Haunted Hospitals (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - Episode #1.4 - full transcript

- I was excited to start working.

I thought I had wanted to be a doctor.

- And then I started to hear something.

- Is anybody there?

- No one else saw it but me.

- I'm holding onto him and
I'm terrified and trembling.

- And that completely freaked me out.

- Hello.

- Fresh off
her first year of college,

teenager Marcy Pearsall is hired

at the facility by her mom.



- And the patient lounge is upstairs,

I'm just gonna go put my stuff
away and I'll be right back.

- My mother was the director of nursing

and she thought she had
the perfect job for me

and that was to be a nurse's aid.

I thought I had wanted to be a doctor.

- And don't forget tomorrow you're gonna

have to punch in too.

- Okay.
- Okay.

And that's all there is to it.

- I was excited to start working.

I mean, I was 19 years old
and this was my first job.

- But at night, the whole place

takes on a different tone.



- It was a lot of hard work
but I met some terrific people,

not only the people I worked with

but patients who require daily care

with their washing, eating,
clothing, et cetera.

I grew to love these people.

- But the perfect summer job

takes on a dark twist
when Marcy is assigned

to work the night shift

in a facility long believed
by locals to be haunted.

At night the whole place
takes on a different tone.

- When I walked through those doors,

it was an uncomfortable feeling.

And there is a sense of a
coldness and an aloneness.

Just a sense of loneliness.

There were times when you
would hear a door shut.

And when they shut there's a
vibration and there's an echo.

I definitely felt uneasy.

- It's an old place.
- It's an old place

so I didn't think very much of that

but I thought, so that
starts to set the stage

where you go, this is a little odd.

- But a few nights
later, those strange feelings

come to a head.

- I just put the residents into bed.

So this would have probably
been about 10 o'clock

in the evening.

I heard footsteps and there
was not supposed to be

anyone off of my floor.

I heard the door slam.

- And the 19 year old

is the only staff member in the wing.

- What's
your biggest concern here?

- The safety of the residents
was always a concern.

And a resident leaving the
facility was always a fear.

You wanted to keep people
accounted for and safe.

The door slam was on a stairwell

that would go from the second
floor down to the first floor.

But it wasn't one that
was used very often.

- Marcy needs to
know if it's just the creak

of an old house or if
she's dealing with someone

that shouldn't be there.

- I'd look down the stairs
and no one was there.

I thought how weird because
I never heard a door

open or close for anyone to go out

and that creeped me out.

- But she feels that something

is still very much in that room.

- I felt an energy around me.

I felt kind of a heaviness on my shoulders

and around my neck,

like there was a presence
hovering over me.

It's like someone breathing on me.

I just felt like I needed to push forward.

There was no explanation,
someone went in there

and didn't come back out.

And I found myself wanting
to get out of there

as soon as possible.

- A few nights
later, Marcy starts

having second thoughts about the dream job

that she got through her mother.

- The nurse wanted you to
take these lab results to her.

- There was the feeling of
what did you get me into.

It was already bad
enough that I was working

all these night shifts but
now I'm beginning to wander

what else is going on here.

I hear general noises such
as doors, I hear a cough

but you think, okay, people are sleeping,

this is their home.

But you would look out and
there was a set of lights

and at any given time during the night,

the lights would start to flicker.

Thinking there's something wrong,

you would go up to, I would
go up to the light switch

and flick them on and
off and they'd be fine.

- It's hard to tell whether something

is being done on purpose
as a communication

or whether it's something

that's actually happening atmospherically

because something has changed

in the electric energy in the room.

- And then they would flicker again.

- Marcy, what
did you see in that room?

- At her new job,

Marcy experiences bizarre
events she can't explain.

- There was a rocking
chair and it was rocking.

I didn't hear footsteps,
I didn't hear a voice.

I felt like there was a presence

and as I looked at it,

it just stopped.

And that completely freaked me out.

