Haunted Hospitals (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 13 - Episode #1.13 - full transcript
Ann takes a job at a small-town hospital. Expecting a slower pace she instead encounters diseased ghosts from the Victorian era. If that weren't bad enough, Ann soon discovers that a small ...
- Doin' great, just keep on going.
My goal, working at the
hospital, was to stay there
and work there for a long time.
It did not work out that way.
- It felt like there were eyes behind me.
I felt extremely threatened.
- It scared the hell out of me.
- I felt that there was
something evil in there.
- We're in the middle
of a living nightmare.
- See, you got it.
- Nursing assistant,
Ann Pooleman, is one of
the newest staff at a nursing
home for the chronically ill.
- See you got it.
What I liked most about the job was caring
for the persons themselves.
When they used to talk about
what they did in the past.
A lot worked for
factories around the area.
A lot of the people we're
lookin' after couldn't get out
of bed without help.
Just keep on going, doing great.
- But as a new
staff member, Ann finds herself
also needing a helping hand.
- Hello Ann.
- Hi, how you doing?
- You know, it might be a
touch easier if you walked
in front of the patient.
- Yeah, sure, I'll give it a try.
That's a lot easier.
There we go.
One of my colleagues,
she was really friendly, really chatty.
She had a very good
personality, very bubbly.
She just made your shift go all so well.
- Though Ann's
been with the hospital
for six months, she's still
discovering unfamiliar corners
of the building, like the area
known as the Back Bedroom.
- It's a bit chilly in here.
The back room used to be a
bedroom, but it wasn't any more.
- Ann can't help
but notice something unusual.
- That room was, I would
say it was like an ice box.
It was freezing cold.
Even if the heat was on,
the room remained cold.
Which didn't make any sense at all.
That's better for you.
There you go, love.
- Even stranger,
is how her colleague reacts
when she finds Ann there.
- What are you doing in here?
This room's out of bounds.
- Sorry, I didn't know.
We're taught never to put person in there.
We were never told by.
We were just told patients
shouldn't be in there.
- Ann is
happy to follow orders.
There's something about the room
that's strangely unsettling.
- The room just felt so heavy.
It wasn't a nice atmosphere.
The feelin' was dread.
Feelin' that knowing something was there,
but we couldn't actually
see what was there,
made you really nervous.
- Some rooms seemed to just
have an instinctively bad vibe
about them, and certain people
are able to pick up on that.
Did something extremely
traumatic happen there
over the years?
What's the negative
history behind that room?
We may not know this
consciously, but part of us seem
to be able to pick up on those energies.
- Ann shrugs
off her uneasiness.
She needs to stay focused on her duties.
- It was a job I needed, obviously,
having a young child to support.
- Ann is working
the night shift when she
becomes aware of someone else on the ward.
- I heard footsteps, and I was wonderin'
who was wanderin' around.
Havin' a visitor at that time
of night, you won't expect
anybody to actually be in the building.
Excuse me, sir.
Sir, excuse me.
I saw a policeman sort of
just walkin' in front of me.
I don't think he actually
noticed I was actually
in the building.
It was if he was just goin'
about his own business.
- Even more
puzzling, the officer's wearing
an old-fashioned uniform.
- I would say his uniform
wasn't as a policeman
is wearing now.
I had to follow him to insure
that it wasn't somebody in
a Halloween costume that was
wandering around the building.
Sir?
Sir?
I asked him, I was like,
hello, who are you?
What are you doin' in the building?
But didn't get a reply.
He did look quite pale, quite sickly.
- But, before
she can say anything.
- He just kept walkin' away.
- Ann is alarmed
to see the policeman
heading to the one place
she's been trying to avoid.
- He went into the back bedroom.
I didn't really want to go in.
I have to go in, obviously,
for a person's safety.
When he walked into that
room, the feelin' of not
being welcome in that room
and the feelin' of just being
shoved out the room, you
weren't meant to be in there.
- But the heavy feeling quickly
becomes something else.
- When I checked the room,
there was nobody in the room.
The room was empty, and
that really scared me.
Really, really scared me.
Excuse me, sir.
- Strange
events around the hospital
have left nursing assistant,
Ann Pooleman, feeling uneasy.
Seen something in the building,
it's scary on its own,
thinkin' you've got an intruder.
But then seeing something
and going to check it
and there's nobody there, is even worse.
It really puts your hair on edge.
- The more time that Ann
and her colleagues spend
around this area, the more the
activity seems to escalate.
It's almost as if they're
directly challenge whatever entity
is in that back bedroom by
daring to go into its space,
and it's starting to push back.
- In the nights that follow,
Ann continues to feel uneasy
about what she's seeing.
- We've been trained to do a
job, but we weren't actually
trained to deal with things
that can't be explained.
- She decides to
confide in her colleague.
- Can I have a quick word?
I just wanted to ask you
if you'd seen anything
odd around the building recently?
When I revealed about
seeing the police officer,
she sort of questioned me.
As if to say, what do you mean?
What did you see?
- Dear, you're just so tired.
- I'm sure you're right, yeah.
I would say she was skeptical.
She wasn't quite a believer.
- You need to get more sleep.
- Ann's colleague
chalks things up to exhaustion
but Ann knows what she saw.
- My first thought was, what's
the next shift gonna be like.
- It starts off
as usual with Ann's colleague
preparing a pot of tea.
- There's nobody else on our night shift,
there's only two of us in the building,
and all the persons that we
care for were all in bed.
- But the shift
is soon anything but routine.
- My colleague said she'd
seen something in the room,
described it as a shadow walking past her,
and she said she heard a voice.
Somebody callin' out for their mom.
Where's my mom gone?
- No, I didn't see anything.
- For a patient to be actually
be wanderin' the corridors,
we would've heard them come
out, gettin' up off the bed,
which would've took them time.
- When the tea
she just made is missing,
Ann's colleague thinks it's her.
- She was convinced it
was me, but I hadn't moved
from where I was.
When I told her it wasn't
me, her reaction, her face,
she went as white as a sheet.
We were shocked.
We were like, where's your drink gone?
