Haunted Hospitals (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Episode #1.5 - full transcript
Rebecca thought she'd lucked out when she landed a job as a security guard at a reputable hospital. But nobody told her that a creepy ghost child and the disturbing spirit of pregnant woman...
- I loved working at the hospital.
- I want to be that
person to help those kids.
I knew that was where I was meant to be.
- Until these things
started happening to me.
- I jumped out of my skin.
I was terrified.
- It was not of this world.
- Nothing will change my mind.
It's definitely real.
- Come play with me.
- All nurses to the nurses station.
- In a busy hospital
near the shores of Lake Erie,
security officer Rebecca Yergen
is celebrating her third month on the job.
- I loved working at the hospital.
I always have been a people person,
like to help people out.
So I was really excited
about working there.
I was friendly with a couple
of the cleaning ladies.
- I referred to
them at Lavern and Shirley.
They were very sweet ladies.
- Rebecca is a mother of two,
with a degree in criminology.
- I worked the night shift.
This way, when my children were
awake, I was home with them,
then after they went to
bed is when I went to work.
There were a lot of
buildings to walk through,
not only inside, but
also around the outside
of the buildings as well.
It was about the
equivalent of eight miles.
- Rebecca's
nightly patrol route
takes her through a section of buildings
abandoned for decades.
- While they were abandoned,
they hadn't been torn down yet.
So it was really crucial to make sure
that those buildings were secured.
Was always really dark,
even during the daylight,
because the windows were blacked out,
or were boarded up.
- Back in the early 1900s,
these buildings were used
as a psychiatric ward and a morgue.
- It was just an uncomfortable
place to walk through.
It just gave me the
willies, I didn't like it.
- She just had bad feelings there.
Sometimes when you go
into a certain location,
you just get feelings.
I've been in locations where I just
wanted to run out screaming,
because the feelings
were so intense there.
- There were coke addicts in the area
that would use that to meet up
with their connections, or someone trying
to break in to steal the
copper piping for money.
So part of my job was
shuffling someone out
that didn't belong there.
- But intruders are not
the only thing that worry Rebecca.
- I would hear doors close,
or a light would turn on that I know
that I previously turned off.
I believe that there's an
explanation for everything.
At least, I used to.
- As the
days and nights passed,
Rebecca finds herself less and less able
to explain the small things away.
- I was a little more hesitant
to go in certain areas of the hospital.
I had to really tell myself,
"You need to go here.
"This is your job, this is
what you're paid to do."
- One night, Rebecca's doubts
boil over into fear.
- I was walking past a door,
and that's when I heard some rustling.
I went in to check it out.
This room was just very cold, chilly,
just I'm not sure how to explain
how unnerving it was
for me to be in there.
That's when I saw cockroaches everywhere.
The floor, the ceiling, the walls.
It really scared me.
- But then
something even more bizarre.
- When I turned my flashlight back,
there was nothing actually there.
It all disappeared.
There were no cockroaches anywhere.
What I saw were the walls, the floor,
the ceiling, they were crawling with them,
and they can't all just
scatter that quickly.
There was something going
on that I couldn't explain.
I wanted to run, but I heard this voice.
- Come find me.
Come play with me.
- It was a child's voice.
- Find me.
- It sounded
like it was running away.
- Come find me.
- It sounded like it wanted me
to come play with her.
- Come find me.
Play with me.
Find me.
Find me.
- If there was a child, that would not
be a good place for them to be.
Being a mom, I know if your child is lost,
you need to go find them,
and that's a very strong urge as a parent.
I was afraid that this
person was in danger.
- But Rebecca soon comes
to the terrifying conclusion
that she is all alone.
- The hair on the
back of my neck was standing up.
The hair on my arms was standing up.
- Come find me.
- But I heard this
voice that said "Find me".
- Come play with me.
- It was now starting to sink in
what could possibly be going on.
- Which is?
- Which, it was a ghost.
- Here I am.
Come find me.
- Security
officer Rebecca Yergen
fears that the strange
events happening at work
may be routed in the paranormal.
- If there is an entity there,
they need energy to do
whatever they're gonna do.
Maybe they need energy to speak,
maybe they need energy to move something.
So they will drain our electrical energy
from our equipment to try
to make themselves known.
- I felt fear.
- Find me.
Come find me.
- As a security guard, it is my job
to go explore and find out
what's really going on.
At that moment, I couldn't go any further.
I was too scared.
I ran out of that area.
And I cried, because
that's how scared I was.
It made me cry.
- Terrified,
she calls her boyfriend.
- Hello?
- Babe.
- I was crying, and I was just
telling him what happened.
I really just wanted to go home.
I didn't wanna be alone
in that building anymore.
- What was his reaction?
Did he seem to believe what
you were saying to him?
- He did believe me.
He actually did show up probably
about half an hour after the phone call.
And he walked through the rest
of the buildings with me
the rest of the night,
and helped calm me down.
- Over the next few weeks,
Rebecca tries to come to terms
with what she saw and heard.
- I was really questioning my rationality
in all of this, because I didn't believe
in things like that until these things
started happening to me.
- That rationality
was about to be tested again.
- This is base,
we have an alarm going off.
- I got a call from the hospital operator,
stating that there was
someone stuck in elevator D.
- D as in David?
- Correct.
- Elevator D was in the closed off
section of the hospital,
and this was after hours.
Even though the buildings were abandoned,
the elevators were still functioning,
because security had to use the elevator
to get up to the top floor.
That was the only way to get up there.
- Unless you have a special key
carried by the security guards,
there is no way to activate the elevators.
- Anyone that would of broken
into the building would not
be able to use the elevators,
because the elevator doors were
locked open when not in use.
The only way anybody
could use that elevator
is if the would have stolen my keys.
