Freaky spooky

About A Nurse reminded me of an experience I had while working in an old hospital. It was in a state where taking a nap was normal during the night shift. I didn't participate in this until I started working a lot of overtime. Plus everyone else did it, saying you can do anything you want on your break. There was an ICU on the same floor. There was also a separate ICU for overflow that was hardly used. Word on the unit was that is was haunted. Actually they really thought the whole floor was haunted.

I remember the first time I saw for myself the strange things they spoke about. I had been there about 3 weeks.There was a room on the floor that was a four bed room. It had no patients in it all night. About 0500 that morning someone noticed water coming out of the room. They grabbed some blankets and threw them on the floor and yelled down the hall matter of fact "the ghost is back, call plant ops".

I heard it and thought "HUH?".

The charge nurse promptly gets on the phone and I hear her saying "Yes, the ghost is back, there is water coming out of room 707 this time".

I was thinking these people were a little off kilter because I didn't really know them. So I go down the hall and tip toe through the water. The guy who found the water on the floor said the sink was on and overflowing on the floor. I asked if he turned it off because I could hear the water running. He wouldn't go in to the room.

I sighed and laughed and tip toed through the water on the floor to the sink. Nothing appeared to be stopping it up, but the sink was indeed full of water and overflowing onto the floor. I turned the water off and stepped carefully out of the room. I wanted to know why he wouldn't go in, but he went somewhere else and more staff was bringing extra towels and blankets to sop the water up. I took one and went back into the room and noticed the sink was no longer full of water. I thought it was perhaps a slow draining sink or something. To prove myself right, I turned the water back on and to my surprise, the water went directly down the drain. I didn't get a spooky feeling or anything. I just thought it was strange and sort of excited that things didn't add up and maybe there was a ghost or SOMETHING.

The guy from plant ops came up and investigated and found nothing wrong. OK so that was strange, but I didn't dwell on it. I got a kick out of it. So, on to my actual story.

This was about 2 weeks before my second assignment ended there. I had been going to the unused ICU to take my naps for a while. Some staff would not go in there to sleep, but I am not easily scared of such "stories" and I never had a problem- until this certain night.

I walked in to the room I always slept in and closed the glass door and made myself comfortable. I don't know how long I was in there before I felt a tingling sensation start at the top of my head on the right side and it went down to my toes on the right side. I thought I was dreaming but clearly woke up and looked around. I did not see anything strange. I was half asleep, so I closed my eyes. I felt it again along with the sensation of being pulled to the right side of the bed. It felt good, like it was relaxing me. I thought I was dreaming again, like when you are having a dream and wondering if you are dreaming and you are. --if that makes sense.

When the charge nurse came to wake me up I was all the way on the right side of the bed, still on my back as I was when I laid down. She even made a comment that it looked like I was going to fall off the bed. I turned the light on and looked around feeling very strange. I don't know if I was visited or not, but something weird happened. So sure, I think places can be haunted, but don't believe until I experience something!