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00:00There was a lot of rumors about the hospital being haunted.
00:12The patients, once they came there, they usually stayed there until they passed.
00:19It was like she was still right there with me.
00:22I seem to always get stuck in one location.
00:26The morgue?
00:29It was terrifying to be trapped in that dark room.
00:32It was definitely a child.
00:34So all of a sudden, like, this puzzle went flying off the shelf.
00:39It won't hurt you.
00:40It?
00:41Oh my God, she's still here.
00:44It scared the Pajibis out of me.
00:46I was terrified.
00:59Mary Jo Chudley works nights as a nurse aide at a dedicated cancer treatment facility.
01:21The cancer hospital I worked with, it was a treatment center.
01:24It was not a hospital.
01:25It didn't have an ER.
01:27So it was only for treatment.
01:30Almost finished prepping room 310.
01:31I work 7 at night to 7 in the morning.
01:34You can take your break after.
01:36Pretty quiet tonight.
01:40On that floor, there was, like, four ICU units.
01:47The patients, once they came there, they usually stayed there until they passed.
01:52It was an old hospital before they changed it into a cancer hospital.
01:57So there was always rumors that it was haunted.
02:13So it was very, very old, and a lot of nurses complained about paranormal experiences going
02:18on in that hospital.
02:25So I was working there for about a year.
02:27Nothing ever strange ever happened.
02:29Nothing paranormal ever happened there.
02:32This changes when Mary Jo is assigned the care of a terminally ill patient.
02:38Here, let me help you.
02:43No, no, I got this.
02:47I got this.
02:48Easy does it.
02:49Oh, I got you.
02:52Vivian came in because she had stage 4 cancer.
02:55It was mostly to her brain.
02:56There we go.
02:57I just took care of her.
02:58Whatever she needed anything, I did whatever she needed me to do.
02:59If she needed anything to eat, you know, just needed help with, you know, going to the bathroom,
03:00going to the shower.
03:01Let's get you tucked in here.
03:02You're always so good to me.
03:03Of course.
03:04You make it easy.
03:06Okay.
03:07Will you press that call button if you need anything, and I'll be here, okay?
03:08Oh, I got you.
03:09See you soon.
03:10Oh, I got you.
03:11Oh, I got you.
03:12Oh, I got you.
03:13Oh, I got you.
03:14Oh, I got you.
03:15Oh, I got you.
03:16Oh, I got you.
03:17Oh, I got you.
03:18Oh, I got you.
03:19I'll press that call button if you need anything, and I'll be here, okay?
03:20Oh, I got you.
03:21See you soon.
03:22When I would come into work, I would do my vitals and everything, and then I would always
03:23go in there and see how she was doing.
03:24I used to bring her a video to watch.
03:25Look what I found at the local library.
03:26Oh, you didn't.
03:27You should come play hooky with me.
03:28I'm not a hooker.
03:29I'm a good hooker.
03:30I'm a good hooker.
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03:32I'm a good hooker.
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03:38I'm a good hooker.
03:39I'm a good hooker.
03:40She liked games, and she had this one favorite puzzle, which she always wanted to play with.
03:42Oh, look at you.
03:43You work on that corner.
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04:17You work on that corner.
04:18I'm trying to beat my record of under an hour.
04:19When she first came to our center, she was the sweetest lady under the sun.
04:21She didn't have any family.
04:22She never talked about family.
04:25As Mary Jo's patient edges closer to death, there are frightening changes in her behavior.
04:37You can tell she was depressed because she knew she was dying.
04:53Vivian would be aggressive, like really aggressive.
04:56She would grab our hands, she would, you know, push us away.
05:00Vivian?
05:01Why am I here?
05:04Who brought all this stuff in here?
05:09I want to go home.
05:11Okay.
05:12Vivian.
05:13A couple times I walked in and she threw stuff at me, like the remote and, you know, she
05:17would have stuff on the sides of her bed, she would just take it and just chuck it at
05:20me.
05:21We're going to do this together.
05:22No!
05:23You're going to just fix it all with a Band-Aid?
05:25Come on, get some rest, you'll feel better.
05:28I would just pick it up and say, I love you, Vivian, and I would put it on the table and
05:31I would walk out.