- This could be a situation
of poltergeist activity

so either a spirit that's actually

purposely moving the rocking chair

or something else going
on that we can't explain.

- I think I was stunned.

I think I was just kinda numb

and questioning what it was.

The overall effect that had
was what is going on here?

- Experiencing a haunting
that's escalating

can be an extremely
vulnerable place to be in

because their world is
shifting and changing

and they can't understand why.

- One thing is clear,

whatever is happening in the nursing home

is only happening to Marcy.

- No one else was getting spooked.

No one else was getting scared.

I was thinking, okay, what's next?

- But the
worst was yet to come.

- I was working the day shift on the floor

where people require the most care

and this one resident, I
remember her, lovely lady

and as I'm feeding her, I
felt like a wisp of wind

that made me look back and

I saw a little boy

and as quick as I saw him, he was gone.

This is 8:30 in the morning

and there weren't visitors at that time.

I was wandering who this little boy was,

I was wandering where his parents were

and I also thought who dressed him funny.

It wasn't modern clothing, to
me it felt like another time.

- Often times people
will report seeing them

in period clothing and what
we found is that human spirits

often times manifest themselves
at a time in their life

when they were having the most fun,

they were really enjoying something.

- You haven't seen a little
boy running around here?

- And they looked at me and went no.

And I said I swear I saw a little boy

peak in when I was feeding breakfast

and there's no one here Marc, okay.

- Later that day,

Marcy learns that her patient has died

and takes the news hard.

- This is where the chill of
all chills went through me

because I just felt a wisp of wind

and when I looked back I saw the boy.

I watched him run but there was no sound.

- So he ran full speed

but you heard nothing.

- Heard nothing, I heard nothing.

- Did you see a little boy run past here?

- I didn't know what to believe.

I didn't know what was real.

- But later that
week, all that would change.

- I was working days
again on the same floor

and I was in the room with
a gentleman this time.

And I felt a heaviness, I felt
like there was someone else

in there with us.

The breeze came through the room.

- During a haunting, what
can be reported frequently

is drops in temperature and breezes

that can't be explained
and sometimes it can be

something as simple as communication

but it can also be at times
a sign of a negative entity.

- I looked over my right shoulder

and it was the same boy,
it was the same ball cap.

- With one small exception.

He turns invisible.

- That to me was the confirmation,
I really saw a ghost.

There was no going back after that.

- That eventing
for a second time in a week,

Marcy's patient dies
following a visitation

from the mysterious boy.

- I made the connection at that time

that this little boy for whatever reason

he was looking in at these two people

and they passed shortly after then.

- Entities may actually be
able to recognize or tell

whether or not somebody is coming close

to the end of their life.

It's possible that this young boy

may have been interested in giving Marcy

more of his own history.

- She goes looking for answers.

She heads to the basement storage area,

hoping to uncover the identity
of the little boy ghost.

- When a resident would
die, families a lot of times

would not pick up their belongings

and so they would be kept
in that storage area.

Every once and awhile
you would feel the wind,

there should have been no wind there.

- Did you ever
see anything a little out

of place in that basement?

- Yes.

Something that chilled me to the core.

I knew whatever this was
was not of this world.

- Marcy Pearsall's summer job

has included hauntings
by two separate spirits.

Carrying the unclaimed possessions

of a recently deceased patient,

Marcy reaches the storage room.

- When residents come in, they
come in with their suitcases,

it'll have their name on them.

Clothes that their coming in

that they're probably
never gonna wear again.

Suitcase after suitcase after suitcase,

the easy chairs, the
rockers, pictures, paintings.

- One particular
artifact resonates.

Marcy is drawn to a newspaper
article from the 1950's.

- In the 1950's in the U.S. and Canada,

there was a lot of trials
that were done unauthorized

on both polio and tuberculosis vaccines.

Unfortunately a lot of
those people were children

and many passed away.

- When I was told about this
polio vaccine experiment

and that there was possibly
children who had passed

the first thing that did
come into my mind was

wait a minute, was that that little boy?