I was thinking that
maybe someone was stuck
in a different elevator,
and not the D elevator.
Maybe the operator had
just gotten it wrong.
- Sure enough,
her hunch seems dead on.
- The door is wide open, the way I left it
after I used it from
previously doing rounds,
and there is absolutely no one in it.
It's empty.
- Said building D, elevator D, right?
- Yeah, that's
right, that one's showing.
- She checks the elevator
control panel for anything unusual.
- So I think
okay, maybe somebody
accidentally hit one of the
call lights in the elevator.
I found that it was all
in working condition.
- Rebecca senses a presence,
but knows it's not
something she can report.
- You there, Rebecca?
- Yeah, I have nothing.
I'm coming back.
- Okay.
- I believe psych wards
are more prone to paranormal activity,
only because there's
a lot of energy there.
There may not be a lot of deaths,
depending on the type of psych ward,
but there's a lot of emotional energy
that could still be
there, from the patients.
- I just go about the rest of my shift,
and just blow it off.
- No, let's get one.
- An hour
later, while on break,
Rebecca gets another call.
- I've got a situation here,
there's definitely
someone on the elevator D.
- I get another call from the operator,
stating "Hey, there's someone
stuck in that elevator".
I'm just thinking to
myself, I was just there.
- Okay, okay, calm down.
I'll send someone.
- Then I hear the voice.
- Help me, I'm stuck.
- It was the voice coming from
the call box from the elevator.
I could hear it through
the operator's phone.
- Please.
Please get help.
- I can hear
this woman crying for help,
asking "Please come help me.
"I'm stuck, help me."
- Help me.
- Now I'm thinking,
somebody got back there
and they got stuck, and I didn't know
how I was going to get them out
of a stuck elevator that shouldn't
have even been in use, and they shouldn't
have even had access to.
- Can you guys come with me?
- They saw that I was frustrated,
but I was also scared at the same time,
and so they came with me.
- Hey Rebecca.
- She still there?
- No, I'm not
hearing her right now.
Are you close?
- We're almost at the elevators.
- I didn't realize what I
was actually encountering
until I encountered it.
- Hello?
- Less than 100
feet from the elevator,
they are hit with a horrible smell,
the stink of rotting flesh.
- Awful!
- She's back, Rebecca, hurry.
- Come, this way!
- You could clearly tell that this person
was frantic and scared.
- Help!
Please!
- Come on, come on, come on.
Hello?
- Don't leave me.
Don't leave me.
Help me and my baby!
Help!
- She kept saying "The baby, the baby,
"help me, the baby."
- My gosh.
- God.
Please, I need help.
- To me, it sounded like she was pregnant
and maybe in labor, or
maybe she just had a baby.
- Hello?
- I was really scared.
I was afraid that this
person was in danger,
and I wasn't able to help her.
- Don't leave me.
Don't leave me!
- And then dead silence.
- Help me and the babe.
- They just kept looking at me,
and looking at the
elevator, just like I was,
and we were all confused.
- The elevator starts to move.
- Without a doubt, there was
something in that elevator.
- Then it stops.
Rebecca comes to a terrifying realization.
- The voice I heard was not of the living.
- Security
officer Rebecca Yergen
experiences strange and
disturbing phenomenon at work.
- This was a lot like the experience
I had with the cockroach room,
that it wasn't actually of this world.
It felt like someone was there,
but there was no one there.
You ever get that feeling
that when you're sitting somewhere,
and it feels like someone
is staring at you,
and you turn your head and look,
and they're actually staring at you?
But you didn't know that,
because you didn't see it,
you felt it, and that's what it felt like.
- This can be something
that's actually residual.
It may have happened
actually in that hospital,
in that location that one time,
and it was such a panicked event.
You think of a mother who's pregnant,
or she has the baby with her
and she's trapped in that elevator,
it would be a very traumatic event.
It's the energy of that event
that is trapped in the location.
And under certain conditions,
the right moment in time,
it'll replay itself.
- You heard that, right?
- Hey, who's this?
- It's Rebecca, elevator
D, you just sent me here.
- Sorry, I don't
know what you're talking about.
- That operator had no
idea what was going on.
That totally freaked me out.
There are things going on in this hospital
that I cannot explain.
And the fight or flight was taking in,
and I couldn't get out
of there quick enough.
- On the
advice of a supervisor,
the police are brought in to investigate,
with negative results.
- 56 car.
Found negative results.
- The one officer, when we
walked through the building.
- A response
car for first rider.
- His demeanor and his posture,
and the way he acted was, this was a prank
and it was a big waste of their time.
- Soon after,
Rebecca is transferred
to a different hospital.
- It was good to go.
I was glad to say goodbye to the hospital.
- But still seeking validation
for what she saw, she contacts
a paranormal investigator.
- I just needed to talk to someone
who would believe me, and not think
that I was going insane, or
hallucinating, or whatever.
- Veteran investigator
Gregg Feketik answers the call.
- I met Rebecca outside the hospital,
and you could tell that she was
apprehensive about being there.
I wanted her to return to the hospital
so she could show me where
her experiences occurred.
She was a trooper and she went in.
- I hesitated at first.
I really didn't wanna
go back in there again.
My heart was starting to race.
My hands were getting sweaty.
- She was shaking like a leaf,
I mean she was trembling.
- I'm sorry.
Sorry, this just--
- It's okay, take your time.
- Okay.
I stopped.
I said, "That right there
is the cockroach room."
- They focus on the area
where Rebecca heard the child's voice,
in the hope of capturing
it's image on tape.
They bait the child with a toy.
- It is a piece of paranormal equipment
that we use, and it had a rem pod in it,
that if anything gets close to it
or tries to pick it up, there'll
be an alarm that'll sound.
- Thank you.
- I heard an EVP of a young
child saying thank you.
- Thank you!
