Haunted Hospitals (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode #1.1 - full transcript
- [Woman] Nursing was my life.
- [Man] I wanted to help others.
- But unexplainable
things started happening.
- I was completely
unprepared for the terror.
- There was a spiritual battle going on
between good and evil.
- It's hard to fathom until
you're in it yourself.
(dramatic music)
(screaming)
(calm music)
- [Narrator] On their first day,
nursing assistants Garrett
Foutch and Maria Weaver
are taken on a grand tour
of their new workplace,
a large rural hospital.
- This job was very important.
I had just got my new car,
so I had a lot of financial
responsibility at the time.
- I was fresh out of high school,
so my first job as a
nursing assistant was great
to building my career,
building my financial status.
A great part about my job was
that I did get to work with
my boyfriend at the time,
who is now my husband Garrett.
- [Garrett] Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too.
Welcome.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- We worked side by side on
the medical surgical floor.
- [Narrator] Most of Maria's work is
in the hospital's medical records room,
located in a dark secluded
section of the hospital.
(growling)
- It was a very dark, dark room.
And I had to go up there on
a constant basis by myself.
It felt like there was eyes
on the back of your head
the whole duration of your time in there.
It was a very odd and unexplainable thing
that the room was chilly
in the mid-summertime,
where it should not have been cold at all.
- One of the most
sensitive ghost detectors
is believed to be the human body
and we're not entirely sure why
but some people seem to be able
to register the presence of the paranormal
and they feel it in terms
of chills and gooseflesh
and a racing heart.
(ominous music)
- At any given time, I
was definitely expecting
to see something pull out of the shadows.
- [Narrator] Maria isn't alone
in finding the hospital more
than just a little unsettling.
- I was making my rounds one night,
making sure that all the patients
were safely in their beds
where they belonged and had
everything that they needed.
And I happened upon a room
where I heard a lot of noisy static.
(static crackling)
Sounded like a TV was on.
- [Interviewer] Was there
anybody in that room?
- There were no patients in
that room at that present time.
But sometimes staff members,
they would go into rooms,
turn the TVs on, watch them.
So I went in and I tried to shut it off.
I tried pressing the power
button on the remote.
The TV would not turn off.
I was a little bit confused by this.
I chalked it up to an electrical error.
I tried turning the television off
with the button on the TV.
This didn't work.
So my last option was to
unplug the TV from the wall.
(TV pops)
- [Narrator] What happens next
(static crackling)
defies all reason.
- It certainly was off-putting
because there was no way
for me to explain that.
- [Narrator] In the filing room,
Maria faces a much more ominous threat.
- I could feel that there
was something malevolent
in that room.
Every time I had to go in there,
it was just that knot in my throat
and every hair standing on end.
It was almost like something was there,
watching your every move
and just waiting for that
moment to pounce on you.
- [Interviewer] So why
even go in that room?
- Because it was part of
my job duties at the time.
- [Narrator] What began as a
strange feeling takes on shape.
(ominous music)
- Something finally did
from the shadows float across the room.
I was freaked right the hell out.
- [Narrator] Suddenly, the shadow is gone.
- It scared the living
daylights right out of me.
- [Interviewer] Did you report this?
- I didn't report this to anyone.
I kept it to myself because
I didn't want anyone
who I worked with to think I was crazy.
- [Narrator] But in
the safety of her home,
Maria opens up to Garrett.
- Really strange things keep
happening to me at work.
- [Narrator] Maria is relieved
to find Garrett shares her fear.
- There were plenty of things
that I was encountering
that I was not prepared for
that did not make a
whole lot of sense to me.
But I had no idea how
horrific things would get.
(elevator dings)
- [Narrator] Back at the hospital,
Maria tries hard to focus on her work.
Especially in the filing room.
But just outside the door,
something catches her eye.
A wall covered with photos
of former hospital staff.
- And there was one
picture of this gentleman.
(ominous music)
The eyes were glowing red.
I was wondering if there was an exit sign,
the red lights reflecting off the glass,
reflecting into the eyes,
making them look red.
Or was my vision blurry for some reason?
There were no red exit
lights near the picture.
It was almost a feeling of warning.
Something did not want
me in that room anymore.
- [Narrator] Nursing
assistants Garrett and Maria
are threatened by an evil
force in the hospital.
(ominous music)
Maria ignores the ominous warning signs
and continues into the filing room.
- [Interviewer] In retrospect, do you wish
that maybe you had taken
that warning seriously?
- Yes.
- [Narrator] Provoked by her presence,
a dark shape emerges from the shadows.
- I'd started to feel a presence in there.
I did not feel safe.
- There are a number of cases on record
in which spirits are a
real danger to the living.
(Maria gasping)
- I felt a hand on my throat
as if someone was coming up from behind
and just trying their
hardest to make it hard.
- Dark entities behave like animals
who like to inflict maximum
carnage upon the living.
(Maria screaming)
- [Narrator] Maria breaks free and runs.
- I felt pure terror.
I just got the (beeps) out of there.
On the way home, I was very freaked out.
I was not in any mindset
to be driving home at all.
I was scared out of my mind.
(rustling)
When I got home, there
was some doubt in my mind.