I remember coming across a
couple of baseballs and a glove

and wandering if that
didn't have something to do

with that little boy.

- Could the
spirits haunting this space

have been unwilling or
unknowing test subjects?

- The idea that we will
die a horrible death

and get stuck here is something

that we hear about quite frequently.

We found that all of the entities

that we've dealt with and encountered,

all of these people have
a reason for being here.

- Not a lot of people are aware

but there's a cemetery
behind the facility.

I think there is a lot of sadness

that they were buried alone,

that they may have died alone.

- That realization
is both sad and terrifying.

- I knew this was a life changing event.

I knew from that moment
on that I was changed.

As far as what it changed for me

about believing in the spirit world,

it validated it completely

and every time I go past the facility now,

I look at this great castle like structure

and I think of how many people

have both lived and died there

and I have no doubts that spirits exist.

I have no doubts that whatever
the vale they speak of

we can walk freely back and forth

and I believe the other side does.

- What's wrong?

- It's been
another long evening

racing across the city
transporting emergency patients

to the local hospital for
veteran paramedic Betty Lawrence.

- I was working as an EMT,
both on emergency calls

and on what's called transports.

More calls come in in the
evening, there are more accidents

with lighting and weather
and that type of things.

- With her shift done,

she heads out to meet her boyfriend

who also works at the
hospital as a security guard.

Her boyfriend works at
the building next door,

what used to be the original hospital

which for years now has sat empty.

- My boyfriend called me up and he said,

come see me, I'm tired
of being alone here.

- But her
boyfriend isn't quite done

with his shift.

He has one last round to make
in the old empty building.

- And I'm thinking, well
okay, I'll wait here for you.

And he's like, no come with me.

I heard it was haunted

and I thought, okay,
I'm not gonna be alone,

it'll be all right, I'll be with him.

And we began to go in.

- No you really didn't.

- Her boyfriend's
main security issue

is illegal trespassers.

- He was looking for
kids trying to break in

and mess around and that type of thing.

And that made me a little uneasy.

That I felt like I was
looking into a facility

that all of a sudden
just stopped functioning

in the middle of the day.

- Why's all the curtains still here?

- It was like all the
people just disintegrated

and that was disturbing about it.

- I've never really
thought about it before

but it's weird.

- Abandoned hospitals are
very attractive to spirits.

There's so much death happens there

that I do believe spirit
energy just gets trapped there.

- And some
hospital staff believe this

to be true.

- My boyfriend told me
that one of his coworkers

recorded sounds in the O.R.
and when he played it back

he heard someone asking help me, help me.

- And then I started to hear something.

- Thinking that
it's just her imagination

she keeps it to herself.

- I'm trying to be brave and not act like

I'm a big scaredy cat.

But as we got further into
the building it got darker

and I became more spooked.

- On this lower level,

the strange sounds seem
to be getting louder

at least for Betty.

- And we got to this room and
I'll never forget the number,

it was 4B.

- What did
you see in room 4B, Betty?

- The chair moving about a foot forward.

- It moved, it was facing
the other direction.

- I think you're just seeing things.

- And of course, he's looking at me like,

okay she's crazy.

- Stay close, come on.

- I kept telling myself it
was the trick of the light,

it was the way the light was moving.

- As they reach
the old operating room

in the basement, they're halfway

through her boyfriend's round

and the furthest point to the exit door.

And we started to move forward

into the first operating theater,

that scared me just the appearance of it.

They had left the operating table,

there were trays that look like

they would have had equipment on them.

It was like walking into a cave

because there was no
outside light of any kind.

And the darkness started to be oppressive.

The room was cold, like
the air conditioning

was turned up as high as it could go.

- And suddenly

the sound of a little girl crying.

- Can you hear that.

- It seemed to be all around us,

it was kind of like it
came from the very walls

of the building itself.

I'm thinking there's somebody in the room,

some flesh and blood person in the room.

