Haunted Hospitals (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 10 - Episode #1.10 - full transcript

- I wanted to be the
best nurse I could be.

- I was really looking
forward to my nursing career.

- I could not get over the
sense that I was being watched.

- Now I'm starting to freak out.

I just started to run.

- Felt like I was in a horror movie.

I was absolutely terrified.

- I'd felt this heavy sense of death.

I was never gonna come out alive.

- Nursing school
graduate Tania Thomas

has just landed her first full time job



caring for the terminally ill

in a religious hospital.

- I was 18 years old when I
started doing palliative care.

I was very young.

I'm very empathetic so I always wanted

to kind of help people along

and help to comfort them
as they move forward.

I really loved what I did.

There were nuns that were
working there at the time

that I was there.

You could always tell who they were

just by the way they carried themselves.

They were very focused on the residents

and the families.



So on my shift I would very often

be found in the nursing station

and I would be able to catch up

on any charting that had to be done,

any of the doctor's
orders that had come in

for the day, get them processed,

get the meds ready for the morning.

- Tania is usually
alone on the ward at night.

She decides to investigate
the strange sounds.

- Boo.

- Did I get you?

- One of the girls I
worked with quite a bit,

we used to have a little bit
of fun together on nights.

- The idea was to scare you.

- Well you did it, you did it.

- I got you girl.

- Yeah you did, I'll get you back.

- We would try to kind
of get each other going

or freak each other out so to say.

- Tania goes back to work

hoping there won't be
any more interruptions.

- And I suddenly heard the elevator move.

When we were working nightshift

the service elevator was very rarely used.

There was no nursing staff
that was coming up and down.

There was no dietary or laundry staff

that were using it

so typically it was quiet back there.

- Hello?

- I thought it was strange.

When I would sit at the
nurses station at night

I wasn't able to see the service elevator

and I stood up to go and see who it was

that was actually there.

- Tania's responsible

for the safety of her floor.

- Hello?

- And needs to
monitor anything unusual.

- It concerned me that maybe somebody

could have come in off the street

and at the time that
the elevator door opened

I'm not paying attention

and somebody that shouldn't be on the ward

may have been on the ward.

- Is someone out there?

- The elevator door shut
but there was no one.

I just literally went back
and sat back in my chair again

and thought well that
was very very strange

and I'm sure that won't happen again.

I started to notice a repetition
to what was happening.

I had my watch so I would glance down

and think, okay it's gonna
happen on the 12:30 mark.

It is gonna do it again

and I started to at that point

try to figure out what might be going on

and so I made a call to security.

- Security.

- Is someone playing with
the elevator downstairs?

- They seemed quite as
surprised as me actually.

- Tania tries
to dismiss the episode

but then it happens
again night after night.

- So the elevator door would
start to open every half hour.

Whenever I would glance down
and I would hear it open

I was again looking at the clock.

It was literally right on time

and it was starting to get a little bit--

- Hello?

- Uncomfortable at that point.

It was almost like it was on a cycle.

My immediate thought being,
okay what's going on?

And why does this keep happening?

There was no way to explain it at all.

- Even more alarming--

- Hello?

- Tania begins to
feel that she's not alone.

- Is someone out there?

- I could not get over the
sense that I was being watched.

I would have the sense
that there was an energy

or something standing
directly in front of me

that I wasn't able to actually see

but I just had the sense
I was being looked at.

It's a very creepy feeling when
something like that happens.

Especially if you can't see them.

- The incident
is deeply unsettling

but Tania turns her focus back

to the care of her patients.

- I couldn't be running around

trying to figure out what was making

everything tick in the building.

I always had to keep focus on what it was

I was doing in terms of my work.

- A poltergeist is known as a noisy ghost.

This is a ghost that is traditionally

a lot more physically active.

When you have a poltergeist
in your residence

you usually have a lot of
physical things moving,

a lot of sounds, a lot of disruption.

- And I thought, this time
I'm just gonna listen.

- But what she hears
only fuels her apprehension.

- And I became aware of a footstep

that actually did come
off of the elevator itself

into the hallway.