Am I imagining all of this?
(rattling)
Am I crazy or did this truly happen?
(Maria screams)
Because that's when I realized
whatever was in the medical
records room followed me home.
- These entities like to
latch onto a living victim,
just as they would
recognize a potential source
of free energy.
- I poked the beast in the cage
and now I'm paying for it.
- [Narrator] Terrified by the situation,
Maria has no idea how to
break the news to Garrett.
Until she no longer has to.
- [Garrett] Maria?
- [Maria] I looked up and saw this shadow
flitting from one end of
the wall to the other.
- It was something that
I couldn't explain.
I was scared.
- It was a moment of terror.
- [Garrett] I felt whatever
this was was going to attack me.
(crashes)
- These dark demonic
entities feed on fear.
The more terrified the victim
is, the more they like it.
It's like blood and water to a shark.
- [Narrator] Then, it vanishes.
- I felt very guilty because I knew
that the reason the demon
was there was my fault
for provoking it.
- [Narrator] Then,
(owl hooting)
the presence enters Garrett's unconscious.
- I had a dream that was
very disturbing to me.
There was this large demonic
creature staring right at me
with these large glowing yellow eyes.
And it wanted me to know that it was there
and that it was there for me.
(growling)
When I woke up, I could
have swore for a moment
that in the corner of the
room, the face was still there.
And then it disappeared.
That was just undescribably horrific.
I was truly terrified.
- As the entity started
to invade Garrett's dreams,
now he finds himself afraid
while he's asleep as
well as while he's awake.
This just adds more potential energy
for this entity to use.
- [Narrator] The next morning,
Garrett and Maria are faced
with a terrifying choice.
- This was now a question
of life and death.
This was something that
we had to get rid of.
- [Narrator] Maria contacts an
exorcist through her friend.
- I realized I was in way over my head
and had to reach out to
someone who had experience
with dealing with these
types of situations.
- [Narrator] The exorcist
lives out of state,
so she calls Maria to
consult over the phone.
- Hi.
We're ready.
- She commanded the spirit to leave.
- [Exorcist] Unwanted
spirit, leave this house.
You do not belong here.
- [Narrator] Garrett and
Maria prepare the house
for the cleansing.
- Sage is believed to
act as a cleansing agent
in spiritual cases.
(static crackling)
- You can certainly feel a shift
of the atmosphere in the room.
It felt like it was trying to fight back
against what we were trying to do.
- [Exorcist] And that you may not return.
- [Maria] It was trying to terrorize me
to break me down mentally and emotionally
so it could win my house over against me.
- [Garrett] I felt that
we were both under attack.
- Malicious intent.
(crashes)
I was shaken, yet trying to
be very strong and commanding.
Bless this house with love and light.
Inside, I was scared all to hell.
- [Narrator] Nursing
assistants Garrett and Maria
are terrorized by a demon
that follows them home.
(ominous music)
- I felt like something
was pushing down on me,
almost trying to crush me.
(gasps)
- There was a spiritual battle going on
between good and evil.
- [Narrator] The battle finally ends.
- It was like everything
that had been frightening us was gone.
Like a stone had been lifted.
- Finally, we had our home back.
- [Narrator] The next day,
the couple returns to their
work routine at the hospital.
- It was such a relief.
Things were back to normal.
But that wasn't the case at all.
(demon growling)
- This demon had returned
to the filing room.
- Once its ties were
severed with their home,
the entity went back to the
place it was most familiar with,
and that was the hospital.
- [Narrator] To continue
working in the filing room,
Maria develops a simple but
effective coping strategy.
She ignores it.
- This demon fed off my emotions,
it fed off my fear,
so I did not want to give
it an inch to give it
so it could come back
home with me ever again.
- [Narrator] Though they make peace
with the hospital's paranormal forces,
Maria and Garrett leave soon after,
move out of state, and get married.
- We left the hospital behind
to pursue our dream of
moving to the state of Maine.
- To better our lives in general,
we always wanted to move up there.
- [Narrator] But for those left behind,
life on the hospital's
second floor carries on.
- [Interviewer] You think
the demon's still there?
- I suspect that that demon
is still in that file room,
quite happily so.
(ominous music)
- [Interviewer] Okay, ready, Eileen?
Okay, so take me back to
the start of your story.
- I was working at a
skilled nursing facility.
I was driven towards the medical field.
I went into ambulance
and then I went to work at a hospital
and now I'm a nurse.
And now I've found exactly
where it is I need to be.
- [Narrator] Other than her job,
Eileen's entire world revolves
around her close-knit family.
- Hello?
Oh, hi, Mom.
- [Narrator] For whom she's never more
than a phone call away.
- What is it, what's wrong?
My mother called me to tell me
that my aunt had gone into surgery
to have a tumor removed from her heart
and the prognosis was
kind of up in the air.
Okay.
- [Narrator] As a nurse,
the family relies on Eileen
to reassure them.
- Of course I'll go see her.
I knew in going to see her
that there was going to be an expectation
that I was going to get asked questions
as to what I thought
was transpiring with her
and maybe what her overall
prognosis might be.
Okay, I'll call you when I get there.
Bye, Mom.
