Haunted Hospitals (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 7 - Leased to the Devil - full transcript

(dripping)

- [Donald] I like to
investigate diseases and illness

and try to help people.

- I was just interested in
going and making a difference.

Little did we know what we were gonna meet

over the next six months.

(frightened yell)

- I felt the hair on the
back of my neck stand on end.

(distorted yell)

(growling)

Something's happening that
shouldn't be happening.



- Get out!

- I felt that it could kill me.

(distorted scream)

(haunting music)

(crash)

(yelling)

- [Narrator] Hospital ergonomics advisor

Sandrea Mosses controls
every detail of operation

at her busy, urban hospital.

- Okay, good start to the day.

- My job title was the
moving and handling advisor.

To save lives, you need
to be able to move people.

People unconscious,
people that are disabled,

people with limited mobility,



and we would facilitate taking them

into theater, operation,
what equipment we would need.

The whole journey through the hospital,

right the way down to the mortuary.

I was just interested in
going and making a difference.

My career's always mattered to me.

- [Narrator] Where
Sandrea and her team work

is just one part of a
massive hospital complex.

- 13 theaters, 40 odd wards, it was one of

the biggest teaching
trusts in the country.

- [Narrator] Sandrea and her staff

have recently moved into new offices.

- Otherwise, settling in all right?

- Yes, definitely.

- Good.

How's the space here?

- [Narrator] Although located in an older,

isolated building, they
couldn't be happier.

- It's good?

Good, great.

- [Sandrea] We'd been in
really cramped circumstances,

trying to fit in offices
where we didn't fit,

and now we've got these lovely rooms,

lovely little offices, so absolute bliss.

We couldn't believe our luck.

(screeching)

Little did we know what
we were gonna find,

what we were gonna meet in those offices

over the next six months.

- [Narrator] During the day, the offices

are everything Sandrea could ask for.

But at night, when Sandrea stays late,

her surroundings take on a
much less welcoming tone.

- There's one evening
when I was getting ready,

I've a long drive home,
it's at least an hour,

sometimes an hour and a half,

and I'd gone down to the ladies' room.

And I was in there thinking
of the terrible traffic

that I was going to face.

(clattering)

Straightaway, I hear creaking sound.

That can, when you're on your own,

can be really quite scary.

(creaking)

- [Narrator] Sandrea notices
a sudden shift in temperature.

- I could feel this cold breeze.

I said I swear to goodness, it's almost

as if it were breathing on me.

(groaning)

- [Richard] So the cold
spot or the cold draft

is very common.

Paranormal investigators
run into this all the time,

and it's been theorized by some

that spirit entities
actually use the energy

of our environment.

They leech the warmth out of the air,

convert it into some other form of energy

and use that to manifest
paranormal phenomena.

(clanging)

(groaning)

- Hello, who's there?

(whooshing)

- I get the sensation of
somebody standing there.

(whooshing)

(suspenseful music)

(growling)
(screaming)

I literally reeled back
just for that moment

in absolute fear.

(buzzing)

Takes me a second or two
to get myself together,

and I come out, I'm a
little bit unsure now,

it's really unnerved me.

(buzzing)

(clanging)

(breathing)

I stop, sense around the room,

nothing is there at all.

(sighs)

And I thought I'd imagined it.

I thought it was my imagination.

(rumbling)

(growling)

This thing, instantly,
appeared alongside me.

I could physically see something there

in the room with me.

(distorted groaning)

It's dark, it's menacing.

(distorted groaning)

I was absolutely bloody terrified.

(haunting piano music)

Just disappears.

Like dust.

Nothing's there at all.

- The first rational
response anybody would have

would be to write this off
as being psychological.

When I feel the presence of somebody else

in there with me, is
my mind playing tricks?

At this point, no rational explanation's

gonna work for her.

- Just experienced this
almost evil encounter

that has really unnerved me,
it's really frightened me.

- [Narrator] Two nights later,

the incident continues to disturb Sandrea.

- [Sandrea] When you're in that building

you won't see anybody.

You're totally isolated on your own.

(suspenseful music)

(clanging)

Expected someone on
the team had come back.

