Hospital security ghost story. Her voice.

Hello everyone. This is my first thread to be posted, hope you enjoy it. I actually just wrote this and then went to post and it said that the subject title existed and to go back. Went back and poof, story was gone.

I started a security job at a hospital in 1999. The hospital had two floors, not a very large hospital. My shift was 7p-7a. At about my second week of working there, at 9pm I locked up all the doors except ER and made my way to the front lobby. I sat down behind the information desk and cracked open whatever book I was reading at the time. A few pages into it, I noticed a faint voice in the lobby. I lowered my book and listened. The voice was coming from a hvac vent in the ceiling to my left. I couldn't make out any words, shrugged it off as me hearing things and continued to read. About another page, and I couldn't shrug it off any longer, this was a voice, a female voice. I could hear the choppiness of someone talking in it and it sounded to be english. Well, I marked my page and left the area to find some human interaction.

One to two weeks later, on my nightly task of walking the second shift nurses to the car. I was walking with a nurse named Kay, and as we got off the elevator that opened up to the lobby, we were making our way to the side entrance that goes to the parking lot and I glanced over my shoulder to the vent remembering the voice, Kay say's with a smile on her face "you've heard her?" I stopped and faced her in disbelief. I said "what?" And she say's "ha, you have. you have heard her." I told her yes and asked what/who is it? She tells me, "I have one word of advice, don't listen to what she is saying." We continued our trek to the parking lot in silence. Once we got to her vehicle I asked how long she had worked at that hospital and she said her and another nurse had been there since it opened. She shed no more light on the voice, and for some reason, I didn't ask.

I stayed working at that hospital for 5-6 more months and experienced several different things which I will save for another post, and I would still sit from time to time in that lobby. If the air would cut on and I got even the hint of a disembodied voice, I would get up and go somewhere else.

What always gets me is the fact that just by seeing my glance over my shoulder she knew I had heard "her" voice. Before she had discovered that I had heard something, I had told no one of my experience, not even my closest friend outside of work, as I had written it off as a trick of sound.

As I got to know Kay better, I asked her several times about the voice. She would never go into it any further, just repeated not to listen to what "she" says. Strange, strange indeed

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I'm suprised no one has said a damn thing about this.

This right here, has my interest full force. I just gotta know why she would say not to listen to "her". I mean...was it something that would drive you insane...what?! Hey yo! Chico! This is gonna drive me nuts!

reply to post by Echo3Foxtrot


Actually, I have read the OP here several times. I find it entirely worth the time but... I really don't know what I could add to it besides something like, 'great post!' which would be verbotten here due to T&C regarding such brevity.

I'd like to see the author add some more details of the place; ie, other experiences and so forth.

Well, I was hoping to spark something by replying to this. I mean, that story has my head full of wonder and questions that I gotta do research, or look in to it myself. It's like watching a good movie, but you come to find that before the main plot device is revealed, the DVD become unreadable.

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Well, maybe Jenkins (OP'r 'sniknej' backwards) will add a chapter before we go off the deep end?

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Hey you two, thanks for stopping by and reading my story. I would love to answer any questions you may have. Kay would give me no more insight on the voice. I did my best to coax it out of her. Either she didn't know personally, just had been told about the voice. Or, she had experienced it herself, and just didn't want to talk about it. But, as I said, ask away. Thank you so much for responding.

Have you attempted to do any research on the area? I mean, it's a hospital, that's a lot of research to do, I probably wouldn't do it either.

Have/did you ask anyone else? I know it's a hard thing to bring up in a conversation, but maybe you've had the opportunity.

reply to post by sniknej


Well, this is the the first time I have read it, and I do have a few things to add. for some odd reason, perhaps perception, I have been seeing dead people for all of my life. Even today I see them at times, especially in hospitals, which I have spent a great deal of time in the past 25 years. When I was in last year for a fusion and fixation on my lower lumbar, a man came into my room smoking a cigarette, and sat down in a chair, puffing away. I thought this odd, I have never seen anyone smoke in that hospital before, it is against policy as in all hospitals. When the night nurse approached, he disappeared. She reacted to the smell, which was strong in the room, and I began to tell her about the man. She refused to listen, and insisted on searching out which one of us was smoking!
Later that day I had a chance to speak with the Head Nurse, and told her about the experience. she related that he was a man who had lost his wife in that hospital, and then died a few days later, probably from grief. He had been looking for her ever since.

I have been seeing a lot more of the dead than usual lately. I am beginning to think that the dimensions are merging, their world is melding with our world. Didn't the Bible say in the last days the dead would rise from the grave?

A little advice for thise who see them. Do not acknowledge that you can see them, some have a way of attaching to you. If you see one, don't stare, just look and then look away.

reply to post by Echo3Foxtrot


Yes, once I got to know the staff well enough to discuss things like that, I asked everyone I could. Seems Kay was the only one that new anything about that. Now people had other stories they experienced or heard, but nothing further on the voice. As I said, I worked there for several months after this incident, so I had spent alot of time in the hospital. I have other stories, but none of them really tie into this one. I will share some other stories later. Should I post them on here, or start a new thread? Thank you for the feed back. How is Okinawa?

reply to post by autowrench


Nice story autowrench, thank you for sharing. How is your back by the way? Feel free to share any more experiences you've had. It sounds like you may have quite a few.