- [Narrator] With her
aunt in another city,
Eileen grabs the first flight out
and arrives later that evening.
She's immediately struck
by an ominous feeling.
(ominous music)
- My aunt was a
full-blooded Italian woman,
probably as feisty as they come.
And growing up, I spent
a lot of time with her.
- Oh.
Hello.
- Hi, Auntie.
How you doing?
- I'm fine.
They're lovely, thank you.
- [Narrator] Eileen's
daughter is recently married.
- She had 10,000 questions
about the wedding
and wanted to see a few pictures.
- Oh, beautiful.
- Suddenly, I can feel a
definite temperature change
occurring in the room.
Naturally, you look
around for an explanation.
To see if maybe the air conditioner is on.
But it was just fan air,
it wasn't cold air going.
- [Narrator] As the temperature
inexplicably plunges,
so does her aunt's condition.
(ominous music)
(aunt coughing)
- Here.
She had these very strange coughing fits
that to the point would scare you
because they were actually
taking her breath away.
I'd get up and get her some water,
and I would get it to her
and she would stop coughing.
- I'm fine.
- [Narrator] Eileen's
trained eye knows otherwise.
- Her appearance and her
demeanor kind of led me
to believe that she has cancer
and that the cancer had already
spread through her system.
- [Narrator] Her sadness
turns to sudden terror.
- Above her head, at the head of the bed,
there's this shadow.
No one is in the room
and I don't know what it is,
don't know where it's coming from.
But it's just getting darker and darker.
I'm trying very, very hard
to make out what this is.
As I'm looking at it,
I can see more of a head start to appear
and almost kind of a hood.
I'm starting to get very, very nervous.
I was frozen in my chair
and I could feel myself shaking.
Then I see these other outlines,
looking like wings.
(Eileen screams)
I am scared to death right now.
I have never seen anything so
foreboding in all of my life.
(Eileen screams)
- [Narrator] Nurse Eileen
Perfette comes face to face
with a terrifying entity.
- In paranormal lore,
these winged creatures seem
to have great significance.
For example, in the Abrahamic religions,
we see different entities
coming around called angels
in various different forms.
- Oh my god, oh my god.
I had no idea what it wanted,
if it wanted something from me
or if it wanted something from my aunt.
What do you want?
- [Entity] Her.
- At that moment, my aunt goes
into this coughing fit again.
(aunt coughing)
She's coughing and coughing.
Her face is getting blue.
And it puts its hands on
either side of her head
and she stops coughing.
I didn't know what he was going to do
but I was worried that maybe
he was going to hurt her.
I'm going back to that
minute and I'm getting all,
I'm all worked up.
- [Interviewer] It's okay, take your time.
- Okay.
- [Interviewer] Do you wanna continue?
- All right.
I said.
Who are you?
And he said to me, "You
should know who I am."
At that moment, I was taken
back a few years prior
to a surgery that I had had.
- [Narrator] Hovering close to death,
Eileen was also visited.
- [Entity] It's your time.
- This thing asked me if I was ready.
And I said "Yes, I'm ready,
"but I just have one request."
I said "Let me see my
family one last time."
And after I made that
request, I had an experience
where I actually left myself.
I actually left my hospital bed.
- Astral projection is the idea
that we can actually project
our consciousness somewhere else.
People who have reported
being close to death
oftentimes get these experiences.
- [Narrator] The entity
leads her out of her room,
through the hospital,
and transports her back home.
- I was walking through my house,
sink full of dishes in my kitchen.
I make my way upstairs.
I go in, I check on my
girls, I check on my son,
I check on my husband.
I was completely at peace
with everything that I saw.
- [Narrator] With Eileen's visit done,
she's taken back to her hospital room.
As she prepares to die, the
entity has a change of heart.
It's not her time.
- [Woman] Eileen.
Eileen, wake up.
Eileen.
- [Eileen] The next thing I notice is
that I have someone slapping my arm.
- [Narrator] When Eileen comes to,
all her vital signs are back to normal.
- I remember you.
- [Entity] She won't recover.
- [Eileen] Who are you?
- [Entity] Azrael.
(Eileen gasping)
- He told me he was the angel of death.
The grim reaper.
- [Narrator] Nurse Eileen
Perfette is haunted
by a terrifying encounter
with the angel of death.
- There's multiple
different stories and lore
around the grim reaper.
One theory is that he's there
to kill you and take you away.
- When I actually got to see his face,
he was very, very scary.
And I felt almost like
I wanted to throw up
because it was hideous.
The thing said "Don't be afraid."
He said "I am here to help her transition
"from life to death."
- Another interpretation
about the grim reaper is
that he's there to assist you.
In this case,
Azrael seems to be a
extremely benevolent entity.
He's considered one of
the seven archangels.
So as frightening as the
imagery of Azrael is,
he seems to be there to
help her aunt pass over.
- [Narrator] Without
warning, he disappears.
And returns just as suddenly.
(Eileen gasps)
(aunt coughing)
- [Azrael] She will die peacefully.
We will meet again.
(Eileen crying)
- And he just faded away,
faded right back into the wall.
My aunt died very, very peacefully.
And no one could really ask for more.
