Haunted Hospitals - Fourth Season

There was a lot of rumours about the hospital being haunted.

The patients, once they came there,

they usually stayed there till they passed.

It was like she was still right there with me.

I seem to always get stuck in one location.

The morgue?

It was terrifying to be trapped in that dark room.

It was definitely a child.

All of a sudden, this puzzle went flying off the shelf.

It won't hurt you. It?

Oh my God, she's still here.

It scared the bejeebies out of me.

I was terrified.

Mary Jo Chudley works nights as a nurse aide

at a dedicated cancer treatment facility.

The cancer hospital I worked with, it was a treatment centre,

it was not a hospital.

It didn't have an ER so it was only for treatment.

I've almost finished prepping Room 310.

I worked seven at night to seven in the morning.

You can take your break after. It's pretty quite tonight.

On that floor, there was four ICU units.

The patients, once they came there,

they usually stayed there till they passed.

It was an old hospital

before they changed it into a cancer hospital

so there was always rumours that it was haunted.

So, it was very, very old,

and a lot of nurses complained about paranormal experiences

going on in that hospital.

So I was working there for about a year,

nothing ever strange ever happened.

Nothing paranormal ever happened there.

This changes when Mary Jo is assigned to care

of a terminally ill patient.

Here, let me help you. No, no, I've got this.

I've got this.

Easy does it.

I've got you.

Vivian came in because she had stage IV cancer.

It was mostly to her brain.

There we go.

I just took care of her whenever she needed anything.

I did whatever she needed me to do.

If she needed anything to eat, you know,

just needs help with ging to the bathroom,

going to the shower.

Let's get you tucked in here.

You're always so good to me. Of course. You make it easy.

Thank you.

Press that call button if you need anything and I'll be here, OK?

OK, thank you. See you soon.

When I would come into work, I would do my vitals and everything

and then I would always go in there and see how she was doing.

I used to bring her a video to watch.

Look what I found at the local library.

Oh, you didn't.

You should come play hooky with me and watch this.

You'd love it.

You are trying to get me in trouble.

No, I would never do that.

But maybe just bring the popcorn.

She liked games and she had this one favourite puzzle

which she always wanted to play with.

Oh, look at you. You work on that corner.

I'm trying to beat my record of under an hour.

When she first came to our centre,

she was the sweetest lady under the sun.

She didn't have any family, she never talked about family.

As Mary Jo's patient edges closer to death,

there are frightening changes in her behaviour.

You could tell she was depressed because she knew she was dying.

Vivian would be aggressive, like really aggressive.

She would grab our hands, she would push us away.

Vivian?

Why am I here?

Who brought all the stuff in here? I want to go home!

It's OK, Vivian.

A couple of time I walked in

and she threw stuff at me like the remote,

and she would have stuff on the sides of her beds.

She would take it and just chuck it at me.

We're gonna do this together. No!

You're gonna just fix it all with a Band-Aid?

Come on, get some rest. You'll feel better.

I would pick it up and say, "I love you, Vivian,"

I would put it on the table and walk out

because I knew that wasn't her. She wasn't doing that.

It was the cancer that was making her do this stuff.

I love you, Vivian. Get some rest.

She stopped talking altogether but she would just moan.

She constantly moaned.

Vivian, we're gonna give you some oxygen.

Here you go.

Vivian had to now have oxygen

because she was having trouble breathing.

Her O2 was really low.

Take deep breaths, that's really good.

you're doing great.

Do you want to give her a little more of that?

Every day we had to go higher and higher.

It's OK, you're gonna feel better in just a moment.

You're not alone, we're here for you. OK?

One day I went into work, and the nurse told me

that she's doing really bad.

Vivian? How are you doing?

Vivian, can you hear me?

Squeeze my hand if you can hear me.

I went and checked on her.

She wasn't really responding to anything I was saying or doing

and she really wasn't moving at all.

Just a lot of moaning.

Vivian?

So then I went to go on my break.

About 2-3 o'clock in the morning,

that's usually when we have our breaks.

All of a sudden, this puzzle went flying off the shelf.

And it wasn't a small fall, it was pssh, and it went flying.

And then I realised the puzzle and what puzzle it was.

It was Vivian's favourite puzzle.

Vivian!

I knew that was her telling me, "You need to come.

"I need you in my room."

I stayed in that room until she passed.

I sat next to her bed and I just grabbed her hand

and was just holding it like this.

Her hands were cold and they were sweaty

but I just sat there and held her to let her know that I was there.

Then she took one last breath.

And when she did, there was this weird energy,

and I've been around many people who have died,

and for some reason with her, it felt like

this big electrical charge all around me.

My hair stood up and I'm just like, "What is going on?"

And I'm waiting to see that second breath, and nothing.

But that energy in that room was still there.

I got the worst chills ever.

I've never felt that kind of energy when somebody passed.

Like, I'm getting the chills even thinking about it.

It was so intense, I've never had that ever happen before.

It was like she was still right there with me.

There are many reports from palliative care facilities

of paranormal occurrences happening around those who are about to die.

The men and women who work in palliative end-of-life care

are the closest thing to angels on this earth

and they will often form bonds with patients,

bonds that will be broken when that patient dies.

I come in the next day which was strange

when I walked in to see her room

because she's been there for months and she's not in that bed anymore.

Mary Jo continues with her nightly routine

but it soon becomes clear that something is very wrong.

So I was working on the computer, Vivian's call light goes off.

And I'm looking over like, "OK, the room's empty,

"she's not in there anymore, why is the bell going off?"

As Mary Jo approaches the room, she makes a surprising discovery.

We usually have towels already set up for the next patient.

They were all thrown on the floor.

I literally was just in that room.

There's no way that nobody could've went in there.

That moment just put a shiver right up my spine.

I sit back down at the computer, the computer starts to act up.

It just starts going haywire.

And all of a sudden, the computer just went black.

Mary Jo can't shake the feeling that these strange occurrences

might have something to do with Vivian.

I was so hesitant to go in that room.

As I was walking down the hall, I could hear this sound,

and right away, I knew it was the oxygen.

I knew it was on.

It is extremely loud, like air coming out of a tyre.

When I walked into her room, I saw the call bell light going off.

It meant no sense that that oxygen was on.

I could see the light on the wall that's blinking that I have to turn.

I know she's not there and I could still smell her.

I notice when patients have cancer, when they're at stage IV,

their very last months, they have this odour,

and I don't know why, and every nurse that I worked with

said the same thing. This smell of death.

It's something you will never forget once you smell it once.

It's just this ungodly smell.

I felt very uneasy after that.

I just hear this moaning.

Hearing her moan, it was like, "Oh my God,

"she's still here, she's still here."

It was Vivian.

Vivian?

The moans started and it got louder so I knew she was closer to me.

Vivian, are you here?