05:32Because I knew that wasn't her.
05:33She wasn't doing that.
05:34It was the cancer that was making her do this stuff.
05:38I love you, Vivian.
05:39Get some rest.
05:54She stopped talking altogether, but she would just moan.
05:57She constantly moaned.
05:59All right, Vivian, we're going to give you some oxygen.
06:03Here you go.
06:04Vivian had to now have oxygen because she was having trouble breathing, her O2 was really
06:10low.
06:11Take deep breaths.
06:12That's really good.
06:13You're doing great.
06:14Do you want to give her a little more there?
06:15Everyday it had to go higher and a little bit higher.
06:16It's okay.
06:17You're going to feel better in just a moment.
06:18You're not alone.
06:19We're here for you, okay?
06:20One day I went into work and the nurse told me that she's doing really bad.
06:36Vivian, how are you doing?
06:39Vivian, can you hear me?
06:42Squeeze my hand if you can hear me.
06:49I went and checked on her.
06:51She wasn't really responding to anything I was saying or doing, and she really wasn't
06:55moving at all.
06:57Just a lot of moaning.
06:58Vivian?
06:59Vivian?
07:00Vivian?
07:01Vivian?
07:02Vivian?
07:03Vivian?
07:04Vivian?
07:05So then I went to go on my break, about 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, that's usually
07:23when we have our breaks.
07:29So all of a sudden, like, this puzzle went flying off the shelf.
07:42It wasn't a small, like, fall.
07:45It was and it went flying.
07:54And then I realized the puzzle and what puzzle it was.
08:00It was Vivian's favorite puzzle.
08:02Vivian?
08:04I knew that was her telling me, you need to come.
08:06I need you in my room.
08:12I stayed in that room until she passed.
08:15I sat next to her bed and I just grabbed her hand and was just holding it like this.
08:21Her hands were cold and they were sweaty, but I just sat there and held her to let her
08:24know that I was there.
08:28Then she took one last breath.
08:36And when she did, it was this weird energy, and I've been around many people that have
08:42died, and for some reason with her, it felt like this big electrical charge all around
09:17me.
09:25Like my hair stuck up and I'm just sitting there like, what is going on?
09:28And I'm waiting to see that second breath and nothing.
09:33But that energy in that room was still there.
09:37I got the worst chills ever.
09:42I've never felt that kind of energy when somebody passed.
09:46Like I'm getting the chills to even think about it, it was so intense.
09:49I've never had that ever happen before.
09:52It was like she was still right there with me.
09:59There are many reports from palliative care facilities of paranormal occurrences happening
10:05around those who are about to die.
10:07The men and women who work in palliative end-of-life care are the closest thing to angels on this
10:12earth, and they will often form bonds with patients, bonds that will be broken when that
10:17patient dies.
10:25I come in the next day, which was strange when I walked in to see her room because she's
10:31been there for months and she's not in that bed anymore.
10:46Mary Jo continues with her nightly routine, but it soon becomes clear that something is
10:52very wrong.
10:53So when I was working on the computer, Vivian's call light goes off.
10:59And I'm looking over like, okay, the room's empty.
11:02She's not in there anymore.
11:03Why is the bell going off?
11:15As Mary Jo approaches the room, she makes a surprising discovery.
11:28We usually have towels already set up for the next patient.
11:32They were all thrown on the floor.
11:47I literally was just in that room.
11:49There was no way that nobody could have went in there.
12:09That moment just put a shiver right up my spine.
12:23Sit back down at the computer, the computer starts to act up.
12:32It just started going haywire.
12:35And all of a sudden, the computer just went black.
12:45Mary Jo can't shake the feeling that these strange occurrences might have something to
12:50do with Vivian.
12:56I was so hesitant to go in that room.
12:59I was walking down the hall.
13:01I could hear this sound.
13:03And right away, I knew it was the oxygen.
13:06I knew it was on.
13:07It is extremely loud, like air coming out of a tire.
13:11When I walked in her room, I saw the call bell light going off.
13:18It made no sense that that oxygen was on.
13:28I could see the light on the wall that's blinking that I have to turn.
13:47I know she's not there.