- [Narrator] Eileen alerts the
nurses of her aunt's passing.
She leaves shaken by the experience.
And the final moment haunts her.
- [Azrael] We will meet again.
- I really don't know
what the future is gonna
hold for me now after this.
It ended on a very, very
peaceful but questionable note.
(ominous music)
(calm music)
(sighs)
- That was a long drive.
- Sure was, but we are here.
- [Narrator] Screenwriter Noah
Evslin and his wife arrive
for an overnight trip to
visit his grandmother.
- My grandmother had recently
moved into a nursing home
about 21/2 hours north of New York City.
I was very close with my grandmother.
We come from a family of writers.
She was a writer, her
husband was a writer,
and my whole life was spent
trying to emulate her.
See you in the morning, Nana.
- [Interviewer] So you actually
stayed at her nursing home?
- Yeah, there was a room that
was available for guests.
- [Narrator] Located close
to his grandmother's room,
the accommodations are
convenient but also unusual.
- There was a little living
area, everything was clean,
and a comfortable looking bed.
I realized that this room was identical
to the room that my grandmother lived in.
- [Noah's Wife] Nana's okay.
- Yeah, she's doing good.
We went to sleep at about 10:30, 11,
knowing we had to get up early
to have breakfast with my grandmother.
I made a joke, wondering did
somebody recently die here
and that's why the room is open?
- [Narrator] A joke that
doesn't go over so well.
- (laughs) It was just a joke.
- It wasn't funny.
- Then we went to sleep.
(ominous music)
At some point in the middle of the night,
I woke up to the worst smell
that I've ever smelt in my life
and my eyes were burning.
It smelt like burning onions.
I felt nervous because I
thought where's the fire?
I looked around the room,
there was no visual signs of smoke.
There was no alarms, no
one running in the halls.
There was just no sound.
The whole facility was asleep.
- [Narrator] With each passing second,
the horrible smell gives way
to something even more vile.
- It smelled like a rotten carcass,
but not only rotten,
but like rancid rotten.
- In the case of a haunting,
you will get like the smell of death,
something that's rotting
and things like that.
And it's because they
haven't crossed over yet.
- I think everyone's experienced
what a dead animal smells like.
This wasn't dead animal
day one, two, or three.
This was dead animal like
at its peak of pungency.
- [Interviewer] So how long would you say
that that smell persisted?
- It probably lasted, it felt like to me
that the smell lasted around five minutes.
And then it just started
to like fade away.
So I went back to sleep.
And I was lying in the bed
when something startled me.
There was a man standing
in the room, staring at me.
I was terrified.
- [Narrator] Screenwriter
Noah Evslin is shocked awake
by the dead stare of a shadowy figure.
- He had a red flannel shirt on,
which matched his red
hair and bright red beard.
My first thought was that
maybe this was a resident
who had entered the room.
But the room was locked,
so how did this person get in here?
And also the man was significantly
younger than a resident
and it made me wonder if this
may be the son of a resident
who still had a key and expected
to see his father in bed
and suddenly is looking at me.
I was filled with adrenaline.
Honey!
I woke up my wife.
- [Noah's Wife] What's wrong?
- And I said "There's a man
in the corner of the room."
And when she turned to look,
he was gone.
It was, it was just.
- [Interviewer] So your
wife never saw him?
- My wife never saw him.
My wife only saw me, probably more scared
than she's probably ever
seen me, then until today.
She knew that I had seen
something really horrific
and I said "I think I just saw a ghost.
"I don't have any other explanation
"for the thing that I just saw."
(ominous music)
And so at 2:30 in the
morning, we got our stuff,
exited the retirement home.
We just weren't gonna
sleep in that room anymore
and not knowing what the intent
of the thing is in the room,
whether it was still there.
We drove back to New York City.
That's how scared we were.
- [Narrator] The next morning,
he calls his grandmother.
- She thought I was
calling her from the room,
saying let's go to breakfast,
and then I had to sort
of sheepishly explain
that we had driven all the way back
to New York City that night.
And then I asked her,
"You told me that this
was kind of like a hotel
"where they had rooms for rent,
"but it's not a hotel, is it?"
And she said "No, not really,
"just rooms open up every now and then."
And I said "By rooms opening up,
"do you mean somebody died in the room?"
And she said "Well, yes,
that's why they open up."
The next question I asked was
"The person who died in
my room, was it a man?"
And she said yes.
The man's name was Gary who
used to live in that room
and I was describing the
red hair and red beard
and then I asked her
would him be wearing a red
plaid shirt make sense?
She said "When I knew him,
"he had a white beard and white hair
"but I've definitely seen pictures of him
"as a younger man and he
had a red beard, red hair."
He wore a lot of plaid
and he used to be a hunter in the area.
His expression when he was looking at me
is frozen in my mind.
He seemed confused and sad.
I felt like he was confused
because he didn't know he was dead
and that somebody was sleeping in his bed.
- For a spirit that's recently passed,
that definitely could lead
to confusion on their part.
They don't know what's going on.
Time is different in the spirit
world than it is in ours.
It's not linear.
You're not bound by the physical world,
the physical realm anymore.
- That experience was so terrifying
that I decided we were never gonna do
an overnight trip there again.
