They had a lot of long-term care residents.
I'll be taking care of you tonight.
I was working night shift
when I had my first real visual experience.
The hospital, especially this floor,
was a very lonely place,
and everyone on that floor was dying from cancer.
This was a hospital I was not familiar with.
I was concerned.
I felt the atmosphere of people in need of a prayer.
(GROWLING)
The first time I saw this shadow, my heart just jumped.
I've seen this type of demonic before because I'm an exorcist.
I see tentacles and I'm like, "What in the world is that?"
My heart just jumped and I ran.
Something is going to hurt me
if I don't get out that door right now.
(GROWLING)
It was almost like I could feel her breath on my neck.
Manifested to a winged creature.
Scared me so badly that I just ran.
It was a matter of life and death.
(SCREAMS)
(THEME MUSIC)
In a sleepy corner in the American South,
at a former hospital that now houses a long-term care facility,
nursing assistant Kristin Poe begins her shift
checking in on her patients.
Hi, I'm Kristin.
I'll be taking care of you tonight.
It was very good in the caring facility.
They had a lot of long-term care residents.
I worked second and third shift.
Second shift is anywhere between 2:30 to 10:30 at night,
and third shift is 10:30 to 6 o'clock in the morning.
(SOBBING)
The woman that had been admitted was terribly sick with cancer.
Everything about her was really, really sick.
With the quiet night disturbed, Kristin is alert and on edge.
I was on one end of the hall, they were on the other.
Kristin.
I saw this figure come out of the room.
And I thought, for a moment, that it was one of my co-workers
and that she had come out to get my attention
because I knew they were short-staffed .
(SCREAMS)
So I took off running.
And I ran in there, and the woman is actively dying.
(GASPING)
Hold her legs, hold her legs! (GASPING)
Hold her.
We did all that we could to make sure
that she was comfortable as she passed.
She had one little tear that came out of her cheek,
down her little face.
I'll never forget that till I die.
Good thing you came into the hall to get me.
Don't be ridiculous.
We were holding her the whole time.
She looked at me and she goes,
"I do not know what you are talking about."
She was like, "I was not in the hallway.
"We were in here holding her on the bed."
If that wasn't you, then who was it?
Maybe it was one of them.
She reported to me that she had seen shadow people
hiding behind curtains, peeking out of doorways.
And she shared her experiences with me
about what she had seen the facility.
Kristin will soon also have her own strange experiences
within the hospital.
I was working one night on night shift
at the nurses' station by myself, doing charting.
Kristin.
I felt the presence behind me at first.
Hello?
Kristin.
I hear someone call my name, and I recognise that it's the voice
of a co-worker.
Kristin.
So I go look.
Kristin.
It sounded like her but it didn't sound like her.
It almost had a teasing kind of quality.
Kristin.
She is nowhere to be found and there's no one there.
I checked the staffing schedule that evening
and she wasn't even on schedule to work that night
and she was nowhere in that building according to the schedule.
Night after night, Kristin continues to hear the voice.
I would hear my name being called every shift.
Kristin. What do you want?
It scared me the first probably two, three times,
then after a while, it was, "What do you want?"
Leave me alone.
(EERIE BREATHING)
(YELPS)
Were you just calling me a minute ago?
No.
But I just saw you downstairs.
How do you get up here so fast?
That wasn't me.
And I said, "Nope, I've been sitting here
"doing this charting all night long."
Then what did I just see?
That was unsettling to say the least,
that there's something walking down at the end of the hallway
that looked like me.
Kristin tries to focus on her work, but soon learns the unexpected
is always lurking around the corner.
Why don't you start your rounds now, Kristin?
My nurse was at the nurses' station and I had to go down the hall
to take care of my residents on that end of the hall.
There is this glass spherical mirror on the ceiling
that shows if anyone is coming from the side halls,
and as I was walking up to it, I saw in the reflection
there was this black mass in the middle of the hallway.
I was looking at it and I was like,
"that must be some piece of equipment in the hallway."
I see what looks like tentacles come up off of it
and move like this and then pull itself forward.
And I'm like, "What in the world is that?"
It's got no kind of form to it. It's a black mass,
charcoal in colour, and it's undulating.
(GROWLING)
And I felt...
Anybody that feels rushed, like in a fight...
