S18 Ep46: Ghostly Hospital Tales (Sn. 18 Ep. 46)
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Good evening and welcome to Monsters Among Us. I am your guide, Derek Hayes. Hello everyone and thanks for swinging by. I have a hell of a program lined up for you tonight. A series of calls all centering around one of the creepiest locations on Earth. At least, in my opinion.

Those brightly lit mazes of death and sickness. Those places where souls enter and exit this mortal plane. A place full of paranormal activity. Tonight we're talking all about hospitals. And to begin our shift this evening, we venture to that state up north where Chelsea is waiting to kick us off.

Hi, Derek. My name's Chelsea. I'm calling from Michigan, but my story actually took place in Arizona. In about 2018, 2019, I decided to move out to Arizona, specifically the Phoenix area, to kind of start over.

I am an ER nurse, or I was at the time, and I took a job down in Casa Grande. As you know, the ER has a lot of people coming in and out for minor things, for big things, for silly things. On that specific day, they had me working in what they call the fast track area.

you'll see things like, oh, I came in and I hurt my foot. I stubbed my toe. Stuff that would relatively be quick in and out. In the portion of the ER, they have like little chairs you can sit in. They had a couple rooms and they have like one room with a door that is completely closed. That's the procedure room. So depending on the situation, you put a patient in there because it allows that much privacy. So,

So during that time, I was actually on the computer. I was charting. I was looking at what I had going on and what I needed to do next. I knew in that procedure room that the patient was completely discharged. They were gone. So we had to go and strip the bed, clean everything and prep it for the next patient. One of my coworkers walked by and she kind of asked if I needed help. I said no at that time. Everything was fine. She walked into the procedure room to do something and came back out. When she came back out, she was like,

why is this guy laying in there? That's all the guy laying in there. And I'm like, what are you talking about? I just discharged a patient. There's nobody in the room. I just walked out. They're completely gone. She's like, no, I literally just walked in there. There's someone laying on the bed. So she walked back in, looked and there was nobody on there. I checked the computer again and there was nobody listed for that room. There was zero patients in there.

She came out. She was completely freaked out. She could not believe that she saw some old guy laying there. I thought it was kind of weird, but for some reason, that little section of the ER just felt off. There were numerous times like the bed alarms would go off when there was no one in the room. There were times I've seen little alcohol swabs fly off of our computers. A lot of like weird movements that you really can't explain. But

But I mean, that makes sense. A hospital is a lot of good things, a lot of bad things, a lot of death and things that we do see. I think as a nurse, you're just so busy and you overlook stuff where you can justify it and kind of move on. For me, I've had plenty of things happen that I was like, it's a little fishy. But it was interesting, especially coming from somebody that was kind of skeptical. But yeah, that's pretty much it. All right, thanks. Bye. Thank you, Chelsea. That was a perfect example of the sort of creepiness I have in store for you tonight.

The ghost of an old man in a hospital bed. As if these places weren't unnerving enough. Now this sort of activity seems to be reported in just about every hospital in the United States. And next up is another quick example out of the seldom heard from state of Delaware. Please welcome Kim to tonight's program.

Hi Derek, this is Kim from Delaware. This is not my story. It was told to me by a co-worker, so I'm going to leave the location and the name out. I have been a nurse 31 years and was working in the hospital locally here, maybe around 2004, 2005. We had a patient, he was an elderly gentleman who was not doing well and he had elected not to have a feeding food place.

And when he became unresponsive, his family went against his wishes and had the tube placed. One of my coworkers rode the elevator down to the basement, which just happened to be a stone's throw away from the morgue. She was going probably to the lab to drop off a specimen. And as she was coming back to the elevators to go back up to the floor, she saw the gentleman standing in the hallway

And he was holding his feeding tube and twirling it in front of her and just staring at her.

He walked around the corner towards the morgue and disappeared. This gentleman had died probably two days, maybe three days before this event happened. So I just thought that was pretty cool. I think he was definitely trying to send a message that he was not happy that that feeding tube had been placed when he definitely did not want it. And the nurse that happened to see this was one that advocated for him and tried to convince them not to have it placed.

Thank you, Kim. I think his message was certainly delivered. But why would he show the nurse that tried to help him? Sounds like he's misdirecting some of this anger.

But like I said, I have all sorts of haunted hospital calls to share with you here tonight. But before we can get to those, we have to get through these advertisements. I'll be right back. Just come back around. Yeah, play it out there. By the way, play it each other. If I'm Cincinnati and you say... Tournament, I love this time of year. Love it.

Now listen, not all of these stories are terrifying. Some are a little bit heartwarming as well. Take JC's story, for example, coming out of Texas. Hey Derek, this is JC in Texas. I just want to share a story with you. Didn't happen to me personally, but it did happen within my family.