Nothing, nobody there.

- [Narrator] Sandrea experiences

another sudden drop in temperature.

- [Richard] This wasn't just cold air,

this was freezing, ice cold air.

Even putting on a jacket
didn't warm her up.

And she felt goosebumps
break out all over her body.

(banging)

(groaning)

- This presence, this sense,
this foreboding feeling,

is beginning to grow stronger.

- [Narrator] The sensation
of being watched intensifies,

for good reason.

- I saw a gray figure
moving across the corridor.

It really quite spooked me.

(groaning)

(yelps)

The room is charged.

You can sense it.

- [Richard] We start to see an increase

in paranormal phenomena
such as light phenomena,

things falling, it may be that these

are the spirit entities
just trying to warn

the living residents
that this isn't the place

they should be.

(suspenseful violins)

- [Sandrea] This black, dark figure,

is standing, leaning over me, watching me.

I can't describe the fear that I felt.

(growling)

It's over me and I'm
trapped, I can't get out.

(growling)

- [Narrator] Sandrea Mosses is terrorized

by a paranormal entity at work.

(screams)

(police siren)

(growling)

- And I'm trapped, it's
blocking my doorway,

there's no way out for me.

It's overpowering me.

Sense that you shouldn't be here.

I sensed it was time for you to get out.

I felt absolute, raw fear.

(growling)

(haunting piano music)

You just wanted to bolt
and get out that building,

as quick as you conceivably could.

It felt so powerful,
as if it could kill me.

- The entity achieved
exactly what it asked for.

It got rid of her and
it got rid of her fast.

- It was almost as if this thing,

this entity, had intelligence.

This sensation, this feeling,
was beginning to get stronger.

- [Narrator] With paranormal
events escalating,

Sandrea is compelled to ask her colleagues

if they've had similar experiences.

What she discovers disturbs her.

- This hospital had quite the
reputation for being haunted,

and there were accounts
of paranormal phenomena

taking place all over the complex.

- [Narrator] One story in
particular resonates with her.

It occurred in the
1980s, when the hospital

was undergoing massive redevelopment.

- There was one, one
story where it actually

went into check before
the wreaking ball hit.

That was one of the
things that set it off.

- [Narrator] Workers are
sent into the building

to make sure all is clear for demolition.

- Inspectors will be very methodical,

just making sure there's
not a living person there.

(sighing)

- They were going round, they
would hear doors slamming,

people running down corridors.

(footsteps)

(creaking)

- Is anyone there?

- [Distorted Child's Voice] Help me.

- [Sandrea] You think it's their friends

playing tricks on them,
people having a laugh.

You come up with the
most ridiculous things

to try to justify why
you've heard something

that you don't understand.

- [Narrator] The inspector is drawn deeper

and deeper into the building.

Suddenly, the ordinary sounds take on

a terrifying tone.

But their source remains a mystery.

(distorted screaming)

- [Distorted Child's Voice] Save me.

- [Richard] He spins around,
he's hunting high and low,

and begins to wonder,
is he losing his mind?

Because he hears the voices very clearly.

It's as if there's a crowd of
people in the room with him,

but he can see nobody.

The room is completely and utterly empty.

- [Distorted Child's Voice]
Don't go, stay here, help me.

Help me, help me, help me.

- [Sandrea] Started to
build up the momentum,

doors shutting, doors slamming.

- [Distorted Child's Voice] Help me.

Stay here, help me,
save us, don't go, stop.

Stay here, help me.

- [Sandrea] The one guy got trapped in,

he couldn't open the door, but the reality

of being locked in a room and
not being able to get out,

that was the thing that
triggered them, that was

the big thing that just
almost pushed over the edge.

- [Distorted Child's
Voice] Please stay here,

don't go, help me, help me.

(banging)

Help me.

Please, help me.

- [Richard] He told his
fellow construction workers

and inspectors what had
happened to him inside there.

- [Worker] Let's get out of here.

- They downed tools, and
refused to work again

for several days, until they
can go find a Catholic priest.

- [Narrator] An ordained
minister is brought in

to address the paranormal disturbance.

(suspenseful violins)

- Behold the cross of the Lord.

