The hospital is over 100 years old.
I found myself just completely lost.
I heard this awful laugh.
(LAUGHS)
I started experiencing things that I thought was strange.
(GROWLS)
I couldn't put my finger on it. Just a weird energy.
I remember documenting 'demonic laugh.'
Under that slit, I saw what looked like fire.
(GROWLS) All of a sudden, I can't move.
I kept on hearing something behind me.
Goodnight. Woah!
I followed that candlelight.
There's no words to tell you how scared I was.
Please God, get this off of me. (GROWLS)
We need a nurse!
(THEME MUSIC)
In the shadow of a gleaming downtown skyline
sits an old hospital complex from another era.
Its solemn and foreboding exterior
hints at a labyrinth of empty corridors
and twisted staircases.
The hospital itself is over 100 years old
so there is a newer area
and then there is also a very, very old area.
Amanda Quill applies for a job
in the IT department of the hospital.
The interview process requires her to shadow a supervisor
as part of her rigorous on-the-job assessment.
To start the process, I had to get ID, so credentials
so I was able to freely move through the hospital.
Left up the stairs.
Another left, then right.
What I found the oddest
was how completely empty the hospital was.
Go left and then right.
On the way to the administration office for the ID,
I took a wrong turn, and one wrong turn led into four,
and the next thing I knew, I didn't know where I was.
I found myself just completely lost.
At that point, I was completely turned around.
I didn't know if I was facing north or south.
There was no one working.
There was no patients or visitors.
It seemed like it was abandoned.
(LAUGHS)
Hello?
Luckily for me, there was a nurse.
Excuse me?
Can you show me where the photo ID office is?
And she kind of beckoned me to follow her.
I kind of thought that maybe someone sent her looking
because I was completely lost, so I followed her.
To me, it looked like she was looking back and checking on me,
making sure I was following.
We did that for a few minutes.
She was always about 20 feet in front of me.
But at one point, I saw her turn a corner.
When I turned that corner, it was just like a dead end.
There was only one door and I went through it.
When I went through the door, I expected to see the nurse
and I expected to keep following her,
and I was in the room with the cameras,
waiting for my ID picture.
Can I help you?
Yeah, I'm here to get my photo ID.
You came to the right place.
I was quite surprised.
I was looking around for a door.
I was looking around for any explanation,
and there was just one fellow in there.
There was no one else other than me and him in that room.
It didn't make any sense.
Did someone else just come in here? No, it's just us.
Smile.
After getting my picture taken,
I made a joke about making it out of the hospital
and joked about how it was a maze
and thank goodness we have nurses to show us around.
Where did the nurse go?
What nurse?
The one that led me here.
And at that point, the gentleman said that he'd heard the story
about the nurse before, that it was actually a common story.
That when people get lost in the hospital,
a nurse will take them where they need to go.
It's been reported to be a full-body apparition of a nurse.
It's usually on one of your first or second times there.
Nursing is the helping profession.
Nurses are wired to take care of their fellow human beings,
and in this case, I think the phantom nurse
recognised that Amanda was a colleague
and wanted to help her out.
This nurse is still on-the-job, helping her fellow human beings
years, if not decades, after her death.
I definitely thought it was strange but it wasn't immediately paranormal.
It wasn't, to me, a ghost sighting let's say.
She definitely seemed human to me.
A few evenings later, Amanda returns to the old hospital
to continue her training.
So it's going to be pretty busy next week
so definitely all hands on deck. Yeah, sounds good.
The second time I was at the hospital,
I was walked with someone who was gonna be one of my co-workers
from the front into the back area of this hospital.
(VOICES)
I thought I heard like a laughing.
I swore I heard people speaking.
We were the only two people in that wing that I knew of.
You heard that too, right?
What did this floor used to be?
It was an old psychiatric ward.
It just really struck me as odd.
Hearing voices and thinking people were laughing at me.
It was very, very disturbing.
(LAUGHS)
Amanda now knows there's something supernatural in this hospital.
I decided I wanted to find out more.
I told my co-worker of my involvement within the paranormal
and in investigations, and at that point, she said,
"Well, there's nothing I can do if you brought in a recorder,"
so she said that would be fine.