Couldn't find it anywhere.
- At first, people tend to write this off
as just pure absentmindedness.
I mislaid this cup of tea.
I mislaid my phone or my car keys.
But when these instances
start to mount, then you start
to see a pattern, and soon
reach a point where you can't
deny the fact that somebody
is playing games with you.
- But what
Ann and her colleague
see next, shocks them.
- I actually saw a young boy.
Chance for a child being
there, definitely no children,
at that time or any.
- Even more bizarre,
is the boy's appearance.
- What he was wearing
wasn't what young children
of today would wear.
He went back to Victorian time.
We decided to follow where
this young boy had run off to.
He'd run into the back bedroom,
and actually shut the door.
And as I followed him,
he wasn't actually there.
There was nobody there.
And knowin' that just
really scared the ****
out of me basically.
- Ann and her
colleague are left trying
to make sense of what just happened.
- We were both questioning
whether we'd actually seen
this child, and we're
both quite frightened.
Was he there?
I was startin' to think, what
the **** going on in here.
- When you have no control
over the space you occupy,
when you are essentially
being tormented by an entity,
that can be extremely scary.
- Your whole
body's on edge basically.
- Ann steps away
from her nursing station
to gather her thoughts.
- I felt like it was escalating.
We were getting more and more
visitors throughout the night.
At that point, I didn't know
how much more I could take.
Coming.
- But when she tries to go back
to the nursing station.
- Excuse me.
I couldn't actually get
out, the door was locked.
- Ann hopes
her friend isn't playing
a trick on her.
- Jo, is that you?
It's not funny.
It wouldn't budge.
Is anybody there?
I tried fiddlin' with the
lock, tried lockin' it,
unlockin' it, thinking maybe
the lock had jammed, but no.
The lock was absolutely fine.
- It dawns on
Ann that the door is jammed,
not from the inside, but from the outside.
- As if somebody was holdin'
it and wouldn't let me out.
Let me out.
I was shouting.
I was screaming.
I was like, can anybody hear me?
Can somebody let me out please?
Help!
Help!
Help, please let me out.
- Ann!
- My friend was just
walkin' down the hallway,
and she actually heard me
shouting and screaming.
Help!
Let me out!
She said she actually saw
this person holdin' the door.
It was a lady in Victorian
wear, the big flowing skirt.
I'm in here.
Help, help.
Looked like she had small
blisters all over her face.
It was terrifying.
And just hear footsteps runnin' away.
- The mysterious woman flees,
but Ann and her colleague
hesitate to follow her.
- What was that?
- I don't know.
- We didn't go after her.
We were too scared.
I didn't want to see what it was.
And suddenly we heard, as
if chairs were scrapin'
across the dining room floor.
Scared the hell outta me.
- What is this?
- That was the spookiest
thing we'd actually seen.
Seein' all the chairs
stacked the way they were.
It was like a tower of chairs basically.
- How is this possible?
- This was something
from the great beyond.
It scared the hell outta me.
- Nursing
assistant, Ann Pooleman,
is trying to cope with
an escalating series
of terrifying encounters
on the night shift.
- Are you seeing this?
I kept thinking, why do they want
to show themselves so much?
They must want something from me.
I couldn't take this any more.
I had to find out what was going on.
- Ann reluctantly
speaks to her supervisor.
- Management basically told me
it was my mind playin' tricks.
Bein' on a night shift,
obviously I was tired.
I'm about fallin' asleep.
Maybe it was all in my mind.
And I'm worried I'm gonna lose
my job, because, obviously,
a night shift, you can't really sleep.
You can't be tired.
You got to really focus on your job.
- Ann decides
to take drastic action,
and tries to communicate
with those spirits
who are haunting her.
- I was terrified.
I didn't know what I
was gonna bring forward.
I didn't know what was
gonna appear in front of me.
I didn't know what I was gonna hear.
Is anyone there?
I was alone while I was doin'
this, which scared me more.
Show me a sign of your presence.
Is anyone there?
I just called out, asked
whoever was in the building,
would you come forward?
Would you show yourself?
Would you speak to me?
I sat there and waited
and the next thing I know,
books just started
flying off the bookshelf.
These books just started
flyin' off with nobody there
to actually move them.
- After the
shock, Ann calms herself,
then decides to tell her colleague
about what she experienced.
- What was that?
- Ann fears
that whatever she conjured
is still there.
- Did you hear that?
What we heard was actually
coming towards us.
It wasn't human.
It was more of a beast
sound than an animal.
It's like something growling.
Whatever was there, it was something dark.
And the grunting we're
hearing, it was on top of us.
It was so loud.
This doesn't feel good.
Even though we're wantin'
to run, we can't run.
We're basically frozen to
the spot where we were.
We actually saw, what I can
describe as, a black mass.
The shape of it, I want
to say, was a blob.
I can't say it was
human-like, 'cause it wasn't.
I would say, it felt like a car drivin'
at high speed between us.
I realized I made a big
mistake tryin' to contact them.
I'd actually summoned
up something really dark
and extremely dangerous.
- The amorphous black
mass is something that's
very prevalent at haunted locations.
It's some sort of entity
that's manifesting in our world
in a way which we don't
completely understand yet.
These black masses tend
to be very intimidating
for those who see them.
They don't have any human characteristics,
and the way that we are
all psychologically wired,
we tend to fear that, and
I think, rightfully so.
- We felt that it was angry.
We thought it was gonna hurt us.
I was absolutely terrified.
- Then, as
quickly as it appeared,
the presence is gone.
- We could barely speak words.
We couldn't speak to each other.
We were shakin' on the spot.
I've never been so scared in my life.
My colleague never came
back after that night.
I never saw her at work again.
I came back.
I needed the job.
I stayed on the unit and
I worked at the building
for a few more years, and then
I transferred to another unit
'cause the unit shut down.
The spirits I saw, I feel
were comin' to us because,
obviously, they had a traumatic death.
They were poorly.
They were abandoned or lost all family.
They never saw anybody apart from who was
in the hospital with them.
And I feel they had a story to tell.
They'd been abandoned, they
had nobody to care for them
any more, and they want to know why.