Back in the early 90s, my grandfather was going through a battle with cancer. He was also kind of suffering from some onset of dementia. So my grandmother, they were both in their early 80s. She was just having a hard time just taking care of him, you know. Bottom line was he ended up in the hospital. So while he was in the hospital, my grandmother went to stay with my mom.

Well, one night, my grandmother had already gone to bed. My mom was sitting up reading a book, and she heard my grandmother call out to someone. So my mom got up and went in there and said, you know, what's the matter? And she said,

Well, I was asleep. And did you call my name? Did you call out for me? And my mom said, no, I've been in here reading a book. And she said, I was asleep, but someone called out for me just now. And it woke me up. I thought you were calling out to me or whatever. She said, no, no, maybe you were just having a dream. Why don't you try to go back to sleep? And so my mom could tell she was real confused about this whole thing. It wasn't just, oh, well, you know, maybe it was a bad dream. I'll go back to bed. She was visibly confused.

in a state of confusion, I guess you could say. But nevertheless, she went back to sleep. My mom milled around the house for a little bit before she got ready to go to bed. And then just on her way to bed, she stopped by the bedroom where my grandmother was sleeping and she had left the door kind of cracked open in case she needed something. She could hear a call out or whatever. She said I could hear her breathing like she was asleep. And then as I was standing there listening to her breathe, she just stopped breathing.

So my mom rushes in there and tries to wake her up. She's not breathing. So while my stepdad's calling 911 to get the ambulance on the way, my mom's trying to do CPR and everything to keep her going or whatnot. Long story short, my grandmother had passed away that night. So now, fast forward, my grandfather has been in the hospital this whole time.

Because he was kind of in and out of lucidness because of the dementia and because of the pain meds he was on for the cancer and all that, you know, he wasn't ever in much shape to, like, have a lucid conversation. Very seldom could you go in there and try to talk to him, and he would actually know who you were and all that, so...

Over the next day or so, my mom's making arrangements for my grandmother's funeral. And meanwhile, we're trying to figure out how we're going to tell him. My mom and her niece went up to the hospital the following day and explained to him, you know, what had happened. For the most part, he seemed to be

understanding as to what's going on. You try to explain to someone, listen, you've been in the hospital, you've been on this morphine drip. We're trying to explain to you that your wife has passed away. He didn't seem real, real sad about it, but at the same time, he didn't seem real confused about it either. He was a little bit melancholy, obviously, but he didn't really seem to be like,

in a huge state of sadness or depression or anything about it. So the following day was the wake. At this point, my grandmother was already at the funeral home. One little backstory about my grandparents was my grandmother, she was a natural redhead. She had red hair.

Throughout her whole life, she was a hairdresser. And so she was very conscious of her hair. She was very proud of her red hair. Of course, throughout their whole marriage, she would occasionally dye her hair. And my granddad would sometimes joke around with her and he'd say, oh, you didn't get it right. It's too red or it's not red enough or it's the wrong shade of red and blah, blah, blah. Especially later on in life when she started kind of going gray. Anyway,

We all go to the wake. After that, we all came back to my mom's house. While we were at the wake, my mom's niece had stopped by the hospital to check on my granddad. Well, as soon as she walked in the room, he just sort of sat up in bed. Right out of the blue, he said, well, that's a pretty blouse, but her hair's too red. And my niece was confused, and she said, what are you talking about?

He said his wife's name and he said, you know, her hair's too red. She looks pretty, but her hair's too red. My granddad had been in the hospital the entire time. He never saw her after she was fixed up at the funeral home or in the casket or anything like that. He never saw her. By this point, we're all back at my mom's house. Family's over there. You know, there's food, there's everything.

My mom's niece walks in the door and she's just as quiet as a sheet. She was freaked out and we could immediately tell, you know, what is wrong? What happened? And she was just shaking. And she said, oh, my God, I've got to go smoke a cigarette. So we go out on the back patio so she could smoke.

Honestly, I thought she was going to tell us that something had happened to my papa. You know, maybe something happened and he had a turn for the worst or whatever. But no, she told us what had happened, that he totally described her to a T, exactly what she looked like, the color of her blouse, her hair, everything.

What I added to it was, well, maybe Mamaw went to visit him in the hospital, you know, after she passed away, just to kind of let him know that, hey, everything's good. I'm moving on to the other side. I'll see you when you get there type of deal, you know.

It was just crazy because you think there's no way he could have known what she looked like. He wasn't even in a state of mind to even discuss it. So then the next day is the funeral. The pastor that was conducting the funeral pulls my mom and I into a little side room and said, you know, here's the itinerary. We're going to go through this. We're going to go through that. We're going to sing this hymn. We're going to do this, that, and the other. Is there anything that you guys want to share about her?