(ominous music)
- [Man] I wanted to help others.
- But unexplainable
things started happening.
- I was completely
unprepared for the terror.
- There was a spiritual battle going on
between good and evil.
- It's hard to fathom until
you're in it yourself.
(dramatic music)
(screaming)
(calm music)
- [Narrator] On their first day,
nursing assistants Garrett
Foutch and Maria Weaver
are taken on a grand tour
of their new workplace,
a large rural hospital.
- This job was very important.
I had just got my new car,
so I had a lot of financial
responsibility at the time.
- I was fresh out of high school,
so my first job as a
nursing assistant was great
to building my career,
building my financial status.
A great part about my job was
that I did get to work with
my boyfriend at the time,
who is now my husband Garrett.
- [Garrett] Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too.
Welcome.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- We worked side by side on
the medical surgical floor.
- [Narrator] Most of Maria's work is
in the hospital's medical records room,
located in a dark secluded
section of the hospital.
(growling)
- It was a very dark, dark room.
And I had to go up there on
a constant basis by myself.
It felt like there was eyes
on the back of your head
the whole duration of your time in there.
It was a very odd and unexplainable thing
that the room was chilly
in the mid-summertime,
where it should not have been cold at all.
- One of the most
sensitive ghost detectors
is believed to be the human body
and we're not entirely sure why
but some people seem to be able
to register the presence of the paranormal
and they feel it in terms
of chills and gooseflesh
and a racing heart.
(ominous music)
- At any given time, I
was definitely expecting
to see something pull out of the shadows.
- [Narrator] Maria isn't alone
in finding the hospital more
than just a little unsettling.
- I was making my rounds one night,
making sure that all the patients
were safely in their beds
where they belonged and had
everything that they needed.
And I happened upon a room
where I heard a lot of noisy static.
(static crackling)
Sounded like a TV was on.
- [Interviewer] Was there
anybody in that room?
- There were no patients in
that room at that present time.
But sometimes staff members,
they would go into rooms,
turn the TVs on, watch them.
So I went in and I tried to shut it off.
I tried pressing the power
button on the remote.
The TV would not turn off.
I was a little bit confused by this.
I chalked it up to an electrical error.
I tried turning the television off
with the button on the TV.
This didn't work.
So my last option was to
unplug the TV from the wall.
(TV pops)
- [Narrator] What happens next
(static crackling)
defies all reason.
- It certainly was off-putting
because there was no way
for me to explain that.
- [Narrator] In the filing room,
Maria faces a much more ominous threat.
- I could feel that there
was something malevolent
in that room.
Every time I had to go in there,
it was just that knot in my throat
and every hair standing on end.
It was almost like something was there,
watching your every move
and just waiting for that
moment to pounce on you.
- [Interviewer] So why
even go in that room?
- Because it was part of
my job duties at the time.
- [Narrator] What began as a
strange feeling takes on shape.
(ominous music)
- Something finally did
from the shadows float across the room.
I was freaked right the hell out.
- [Narrator] Suddenly, the shadow is gone.
- It scared the living
daylights right out of me.
- [Interviewer] Did you report this?
- I didn't report this to anyone.
I kept it to myself because
I didn't want anyone
who I worked with to think I was crazy.
- [Narrator] But in
the safety of her home,
Maria opens up to Garrett.
- Really strange things keep
happening to me at work.
- [Narrator] Maria is relieved
to find Garrett shares her fear.
- There were plenty of things
that I was encountering
that I was not prepared for
that did not make a
whole lot of sense to me.
But I had no idea how
horrific things would get.
(elevator dings)
- [Narrator] Back at the hospital,
Maria tries hard to focus on her work.
Especially in the filing room.
But just outside the door,
something catches her eye.
A wall covered with photos
of former hospital staff.
- And there was one
picture of this gentleman.
(ominous music)
The eyes were glowing red.
I was wondering if there was an exit sign,
the red lights reflecting off the glass,
reflecting into the eyes,
making them look red.
Or was my vision blurry for some reason?
There were no red exit
lights near the picture.
It was almost a feeling of warning.
Something did not want
me in that room anymore.
- [Narrator] Nursing
assistants Garrett and Maria
are threatened by an evil
force in the hospital.
(ominous music)
Maria ignores the ominous warning signs
and continues into the filing room.
- [Interviewer] In retrospect, do you wish
that maybe you had taken
that warning seriously?
- Yes.
- [Narrator] Provoked by her presence,
a dark shape emerges from the shadows.
- I'd started to feel a presence in there.
I did not feel safe.
- There are a number of cases on record
in which spirits are a
real danger to the living.
(Maria gasping)
- I felt a hand on my throat
as if someone was coming up from behind
and just trying their
hardest to make it hard.
- Dark entities behave like animals
who like to inflict maximum
carnage upon the living.
(Maria screaming)
- [Narrator] Maria breaks free and runs.
- I felt pure terror.
I just got the (beeps) out of there.
On the way home, I was very freaked out.
I was not in any mindset
to be driving home at all.
I was scared out of my mind.
(rustling)
When I got home, there
was some doubt in my mind.
Am I imagining all of this?