Did you ever consider that she and some of her friends were just yankin' your chain? Someone could have been talking into the vent in another room, knowing it would come out in the lobby. Sound can carry VERY well in a duct system. That would account for her knowing you had heard 'The Voice" just by you glancing at the a/c vent. Not saying I don't believe in ghosts, I've had my own encounters, just playing devil's advocate.

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reply to post by DAVID64


Thank you, yes I considered it. After I walked away and was thinking about it for the rest of the night, I kinda had to come to that conclusion. Only thing that made sense. But the way it sounded wasn't of a television, say in a patients room or a conversation between two people. It was a single female voice, at like a loud raspy whisper. I know thinking about a situation and being there are totally different. Thank you for considering the situation and posting your question. The size of this central heating and air system in the hospital was large, and to be at another vent location and send a voice into it, you would have to yell, and maybe it would carry. And also, there was no way for anyone to know I was sitting down there at the time reading a book.

reply to post by sniknej


Well, I have to get yet another vertebra fused next month. Of all the stupid things to do, I fell out of the bathtub, and into the toilet, breaking my back again, and herniating a disc.. If this keep up, I will one day have a solid back. If anyone is facing a fusion/fixation operation, take heed, it's not that bad. I had 5 done all at once in my lower lumbar. the morphine drip was heaven, let me tell you. Pain wasn't too bad at all, and healed up in 6 weeks.

Dang, that's some creepy ass stuff dude. I wonder what the voice was saying.

reply to post by autowrench


Dang, autowrench. I'm so sorry about these injuries, good grief.

I hope your surgery will be successful, and everything will go extremely well.

Uh, if you should see any apparitions while you're in the hospital, would you be able to get a photo, and maybe even try some EVP's?

(Wellll.....since you might be enjoying your heavenly morphine, it might not be such a bother.) My favorite thing is to hear about ghosts.

I am not surprised at all... My mom is a labor and delivery nurse... She has worked at several hospitals... She has told me of quite a few experiences she has had.

One hospital she worked at, the labor and Delivery unit was originally the ICU... This too was a small hospital, and often it was understaffed ( big part of the reason she left... It was just not a good hospital) Often she would be in the nursery by her self...

The baby rockers would start rocking by them selves... And this is back in the day of the wind up ones... Not the electric ones... She has also told me of one room that she always got the creeps in... It was originally a patient room but it had been turned into an office... She went in there once, got some book, and left... Half way down the hall, she heard that door fly open and slam shut...

She actually ran down there thinking that maybe there was some creep hiding out... no one was there, and there was no way for anybody to get out... The exit was on the opposite end of the hall..

She has seen books fly off of shelves too...

Hosptials, for obvious reasons, often have all kinds of stories... If you go the the bigger, older ones, and ask around, often you can find an employee or two with a few stories of their own...

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Thanx for your response. Sounds like your mother encountered alot! Thank you for sharing those stories.

And like you said about how the nursery had been the ICU. That is how that hospital I worked at was. I had experiences other than the OP, and after asking around about it, was told how the hospital used to be laid out. Made the experiences make more sense.

Oh, and as for the staff having their own stories. Very true, I would say 90% of them, even if they don't believe in that sort of thing, they probably can share a story of something strange they encountered.

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I would think that if this type of thing does exist, hospitals would be a mecca of paranomal activity. More people die in hospitals everyday than any other one place. I'm just not so sure it does exist...

I recently spent way too much time in a hospital, staying with a dying family member. Emergency, ICU, Medical unit, etc. I was there when she died and did look for...something, but there was nothing there...just someone whose body had ceased to function.

For the record, the security at this hospital was dispicible. I was given a hassle and the third degree any time I entered the building after hours. this was after I was given permission from the doctor and received a pass from the charge nurse. We were even given a hard time coming to the hospital after she died. I was with my dad there to give NOK ID and release.

I understand there may be a need for security in the Energency room, and occasionally other parts of the hospital. Hopefully, as a hospital security guard you can service people with compassion, considering the reason many people come there.

Yeah, the building I work in now is an old morgue. Just let that sink in. Not just any morgue, but an old one that the Army pretty much abandoned and let rot but the Marine Corps turned it in to a communications company building. Oh, and yeah, there's a ton of stuff that happens in that place. I hate having company lock up. Creepy as hell. In fact, most of the places on this island are creepy as hell. WAY too much death has occured on this island.

Well it was one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific Theater ranking up there with Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Pelieu, etc. Over 100,000 Japanese and 13,000 Americans lost their lives in the battle. Virtually the entire Japanese force fought to the last man

It's my belief that hospitals and battlefields are the most haunted, creepiest places possible.