- The hair on my neck
starts standing up again.
But then I broke down in tears,
because it just, to me
it was kind of a closure.
It helped solidify that
what I saw, I did see those things.
I really did see those things.
It wasn't all just in my imagination.
There's no doubt in my mind of the things
that I had witnessed.
And I understand why
people wouldn't believe,
and that's how I felt too,
for the longest time was,
yeah whatever, this isn't real,
until it actually happened to me.
And now nothing will change my mind.
- Come back.
Don't go.
Please!
- When a trauma comes in,
you know that it's arriving
because you can hear
the chopper coming down.
We're on the main floor, and
that's on the eighth floor,
and you can hear the
noise, and you can smell
the fuel from the helicopter.
You have to do your job at that spot,
and you have to do it perfectly.
- ER trauma
nurse, Karen Wickiam,
had one of the hardest jobs in the world.
- Stay with us, breathe, breathe.
You're doing great.
- I worked over 20 years as
a pediatric trauma nurse.
- You're doing great, buddy.
- Few jobs come
with higher amounts of stress.
- It was quite grueling.
The gravity of realizing that
this is life and death that you're doing.
- Stay with us.
- Dr Morris dial.
- I worked for one of the
busiest hospitals in Canada.
The halls were always
full, busy, busy, busy.
Loud, people running around everywhere.
Organized chaos.
It was heart breaking,
but it was exhilarating,
in a sense, because someone
has to help these kids.
I knew that's where I was meant to be.
I wanna be that person to help those kids.
- Karen is
a serious professional,
who faces extreme hardship
and trauma every day,
so not much phases her.
But there is one place in the hospital
that makes her nervous.
- There was a tunnel that connected us
to another part of the hospital.
On the way back from
transferring a patient,
you have to push all your equipment
back through the tunnel.
Often times, you would go by yourself.
And this tunnel is sort of dark and dingy.
And it did have an ominous feel to it.
So I was walking through
the tunnel by myself.
I felt like I was being watched.
It was an echoey hallway,
and I could hear footsteps.
But there was nobody there.
I felt freaked out, I felt scared.
- Trauma nurse Karen Wickiam
experiences strange and
disturbing phenomenon at work.
- Dr Morris dial 12 please.
Dr Morris.
- After getting back on the floor,
I felt incredible relief.
It felt like I was sort of back
in the land of the living, so to speak.
I was happy to hear all the noises
and the sounds and the feel.
- Thanks, thanks.
- Hey.
- I consider myself a rational person,
especially being a nurse.
We're kind of scientific thinkers,
we want facts and numbers.
So I thought maybe there was something
going on with my head, I was imagining it.
- Here.
- Often times, we will get reports
where people feel like
they're being watched,
and when we can't explain it away
with things like high
electromagnetic fields,
it can be very intimidating.
It's something that if
not addressed outwardly
can make you feel pretty self-conscious.
- I couldn't dwell on what just happened
because my job is just too
busy, too much at stake.
I had to put everything aside,
and just go right back
into work mode again.
- But whatever
caused the footsteps
in the tunnel is not ready
to leave Karen Wickiam alone.
- There was an area in the
emerge called observation.
It's the furthest part of the emerge.
After a child has settled, we have them
in the room, so maybe they can have
a good nights sleep
and we could watch them
until they're ready to go upstairs.
I didn't necessarily like working
back in observation by myself at night.
It's quiet back there.
- Small things
begin to happen around Karen.
- So we started noticing
that things would go missing.
Blood pressure cuff.
Rolls of tape.
A stethoscope.
Some of your pens.
We were always blaming everybody
from stealing them from
the observation area,
and we would go try to
hunt down another member
and say "Did you take
our blood pressure cuff?
"Did you take this and that?"
And people would be saying,
"I haven't even been back there today."
When other nurses started talking
about noticing that happening as well,
we knew that there was something up,
something strange going on.
- Other types of strange events
in the observation room
keep Karen on edge.
- You would hear noises that were not
from another colleague or a patient,
because there may not
be someone in that room.
I would hear the clanging noises
of the bed rails, and
a curtain would move,
but there wasn't any air conditioning
or heat register that was causing it.
Your brain's always trying to be logical,
and you'd just go "The
cleaners were in there
"and they didn't put it up properly",
or "There was a breeze."
The noises distracted me
from what I was doing,
which is the last thing I wanted.
I had to stay focused.
I had to do the job at hand.
I couldn't let anything take me away
from my primary duty, which
is taking care of these kids.
- But in another
part of the observation area,
these strange events become
impossible to ignore.
- This is a room back in observation
that we would generally try to keep empty,
because unfortunately, children do pass
in the hospital, in the emerge.
We want parents to be able to spend
some time with these children.
Staff would take naps in there,
even though some of us didn't like it.
- It's time to get up.
- We would still go in there,
and hope that we could have a quick sleep.
- Have a good night.
- I had worked five 12
hour night shifts in a row,
so I was absolutely exhausted.
We had a tiny bit of a reprieve
to take a break, which
almost never happens,
and I knew I needed to lie my head down.
I was so relieved that
I could have a break,
I was asleep before my
head hit the pillow.
- Karen's sleep is disturbed
by a sudden fluctuation in energy,
and a drastic change in temperature.
- When I woke up suddenly, the first thing
I noticed was how cold it was in the room.
I was thinking, this doesn't feel right.
It felt like someone had
sat on the bed next to me.
- Who's there?
- Help me.
- Trauma nurse Karen Wickiam
experiences escalating and terrifying
paranormal activity at work.
- Help me.
- I jumped out of my skin.
I was terrified.
I had never experienced
anything like it in my life.
It was real as real could be.
- Help me.
- She was maybe about five.
She had long hair.
She had almost like an
older timey night gown on,
but it had the little frillies,
right down to the ankle kind of thing.