And I go, you know, I don't know if I want to share this to everybody here at the funeral. But one thing I'm going to tell you, I've had an awakening about. Number one, when my grandmother was asleep in that room and she called out, they say you get called when it's your time to go or whatever. I just think that was an angel or that was God or Jesus or whoever calling to my grandmother saying, hey, it's time. Let's go. It's time.

I shared that with the pastor. And then I said, and another thing is that last night, I think that after she passed on that she went to see him before she went on to heaven or whatever, because there's no other explanation for it. There's no way he could have known that. The pastor kind of had a slight grin on his face and he nodded his head and he goes, you know what? You'd be surprised at the number of people that tell me that very same thing sitting in this chair right here where you're sitting.

Anyway, just want to share that with you. I thought it was kind of neat. Love the podcast. Keep up the good work. Thanks. Thank you, JC. Now, if you ask me, I think I agree. It certainly sounds like she made one last visit before it was time to move on. Now, whether she did or she didn't, it's still incredible stuff, JC. And we can't thank you enough for calling in.

Now, folks, if you too have a story you would like me to share here on the program, give the hotline a call at 888-608-NIGHT. That's 888-608-N-I-G-H-T. Or record a voice memo on your phone and send it to me at MonstersAmongUsPodcast at gmail.com. Now, this next entry takes us to a hospice facility, which I think is close enough to a hospital from the state of North Carolina. Please welcome Natalie to the show.

Hey, Derek. This is Natalie. I'm from Monroe, North Carolina. I was just listening to Season 7, Episode 1, where Aubrey called in about her grandma's premonition as she was on her deathbed. And I am a hospice nurse. We see so many things like that when people are in the end stages of

So many things that can't be explained. It's really interesting. And when they say something, I tend to believe them. I had a patient, a younger patient, and seemed to be doing okay. But he wanted his mom to come in town that weekend. He was adamant.

He did not seem like he was close to death, and his wife was worried about it. And I said, "You know what? I've seen enough stuff that when people want somebody to come, I would tell his mom, 'She needs to get here.'" So the mom came, and he died that Monday after that weekend. Just so many things like that, and then people just seeing people that have passed.

and that brings them peace. You know, there's a lot of things around death that I don't think we understand. People do have periods where they're lucid.

there will be Alzheimer's patients that all of a sudden they haven't known anybody for years and then when they're on their deathbed it's like their mind is just clear as a bell. They know people, they remember things. It's just really strange and people get like a burst of energy at the end of life too. We call it like a rally period where people will be like you know grandma has been really

Lethargic lately. She hasn't been eating. She hasn't been drinking. She's been sleeping all the time. But today we found her in the den. She got out of the bed and walked through the house and she was in the den. And we were like shocked that how did you make it in here when you haven't eaten in a week? But that happens a lot too. Just weird things like that, that we just don't understand.

And people will think, oh, she's doing better. She got up and walked today. But then they die pretty quickly after that. So usually I have to tell families, like, this may be what we call a rally period. And then people tend to decline pretty quickly after that happens. I'm not sure what causes that, but just thought I'd call in. Love the podcast. Thanks. Thank you, Natalie. Now, one of those stories reminds me of something my late grandmother told me.

about the day that her mother had passed away. My great-grandmother was living in a nursing home a few miles outside of town, and my grandma had received a call saying that she needed to get down there quickly because it didn't seem that her mother had much longer to live. Now the problem here is that my grandmother didn't drive. She just never learned and she never wanted to. And throughout most of her life, that wasn't really an issue. But on this particular day, she just might have regretted that decision.

because after calling around for a long time she finally was able to secure a ride to the nursing home. But by then many hours had passed and given that this was long before cell phones she probably had no idea if she was gonna make it there in time or not. But according to my grandmother she walked into my great-grandmother's room there in the nursing home and her mother instantly sat up and greeted her and simply said "Oh you're finally here" then died right there on the spot.

Now it seems to me that my grandmother always believed that her mother had waited until she arrived to finally cross over. Now good on you Natalie for taking up that work. It's an important position and the aid and comfort that you provide not only the dying but the living as well does not go unnoticed. And I guess I can say that about everyone in the medical community as well. But hospice takes a special understanding.

And I think we're all very grateful. Now let's sneak in one more entry before we have to take our next break. So Seth, out of Oklahoma, you're up, bud. My name is Seth. I live in the Brokawo, Oklahoma area. And I'm calling in response to your podcast a few episodes back where a gentleman talked about seeing death in front of his friend's house, you know, the Undertaker.