- [Richard] An exorcism
is a ceremony or ritual

in which an ordained priest will expel

the spirit entities from a
specific location or person.

Whatever entity's being dealt with,

it's certainly a dark one,

and that means there's
going to be a struggle

for power between the
priest and this entity.

- Get out!

- [Sandrea] The priest, he
blessed that area there.

He's asking the spirits to be at peace,

he's asking permission from them

to leave the Irish workers alone,

to be able to get on with their work.

- You're getting out!
(distorted screaming)

- [Narrator] The spirit is vanquished.

- [Richard] The priest
intervention clearly worked,

because after that, the work
crews had no more complaints,

and no more voices were
heard calling out for help.

- [Interviewer] What was your
reaction to hearing this?

- Wished I'd have known
that knowledge beforehand,

because I don't think I would
have moved in that building

had I know what I was going into.

I would have liked to have gone in

with my eyes open and knowing
what I was going against.

(clanging)

- [Narrator] As the days pass,
the entity grows stronger.

- There was always a sense of
foreboding in the building,

there was noises, a sense
you were being watched,

it was not a nice place to be in.

(growling)

(alarm blaring)

- You could begin now to
sense it, waiting for you

outside doors, it was getting stronger,

it was getting bolder.

- Yes, security, could you
do something about the alarm?

Thank you.

God!

- [Narrator] Confirmation of
further paranormal activity

at the hospital does little
to put Sandrea at ease.

(groaning)

(yelps)

- They told me how, watching
the surveillance cameras,

that they'd picked up a gray
figure floating through.

- [Narrator] The alarm has been tripped

in the vicinity of the women's washroom,

where Sandrea first
encountered the dark presence.

- [Sandrea] If the alarm's activated,

two guards would go down together.

It's a place that nobody
would go down after dark.

(distorted yelling)

- Everybody was aware of the
history of this building,

and knew that it was a former workhouse.

That's not a pleasant history.

It's a fairly dark and troublesome one,

so the spirits that haunt this place

probably aren't very happy.

- [Narrator] And in
Sandrea's office complex,

the entities' displeasure
continues to make itself known.

- So over the next few months,

this entity is beginning to grow stronger,

because it's feeding off people's fear.

People are terrified of
going down that corridor,

I am, my staff are.

The receptionist said "Sandrea
I need to speak to you,

"about this dark corridor.

"Are you having any problems with it?"

She said, "Because it's getting worse."

- [Narrator] On this
night, the receptionist

is the last to leave.

(off tune piano music)

- [Sandrea] And as she
walked down the corridor,

she had this sense that
something was behind her.

(footsteps)

She was getting more and more frightened.

(growling)

(suspenseful orchestral music)

(screeching)

It was getting bigger and bigger.

(screaming)

- [Narrator] Hospital
advisor Sandrea Mosses

and her staff are stalked
by a terrifying entity

in their workplace.

- The thing's touching her,
pushing her down the corridor.

(suspenseful orchestral music)

(heavy breathing)

She says "It's horrendous!

"I'm absolutely terrified, I
dread it when you're not here,

"the sense of that corridor on my own.

"I don't know who to talk to,
it's really frightening me."

(distorted growling)

I felt obliged to be able to create

a safe working environment,
where people weren't in fear.

This had to be dealt with,
it was getting stronger,

and I wasn't sure where
this was gonna end up,

because this was something very powerful

and it needed dealing
with, so as a manager,

I felt obliged to do this.

- [Narrator] In trying
to keep her staff safe,

Sandrea knows she must
confront the entity.

She enlists the help of a colleague

familiar with paranormal activity.

- [Sandrea] I'm quite
afraid, I'm quite scared.

I'm afraid what it's
gonna try and do to us,

I'm afraid what it's gonna do to me,

but we're still going in.

- [Richard] Truth is

that this could be a
dangerous undertaking.

Consequences could be terrible.

The job doesn't get done,
if it's not defeated,

they might succeed in making it stronger.

- [Sandrea] All that energy you created

will now go to these entities

and they will be twice as powerful

as when they started before,
and they will reek havoc

on the area that they're in.