There was something behind the door.
- Suddenly the
ghost child disappears.
- There was something dark in that room.
Almost like if you opened that door,
it would be like opening
to like a portal of hell.
- Hospitals are prone
to have both negative
and positive energy.
There's lots of explanations and reasons
as to why this might happen.
When we start to think
about the chemical energy
that it takes to be in extreme emotion,
such as upset, or death.
This is energy that gets
projected out there.
When we see reports of negative entities
being attached to these situations,
or rather manifested in these situations,
we have to start to wonder
if there is a connection between the two.
- I ran out of the room.
Ran back to the nurses station
and told them what happened.
- Hey, you know that room
that we take our breaks in?
Have you ever had anything
weird happen there?
- Some of them laughed at me,
but then some of them started
to tell their own experiences and stories
that they felt in that room themself.
This experience changed me.
Initially, it's hard for your brain
to believe it, but then I thought,
the history and the type of cases
we've had, I believe that there was
something more going on.
- And in this case, this back room
was often used for families that had
just lost a child, that were grieving,
that were having to make some extremely
difficult decisions in
regards to their welfare.
So I can only imagine the type
of intense emotion that was released
in a space like that.
- Looking back, I believe that
there was a child's
spirit in there with me.
- Help me!
- I believe that there's something dark
behind that door, that maybe
is keeping that child in that room.
- Help me.
- One of my biggest fears is that
when children pass, they don't just
go over to a beautiful place,
that they somehow get trapped here,
and that experience left me with a feeling
that maybe not all
children get to move on.
- Nurse Joseph
McKinlay moves to Canada,
and quickly lands a new
job in the psychiatric wing
of a small town hospital.
- In my capacity as the person in charge
of the behavior unit, I
had the responsibility
of making rounds to the
four units on the ground.
The shift usually started 11:30.
- All right man, I'll get to it, okay?
I'm gonna--
- I usually left the
office round about 12.
Then I would go to the other units
to see how things were there.
And I opened the back
door, and there I seen
this figure passing by.
- Good evening?
- I couldn't tell if
it was a student nurse,
a registered nurse, a charged nurse.
She wouldn't have been a student nurse,
because the training school
had been closed for a year.
- Joseph does
not recognize the figure
as any staff member he knows.
And her uniform is out of date.
- She could have been from the 1950s,
she could have been from the 1960s.
- Hey man, you seen anything
weird out here recently?
Okay, never mind.
- We tend to find ghosts in places
where there has been great
emotion, positive or negative.
- Positive entities, or human spirits,
or what we consider human spirits,
often times seek the
attention of the living,
because they really enjoy the interaction.
They enjoy having that relationship.
- To me, it appeared as
a nurse going for a walk,
except for when she disappeared.
- After starting a new job,
nurse Joseph McKinlay
sees a walking figure
that cannot be explained.
- The night that I was
in charge of the unit,
I would probably say I seen
her about 50% of the time.
Whether this person was
real, or did I see 'em,
or didn't I see them?
It was my choice.
- Good evening?
- Others have spotted
the mystery nurse before,
but her identity remains unknown.
And no one has seen her up close.
- She had a nurses cap on,
and she was wearing her uniform.
She looked like a black
and white photograph.
- And then
Joseph sees something
that defies any explanation.
- The face was a lighter shade of gray.
I myself think it was not of this world.
Most people try to rationalize
what they have seen one way or another.
There was times I had a few doubts
about what I had seen, and
what it could have been.
You're stuck between a
rock and a hard place.
Do you go and tell people that you know
are going to disbelieve you?
Or people that believe you,
and think that's there's a ghost?
What do you do?
And I can see some people saying
"No, I never seen it, and
I ain't going to do it,
"because of what it's going to lead to."
- But this frightening figure
is not the only mystery
Joseph will encounter.
- After returning from making rounds,
I'm going into my office.
I noted a candle lying on my desk
with the wick facing north,
and the base of the candle south.
And I thought, where did this come from?
- Then something even stranger.
- I looked, the window of the office,
there is a nice hole where a candle
came right through it.
No glass, except for this nice shape.
And I thought, what is this?
Can you imagine a whole pane
and there's only one hole
that a candle comes through?
Wouldn't you think that the whole
pane would come through?
- Poltergeists will move objects,
and actually have interactions
with it's environment in real time.
We'll get things appearing
and disappearing,
or it can actually be the returning
of items that have been lost.
- Joseph wonders if the candle
is somehow connected to
the mysterious figure.
- Somebody had to be on the south side
of the building casting it,
so that it'd come through the window
to land on the desk.
- The mysterious figure
often appears to Joseph on the
south side of the building.
- I think that
somebody was trying
to communicate with me.
- Hey.
- Hi there, can you come up to my office
for a second please?
- I don't know.
- In Scotland, we have an oral tradition
of tales and stories that are told
on occasions that make people believe
in supernatural beings.
- Hey, what's going on?
What's up?
- I don't know.
I found this on the desk.
- Personally, myself,
doing the subtraction
of all the reasons for this candle
to be on the desk, my upbringing
led me to believe there's something
supernatural in this candle.
I thought there is no physical way
that this candle should be able
to have landed on my desk.
I asked the supervisor to go check
to see if they could find out
where this candle came from.
They came back, "We have no idea
"where this candle came from."
- Joseph
worries that the candle
is connected to the paranormal events.
Is someone or something
from the other side
trying to send him a message?
The stress from frequent sightings
becomes too much for Joe.
He decides to leave his
job and never come back.
- As I got older, I think I would
of reacted differently to
this situation than I did.
I would of wanted to know more
about whoever it was, or what
they were passing by for.
But I'm sorry, I never did it.
It's too late now to
have regrets about it.