It's almost 3:00 a.m.
Emergency medical technician,
Trish Quinn, and her colleague
are getting ready to call
it quits for the night.
- Almost on time.
- She's new to the
job, but catching on quickly.
- You forgettin' something?
- Yeah, yeah, it's my job now, right?
Hold on a second.
- You are supposed to be
doin' the heavy lifting.
Growing up, my parents
were both ski patrol,
and so I'd always hear
stories about how they would
do first aid up on mountains.
Buyin' it too.
So I got very interested
in becoming an EMT.
My partner, who was a seasoned
EMT, with some experience,
but I was still considered a rookie.
- I'll be doing the heavy lifting here
opening the door, okay?
Yeah.
Don't you worry about it, I got it.
- Yeah okay.
- I got it.
- We had picked up a
patient from a nursing home
and transported them to the
hospital so they could have
a procedure done.
We dropped off the patient
on the seventh floor,
pushed the button to go
down to the ground floor
where our ambulance was located.
- The elevator
stops on an un-requested floor.
- It was just stopped like a normal floor,
and the elevator didn't move.
It's the sixth floor.
- The sixth
floor is disused section
of the hospital.
- They had closed that floor
several months before I even
started on the ambulance,
and it had been vacant
for over a year.
- Nothin', right?
- There was never patients on that floor.
Nurses, janitors, nobody
ever went up there.
- Trish and her
partner have heard stories
about the sixth floor.
- We had heard that none of the
staff and none of the nurses
would ever do a shift up there.
It was known to have
had unusual paranormal
happenings up there.
My partner was not a
believer in the paranormal.
He didn't believe that there
was truly anything after death.
- Trish is puzzled.
The elevator isn't supposed to stop there.
- The sixth floor was known
to have been locked off,
that no matter how many times
you ever pushed the button
to try and go there, it would never stop.
I'm gonna hit the emergency.
- Yeah, good idea.
- Even more bizarre,
the elevator isn't responding.
- There's nothing.
There was no elevator
malfunction, no lights flickering,
no bells going off.
We pushed a button and
it wouldn't go down.
- One of the most common
events that happen
during paranormal
investigations is that equipment
will malfunction, and the theory
behind this is that there's
a disruption by a spirit,
whether intentional
or a side effect of it being present.
- Trish's partner
believes the situation
can be easily solved.
- My partner had been in Vietnam
as a medic for two tours.
- Dispatch, it's Stan.
- We didn't have cell phones back in '92,
so we grabbed our radios and
we tried to call our dispatch,
call for help, but our radios
absolutely would not work
inside the building.
- Dispatch.
- Now that's weird.
- It is weird.
- Check it out?
- Yeah.
- So we had, really kinda,
no choice to go ahead
and step off and see why
the elevator had stopped.
It felt like the temperature
had changed and had dropped
and gotten colder.
It felt like there were eyes behind me.
You think that there's
somebody there and you get that
dread sense of do I turn
around, or do I ignore it?
I don't know about this.
And then suddenly, the
door shut behind us.
- What the hell is that?
- We realized that we had no radio,
there's no power up there,
there's nobody else up there but us.
We were trapped there.
- EMT, Trish
Quinn, and her partner, Stan,
are stranded on the one
floor of the hospital
that is completely abandoned.
- And we were trapped there
in a place that was known
to be haunted.
- They need to find a way out.
The stairs aren't an option.
- They weren't locked from the stairwell.
You couldn't get into the sixth floor.
We had tried before, and they were locked
if you were going up the stairs.
- They decide to
make their way down the hall
to the nurse's station.
- We had to see if we could
find a working telephone.
It was extremely unnerving
when you start realizing
that you're stuck up there,
your heart starts beating.
It's dark
and there's dead silence
and there's nothing up there.
It's freezing.
It felt like there was
movement in the air,
like there was somebody moving behind us.
Stan, did you see that?
I looked over and I swear
I had seen like a shadow
go from one side of the
hallway to the other.
The shadow was human
form and size,
but it moved very quickly
and there was no sound.
The hairs on my arms were standin' up.
- I didn't see anything.
No, you're startin' to freak me out.
- I saw that my partner
hadn't seen anything,
so I tried to calm myself and saying I was
just seeing things, that
it couldn't have been real,
that I didn't just see
what I thought I saw.
It was extremely unnerving.
- Most researchers in the
paranormal would probably agree
that areas that don't
have any human activity
for quite some time, that
are inhibited by ghosts,
become very active once a
living person enters that area.
Quite often, the dead like
to have fun with the living,
and they do things just to antagonize them
or to try to scare them.
- Trish can't
shake the feeling that
they're not alone.
- I felt like there
was somebody behind me,
and I could feel their breath.
It felt like every hair
on the top of my head was
standing up, the heart was
goin' about 100 beats a minute.
It was a mixture between
excitement and being scared ****.
We tried the phones to pick them up to see
if we could get a dial tone.
Tell me there's something there.
- It's just dead.
- So we were standing
there, and we were trying
to figure out what we
could do and how we could
get back downstairs now, quickly.
And the door slammed shut.
One by one, they slammed.
Like somebody was upset and
mad and just slammed the doors.
There was no chance it was the wind.
There were no windows open
in any of those rooms.
I felt extremely threatened.
I screamed like a little girl
and all I wanted to do was,
I wanted out of there.
20 doors slammed shut,
all in succession on either side.
One room, then the next room, and it was
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, all at once.
That scared the absolute **** out of us.
Whoever or whatever is up on
that floor made it very clear
that we were not welcome,
that that was their floor,
and we needed to leave.
We're in the middle of a living nightmare.
- EMT, Trish
Quinn, and her partner,
are being stalked by a paranormal
entity who is hell-bent
on terrorizing them.
- We were so terrified
at that point of whatever
just slammed those doors
was still down there.
There was absolutely no other
way to get off of that floor
besides the elevators.
And we started pounding on the doors,
trying to hopefully get
somebody's attention
on a floor below us or a floor above us.
My partner actually had a look on his face
like he was absolutely
terrified, as I was.