(clattering)

- Don't, turn it off, turn it off.

- [Sandrea] I could sense it was there,

this black foreboding
figure in the corridor,

it begins to take on a form.

It begins to take on
this massive black form,

and it blasts, "Get out."

- [Distorted Male Voice] Get out!

- And it almost knocks
me back off my feet.

- [Richard] This entity was very clearly

putting out some negative
energy towards her.

Sandrea got the distinct feeling

that he did not want her and
her friend in that place.

He wanted them gone.

- It is so angry, it is
so wracked with venom,

it's trying to frighten us.

It's not for the faint hearted.

If you go to try to clear a ghost,

you have got to have the power to do so,

because if you don't, you
will unleash a monster.

(growling)

- [Narrator] Repeatedly
stalked by an evil presence,

Sandrea Mosses has had enough.

- [Sandrea] Now I've got to center myself.

I've got to zone myself,
and as I step forward,

the confident Sandrea
is going into battle.

Hands begin to form.

- [Narrator] The shadowy figure
morphs into a human shape.

- [Richard] The multiple
types of ghosts, spirits,

call them what you will, some of them

are aware that they have
passed from the human body.

Ones that don't know they're dead

seem to be caught in some kind of loop.

When someone or something
intrudes on that environment

that seems out of place to them,

it can spark an angry reaction.

(growling)

- [Sandrea] I start to
communicate with it.

I say to this energy, what
is your business here?

Why are you here, who are you?

- Why are you here?

- Straightaway, I hear, "Get out!"

- [Distorted Male Voice] Get out!

Do not belong here.

- He doesn't want to speak to me directly,

because I'm a female, I'm below him.

And I'm in an area where females

were very very much in a lower position,

and that's his view.

(growling)

He was just motionless,
he wasn't communicating

anything back to me,
he was just motionless.

This man didn't appear to really,

fully understand that he was dead.

- What it needed to do was pass on

to whatever comes after this life.

Sandrea's plan is a very simple one,

help it transition to the next life.

- [Narrator] The entity
is suddenly attracted

to a brilliant burst of light.

- Goes on his own free will.

- [Narrator] A portal has opened.

- [Richard] This is a
doorway through which

spirits can pass and move
on to whatever comes next.

- And I invite him to leave our world

and go back to where he belongs.

- Look to the doorway.

Look to the doorway.

(somber music)

- [Sandrea] There's a woman beckoning him.

She's says she's his mother.

And I say to him, your mother is there,

turn to the doorway.

Look at the doorway, your mother is there.

And he just falls through.

He just, at that last
moment, he just resists,

and just melt through into the doorway.

- [Narrator] The trapped spirit is freed

of his earthly bonds.

- The love of a mother,
that only a mother can give,

just beckoning and just calling him,

trying to reassure him,
tell him it's safe,

tell him it's okay to do so.

- [Richard] When she did
some investigation later

Sandrea found out that this
specific part of this hospital

at the time was a
strictly segregated area.

It was off limited to women.

He wanted women out of his environment.

- [Sandrea] About a week
later, the receptionist

came to me and says, "Sandrea,
corridor seems okay now."

She said, "I'm no longer frightened."

She said, "But have you
noticed how much better it is?"

And I never said a word, I
never told her what we'd done.

(dripping)

(distorted screeching)

- [Narrator] Donald Partin is one week

into his very first job in medicine.

- I had been employed before
that in machine shops,

and then was in the
military for eight years,

and after I completed
my time in Desert Storm,

I came back, went back to school.

As medical technologists,
we drew blood samples,

tested blood and body fluids

for different types of diseases,
for disorders and cancers.

That kind of drew me into the field,

wanting to investigate
diseases and illness

and try to help people.

The way I would get
things is evidence based,

I liked to look at what I can find,

a reason for why things happen,

and try and discover a root cause,

I try to look as analytically as possible.

Before these events that I witnessed,

I was kind of more skeptical, I'm sure,

about these type of things.

I thought there was possibility,

but I never expected to really experience

anything like this.

(screeching)

- [Announcer] Dr. Roberts,
please reports to obstetrics,

Dr. Roberts to obstetrics.

