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00:00The hospital is over a hundred years old. I found myself just completely lost. I heard
00:17this awful laugh. I started experiencing things that I thought were strange. I couldn't put
00:26my finger on it. It's just a weird energy. I remember documenting demonic laugh. Under
00:35that slit I saw what looked like fire. All of a sudden I can't move. I kept on hearing
00:42something behind me. I followed that candlelight. There's no words to tell you how scared I
00:49was.
00:50We need a nurse.
00:51Nurse.
00:52We need a nurse.
01:19In the shadow of a gleaming downtown skyline sits an old hospital complex from another
01:25era. It's Solomon for boating exterior hints at a labyrinth of empty corridors and twisted
01:31staircases.
01:35The hospital itself is over a hundred years old. So there is a newer area and then there
01:43is also a very, very old area.
01:47Amanda Quill applies for a job in the IT department of the hospital. The interview
01:53process requires her to shadow a supervisor as part of her rigorous on-the-job assessment.
01:59To start the process I had to get IDs, so credentials, so I was able to freely move
02:04through the hospital.
02:09Left up the stairs. Another left then right.
02:30What I found the oddest was how completely empty the hospital was.
02:50Go left and then right.
02:53On the way to the administration office for the ID, I took a wrong turn and one wrong
03:01turn led into four and the next thing I knew I didn't know where I was.
03:12I found myself just completely lost.
03:18At that point I was completely turned around. I didn't know if I was facing north or south.
03:26There was no one working. There was no patients or visitors. It seemed like it was abandoned.
03:46Luckily for me there was a nurse.
03:56And she kind of beckoned me to follow her.
04:04I kind of thought that maybe someone sent her looking because I was completely lost
04:09so I followed her.
04:35To me it looked like she was looking back and checking on me, making sure I was following.
04:42We did that for a few minutes. She was always about 20 feet in front of me.
04:54But at one point I saw her turn a corner.
05:00When I turned that corner it was just like a dead end.
05:14There was only one door and I went through it.
05:26When I went through the door I expected to see the nurse and I expected to keep following
05:32her and I was in the room with the cameras waiting for my ID picture.
05:37Can I help you?
05:41Yeah, I'm here to get my photo ID.
05:43You came to the right place.
05:46I was quite surprised. I was looking around for a door. I was looking around for any explanation
05:52and there was just one fellow in there. There was no one else other than me and him in that room.
05:59It didn't make any sense.
06:01Did someone else just come in here?
06:03Nope, it's just us. It's my own.
06:10After getting my picture taken I made a joke about making it out of the hospital and joked
06:16about how it was a maze and thank goodness we have nurses to show us around.
06:21Where did the nurse go?
06:24What nurse?
06:25The one that led me here.
06:29And at that point the gentleman said that he'd heard the story about the nurse before
06:33that it was actually a common story.
06:37That when people get lost in the hospital a nurse will take them where they need to
06:41go.
06:42It's been reported to be a full bodied apparition of a nurse.
06:49It's usually on your first or second time there.
06:53Nursing is the helping profession. Nurses are wired to take care of their fellow human
06:58beings and in this case I think the phantom nurse recognized that Amanda was a colleague
07:05and wanted to help her out.
07:09This nurse is still on the job helping her fellow human beings years if not decades after
07:14her death.
07:19I definitely thought it was strange but it wasn't immediately paranormal. It wasn't to
07:26me a ghost sighting let's say. She definitely seemed human to me.
07:35A few evenings later Amanda returns to the old hospital to continue her training.
07:40Yeah so it's going to be pretty busy next week so definitely all hands on deck.
07:45Yeah sounds good.
07:46The second time I was at the hospital I was walked with someone who was going to be one
07:53of my co-workers from the front into the back area of this hospital.
08:02I thought I heard like a laughing. I swore I heard people speaking. We were the only
08:08two people in that wing that I knew of.
08:11You heard that too right? What did this floor used to be?
08:15It was an old psychiatric ward.
08:19It just really struck me as odd hearing voices and thinking people were laughing at me. It
08:28was very very disturbing.