I brought in recorders and started a paranormal investigation
on my breaks.
(STATIC)
I was walking down the hallway
and I was about to go into one of the rooms.
I heard a man yell.
Hey!
Very loud.
Like, enough to stop me.
And I looked back.
Hello?
There was no one there.
Is someone there?
There was definitely no one else in that wing with me.
(LAUGHS)
And that's when I heard the laughing again.
Like (LAUGHS). Right in my ear.
It was the same laughter I heard when I heard the voices.
(LAUGHS)
It was not a nice laugh.
It was more of a like, "I'm gonna get you."
Like, a threatening laugh.
(LAUGHS)
I did not feel safe at that moment.
I just knew there was something in there
that doesn't like people poking around.
I had to just get out of there.
(LAUGHS)
I ran like my life depended on it.
(LAUGHS)
2 00:10:44.040 -- 00:10:47.000 align:middle line:90% position:50% Over the following weeks, Amanda continues her training,
shadowing a co-worker around the hospital.
At this point, I was very conflicted.
Do I continue to do the paranormal side,
or do I do the professional Amanda side?
I chose to be more on the professional side
and not go back in and investigate.
How do you not get lost in this place?
I've worked here a long time.
My first post was on this floor.
It used to be the neurology department.
(GROANS) What is it? What's wrong?
While we were walking, I got the worst headache.
An aching and ringing in my ears.
(SCREAMS)
Are you OK? Let's just get out of here.
Here, let me help you.
The pain was unbearable.
And then suddenly, it was gone.
Are you OK?
Yeah, I'll be OK.
I would go down another hallway...
(GROANS)
I got the worst stomach pain, just doubled me over,
just made me want to pass out.
(GROANS)
Amanda, what's wrong?
My...my stomach.
What is going on with you?
What was on this floor originally?
This floor?
It's the old gastroenterology department.
I realised that when I was having the pains in my head,
I was in the original neurology unit.
When I was having the stomach issues and being doubled over in pain,
I was in the gastric unit.
When I was hearing voices,
when I was feeling like I was getting laughed at or being mocked,
I was in the psychiatric unit.
(LAUGHS)
Every sensation that I was having was matching perfectly
with what used to happen and what the patients would have experienced
while they were in that hospital.
It is not unusual for people in haunted locations
to experience physical symptoms such as headaches, chest pain,
abdominal pain. This is the body's way
of trying to communicate, in the only manner it knows how,
that something strange is afoot.
As Amanda's training continues in the old hospital,
things begin to take a troubling turn.
It's been pretty crazy. Well, yeah.
It will definitely keep you on your toes if you're not careful.
(PHONE BUZZES)
I've got to take this right away.
You know the way, right? Yeah, I'll get it there.
OK, awesome.
It was during one of the shadow shifts
that I saw something that just rocked me to the core.
I found myself at the spot where I first saw the nurse.
And I was about to turn another corner...
..when a full shadow figure stepped out of one of the rooms
and looked right at me.
(LAUGHS)
I turned around for two seconds and looked back again.
And it was gone.
(LAUGHS)
It just didn't seem to move
with our laws of movement or physics or anything.
(LAUGHS)
It just seemed really, just wrong.
There's no words to tell you how scared I was.
(SCREAMS)
Seeing the shadow was really wild.
It was overwhelming.
I heard a man's voice.
I heard this awful laugh.
(LAUGHS)
I needed to get out of there.
I couldn't stomach it. It was just too much.
I don't think that shadow was human.
I don't think that it ever has been human.
What I do know is it seemed
to get enjoyment from my fear.
(SCREAMS)
(LAUGHS)
At this point, I had to really think am I angering someone?
I was very conflicted about continuing to ask the questions.
I didn't want to be provoking anything.
I was terrified.
(SCREAMS)
It was not nice.
And that's when I saw her candlelight.
A glowing candle, and there was someone holding it.
I could tell it was like a silhouette of a nurse.
Once again, 20 feet away.
And I followed that candlelight.
And I followed it around corners.
I followed it down the way.
I kept following it until I was where I needed to be.
She took the time out to help me, not only navigate the hospital,
not only navigate through
what was a really terrifying experience.
She helped me get out of something that I was not ready to be in.
