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horror story-haunted hospital
One night, my brother and two of his blockmates have to pass the night in the morgue. Now the morgue is off
limits to students so they had to bribe a security guard with A liquor to get in.
So my brother, he gets a little antsy and lights a cigarette. Don’t do that, says Jepoy, the other blockmate with them. He heard a story about the last time someone smoked in the morgue. A bunch of med seniors were pulling in an all-nighter at the morgue, cramming for finals or something. One senior decides to use a corpse as an ashtray. He won’t mind, the senior says. Anyway, anyway. Around 10pm, my bro and his buds get caught in the lab by their Anatomy 101 prof. He doesn’t give them too much grief, though, since he’s from the same frat. He tells them they might even get lucky, and see the Hospital’s dirty little secret. Apparently, back when the Prof was in med school, back in nineteen-forgotten or something, the Hospital had it’s very own celebrity doctor. Doctor… Ramirez, I think. Yeah, that’s him, Jesus Antonio Ramirez. Right, the guy who dove out the window, yeah that’s him.
Although rumor had it that he had a “side business” that not too many people knew about. His specialty, they say, was making unwanted pregnancies “unhappen”. Back in those days, that was a pretty big Dirty Secret. That’s why he had so many “friends” in high places- more like they owed him for keeping their skeletons in the closet. Being young, rich, and famous, it was only a matter of time before he became stupid. Supposedly he got one of his nurses pregnant, and tried to convince her to let him abort the kid, so that neither of them had to bear the “shame” of having a bastard kid.
That’s when things got really weird. On any given day, Ramirez would break out into hysterical laughter during hospital meetings. On other days he’d start arguing with himself in the middle of surgery, waving his scalpel around. One day, during the morning rush hour, a couple of nurses saw him running down the Nursery hallway, half-naked and his hair a mess. His mouth was open as if trying to scream, but he didn’t make a sound. It’s a true story, the prof tells my brother, because the prof was actually there, actually saw him swan-dive five stories. The story goes that every now and then they hear babies crying on the fifth floor (except, you know, there are no babies anymore on the fifth floor). Sometimes sobbing sounds are heard in the Ladies’ bathroom. And a couple of guards have seen Ramirez running down the hall, mouth open but not screaming. Now, you’ve got three young and stupid college kids who’ve just heard this spooky ghost story, what do you think they did? Yeah, they go up to the fifth floor, to check the story out. So the three of them are sitting on a bench outside a doctor’s office on the fifth floor. At about 3 in the morning, Paco wakes up, because he can hear someone crying. He wakes my brother and Jepoy up, and they can both hear it too – it sounds like a woman crying. But it’s not coming from the bathroom. Standing right beside them is this woman in a white hospital gown. According to my bro, she looked completely normal, no missing facial parts or weirdo eye movements, kinda pretty, even. Do you want to see my baby?, she asks. Before they can answer, she opens her robe and they can see right through her stomach into her womb. They can see the fetus hanging there. Then the fetus looks up at them, and waves. Now they’re really freaked out, and start running for their lives. While they’re running, Doctor Ramirez runs right past them, sprinting for his own life, mouth open but screamless. It think it was Jepoy who actually looked behind, and he saw this mini army of fetuses crawling on the hospital floor, right behind them. They didn’t see Doctor Ramirez dive out the window, but they heard the sound of glass breaking as they ran down the stairs. My brother shifted to Fine Arts two weeks later, and he refuses to even look at the General Hospital building. Jepoy shifted out to dentistry, I think, and Paco is sticking it out in Med, but he doesn’t stay after dark at the Hospital.
Published: September 13, 2007
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