And it reminded me of a podcast that I listened to in 2018 while I was deployed in Afghanistan. It's either Expanded Perspectives or Graveyard Tales. But it was around Halloween time. They were playing the Halloween episode. And they had a nurse that worked on an ICU ward. And she talked about her and other nurses would see death.

and described him as like almost an Abraham Lincoln looking type fellow that they would see him standing outside of rooms and looking in then said later on those people would always code out and would pass away so it got to the point where they saw him they'd always go ahead and pre-position the crash parts and everything that they needed outside those room doors if they saw him

And so it didn't matter what they did, they would always lose the patience. So I wanted to let you know about that. Love your podcast. Keep up the good work. Thank you. Thank you, Seth. Kind of reminds me of Oscar, the death predicting cat. Now we talked about old Oscar back in season 17, episode 6, and on season 4, episode 1, according to my records. But for those of you that missed that,

Oscar was a therapy cat whom lived at the Steer Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Now, Oscar gained notoriety for his apparent ability to predict the deaths of patients, often spending his last hours with them before they finally passed. Now, that is one cat that you certainly don't want to invite into your lap. Now, a death-predicting cat is one thing, but watching his death appears to harvest a soul.

That's on a whole other level. Thank you again, Seth, for calling in. Now, as we do on every Tuesday episode, let's look at some numbers.

As of 2022, there were 6,120 hospitals in the United States. In 2024, there were nearly 34 million hospital admissions in all U.S. hospitals. And on average, 700,000 people die in a hospital each year. That's a lot of death. And we already have theories on what happens when there are many deaths in one location. That's the recipe for a haunting.

So I suppose if you spend enough time in one of these places, chances are you'll have an experience or two. Just like Jen has. Welcome to the program, Jen.

Hi, my name is Jen. I'm from Southeast Michigan. I am a nurse and I have three short stories I wanted to share. First one was years ago, I started my nursing career as a nurse aide. I had a patient die suddenly from an infected knee surgery gone wrong. So my job was to come in and do post-mortem care, clean the patient up, put toe tags on and put them in a bag and bring them to the morgue.

I was training a nurse aide that day, so my warranty asked what all the stuff was in the bag, and there were these ties in the bag. I told her the ties were to tie the extremities together, but I did say I never used them. And I said, in this case, your specific patient wouldn't want that. And then suddenly, out of nowhere, the TV turned on.

I quickly turned to look for the TV remote. And when I saw it on the counter, I ran out of the room. So my second story is I was a nurse at this point. I had a patient with malformal morbidities and was literally hours away from death. All the family got there towards the end of my shift to say their goodbyes. The family left and I was standing by the door. All of a sudden, a black shadowy mist passed through me.

I jumped so high and got goosebumps. And later on, he did die that night. I believe at that time, he was leaving his body. My last story is recently a man died of lung cancer. He had been struggling for quite a while. And when he came to my floor, over a few weeks, he was deteriorating, just getting worse. Then the night before my shift...

He asked the nurse to call his wife to come in. She could not make it that night, and he passed away. I came in the next day. I had the room he was in that he died in. I think he died around 5 a.m., so I came in at 7. So I admitted a new patient in that room.

They fill them up quick. And it was about noon and the room all of a sudden filled up with not smoke, but a cigarette smell. And it was very powerful to a point where we looked at all the outlets. We took everything out. I called the engineering guy and we looked, couldn't find anything going

go into the bathroom and the shower was on. So at this point for safety, we had to move the patient out of the room into another room. Never found the source of the smoke smell or anything, but I believe he was smoking his last cigarette, the guy that was in there that night. So those are my three stories. Thanks for all you do. Thank you, Jen, for calling in.

Now I can't help but notice that many of these nurses seem to have more than one story in their arsenal. And to me that is quite telling. But I wanted to get my hands on some data. How many nurses believe? How many have had an experience? That sort of thing. So I sent Delaney on a wild goose chase in search of said numbers. And per usual, she delivered. The following study polled 100 nurses about the paranormal and the afterlife.

And I should point out that this poll was taken in Argentina, so these numbers might not perfectly represent nurses here in the United States, but I think it'll give us a pretty good idea of where many of them land. Now, 30% of those polled reported feeling a presence or seeing a glowing or moving object, which is much lower than I expected. And 24% have had coworkers that have claimed to have had an experience. 19% have dealt with a patient having a near-death experience.

18% have seen a prayer be successful, and 17% have heard strange noises, voices, or crying or moaning there in the hospital. Now, there are a few more entries in this poll, but you'll have to visit the show notes to explore those. But only 30 out of 100 claim to have had an experience with what we might call a ghost. Seems awfully low for a profession that deals in death.

Now, like I said, you can read this in full by hitting up the show notes at monstersamonguspodcast.com and by clicking on the show notes tab. Of course, one reason why that number might be low is that they're not asking the right type of nurses. I'm sure those numbers are higher with ER nurses than they are with some other less dramatic practices. But then again, even treatment facilities like the one in this next entry seem to be haunted.

So maybe that's not such a safe bet after all. Well, either way, please welcome Anonymous to the program. I have to keep this one anonymous. I don't want to give this place any bad press or anything like that. I work for a treatment facility and...