(GROWLING)
And I fully expect to see something horrific coming at me.
I braced myself for an attack.
(GROWLING)
And when I finally turned my head to look,
fully expecting to see something horrific there...
..there wasn't anything there.
It was a completely empty hallway.
It scared me so badly that I just ran.
Oh my god. I just saw something really scary in the hallway.
I told my nurse supervisor that was at the desk about it.
No matter what you think you saw, you have residents back there
that need your attention.
I just need a minute. OK?
I am not going down there right now until I can get centred
and be in a good emotional state, spiritual state,
because whatever that was is not good.
2 00:10:46.120 -- 00:10:48.360 align:middle line:73% position:50% A spirit might want to place someone in a state of fear
in order to make them more submissive and pliable,
more controllable, to get her to generate more fear
which it can feed on, which it can use as like a battery.
Despite her apprehensions,
Kristin has a duty to care for her patients.
The room is divided by a curtain,
and a bed on this side, a bed on this side.
Hi, I'm Kristin.
I'll be taking care of you tonight.
The lady in the left side of the room was a teeny little lady, very sweet.
She made what some would say would be creepy sounds.
(SIGHS)
She would kind of moan and cry.
(MOANS)
Some people were afraid of her.
She was completely helpless in this little bed.
I'll be back to check on you soon. It's fine.
Hi, I'm Kristin.
I'll be your nurse's assistant today.
This lady was really sweet, she never spoke.
I started to do care on her, talking to her,
getting all my equipment out ready to take care of her.
(GROWLING)
And I felt this heaviness in the room like, "Get out, get out, get out."
(GROWLING)
And I heard what sounded like a huge crash
from the other side of that curtain.
Are you OK?
Did you fall?
That little lady over there was not big enough to make this sound.
I thought, "Oh my gosh, she's fallen out of bed
"and knocked the table, the bedside table over."
I felt that rushing sensation of something rushing me,
like a dog would.
(GROWLING)
And then I heard claws on the hardwood floors.
(CLAWS SCRAPE)
So I moved the curtain back.
She's just sitting there in her little bed,
making her little sounds.
I just was like, "What in the world?"
And I turned around to look at the other lady, the bigger lady...
..and she's smiling at me.
And I got this, "Oh, something is about to hurt me,
"something is going to hurt me if I don't get out
"that door right now."
(LOW GROWLING)
(PANTING)
I had to go back in there.
I'm looking in,
and there is this black, sheer-looking curtain
that drops from the ceiling down.
It was black.
(PAINED MOANS)
So I was like, "I've got to go tell my supervising nurse."
I approach the nurses' station...
You didn't tell me this place was haunted.
And I tell her that, "Y'all didn't tell me
"that there were ghosts on this hall,
"that there is something in that room."
I don't have time for this nonsense.
The nurse supervisor got angry and walked off.
It's busy tonight.
You're gonna have to deal with it, Kristin.
She was flat out not gonna do it.
I am working up the nerve to go back in this room,
and I knew I had to.
I could not leave those two little ladies in that room
all by themselves.
And I walk in the doorway
and the lights are on still in there,
the room is heavy.
(GROWLING)
And I was like, "OK, I'm aware of you.
"I'm aware that you're in here
"and I'm aware that you are not happy.
"But you need to be aware of something of me."
This has got to stop!
(GROWLING)
I have a job to do.
I need to take care of these ladies.
I'm not here to hurt them.
I'm not here to hurt you.
We need to coexist.
You are welcome to stay in peace,
but if you're not here for the good...
If you're here for evil, you need to leave.
And even though you could feel that room's so heavy,
it lit up a little more.
And it slowly ebbed away.
(MOANS) You're OK.
It's gonna be OK.
She smiled in relief.
When I had taken back the room, it was like,
"Oh, thank goodness you knew what to do."
You know? That's the feeling I got from it.
Kristin is challenging the spirit.
She is focusing on the needs of that patient
and not the fear in the background.
This is how any of us, in any situation, empower ourselves,
by breaking through that fear
and focusing on the immediate needs of the situation.
After this experience, I never felt threatened again.
When the sun came up, I returned to the room
to care for them on my last round.
Rise and shine, ladies.
And I noticed on the ground...
Look at this.