13:48I could still smell her.
13:50I notice when patients have cancer, when they're in their stage four, their very last months,
13:56they have this odor.
13:58And I don't know why.
13:59And every nurse that I've worked with said the same thing.
14:02This smell of death.
14:04It's something you'll never forget once you smell it once.
14:07It's just this ungodly smell.
14:09I felt very uneasy after that.
14:12I just hear this moaning.
14:25When I heard her moan, it was like, oh my God, she's still here.
14:30She's still here.
14:37It was Vivian.
14:40Vivian?
14:43The moan started and it got louder, so I knew she was closer to me.
14:47Vivian, are you here?
14:51I can feel you.
14:53I feel like sometimes they don't know they died.
14:55Maybe because the cancer in her brain, like, you know, how you are in life is how you are
14:59in death.
15:00But she was a good person, but at the end, she didn't know what was going on.
15:03So I felt if I can talk to her, it will help her move on and not stay there because she
15:09didn't know she died.
15:10Vivian, are you here?
15:13I really wanted her not to be stuck there and wanted her to move on and just her to
15:18realize that she's passed.
15:21I had a little talk with her and said, hey, listen, you need to go.
15:25You are not here anymore.
15:27Vivian, you passed on.
15:30You're not here.
15:31Your body's not here.
15:32You're not in pain.
15:33You don't have cancer anymore.
15:35Go be free.
15:36You know, and as weird as it sounds, like you're an angel.
15:39Just go.
15:40You're free to go.
15:41You don't have cancer anymore.
15:42You're not in pain.
15:43Vivian.
15:44You're free to go.
15:45You don't have cancer anymore.
15:46You're not in pain.
15:47Vivian.
15:48You can go.
15:49And then after I said that to her and told her that she was an angel, I just felt this
15:58whole warmth.
15:59It's nothing I've ever felt.
16:01It's just like people say, like, they seek heaven when they die.
16:05It was like I felt heaven.
16:07It was this warmth and love and it's like she was trying to tell me, thank you.
16:44Mary Jo, you're heading home already?
16:48Mary Jo?
17:01And I'm like hysterically crying, but it wasn't me who was crying.
17:04I felt like that was her pain.
17:05It wasn't my pain.
17:06Like, I was experiencing what she was experiencing and the crying was from her.
17:11It wasn't from me.
17:14I just saw you leave.
17:24You came out of a patient room and walked down the hallway.
17:27No, I've been in the room the whole time.
17:31That wasn't me.
17:35I came out of the room.
17:36The nurse is like, I thought you came out of that room already.
17:40I'm like, no, the door was closed.
17:42How can I come out of the room?
17:43And she's like, no, I saw you walk out of that room just a couple minutes ago.
17:49I'm like, no, you didn't.
17:50The door was closed.
17:53And then the nurse realized, oh my God.
17:56So she basically saw Vivian walk out of that room.
18:06I truly believe I helped Vivian move on.
18:13I was there after Vivian died about four to five months.
18:18I've seen a lot of death and I just, I couldn't handle it.
18:27I don't work directly with death anymore.
18:42It's near midnight and after a shift change at the local hospital, a rookie nurse begins
18:55her rounds.
18:57It's the start of a night Sandy Bolton will never forget.
19:00How are you feeling, Mrs. Sherman?
19:03I'm feeling better.
19:04Good.
19:05I was working on a cardiac unit and as a brand new nurse, I took every shift that I could
19:12get.
19:13So I was working the midnight shift.
19:14So that would be from 11 to seven in the morning.
19:17Let's get you settled.
19:20My father died of cancer.
19:22So that led me to want to help other people and be there for them.
19:38We shut off all the lights at night so it makes it easier for the patients to sleep.
19:47They were doing a lot of renovations and our unit was the last to be done.
19:54When I started my shift, there was a very weird vibe.
19:59It just didn't feel right.
20:29There was a lot of rumors about the hospital being haunted, especially the west side, which
20:41is where I was working, but I wasn't really focused on that at all.
20:47I was focused on my job.
20:51How's Mrs. Sherman?
20:53She went back to sleep right away.
20:54Oh, that's good.
20:55That night I was working with another female nurse.