I should have stopped
and tried to get her to,
or I should have asked her questions
about herself and that.
Too late now.
But why she came, I haven't a clue.
And she's never appeared since.
- I want to be that
person to help those kids.
I knew that was where I was meant to be.
- Until these things
started happening to me.
- I jumped out of my skin.
I was terrified.
- It was not of this world.
- Nothing will change my mind.
It's definitely real.
- Come play with me.
- All nurses to the nurses station.
- In a busy hospital
near the shores of Lake Erie,
security officer Rebecca Yergen
is celebrating her third month on the job.
- I loved working at the hospital.
I always have been a people person,
like to help people out.
So I was really excited
about working there.
I was friendly with a couple
of the cleaning ladies.
- I referred to
them at Lavern and Shirley.
They were very sweet ladies.
- Rebecca is a mother of two,
with a degree in criminology.
- I worked the night shift.
This way, when my children were
awake, I was home with them,
then after they went to
bed is when I went to work.
There were a lot of
buildings to walk through,
not only inside, but
also around the outside
of the buildings as well.
It was about the
equivalent of eight miles.
- Rebecca's
nightly patrol route
takes her through a section of buildings
abandoned for decades.
- While they were abandoned,
they hadn't been torn down yet.
So it was really crucial to make sure
that those buildings were secured.
Was always really dark,
even during the daylight,
because the windows were blacked out,
or were boarded up.
- Back in the early 1900s,
these buildings were used
as a psychiatric ward and a morgue.
- It was just an uncomfortable
place to walk through.
It just gave me the
willies, I didn't like it.
- She just had bad feelings there.
Sometimes when you go
into a certain location,
you just get feelings.
I've been in locations where I just
wanted to run out screaming,
because the feelings
were so intense there.
- There were coke addicts in the area
that would use that to meet up
with their connections, or someone trying
to break in to steal the
copper piping for money.
So part of my job was
shuffling someone out
that didn't belong there.
- But intruders are not
the only thing that worry Rebecca.
- I would hear doors close,
or a light would turn on that I know
that I previously turned off.
I believe that there's an
explanation for everything.
At least, I used to.
- As the
days and nights passed,
Rebecca finds herself less and less able
to explain the small things away.
- I was a little more hesitant
to go in certain areas of the hospital.
I had to really tell myself,
"You need to go here.
"This is your job, this is
what you're paid to do."
- One night, Rebecca's doubts
boil over into fear.
- I was walking past a door,
and that's when I heard some rustling.
I went in to check it out.
This room was just very cold, chilly,
just I'm not sure how to explain
how unnerving it was
for me to be in there.
That's when I saw cockroaches everywhere.
The floor, the ceiling, the walls.
It really scared me.
- But then
something even more bizarre.
- When I turned my flashlight back,
there was nothing actually there.
It all disappeared.
There were no cockroaches anywhere.
What I saw were the walls, the floor,
the ceiling, they were crawling with them,
and they can't all just
scatter that quickly.
There was something going
on that I couldn't explain.
I wanted to run, but I heard this voice.
- Come find me.
Come play with me.
- It was a child's voice.
- Find me.
- It sounded
like it was running away.
- Come find me.
- It sounded like it wanted me
to come play with her.
- Come find me.
Play with me.
Find me.
Find me.
- If there was a child, that would not
be a good place for them to be.
Being a mom, I know if your child is lost,
you need to go find them,
and that's a very strong urge as a parent.
I was afraid that this
person was in danger.
- But Rebecca soon comes
to the terrifying conclusion
that she is all alone.
- The hair on the
back of my neck was standing up.
The hair on my arms was standing up.
- Come find me.
- But I heard this
voice that said "Find me".
- Come play with me.
- It was now starting to sink in
what could possibly be going on.
- Which is?
- Which, it was a ghost.
- Here I am.
Come find me.
- Security
officer Rebecca Yergen
fears that the strange
events happening at work
may be routed in the paranormal.
- If there is an entity there,
they need energy to do
whatever they're gonna do.
Maybe they need energy to speak,
maybe they need energy to move something.
So they will drain our electrical energy
from our equipment to try
to make themselves known.
- I felt fear.
- Find me.
Come find me.
- As a security guard, it is my job
to go explore and find out
what's really going on.
At that moment, I couldn't go any further.
I was too scared.
I ran out of that area.
And I cried, because
that's how scared I was.
It made me cry.
- Terrified,
she calls her boyfriend.
- Hello?
- Babe.
- I was crying, and I was just
telling him what happened.
I really just wanted to go home.
I didn't wanna be alone
in that building anymore.
- What was his reaction?
Did he seem to believe what
you were saying to him?
- He did believe me.
He actually did show up probably
about half an hour after the phone call.
And he walked through the rest
of the buildings with me
the rest of the night,
and helped calm me down.
- Over the next few weeks,
Rebecca tries to come to terms
with what she saw and heard.
- I was really questioning my rationality
in all of this, because I didn't believe
in things like that until these things
started happening to me.
- That rationality
was about to be tested again.
- This is base,
we have an alarm going off.
- I got a call from the hospital operator,
stating that there was
someone stuck in elevator D.
- D as in David?
- Correct.
- Elevator D was in the closed off
section of the hospital,
and this was after hours.
Even though the buildings were abandoned,
the elevators were still functioning,
because security had to use the elevator
to get up to the top floor.
That was the only way to get up there.
- Unless you have a special key
carried by the security guards,
there is no way to activate the elevators.
- Anyone that would of broken
into the building would not
be able to use the elevators,
because the elevator doors were
locked open when not in use.
The only way anybody
could use that elevator
is if the would have stolen my keys.
I was thinking that
maybe someone was stuck
in a different elevator,
and not the D elevator.
Maybe the operator had
just gotten it wrong.
- Sure enough,
her hunch seems dead on.