I was actually afraid to get
up and look at that point.

I felt completely
overwhelmed at that point.

- But her fear turns to relief.

Something she can't share.

- No you didn't talk
about the paranormal stuff

with the nun supervisor.

She was a lovely lady.

This institution was
predominantly Catholic of course

and we just didn't
discuss things like that.

Things like that didn't happen.

So I just thought that everything would

go back to normal after that

but I couldn't have been more wrong.

I was going down the hallway
to do some medications

with the patients and I noticed somebody

sitting at the very end of the hall

in a little armchair staring
down the hallway at me.

It was the middle of the night,

everybody was asleep.

I thought well that's strange

that there's somebody sitting out there.

- Tania is sure of one thing,

the mysterious stranger
isn't one of her patients.

- He wasn't very old at all.

He wasn't what I would expect to see

in a nursing home.

All I could think was,

is it somebody that's come up to visit?

Did they come up the back stairwell?

- Tania tries to push down

a growing sense of panic.

- Why are you here?

- Wanted to try to ascertain
where he had come from.

I really felt like he didn't belong here.

I think that scared me more than anything.

- Nurse Tania Thomas is shaken

by a serious of bizarre events

at the hospital where she works.

- I started to notice that
there was the strangest light,

a shimmer that was coming away from him

and it was then that I thought,

okay this definitely isn't fitting

what should be going on here.

It's a little bit like
looking at the sunlight

on the roof of a car.

I was looking around the
hallway for any evidence

of any light that might
be actually casting that

or creating that

and it wasn't being created

by anything outside of himself.

He was creating it himself.

He was still staring towards me

but literally looking right through me.

At that point I stopped dead

right in the middle of the hallway

and called out to him.

- Who are you?

- And he wouldn't say anything to me.

He just wouldn't say a word to me.

He just stared at me
and that freaked me out.

- Hospitals can hold
such a mix of different

types of energies that you have

almost a mixed soup of
paranormal events there.

- I started to wonder if
maybe it was just my mind

playing tricks on me at one point.

I started to think my goodness,

it's 4 o'clock in the morning,

you just need a coffee,
what's wrong with you?

- The first rational
response anybody would have

would be to write this off
as being psychological.

Hey I'm finding myself alone

in the middle of a dark hallway,

I'm really isolated and so

while I feel the presence of somebody else

in there with me, is
my mind playing tricks?

- Tania goes back to her rounds

but what she sees next stuns her.

Not only is the mysterious figure back,

he's talking to an older patient.

- He was talking to one of our patients

and the male patient was
having quite the conversation

at the end of the hallway.

Just felt that it was odd

that the male patient was so comfortable

talking to this young fellow

almost like he knew who he was.

And when I approached
the male patient turned

and looked at me and I said to him,

who are you talking to?

And he looked back at me and said

just my friend right here

and that's all he said.

He just literally walked
back into his bedroom

and got back into bed.

It was just this point that I thought,

okay I'm supposed to be
here to take care of people

and all I wanna do is turn around and run,

go lock myself in the nurse's station.

- But her patient's encounter

takes a terrifying turn.

- So the male resident that was actually

talking to the fella in
the hallway passed away.

- Tania can't help but believe

she's witnessed something supernatural.

- I freaked out.

I freaked out.

My first thought was my god.

- Tania is deeply
shaken by the experience

but must report the death of her patient.

- The procedure when someone passes away

is to inform the doctor

and then you make arrangements
with the funeral home

to come and pick up the body.

There was family that
were coming in to visit.

It was a mom with a daughter,

she was about five years old,

this little girl.

They were unaware of the fact

that he had already passed over.

- I need someone down there.

- As Tania
speaks to the coroner

the girl heads to her grandfather's room.

- The last thing I wanted to do

was for her to see the body

lying in the room and
I was on the telephone

and then I glanced up, this figure

moved through the doorway.

I almost dropped the phone.

It shocked me so much

and this tall person is standing there

in front of this tiny little girl

and this little girl is looking up at him

and he is gazing down towards her.