20:59Ready to review the reports on the remaining patients?
21:02Yes.
21:03Great.
21:04She had a lot more experience than I did, so we made a good team.
21:08Okay.
21:09So Mr. Chan is going to need blood work tomorrow.
21:13Shall I get started on the requisition now and then...
21:21Myself and the other nurse were going through the day's report when we started hearing an
21:27infant crying.
21:29I think maybe one of the older patients needs something.
21:33I didn't know whether it was one of the patients.
21:37Sometimes because they were mainly elderly, sometimes a crying patient can sound weird.
21:43No.
21:44No, that's not one of ours.
21:47Come on.
21:48We'll start our rounds early tonight.
21:59We do rounds three times, four times in the nighttime, but we decided to do the rounds
22:05early just to see what was going on.
22:15You check that side.
22:16I'll check this one, okay?
22:17So we started at one end and went through the whole unit.
22:36And all of our patients were sleeping quietly and no one was awake.
22:40Well, everyone's asleep.
22:43It sure looks that way.
22:46Let's head back to the station.
22:57That's Mrs. Sherman.
23:00We both rushed to see what was going on.
23:07Mrs. Sherman, what's wrong?
23:10There was a man in my room staring down at me.
23:14And the lady said to us that she had seen someone staring down at her.
23:21She was terrified.
23:44It's okay.
23:45We were just outside your room.
23:47No one is here.
23:48It was just a bad dream, okay?
23:52There's a baby crying, and then this.
23:55The patient described to us that she had heard an infant crying, which was what we were hearing
24:05that night, too.
24:12We realized that it was not dementia.
24:15This lady had her faculties, and she was genuinely scared.
24:20I'll come back to check up on you again, okay?
24:22Okay.
24:23You're okay.
24:24Okay.
24:36What do you make of all this?
24:38She just had a nightmare is all.
24:44That's weird.
24:47I look to my right, down the hall, and I see a tall figure.
25:00Look.
25:04So we were both seeing it.
25:06It wasn't just me.
25:08Sandy sees the indistinct figure of a man in what looks to be a white coat.
25:14It could be a doctor.
25:15It could be a laboratory technician.
25:17It's impossible to say for sure.
25:19What we can say is that this is the figure of someone who used to walk these hallways
25:24during his lifetime and does so after his death.
25:30He was walking forward.
25:33It was as if he belonged there, like as if this is my place.
25:37He was very sure of himself.
25:40Excuse me, doctor?
25:42Can we help you?
25:51There shouldn't be anybody in the ward except us.
25:55What do we do?
25:57We check the room.
26:00Myself and my co-worker were terrified because no one was supposed to be there.
26:07We were both going to go and investigate and ensure that our patients were safe.
26:30Let's look under the beds, okay?
26:43There was no one under the beds, so the bathroom was the last place to check.
26:51We were just so anxious.
26:53We thought someone was going to come in.
26:56We were just so anxious.
26:58We thought someone's got to be hiding in there.
27:00We counted to three before we opened up the bathroom door.
27:05One.
27:07Two.
27:09Three.
27:15There was nothing in there.
27:18What is going on?
27:20Let's just get back to the station.
27:23We went back to the nursing station and went back to our work.
27:40You cold too?
27:41Yeah, must be the heating.
27:43About three o'clock, it just started becoming very, very chilly.
27:50Do you have something to put on?
27:52Not here. I'll have to run to the lounge to grab my sweater.
27:55Okay.
27:59I'll be back in a sec.
28:00Okay.
28:02So I went down to the lounge.
28:04The lights were on, and I entered the room.
28:09So I went down to the lounge.
28:11The lights were on, and I entered the room.
28:23The lights started flickering.
28:25I got nervous.
28:27It felt weird.
28:29I didn't know what to do.
28:31I didn't know what to do.
28:33I didn't know what to do.
28:35I got nervous.
28:37It felt weird.
28:40Okay.
28:53Okay.
28:55Okay.
29:05I just kept telling myself that it's just the old part of the building,
29:10and all the electricity is not working properly.
29:13It's just an old building.
29:15It's just an old building.
29:16It's just an old building.
29:18Okay.