- People have to realize that ghosts come
with their own emotions,
their own personalities.
So when you have two people
introduce themselves to an area
generally void of other people,
that might be disruptive
to the lives of any spirits on that floor,
and frankly, they just want 'em out.
- I don't feel good about this.
Suddenly, the elevator doors opened.
Older gentleman, he steps
off of the elevators,
and it was one of the security guards
that worked down in the ER.
He had noticed that we
were missing, so he decided
to go ahead and he had the
keys for access to stop
at the sixth floor.
And he just had the gut
feeling and he stopped to see
if we were there.
- Thank God.
- He never asked us why we were there.
Whatever had happened, he
didn't know, but all he did
was he looked at us and
he goes, the ghosts love
to mess with the rookies.
And he took us down the elevator.
Me and my partner did not talk
about anything that happened
until we were away from the hospital.
- What the hell was that?
- Let's just go.
- Yeah.
- So once we got back
down to the ambulance,
we did not have another
call pending, so my partner,
he lit up a cigarette and all he said was,
what the **** just happened?
And he then proceeded to say,
I have no idea what to believe now.
- Her colleague is badly shaken
by the experience.
- After this experience,
my partner only stayed
on the ambulance for another
two weeks, and then he decided
that it was actually time to retire.
I think after this experience,
it made him realize
that there was a lot more
out there that he may not
be able to explain.
After what we saw up on that sixth floor,
it really did change his
mind about the paranormal.
Stan?
- Trish has
tried to make sense of
what happened that night.
- Whatever was there was not
a feeling of good and happy.
It was a feeling of malice and anger.
This was a dark entity.
I believe that it was very
dangerous and had the potential
to truly hurt people.
I never went back there again.
- Nurse,
Cheyenne Barcala, has landed
her dream job working in
a small rural hospital,
a short drive from where she grew up.
- What drew me to nursing
was taking care of people.
I just feel drawn to help
others and take care of people
and to help them to feel better.
My goal working at the
hospital was to stay there
and work there for a long time.
It did not work out that way.
- Cheyenne's shift
begins when most people's end.
- I loved working the night shift,
'cause I'm a night person.
- But there's
one job on the night shift
that no one wants to do.
- I need you to go grab
me some more pain meds.
- Cheyenne's
hospital sits adjacent
to a large correctional institution.
A surplus prison cellblock
now serves as storage
for the hospital's medical products.
- The prison wing was fully stocked,
and if we needed supplies,
we would run over there.
The medication was housed
in the nurse's station.
I had to walk into the
prison wing, door clicks,
I go to get the medication.
- But the rumors of
the prison wing being haunted
sets Cheyenne on edge,
reminding her of something
she's worked hard to forget.
- When I was six years old, we
lived in this small apartment
where the only bathroom was upstairs.
I wasn't usually a scared
child, but I was on this day.
I didn't hear or see
anything, I just had a feeling
that made me be fearful.
I wasn't sure what to expect.
It was confusing to be that
afraid in my own house.
The lights in the bathroom,
when you flipped the switch,
you know sometimes they kind
of flicker before they come on.
That's when I saw it.
He had horns and he was
red, like a typical devil.
- Children seem to see a much
wider variety of spirits:
ghosts, angels, spirit guides.
Where as an adult, people tend to see
more earthbound spirits.
- We just stared at each other.
I just was so frightened that
it felt like an eternity.
I was full of ultimate
terror at that point.
And then it disappeared.
This experience stayed with me.
It stayed with me forever.
- These memories
make Cheyenne's walk through
the prison wing of the hospital
all the more difficult.
- Walking there by myself
was very frightening.
The feeling in there was
somebody's watching you
that you can't see.
There was that thickness
in the air when it just
doesn't feel right.
I knew it was completely empty.
There were no patients in there,
there was no staff in there.
- But then,
Cheyenne hears something
she cannot explain.
- When I heard the whistling,
it absolutely terrified me.
- Nurse, Cheyenne
Barcala, has been sent
to a prison ward of her hospital,
where she cannot explain
what she hears.
- Actually hearing that
whistling just kind of made me
feel like that validated my feelings
like somebody was watching me.
I felt that there was something
that was evil in there.
I didn't wanna look because I
didn't wanna see what it was
or could be.
And so I ran to get back to my unit.
It was extremely terrifying.
That night, I told myself I would never go
in there by myself again.
- But before Cheyenne
has a chance to recover,
she's face to face with something
else she cannot explain.
- What are you looking
at? What's goin' on?
- When I was standing
at the nurse's station,
I had noticed something
in the corner of my eye.
Do you not see him?
- See what?
- It appeared to be a man
standing in the doorway.
- There's no one there.
- But when I would fully look up at it,
there wouldn't be anything there.
I was a little confused because
there was nobody standing
in the doorway and I didn't
think it was a patient
or a visitor.
I wasn't too sure what was going on.
- People see entities in
all kinds of situations,
and many times they'll see
them walk right through wall.
Anybody who works in any
emergency services and especially
in a setting like a hospital,
they're very perceptive,
very intuitive to all
kinds of spiritual energy.
- Well, I haven't heard anything.
- So as I'm standing
there talking with her,
I could see there was a man
in a gown who was walking
across the room.
- Cheyenne?
- Keeping his head straight,
he didn't turn, look at me,
he just walked as if
he had a purpose to get
to the other side of the room.
- Who do we have in bed four?
- No one, there's
no one in bed four.
- Are you sure?
And I stopped talking and I'm pretty sure
my mouth stayed open.
I knew I was dealing with
something not of this world.
Do you not see it?
- See what?
I don't see anything.
Are you sure you're feelin' okay?
- That moment was definitely
a holy **** moment.
I was trying to understand
what I had seen.
He was in here, I swear.
I knew that nobody was in there,
and I knew that room was empty.
- Let's go back, it's all good.
- I knew that I had just seen a ghost.
It's terrifying when you can't explain
what had happened and what you saw.
- It's okay, hon.
Maybe just take the rest of the night off.
- Shortly after seeing
the apparition of the man,
I ended up changing jobs.