08:33Laughing
08:37Amanda now knows there's something supernatural in this hospital.
08:42I decided I wanted to find out more. I told my co-worker of my involvement within the
08:48paranormal and in investigations and at that point she said well there's nothing I can
08:55do if you brought in a recorder so she said that would be fine.
09:08I brought in recorders and started a paranormal investigation on my breaks.
09:24I was walking down the hallway and I was about to go into one of the rooms. I heard
09:31a man yell very loud like enough to stop me and I look back.
09:40Hello?
09:42There was no one there.
09:43Is someone there?
09:45There was definitely no one else in that wing with me.
09:52And that's when I heard the laughing again like right in my ear. It was the same laughter
09:59I heard when I heard the voices.
10:07It was not a nice laugh. It was more of a like I'm going to get you like a threatening
10:13laugh.
10:19I did not feel safe at that moment. I just knew that there was something in there that
10:29doesn't like people poking around. I had to just get out of there.
10:37I ran like my life depended on it.
10:43Over the following weeks, Amanda continues her training, shadowing a co-worker around
10:48the hospital.
10:51At this point I was very conflicted. Do I continue to do the paranormal side or do I
11:01do the professional Amanda side? I chose to be more on the professional side and not go
11:09back in and investigate.
11:12How do you not get lost in this place?
11:14I worked here a long time. My first post was on this floor. It used to be the neurology
11:18department. What is it? What's wrong?
11:21While we were walking, I got the worst headache and aching and ringing in my ears.
11:30Are you okay?
11:32Let's just get out of here.
11:33Here, let me help you.
11:40The pain was unbearable. And then suddenly, it was gone.
11:45Are you okay?
11:49Yeah, I'll be okay.
11:55I would go down another hallway.
12:05I got the worst stomach pain. It just doubled me over. It just made me want to pass out.
12:18Amanda, what's wrong?
12:21My stomach.
12:23What is going on with you?
12:28What was on this floor originally?
12:31This floor? It's the old gastroenterology department.
12:38I realized that when I was having the pains in my head, I was in the original neurology
12:45unit. When I was having the stomach issues and being doubled over in pain, I was in the
12:56gastric unit. When I was hearing voices, when I was feeling like I was getting laughed at
13:01and being mocked, I was in the psychiatric unit.
13:07Every sensation that I was having was matching perfectly with what used to happen and what
13:13the patients would have experienced while they were in that hospital.
13:20It is not unusual for people in haunted locations to experience physical symptoms such as headaches,
13:26chest pain, abdominal pain. This is the body's way of trying to communicate in the only manner
13:32it knows how that something strange is afoot.
13:36As Amanda's training continues in the old hospital, things begin to take a troubling
13:41turn.
13:43It's been pretty crazy.
13:45Oh, yeah. It will definitely keep you on your toes if you're not careful.
13:56I've got to take this right away. You know the way, right?
13:59Yeah, I'll get it there.
14:01Okay, awesome.
14:06It was during one of these shadow shifts that I saw something that just rocked me to the core.
14:16I found myself at the spot where I first saw the nurse.
14:33And I was about to turn another corner.
14:37And I was about to turn another corner.
14:43A full shadow figure stepped out of one of the rooms and looked right at me.
14:53I turned around for two seconds and looked back again.
15:00And it was gone.
15:07It just didn't seem to move with our laws of movement or physics or anything.
15:18It just seemed really just wrong.
15:22There's no words to tell you how scared I was.
15:27No!
15:31Seeing the shadow was really wild. It was overwhelming.
15:37I heard a man's voice.
15:40I heard this awful laugh.
15:47I needed to get out of there. I couldn't stomach it. It was just too much.
15:56I don't think that shadow was human. I don't think that it ever has been human.
16:02What I do know is it seemed to get enjoyment from my fear.
16:12At this point I had to really think, am I angering someone?
16:17I was very conflicted about continuing to ask the questions.
16:23I didn't want to be provoking anything.
16:28I was terrified.
16:31It was not nice.
16:34I was terrified.