29:24I was walking out of the lounge.
29:26My skin was crawling.
29:29I felt goosebumps.
29:39Someone or something grabbed me.
29:43I was terrified.
29:46I ran.
29:48I ran all the way down the hall to my co-worker.
29:52Sandy, you're going to wake the patients.
29:56You look like you've seen a ghost.
29:58And she could see by the look on my face that something was not right.
30:03I was leaving the lounge, and someone grabbed my shoulder.
30:10Sandy, look at me.
30:12You're going to be okay.
30:15It won't hurt you.
30:16It? What?
30:18Come on. I'll explain. Come on.
30:21She actually told me it's happened before,
30:24so don't get really scared because no one's really been hurt.
30:32If you know something, you need to tell me now.
30:37I felt it too.
30:39A presence.
30:42Before this was the cardiology wing, it used to be the obstetrics ward.
30:47And rumor has it that a doctor died here one night.
30:51Some people think he's still here.
30:55What? Why didn't you tell me this before?
30:57Because you don't have to worry about it.
30:59He's never hurt anybody.
31:02I don't think I can do this.
31:04Just drink your tea. We're safe here.
31:08It started getting really cold.
31:13I'm still cold.
31:15You could grab a blanket from over there.
31:26I even grabbed one of the blankets and put it on me because it was frigid.
31:38And all of a sudden, the charts from the side of us just came flying.
31:52I just started freaking out. I was so terrified.
31:58Stop! Make it stop! Please!
32:01Stop! Make it stop! Please!
32:12We were both just terrified.
32:17We both screamed. We yelled like children.
32:31No!
32:51How do you explain that? How do you explain that you've seen something
32:56and yet there's no one? Nothing?
33:03It's easy to misinterpret the actions of some frustrated, aggressive spirits
33:08as being attempts to harm us,
33:10when sometimes they are reaching out with the only means at their disposal.
33:18They're frustrated, so they throw things, they make noises, they yell, they scratch,
33:23all in an attempt to tell us that they are still here.
33:34The next day, I spoke to my manager.
33:37I never wanted to work on that unit again.
33:41I've just never been that afraid.
34:12It's Friday night, but instead of hanging out with her friends,
34:16teenager Denise Burroughs is working the night shift.
34:23Thanks, Denise.
34:25My position in the hospital was transportation.
34:27If they needed stretchers picked up in certain things,
34:30I would be there.
34:32If they needed a stretcher, I would be there.
34:35If they needed a stretcher, I would be there.
34:39If they needed stretchers picked up in certain things or wheelchairs collected,
34:43we would do that, but my primary responsibility
34:46was mainly moving patients in and out and throughout the hospital.
34:50I'll take it from here.
34:52They're done prepping Miss Lee's room,
34:54so if you want to go up to PACU and pick her up.
34:56Okay, thanks.
34:57And check her wrist ID this time, make sure we have the right patient.
35:00Yes, right, I will.
35:02Right after that, if you just want to head over to Emerge,
35:04they're prepping a body for you.
35:06Again?
35:08This is a hospital, Denise.
35:14Oh, you're forgetting something.
35:21I seemed to always get stuck in one location in particular
35:26where they would send me, and that was usually the morgue.
35:31There was a policy that when you did this position,
35:34you should usually do it with another person
35:36simply because of the weight of the stretcher.
35:40However, there was always shortage of staff,
35:43especially on the Friday and Saturday shifts.
35:46Denise.
36:03A short-staffed hospital often means working alone,
36:06so it's a rare chance for some fun
36:08when Denise has a co-worker to accompany her.
36:12This was probably the once and only time
36:14I can actually get somebody to go with me
36:16as long as I wasn't going to the morgue.
36:19We were just taking the wheelchairs from one location to the other,
36:23and there was that closet space,
36:25and it was no more than maybe ten more steps
36:30where the morgue was at the time.
36:34It's really creepy in here.
36:36Let's put these chairs away and get out of here.
36:45We had walked in to make room,
36:48and that's when that door decided to close.
36:54The door slammed shut all the way.
36:57No way.
36:59The door is locked.
37:02Hey!
37:03Who locked the door? Let us out!
37:06What's going on?
