HHave you ever felt strange when visiting the hospital? Feeling like someone is watching you?
I am a nurse and I worked in one of the oldest and most historic hospitals in Manila. At this hospital, I was assigned to one of the most electrifying areas – the operating room complicated.
The operating theater complicated is divided into two separate blocks. All planned surgeries take place in the right block, while emergencies, trauma and obstetrics are dealt with in the left block. The entire complicated is quite haunted, with each block having its own collection of ghosts seen and felt by numerous nurses, residents, and surgeons.
It was one ordinary day of work. I was assigned to the night shift. On duty from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next day. My friend and I were talking about the presence of a ghost in our wing because she had seen it the night before. I told her that when I was assigned to the second block, I heard the voice of a little girl. She laughed and said that the ghosts in this block were more aggressive and their presence could really be felt because most of the patients who died in this particular block had suffered traumatic accidents such as being stabbed or shot. Most were not really prepared for death.
I entered the operating room where I was assigned. I fired the nurse from the previous shift. As soon as I was assisting the surgeon in a cholesystectomy he was performing, one of them asked me what my friend and I were talking about. I said, “We were just talking about the ghost she saw last night in room 11.” They asked me if I believed in such things, and I replied that I believed in ghosts because I felt their presence in the OR complicated. Almost the entire room is haunted. They then told me about their own amazing experiences in the same complicated.
The surgery took longer than I expected. We took a break while waiting for the x-ray technician and his machine to arrive. We asked the nurse on duty to give us some seats. We took our seats and after a while I started to nod off. Suddenly I felt a frigid hand or finger touch my cheek. I opened my eyes to see if my fellow nurses were playing tricks on me. I noticed that the rest of the team was sleeping and the other nurses were busy as other procedures were being performed in other rooms. I decided it was just my imagination getting the best of me, so I closed my eyes again.
I was falling asleep again. The presence wasn't content with just touching my cheek. It got bolder… more intense. The chair I was sitting on was shaking. Then I just stood up, wide awake, and now I have goosebumps all over my arms and legs. I looked for co-nurses who left the sleeping surgeons to their own devices.
