- I liked to
investigate diseases and illness
and try to help people. - I was just interested
in going and making a difference. Little did we know
what we were gonna meet over the next six months.
I felt the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.
Something's happening that shouldn't be happening.
- Get out!
- It felt as if it could kill me.
Hospital Ergonomics Advisor
Sandrea Mosses controls
every detail of operation
in her busy urban hospital. - OK.
Good start to the day. My job title was the moving and handling advisor.
To save lives, you need to be able to move people -
people unconscious,
people that are disabled, people of limited mobility -
how we would facilitate taking them into theatre,
operation and what equipment we would need.
The whole journey through the hospital right the way down
to the mortuary. I was just interested
in going and making a difference. My career has always
mattered to me. - Where Sandrea and her team,
work is just one part of a massive hospital complex.
- 13 theatres,
40-odd wards. It was one
of the biggest teaching trusts in the country.
- Sandrea and her staff
have recently moved in to new offices.
- Otherwise, settling in all right?
- Yes, definitely. - Good. How's the space here?
- Although located in an older, isolated building,
they couldn't be happier. - It's good. Good. Great.
We'd been in really cramped circumstances,
trying to fit in offices where we didn't fit.
Now, we've got these lovely rooms,
lovely little offices.
So absolute bliss. We couldn't believe our luck.
Little did we know what we were gonna find,
what we were gonna meet in those offices
over the next six months.
- During the day,
the offices are everything Sandrea could ask for...
...but at night,
when Sandrea stays late,
her surroundings take on a much less welcoming tone.
- There was one evening when I was getting ready of a long drive home -
it's at least an hour, sometimes an hour and a half -
and I had gone down to the ladies' room.
And I was in there, and I was
thinking of the terrible traffic that I was going to face.
Straight away, I hear creaking sounds.
That can, when you're on your own, be really quite scary.
- Sandrea notices a sudden shift in temperature.
- I could feel this cold breeze.
I swear to God this is almost as if it were breathing on me.
- So the cold spot or the cold draft is very common -
paranormal investigators run into this all the time -
and it's been theorized by some
that spirit entities actually use the energy of our environment.
They leech the warmth out of the air,
convert it into some other form of energy
and use that to manifest paranormal phenomena.
Hello? Who's there?
I get the sensation
of somebody standing there.
I literally reeled back
just for that moment in absolute fear.
Takes me a second or two to get myself together,
and I come out. I'm a little bit unsure now.
It's really unnerved me.
I stop,
sense around the room. Nothing is there at all.
And I thought I'd imagined it. I thought it was my imagination.
This thing
instantly appeared alongside me.
I could physically see
something there in the room with me.
It's dark. It's menacing.
I was absolutely bloody terrified.
Just disappears, like dust.
Nothing's there at all. - The first rational response
anybody would have would be to write this off as being psychological.
When I feel the presence of somebody else
in there with me, is my mind playing tricks?
At this point, no rational explanation
is gonna work for her.
- Just experienced this almost evil encounter
that has really unnerved me, has really frightened me.
Two nights later,
the incident continues to disturb Sandrea.
- When you're in that building, you won't see anybody.
You're totally isolated, on your own.
Expected one of the team had come back.
Nothing. Nobody there.
- Sandrea experiences another sudden drop
in temperature.
- This wasn't just cold air; this was freezing, ice-cold air.
Even putting on a jacket didn't warm her up. And she felt goosebumps
break out all over her body.
- This presence, this sense,
this foreboding feeling is beginning to grow stronger.
- The sensation of being watched intensifies
for good reason.
- I saw a Grey figure moving across
the corridor. It really quite spooked me.
The room is charged. You can sense it.
- We start to see an increase in paranormal phenomena, such as light phenomena,
things falling. It may be that there are the spirit entities
just trying to warn the living residents
that this isn't a place they should be.
- This black, dark figure is standing,
leaning over me, watching me.
I can't describe the fear that I felt.
It's over me,
and I'm trapped. I can't get out.
Sandrea Mosses is terrorized
by a paranormal entity at work.
- And I'm trapped.
He's blocking my doorway. There's no out for me.
He's overpowering me.
A sense that you shouldn't be here.
A sense that it was time for you
to get out.
I felt absolute,
raw fear. Ah! Ah!
You just wanted to bolt
and get out that building as quick as you conceivably could.
It felt so powerful as if it could kill me.
- The entity achieved exactly what it asked for.
It got rid of her, and it got rid of her fast.
It was almost as if this "thing,"
this entity had intelligence.
This sensation, this feeling was beginning to get stronger.
- With paranormal events escalating,
Sandrea is compelled to ask her colleagues
if they've had similar experiences.
What she discovers disturbs her.
- This hospital had quite the reputation
for being haunted, and there were accounts of paranormal phenomena
taking place all over the complex.
One story in particular
resonates with her.
It occurred in the 1980s
when the hospital was undergoing massive redevelopment.
- There's one story
where he went in to check before the wrecking ball hits.
That was one of the things that set it off.
- Workers are sent into the building to make sure
all is clear for demolition.
- Inspectors will be very methodical,
just making sure there's not a living person there.
- They were going rounds.
They would hear doors slamming, people running down corridors.
- Is anyone there? - Help me.
- They think it's their friends playing tricks on them,
people having a laugh. You come up
with the most ridiculous things to try to justify
why you've heard something that you don't understand.
The inspector is drawn
deeper and deeper into the building.
Suddenly, the ordinary sounds take on
a terrifying tone, but their source remains
a mystery.
- Stay with me. - He spins around.
He's hunting high and low and begins to wonder,
"Is he losing his mind?" Because he hears the voices very clearly.