- [Donald] I was relatively
comfortable at the hospital,

for the most part.

There were a few places
that I didn't like to go.

I didn't like to go down to the cafeteria,

just didn't feel right
down there for some reason.

Being alone at night,
there was no one else

in my department so there
were a lot of noises,

but it was noises I was used to

like the sounds the machines make.

Some noises that I heard at night,

they didn't match up with those things

specific to the lab.

(distorted breathing)

- Most paranormal activity
is reported at night.

That doesn't mean it actually happens

more frequently at night, but that's when

our senses are most attuned to it.

There's less ambient noise,
sound travels further,

and plus, the way that we're all wired,

we think more about
ghosts and the paranormal

when it's dark.

(growling)

- And when I was standing there I heard

kind of a growl.

Like an angry dog, and it sounded like

low growl that basically says,

get away from me or I'm gonna bite you.

(growling)

(door creaking)

(growling)

When I realized that what
was making this growl

was there with me, was not outside,

it was in, I just had to leave.

It sounded to me like it was circling.

(growling)

My coat had got caught on something.

(roaring)

So I reached back and looked back

to unhook it from
whatever it was caught on.

And there was nothing there.

(growling)

There was nothing behind me
for to even been caught on.

(growling)

The tug on my coat was like someone

trying to keep me there.

Or at least to scare me
enough that I would leave,

and that worked, because I left.

I said to myself, that's it,

I'm never coming back down here again.

(growling)

(police siren)

- [Announcer] All nurses
to the nurses station.

- [Interviewer] Not being
able to explain something,

for a person like you,
doesn't sit well does it?

- No it doesn't sit well for me

to not be able to understand
why something happens.

- [Narrator] The incident
makes Donald uneasy,

but he finds comfort in
the soothing repetition

of his work.

(tinkling)

- [Donald] I was working
in the lab one night,

doing maintenance on one of the analyzers,

and heard a fluttering
noise that sounded like

a piece of paper.

(tinkling)

Felt the hair on the back
of my neck stand on end.

- [Narrator] Donald's immediate reaction

is to search for a logical explanation.

- [Donald] I couldn't find a fan,

I couldn't even find any loose paper.

- [Richard] A fairly common manifestation

of paranormal phenomena is the movement

of objects through the air.

We've all seen this is
Hollywood ghost movies,

things that float through the air,

and the truth is that
this is one of the ways

in which spirits try to either communicate

with the living, signal their presence,

and sometimes instill fear.

- [Donald] Went back to
work and I just kind of

tried to put it out of my mind,

but it still bothered me for awhile.

I didn't quit thinking about it,

and I was a little more
weary after that I guess,

kind of little more on edge.

I was beginning to think
that maybe there was more

to this than I realized.

(crickets chirping)
(police siren)

(clanging)

- [Donald] On one particular night

I was working on a, we
call it cookbook chemistry.

It's basically a kit where
you have to add reagents

and watch for a color change.

And I was kind of leaning over
a counter in the main lab.

At first I just felt uneasy,
just an uneasy feeling,

like you were being watched.

(suspenseful music)

(metallic groaning)

And I saw out of the
corner of my eye a shadow.

First I thought that, because the lighting

was staggered in there, it might have been

two of my shadows.

So I moved just a little bit,
and that shadow didn't move.

Just, it just scared the hell out of me.

(screeching)

- [Narrator] Lab technician Donald Partin

is confronted by horrifying
paranormal events

he cannot understand.

- I could see my shadow
but it was kind of faint,

but there was a shadow
directly behind my shadow

that was, it looked a little
larger and a little more solid.

You could see a head,
you could see shoulders,

I was shaken to my core.

- A very common form of
paranormal manifestation

is the shadow figure, which seems to be

a step removed from the
full bodied apparition.

It's almost as if we're seeing

an incomplete sketch of a human being.

- It looked to be probably
between six and a half

to seven feet tall.

(buzzing)

- [Interviewer] When you turned
around, what did you see?

- When I turned around
there was no one else there.

When I realized that there
was no one behind me,

I was shook up, I was really scared.