After these experiences, I
haven't been able to sleep
in the dark.
I do have to leave a light on.
These experiences also intrigue me.
It draws me to want to know
more about what happens
to us when we die.
My goal, working at the
hospital, was to stay there
and work there for a long time.
It did not work out that way.
- It felt like there were eyes behind me.
I felt extremely threatened.
- It scared the hell out of me.
- I felt that there was
something evil in there.
- We're in the middle
of a living nightmare.
- See, you got it.
- Nursing assistant,
Ann Pooleman, is one of
the newest staff at a nursing
home for the chronically ill.
- See you got it.
What I liked most about the job was caring
for the persons themselves.
When they used to talk about
what they did in the past.
A lot worked for
factories around the area.
A lot of the people we're
lookin' after couldn't get out
of bed without help.
Just keep on going, doing great.
- But as a new
staff member, Ann finds herself
also needing a helping hand.
- Hello Ann.
- Hi, how you doing?
- You know, it might be a
touch easier if you walked
in front of the patient.
- Yeah, sure, I'll give it a try.
That's a lot easier.
There we go.
One of my colleagues,
she was really friendly, really chatty.
She had a very good
personality, very bubbly.
She just made your shift go all so well.
- Though Ann's
been with the hospital
for six months, she's still
discovering unfamiliar corners
of the building, like the area
known as the Back Bedroom.
- It's a bit chilly in here.
The back room used to be a
bedroom, but it wasn't any more.
- Ann can't help
but notice something unusual.
- That room was, I would
say it was like an ice box.
It was freezing cold.
Even if the heat was on,
the room remained cold.
Which didn't make any sense at all.
That's better for you.
There you go, love.
- Even stranger,
is how her colleague reacts
when she finds Ann there.
- What are you doing in here?
This room's out of bounds.
- Sorry, I didn't know.
We're taught never to put person in there.
We were never told by.
We were just told patients
shouldn't be in there.
- Ann is
happy to follow orders.
There's something about the room
that's strangely unsettling.
- The room just felt so heavy.
It wasn't a nice atmosphere.
The feelin' was dread.
Feelin' that knowing something was there,
but we couldn't actually
see what was there,
made you really nervous.
- Some rooms seemed to just
have an instinctively bad vibe
about them, and certain people
are able to pick up on that.
Did something extremely
traumatic happen there
over the years?
What's the negative
history behind that room?
We may not know this
consciously, but part of us seem
to be able to pick up on those energies.
- Ann shrugs
off her uneasiness.
She needs to stay focused on her duties.
- It was a job I needed, obviously,
having a young child to support.
- Ann is working
the night shift when she
becomes aware of someone else on the ward.
- I heard footsteps, and I was wonderin'
who was wanderin' around.
Havin' a visitor at that time
of night, you won't expect
anybody to actually be in the building.
Excuse me, sir.
Sir, excuse me.
I saw a policeman sort of
just walkin' in front of me.
I don't think he actually
noticed I was actually
in the building.
It was if he was just goin'
about his own business.
- Even more
puzzling, the officer's wearing
an old-fashioned uniform.
- I would say his uniform
wasn't as a policeman
is wearing now.
I had to follow him to insure
that it wasn't somebody in
a Halloween costume that was
wandering around the building.
Sir?
Sir?
I asked him, I was like,
hello, who are you?
What are you doin' in the building?
But didn't get a reply.
He did look quite pale, quite sickly.
- But, before
she can say anything.
- He just kept walkin' away.
- Ann is alarmed
to see the policeman
heading to the one place
she's been trying to avoid.
- He went into the back bedroom.
I didn't really want to go in.
I have to go in, obviously,
for a person's safety.
When he walked into that
room, the feelin' of not
being welcome in that room
and the feelin' of just being
shoved out the room, you
weren't meant to be in there.
- But the heavy feeling quickly
becomes something else.
- When I checked the room,
there was nobody in the room.
The room was empty, and
that really scared me.
Really, really scared me.
Excuse me, sir.
- Strange
events around the hospital
have left nursing assistant,
Ann Pooleman, feeling uneasy.
Seen something in the building,
it's scary on its own,
thinkin' you've got an intruder.
But then seeing something
and going to check it
and there's nobody there, is even worse.
It really puts your hair on edge.
- The more time that Ann
and her colleagues spend
around this area, the more the
activity seems to escalate.
It's almost as if they're
directly challenge whatever entity
is in that back bedroom by
daring to go into its space,
and it's starting to push back.
- In the nights that follow,
Ann continues to feel uneasy
about what she's seeing.
- We've been trained to do a
job, but we weren't actually
trained to deal with things
that can't be explained.
- She decides to
confide in her colleague.
- Can I have a quick word?
I just wanted to ask you
if you'd seen anything
odd around the building recently?
When I revealed about
seeing the police officer,
she sort of questioned me.
As if to say, what do you mean?
What did you see?
- Dear, you're just so tired.
- I'm sure you're right, yeah.
I would say she was skeptical.
She wasn't quite a believer.
- You need to get more sleep.
- Ann's colleague
chalks things up to exhaustion
but Ann knows what she saw.
- My first thought was, what's
the next shift gonna be like.
- It starts off
as usual with Ann's colleague
preparing a pot of tea.
- There's nobody else on our night shift,
there's only two of us in the building,
and all the persons that we
care for were all in bed.
- But the shift
is soon anything but routine.
- My colleague said she'd
seen something in the room,
described it as a shadow walking past her,
and she said she heard a voice.
Somebody callin' out for their mom.
Where's my mom gone?
- No, I didn't see anything.
- For a patient to be actually
be wanderin' the corridors,
we would've heard them come
out, gettin' up off the bed,
which would've took them time.
- When the tea
she just made is missing,
Ann's colleague thinks it's her.
- She was convinced it
was me, but I hadn't moved
from where I was.
When I told her it wasn't
me, her reaction, her face,
she went as white as a sheet.
We were shocked.
We were like, where's your drink gone?
Couldn't find it anywhere.
- At first, people tend to write this off
as just pure absentmindedness.
I mislaid this cup of tea.
I mislaid my phone or my car keys.