(rattling)
Am I crazy or did this truly happen?
(Maria screams)
Because that's when I realized
whatever was in the medical
records room followed me home.
- These entities like to
latch onto a living victim,
just as they would
recognize a potential source
of free energy.
- I poked the beast in the cage
and now I'm paying for it.
- [Narrator] Terrified by the situation,
Maria has no idea how to
break the news to Garrett.
Until she no longer has to.
- [Garrett] Maria?
- [Maria] I looked up and saw this shadow
flitting from one end of
the wall to the other.
- It was something that
I couldn't explain.
I was scared.
- It was a moment of terror.
- [Garrett] I felt whatever
this was was going to attack me.
(crashes)
- These dark demonic
entities feed on fear.
The more terrified the victim
is, the more they like it.
It's like blood and water to a shark.
- [Narrator] Then, it vanishes.
- I felt very guilty because I knew
that the reason the demon
was there was my fault
for provoking it.
- [Narrator] Then,
(owl hooting)
the presence enters Garrett's unconscious.
- I had a dream that was
very disturbing to me.
There was this large demonic
creature staring right at me
with these large glowing yellow eyes.
And it wanted me to know that it was there
and that it was there for me.
(growling)
When I woke up, I could
have swore for a moment
that in the corner of the
room, the face was still there.
And then it disappeared.
That was just undescribably horrific.
I was truly terrified.
- As the entity started
to invade Garrett's dreams,
now he finds himself afraid
while he's asleep as
well as while he's awake.
This just adds more potential energy
for this entity to use.
- [Narrator] The next morning,
Garrett and Maria are faced
with a terrifying choice.
- This was now a question
of life and death.
This was something that
we had to get rid of.
- [Narrator] Maria contacts an
exorcist through her friend.
- I realized I was in way over my head
and had to reach out to
someone who had experience
with dealing with these
types of situations.
- [Narrator] The exorcist
lives out of state,
so she calls Maria to
consult over the phone.
- Hi.
We're ready.
- She commanded the spirit to leave.
- [Exorcist] Unwanted
spirit, leave this house.
You do not belong here.
- [Narrator] Garrett and
Maria prepare the house
for the cleansing.
- Sage is believed to
act as a cleansing agent
in spiritual cases.
(static crackling)
- You can certainly feel a shift
of the atmosphere in the room.
It felt like it was trying to fight back
against what we were trying to do.
- [Exorcist] And that you may not return.
- [Maria] It was trying to terrorize me
to break me down mentally and emotionally
so it could win my house over against me.
- [Garrett] I felt that
we were both under attack.
- Malicious intent.
(crashes)
I was shaken, yet trying to
be very strong and commanding.
Bless this house with love and light.
Inside, I was scared all to hell.
- [Narrator] Nursing
assistants Garrett and Maria
are terrorized by a demon
that follows them home.
(ominous music)
- I felt like something
was pushing down on me,
almost trying to crush me.
(gasps)
- There was a spiritual battle going on
between good and evil.
- [Narrator] The battle finally ends.
- It was like everything
that had been frightening us was gone.
Like a stone had been lifted.
- Finally, we had our home back.
- [Narrator] The next day,
the couple returns to their
work routine at the hospital.
- It was such a relief.
Things were back to normal.
But that wasn't the case at all.
(demon growling)
- This demon had returned
to the filing room.
- Once its ties were
severed with their home,
the entity went back to the
place it was most familiar with,
and that was the hospital.
- [Narrator] To continue
working in the filing room,
Maria develops a simple but
effective coping strategy.
She ignores it.
- This demon fed off my emotions,
it fed off my fear,
so I did not want to give
it an inch to give it
so it could come back
home with me ever again.
- [Narrator] Though they make peace
with the hospital's paranormal forces,
Maria and Garrett leave soon after,
move out of state, and get married.
- We left the hospital behind
to pursue our dream of
moving to the state of Maine.
- To better our lives in general,
we always wanted to move up there.
- [Narrator] But for those left behind,
life on the hospital's
second floor carries on.
- [Interviewer] You think
the demon's still there?
- I suspect that that demon
is still in that file room,
quite happily so.
(ominous music)
- [Interviewer] Okay, ready, Eileen?
Okay, so take me back to
the start of your story.
- I was working at a
skilled nursing facility.
I was driven towards the medical field.
I went into ambulance
and then I went to work at a hospital
and now I'm a nurse.
And now I've found exactly
where it is I need to be.
- [Narrator] Other than her job,
Eileen's entire world revolves
around her close-knit family.
- Hello?
Oh, hi, Mom.
- [Narrator] For whom she's never more
than a phone call away.
- What is it, what's wrong?
My mother called me to tell me
that my aunt had gone into surgery
to have a tumor removed from her heart
and the prognosis was
kind of up in the air.
Okay.
- [Narrator] As a nurse,
the family relies on Eileen
to reassure them.
- Of course I'll go see her.
I knew in going to see her
that there was going to be an expectation
that I was going to get asked questions
as to what I thought
was transpiring with her
and maybe what her overall
prognosis might be.
Okay, I'll call you when I get there.
Bye, Mom.
- [Narrator] With her
aunt in another city,
Eileen grabs the first flight out
and arrives later that evening.