That little girl had seen him.

She seemed to be aware of something

that I was aware of but
nobody else in the space

was aware of it at that time

so it was only two of us

that were seeing what we were seeing

and I said, I'm trying to just make sure

you don't walk in there
because your grandfather

has passed away and she turned to me

and she looked at me and she said

I know, she just told me

and she indicated the five year old.

I was blown away.

I was absolutely blown away.

I got chills that went from my toes

all the way up to the top of my head.

- Tania is
left trying to make sense

of what happened.

- I felt for sure that this entity

was the grandfather that had
just passed away in that room.

You don't expect to see that kind of stuff

when you're working.

- People see manifestations of ghosts

in many different ways.

Sometimes they look like a person

standing right in front of you.

An active haunting would be

having a conscious spirit
that's present there

that's able to identify the living,

that's able to communicate
with the living.

- Tania's
fear at work intensifies

and even the most mundane tasks

take on a feeling of terror.

- We would fill bags on the floor

every single shift and the only way

to get it down into the laundry room

was to push it down the chute.

The laundry chute room

is at the very end of the hallway.

I was never comfortable with that room.

Never ever liked that room.

- Tania can't
understand why the door

is padlocked.

- Always wondered about that

and I thought like why
would you put that on there?

There's a lock on the door already

so it didn't make an ounce of sense to me

that that padlock would be there.

Could never figure it out.

I felt heavy.

Every time I got near that door

I had an unexplainable feeling

that I just could not put into words

and I kept thinking to myself,

stop being so ridiculous.

You're being silly.

- Knowing there's
an option to get help

Tania is unwilling to enter
the laundry room alone.

- We would typically
go in pairs to do that.

Especially with me cause I didn't like

going in there on my own.

Every time I got near that door

I just didn't feel safe.

I just wanted to get out of there.

It was like, let's get it done,

let's get out.

It was like a little broom closet

and maybe eight feet long

and as you pushed the door open

there's the laundry chute

and it was a big thing with a handle

that you would pull open

and I kept thinking to myself

there's no reason for you to have a fear

of this little room.

And I thought am I claustrophobic?

I just got the weirdest
feeling come over me

and I turned back to look at her.

Her eyes are as big as saucers.

In that moment I just
feel a sense of death.

- Nurse Tania
Thomas is terrified

by escalating paranormal
events on her hospital ward.

- She was looking a good four or five feet

above my head and all I could think

was my god, what's there?

And then all of a sudden
I heard her scream.

It was at that point

my heart just jumped right into my throat.

- My god.

My god, what was that?

What was that?

- I had an immediate panicked sensation

because I felt like death was following me

and it scared me.

At that point she said
something came right up

over top of you that was,

it was absolutely awful.

She was absolutely terrified.

It probably took us a good half hour

to calm her down at the nurse's station.

She was literally shaking
from head to foot.

- The shared paranormal event

is too much for Tania.

She decides to look
into the hospital's past

for answers.

- I came to discover there was a story

about a security guard
that was making his rounds

every night using the back elevator.

It was such an ha
moment for me immediately

I thought right to the
time, every half hour.

- She learns the laundry room

is connected to a sinister
event in the past.

- I learned that one of the residents

had actually gotten
into that room somehow,

had managed to squeeze herself

into that laundry chute
and they found her body

the next morning underneath
a pile of laundry

which explained now why they had

locks on the laundry chutes.

There was suspicion among the staff

that there was foul play.

- It's very possible that the entity

that Tania encountered was a part

of the original act that
was committed there.

A very traumatic death may have happened

in this area.

That could be the person
who actually did the act

but this could also be an
after effect of the event

where you have an energy that's left there

and it is now attracting something else

that's negative to come to that area.

- It started to give me a little bit

more insight into why certain things

might be happening in the building itself.

When somebody dies like that

it's just natural they're
gonna hang around.

They're gonna try and work out

why they came to such a terrible end.

- Troubled and
exhausted by what she's seen

Tania decides to leave her job.

- I was starting to feel that
there was always something

that was going to be going on.

