It's your second week of working at the local hospital. You're a nurse, and you've been working the day shift. Well, that is until today. All you would have to do is sit at the desk. If a patient needed anything, you would go and help them. Other than that, there was nothing to do.
You sit down at the Nurses desk. The hospital is much different at night than it is during the day. The dimly lit hallways are like something out of horror movie. You open your laptop and begin randomly scrolling the internet. You do this for about two hours, but suddenly you are interrupted. You hear what sounds like things moving on the floor above you. You figure that it's just some staff moving furniture, and you go back to your computer.
You were sure that the noises would stop at some point, but you were wrong. You started to get used to shuffling sound, but what you heard next sent cold chills down your spine. It sounded like a woman screaming for dear life. The other nurses told you that sometimes weird things happened in the hospital at night, but you honestly didn't think it would be this intense. That's when the words that a day shift nurse had told you started to play in your head.
"No matter what you hear, don't move from your spot."
You take his advice and stay where you are. All that could be heard for the rest of the night was shuffling, screaming, and the occasional sounds of laughter. Even though it was starting to get intense, you didn't move from your seat. You eventually looked at the clock. It said 5 a.m. It was almost time to leave.
You see the day shift nurse walk in.
"How was the first night?" he asks.
"It was okay for the most part."
"For the most part?" he questions.
"I kept hearing sounds above me. It sounded like people moving around at first, and then I heard screaming and laughing."
The nurse doesn't look puzzled at all. He had a look on his face that said been there and done that.
"I think I have an explanation for you," he says. "but when I tell you this, don't be afraid."
"Okay was all she said in response."
"The floor above us used to be where they kept patients with mental issues," he started. "A lot of people died up there. The patients kept saying they saw a strange man that would hover above them. They said that he looked down at them and laughed. Here's the weird part. Every time a patient-reported this man, they died within a week. Right after a patient died, the staff would hear screams coming from the room they stayed in. Everyone just thought it would be best to close down the floor and move the patients somewhere else, and that's what they did. That floor hasn't been up and running for two years."
You say your goodbyes to the nurse and walk out to your car. The events of the night, and what you were just told play in your head. It made so much sense. The laughing, screaming, and everything else. You decide that you wouldn't let this scare you out of a job, and you go home and rest up for your next shift. You hope that everything will be better tomorrow night, but deep inside you know that that's just false hope.