16:36I was terrified.
16:39It was not nice.
16:42And that's when I saw her candlelight.
16:46A glowing candle. And there was someone holding it.
16:51I could tell it was like a silhouette of a nurse.
16:55Once again, 20 feet away.
17:07And I followed that candlelight.
17:12And I followed it around corners. I followed it down the way.
17:20I kept following it until I was where I needed to be.
17:37She took the time out to help me not only navigate the hospital,
17:43not only navigate through what was a really terrifying experience.
17:50She helped me get out of something that I was not ready to be in.
17:57She could have saved my life.
17:59The training and recruitment process comes to an end.
18:03On Amanda's last day, she makes one last discovery while leaving the hospital.
18:09On the way out of the hospital, I didn't see the nurse again.
18:14But what I did see is pictures.
18:18Originally this hospital was used to train nuns to become nuns.
18:24Originally this hospital was used to train nuns to become nurses.
18:42After the entire recruitment process was over, I waited to hear if I got the job.
18:49I didn't hear anything, so I figured it was fair to say I didn't pass the evaluation.
18:57I don't know if that's necessarily a bad thing.
19:01I don't know if I need to work in that hospital.
19:19In a psychiatric wing of a downtown hospital, Rosie Bridge-Alfonso begins her career.
19:25In a psychiatric wing of a downtown hospital, Rosie Bridge-Alfonso begins her career.
19:33Yeah, I have like three.
19:35Three pieces.
19:37When I started work at the hospital, I was 23.
19:41When you're working in mental health, above and beyond medication administration,
19:45you're caring for the person, you're caring for the life of an individual that has gone through some type of trauma
19:52and is currently struggling with mental health challenges and difficulties.
19:56We're not doing such a great job.
19:59We'll be here for two years.
20:01Well, I think we can finish it tonight.
20:07I don't know, Gregor.
20:09In mental health, we don't have IV poles, we don't have casts.
20:13In mental health, we have ourselves.
20:15We are very alert and very aware of their stories.
20:19Our patients are struggling in a different way, and they are in need of care and love and support,
20:26just like anyone else with any other physical illness.
20:29Okay, Gregor, I've got to start my rounds.
20:32Time for bed, huh?
20:34Sure, Rosie. I'll keep to my schedule.
20:46At night, we would often go around with a flashlight
20:49because you don't want to turn on all the lights and wake up all the patients.
20:57When I started working at this facility, I did not notice anything strange or weird or off.
21:07Maybe a year or two into the role, I started experiencing things that I thought were strange.
21:15One of the things that I noticed is when I'd walk down a specific hallway,
21:19I always felt as if I was being followed.
21:23And I would just get a sense of eeriness,
21:26and I always felt like I had to look over my shoulder when doing rounds.
21:31There is a sense that, you know, someone's watching you.
21:39And immediately the thought was just be cautious, like just be careful.
21:45And I was.
22:06Continuing her rounds, Rosie notices another strange anomaly.
22:11There was this one room in particular that the door was difficult to open.
22:16It was fine during the day, but at night, other doors weren't like that.
22:22But you had to literally put your body against the door to get it to open,
22:26as if you were trying to push something out of the way.
22:32The first time this happened, I opened the door to look to see if there was anything behind it.
22:46Hey, Frida, you got a sec?
22:49You ever have a problem with the door for room 220?
22:53You sure you want to hear about this?
22:56Yeah.
22:58Rosie's co-worker recalls a tragic experience with one of her patients.
23:02I was making my rounds one night.
23:04I went to check on his room, but I didn't see him in his bed.
23:08So I shined the flashlight in, but then I tried to open the door, and I couldn't get it open.
23:14Yes, that's exactly what happened with me.
23:17So I finally got it open, but he was lying behind it.
23:23I called for help. I did everything I could, but...
23:26It's too late. Her patient is dead from major heart failure.
23:33You're not the only one this has happened to.
23:35A lot of the nurses believe that when they're going into the room to check at night,
23:39that the weight of the person's body is still there.
23:42I can't believe this stuff is real.