She's immediately struck
by an ominous feeling.
(ominous music)
- My aunt was a
full-blooded Italian woman,
probably as feisty as they come.
And growing up, I spent
a lot of time with her.
- Oh.
Hello.
- Hi, Auntie.
How you doing?
- I'm fine.
They're lovely, thank you.
- [Narrator] Eileen's
daughter is recently married.
- She had 10,000 questions
about the wedding
and wanted to see a few pictures.
- Oh, beautiful.
- Suddenly, I can feel a
definite temperature change
occurring in the room.
Naturally, you look
around for an explanation.
To see if maybe the air conditioner is on.
But it was just fan air,
it wasn't cold air going.
- [Narrator] As the temperature
inexplicably plunges,
so does her aunt's condition.
(ominous music)
(aunt coughing)
- Here.
She had these very strange coughing fits
that to the point would scare you
because they were actually
taking her breath away.
I'd get up and get her some water,
and I would get it to her
and she would stop coughing.
- I'm fine.
- [Narrator] Eileen's
trained eye knows otherwise.
- Her appearance and her
demeanor kind of led me
to believe that she has cancer
and that the cancer had already
spread through her system.
- [Narrator] Her sadness
turns to sudden terror.
- Above her head, at the head of the bed,
there's this shadow.
No one is in the room
and I don't know what it is,
don't know where it's coming from.
But it's just getting darker and darker.
I'm trying very, very hard
to make out what this is.
As I'm looking at it,
I can see more of a head start to appear
and almost kind of a hood.
I'm starting to get very, very nervous.
I was frozen in my chair
and I could feel myself shaking.
Then I see these other outlines,
looking like wings.
(Eileen screams)
I am scared to death right now.
I have never seen anything so
foreboding in all of my life.
(Eileen screams)
- [Narrator] Nurse Eileen
Perfette comes face to face
with a terrifying entity.
- In paranormal lore,
these winged creatures seem
to have great significance.
For example, in the Abrahamic religions,
we see different entities
coming around called angels
in various different forms.
- Oh my god, oh my god.
I had no idea what it wanted,
if it wanted something from me
or if it wanted something from my aunt.
What do you want?
- [Entity] Her.
- At that moment, my aunt goes
into this coughing fit again.
(aunt coughing)
She's coughing and coughing.
Her face is getting blue.
And it puts its hands on
either side of her head
and she stops coughing.
I didn't know what he was going to do
but I was worried that maybe
he was going to hurt her.
I'm going back to that
minute and I'm getting all,
I'm all worked up.
- [Interviewer] It's okay, take your time.
- Okay.
- [Interviewer] Do you wanna continue?
- All right.
I said.
Who are you?
And he said to me, "You
should know who I am."
At that moment, I was taken
back a few years prior
to a surgery that I had had.
- [Narrator] Hovering close to death,
Eileen was also visited.
- [Entity] It's your time.
- This thing asked me if I was ready.
And I said "Yes, I'm ready,
"but I just have one request."
I said "Let me see my
family one last time."
And after I made that
request, I had an experience
where I actually left myself.
I actually left my hospital bed.
- Astral projection is the idea
that we can actually project
our consciousness somewhere else.
People who have reported
being close to death
oftentimes get these experiences.
- [Narrator] The entity
leads her out of her room,
through the hospital,
and transports her back home.
- I was walking through my house,
sink full of dishes in my kitchen.
I make my way upstairs.
I go in, I check on my
girls, I check on my son,
I check on my husband.
I was completely at peace
with everything that I saw.
- [Narrator] With Eileen's visit done,
she's taken back to her hospital room.
As she prepares to die, the
entity has a change of heart.
It's not her time.
- [Woman] Eileen.
Eileen, wake up.
Eileen.
- [Eileen] The next thing I notice is
that I have someone slapping my arm.
- [Narrator] When Eileen comes to,
all her vital signs are back to normal.
- I remember you.
- [Entity] She won't recover.
- [Eileen] Who are you?
- [Entity] Azrael.
(Eileen gasping)
- He told me he was the angel of death.
The grim reaper.
- [Narrator] Nurse Eileen
Perfette is haunted
by a terrifying encounter
with the angel of death.
- There's multiple
different stories and lore
around the grim reaper.
One theory is that he's there
to kill you and take you away.
- When I actually got to see his face,
he was very, very scary.
And I felt almost like
I wanted to throw up
because it was hideous.
The thing said "Don't be afraid."
He said "I am here to help her transition
"from life to death."
- Another interpretation
about the grim reaper is
that he's there to assist you.
In this case,
Azrael seems to be a
extremely benevolent entity.
He's considered one of
the seven archangels.
So as frightening as the
imagery of Azrael is,
he seems to be there to
help her aunt pass over.
- [Narrator] Without
warning, he disappears.
And returns just as suddenly.
(Eileen gasps)
(aunt coughing)
- [Azrael] She will die peacefully.
We will meet again.
(Eileen crying)
- And he just faded away,
faded right back into the wall.
My aunt died very, very peacefully.
And no one could really ask for more.
- [Narrator] Eileen alerts the
nurses of her aunt's passing.
