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Humans have a complicated relationship with mortality. Even though we all know that no one is immortal, even the more abstract reminders of that, graveyards, a casket or even a hospital, are capable of creating unpleasant, sometimes morbid feelings.

Some asked hospital workers to share the creepiest, weirdest and just most bizarre thing they’ve ever seen and the internet delivered. Be warned, some of these are not the most pleasant to read about. So settle in as you scroll through, upvote the most interesting and be sure to add your own thoughts and stories to the comments below.

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#1

A kid who’s flannel shirt was literally welded to his chest because he fell into a campfire, and his parents waited a day or so to bring him to ER so they could finish their camping trip. Kid was in shock so no crying or screaming. He was airlifted to a burn hospital in Houston.

After 4 years working weekend graveyard shift at a major hospital emergency room, I could give you about 100 examples.

#2

Working at a skilled nursing facility. Came in for my shift and walked past a patient’s room…Asked when his ng tube ( nasal tube to stomach for feeding)was put in. There wasn’t one. He had a worm coming out of his nose reaching down to his chest when we went back to check.

#3

I once had a patient who was an inmate (unspeakable crimes against his daughter) come in because he clawed one of his eyes out, and MOST of the other one to stop seeing what he did. We had him in restraints because he kept trying to finish the job. The way he looked and talked still haunt me to this day.

#4

I worked in the kitchen, so I was the lowly peon delivering food trays. Delivered to one guy who had a horrendously infected foot. Most of the toes were necrotic and black and the rest of the foot wasn’t doing much better. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was waiting on amputation. His dietary requirements were Diabetic, so it was likely. The room smelled AWFUL.

Anyway, these rooms are small, with typically two beds in them. Because of the smell from his infection, the other bed is empty. I still have to squeeze by the foot of his bed, and as I’m paying attention to the tray so I don’t knock it into equipment, I accidentally brush my leg against his infected foot that he has sticking out of the covers and hanging off the bed. His big toenail comes off onto my leg. It’s just, stuck to my leg. We look at each other in horror. I clear my throat, ask my usual questions, clear and adjust his table, give him his tray and wish him a good day. I leave calmly, and then run to the nurse’s station and ask for help getting this dude’s entire necrotic toenail (with bonus flesh) off my *f*****g leg.*

The nurse who got it off soaked that portion of my pantleg in some disinfectant liquid that smelled like it could take the paint off a car.

#5

Hospital Security Officer here. Had to check in a little little kid to our psych unit once. He was the sweetest little thing. Found out after that he was cutting kittens up with scissors.

#6

Worked in an ER for a long time on overnights while I was in the air force. All of the housekeepers would talk about the lady in the red dress. They would often see her down in the basement where the morgue was. We would have to go down there to the place where they did sterilizations to drop stuff off, and that was right by the morgue. No one ever saw anything.

One day, a patient came in for a knife cut on his finger and need stitches. Young guy, no history of mental illness or anything. He was telling me how it was difficult finding how to get to the ER and ended up in the basement, until a nice lady in a red dress told him to go the other way and up the stairs and he found us.

We believed the housekeepers after that haha.

#7

Mexican nurse here, the worst one was a F in her 70s came to the ER she referd her leg hurt, she had a bandage above her ankle, she said she had cut with glass 3 weeks ago, so she put the bandage and thats all she did, so i take off her bandage and she has 2 small cuts, imagine from the cut, but as a i look at it more she has 2 little white things moving, i notice those are small larve, im shocked at this point but she says she feel a lot of tingling in ther leg so i squeeze a little the leg and like 50 larves come out, they say probably a fly laid eggs on her wound and she didnt notice, they had to take her to the OR because the holes were really deep, i squoze a 2nd time and another 50 larves came out, so thats the worse one.

#8

Anti-vaxxers fighting for their lives for 3 weeks then still saying COVID and the vaccine is a hoax.

#9

I’m a non-clinician but I worked in the ED of a large hospital for about 7 months (on process improvement not patient care), and I would say the creepiest thing were the BCU patients, including detoxing patients who were just out of their mind by the time they made it into the ED. These circumstances often require security bc these patients are out of control of themselves. And of course that can get violent and often does.