When I was trying to understand

these things I couldn't explain,

it definitely made me scared,

but it also kind of
confused me a little bit,

because I always looked
for a rational explanation

and so at first I thought, well, you know,

the shadow in particular,
it was the light,

or it was somebody.

Well, when I ruled those two things out,

it only left the fact
that it was something

I couldn't explain and that just kind of,

kind of hard for me to deal with.

(announcer speaking indistinctly)

- [Narrator] Donald hopes
that focusing on work again

will help to settle his nerves.

But working does not change anything.

- I could feel as though something

was leaning on my shoulder
to get a better view

of what was happening in front of me

where I had the sample.

It was like they were leaning over me

to look at what I was doing.

Thought I felt like breath on my neck.

(breathing)

It just felt like that
there was a person there.

(yelps)

And so I kind of pushed back and said,

"Get off, I'm doing something,"

but there was no one there.

It just, listen, it just
scared the hell out of me.

I knew whatever this thing
was, it wasn't of this world.

- [Richard] The truth is
that most of us are born

with five senses, and there's a limit

to what we can perceive with those senses.

The shadow figure may be a good example

of how we cannot perceive spirit entities

in their full, natural appearance.

- I was shook up, I was really scared.

I had to get out of the
lab for a few minutes.

(suspenseful music)

(growling)

Probably gone a good 20 minutes,

and I didn't want to go back in there,

when I knew I had to.

- [Narrator] Donald knows

that the patients' lives are at stake.

He must continue working.

(yelling)

- [Donald] As much as I didn't want to,

I went back in, but I felt like

I was looking over my shoulder

the whole rest of the time I was in there.

This was a very important job to me,

I just had completed my training,

the pay was better than
any job I'd had before,

it was a stable work situation,

good prospects to stay there
and possibly advance later on.

- [Narrator] Despite
the bizarre incidents,

Donald keeps his job.

Several weeks pass, and his
routine returns to normal.

He's even joined in the lab by a coworker

who likes to have fun.

(muttering)

(yells)

(laughs)

- It's good, yeah it's good, yeah.

No you--
- Oh no, it's my gift to you.

- [Donald] The people that I worked with

were very good people.

This one guy, he was a big joker,

he loved to pull
practical jokes on people.

- [Narrator] But even with a
livelier environment at work,

Donald continues to feel
uneasy in his surroundings.

But what happens to
Donald three nights later

is beyond anyone's practical joke.

- [Donald] Around 3:30 or
four o'clock in the morning,

we'd go out and start
drawing blood from patients,

collecting samples, and bringing back

and start them testing.

The goal was to have all the tests

done by seven a.m. so the
doctors could come in,

make rounds, and look at the patients.

(suspenseful music)

And as I came around the corner

I saw a guy sitting on the couch.

He was sitting with his
hands folded in his lap,

had a white lab coat.

- Hello, are...

Everything all right sir?

(breathing)

Are you okay sir?

- [Announcer] Code blue, room
305, code blue, room 305.

(growling)
(screaming)

- I know I saw somebody.

I didn't try to rationalize it

or second guess it or
think maybe I'm just tired.

I saw someone sitting on that couch.

And when I turned back
around they were gone.

There was no way they could have got out

of that lab without me
seeing them or hearing them.

The time between where I saw him

and looked back was only seconds.

It made me scared, to be honest with you,

it was, it was one of those feelings

where you just feel it in
the pit of your stomach

like something here's not right.

Something's happening that
shouldn't be happening.

- [Narrator] Donald can
no longer stay quiet

about what he is seeing.

He decides to reach out to
his coworker for answers.

- [Donald] One night,
talking to one of my friends,

I said have you ever had, you know,

any of these experiences?

And he said, "Did you see the doctor?"

And I said tell me,
what're you talking about.

And he says, "Well, there supposedly

"is a doctor that haunts this hospital."

- This hospital is haunted.

- He said that he had seen him,

he said that one of the
nurses had seen him.

Said that she was getting ready to leave

one morning after working
at night, she get off.

And they'd just been talking about it,

and she told him she didn't
believe in any of that,

and weren't any truth to it.