23:45I know.
23:51I shook my head.
23:53How do 30 people or 40 people who work in the same unit have the same experience?
24:00It just doesn't make sense.
24:02Rosie isn't able to move this door where a patient died.
24:06And this patient left behind a lot of things with a very heavy psychic weight to it,
24:11which resulted in a kind of residual haunting which replays itself over and over.
24:15I truly believe that there's something more happening that I can't see.
24:21Things that people just don't understand.
24:25I don't know.
24:27I don't know.
24:29I don't know.
24:31I don't know.
24:33I don't know.
24:35I don't know.
24:37I don't know.
24:39I don't know.
24:41I don't know.
24:42I don't understand.
24:51I believe that there is a spiritual world.
24:54I know it's very real.
24:56I know it's separate from the physical world.
24:58I know they interact.
25:13I was in the nursing station.
25:16And the patient had woken up and he was walking to the bathroom.
25:21Gregor, are you okay?
25:23And as I'm watching him, out of nowhere, this patient threw their head back
25:29and barreled his chest, almost like changing from a human to a werewolf.
25:35Gregor?
25:37Gregor!
25:39Gregor!
25:41At that point...
25:43Code white! Code white!
25:45I needed some assistance. Gregor!
25:54Can we get some help over here?
25:56There were two distinct voices.
26:00Two distinct personalities.
26:03I distinctly remember documenting demonic laugh.
26:08That was my obstacle.
26:10That's what it sounded like to me.
26:13Please, please don't time travel!
26:16And then finally, the person looked at me, shook his head,
26:20as if he was snapping out of something, and said...
26:23It wasn't me!
26:25He did not have control over what that event was
26:28and was able to articulate in that moment that wasn't him.
26:32I 100% believed him.
26:35Please don't time travel!
26:37However, at that moment, I did not feel safe
26:41and I wasn't sure of what that person was going to do,
26:44and so we did restrain the person...
26:46It's all right, Gregor!
26:48...to get beyond the immediate risk at that moment.
26:51It's all right, Gregor!
26:53Take a deep breath.
26:55There was no precursor to the event.
26:57It was just an immediate type of explosion.
26:59I'm sorry.
27:01Are you okay? I got this.
27:04It's okay.
27:06That moment was very frightening
27:08because I saw that person change.
27:12That change was not that individual.
27:16That change was something else.
27:18It sounded like someone else,
27:21and it moved like someone else.
27:24I'm sorry, Gregor.
27:30What I witnessed was more spiritual
27:33as opposed to psychiatric.
27:36And when dealing with the spiritual,
27:40it can be frightening.
27:42You're seeing things that don't necessarily make sense.
27:45I believe that there was something
27:48that manifested itself from that patient.
27:51Something that came out, whatever it was,
27:54it showed itself to me in that moment.
27:58Usually when an entity is engaged in oppression,
28:02it's for the purposes of trying to get
28:05those people in the area to submit to it.
28:08It's trying to gain control of its environment.
28:19The disturbing event takes its toll on Rosie.
28:22She's ready for her scapegoat.
28:24We would stagger our breaks to ensure coverage of the unit
28:28on night, and there was a break room
28:31that the nurses would go in and have a nap
28:34or read a book or whatever.
28:37And about 10 minutes after laying down,
28:42I saw the door open.
28:48There was a figure that came through the door.
28:51And it closed the door behind it.
28:54All of a sudden, it just comes over me.
28:59And then I can't move.
29:10And I couldn't move. I was fighting, fighting, fighting.
29:14I tried to call out, but I couldn't speak.
29:17I could think, but I couldn't open my mouth
29:20to call out for any help or support.
29:23And the harder I fought to get up,
29:26the harder this thing was pushing me down.
29:33This thing was pushing me down.
29:37And I couldn't move.
29:40This thing engulfed me, like came on top of me.
29:45I continued fighting for a long, long time.
29:49I was very frightened.
29:54And then finally I stopped fighting.
29:57I started to relax and I started to pray.
30:00And I started to say, God, please take this off of me.