Nurses, BTW, are freaking HEROES! In my time, I witnessed this tiny little nurse jump on top of a coded patient and manually give him chest compressions for nearly 3 minutes after he coded on the table, and she brought him back! If you ever see that IRL, it takes A LOT of strength and effort to do chest compressions for any length of time (try it, it’s physically exhausting) and he was so big and she was so small! But she saved him!

#10

Not hospital but care home. We had a guy who used to call out to us at all hours of the night because he wanted his wife. He used to shout “darling? Darling?!” In the most mournful way, almost like howling.. when you went into him he usually thought you were his wife. She was his world, and had died over a decade ago. It was very sad, and sometimes when I dream, I can hear him calling her.

#11

I haven’t seen a lot since I am a labor and delivery nurse and mostly do bringing people into the world, not the other way around, but helping deliver term babies that have passed before birth, espically the ones that may have been gone for a while, always feels wrong and backwards.

#12

I got a fast bleep (ie. drop everything you’re doing and attend this emergency please) one night to a side room on the ward to find no patient in the bed. Was just about to leave the room and go back out to the nurses station, where there had been a bit of a hubbub when I’d dashed past the first time, when something caught my eye.

Looked up to see a face with wide, slightly wild “psych eyes” peering down at me from a gap in the ceiling tiles. She was a lady waiting for a bed in the psych hospital who’d clearly thought the ceiling was the best place to hide from the people trying to poison her.

Honestly can’t think of another occasion that I’ve been quite so terrified.

Worst thing was that I had to walk (well, dash) back out underneath her to get help from the nurses and security to get her down.

#13

Every hospital has a couple rooms super close to the nurses station where you put patients who needed extra eyes on them. So either crazy due to d***s/dementia/etc or dying.

The first hospital I worked was special though. I’m a skeptical person, but I saw dozens of patients react to “Watchers” in those rooms.

The Watchers came in 2 flavors:

1. Patients who were detoxing from d***s/alcohol, or violent and unpleasant toward staff would talk about a menacing shadow figure who was there to keep them in line. There were a couple frequent flyers who would a*****t staff during admissions to other rooms, but not the Watcher rooms.

2. Patients who were dying, confused, or experiencing non-violent mental health issues would see also see a shadow figure, but it was calming and protective. I had patients talk about how the shadow kept them from falling out of bed, picked up the call light if it was dropped, all sorts of little things like that.

It didn’t happen with every patients, but enough to make me wonder….

#14

You guys need a little levity after reading all these ….

Worked the ER as an [very] medic, Eglin AFB hospital, Ft. Walton Beach, FL; resort area, pristine white beaches, sport fishing ….

Took a body down to the morgue with another medic and shift supervisor. He had the drawer assignment and paperwork responsibility. We pulled open the drawer and there was a monstrously large sailfish that could hardly fit without its body curved and sail pushed down.

We stood there in surprise … um, procedure? No idea. The NCO said, “It would be a very good idea not to remember this. I’ll deal with it in the morning. Let’s see, how about this drawer?”

Later it was rumored it belonged to one of the senior surgeons.

#15

My mom had a patient who scooped his eyeball out with a plastic spoon because it was bothering him.

#16

My wife is transitioning away from working nights at an assisted living facility. She said for about a week after one resident passed on the memory care side all of the nursing assistants would randomly hear someone with a walker moving around (walkers make an extremely distinctive noise when one walks with one), except they have sensors everywhere so they know when someone’s up and every time nobody was up, and they could not find anybody that was up upon walking around looking for the source of it.

She also told me that this job has convinced her that ghosts are real.

#17

I don’t have a single event. But from working nights in the operating room of a level one trauma center you run into many awful things. Including the worst of society.

But something that sticks with you is seeing a severely injured person in complete shock. Not like WOW my arm is off, but like body shock.

They’re barely aware of the world around them. Eerily calm. Pale, sluggish. Not at all bothered by the bustling room around them.

I remember one person who had a ruptured aortic aneurysm, and due to a communication breakdown we had incised before the patient was asleep (surgeons get tunnel vision in moments like that) and the patient was like “hey that hurts” very chill, almost bored. It was wild.

#18

I went to the morgue to do a temperature check and one of the bodies had sat up on its own, but it was at a 45 degree angle, so at first glance it looked like it was in the process of sitting up. S**t gives me nightmares.

#19

Sadly, every ER doc that has worked for a while has seen a child die of asthma. Doing everything you can and they just get bluer and bluer and die is terrible. Anything involving children is hard.