She could have saved my life.
The training and recruitment process comes to an end.
On Amanda's last day, she makes one last discovery
while leaving the hospital.
On the way out of the hospital, I didn't see the nurse again,
but what I did see is pictures.
Originally, this hospital was used to train nuns to become nurses.
After the entire recruitment process was over,
I waited to hear if I got the job.
I didn't hear anything so I figured it was fair to say
I didn't pass the evaluation.
I don't know if that's necessarily a bad thing.
I don't know if I need to work in that hospital.
(LAUGHS)
2 00:19:26.280 -- 00:19:29.440 align:middle line:90% position:50% In a psychiatric wing of a downtown hospital,
Rosie Bridge-Alfonso begins her career.
Yeah, I have a three. Three pieces. Oh, that's probably right.
When I started work at the hospital, I was 23.
When you're working in mental health,
above and beyond medication administration,
you are caring for the person, you are caring for the life
of an individual that has gone through some type of trauma
and is currently struggling with mental health challenges
and difficulties.
We're not doing such a great job.
We'll be here for two years.
Well, I think we can finish it tonight.
Mm-hm. I don't know, Gregor.
In mental health, we don't have IV poles,
we don't have casts.
In mental health, we have ourselves, and so we are very alert
and are very aware of their stories.
Our patients are struggling in a different way,
and they are in need of care and love and support
just like anyone else with any other physical illness.
OK, Gregor. I've got to start my rounds.
Time for bed, huh?
Sure, Rosie. I'll keep to my schedule.
At night, we would often go around with a flashlight
because you don't want to turn on all the lights
and wake up all the patients.
When I started working at this facility,
I did not notice anything strange or weird or off.
Maybe a year or two into the role, I started experiencing things
that I thought were strange.
One of the things that I noticed
was when I'd walk down on a specific hallway,
I always felt as if I was being followed.
And I would just get a sense of eeriness
and I always felt like I had to look over my shoulder
when doing rounds.
There was a sense that someone's watching you.
And immediately the thought was just be cautious, be careful.
(GROWLS)
Continuing her rounds,
Rosie notices another strange anomaly.
There was this one room in particular where the door was difficult to open.
It was fine during the day but at night...
Other doors weren't like that.
But you had to literally put your feet against the door
to get it to open,
as if you were trying to push something out of the way.
The first time this happened, I opened the door
to look to see if there was anything behind it.
Frida, you got a sec?
You ever have a problem with the door for Room 220?
You sure you want to hear about this?
Yeah?
Rosie's co-worker recalls a tragic experience
with one of her patients.
I was making my rounds one night.
I went to check on his room but I didn't see him in his bed,
so I shined the flashlight in.
But then I tried to open the door and I couldn't get it open.
Yes, that's exactly what happened with me.
So when I finally got it open...
..he was lying behind it.
I called for help, I did everything I could, but...
It's too late.
Her patient is dead from major heart failure.
You're not the only one this has happened to.
A lot of the nurses believe that, when they're going into the room
to check at night, that the weight of the person's body
is still there.
I can't believe this stuff is real. I know.
I shook my head.
How do 30 people or 40 people who work in the same unit
have the same experience?
It just doesn't make sense.
Rosie is unable to move this door where a patient died.
This patient left behind a lot of things
with a very heavy psychic weight to it
which resulted in a kind of residual haunting
which replays itself over and over.
I truly believe that there is something more happening
that I can't see.
Things that people just don't understand.
I believe that there is a spiritual world.
I know it's very real.
I know it's separate from the physical world.
I know they interact.
(GROWLS)
I was in the nursing station, and a patient had woken up
and he was walking to the bathroom.
Gregor, are you OK?
And as I'm watching him, out of nowhere,
this patient threw their head back and barrelled his chest,
almost like changing from a human to a werewolf.
(GROWLS) Gregor?
(GROWLS) At that point...
Code white, code white!
..I needed some assistance.
Gregor! (GROWLS)
We need some help over here!
There were two distinct voices.
Two distinct personalities.
I distinctly remembered documenting 'demonic laugh.'
(LAUGHS)
That was my observation. That's what it sounded like to me.
Please, please don't tie me down! (GROWLS)
And finally the person looked at me,
shook his head as if he was snapping out of something and said...