..that there are some deep, scratched, gouged marks on the floor.
You still think it's nonsense?
It scared her.
She's like, "I cannot believe that."
I have always been interested in the paranormal always.
And I always wanted to learn more about it.
And I always wanted to have more
of a spiritual connection to everything.
I want to know more about what happens after you die.
You know, what happens after you die?
And are there ghosts?
Are there those spirits that don't pass on?
And so, I never thought that I'd be working in a place
where I'd get all those answers.
2 00:19:59.360 -- 00:20:03.440 align:middle line:75% position:50% South Carolina, 1985.
18-year-old late Leitreanna Brown
has just begun her freshman year of college
when she learns her grandmother's cancer is terminal.
My grandmother and I were very close.
We had a very special relationship,
and I knew that it would comfort her if I was by her side.
It's OK, baby.
No, it's not fair.
You need to stay in school.
No, I'm not leaving you.
Devastated by the news, Leitreanna arranged to stay
with her grandmother at the hospital.
I positioned myself on that sofa with my books around me.
There was no way I was getting any sleep,
and I was just going to camp there and go to class.
I was with her or in school.
When my grandmother was feeling better,
oftentimes, we would play cards.
Do you have a Jack?
Which was usually Go Fish.
We spent time just reminiscing, telling fun stories,
and that really helped her pass some time.
(COUGHING)
It's OK.
The hospital, especially this floor, was a very lonely place
for many people.
Everyone on that floor was dying from cancer.
During the day, I would try to take a little walk
and go in and speak with other patients.
Knock knock. I got you some snacks.
I would give them a smile, bring in Jell-O.
Can I have a red one? Thank you.
I would be happy and be as nurturing and loving as I could
because they were facing their last days on that floor.
We had a full floor when my grandmother first arrived,
but one by one, each patient passed away
until it was just my grandmother.
(MACHINE FLATLINES)
At night, when my grandmother was asleep,
it was a whole different situation.
When they had dimmed the lights,
turned some of them off down the hallway,
that hospital was so creepy.
And you couldn't see anything except just where you were walking.
But you could see shadows slipping in and out.
It felt like something was following you.
And the hallway to the canteen was the most creepy
because there were rows of rooms,
and everybody on that hall was dying.
The first time I saw this shadow, I was walking down the hallway.
My heart just jumped, and then I saw this shadow slither
into the room of a patient that I had been visiting.
I walked back and forth in front of the door jamb
because I didn't want to wake him up.
He had been in a lot of pain and was finally sleeping peacefully.
But that shadow, that just wasn't a normal thing.
(SCREAMS)
I didn't know what it was
and I just really questioned my whole sanity, honestly.
And then I decided to go down that long, dark hallway
to the canteen.
Once again, I saw that black slithering shadow.
It felt like it was following me.
I turned and I ran.
I immediately went down the stairwell...
..but it felt like something was following me.
I felt like I was being watched.
(PANTING)
But I just caught my breath and composed myself
because you know, I'm too old to be afraid of the dark,
and that's what it felt like,
but truly, something was scaring me.
So, I got my composure and I started back up the stairwell.
Leitreanna.
And then I heard it.
I heard my name.
Leitreanna.
I heard a crackled female voice.
Leitreanna.
(GROWLS)
And then I heard it again.
Leitreanna!
And it was clearly my name in a female's voice.
(DOOR CREAKS)
I heard the footsteps behind me and I didn't dare look back
because I didn't know if I would freeze again
and it would catch me.
I ran like hell.
(PANTING)
Careful! Slow down.
You can't be running like that in here.
Sorry. Uh...
There's something.
And I said, "Let me ask you something.
"Do you ever see things here that are frightening?
"Do you ever see creepy things here in the hallway?"
She said, "Yes, actually. We do."
In hospitals, sometimes we see shadows or things that move.
Or maybe we just think it.
It's late.
Get some sleep. OK.
And I knew right then that my worst fears had been realised,
that I was not mistaken, that I wasn't just seeing things.
Hospitals are a fertile location for paranormal activity
because of all the negative and positive energy
within the walls of the hospital.
So you have a lot of death, tragic death,
so the energy just kinds of builds up in that one location.
If we believe the idea that trauma leads to paranormal phenomena,
hospitals are just like a wellspring.