But when these instances
start to mount, then you start
to see a pattern, and soon
reach a point where you can't
deny the fact that somebody
is playing games with you.
- But what
Ann and her colleague
see next, shocks them.
- I actually saw a young boy.
Chance for a child being
there, definitely no children,
at that time or any.
- Even more bizarre,
is the boy's appearance.
- What he was wearing
wasn't what young children
of today would wear.
He went back to Victorian time.
We decided to follow where
this young boy had run off to.
He'd run into the back bedroom,
and actually shut the door.
And as I followed him,
he wasn't actually there.
There was nobody there.
And knowin' that just
really scared the ****
out of me basically.
- Ann and her
colleague are left trying
to make sense of what just happened.
- We were both questioning
whether we'd actually seen
this child, and we're
both quite frightened.
Was he there?
I was startin' to think, what
the **** going on in here.
- When you have no control
over the space you occupy,
when you are essentially
being tormented by an entity,
that can be extremely scary.
- Your whole
body's on edge basically.
- Ann steps away
from her nursing station
to gather her thoughts.
- I felt like it was escalating.
We were getting more and more
visitors throughout the night.
At that point, I didn't know
how much more I could take.
Coming.
- But when she tries to go back
to the nursing station.
- Excuse me.
I couldn't actually get
out, the door was locked.
- Ann hopes
her friend isn't playing
a trick on her.
- Jo, is that you?
It's not funny.
It wouldn't budge.
Is anybody there?
I tried fiddlin' with the
lock, tried lockin' it,
unlockin' it, thinking maybe
the lock had jammed, but no.
The lock was absolutely fine.
- It dawns on
Ann that the door is jammed,
not from the inside, but from the outside.
- As if somebody was holdin'
it and wouldn't let me out.
Let me out.
I was shouting.
I was screaming.
I was like, can anybody hear me?
Can somebody let me out please?
Help!
Help!
Help, please let me out.
- Ann!
- My friend was just
walkin' down the hallway,
and she actually heard me
shouting and screaming.
Help!
Let me out!
She said she actually saw
this person holdin' the door.
It was a lady in Victorian
wear, the big flowing skirt.
I'm in here.
Help, help.
Looked like she had small
blisters all over her face.
It was terrifying.
And just hear footsteps runnin' away.
- The mysterious woman flees,
but Ann and her colleague
hesitate to follow her.
- What was that?
- I don't know.
- We didn't go after her.
We were too scared.
I didn't want to see what it was.
And suddenly we heard, as
if chairs were scrapin'
across the dining room floor.
Scared the hell outta me.
- What is this?
- That was the spookiest
thing we'd actually seen.
Seein' all the chairs
stacked the way they were.
It was like a tower of chairs basically.
- How is this possible?
- This was something
from the great beyond.
It scared the hell outta me.
- Nursing
assistant, Ann Pooleman,
is trying to cope with
an escalating series
of terrifying encounters
on the night shift.
- Are you seeing this?
I kept thinking, why do they want
to show themselves so much?
They must want something from me.
I couldn't take this any more.
I had to find out what was going on.
- Ann reluctantly
speaks to her supervisor.
- Management basically told me
it was my mind playin' tricks.
Bein' on a night shift,
obviously I was tired.
I'm about fallin' asleep.
Maybe it was all in my mind.
And I'm worried I'm gonna lose
my job, because, obviously,
a night shift, you can't really sleep.
You can't be tired.
You got to really focus on your job.
- Ann decides
to take drastic action,
and tries to communicate
with those spirits
who are haunting her.
- I was terrified.
I didn't know what I
was gonna bring forward.
I didn't know what was
gonna appear in front of me.
I didn't know what I was gonna hear.
Is anyone there?
I was alone while I was doin'
this, which scared me more.
Show me a sign of your presence.
Is anyone there?
I just called out, asked
whoever was in the building,
would you come forward?
Would you show yourself?
Would you speak to me?
I sat there and waited
and the next thing I know,
books just started
flying off the bookshelf.
These books just started
flyin' off with nobody there
to actually move them.
- After the
shock, Ann calms herself,
then decides to tell her colleague
about what she experienced.
- What was that?
- Ann fears
that whatever she conjured
is still there.
- Did you hear that?
What we heard was actually
coming towards us.
It wasn't human.
It was more of a beast
sound than an animal.
It's like something growling.
Whatever was there, it was something dark.
And the grunting we're
hearing, it was on top of us.
It was so loud.
This doesn't feel good.
Even though we're wantin'
to run, we can't run.
We're basically frozen to
the spot where we were.
We actually saw, what I can
describe as, a black mass.
The shape of it, I want
to say, was a blob.
I can't say it was
human-like, 'cause it wasn't.
I would say, it felt like a car drivin'
at high speed between us.
I realized I made a big
mistake tryin' to contact them.
I'd actually summoned
up something really dark
and extremely dangerous.
- The amorphous black
mass is something that's
very prevalent at haunted locations.
It's some sort of entity
that's manifesting in our world
in a way which we don't
completely understand yet.
These black masses tend
to be very intimidating
for those who see them.
They don't have any human characteristics,
and the way that we are
all psychologically wired,
we tend to fear that, and
I think, rightfully so.
- We felt that it was angry.
We thought it was gonna hurt us.
I was absolutely terrified.
- Then, as
quickly as it appeared,
the presence is gone.
- We could barely speak words.
We couldn't speak to each other.
We were shakin' on the spot.
I've never been so scared in my life.
My colleague never came
back after that night.
I never saw her at work again.
I came back.
I needed the job.
I stayed on the unit and
I worked at the building
for a few more years, and then
I transferred to another unit
'cause the unit shut down.
The spirits I saw, I feel
were comin' to us because,
obviously, they had a traumatic death.
They were poorly.
They were abandoned or lost all family.
They never saw anybody apart from who was
in the hospital with them.
And I feel they had a story to tell.
They'd been abandoned, they
had nobody to care for them
any more, and they want to know why.
It's almost 3:00 a.m.
Emergency medical technician,
Trish Quinn, and her colleague
are getting ready to call
it quits for the night.