It wasn't me!
He did not have control over what that event was
and was able to articulate, in that moment, that it wasn't him.
I 100% believed him.
Please don't tie me down! (GROWLS)
However, at that moment, I did not feel safe
and I wasn't sure of what that person was going to do
and so we did restrain the person...
It's alright, Gregor. It's alright.
..to get beyond the immediate risk at that moment.
Alright, Gregor. Take a deep breath.
There was no precursor to the event,
it was just an immediate type of explosion.
You OK? I've got this.
It's OK.
That was very frightening because I saw that person change.
That change within that individual, that change was something else.
It sounded like someone else and it moved like someone else.
I'm sorry, Gregor.
What I witnessed was more spiritual as opposed to psychiatric,
and when dealing with the spiritual, it can be frightening.
You are seeing things that don't necessarily make sense.
I believed that there was something that manifested itself
from that patient, something that came out,
whatever it was.
It showed itself to me in that moment.
(GROWLS)
Usually when an entity is engaged in oppression,
it's for the purposes of trying to get those people in the area
to submit to it, to gain control of its environment.
The disturbing event takes its toll on Rosie.
She is ready for her scheduled break.
We would stagger our breaks
to ensure coverage of the unit on nights,
and there was a break room that the nurses would go in
and have a nap or read a book or whatever.
And about 10 minutes after laying down...
..I saw the door open.
There was a figure that came through the door.
It closed the door behind it.
All of a sudden, it just comes over me.
And then I can't move.
(GROWLS)
And I couldn't move. I was fighting, fighting, fighting.
(GROWLS)
I tried to call out but I couldn't speak.
I could think but I couldn't open my mouth
to call out for any help or support.
And the harder I fought to get up,
the harder this thing was pushing me down.
This thing engulfed me, like, came on top of me.
I continued fighting for a long, long time.
I was very frightened.
(GROWLS)
And then finally, I stopped fighting.
I started to relax and I started to pray and I started to say,
"God, please take this off of me."
Please God, take this off of me.
Immediately, this thing released me.
At that point, I felt relief, I felt in control,
and I said, "Thank you, Lord."
Rosie, are you OK?
I...I don't even know.
It's OK, you can tell me.
In the break room, this thing...
I don't even know what it was.
It was the scariest thing that's ever happened to me.
You're not the only one that this has happened to.
The same thing happened to them in the same room.
That night when that thing, spirit, whatever it was came upon me,
I truly believe it was trying to frighten me.
For what reason, I don't know.
Maybe to see what I would do or how I would handle it.
Please God, take this off of me.
And so, moving forward, before I went into that room
or any break room especially at night,
I just prayed over my space.
Dear God, please protect me. Please.
And I've never, for the time I was working there,
I've never had an issue since.
2 00:31:58.360 -- 00:32:00.960 align:middle line:73% position:50% At a rural hospital in northern Ontario,
19-year-old nursing student Lucas Goldman starts his day.
In my second year placement, I got an amazing opportunity
to do job placement in northern Ontario
in a small, really rural community.
When I first came into that hospital, it was really strange.
I couldn't put my finger on it. Just a weird energy.
Hello?
It was an old building, from over 150 years ago,
that was converted into a hospital.
Throughout the course of time, additional wings were added
so it was almost as though Frankenstein designed this place
because each wing was kind of stitched together at odd angles.
(SCREAMS)
As Lucas settles into his new job, he hears some disturbing rumours
from a senior colleague.
The nurse that I was shadowing that day,
she always had these stories about the environment that we were in,
especially bed 23.
It's an ICY bed. I don't know why rumours start
that this bed has seen more death than any other.
I don't know the statistics,
but they said they've seen a lot of strange things
and strange things only happen in bed 23.
So, today's the big day.
We're going to move you on to the ICU floor.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
Here's one of the ICU patient rooms.
Remember, we work as a team here
so feel free to ask me any questions.
Of course.
The IV pole in that bed was swaying back and forth.
What did I tell you?
Yeah, weird.
This bed gives me the chills.
Come, let's go meet with the night nurse before she leaves.
I also saw the vents directly above it blowing cold air,
moving it from side to side.