I went back and I looked at my grandmother.
She was sleeping so peacefully.
I have to admit it was hard to sleep
because my heart was in my throat.
My curiosity was building.
I wanted to know what was out there.
(LOW GROWLING)
I couldn't sleep so I went back out.
And then I heard my name.
Leitreanna!
And I recognised that voice.
I had heard it in the stairwell.
I know you're here.
Come visit me.
I looked at the room and there sat a woman,
and she looked absolutely mad.
Leitreanna.
Come and visit me!
You visit everyone else.
My grandmother is your neighbour but it's past visiting hours.
She was looking at me.
She could see the fear in my face.
She knew I was terrified.
And she was thrilled.
She was getting pleasure from it.
Come closer.
Are you stupid? You look stupid.
It's late.
I'll visit you tomorrow.
(SCREAMS)
She chased me out of her room.
I could feel her right behind me the whole time
I was running to the nurses' station.
It was almost like I could feel her breath on my neck.
She was following me to the nurses' station.
Excuse me, excuse me.
Calm down, what's with you? The lady in the hall.
She scared me.
She said, "Ma'am, your grandmother is the only one on this floor."
No, no, no. She was right there.
Calm down. What did she look like?
She had this big, crazy hair.
It was all in front of her eyes.
She had this evil smile.
And the lady stopped, she straightened her back,
and she said, "Yes, I know who you're talking about.
"She died three weeks ago."
No, I saw her. I know what I saw.
She was there.
Let's go check, OK? Let's go. OK.
She was in there.
I believe you.
The nurse walked into the room.
I didn't dare go in at first.
I was looking at an empty room.
No patient, just a messed up bed.
We always know when she is here.
The beds are always messed up like this.
She turned to me and said, "I know, I've seen her too."
I told her I felt that the spirit of that woman
stayed in the hospital.
I felt like it was because that was the last place
anybody was nice to her.
The nurse looked at me and said, "She was not a nice person.
"I was her nurse."
And I said, "Well, maybe she's still here
"because if she can't be nice to the people
"that are trying to save her life,
"maybe she was worried about what was next for her."
I went straight back to my grandmother's room.
There was no way I was getting any sleep.
What I was most afraid of about this woman...
..she may have looked like a little old lady,
but she was not.
I felt nothing but evil.
I could just feel it.
And she already knew my name.
And I said that my grandmother was her neighbour.
It felt like I'd invited the devil to dinner.
(LAUGHTER)
I finally fell asleep sitting up.
And that's how I slept until my grandmother passed away.
Whatever came next, she was there, and she was safe.
And I had done my job.
I feel like my presence with my grandmother protected her...
..and after this experience, I knew that her soul continued on
after we die.
And whatever personality we have in life,
it does affect what our soul was like in death.
(SCREAMS)
2 00:32:57.680 -- 00:33:01.480 align:middle line:90% position:50% Father Ruben Lopez is not your average priest.
I am what you call an ordained Roman Catholic priest.
My pastoral duties is services to the church,
also for others in the Roman Catholic faith.
I've been doing this for about 30 years.
Father Ruben Lopez.
I got a call from a woman whose husband was going
to get bypass surgery.
OK.
The doctor had told her it was a 50-50 chance
he may not make it.
What's the name of the hospital?
And he requested me to do the last rites.
OK, see you then. Thank you.
It was part of my obligation as a priest.
Thank you for coming on short notice.
Seeing you will make Joe feel much more positive
about his surgery tomorrow.
This was a hospital I was not familiar with.
I was concerned.
I felt the atmosphere of just people in need of a prayer.
(CLATTERING)
I notice, the first thing, of sort of a shadow
as I came to one room,
and looking to my right, I seen an entity.
(GROWLING)
And the first thing I seen is the eye.
Eyes were not quite glowing but kind of a orange-red,
so I seen the horns.
I've seen this type of demonic before,
and I know because I'm an exorcist.
Father, this way.
Although alarmed, Father Ruben has an obligation to undertake.
It's gonna be OK.
Thank you, Father.
Since arriving here, I've been so troubled.
In the name of the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.
As I finished doing my last rites,
of course the patient looked at me as I was trying
to gather my thoughts.
I decided I needed to go ahead and take care of the matter.
