shooting through the room that had looked similar to a shooting stars. We get that from time to time, but they say that there were crazy amount to where the room looked like it was glowing.

See, I told you.

He's dying for sure

He's dying for sure. My coworker who was with me paled. I just said that they should play cards when it was a little later and talk him into bed. I thought that this whole situation was pretty wholesome. My coworker thought I was nuts. I was like, his friends just wanted to stop by and say hi. Maybe this man had a, he was partying his whole life and all his friends died. And then they're like, Hey bro, you want to last card game? Just one last card game, baby.

We got to get you that win before you leave. I love how nurses can just roll with it and be like, okay, let's go prepare. Girl, you nuts for thinking that. I was like, baby, if someone tells me that my patient wants to play cards with his friends and his friends are all dead and not there, baby, I'm not playing no cards. He can play by himself. That's crazy to me. Oh my God, that's so funny though. But do you think that

Could it be like the medication? Is it something paranormal? Like, what do you think? Is it like for you in that situation? Who knows what's going on with their mind? That's true. Whether it be medication or something else. Right. I'm telling you, I bet a hospice nurse would have a lot of insight on this. We should have a hospice nurse right now and bring them in the table because they should tell us what's going on. Oh, they would have the best stories. The best stories. Oh my God. But yeah, it's just crazy. Like,

you know, this happens not even in Halloween day in the hospital. It happens every single time. Nurses have so many stories. I don't know how we do it, how we cope with it, but it's just, it's the craziest part about being a nurse. Like, I'm just going to chalk it up to coincidence if anything. Oh, that's too funny. Okay, next. I had a patient admitted into a room at about

He was alert and oriented. He was rolled in on an ER gurney and started freaking out about him. Can't we see him? That he's not going to stay in that room and he needs to be as far from that room as possible.

We switch his room assignment and get him settled. Later in the morning, I asked who he is. He says that we need to have the room exercised. He is apparently a very angry, dead, mid-40s male. He didn't like another man in his room. That room was always really cold, summer or winter. The lights used to come on for no reason. I feel like a lot of times, you know, um...

people like i guess spirits from the other side a lot of them are communicating to us to tell us something it's always that it's like either to save you or to like hunt you oh my god that's kind of like how i believe it sometimes it's like they're communicating because they want to tell you that

It was just really creepy. When you worked at the hospital, were there any rooms that were haunted? Or like, you know, don't go in that room or that room's scary or anything like that? Well, I think for me, it's the creepiest one. I think I told this story before is that, you know, I got a report about like...

all of my patients and I was giving report to day shift about all the patients I tell them like look listen but like the old little lady in like room 12 at the end of the hall she was really sweet she was

so nice she was sleeping and she was just there for stomach pain so there wasn't a need for me to do any vitals because even her vitals is like once because there's really nothing going on with her and the day shift nurse told like she was looking at me dead in the eye saying like john that patient was discharged like two days ago you're telling me you were hanging out with a ghost literally

I swear I was like I swear to god there was like five two lady gray hair there's like John that patient was discharged like two days ago that was creepy that was real creepy that is super creepy I know but it is really crazy next I

At my old hospital, we had Susie. We never were a unit working with children, but everyone who encountered her claimed her to be about eight years old. We usually only saw a shadowy figure or heard her running over the unit's floor at night. Sometimes she messes with the lights, call lights, computers, or our old paper charts. She didn't seem malevolent and stern. Not now, Susie. I'm busy. Usually kept her in line.

she did not like swearing though one of our newer doctors once made the mistake to tell her to fuck off what? I would never tell the spirit to fuck off after that bad luck seemed to follow him whenever he stepped on the unit misplacing his coffee mug just to show up later exactly where he had put it down before but now ice cold charts disappearing lights turning off in the middle of him placing an IV which prompted me to call her out and her turning the lights back on

I kind of miss her.

No, legit. No, baby. I feel like I would want Susie to be my girl. I said, Susie, can you tell me all the gossip they've been talking about me? Hey, Susie, can you deal with this asshole doctor? Can you deal with this motherfucker who keeps discharging my patient when he's not supposed to? Right. Justice was served. Justice was served. Susie, can you please tell my patient to get their own water?

Susie, can you unplug them lats? I'm kidding. Susie, I mean, first of all,

Why would a doctor tell Susie to fuck off? Did she do something? Did she do something? Exactly. Some doctors are just pissed off. They just want to blame anybody. Anybody that come across them. Like, I think that's the whole situation with them doctors. It's like, baby, if you guys got anger issue, go seek therapy. Wait, and then the fact that the nurses told him to apologize to her, I'd be like...

That's your problem. That's so funny because they're like, okay, Dr. Peters, you have to apologize to Susie. Now find her in the unit. Yeah.

Imagine going through the rooms and like, Susie, are you here? Oh my gosh, I would love a kind spirit. I know. Oh my God. Well, that's all of our stories for this episode. Did you guys love that? I mean, it's creepy. I think for me, it's like, I do believe that spirits exist and that there's evil in this world and that there are things out there that we don't know and we don't see, but they do exist. I feel like there is...

something that's gonna happen really soon in this goddamn world and we just gotta be prepared it is the end of the world did you see the sahara desert being flooded no i didn't first of all i want to talk about it but i just want to you know um send all my prayers to the families and people affected by hurricane it was really tough for all of them but i don't know if you ever heard about the tsunami that happened in japan

it was a long long time ago but um it's a natural disaster but that very specific place in japan that was washed out with all the waters if you go to that very specific place you will hear families screaming or family like looking for their kids but they're just ghosts

And they come to terms with it. Wait, and like the people there are okay with that? The people are okay with that. They know exactly. Japanese people are very superstitious too. Oh, are they? But like all the documentary like literally tells like a story of like an old man and his wife died from the tsunami. Yeah, the tsunami. And he would just visit his wife in that very specific place where she died.

and they would have conversations and stuff like that i mean japan is known for the suicide forest in japan oh wow we should have went there the suicide force in japan are you allowed to go there

You are, but on your own risk. Yeah. Because they say that whenever you enter the forest, you will never come back again. Let's just find an abandoned, haunted hospital instead of suicide forest. Suicide forest is crazy. Because I feel like they did a documentary of that too. I hope you guys love this episode with Nurse Anna and you guys have some...

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