30:03He's going to take this off of me.
30:06Immediately, this thing released me.
30:10At that point, I felt relief.
30:13I felt in control.
30:16And I said, thank you, Lord.
30:32Rosie, are you okay?
30:35I don't even know.
30:37It's okay, you can tell me.
30:40In the break room, this thing,
30:44I don't even know what it was.
30:49It's the scariest thing that's ever happened to me.
30:52You're not the only one that this has happened to.
30:55It's the same thing that happened to them in the same room.
30:59That night when that thing, spirit, whatever it was,
31:04came upon me, I truly believe it was trying to frighten me.
31:10For what reason, I don't know.
31:14Maybe to see what I would do or how I would handle it.
31:22And so, moving forward, before I went into that room
31:26or any break room, especially at night,
31:29I just prayed over my space.
31:31Dear God, please protect me, please.
31:36And I've never, for the time that I was working there,
31:39I've never had an issue since.
31:55At a rural hospital in northern Ontario,
31:5719-year-old nursing student Lucas Goldman starts his day.
32:03My second year placement, I got an amazing opportunity
32:06to do a job placement in northern Ontario
32:09at a small, really rural community.
32:15When I first came into that hospital, it was really strange.
32:18I couldn't put my finger on it. It's just a weird energy.
32:21Hello?
32:39It was an old building from over 150 years ago
32:42that was converted into a hospital.
32:45Throughout the course of time, additional workers
32:47were added, so it was almost as though Frankenstein
32:50designed this place, because each wing was kind of
32:53stitched together on odd angles.
33:01As Lucas settles into his new job,
33:04he hears some disturbing rumours from a senior colleague.
33:08The nurse that I was shadowing that day,
33:11she always had these stories about the environment
33:14that we were in, especially bed 23.
33:18It's an ICU bed.
33:20I don't know why rumours start that this bed
33:23has seen more death than any other.
33:25I don't know the statistics, but they said they've seen
33:27a lot of strange things, and strange things only happen
33:29at bed 23.
33:32So, today's the big day.
33:34We're going to move you onto the ICU floor.
33:36Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
33:40Here's one of the ICU patient rooms.
33:48Remember, we work as a team here,
33:51so feel free to ask me any questions.
33:53Of course.
33:57The IV pole in that bed would sway back and forth.
34:01What did I tell you?
34:03Yeah, weird.
34:05This bed gives me the chills.
34:07Come, let's go meet with the night nurse before she leaves.
34:18I also saw the vent directly above it,
34:21blowing cold air, moving it from side to side.
34:24Oh, that's why.
34:26It was the most naturalistic phenomena you could see,
34:29unless you combine something as simple as that
34:32with the fact that bed 23 was always filled with death.
34:38A few days later, bed 23 has a new occupant.
34:42Lucas is assigned to care for the eccentric patient.
34:45One of my most interesting patients was a woman.
34:48She was actively dying.
34:50She had a twin sister.
34:54Her twin sister sat at the corner of the bed
34:56and just kind of waited with her.
35:02I thought I'd bring her some supper in case she wants it.
35:06As her oxygenation saturation started to decrease,
35:09her blood pressure dropped as well.
35:11Viola, I'm sorry.
35:14It won't be long now.
35:16She said, if you want to say goodbye,
35:18now's the time to do it.
35:23Goodbye.
35:25Goodbye.
35:27Goodbye.
35:29Goodbye.
35:31Goodbye.
35:33Goodbye.
35:35Goodbye.
35:37Goodbye.
35:38Goodbye.
35:41Good night.
35:45It was the first time I'd ever seen a patient pass.
35:50The loss of a patient is a sad rite of passage,
35:53but Lucas gets back to work, transferring the body to the morgue
35:57so the bed can be prepared for its next occupant.
36:00The twin sister that sat at the corner of the bed
36:03watched me bag up her sister.
36:09I saw she sat there and ate the last meal
36:12that her twin sister wasn't able to finish in her life.
36:15It was keeping her memory in her.
36:28Viola, can you settle some paperwork now?
36:31Would that be okay?