- The door is wide open, the way I left it
after I used it from
previously doing rounds,
and there is absolutely no one in it.
It's empty.
- Said building D, elevator D, right?
- Yeah, that's
right, that one's showing.
- She checks the elevator
control panel for anything unusual.
- So I think
okay, maybe somebody
accidentally hit one of the
call lights in the elevator.
I found that it was all
in working condition.
- Rebecca senses a presence,
but knows it's not
something she can report.
- You there, Rebecca?
- Yeah, I have nothing.
I'm coming back.
- Okay.
- I believe psych wards
are more prone to paranormal activity,
only because there's
a lot of energy there.
There may not be a lot of deaths,
depending on the type of psych ward,
but there's a lot of emotional energy
that could still be
there, from the patients.
- I just go about the rest of my shift,
and just blow it off.
- No, let's get one.
- An hour
later, while on break,
Rebecca gets another call.
- I've got a situation here,
there's definitely
someone on the elevator D.
- I get another call from the operator,
stating "Hey, there's someone
stuck in that elevator".
I'm just thinking to
myself, I was just there.
- Okay, okay, calm down.
I'll send someone.
- Then I hear the voice.
- Help me, I'm stuck.
- It was the voice coming from
the call box from the elevator.
I could hear it through
the operator's phone.
- Please.
Please get help.
- I can hear
this woman crying for help,
asking "Please come help me.
"I'm stuck, help me."
- Help me.
- Now I'm thinking,
somebody got back there
and they got stuck, and I didn't know
how I was going to get them out
of a stuck elevator that shouldn't
have even been in use, and they shouldn't
have even had access to.
- Can you guys come with me?
- They saw that I was frustrated,
but I was also scared at the same time,
and so they came with me.
- Hey Rebecca.
- She still there?
- No, I'm not
hearing her right now.
Are you close?
- We're almost at the elevators.
- I didn't realize what I
was actually encountering
until I encountered it.
- Hello?
- Less than 100
feet from the elevator,
they are hit with a horrible smell,
the stink of rotting flesh.
- Awful!
- She's back, Rebecca, hurry.
- Come, this way!
- You could clearly tell that this person
was frantic and scared.
- Help!
Please!
- Come on, come on, come on.
Hello?
- Don't leave me.
Don't leave me.
Help me and my baby!
Help!
- She kept saying "The baby, the baby,
"help me, the baby."
- My gosh.
- God.
Please, I need help.
- To me, it sounded like she was pregnant
and maybe in labor, or
maybe she just had a baby.
- Hello?
- I was really scared.
I was afraid that this
person was in danger,
and I wasn't able to help her.
- Don't leave me.
Don't leave me!
- And then dead silence.
- Help me and the babe.
- They just kept looking at me,
and looking at the
elevator, just like I was,
and we were all confused.
- The elevator starts to move.
- Without a doubt, there was
something in that elevator.
- Then it stops.
Rebecca comes to a terrifying realization.
- The voice I heard was not of the living.
- Security
officer Rebecca Yergen
experiences strange and
disturbing phenomenon at work.
- This was a lot like the experience
I had with the cockroach room,
that it wasn't actually of this world.
It felt like someone was there,
but there was no one there.
You ever get that feeling
that when you're sitting somewhere,
and it feels like someone
is staring at you,
and you turn your head and look,
and they're actually staring at you?
But you didn't know that,
because you didn't see it,
you felt it, and that's what it felt like.
- This can be something
that's actually residual.
It may have happened
actually in that hospital,
in that location that one time,
and it was such a panicked event.
You think of a mother who's pregnant,
or she has the baby with her
and she's trapped in that elevator,
it would be a very traumatic event.
It's the energy of that event
that is trapped in the location.
And under certain conditions,
the right moment in time,
it'll replay itself.
- You heard that, right?
- Hey, who's this?
- It's Rebecca, elevator
D, you just sent me here.
- Sorry, I don't
know what you're talking about.
- That operator had no
idea what was going on.
That totally freaked me out.
There are things going on in this hospital
that I cannot explain.
And the fight or flight was taking in,
and I couldn't get out
of there quick enough.
- On the
advice of a supervisor,
the police are brought in to investigate,
with negative results.
- 56 car.
Found negative results.
- The one officer, when we
walked through the building.
- A response
car for first rider.
- His demeanor and his posture,
and the way he acted was, this was a prank
and it was a big waste of their time.
- Soon after,
Rebecca is transferred
to a different hospital.
- It was good to go.
I was glad to say goodbye to the hospital.
- But still seeking validation
for what she saw, she contacts
a paranormal investigator.
- I just needed to talk to someone
who would believe me, and not think
that I was going insane, or
hallucinating, or whatever.
- Veteran investigator
Gregg Feketik answers the call.
- I met Rebecca outside the hospital,
and you could tell that she was
apprehensive about being there.
I wanted her to return to the hospital
so she could show me where
her experiences occurred.
She was a trooper and she went in.
- I hesitated at first.
I really didn't wanna
go back in there again.
My heart was starting to race.
My hands were getting sweaty.
- She was shaking like a leaf,
I mean she was trembling.
- I'm sorry.
Sorry, this just--
- It's okay, take your time.
- Okay.
I stopped.
I said, "That right there
is the cockroach room."
- They focus on the area
where Rebecca heard the child's voice,
in the hope of capturing
it's image on tape.
They bait the child with a toy.
- It is a piece of paranormal equipment
that we use, and it had a rem pod in it,
that if anything gets close to it
or tries to pick it up, there'll
be an alarm that'll sound.
- Thank you.
- I heard an EVP of a young
child saying thank you.
- Thank you!
- The hair on my neck
starts standing up again.
But then I broke down in tears,
because it just, to me
it was kind of a closure.