After orientation and all that, one of the very first things they said is, like, you know this place is haunted, right? And I was like, okay. But quickly I learned everybody had a story. Every single person that worked there had witnessed or experienced something. The residential part of it, the building is set up like a V, and so in the middle of that V where the two ends meet, it's called the fishbowl, and that's where all the staff are located. All the girls on the girls' end of it,

They experienced some kid playing with like a car at the end of their bed. That was a common thing. And then the men on the men's side, they had witnessed someone in their bathroom. But that's what the residents witnessed. As far as me and my coworkers at Edwards Graveyard, we had numerous times. It became like something that would happen ritualistically almost, once a month at least. In the middle of the night, we'd be in that fishbowl doing paperwork, whatnot, chit-chatting. The door opened.

The front door to this place would open and slam like violently. And we would jolt. There was a camera inside that pointed at this door. There was a camera positioned outside, pointed out into the parking lot. So you could see on the camera if anyone came in or went out.

We'd roll the camera back and we'd see the door open and slam. But first, you know, because of what our jobs were, we would get up and we would do a head count and make sure everybody was in their beds and everything. But we knew that everybody would be there, you know, because it's not outside the realm that someone would get up and go, you know what, we're going to relapse and we're just leaving. It happened before. But when the doors slammed violently like it did, we knew.

Anyone who was going to run and go realize, I'm not going to slam the door anyways. I'm trying to be incognito. But this door would open and slam violently like once a month, at least. This place used to be a plantation before it started off. And before it became a rehab, a residential facility, it was an old folks home.

My coworker said when she first started that she was out in the kitchen and she looked up at the window and saw an old lady looking at her. She was like, oh my goodness. And so she went to go to the assistant's place. She thought that she was someone's grandma that just got up in the middle of the night. I don't know. She went out there and she wasn't there. So that's her account. But yeah, this door violently slammed once a month at least. It's locked too. But anyway, that's my story for this time. Thank you. Love your podcast. Bye.

Thank you, caller. A plantation and an old folks home. Both are high up there on the ghost production rankings. But neither of them seem to hold a candle compared to a hospital. And trust me when I say I have plenty more of these stories coming up. So don't touch that dial. Time is running out to claim your free... Like you got some names in here that outside of... Like you. What the hell was going on in your neighborhood?

Now, the only thing creepier than a hospital, in my opinion, is an abandoned one. Just ask these next two callers, beginning with Josh out of Idaho. Hey Derek, this is Josh from Moscow, Idaho. The story takes place in Colfax, Washington, which I'm actually pretty close to. It's only a half hour drive, maybe a little bit more.

And it takes place at St. Ignatius Hospital up there. It is an abandoned hospital that's in pretty bad condition these days. You can find plenty about it on the internet. It's been investigated a couple times, for better or for worse, on different levels of paranormal TV shows. You can pay to take tours there at night. You can pay to take a ghost tour there.

And all those funds go to help restore the hospital, the cooled historic building. They're trying to keep it standing, basically. The first thing I want to impress upon anyone listening is how, when I say ghost tour, how not produced the tour is. It's not like some ghost tours where it's very rehearsed, it's very by the book. This was more like two little old ladies who lived in that town let us in.

and hooked us up with some equipment and we were just kind of free to do what we wanted. They didn't really guide us. There wasn't a script or anything. We were just kind of free to travel the building and do what we wanted. And they were there to just make sure we didn't get any trouble. They had both grew up in that town and knew people who went into that hospital and stayed there in like the long-term healthcare facilities that were in that place when it was still open.

I'm gonna say that I don't think anything I experienced there was like part of a... I don't think they were putting anything on it. It was just two old ladies there. And it would have been very hard for people to be like hiding and doing things. A couple little things happened. But one thing happened to me, and it's probably my only paranormal thing that's ever really happened to me that made me think, oh, this is real. Something strange happened to me. It was towards the beginning of the night...

I had an EMF meter in my hand, just the standard one you've seen before, a row of lights along the top that blink more the higher EMF is. It's important to note that there's no power in like 90% of the building. They have power in like two rooms.

But I could confirm you could hold the EMF meter up to wiring conduits. There is no power. Every once in a while, they've made us put our cell phones in airplane mode to kind of cut down on that. The only time my cell phone slid off was if I put it like right up next to my pocket. So every once in a while, you'd get little blips. That was kind of interesting. But we were in a kitchen right next to this dining room, which we weren't actually allowed to go into the dining room because the roof was collapsed.

and I was holding out the EMF meter, the blinking lights started blinking pretty consistently at the low end of the spectrum. And at the tips of my fingers, I started to feel a tingling. And then the EMF meter started to go up in a very slow manner. And almost at the same speed that the reading on the EMF meter started to go up, this feeling traveled up my arm

of like tingling and numbness and almost like an electric shock.