- Almost on time.
- She's new to the
job, but catching on quickly.
- You forgettin' something?
- Yeah, yeah, it's my job now, right?
Hold on a second.
- You are supposed to be
doin' the heavy lifting.
Growing up, my parents
were both ski patrol,
and so I'd always hear
stories about how they would
do first aid up on mountains.
Buyin' it too.
So I got very interested
in becoming an EMT.
My partner, who was a seasoned
EMT, with some experience,
but I was still considered a rookie.
- I'll be doing the heavy lifting here
opening the door, okay?
Yeah.
Don't you worry about it, I got it.
- Yeah okay.
- I got it.
- We had picked up a
patient from a nursing home
and transported them to the
hospital so they could have
a procedure done.
We dropped off the patient
on the seventh floor,
pushed the button to go
down to the ground floor
where our ambulance was located.
- The elevator
stops on an un-requested floor.
- It was just stopped like a normal floor,
and the elevator didn't move.
It's the sixth floor.
- The sixth
floor is disused section
of the hospital.
- They had closed that floor
several months before I even
started on the ambulance,
and it had been vacant
for over a year.
- Nothin', right?
- There was never patients on that floor.
Nurses, janitors, nobody
ever went up there.
- Trish and her
partner have heard stories
about the sixth floor.
- We had heard that none of the
staff and none of the nurses
would ever do a shift up there.
It was known to have
had unusual paranormal
happenings up there.
My partner was not a
believer in the paranormal.
He didn't believe that there
was truly anything after death.
- Trish is puzzled.
The elevator isn't supposed to stop there.
- The sixth floor was known
to have been locked off,
that no matter how many times
you ever pushed the button
to try and go there, it would never stop.
I'm gonna hit the emergency.
- Yeah, good idea.
- Even more bizarre,
the elevator isn't responding.
- There's nothing.
There was no elevator
malfunction, no lights flickering,
no bells going off.
We pushed a button and
it wouldn't go down.
- One of the most common
events that happen
during paranormal
investigations is that equipment
will malfunction, and the theory
behind this is that there's
a disruption by a spirit,
whether intentional
or a side effect of it being present.
- Trish's partner
believes the situation
can be easily solved.
- My partner had been in Vietnam
as a medic for two tours.
- Dispatch, it's Stan.
- We didn't have cell phones back in '92,
so we grabbed our radios and
we tried to call our dispatch,
call for help, but our radios
absolutely would not work
inside the building.
- Dispatch.
- Now that's weird.
- It is weird.
- Check it out?
- Yeah.
- So we had, really kinda,
no choice to go ahead
and step off and see why
the elevator had stopped.
It felt like the temperature
had changed and had dropped
and gotten colder.
It felt like there were eyes behind me.
You think that there's
somebody there and you get that
dread sense of do I turn
around, or do I ignore it?
I don't know about this.
And then suddenly, the
door shut behind us.
- What the hell is that?
- We realized that we had no radio,
there's no power up there,
there's nobody else up there but us.
We were trapped there.
- EMT, Trish
Quinn, and her partner, Stan,
are stranded on the one
floor of the hospital
that is completely abandoned.
- And we were trapped there
in a place that was known
to be haunted.
- They need to find a way out.
The stairs aren't an option.
- They weren't locked from the stairwell.
You couldn't get into the sixth floor.
We had tried before, and they were locked
if you were going up the stairs.
- They decide to
make their way down the hall
to the nurse's station.
- We had to see if we could
find a working telephone.
It was extremely unnerving
when you start realizing
that you're stuck up there,
your heart starts beating.
It's dark
and there's dead silence
and there's nothing up there.
It's freezing.
It felt like there was
movement in the air,
like there was somebody moving behind us.
Stan, did you see that?
I looked over and I swear
I had seen like a shadow
go from one side of the
hallway to the other.
The shadow was human
form and size,
but it moved very quickly
and there was no sound.
The hairs on my arms were standin' up.
- I didn't see anything.
No, you're startin' to freak me out.
- I saw that my partner
hadn't seen anything,
so I tried to calm myself and saying I was
just seeing things, that
it couldn't have been real,
that I didn't just see
what I thought I saw.
It was extremely unnerving.
- Most researchers in the
paranormal would probably agree
that areas that don't
have any human activity
for quite some time, that
are inhibited by ghosts,
become very active once a
living person enters that area.
Quite often, the dead like
to have fun with the living,
and they do things just to antagonize them
or to try to scare them.
- Trish can't
shake the feeling that
they're not alone.
- I felt like there
was somebody behind me,
and I could feel their breath.
It felt like every hair
on the top of my head was
standing up, the heart was
goin' about 100 beats a minute.
It was a mixture between
excitement and being scared ****.
We tried the phones to pick them up to see
if we could get a dial tone.
Tell me there's something there.
- It's just dead.
- So we were standing
there, and we were trying
to figure out what we
could do and how we could
get back downstairs now, quickly.
And the door slammed shut.
One by one, they slammed.
Like somebody was upset and
mad and just slammed the doors.
There was no chance it was the wind.
There were no windows open
in any of those rooms.
I felt extremely threatened.
I screamed like a little girl
and all I wanted to do was,
I wanted out of there.
20 doors slammed shut,
all in succession on either side.
One room, then the next room, and it was
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, all at once.
That scared the absolute **** out of us.
Whoever or whatever is up on
that floor made it very clear
that we were not welcome,
that that was their floor,
and we needed to leave.
We're in the middle of a living nightmare.
- EMT, Trish
Quinn, and her partner,
are being stalked by a paranormal
entity who is hell-bent
on terrorizing them.
- We were so terrified
at that point of whatever
just slammed those doors
was still down there.
There was absolutely no other
way to get off of that floor
besides the elevators.
And we started pounding on the doors,
trying to hopefully get
somebody's attention
on a floor below us or a floor above us.
My partner actually had a look on his face
like he was absolutely
terrified, as I was.
- People have to realize that ghosts come
with their own emotions,
their own personalities.
So when you have two people
introduce themselves to an area
generally void of other people,
that might be disruptive
to the lives of any spirits on that floor,
and frankly, they just want 'em out.