It helped solidify that
what I saw, I did see those things.
I really did see those things.
It wasn't all just in my imagination.
There's no doubt in my mind of the things
that I had witnessed.
And I understand why
people wouldn't believe,
and that's how I felt too,
for the longest time was,
yeah whatever, this isn't real,
until it actually happened to me.
And now nothing will change my mind.
- Come back.
Don't go.
Please!
- When a trauma comes in,
you know that it's arriving
because you can hear
the chopper coming down.
We're on the main floor, and
that's on the eighth floor,
and you can hear the
noise, and you can smell
the fuel from the helicopter.
You have to do your job at that spot,
and you have to do it perfectly.
- ER trauma
nurse, Karen Wickiam,
had one of the hardest jobs in the world.
- Stay with us, breathe, breathe.
You're doing great.
- I worked over 20 years as
a pediatric trauma nurse.
- You're doing great, buddy.
- Few jobs come
with higher amounts of stress.
- It was quite grueling.
The gravity of realizing that
this is life and death that you're doing.
- Stay with us.
- Dr Morris dial.
- I worked for one of the
busiest hospitals in Canada.
The halls were always
full, busy, busy, busy.
Loud, people running around everywhere.
Organized chaos.
It was heart breaking,
but it was exhilarating,
in a sense, because someone
has to help these kids.
I knew that's where I was meant to be.
I wanna be that person to help those kids.
- Karen is
a serious professional,
who faces extreme hardship
and trauma every day,
so not much phases her.
But there is one place in the hospital
that makes her nervous.
- There was a tunnel that connected us
to another part of the hospital.
On the way back from
transferring a patient,
you have to push all your equipment
back through the tunnel.
Often times, you would go by yourself.
And this tunnel is sort of dark and dingy.
And it did have an ominous feel to it.
So I was walking through
the tunnel by myself.
I felt like I was being watched.
It was an echoey hallway,
and I could hear footsteps.
But there was nobody there.
I felt freaked out, I felt scared.
- Trauma nurse Karen Wickiam
experiences strange and
disturbing phenomenon at work.
- Dr Morris dial 12 please.
Dr Morris.
- After getting back on the floor,
I felt incredible relief.
It felt like I was sort of back
in the land of the living, so to speak.
I was happy to hear all the noises
and the sounds and the feel.
- Thanks, thanks.
- Hey.
- I consider myself a rational person,
especially being a nurse.
We're kind of scientific thinkers,
we want facts and numbers.
So I thought maybe there was something
going on with my head, I was imagining it.
- Here.
- Often times, we will get reports
where people feel like
they're being watched,
and when we can't explain it away
with things like high
electromagnetic fields,
it can be very intimidating.
It's something that if
not addressed outwardly
can make you feel pretty self-conscious.
- I couldn't dwell on what just happened
because my job is just too
busy, too much at stake.
I had to put everything aside,
and just go right back
into work mode again.
- But whatever
caused the footsteps
in the tunnel is not ready
to leave Karen Wickiam alone.
- There was an area in the
emerge called observation.
It's the furthest part of the emerge.
After a child has settled, we have them
in the room, so maybe they can have
a good nights sleep
and we could watch them
until they're ready to go upstairs.
I didn't necessarily like working
back in observation by myself at night.
It's quiet back there.
- Small things
begin to happen around Karen.
- So we started noticing
that things would go missing.
Blood pressure cuff.
Rolls of tape.
A stethoscope.
Some of your pens.
We were always blaming everybody
from stealing them from
the observation area,
and we would go try to
hunt down another member
and say "Did you take
our blood pressure cuff?
"Did you take this and that?"
And people would be saying,
"I haven't even been back there today."
When other nurses started talking
about noticing that happening as well,
we knew that there was something up,
something strange going on.
- Other types of strange events
in the observation room
keep Karen on edge.
- You would hear noises that were not
from another colleague or a patient,
because there may not
be someone in that room.
I would hear the clanging noises
of the bed rails, and
a curtain would move,
but there wasn't any air conditioning
or heat register that was causing it.
Your brain's always trying to be logical,
and you'd just go "The
cleaners were in there
"and they didn't put it up properly",
or "There was a breeze."
The noises distracted me
from what I was doing,
which is the last thing I wanted.
I had to stay focused.
I had to do the job at hand.
I couldn't let anything take me away
from my primary duty, which
is taking care of these kids.
- But in another
part of the observation area,
these strange events become
impossible to ignore.
- This is a room back in observation
that we would generally try to keep empty,
because unfortunately, children do pass
in the hospital, in the emerge.
We want parents to be able to spend
some time with these children.
Staff would take naps in there,
even though some of us didn't like it.
- It's time to get up.
- We would still go in there,
and hope that we could have a quick sleep.
- Have a good night.
- I had worked five 12
hour night shifts in a row,
so I was absolutely exhausted.
We had a tiny bit of a reprieve
to take a break, which
almost never happens,
and I knew I needed to lie my head down.
I was so relieved that
I could have a break,
I was asleep before my
head hit the pillow.
- Karen's sleep is disturbed
by a sudden fluctuation in energy,
and a drastic change in temperature.
- When I woke up suddenly, the first thing
I noticed was how cold it was in the room.
I was thinking, this doesn't feel right.
It felt like someone had
sat on the bed next to me.
- Who's there?
- Help me.
- Trauma nurse Karen Wickiam
experiences escalating and terrifying
paranormal activity at work.
- Help me.
- I jumped out of my skin.
I was terrified.
I had never experienced
anything like it in my life.
It was real as real could be.
- Help me.
- She was maybe about five.
She had long hair.
She had almost like an
older timey night gown on,
but it had the little frillies,
right down to the ankle kind of thing.
There was something behind the door.
- Suddenly the
ghost child disappears.
- There was something dark in that room.