Didn't matter what shift
I was on at that point.

Could be working days,
afternoons, or nights

but I came to kind of expect

that things were going to be happening.

- C.J. Smith is a janitor

in the MRI center of a
large metropolitan hospital.

- What I liked about being a janitor

was I worked alone most of the time.

There wasn't always a supervisor there.

I was able to take care of my business

and then go home.

I have two kids and we're very busy

all of the time so the
more time that I have free

the better.

- For C.J. the quiet nights

are a welcome contrast
to his previous life.

- I served as an 11 Bravo Infantry

and I went to Kandahar.

When I was in the Army I was
in several firefights overseas.

I've seen it all.

This job meant pretty
much everything to me.

My shift was usually about until 1 am.

I would work my way from
one side of the hallway

to the other just changing
trash, wiping tables.

The area was fairly small.

It would only take about three
hours to clean each night.

- C.J. requires a security pass

to get inside the MRI center.

- There were electronic
doors on either side

of the hallway.

They were there for security.

Everyday I had to go through the doors

to get to my actual cleaning site.

There was one night when I
was cleaning in the hallway

and I heard some noise behind me

which was odd because
I'm the only person there

and when I looked back
one of the doors was open.

It was just very odd
because they only work

if you have the electronic card.

The first time that I had ever seen

one of the doors open by themselves

I assumed that somebody was there

and I walked down to see
if somebody was there

because it is a hospital

and people are in and out all crazy times

but there was nobody out there.

- C.J. is so
disturbed by the incident

he reports it.

- I actually talked to one
of my supervisors about it

and he told us that it wasn't
necessarily our problem.

We were just there to be cleaning.

- It's an old hospital.

- He did not see it as a security issue.

It makes me nervous.

I feel goosebumps a little bit on my arms.

- C.J. has
no choice but to wonder

who or what is controlling the doors.

- I just, I instantly felt threatened.

- Army vet and
hospital janitor C.J. Smith

is experiencing increasingly
strange events at work.

- And then the doors
opened at the same time.

There was nothing that we could find

in that hospital to cause this to happen.

I just tried to ignore it.

My job was very important.

I mean I have a family and
so I have to support them

by any means necessary.

- C.J. tries to
put the incident behind him.

- I was putting all of my supplies away

in the janitor's closet

when I smelled something.

- What is that?

- This very strong, pungent,
fermented smell almost.

I know the smells of the hospital

and this didn't come from there.

I turned around and looked for it.

All the trash cans, all the desks,

figured someone had left food out.

I could never find it.

I used a lot of bleach
but nothing ever worked.

- To C.J. it feels
like some kind of warning.

- The idea that spirits can produce scent

is something that we've
found in multiple cases

and from different paranormal experiences.

The smells tend to be
things that the human brain

has actually been hardwired to dislike.

For example, feces, rotting meat, sulfur.

All things that in the wild

we would definitely have to avoid.

Those smells seem to be emitted

when they want people to go away.

When they're trying to
tell people to back off.

- Things take
a turn for the worse

when C.J. gets a call he's been dreading.

- I was at home when I heard

my grandfather was admitted
to the same hospital

where I worked.

- On his next shift,

C.J. makes sure to visit his grandfather.

- He had battled cancer
for almost 20 years.

He had all kinds of heart problems,

a pacemaker put in.

We just thought it was another one of the

hiccups that he would get over.

Me and my grandfather were very close.

The only thing that he told me about

his own death is he was not ready to die.

When my grandfather passed away

it was just before 11 pm.

Of course we were very sad.

It just is a very hard thing.

Two weeks after my grandfather passed

I was cleaning and I had seen something

kind of dart across the doorway

just as if someone was
walking by the doorway

and that's what I thought.

I called out, you know,

hey, to see if anybody was there

and I received no reply.

So I just went back cleaning.

- C.J. wonders
if the shadow figure

might have something to
do with his grandfather

but he dismisses the idea.

- I feel that he would have known better

cause honestly I was
scared most of the time.

- Whoever or
whatever it is isn't going away.

- I could see that something is standing

just with it's head like around the corner

to where I could barely see it.

