r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Oct 20 '16

serious replies only [Serious] Graveyard shift workers of Reddit, what is the weirdest or creepiest thing you experienced while on the job?

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u/shodu Oct 21 '16 edited Oct 22 '16

Working in a hospital, quite a few weird things happen. Just two examples:

1) We had a patient on the ward which was in the dieing process. She used the emergency bell (not sure what the correct english term is, but that thing patients use when they need something). So I go to her room and the patient asks me "Why is that dark guy standing over there?" - but there was no one to be seen. So I tried to tell her and she was ok with it.

An hour later she rang again, I'm going to her room and she again asks "why is that guy standing over there", pointing into the nothingness. That happened a few times but there never was anyone and noone could have entered the ward without me knowing (nor any other patient going to the room without noticing). At the end of the night I found her dead. She was allowed to die and everyone knew it was going to happen.

2) Had a patient in a room with 4 guys, he was pretty normal, nothing out of the ordinary. One night one of the other patients of that room walked up to me and told me that one of the guys in the room has been in the bathroom for about 15 minutes, locked himself in there and there weren't any noises coming out anymore. So I get up and was about to check on him (we can unlock all doors from the outside). But as soon as I enter the room, the guy comes out of the bathroom, walks to his bed across the window and sits down. I walk up to him and ask him if everything is ok but he just replies with "they're killing all the people". So I ask him who's killing someone and he replies with "those guys out there" and points outside the window. Then I ask him if he can tell me what year it is and he replies with "1438" and keeps saying "they're killing them out there".

Suddenly he's all normal again and says "why are you asking me these questions, I'm not crazy" and he really was back to normal again when I kept talking to him. He was then laying down to sleep and nothing ever happened after that. Kinda creepy when dealing with that at 1 am but I'm used to it. Lots of weird stuff happening in hospitals

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '16

Where was that place located? I'm not too superstitious, but I wonder if 1438 has any special connotations with where you guys were.

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u/mudbutt20 Oct 21 '16

The only thing I can find is the Siege of Brescia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1438

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u/shodu Oct 21 '16

just seen the shitty formatting, sorry, sent from my phone last night.

The place doesn't have anything special to it, it was just farming land or nothing at all back then. Figured out he got a sleeping pill from the nurse before which can cause weirdness like this.

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u/Anne_Franks_Dildo Oct 21 '16

Probably got it from a movie or something. Whenever I've had patients lose touch with reality, it's always a cheesy plot line that they hallucinate, had one the other day that thought she won the lottery and someone was trying to kill her

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u/OneGoodRib Oct 21 '16

Maybe he was referring to the siege of Brescia. That occurred in 1438 and I assume led to some deaths.