- I don't feel good about this.
Suddenly, the elevator doors opened.
Older gentleman, he steps
off of the elevators,
and it was one of the security guards
that worked down in the ER.
He had noticed that we
were missing, so he decided
to go ahead and he had the
keys for access to stop
at the sixth floor.
And he just had the gut
feeling and he stopped to see
if we were there.
- Thank God.
- He never asked us why we were there.
Whatever had happened, he
didn't know, but all he did
was he looked at us and
he goes, the ghosts love
to mess with the rookies.
And he took us down the elevator.
Me and my partner did not talk
about anything that happened
until we were away from the hospital.
- What the hell was that?
- Let's just go.
- Yeah.
- So once we got back
down to the ambulance,
we did not have another
call pending, so my partner,
he lit up a cigarette and all he said was,
what the **** just happened?
And he then proceeded to say,
I have no idea what to believe now.
- Her colleague is badly shaken
by the experience.
- After this experience,
my partner only stayed
on the ambulance for another
two weeks, and then he decided
that it was actually time to retire.
I think after this experience,
it made him realize
that there was a lot more
out there that he may not
be able to explain.
After what we saw up on that sixth floor,
it really did change his
mind about the paranormal.
Stan?
- Trish has
tried to make sense of
what happened that night.
- Whatever was there was not
a feeling of good and happy.
It was a feeling of malice and anger.
This was a dark entity.
I believe that it was very
dangerous and had the potential
to truly hurt people.
I never went back there again.
- Nurse,
Cheyenne Barcala, has landed
her dream job working in
a small rural hospital,
a short drive from where she grew up.
- What drew me to nursing
was taking care of people.
I just feel drawn to help
others and take care of people
and to help them to feel better.
My goal working at the
hospital was to stay there
and work there for a long time.
It did not work out that way.
- Cheyenne's shift
begins when most people's end.
- I loved working the night shift,
'cause I'm a night person.
- But there's
one job on the night shift
that no one wants to do.
- I need you to go grab
me some more pain meds.
- Cheyenne's
hospital sits adjacent
to a large correctional institution.
A surplus prison cellblock
now serves as storage
for the hospital's medical products.
- The prison wing was fully stocked,
and if we needed supplies,
we would run over there.
The medication was housed
in the nurse's station.
I had to walk into the
prison wing, door clicks,
I go to get the medication.
- But the rumors of
the prison wing being haunted
sets Cheyenne on edge,
reminding her of something
she's worked hard to forget.
- When I was six years old, we
lived in this small apartment
where the only bathroom was upstairs.
I wasn't usually a scared
child, but I was on this day.
I didn't hear or see
anything, I just had a feeling
that made me be fearful.
I wasn't sure what to expect.
It was confusing to be that
afraid in my own house.
The lights in the bathroom,
when you flipped the switch,
you know sometimes they kind
of flicker before they come on.
That's when I saw it.
He had horns and he was
red, like a typical devil.
- Children seem to see a much
wider variety of spirits:
ghosts, angels, spirit guides.
Where as an adult, people tend to see
more earthbound spirits.
- We just stared at each other.
I just was so frightened that
it felt like an eternity.
I was full of ultimate
terror at that point.
And then it disappeared.
This experience stayed with me.
It stayed with me forever.
- These memories
make Cheyenne's walk through
the prison wing of the hospital
all the more difficult.
- Walking there by myself
was very frightening.
The feeling in there was
somebody's watching you
that you can't see.
There was that thickness
in the air when it just
doesn't feel right.
I knew it was completely empty.
There were no patients in there,
there was no staff in there.
- But then,
Cheyenne hears something
she cannot explain.
- When I heard the whistling,
it absolutely terrified me.
- Nurse, Cheyenne
Barcala, has been sent
to a prison ward of her hospital,
where she cannot explain
what she hears.
- Actually hearing that
whistling just kind of made me
feel like that validated my feelings
like somebody was watching me.
I felt that there was something
that was evil in there.
I didn't wanna look because I
didn't wanna see what it was
or could be.
And so I ran to get back to my unit.
It was extremely terrifying.
That night, I told myself I would never go
in there by myself again.
- But before Cheyenne
has a chance to recover,
she's face to face with something
else she cannot explain.
- What are you looking
at? What's goin' on?
- When I was standing
at the nurse's station,
I had noticed something
in the corner of my eye.
Do you not see him?
- See what?
- It appeared to be a man
standing in the doorway.
- There's no one there.
- But when I would fully look up at it,
there wouldn't be anything there.
I was a little confused because
there was nobody standing
in the doorway and I didn't
think it was a patient
or a visitor.
I wasn't too sure what was going on.
- People see entities in
all kinds of situations,
and many times they'll see
them walk right through wall.
Anybody who works in any
emergency services and especially
in a setting like a hospital,
they're very perceptive,
very intuitive to all
kinds of spiritual energy.
- Well, I haven't heard anything.
- So as I'm standing
there talking with her,
I could see there was a man
in a gown who was walking
across the room.
- Cheyenne?
- Keeping his head straight,
he didn't turn, look at me,
he just walked as if
he had a purpose to get
to the other side of the room.
- Who do we have in bed four?
- No one, there's
no one in bed four.
- Are you sure?
And I stopped talking and I'm pretty sure
my mouth stayed open.
I knew I was dealing with
something not of this world.
Do you not see it?
- See what?
I don't see anything.
Are you sure you're feelin' okay?
- That moment was definitely
a holy **** moment.
I was trying to understand
what I had seen.
He was in here, I swear.
I knew that nobody was in there,
and I knew that room was empty.
- Let's go back, it's all good.
- I knew that I had just seen a ghost.
It's terrifying when you can't explain
what had happened and what you saw.
- It's okay, hon.
Maybe just take the rest of the night off.
- Shortly after seeing
the apparition of the man,
I ended up changing jobs.
After these experiences, I
haven't been able to sleep
in the dark.
I do have to leave a light on.
These experiences also intrigue me.
It draws me to want to know
more about what happens
to us when we die.