36:38Okay.
36:54Lucas doesn't have to wait long for his next assignment
36:58or bed 23 for its next patient.
37:08They said I was going to be getting someone from eMERGE imminently.
37:11I don't know what imminently means,
37:13especially from an eMERGE to an ICU.
37:15So I sat there and I waited.
37:18I popped in my headphones in order to listen to some music,
37:21just something to relax.
37:25But I couldn't relax.
37:28Goodbye.
37:32I kept on hearing something behind me.
37:39Good night.
37:41Hello?
37:42No!
38:08It was the patient's sister.
38:11Whispering.
38:15I didn't know what was going on.
38:21My new patient comes in through the doors
38:24on a gurney coming into bed 23.
38:30It was the patient's twin sister.
38:35I didn't know what to expect anymore.
38:37The speed of the residual haunting,
38:40I think is tied in greatly with that aspect of the twins.
38:44You have been in a womb together.
38:48That energy is there and it's quietly snuffed out.
38:58Lucas' practice placement goes by quickly.
39:01On his final night,
39:03his friends hold a bonfire party to celebrate.
39:05But Lucas is stuck working late at the hospital.
39:08He'll soon learn that the party will be coming to him.
39:16That night we got a phone call
39:18saying the bonfire had collapsed.
39:20They were coming into the hospital.
39:23We're treating smoke inhalation burns
39:26on a limited skeleton crew in this hospital.
39:29Bringing these patients,
39:31my friends that I was supposed to be partying with that night,
39:34bringing them back to a stable situation.
39:37Hey, that was a close one.
39:39You're going to be okay, bud.
39:47After working tirelessly for hours,
39:50it's finally my chance to go on break.
39:52In the basement,
39:54we have a room that we use to go on break.
39:56A lot of old medical devices,
39:58old mattresses and stuff.
40:00That's why we go there to take naps.
40:04Felt like there was something underneath the door.
40:10Under that slit,
40:12I saw one of the windows open.
40:14I thought,
40:16what's going on?
40:18I thought,
40:19under that slit,
40:21I saw what looked like fire.
40:26I instantly thought,
40:28the hospital's burning down.
40:32I opened up the door.
40:35Nothing.
40:39I went into the hall
40:42and I saw what looked like
40:44a figure
40:46cast in embers.
40:48I was extremely scared.
40:51It made me feel like
40:53it wanted me to follow it.
40:56So I started towards that figure,
40:58walking up the hall.
41:03It brought me to my friend's room.
41:08A growing, swelling tone
41:11filled the hallway.
41:15I opened up the door.
41:17It was their heart monitor.
41:19They were coding.
41:21Code blue! Code blue! Nurse!
41:23No heart rate.
41:27I started doing chest compressions.
41:38The patient came back to life.
41:44It's a good thing you came back from break early.
41:47I know.
41:49It felt as though my friend
41:51somehow
41:53brought me back to them.
41:55Take it easy. Take it easy, big guy.
41:57They sat up.
42:01Vomited all this goo.
42:06I'd never seen anything like this before.
42:15What happened?
42:17It's okay.
42:19We're just gonna get you cleaned up, okay?
42:21She had an hearing attack.
42:23I couldn't explain it then,
42:25and I can't, for the life of me,
42:27figure out what it was now.
42:32This is more than just
42:34X causes Y.
42:39Hello?
42:43I've been a nurse for decades.
42:45I've never seen anything like this before.
42:48No!
42:50There's an emotional disconnect
42:52that we're supposed to take as nurses.
42:54We compartmentalize
42:56in order to preserve ourselves.
43:00For some people,
43:02it is necessary to say
43:04a spirit from a completely different realm
43:06had to come all the way over here.
43:12For some people, it gives them hope.
43:14For other people,
43:15it gives them immense fear.
43:17Am I trying to force
43:19an explanation out of something
43:21that potentially has no explanation
43:23just because I'm afraid of saying,
43:25I don't know?
43:27I'm okay not knowing
43:29everything all the time.
43:45I'm okay not knowing
43:47everything all the time.