#20

I’ve worked in a locked mental health unit for 12 years and I’ve seen some s**t but a lot of it seems quite common place at this point. The one that stands out for me, though, was when I cared for a known psychopath and convicted m******r.

There was just nothing at all in his eyes. There’s no other way to describe it. I would say something innocuous and he would go silent, all facial expression would leave, and he would just look right into you. I’m a large man and I’ve rarely felt intimidated but this guy made ice run through my veins. The only time I’ve ever felt this way about a person, is when I watched the documentary about The Iceman, Richard Kuklinski.

I would ask him if I somehow offended him, apologize, and try to avoid whatever it was in the future. I actually managed to build a pretty solid rapport with him (completely out of self preservation) based on mutual respect. He was even a good enough sport to warn me that there may be uncapped h****n syringes in his personal belongings.

I stated to my team when he was discharged that I was sure he would k**l someone else and a few years later he did. Thankfully I’ll never have to see him again.

#21

EMT for the ambulance service. We have two hospitals in our county. One is a general hospital and the other in level II trauma center that most people go to. Even then last week both ERs were filled to the point where the general hospital told us they could no longer accept patients due to being filled up and the level II would only take patients under certain circumstances. While my partner and I were in the ER we kept noticing a man laying in a bed out in the open that looked so peaceful as he was sleeping. We found out from a RN we knew that he had died from unknown circumstances but they had nowhere to put his body. The morgue was full and no one could track down the county coroner. All they could do was was make it look like he was sleeping so the other patients didn’t take notice. I thought it was very unethical but the RN kept reminding me that they had absolutely no room for his body unless they put in the janitors closet.

#22

1340 pound female patient I worked with for about a year. Got her down to 680 or so before she left.

#23

I was a supervisor over the admissions department of the emergency room in a VERY small hospital in a rural area. I had two people call in one night so I had to go in and work by myself. Around 3am, EMS arrives with a patient that shouldn’t have been brought to our hospital. She was DOA. Being in the admissions department meant I had to do all the paperwork when patients came to the hospital. I walked into the room with my clipboard and saw a woman on a stretcher with a dog chain around her neck. She had claw marks all around the chain where it looks like she had tried to get the chain off. EMS stated that in the process of hanging herself, she changed her mind but it was too late. Gave me chills.

#24

An arm fell out of the refrigerator when I was putting some pathology specimens away.

It was late at night so I didn’t turn the light on when I entered the room. I just open the fridge door. And this hand starts coming at me, then forearm, then the rest of the arm just rolled right out.

#25

I worked IT for a hospital, and was down working on one of the ER computers when they wheeled in a homeless man that was screaming. They were trying to get his socks off. The nurse pulled off the sock on his right foot…and all of the skin with it. The most horrendous smell immediately spread throughout the whole area. I never found out what happened. I showered for a solid hour after getting home.

#26

Walked into the morgue one time to find someone holding a guys eye in her hand, still attached to the bodies head by the nerve, and was removing the cornea for a donor transplant into a living person. I looked outside the door, leaned back in and said “ you know there’s a slider out here that says ‘in use’ right?” Then slid it to “in use” and left to come back after she was done lol.

#27

I witnessed a patient of mine pull out his catheter. With the balloon fully inflated. He made no facial expression. He was out of his mind. It took 3 of us to get him restrained after that.

#28

I work in an operating room and we frequently get dog bite victims. Once when I went out to the waiting room to update the parents, the child’s father hands me a trash bag with the head of the dog that bit his son in it. He said he thought we’d need it test for rabies. Hmmmm… no, animal control would handle that particular task, thank you very much. I took it though. Details….

#29

Someone who purposely lit themselves on fire.. arms charred and unmovable, like they were doing the robot. I’m sure they didn’t live, I can’t imagine the pain. The smell was horrible.

#30

The behavior of certain doctors are the biggest creeps of them all. Stuff like u********g and calling a nurse into their office.

#31

How often patients realize their time is near even when there are no medical signs. I discharged a post op patient who was doing very very well. He said to me this surgery is going to be the end of me. There were no signs of anything wrong and he couldn’t tell me why he was saying that. Two weeks later he developed an acute post op complication and died.