- But whatever is in that room

is neither flesh nor blood.

Betty and her boyfriend's patrol

of a closed hospital wing

leads to a terrifying discovery.

- Everywhere I turn I hear
this little girl crying.

- Was it loud, hysterical?

- It was a high pitch cry.

Little girls when they get scared,

they'll do this little quiet sobby voice

and that's what it sounded like to me.

- Can you hear that?

- It was almost desperate
as if it was a child

that had been alone for a long time.

Like someone who had lost something.

- Hello, hello, is anybody there?

Can you hear me?

- Betty
realizes that she's dealing

with something that cannot be found.

- It was terrifying for me in that my mind

started to go to what happened here?

- Come on.

Where is she?

- Were the very walls themselves
doing the crying noise?

I was getting very frightened,

the hair on my neck was standing
up, my arms, it was cold.

We searched all of the O.R. rooms.

Normally if someone's
talking or making a noise,

you can find them, it gets louder

and that never happened.

- I can't leave here here.
- Then

somethings they would never forget.

- I was terrified and none of my training

prepared me to deal with things

that couldn't be rationally
explained or dealt with.

- As they raced for the exit,

Betty feels the invisible hand

was pulling her back.
- Come on!

- Whatever was in there,
it wanted to keep me there.

- Come on, come on!

- I know things existed but
it wasn't like I went out

and sought them out to experiencing them.

- On their way
out as they pass room 4B,

they hear the girl clearly inside.

- Turn it on, turn it on.

- I'm trying!

- She sounded so mournful, so lost.

Like she was just
- Turn it on.

- I'm trying.
desperate for help.

And all of a sudden.

Scared me to death.

- Betty and her
boyfriend are under attack

by an entity who's out for blood.

- You all right?
- Yes.

- This particular case you're
dealing with child spirit

that seems to be actually
kind of negative.

So the actions of this
child's spirit suggests

it's of evil intent.

- Hello!

- Her boyfriend
decides to check it out.

- We have to go now.
- He figured that there

were pranksters, that there
were teenagers in the room

and they thought they were
gonna pull a prank on us.

- So he
marches into the room,

what did you do?

- I was torn because I didn't
wanna go into that room

and at the same hand I didn't
wanna be in the hallway

by myself either.

There was nothing out
of the ordinary inside.

The room was empty.

Come on, let's go.

- I'm holding onto him and
I'm terrified and trembling.

- It is possible that this
child spirit they're hearing

is someone who passed away there.

It's also possible this child spirit

is blaming the two of
them for her own death.

- I just wanted to get
out of that building.

- Once outside,
they can finally breathe

a massive sigh of relief and take stock.

- Having lived through that,

it made me a believer
that such things existed.

Before I would have been looking

for the scientific
explanation and if someone

would have told me the
story that I just told,

I wouldn't have believed them.

To this day the sound of
her voice still haunts me.

- In a community hospital

in New York's Hudson Valley
veteran ER nurse supervisor,

Sandra Kenna has no doubt
that spirits walk amongst us.

- I've always believed in the paranormal.

The only time I really
had been scared by spirits

was at one of the
hospitals where I worked.

- Especially
one particular evening

on Hallows Eve.

- I'm sitting at the nurse's station

and I saw the call bell go off.

I begin walking down the hallway
toward the patient's room.

- That's when
Sandra sees something

she cannot explain.

- She was dressed what appeared to be

an old nurse's white uniform.

- One of the debates
in the paranormal world

is why do we see apparitions one way

and then sometimes another?

It's theorized that people
may not be able to see

completely into the frequency

in which they're actually existing.

- I'm concerned because I know it's none

of my coworkers 'cause none of us

wear old fashioned white uniforms anymore.

- When she disappears
into the patient's room,

Sandra starts to panic.

- My job as a nurse is
take care of the patients

and keep them safe no matter what.

- Excuse me, excuse me.