(EVIL LAUGH)
Father Ruben, are you OK?
I'm OK.
I just need to step outside for a minute.
I started to go ahead and go back to the room.
I still had my stole, I had my holy water,
the Bible and the Rosary.
I cannot let this situation with a demonic,
knowing it was there, to just turn a blind eye.
I decided to make a religious call.
And that's what I did.
When Father Ruben enters, the light stops flashing,
but all is not calm.
As a priest, I recognise things that I can see
and notice and feel,
and one that I have witnessed many times.
This is the demonic.
As I walked in the room, I noticed this man
had some type of breathing apparatus over his mouth.
He was sort lying in a position with his hands on his side.
The man was in an unconscious state.
I decided to go ahead and do a religious provocation
or religious test to see if anything was there.
Our Father who art in heaven...
It's sort of like a prayer test to bring out something
that may be unholy or demonic in nature.
I would get a reaction to see if there is something evil.
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen.
When I started to pray,
I noticed the air started getting cold.
I knew that the signs were there that there was something demonic.
The room itself was very heavy and hard to breathe.
It had the sensation of something heavy
that would burn, foul-smelling.
(COUGHING)
(GROWLING)
I felt more than one presence trying to get hold of my ankles
and my feet and my legs.
I thought they were trying to pull me down.
(GROWLING)
They were trying to stop me from doing this religious rite,
trying to stop me from doing a prayer to protect a soul.
They were getting closer and closer,
and I knew they were trying
to do a countermeasure against me.
I was compelled to do what I had to do as an exorcist priest
to protect the soul from being taken away.
(YELLS)
It was a matter of life and death for this person
of the soul who was innocent, who was unconscious.
In the beginning of the rites of the exorcism,
I threw the holy water in the sign of the cross.
And when I did, the patient jerked.
I noticed I could see the shadows on the side of me
as I was trying to proceed.
I didn't know what they were gonna do next.
Demonic shadows were coming from different directions,
from the ceiling, from the side of the walls, the back of me.
(GROWLING)
Things were getting worse.
This demonic entity was very, very powerful.
I had trouble breathing.
The foul smell was getting too heavy.
And it was getting colder.
I could feel the presence behind me.
The demon manifested into a winged creature.
(GROWLING)
The bed started shaking, vibrating a lot,
and I was trying to finish the rites of the exorcism.
Thou shalt not be above the laws of God!
You are not above the laws of the Almighty God!
This patient was shaking
as I was trying to hold his bed down.
(GROWLING, LAUGHING)
Begone in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
(GROWLING)
Begone!
(PAINED GROWLING)
The Holy Spirit commands you!
And that was it.
I knew that things were calming down.
I heard a sort of a moan and a growl at the same time.
(PAINED GROWLING)
I was relieved. The patient's soul was saved.
When the lights finally came on,
all this ash was splattered in a different direction
and just a big spot on the floor, and that was it.
This water was being evaporated.
You could see the steam coming from the floor.
A demon might choose to inhabit a hospital
because there are so many people near death
that are already spiritually weakened,
so it's easier for that demonic entity
to exhibit a form of control over them.
I was exhausted.
I decided to go ahead and sit down next to the patient's bed.
Oh, pardon me, Father.
I didn't expect to find you in this room.
I hope I'm not disturbing you.
No, it's OK.
I'm just doing a prayer.
The next day, I came back to check on the cardiac patient.
And he had made it through the surgery.
Thank you, Father.
I ask him, "How are you feeling today?"
You were with me the whole time.
With one patient on the mend...
There's someone else I need to see.
..Father Ruben go to check on the condition of another.
Father Ruben's decision to engage with this entity
was a victory that stopped this spirit from being like a parasite
that went on and on, infecting other victims.
When I came to the room,
this patient was sitting at the edge of the bed.
I thought he would be in an unconscious state.
You are awake.
Father, it's so good to hear your voice.
Again.
I didn't know what he meant
and how is it possible that he heard me?
He was unconscious.
It's a miracle.
I might have conquered and won the battle,
but what I'm trying to convey, this was spiritual warfare.
This is something that the reality of this world doesn't understand.
This exists among us, these ancient adversaries
continue to torment and consume a soul.
I'm there to fulfil the vow to God, to save all the souls.
It's what I do.
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