She leaves shaken by the experience.
And the final moment haunts her.
- [Azrael] We will meet again.
- I really don't know
what the future is gonna
hold for me now after this.
It ended on a very, very
peaceful but questionable note.
(ominous music)
(calm music)
(sighs)
- That was a long drive.
- Sure was, but we are here.
- [Narrator] Screenwriter Noah
Evslin and his wife arrive
for an overnight trip to
visit his grandmother.
- My grandmother had recently
moved into a nursing home
about 21/2 hours north of New York City.
I was very close with my grandmother.
We come from a family of writers.
She was a writer, her
husband was a writer,
and my whole life was spent
trying to emulate her.
See you in the morning, Nana.
- [Interviewer] So you actually
stayed at her nursing home?
- Yeah, there was a room that
was available for guests.
- [Narrator] Located close
to his grandmother's room,
the accommodations are
convenient but also unusual.
- There was a little living
area, everything was clean,
and a comfortable looking bed.
I realized that this room was identical
to the room that my grandmother lived in.
- [Noah's Wife] Nana's okay.
- Yeah, she's doing good.
We went to sleep at about 10:30, 11,
knowing we had to get up early
to have breakfast with my grandmother.
I made a joke, wondering did
somebody recently die here
and that's why the room is open?
- [Narrator] A joke that
doesn't go over so well.
- (laughs) It was just a joke.
- It wasn't funny.
- Then we went to sleep.
(ominous music)
At some point in the middle of the night,
I woke up to the worst smell
that I've ever smelt in my life
and my eyes were burning.
It smelt like burning onions.
I felt nervous because I
thought where's the fire?
I looked around the room,
there was no visual signs of smoke.
There was no alarms, no
one running in the halls.
There was just no sound.
The whole facility was asleep.
- [Narrator] With each passing second,
the horrible smell gives way
to something even more vile.
- It smelled like a rotten carcass,
but not only rotten,
but like rancid rotten.
- In the case of a haunting,
you will get like the smell of death,
something that's rotting
and things like that.
And it's because they
haven't crossed over yet.
- I think everyone's experienced
what a dead animal smells like.
This wasn't dead animal
day one, two, or three.
This was dead animal like
at its peak of pungency.
- [Interviewer] So how long would you say
that that smell persisted?
- It probably lasted, it felt like to me
that the smell lasted around five minutes.
And then it just started
to like fade away.
So I went back to sleep.
And I was lying in the bed
when something startled me.
There was a man standing
in the room, staring at me.
I was terrified.
- [Narrator] Screenwriter
Noah Evslin is shocked awake
by the dead stare of a shadowy figure.
- He had a red flannel shirt on,
which matched his red
hair and bright red beard.
My first thought was that
maybe this was a resident
who had entered the room.
But the room was locked,
so how did this person get in here?
And also the man was significantly
younger than a resident
and it made me wonder if this
may be the son of a resident
who still had a key and expected
to see his father in bed
and suddenly is looking at me.
I was filled with adrenaline.
Honey!
I woke up my wife.
- [Noah's Wife] What's wrong?
- And I said "There's a man
in the corner of the room."
And when she turned to look,
he was gone.
It was, it was just.
- [Interviewer] So your
wife never saw him?
- My wife never saw him.
My wife only saw me, probably more scared
than she's probably ever
seen me, then until today.
She knew that I had seen
something really horrific
and I said "I think I just saw a ghost.
"I don't have any other explanation
"for the thing that I just saw."
(ominous music)
And so at 2:30 in the
morning, we got our stuff,
exited the retirement home.
We just weren't gonna
sleep in that room anymore
and not knowing what the intent
of the thing is in the room,
whether it was still there.
We drove back to New York City.
That's how scared we were.
- [Narrator] The next morning,
he calls his grandmother.
- She thought I was
calling her from the room,
saying let's go to breakfast,
and then I had to sort
of sheepishly explain
that we had driven all the way back
to New York City that night.
And then I asked her,
"You told me that this
was kind of like a hotel
"where they had rooms for rent,
"but it's not a hotel, is it?"
And she said "No, not really,
"just rooms open up every now and then."
And I said "By rooms opening up,
"do you mean somebody died in the room?"
And she said "Well, yes,
that's why they open up."
The next question I asked was
"The person who died in
my room, was it a man?"
And she said yes.
The man's name was Gary who
used to live in that room
and I was describing the
red hair and red beard
and then I asked her
would him be wearing a red
plaid shirt make sense?
She said "When I knew him,
"he had a white beard and white hair
"but I've definitely seen pictures of him
"as a younger man and he
had a red beard, red hair."
He wore a lot of plaid
and he used to be a hunter in the area.
His expression when he was looking at me
is frozen in my mind.
He seemed confused and sad.
I felt like he was confused
because he didn't know he was dead
and that somebody was sleeping in his bed.
- For a spirit that's recently passed,
that definitely could lead
to confusion on their part.
They don't know what's going on.
Time is different in the spirit
world than it is in ours.
It's not linear.
You're not bound by the physical world,
the physical realm anymore.
- That experience was so terrifying
that I decided we were never gonna do
an overnight trip there again.
(ominous music)