If you've ever had like those TENS units, the little muscle simulators for like physical therapy and stuff, it was kind of like that. My arm started twitching a little bit. Just this huge electric feeling up my arm out of nowhere. And I mean, the EMF meter went all the way to the top and it started doing that for a while. You know, maybe...

10 seconds. It was like such a weird feeling that I even said out loud, oh, something's happening. And everyone just kind of watched. And the EMF meter, after about 10 seconds at the top where my arm was feeling all weird, the feeling started to recede back down my arm. And that also coincided with the exact same rate that the reading on the EMF meter started to go back down. And then it was just gone.

My arm felt a little funky. It didn't feel cold or anything like that. It just felt like a very mild electric shock, but not exactly. It felt different. It's kind of hard to explain.

I guess the reason it affected me so much is because I've never felt anything like that before. This was my right arm, by the way. I've been shocked. I've held things out for a long time and your arm starts to get tired. That didn't feel like this. This was a very distinct feeling that I've never felt in my entire life.

No one was touching me. No one was near me. I wasn't touching anything. I stood in that same spot for a while. Nothing else happened. I was there the rest of the night holding the same EMF meter. Nothing happened. Other people held it. I traded it off and would take it back.

No one reported anything else like that with any of the equipment that we had. I like looked around on the EMF meter. It was a plastic casing. There was no like exposed metal or anything. So nothing was shocking me. I was touching plastic to affect my whole arm that way. I don't know that the little batteries in that thing could have even really done that, but there was no exposed metal anyway. So there was nothing that could have been shocking me to begin with.

Yeah, I don't know if I got touched by a ghost. I don't know really what happened. It was very strange. I'm normally the type of person who will find a rational exclamation. I'm going to go towards something explainable before I go, oh, that was a ghost, but

I'll tell you what, I have no idea what happened to my arm. I've never felt that before or felt it since. I had been asking questions if any of the people who might be there were previously in the military, because I was. And at one point, I thought maybe we got a voice on this little machine we have that sounded like it responded. So maybe I made a connection with something. Who knows? But...

i'll stick it at something very weird happened and it kind of pushed me more towards ghosts whatever they may be might be real thanks for listening bye you should always take the ghost tour that's a free piece of advice i think josh can agree with and like he said it not only gives you access to some of these spooky places but it also goes a long way to ensure that these haunted locations stay not only open

but standing upright as well. And you never know, you might just have an encounter, just like Josh did. Now thank you again, Josh, for taking the time to share that spooky little entry. Now folks, I have yet another abandoned hospital story to share with you tonight. This one comes from Kyle in the Keystone State of Pennsylvania.

Hey, Derek. My name is Kyle. I live in eastern Pennsylvania around the Philadelphia area, and I wanted to share a quick story. So there's a lot of abandoned hospitals and psychiatric wards and places in Pennsylvania. It's a big hot spot.

Gettysburg, Philadelphia, whatnot. Historic hotspots. But locally, there's a place that we have gone to recently that is called Embryville State Hospital. I'd been there a handful of times, and this is a handful of years back. Here and there, just exploring, knowing that, you know, it's supposedly haunted. I've always been into paranormal, and I've experienced things myself.

I go there one time with my buddy and any of the times I have not experienced anything there. Nothing out of the ordinary, just an abandoned hospital pretty much. So this is an abandoned children's hospital. All records online, if you were to research this place, spelled E-M-B-R-E-E-V-I-L-L-E hospital. All of the records are wiped.

because an insider scoop I know is that they used to torture the patients. They used to torture the children. Just not good things. So my buddy and I go in and we go below what is the auditorium. And this place is miles of stuff. Probably three miles of buildings wide with tunnel systems that go through the whole place.

We go downstairs below the auditorium. One of the times that I had been there before, we were standing above the stairs of the auditorium and I had never been down below there. So we're standing at the top of the stairs, just kind of snapping pictures here and there. And I go to step away and I hear some rumbling or rustling or something downstairs, downstairs.

down below the auditorium. Kind of brushed it off. I took a picture and I walked away. Nothing came of that, you know, it was just another day. Back to the story of when my buddy and I were going down. We go down and this time we're filming. He's got his camera on and I think he's behind me. We go down the stairs, there's two sets.