#32

Not seen but a lot of the patients in the hospital where I work constantly say they see a little boy in their room. Like I’ve been there 11 years and 20+ people have told me they saw a little boy playing in their room. It creeps me out every time.

#33

I used to work in a catholic hospital and on night rounds on the orthopedic floor I finally asked a nurse why the patient room right off from the elevator was used for storage of extra beds/ IV poles. I assumed it may have been too noisy and had patient complaints from being by the elevator. The real story is that it was haunted by this woman who was acting very strange and apparently they had call a priest in to literally see if she was possessed.

He said she was and she had accused a nurse of stealing her baby (patient was 70ish and son died as an infant). Turns out that nurse was pregnant and didn’t know it yet. Anyway she apparently “levitated” and died a few days later. They had hung a cross outside the wall of the room that was facing the elevators that fell off and broke. And the paper towel automatic dispenser (the one you wave your hand in front of) would constantly spill out paper towels and the automatic sink would turn on and off randomly. So they quit putting patients in that room. I never witnessed it myself but I also never went in to that room after that.

#34

Gonorrhea of an abdominal ostomy. Ostomy is when they reroute the colon to exit from the abdominal wall when the there is an issue with the colorectal system. Google it if you need a visual.

#35

Not really as exciting as the others, but a pt who was newly diagnosed with cancer decided not to get treatment because she “just didn’t have another round in her”. Shortly after, she was complaining of pain in her leg/foot, which was quickly diagnosed as a blood clot. She refused treatment. We watched her decline for days, her foot went from hot and red, to black. Each shift I would come in and find her mental status had deteriorated quickly. It was extremely sad seeing her family come in day after day, begging her to get help and change her mind while watching her die.

#36

RN here, when I was a student nurse I arrived at my first ever clinical placement, on my very first day, first thing in the morning, and the nurses had me help them put a guy in a body bag who’d died overnight. Not the most fun introduction to my nursing career, but it sure prepared me for all the s**t I’d have to see and do.

#37

I’m a scrub nurse. My job is to assist the surgeon during surgeries. One of the very first surgeries I ever sat in on about a year ago was a hemicolectomy (removal of part of the large intestine). Halfway through the surgery the patient’s arm came up and hit me in the leg. I screamed and jumped and immediately thought the patient had woken up mid surgery. The surgeon who was preforming the surgery sighed loudly and said “While body twitches during surgery are not common, they are not impossible. Please calm yourself.” It was the creepiest moment feeling someone I thought was unconscious touch me but then quickly turned into an embarrassing teaching moment for me.

#38

Was working in the emergency department (I’m a pharmacist), walked by the nurse station where they have the EKG rhythms of monitored patients showing across the screen. The patient who was in the trauma bay had the most whacky s**t happening on the screen so I went to the room to see what was happening. Code in process, his chest had been c*****d and the trauma surgeon was beating the heart with his hand to try to get him to come back. He did not.

#39

As a student I was given the opportunity to attend a donor enucleation (removal of eye tissue for potential transplant or research). The patient was deceased and the donation was for research. I had never witnessed such a thing in training as it’s rather specialized and I tend to work with living patients, and, to be completely transparent, I thought my preceptor had said

“*colleague name* is going to get some ICE. Did you want to assist?”

I literally thought I was going to help him get ice. In retrospect it made zero sense but I was very new to the placement and keen to impress so I immediately jumped aboard. When we got to the morgue I realized something was up. It took no time for me to reassemble the word I had misunderstood as I donned appropriate PPE and was escorted into the cold room for retrieval of the eye tissue.

Thankfully, my mentor was not expecting me to participate as I stood frozen next to the deceased patient who was post autopsy (not covered up on her slab, y incision just kind of laid back in place on her torso) and I spent the next 20 minutes nodding enthusiastically, attempting to appear as if I had knowingly engaged in this lesson from the start.

The actual removal of the eyes was not too distressing (tissues, fluids and procedures were not unfamiliar in training with live patients) but the view left behind haunted me for a few years. There was something so unsettling about that patients body lying there exposed on a narrow metal gurney, Y incision across torso with her eyeballs removed from her head. Because it was well post mortem the eyelids could be pulled down respectfully but they just kind of popped back open with nothing beneath them to hold them closed.

20 years later I’ve seen things that make that experience a walk in the park in comparison but the that image popped immediately into mind when I read this question so thought I’d share.

Sleep well, friends. ;).

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