The Haunted ICU

[writerdoc]

The Adventures of Medical Internship: Special Halloween Edition

THE HAUNTED ICU

For two weeks, I was the lone night float intern in the ICU. We had some crazy cases, as you can imagine, but what I want to write about are the stories the staff told me about how our ICU is haunted. Yes, you read that right-haunted!

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[sayyouknewme]

I like the elevator one the most, I think. Very creepy little tales. I want to believe ghosts are real, and my mom is a professional psychic, so you'd think I'd be less skeptical, but I'm just not sure. I've had my own share of weird things happen, but never anything I couldn't at least partially explain or connect to something else. My dad is a fundamentalist Christian (yeah, they're divorced, haha) and he's really, really touchy about the supernatural. Apparently my great-grandmother was a spiritualist, and my dad thinks there's some sort of curse in our family now. He said the ghosts and demons used to torment him at night until he prayed. I'm not saying he's wrong, but I think he might also have some mental issues he never addressed. I mean, he's a highly functional person, but his desperate clinging to religion and insistence that he's at constant warfare makes me wonder. Plus he told me once that he only ever has nightmares. Anyway, he's really sensitive to that sort of thing, and he's actually psychic, too, though he'd never acknowledge it because it's satanic and what not. Lol. People always ask my sister and I if we're psychic like our mom, and you'd think with two psychic parents, I'd be a regular Nostradamus, but as far as I can tell, that gene skipped me. I do have my moments, and I'm getting better at listening to intuition, but I'm nothing like my mom.

Anyway, kind of want off on a tangent there. My mom had some experiences as a kid that scare me a bit, mostly because of my strict, Christian upbringing. It took me a long time to stop fearing hell, and sometimes a little part of me still does. When she was little, she was playing with a ouija board with her sister, and they asked when the world would end. It said, "The day the lord comes to claim his victory," then the piece flew straight up into the air. That always freaked me out, because it seems to reinforce religion, but if it's even accurate and not an exaggeration of a child's mind, it might have been something just screwing with her, knowing that she was Christian at the time. She had a lot of strange things happen when she was little, including a time when her mother came into her room and saw something leaning over her in her crib. She said it was a small, hooded figure, and it was hunched over her face. When she screamed, it sat straight up and looked at her, then disappeared. She said it had the most vicious face she'd ever seen. Not really sure what that was about. My grandfather saw it, too, though, so... not really sure.

There's one other person in my life who's had a lot of strange experiences that leave me wondering if she had some sort of mental illness or what. She's oddly very, very sensitive to hallucinations, like taking one percocet made her hallucinate numbers flying around the room and getting in her face. But the things she saw as a kid happened a lot, and we're still not sure what to make of it. She almost never has these occurrences now, but when we were teens, she'd get them now and again. Mostly things like hearing music or a radio playing loudly when no one else could, etc. She's not a liar at all, kind of an innocent person in general, so I believe she sees and hears these things. I just don't know if it's supernatural or not.

I think my favorite story from her childhood, because it still creeps me out, is one of the shadow people. She saw shadow people running around her house fairly often when she was little, but there was one ghost that was always in the same spot. When she'd try to sleep at night, this shadow girl would run back and forth in front of her door. Sometimes, she would stop in front of the door and sharply look in at my friend. The first time she told me about that, I got the chills. Definitely freaky.

[writerdoc]

Whoa! Those are definitely freaky! Shadow people, eek!

Don't even get me started on Ouija boards, lol. I've had some particularly nasty experiences with them.

My sister is definitely more sensitive than I am. She used to hear whole conversations when I was little, and they usually were in different languages. My house growing up was definitely haunted by multiple ghosts, so we both experienced things, but she did way more than I did. I believe every minute of it, though.

This stuff runs in my family too. Apparently, my aunt and grandfather were possessed by demons and my grandmother scarified a dog at an intersection to exorcise them…and I'm not joking! Lots of cray cray going on there! Maybe that's why I'm so fascinated by it. ;)

Thanks for reading!