And we tuck left, we look down one of the hallways, we look right, and as we go to turn back around,

We realized that the audio of his camera was completely cut out. So we turn around and go to possibly head back upstairs because it's a little spooky not being able to hear something on your phone that you just filmed and recorded. As we turn around, I look up and there's a set of double like push bar doors.

and in the middle of the doors is just a tiny little gap where the light from outside is coming through. There's a tiny little jut of a wall that is between us and the doors that are at the end of the hall. And as I'm looking towards these doors,

And my mind, I think, is tricking me because right behind this little jut, not as much of a space that would fit, you know, if a normal person, like, huddled up against a wall, would kind of hide them behind it. So what I think I see is...

a full figure. At least the majority of a full figure. Can't make out anything else besides like the features of a head, shoulders, all the way down to legs and a body and everything. But as I turn around and I see this, it goes and tucks itself behind the little jut of the wall as if to hide itself. As if like, you know, it's been seen.

I'm frozen still. I probably go pale white. I whisper in my body, I'm like, I see something. He turns around immediately and he turns around. He doesn't see anything. I point out exactly where, you know, I saw it. He's saying, oh, you know, I can't see anything, but he's not dismissing the fact that something could be there.

We're just standing there, both frozen, not moving at all. And I see a little head poke out behind the jut of the wall as if to check and see if we were still there. At that point, I said, no, we're leaving. This is too much. I got a little too freaked out. We left the entire building.

All these years that I've thought about it, I've thought, you know, could it have been just a person down there, you know, living, rummaging through stuff, a squatter or something. But the thing that stuck with me is whenever I first saw it, it was standing right in the middle of the entire doorway almost. And that little crack of light that was between the set of double doors,

I could see that faintly through the apparition, for lack of a better word. At this point, I knew that it's not somebody living, being like a full body. So we get out of there and we're reviewing the video maybe that day or maybe a day later. We come to figure out that, you know, after the video cut out on the audio and we couldn't hear a certain part of it,

Couple minutes after that, after I said to him, hey, I see something. When he turns around, both of us are dead still, no breathing, no nothing. A white wisp swirls past his camera towards the direction that I said, I see something. And yeah, still unexplained. Kind of freaks me out to this day. Love the podcast. Thanks, Derek. Appreciate it.

Thank you, Kyle. Well, what do you think he saw here, folks? Another explorer seeking out the paranormal? Or perhaps a squatter taking advantage of the emptiness of the place? Or was it simply a ghost? A long-lost soul of a former resident there at Emeryville? I suppose it could have been something much more sinister. But regardless of the cause, the effect was downright chilling, Kyle. A creeping, peeking entity.

Certainly not something you want to encounter in an old, empty hospital. Thank you again, Kyle, for ringing in. Now I have one last call to share with you this evening. A tale about someone that finds themselves living in a former hospital. Anonymous from Oklahoma.

Welcome to Tonight Show.

We were usually pretty broke and going from rent house to rent house, usually my dad's connections got us a place to live for a couple months to a year at a time. Anyways, my dad got a connection where we could live in this property if we did some renovations while we lived there and they would take that off the rent, which was perfect for us. It's a huge location, two stories plus a basement that was just as big as the house, if not bigger.

Found out later that this was an old hospital for the Chisholm Trail. My dad roughly said it was built around 1903. At the time, like I said, I was in high school, so I didn't ask a whole lot of questions. And now I'm at the point in my life where I'm starting to question things and, you know, look back and my dad's passed away by now. So I can't get those answers. But from what I do recall,

The structure of the house is kind of important. So the base floor, there's kitchen, sunroom, living room. The base of the stairs is where my parents slept in that room right there. And also on the main floor, there was a room with a huge pit in it, a circular pit, and it had grates over it. And I remember asking what it was. My dad said it was a coal pit, I guess, where they used to put the coal into the furnace and heat the house at that point. Again, it was super old, over 100 years at that point.

Anyways, you go upstairs and there's a total of four bedrooms, two on the west wall and two on the east wall. In between on the north and south wall, there's little nooks where one side was a bathroom and the other side you could have a desk area. And in between each room on the east and west side, there'd be a French door to go in between the two rooms.

My dad said that's where the doctor did his rounds. He would have his desk area in the middle, go to one room, see the patient, go through the French door to the next room, see that patient, and go to the other side of the hall or the other wing at that point.

So we move in. Before we get all our stuff in, we're doing some repairs on plumbing, the sinks and things. So we had all these PVC pipe pieces and fittings, corner joints that we had at a Walmart sack. And we had on top of the ice chest. We were making our repairs and such and decided we wanted to go eat lunch. So we got the pipe pieces that we haven't used yet, put them back in the Walmart sack, tied them in a little loose knot to go on top of the ice chest, then went to town. Came back an hour or so later,

And once we walked in, the Walmart sack was shredded to pieces. There's just pieces everywhere. My dad just automatically assumed it was a rat or a mouse or, heaven forbid, a raccoon or something. We lived in between two small towns, really, so it was kind of in the country. And we just didn't think anything about it. Well, we went to go back to the bathroom to work on that sink, and there was a PVC pipe piece in the center of the floor once you opened the door.

