Nurses And Patients Are Sharing The Creepiest Thing They've Seen In A Hospital
by Fabiana Buontempo · BuzzFeedThere is nothing fun about being in a hospital — whether you're there for yourself or a loved one. While hospitals can be sad places, they can also be rather creepy places. People on Reddit (patients, nurses, doctors) are sharing their creepiest hospital experiences, and let's just say this woman was too stunned to speak! Here's what they had to say:
1. "When I was a kid, I sang in a choir that occasionally visited a local hospital for terminal patients to sing hymns from room to room. One time, as we sang to a very sick man lying in bed, I'm pretty sure we saw him flatline right there, and our maestro quickly ushered us to the next room over. What I had seen that day didn't hit me until a few years later."
2. "I was a veterinary technician at a research/teaching hospital. Sometimes, my job was to play surgery tech/anesthetist for pigs, which was used to train doctors in laparoscopic surgical techniques. One morning, I showed up and started setting up the OR, and there was a large rubber trashcan in the room that wasn't usually there. I walked over and opened the lid to see what was in there, and it was full of preserved human arms. I put the lid back on very quickly. Apparently, there would be a lab later that afternoon on tendon repair or something."
3. "Wasn’t what I saw, but what I heard. I worked in the supply chain for a couple of years, and I was in the ER on two different occasions, about three months apart from each other, when mothers were told their kids had died. One was a baby, only a few months old, and the other was like eight years old. I can still hear the screaming wails. I still get chills down my spine when I think about it over ten years later."
4. "One time, a woman in hospice care had about ten crows outside hanging out on the ledge of her hospital room window. They all cawed briefly when she passed and took off."
5. "One night, we had a deceased patient [at the hospital]. I had to go down the back door by the morgue to let in the mortician. This mortician was 7 foot easily. He wore a fur cloak like he was Jon Snow or some shit. The entire time I escorted him to the body, he was mumbling to himself. We helped him secure the body to a gurney, and I helped him back downstairs. As he kept talking, I looked over and saw him caressing this corpse's face through the body bag. I realized he had been having a conversation with this individual the entire time, even before he had seen the body. As we came in, he had been talking to her. As I let him out of the back door, he turned and looked at me and said, 'She appreciates the care you all gave her and wants you to know it meant a lot to her.'"
6. "A patient passed away from cardiac arrest, but he kept twitching almost 40 minutes after his death. It was just muscle spasms, but no one wanted to touch him for the bag and tag, so I put on a brave face and did it. I was definitely freaking out the whole time."
7. "I was in the waiting room, and this dude came in on a gurney from an ambulance, and I don't know what he did, but he was holding three of his fingers, and when they were taking him back, he dropped one on the floor."
8. "I went down an elevator in a hospital to get to where I needed to be. I went into the elevator on the south side instead of the north side, and when I walked out of the elevator, all the lights were off except dimly lit lamps. It was dark; all the doors were shut, and there was no light from outside because I was underground. I kept walking through the area and opened like these giant doors into the waiting room. It was normal in there. It was just like going from eerie to familiar, which is so vivid in my mind."
9. "At the VA hospital, I was walking to my dad’s recovery room and saw a patient strapped to a cushioned chair in a very crowded hallway. He was screaming and banging his head on the headrest over and over again. He was just up against the wall, and nurses were moving around him like he was a regular fixture. I understand why he was strapped in, but I felt horrible for him. It stuck with me, and I had nightmares that night. A couple of weeks later, the most eerie thing would be hearing the 'code blue' over the loudspeakers while my dad was having a procedure. Then, I saw three or four doctors rush into the waiting room and go straight to the back. A few minutes later, I was called back early to see my dad. Turns out the alarm was for my dad. He died in that hospital."
10. "My sister-in-law's gallbladder got removed, and the nursing staff was showing it to other patients."
11. "I heard from a friend who works in a hospital that fairly regularly, when someone dies and needs to be relocated within the hospital, rather than putting them in a body bag and wheeling them through, which would be disconcerting for the other patients, they'll put an oxygen mask on them and move them through looking like they're still alive. It makes me wonder how many times it's actually bodies going past, and you have no idea."
12. "I was in the NICU with my son in the middle of the night; I knew he was dying, so I was already in a weird state and hadn't left the side of his incubator for days. The one on the other side of me, less than a foot away from me, had another baby inside who had only been in for a week. I heard the nurses trying to get a trace on the sats probe, but they were struggling, trying different wires and positions. Then they realized her temperature had dropped and tried to get a blood gas where they prick the baby's heel, but there was no blood."
"I honestly thought that I was witnessing the beginning of some kind of zombie apocalypse (bear in mind I was very stressed and sleep-deprived). They eventually realized that the baby was dead, and it was just the ventilator pushing her lungs in and out that made her look alive. I don't know why it took so long to figure out but it was very strange to be so close to it all. I never told anyone, but it still haunts me."
13. "I worked as a nurse, and everything was really calm on my first night shift. It was a station for stroke patients, and all 30 patients were asleep. (We were three coworkers) Suddenly, we all heard the alarm sound, which coworkers could only trigger. We rushed to the computer to see it was on a different station, the palliative care one. (She was alone at night). So I rushed over there and saw one of the patient rooms with a wide open door, and I entered."
"There was the nurse with a just deceased patient (2m and about 130kg), and I swear he was leaking “fluid” from all openings in his body. Pools of this liquid came from his ears, nose, mouth, eyes, anus….and so on. It smelled horrible and seemed to be a mixture of very thick blood and, god knows what. In the action of stopping the liquid, something got on my shirt and even in my shoe. I helped her to get the body freshened up and brought him to the basement, where the morgue was located. It took over 20 minutes to get him in the 'fridge.' The cigarette after this was the most relaxing one I’ve had in a long time."