A scary hospital story

The visit of the grim reaper really shook me. It had haunted me for some time. I am always on the look out now, maybe he will come again, and maybe next time I can stop him.

I told a few of the older nurses on the ward my experience of the grim reaper, and they did not seem suprised. It was if they had seen it all before, a common occurence for them.

As we got talking, one nurse did tell me a frightening incident she once witnessed at her old hospital. 30 years ago, she worked as a nurse on the orthopaedic wards, up on the 7th floor of a large central London hospital.

It had been a normal night shift for them, the usual - seeing to the old confused ladies with their neck of femur fractures. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Around 3 am, they suddenly head screams - loud, shrieking, ear piercing screams, coming from the lifts at the end of the corridor. The screams were of at least two females, two distinct voices.

Her and a few of her colleagues ran to the lifts, but there was nothing. Noone was seen, nothing out of the ordinary. They sent one of the porters to investigate - and he travelled up and down the lifts, but did not find anything.

Anyhow, they soon forget about the incident and went back to tending for the old dears. About an hour later, the distinctive screams suddenly appeared again - from the same place, the lifts at the end of the corridor.

This time the nursing staff became more scared and called hospital security to investigate - but again, after a more extensive search, nothing abnormal was found.
Confused by the screams, the nurses tried to forget the incident and get back to work.

No further screams were heard that night, and the night shift went on uneventful. At the end of the shift, 7am in the morning, two nurses got their coats and bags, and headed off down the corridor.

And all of a sudden, the screams were heard again, the exact same screams they had heard twice that night before. They ran to the lifts, as they heard the lifts crash and plummet to the ground as the cable snapped - the two nurses were inside the lift, plunging to their death.

The screams earlier on that night they had heard, were their very own screams - in anticipation for the fate that awaited them in the morning.

Spooky huh?