The first thing I thought of,

it was a person casting a shadow

and when I look up they kind of dart away.

I'd seen the other shadow figures

and heard the noises and seen the doors

and I played it all off in my head.

I didn't wanna be there
but I had to keep my job.

- C.J.'s feeling of dread

soon slips into terror.

- When I actually started
to notice these things

every night it was a struggle to go there.

I didn't wanna be there.

I'd see these things
and it was pretty scary.

- Shadow figures have been always steeped

in the paranormal world

in both parapsychology
and paranormal lore.

They've been encountered
in multiple cultures

all over the world

and they don't really
have a direct explanation.

- C.J.'s main concern

is keeping his family safe.

- What if this is
something that isn't nice

and it did follow me home

where it's just hiding out?

I get paranoid for my kids a lot

especially in the nighttime.

I felt very threatened.

I'd never felt like that

with anything else that I've
ever seen or experienced.

- C.J.'s
family is completely safe

but back at work he
can't shake the feeling

that he's being followed.

- I was actually finished
cleaning that night

and I was putting all of my things away

into a janitor's closet.

I was standing in the inside

and I wasn't able to see the hallway

and I smelled the smell.

I did start to get goosebumps.

The hair on the back of
my neck would stand up

and then when I turned around

it was just standing there.

I felt like I was in a horror movie.

I just thought it was gonna get me.

I was absolutely terrified.

- Hospital janitor C.J. Smith

is terrorized by paranormal events

he is forced to confront.

- The best way I could describe it,

it wasn't proportionate
I guess for a human.

You could see very obviously the head

and the arms but it
seemed to just fade out.

There were no hands or feet.

There were no visible eyes,

there was just empty spaces.

But it seemed like it was
looking directly at me.

My heart was going a hundred
miles an hour this time.

I wasn't sure what this could be.

I was so scared.

I mean I've never felt like
that in my entire life.

I ran outside and I didn't look behind me

until I got to my car

because I was afraid that it was

gonna be right there behind me.

- Whenever I get a client that comes to me

with instances where they're
seeing an apparition like this

my first reaction is
for them to be cautious.

They've got a situation where

the entity is telling them to back off

and get away and usually
that should be respected.

- The next day was the absolute worst.

I had talked to my wife and we decided

that it would be best if I
could try to change jobs.

In the beginning I wanted to believe

that it had something to
do with my grandfather

after he had passed but I
don't believe that was him.

He would have found a better
way to approach the situation

but I always believed in the paranormal

because I always believed
there was something else

out there after life.

I was a believer before

and now I am a much stronger believer.

- Nurse Susan
Carter arrives for her shift

on the palliative care ward

hoping she can bring some
much needed Christmas cheer.

- Hey.

- Hi, how are ya?

- I went into nursing because

I just felt that that
would be a good fit for me

to give that love and tenderness that

everybody deserves at that time,

you know nearing the end of their life.

- Before she
heads out onto the ward

Susan gets an update from the duty nurse

on her cases and one in particular.

- This patient came into the hospital

about a week and a half before Christmas.

- He reminds
Susan of her father.

- My father died when I was
14 from a massive coronary.

He was only 51.

This patient was dying.

He came into hospital frankly

to spend the last days of his life

and I was surprised how well

we actually interacted.

- Susan sees her patient often

over the coming days.

- The bond that we created
meant something to me.

I had a few days off on my schedule

just before Christmas
and I was supposed to

return to work on the
midnight shift Christmas day

and I was thinking how am
I supposed to say to him

in the morning Merry Christmas

when this is his last Christmas on Earth

so I decided I'm gonna buy him a present

and what do you get somebody
that is going to pass

relatively soon?

I decided that I'm going
to buy him aftershave.

I did know that he enjoyed
the orderly's shaving him,

splashing his face with aftershave,

so that's what I did

and I was at the store

and I was holding the bottle in my hand

looking down at it when suddenly I became

extremely weepy, very sad.

And for a moment I thought,

am I sad because I'm missing my father?