Oh, that's why.
It was the most naturalistic phenomena you could see.
Unless you combine something as simple as that
with the fact that bed 23 was always filled with death.
A few days later, bed 23 has a new occupant.
Lucas is assigned to care for the eccentric parent.
One of my most interesting patients was a woman.
She was actively dying.
She had a twin sister.
Her twin sister sat at the corner of the bed
and just kind of waited with her.
I thought I'd bring her some supper in case she wants it.
As her oxygenation saturation started to decrease,
her blood pressure dropped as well.
I'm sorry. It won't be long now.
She said if you want to say goodbye, now is the time to do it.
Goodbye.
Good night.
It was the first time I'd ever seen a patient pass.
The loss of a patient is a sad rite of passage.
But Lucas gets back to work, transferring the body to the morgue
so the bed can be prepared for its next occupant.
The twin sister that sat at the corner of the bed
watched me bag up her sister.
And I saw she sat there and ate the last meal
that her twin sister wasn't able to finish in her life.
It was keeping her memory in her.
Can you settle some paperwork now?
Would that be OK?
Lucas doesn't have to wait long for his next assignment,
or bed 23 for its next patient.
They said I was gonna be getting someone from emerge imminently.
I didn't know what imminently means, especially from an emerge to an ICU.
So, I sat there and I waited.
I popped in my headphones.
I thought I'd listen to some music, just something to relax.
But I couldn't relax.
Goodbye.
I kept on hearing something behind me.
Good night.
Hello?
Good night. Woah!
Goodbye.
It was the patient's sister, whispering.
I didn't know what was going on.
My new patient comes in through the doors on a gurney,
coming into bed 23.
It was the patient's twin sister.
I didn't know what to expect any more.
The speed of the residual haunting, I think this ties in greatly
with that aspect of the twins.
Goodbye.
When you have been in a womb together,
that energy is there and it's quietly snuffed out.
Lucas' practice placement goes by quickly.
On his final night, his friends hold a bonfire party to celebrate,
but Lucas is stuck working late at the hospital.
He'll soon learn that the party will be coming to him.
That night we got a phone call saying the bonfire had collapsed.
They were coming into the hospital.
We are treating smoke inhalation, burns,
on a limited skeleton crew in this hospital.
Bringing these patients...
My friends that I was supposed to be partying with that night,
bringing them back to a stable situation.
Hey, that was a close one.
You're gonna be OK, bud.
After working tirelessly for hours,
it was finally my chance to go on break.
In the basement, we have a room that we use to go on break.
A lot of old medical devices, old mattresses and stuff.
That's why we go in there and take naps.
It felt like there was something underneath the door.
Under that slit, I saw what looked like fire.
I instantly thought the hospital is burning down.
I open up the door.
Nothing.
I went into the hall...
..and I saw what looked like a figure cast in embers.
I was extremely scared.
It made me feel like it wanted me to follow it.
So I started towards that figure, walking up the hall.
It brought me to my friend's room.
A growing, swelling tone filled the hallway.
(HIGH-PITCHED NOTE PLAYS)
I opened up the door, it was her heart monitor.
They were coding.
Code blue, code blue!
Nurse!
No heartrate.
I start doing chest compressions.
The patient came back to life.
It's a good thing you came back from break early.
If only you knew.
It felt as though my friend somehow brought me back to them.
Take it easy, take it easy, big guy.
They sat up.
Vomited all this goo.
I'd never seen anything like this before.
What happened?
Everything's gonna be OK.
Just gonna get you cleaned up, OK?
I couldn't explain it then
and I can't for the life of me figure out what it was now.
This was more than just X causes Y.
Hello?
I've been a nurse for decades.
I've never seen anything like this before.
It was the weirdest thing that's ever happened in my career.
Good night. Woah!
Goodbye.
There's an emotional disconnect
that we are supposed to take as nurses.
We compartmentalise in order to preserve ourselves.
For some people, it is necessary to say
a spirit from a completely different realm
had to come all the way over here.
For some people, it gives them hope.
For other people, it gives them immense fear.
Am I trying to force an exploration out of something
that potentially has no explanation
just because I'm afraid of saying I don't know?
I'm OK not knowing everything all the time.
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