- So you enter the room

and then what happens?

- And there's no one there.

I no longer see this white shadow

or this other person in the room.

- Anything else?
- Yes.

I found that the poor man had passed away

and it was rather scary and terrifying.

That's when I heard the whispering.

You could not make out what
actually was being said

and it sounded like a feeble old woman.

I am the only one that
ever heard these whispers

as far as I know.

- But she cannot find

where the sounds are coming from.

- It was rather scary to see this nurse,

not knowing who it was.

It could have been maybe a stranger

or someone off the street
that shouldn't be in the room

or shouldn't have access to the hospital.

It kind of scared me and
kind of was freaking me out

because no one else saw it but me.

- Sandra
witnesses what she thinks

- Excuse me, excuse me.
is a harbinger of death.

- It was very unnerving to see this woman

or this shadow go into a patient's room.

It caused a lot of anxiety
because the patient passed away.

- But over the
course of the next few months,

a dark, terrifying pattern emerges.

- I learned over the course of time

when this white nurse went into
one of the patient's rooms,

a few minutes later the
patient passed away.

After seeing her many
times in that same hallway,

I actually began to call this
person an angel of death.

As an old nurse, maybe she
had taken care of only hospice

or palliative care, end of
life patients in the past.

And now she was doing
it for all of eternity

on the same floor, it
was her calling in life

and her continually calling in death.

- My opinion about this
particular incident with the nurse

is that she absolutely knew where she was,

knew what she was doing and
was there to assist somebody

in a really hard time.

- But soon Sandra is shifted

to another part of the hospital.

- Not long after I had
left the medical floor

to work somewhere else.

- Where she no longer

encounters the angel of death.

- I was glad to leave that
old shadow nurse behind

on the medical floor.

- But Sandra
is confronted by something

even more unsettling
than the angel of death.

- And I felt like
somebody was watching me.

- Like a presence.
- Like a presence, yes,

like a presence.

- The unknown can be a
really disturbing place

for people.

Paranormal experiences
can make people feel

very isolated and when we get a situation

where somebody's working alone,

then it becomes even more amplified.

- I felt very afraid.

I could feel like the hairs on
the back of my neck stand up.

It appeared to be like a
tall, dark, black shadow

following me.

It terrified me.

- She
considers calling for help

but she senses that this is a spirit

that she must face on her own.

- Did you
see anything after that?

- Yes.

- Too terrified to turn around

she improvises.

This time the black shadow
takes on a more human shape.

- There was a tall, black figure dressed

in a long, black trench coat
with a black fedora type hat.

- Sandra is shocked
to see a familiar face.

- It took me by surprise more or less.

I feel as though it was my father.

My dad when he was alive always wore

this long black trench coat

and he always wore a fedora type hat.

- Human spirits tend to really
be looking for the comfort

of their loved ones

so the idea that maybe her
father didn't show himself

right away might actually be an indicator

of the fact that he may
have not been too sure

how to approach her.

- I had always been
very close with my dad.

He was everything to me

and I was his, what he
called his little princess.

- Sandra is suddenly
overcome with emotions.

- I believe that the shadow is my father

following me and watching over me

and guiding me and helping
me and keeping me safe.

- Over the next few weeks,

Sandra is comforted by the feeling

of her father's presence nearby.

- One nurse in particular
said to me one night,

Sandy, who is that tall man
following you down the hall

and I turned to her and I said,

that's just my dad, don't worry.

- Within weeks
Sandra has interacted

with two very different spirits.

- She saw this nurse
entity in the hospital

and not too long later saw
the apparition of her father.

Sometimes when we get into
that state of expectation

and that state of allowing,

we end up seeing more things
than we would normally.

- Where the white shadow
figure was more like the bearer

of bad news, the bearer of death

and this shadow figure was my father

guiding me and keeping me safe.

- Is he
standing behind you right now?

- Right now, no, there is no one

standing beside me right now.

- And cut.
- Cut.