But then the thought of this patient

came through to me and I thought no,

I'm sad for this man.

He's such a nice man.

- But Susan's
inexplicable grief

turns to something more sinister.

- I really start to get very scared

but I collected myself and
went about with my day.

- After a few
days off Susan returns

to the hospital.

- Hello.

- When I went into
work it was Christmas Eve.

- Who's the present for?

- I showed up with my
bottle of aftershave,

my present for my patient.

- The duty nurse has bad news

about Susan's favorite patient.

- She said, he died.

I just was flabbergasted at that moment.

I just felt like the floor had been pulled

from underneath me

and I asked what time did he die?

And she said he started
to fail at about 10:30

and he died at close to 11 o'clock.

And that was the time
that I was purchasing

the aftershave and had became very weepy.

And it was very spooky actually.

Now I'm starting to freak out a bit.

- Strange experiences at work

have left nurse Susan
Carter feeling haunted

and overwhelmed and
struggling to make sense

of what has happened.

- When you get around holidays

it's a very highly emotionally charged

time of the year.

Throwing a lot of energy
into the environment

and that might make it possible

for a spirit to manifest.

- I really felt that he
came to say goodbye to me

and to say I know that you're getting

me a Christmas present.

- Susan collects herself

and begins her Christmas Eve shift.

- It was very spooky this night

because it was extremely bitter outside

and the windows of the hospital were old

and you could actually
hear the wind howling.

Just even knowing that this man passed

sort of set me in sort of a
little bit of a fearful mode.

The hallway itself was
very long and very dark.

- Why's it so dark in the hallways?

- It's dark in the hallways

because the people are sleeping.

- Then Susan notices something

that sets her on edge.

- I saw this light on.

This is an empty room.

The light shouldn't be on

so I decided I'm gonna turn off the light.

At that moment I swear I saw my patient

walking down the hallway.

I never ever felt fearful of ghosts

or anything like that

but the mere fact that he has passed

and I know he died,

I thought okay this is
really getting to me.

I started really to get very fearful

and I looked and I saw him

standing at the end of the hallway.

He had a suit on

and I had never seen him in a suit.

He was always in a hospital gown

and then he disappeared.

My heart was pounding.

I was so stunned I backed up.

I didn't want to turn my back on anything

that I was seeing ahead of me

and when I came into the doorway

the door started to close on me.

And the door almost
literally hit me in the face.

I had to go back like this.

- Terrified Susan struggles

to regain her composure.

- I decided I needed to
say my goodbye to him.

- Are you there?

- And I said that you
meant something to me,

that I was honored to be your nurse,

that I'm sorry that he had to suffer,

and that I won't ever forget you.

- When Susan's calling out to give

some final farewells
to one of the patients

in the hospital it's very possible

that that patient heard her calling

and came forward.

- The mere fact that he has died

and now he's presenting himself to me,

it was very, very terrifying.

And then he disappeared again

and now I'm thinking my god,

where is he?

And I turned my head--

And he was right there.

At that moment I just felt

like this rush of
adrenaline coming through me

and that's it.

I just turned and I started to run.

- What's wrong?

What's wrong?

- I finally got to the nurse's station

and she just stood up and said,

Susan, what's wrong with you?

Did you see a ghost?

And I said, I think I did.

- What?

- It terrified me.

- It's okay, calm down.

- Although Susan was taken off guard

and may have been terrified
by this experience

it doesn't mean that this entity

had any kind of physical
harm or ill intention

towards Susan.

- I know that this
patient would not mean me

any harm at all but I
think I surprised him

perhaps with my reaction
because I was terrified

when I saw him.

- Though Susan
continues to work in nursing

something has shifted inside her.

- This experience changed me.

I became more open to the idea

that there is a paranormal
world out there.

That there is something
more beyond what we see.

I truly believe that he
came to me at that time

because I was sad for him

and I needed closure.

I needed to say goodbye to him

and let him know how much he meant to me

and by him coming forward

that allowed that to happen

and I think that's why so
many spirits come forward

to other people.

To always give people an opportunity

to say goodbye and have their peace.