37:07Open the door!
37:09It's locked!
37:11It's locked!
37:12What's going on?
37:13Open the door already!
37:14I can't. It's locked from the outside.
37:17It was pitch black in there.
37:19We really couldn't see each other too well.
37:23Hey! Who found the door?
37:25It was terrifying to be trapped in that dark room.
37:30There was no one around ever in that hallway.
37:32It was just a miracle that somebody actually walked by.
37:36What the hell is going on in here?
37:38We're short-staffed upstairs.
37:40The door, it closed and it locked.
37:42Okay.
37:47Okay, well, get back to work.
37:49Pretty much got accused of playing around in the hospital, but we weren't.
37:53They couldn't figure out how we got locked in there.
37:58But Denise has little time to recover from her ordeal
38:01before she's hit with another unenviable task.
38:04Hey, Denise.
38:06Could you head up to 705?
38:08They've got a body ready for you to take to the morgue.
38:11Can it wait till Josie comes back?
38:14Let's not keep them waiting, yeah?
38:18There was nobody else to go down,
38:20and so it was my responsibility to take this patient from the floor
38:24and bring them down to the morgue.
38:31As the elevator was making its way down, it suddenly stopped.
38:36There had been times before where the elevators would get hung up
38:39and sometimes you would get caught between floors.
38:44I'm in here and getting a little apprehensive about what's going on.
38:55They were sending maintenance to where I was,
38:58but by the time anybody got there,
39:01the elevator started to move on its own.
39:03The elevator started to move on its own.
39:22It was kind of just eerie, you know?
39:24It was a very sad place to be.
39:29It was very cold.
39:33I was able to see my breath.
39:36The temperature went from one extreme to the other very quickly.
39:49It was definitely a child.
39:51It was definitely a child.
40:02The door didn't want to open,
40:04and I kind of panicked for a second
40:06because I thought I was stuck in the morgue.
40:09There was nobody else around. It was dead quiet.
40:13It scared the Pajibis out of me.
40:16There are many accounts of morgues being haunted,
40:18which makes complete sense when you consider the sheer volume
40:21of dead bodies that are moved in and out of those locations,
40:25usually in hospital basements.
40:27What happens to the spirits of the dead bodies
40:30when they're moved in and out of the morgue?
40:33What happens to the spirits of the newly deceased?
40:36Some move on to the next life,
40:38but others seem to linger,
40:40unwilling or uncertain of how they can move on.
40:47It's a new shift,
40:49but Denise can't forget what she saw the night before.
40:54Whatever this was, it wanted me to see it.
40:58I made sure I had a key,
41:00and I went down there.
41:06And I hesitated for a second,
41:08but I went ahead and I opened it,
41:10and I went in.
41:22I was in the room,
41:24and I opened it.
41:35I felt fear,
41:37but I also felt other feelings.
41:40I just felt like I needed to go back in there.
41:49I took the sheet, and I uncovered the bed.
41:52And I identified exactly what I saw the night before
41:56that was in that full-body apparition.
41:59And when I looked in the bed,
42:01I noticed a blanket,
42:03and the blanket was down towards her feet.
42:08At that moment,
42:10I got a very overwhelming feeling of emotion.
42:13I was very sad.
42:15It really just hit home.
42:18And I just felt very compelled
42:21to reach in and to take my hand
42:24and to pull that blanket up over her.
42:29Many kids have a security blanket.
42:31It is their shield against all the scary things of this world,
42:35particularly strangers, things to fear.
42:38That blanket was the little girl's protection
42:41against the bad things,
42:43and she clings to it even in death.
42:48There was a sense of peace
42:50knowing that I had done the right thing by covering her,
42:54and I think that might have been what she wanted all along.
42:58I'm cold, cover me.
43:00And that's exactly what I did.
43:04I, without a doubt,
43:06felt that that was the beginning of something else for me
43:09because I had always been very sensitive,
43:12able to pick up on people's feelings,
43:14and I was able to just be more in tune
43:17than maybe the average person.
43:20For me, it was a very eye-opening experience,
43:24but it was something that I almost felt like I needed to experience.
43:29It was the beginning of something else for me.
43:44© transcript Emily Beynon