(elevator dings)

(gasps)

And she hit the button on the elevator,

and when the elevator doors opened

she saw the doctor.

The doctor that had died was standing

inside the elevator door.

(distorted groaning)

- [Narrator] Lab technician Donald Partin

is overwhelmed by the terrifying

paranormal events happening to him.

(distorted groaning)
(screeching)

- And she knew that he was dead,

she just stood there until the doors

on the elevator shut again.

She hit the button again to open it

and there was no one on there.

- [Richard] When lives are
lost and one finds ghosts,

all of the energy generated
by that death and dying,

this can have aftereffects and echoes

which linger for years if not centuries

after the original instance.

- [Narrator] Donald is in disbelief

by how closely this story matches

what he has heard and seen.

- [Donald] Coworkers were telling me

that they'd seen things
too, I realized, okay,

I'm not crazy.

I'd seen the shadow, I'd
heard the growls and the tug,

and then I saw this
doctor, sitting on a couch

that I knew somebody was
there but then they weren't.

That's when I started believing in ghosts.

- [Narrator] Donald's coworker

gives him one more surprising
piece of information.

- Go to the old maternity
ward, about three a.m.

And just wait.

Might take a little bit of
time, but just be there.

- [Donald] And I said
what will happen, he said,

"Just go stand and see what happens."

And so I thought, well, okay,
I'll go see what happens,

but I decided by this point I'd seen

enough stuff that I was
afraid to go by myself.

(knocking)
- All set?

- [Narrator] Donald enlists the help

of a trusted colleague who also wants

to understand the paranormal events

happening in the hospital.

(whirring)

- [Richard] This particular
area of the hospital

was the old maternity wing,

which had actually
closed down back in 1983.

- [Interviewer] So take me to two a.m.,

and what are you doing?

- We were standing, there
was an old nurses' station

right there, we were the
only two in that entire area,

because you could see
in all four directions.

(babies crying)

I said what's that noise?

Sounds started out
faint, but then over time

it grew in intensity, to the point

that it was identifiable.

(babies crying)

He said, "That sounds like babies."

(babies crying)

They sounded like, that they
were either hurt or angry.

It was that kind of cry,
like I need attention,

I need somebody to get me.

It was a pretty urgent cry.

(distorted crying)

I got four kids of my
own, and at that time

my two youngest ones were toddlers,

and so, you know, hearing that cry,

it just, it kind of tears you up,

'cause you're thinking, you know,

this is a baby in distress.

And I think that's some of
what drove my coworker too.

I think he was feeling
the same thing I was.

That when you first hear
it your first reaction

is you gotta get in there to these babies,

then you realize there's no way

there's gonna be babies in there.

Nobody leaves babies in there at night.

Then it kind of turned from, you know,

that kind of anxious, wanting to help,

more to a, a fear.

(babies crying)

- [Richard] Hearing a baby crying

under any normal circumstances,

can be a distressing sound.

Imagine how much worse that would be,

how terrifying, if you're in an area,

where there are no living babies.

(babies crying)

- [Donald] I was honestly afraid.

In my mind, I'm thinking,
okay, I need to know

why we're hearing this sound,

and I need to know what
the cause of it is.

(babies crying)

- [Narrator] Donald and his coworker

hone in on the source of
the intensifying sound.

- I think, personally,
that this was a type

of residual audible phenomenon.

That he was somehow replaying

a type of paranormal recording,

that was made back in the days

when this was a fully
functioning maternity wing.

(babies crying)

- [Narrator] A sudden shift in energy

stops Donald in his tracks.

(thudding)

(growling)

- At this point I'm just, I'm terrified.

- [Narrator] Determined to
find the source of the sound,

Donald inches down the corridor.

(distorted screaming)

(heavy breathing)

- [Interviewer] Do you
think there's a connection

between the crying babies that you heard,

and this doctor?

- I think they might be connected.

This doctor, he'd been a
surgeon up on third floor.

When all this started,
I never really gave,

thought much about ghost
and spirits or anything,

and then, as I experienced these things,

and things I've seen and heard since,

I don't have any doubt that
this hospital's haunted.

I think that there's
still spirits there today.

(dripping)

(suspenseful music)