Almost like if you opened that door,
it would be like opening
to like a portal of hell.
- Hospitals are prone
to have both negative
and positive energy.
There's lots of explanations and reasons
as to why this might happen.
When we start to think
about the chemical energy
that it takes to be in extreme emotion,
such as upset, or death.
This is energy that gets
projected out there.
When we see reports of negative entities
being attached to these situations,
or rather manifested in these situations,
we have to start to wonder
if there is a connection between the two.
- I ran out of the room.
Ran back to the nurses station
and told them what happened.
- Hey, you know that room
that we take our breaks in?
Have you ever had anything
weird happen there?
- Some of them laughed at me,
but then some of them started
to tell their own experiences and stories
that they felt in that room themself.
This experience changed me.
Initially, it's hard for your brain
to believe it, but then I thought,
the history and the type of cases
we've had, I believe that there was
something more going on.
- And in this case, this back room
was often used for families that had
just lost a child, that were grieving,
that were having to make some extremely
difficult decisions in
regards to their welfare.
So I can only imagine the type
of intense emotion that was released
in a space like that.
- Looking back, I believe that
there was a child's
spirit in there with me.
- Help me!
- I believe that there's something dark
behind that door, that maybe
is keeping that child in that room.
- Help me.
- One of my biggest fears is that
when children pass, they don't just
go over to a beautiful place,
that they somehow get trapped here,
and that experience left me with a feeling
that maybe not all
children get to move on.
- Nurse Joseph
McKinlay moves to Canada,
and quickly lands a new
job in the psychiatric wing
of a small town hospital.
- In my capacity as the person in charge
of the behavior unit, I
had the responsibility
of making rounds to the
four units on the ground.
The shift usually started 11:30.
- All right man, I'll get to it, okay?
I'm gonna--
- I usually left the
office round about 12.
Then I would go to the other units
to see how things were there.
And I opened the back
door, and there I seen
this figure passing by.
- Good evening?
- I couldn't tell if
it was a student nurse,
a registered nurse, a charged nurse.
She wouldn't have been a student nurse,
because the training school
had been closed for a year.
- Joseph does
not recognize the figure
as any staff member he knows.
And her uniform is out of date.
- She could have been from the 1950s,
she could have been from the 1960s.
- Hey man, you seen anything
weird out here recently?
Okay, never mind.
- We tend to find ghosts in places
where there has been great
emotion, positive or negative.
- Positive entities, or human spirits,
or what we consider human spirits,
often times seek the
attention of the living,
because they really enjoy the interaction.
They enjoy having that relationship.
- To me, it appeared as
a nurse going for a walk,
except for when she disappeared.
- After starting a new job,
nurse Joseph McKinlay
sees a walking figure
that cannot be explained.
- The night that I was
in charge of the unit,
I would probably say I seen
her about 50% of the time.
Whether this person was
real, or did I see 'em,
or didn't I see them?
It was my choice.
- Good evening?
- Others have spotted
the mystery nurse before,
but her identity remains unknown.
And no one has seen her up close.
- She had a nurses cap on,
and she was wearing her uniform.
She looked like a black
and white photograph.
- And then
Joseph sees something
that defies any explanation.
- The face was a lighter shade of gray.
I myself think it was not of this world.
Most people try to rationalize
what they have seen one way or another.
There was times I had a few doubts
about what I had seen, and
what it could have been.
You're stuck between a
rock and a hard place.
Do you go and tell people that you know
are going to disbelieve you?
Or people that believe you,
and think that's there's a ghost?
What do you do?
And I can see some people saying
"No, I never seen it, and
I ain't going to do it,
"because of what it's going to lead to."
- But this frightening figure
is not the only mystery
Joseph will encounter.
- After returning from making rounds,
I'm going into my office.
I noted a candle lying on my desk
with the wick facing north,
and the base of the candle south.
And I thought, where did this come from?
- Then something even stranger.
- I looked, the window of the office,
there is a nice hole where a candle
came right through it.
No glass, except for this nice shape.
And I thought, what is this?
Can you imagine a whole pane
and there's only one hole
that a candle comes through?
Wouldn't you think that the whole
pane would come through?
- Poltergeists will move objects,
and actually have interactions
with it's environment in real time.
We'll get things appearing
and disappearing,
or it can actually be the returning
of items that have been lost.
- Joseph wonders if the candle
is somehow connected to
the mysterious figure.
- Somebody had to be on the south side
of the building casting it,
so that it'd come through the window
to land on the desk.
- The mysterious figure
often appears to Joseph on the
south side of the building.
- I think that
somebody was trying
to communicate with me.
- Hey.
- Hi there, can you come up to my office
for a second please?
- I don't know.
- In Scotland, we have an oral tradition
of tales and stories that are told
on occasions that make people believe
in supernatural beings.
- Hey, what's going on?
What's up?
- I don't know.
I found this on the desk.
- Personally, myself,
doing the subtraction
of all the reasons for this candle
to be on the desk, my upbringing
led me to believe there's something
supernatural in this candle.
I thought there is no physical way
that this candle should be able
to have landed on my desk.
I asked the supervisor to go check
to see if they could find out
where this candle came from.
They came back, "We have no idea
"where this candle came from."
- Joseph
worries that the candle
is connected to the paranormal events.
Is someone or something
from the other side
trying to send him a message?
The stress from frequent sightings
becomes too much for Joe.
He decides to leave his
job and never come back.
- As I got older, I think I would
of reacted differently to
this situation than I did.
I would of wanted to know more
about whoever it was, or what
they were passing by for.
But I'm sorry, I never did it.
It's too late now to
have regrets about it.
I should have stopped
and tried to get her to,
or I should have asked her questions
about herself and that.
Too late now.
But why she came, I haven't a clue.
And she's never appeared since.