Haunted Hospitals

All of a sudden, I hear what sounds

Like little girls laughing.

Girl: It's time.

It was literally chasing me down the hallway.

When I went in the room, there was this black shadow

Figure hovering over the top of the patient.

The little girl came to say, "hi."

What little girl?

I started getting a really uneasy feeling.

Leave her alone!

Go away!

It was absolutely terrifying.

When it looked at me, that's when I knew

This thing wasn't human.

Girl: Come here.

I've never seen a ghost before in my life.

Narrator: It's 2010 in small-town illinois.

It technician courtney mcfate works in a regional hospital.

Woman: Radiology, dial 41.

Radiology, dial 41.

My job is a hospital it technician.

I fix computers, and I deal with various equipment.

Narrator: In addition to maintaining hospital equipment,

Courtney also helps patients.

- Hi. - Hi!

How's it going?

Good. Well, my name is courtney.

Someone told me that your computer is sick.

Do you want me to look at it for you?

Sure. Okay.

So... You definitely have to be

A very logical person to deal with technology.

Here. Let me take a look.

That's the way that you troubleshoot problems is,

You have to think logically.

You have to think in a precise order to get

To the root of the problem.

I always ask myself questions on why things are happening.

Yes!

If something malfunctions,

I'm always trying to find the logical explanation.

Thanks a lot. You're very welcome.

Enjoy, okay?

The analytical side of my brain is always working full steam.

Bye, brexton. Bye.

If you can't explain something, you cannot explain something,

And some of the experiences that I've gone through,

I can't explain some of it.

As hard as I try to, I can't.

Narrator: Courtney's strange experiences begin late one night

While repairing a doctor's computer.

I was up on one of the patient floors,

And my cell phone goes off.

Courtney here.

And I answer it, and it's a bunch of garbled mess

Is the best way that I can explain that.

I kind of looked at my phone.

I'm like, "hello? Hello?"

And all I could hear was a garbled mess.

You're breaking up.

Hello? You're still breaking up.

I'm going to try the hallway.

Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to scare you.

I'm very sorry! That's okay.

You're working late.

Yeah, it never sleeps.

Ah, don't worry. I'm just on my patrol.

Sounds good.

All right. Okay.

Narrator: The mysterious caller has hung up.

Mcfate: The first time I received one of those phone calls

That didn't quite make sense to me,

It didn't really dawn on me what was going on.

I didn't really think anything of it.

Woman: Security, please report to reception.

Narrator: Two nights later, however, she receives a second call.

Courtney here.

Hello?

I'm sorry. I can't here you.

Hello?

It started to scare me a little bit.

Hello? I'd hear growling.

Hello?

It was various voices, different as far as,

You know, the tones and the pitches.

Hello?

It definitely gave me a sense of dread.

It gave me a sense of almost helplessness.

It was extremely scary, you know?

It kept happening.

I realized that it comes from various different numbers

Within the hospital itself.

Hello?

Woman: That must have been a creepy realization,

"the phone calls are coming to me from inside this building."

Definitely is a huge creep factor.

It's very scary.

Sometimes they are patient rooms.

Sometimes they are offices.

I've tried to call back a couple of times.

Man: Hi, you've reached human resources.

Our offices...

Mcfate: But I end up getting a voicemail.

Nothing ever comes from it.

I am a very logical and technical thinker.

When I run out of logical explanations, what's left?

Knudsen: Phone calls and paranormal activity

Are oftentimes intensely related to each other,

And it can be natural intelligence or entity

On the other end of the phone.

Receiving phone calls from spirits or intelligences

That we just can't see seems to be to get our attention

Or to let us know that we need to be aware of something.

Narrator: Several knights later,

Courtney receives another call while working near the morgue.

Hello?

When...

When I walked by the morgue,

I notice, it seemed... Oh, god.

This is so hard.

I see a young lady.

I saw her laying on the gurney.

Within a split second, I realized it was her.

I know what I saw.

I know I saw her standing behind her own dead body.

Courtney here.

Narrator: After receiving a series of disturbing phone calls

That originate within the hospital,

It technician courtney mcfate finds herself in the morgue,

Face-to-face with something seemingly from beyond the grave.

I know what I saw.

I know I saw her standing behind her own dead body.

Woman: It's hard to think about it, isn't it?

It is.

I have a huge heart, and I could see how heartbroken she was.

The realization in her eyes

That she was looking at herself on the gurney.

It was terrifying in one of the most heartbreaking things

I've ever seen.

I think I did witness her realizing

That she was now deceased.

My mind is running a million miles an hour,

Trying to figure out everything that's just happened to me

And what I've just seen and what I just felt.

I've never seen a ghost before in my life.

I was spooked, terrified.

Yeah, it was bad.

Knudsen: Sometimes, our fear takes over.

However, fear can also be a gift,

And sometimes, it's there to let us know

That something isn't right

And we need to get ourselves out of this space.

Narrator: A few nights later, courtney is called to service a computer

In one of the hospital's operating rooms.

It shouldn't take more than, I'd say, 1/2 an hour.

There was a pc in one of the operating suites

That had failed and needed to be repaired.

Since it was at night,

Which is the only time frame we can get in there,

I called security to have them let me in.

Man: Yeah. Just call me.

I had to put on our special white suits

In order to enter this sterile area.

And this is afterhours, so the lighting is very dim.

There's only emergency lighting on.

There's some light from, you know, some machines,

But mostly, it's pretty dim in there.

I immediately start trying to figure out

What's wrong with the computer.

And I thought I caught something out of the corner of my eye,

So I turned to the side and called out if anybody was there,

And I stood there for a second or two,

And nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

I just kind of shrugged it off and turned around

And started to continue working on the pc.

Hello?