And we keep all the doors closed in this house because it's so old, heat and air just kind of escapes really easily. So we try to shut the doors where we could. Come to find out, there'd be a single piece in the center of the doorway in each of the rooms on that main floor. The door would be closed still, but once you open the door, you'd find one piece.

That really was kind of weird and we didn't know how to explain that. My dad just kind of like, "Ah, it's no big deal," and blew it off. He didn't like talking about stuff like that. And you know, we were kids, we didn't want to know stuff about that. So we just kind of accepted that and we moved on. We moved in the house and got everything unpacked. Each of us four kids had a room upstairs. And when you went to sleep at night, it'd not be uncommon at all for the door to rattle or the door to open up and slam.

And at first it'd be really offsetting and scary and we'd freak out and run downstairs to our parents. And I was the oldest as a freshman in high school, so the younger kids especially. My dad said, you know, the windows are open because the heat and air is terrible. The wind just blew it. Okay. We all accepted that, you know, and just kind of that helped us fall asleep that night.

Well, it got to the point where you'd be in the bathroom with the door locked. And again, it's older door, older locks. And to be one of those push buttons that if you wiggle the handle hard enough, the lock would pop undone. So there was a time where I was in the restroom, had the door locked and the handle started shaking a little bit. And it'd shake violently to the point where that button would come undone, which is it unlocked the door and it would open up.

And I just assumed, you know, it was my sibling trying to get in or something like that. I'd yell, someone's in here, and there would be no one there. For the first couple of times, we just thought, you know, we're all tricksters. That's what it was. It was one of us just playing tricks on each other or being impatient, whatever it may be. And it kept happening. It happened so frequently, we got to the point where we switched the locks to where you turn the lock horizontal versus vertical so it couldn't be shaken open. As we continued to live there,

We'd have friends over, and me specifically, to have other football buddies come over. At this point, freshmen, sophomores in high school. One of my best friends, he wanted to stay the night. So at this point, my brother and I requested that we sleep in the same room. We had two twin-size beds on opposite sides of the room. In between, we had a dresser, and we have a box fin up top. We requested to sleep in the same room because we were both freaked out to stay alone.

Anyways, our friend would sleep on the floor in a little sleeping bag, and he would wake up in the middle of the night with the box fan falling off the dresser and slamming him in the head. It happened once, and you know, okay, it's the wind or whatever it may be. So we shut the windows, put the box fan back up, and then as soon as he fell asleep, bam, it happened again. That box fan fell back down. So we put it back up, and he turned his head the other way, the way his feet were next to the dresser.

And it happened again. It happened all throughout the night, like four or five times. Looking back now, I probably just should have moved the box fan. But again, we were high school kids and didn't really think about it. It's the only time that ever happened. We slept in that box fan there every single night. That's the only time it happened when he was there. And he kind of got freaked out, you know, heard about the stories from the house, how creepy it was. I wanted him to spend the night again another time. He came back and...

As soon as he laid down, same thing happened. Boom, it hit him in the head again to the point where he refused. He left and went back home. He didn't want to stay the night and he refused to come over. And the same thing, the swords happened with another friend that came over and spent the night as well. He kind of got more freaked out. The box train didn't happen to him, but the door rattling and slamming and opening, which was second nature to us, freaks him out and he ended up leaving as well. So no one would ever come over to our house anymore.

Another time, I'd walk up the stairs and as you walk up, you face the west wall, which is where my brother and I's rooms were. If you turn backwards as you're walking up, you can see my little sister's room, who was about four at the time. And I could see her talking to somebody, which I thought was my other sister. And she was handing toys and things like that that she had on the floor. She was handing it to that person talking. And as I went up the stairs and ran up to go talk to them, it was just my sister in the room. The toys were just sitting there on the floor.

I said, you know, who are you talking to? And she said, I'm talking to Mary. In a four-year-old's paraphrasing words, but she said she was playing with Mary. And I kind of got freaked out, went downstairs, told my dad. I was like, hey, so-and-so is playing with an imaginary person named Mary. She said she's an old lady and stuff like that. My dad kind of, you know, got freaked out, went upstairs, talked to my sister, and she said the same thing.

Well, my dad started asking questions to the owner of the property, which, like I said, he never really did because it was a place to live and we're usually pretty grateful at that point for just that. He had told him that the previous tenant was an elderly woman that was named Mary who died there on the hospice, and that was her room once they got discussing where she was staying and such. So that kind of freaked us out. And then my dad started digging into more of the history of that house

Thank you, caller. Sounds like all sorts of crazy activity.

And of course there is. It's an old hospital, after all. And if tonight's entries have proven anything, it's that hospitals are always spooky places, even with the lights on. I'll thank you again, caller, for sharing that spooky entry. And another big thanks to all of tonight's callers. And of course, a huge thanks to you for taking the time to tune in.

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