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July 2005 – Page
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Ghost
Patient
by Lena
I'm a medical student in my fourth year. I have the perfect student job in the university hospital: entering research forms into the computer. I plan my own hours as long as I meet the odd deadline. My own office (sounds really cool, but is tiny without any windows) is in a very new part of the hospital. This part is lovely clean in whites and greens and some modern art on the walls. Last place one would expect a paranormal experience.
In summer I like to work late hours: enjoy the weather during the day, come in about six, eat at the hospital cafeteria, work till about eleven/twelve and then join friends in town or go to bed. I used to bring a small radio to keep me from getting bored. At home it always worked well, but after playing for a while in my office it would always spontaneously switch channels. It has a little wheel to change the channels, which mysteriously seemed to turn. This always happened while I was gone to the toilet for a minute. I never thought much of it. Could be a night guard playing a prank on me, or the low-quality radio having problems with having to play hours on end. Recently I bought an MP3 player. This keeps turning off by itself while the battery is still full. I wouldn't worry about that either hadn't I seen something very odd last week.
I was working late because I wanted to finish a job. When I came out of my office to go home, most lights in the hospital were out. It was about eleven o'clock. I heard an electric noise (some sort of crackling) and looked to the left down the long hallway to see what it was. There I faintly saw a young man limping down the hall. Patients don't usually walk through the library wing, so I wondered what was wrong with him. He came closer and now I could see him better. He seemed to be wearing a nightgown and was obviously having a lot of trouble walking. I asked if I could help him in some way and walked in his direction. When I was about 20 feet away from him, he suddenly disappeared into thin air.
There is no way he could have gone into a door or another hallway, because all the doors were locked offices and there are no side hallways there. Also, I had my eyes fixed on him all the while. I wondered about this the rest of the evening. A friend of mine passed it off to it being a very long hallway and my guessing the distance wrongly. This seemed very plausible so I shrugged it off... until yesterday.
I was going home at nine in the evening. A superior of mine, who has a normal 9-to-5 job, was still at his desk. I jokingly asked if he was so bored and lonely at home that he had decided to reside at the hospital. He replied that here he would at least never be lonely. I thought he was talking about the thousands of patients in the hospital, but he said no. He meant the apparitions in the library wing. He has seen them quite often walking halfway down the hall and then disappearing. We have no idea what they are doing here, but of course many people die in this hospital and might take their last walk here.
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