It's as if there's a crowd of people in the room
with him, but he can see nobody.
The room is completely and utterly empty.
- Don't go.
- Help me. - Don't go.
- Started to build up the momentum.
Doors shutting, doors slamming.
- Help me. - Stay with me.
- Stay with us. - Help me.
- Don't go. - Stop.
Stay here. - Help me.
- One guy got trapped in. He couldn't open the door.
But the reality of being locked in a room and not being able to get out,
that was a thing that triggered them. That was the big thing
that just almost pushed him over the edge. - Help!
- Don't go. - Help me.
- Hey! - Help!
- Hey!
- Help me.
Please, help me.
- He told his fellow construction workers
and inspectors what had happened to him inside there.
- Let's get out of here. - They downed tools
and refused to work again for several days
until they can go find a catholic priest.
- An ordained minister is brought in
to address the paranormal disturbance.
- Behold the cross of the Lord!
- An exorcism is
a ceremonial ritual in which an ordained priest
will expel spirit entities
from a specific location or person.
Whatever entity is being dealt with, it's certainly
a dark one, and that means there's going to be
a struggle for power between the priest and this entity.
- Get out!
- The priest, he blessed that area there.
He's asking the spirits to be at peace.
He's asking permission from them
to leave the Irish workers alone to be able to get on
with their work. - You're leaving! You're getting out! Get out!
The spirit is vanquished.
- The priest's intervention clearly worked because after that,
the work crews had no more complaints and no more voices
were heard calling out for help.
- What was your reaction to hearing this?
- Wished I'd have known that knowledge beforehand
because I don't think I would have moved in that building
had I known what I was going into.
I would have liked to have gone in with my eyes open
and knowing what I was going against.
- As the days pass,
the entity grows stronger.
- There was always a sense
of foreboding in the building. There was noises,
a sense you were being watched.
It was not a nice place to be in.
You could begin now to sense it
waiting for you outside doors.
It was getting stronger. It was getting bolder.
Uh, yes, Security.
Could you do something about the alarm?
Thank you.
God!
- Confirmation of further paranormal activity
at the hospital does little
to put Sandrea at ease.
God! They told me how,
watching the surveillance cameras,
that they had picked up a Grey figure floating through.
- The alarm has been tripped in the vicinity
of the women's washroom where Sandrea first encountered
the dark presence.
- If the alarm's activated, two guards would go down together.
It's a place that nobody would go down after dark.
Everybody was aware
of the history of this building and knew that it was
a former workhouse. That's not a pleasant history.
It's a fairly dark
and troublesome one. So the spirits that haunt
this place probably aren't very happy.
And in Sandrea's office complex,
the entity's displeasure
continues to make itself known.
- So over the next few months,
this entity is beginning to grow stronger
because he's feeding off people's fear.
People are terrified of going down that corridor.
I am. My staff are.
Receptionist said, "Sandrea, I need to speak to you about this dark corridor.
Are you having any problems with it?"
She said, "Because it's getting worse."
- On this night,
the receptionist is the last to leave.
- And as she walked down the corridor,
she had this sense that something was behind her.
She was getting more and more frightened.
It was getting bigger and bigger.
- Hospital Advisor Sandrea Mosses and her staff
are stalked by a terrifying entity in their workplace.
- That thing
touching her, pushing her down the corridor.
She said, "It's horrendous.
"I'm absolutely terrified. I dread it when you're not here,
"the sense of that corridor on my own.
I don't know who to talk to. It's really frightening me."
I felt obliged
to be able to create a safe working environment,
one people weren't in fear.
This had to be dealt with. It was getting stronger,
and I wasn't sure where this was going to end up
because this was something very powerful
and it needed dealing with. So as a manager,
I felt obliged to do this.
- In trying to keep her staff safe, Sandrea knows
she must confront the entity.
She enlists the help of a colleague familiar
with paranormal activity.
- I'm quite afraid. I'm quite scared.
I'm afraid what it's gonna try and do to us,
I'm afraid what it's gonna do to me, but we're still going in.
- Truth is that this could be a dangerous undertaking,
consequences could be terrible. The job doesn't
get done, if it's not defeated,
they might succeed in making it stronger.
- Right...
All that energy created
will now go to these entities, and they will
be twice as powerful as when they started before,
and they will wreak havoc on the area that they're in.
- What was that?
- Don't turn it off. Turn it off.
I could sense someone was there.
This black foreboding figure in the corridor, it begins
to take on a form.
It begins to take on
this massive, black form,
and it blasts,
"Get out!"
- Get out!
- And it almost
knocks me back off my feet.
- This entity was very clearly putting out
some negative energy towards her.
Sandrea got the distinct feeling
that he did not want her and her friends in that place.
He wanted them gone.
- It is so angry.
It is so racked with venom.
It's trying to frighten us.
Is it not for the faint hearted.
If you go to try to clear a ghost,
you have gotta have the power to do so, because if you don't,
you will unleash a monster.
Repeatedly stalked
by an evil presence, Sandrea Mosses
has had enough.
- Now I've got to centre myself, I've got to zone myself.
And as I stepped forward,
the confident Sandrea is going
into battle.
Hands begin to form.
- The shadowy figure
morphs into a human shape.
- The multiple types of ghosts, spirits,
call them what you will; some of them are aware
that they passed from the human body.
Ones don't know they're dead seem to be caught in some kind
of loop. When someone or something intrudes on that environment that seems
out of place to them, it can spark an angry reaction.
- I start to communicate with it.
I say to this... energy,
"What is your business here?
"Why are you here? Who are you?"
Why are you here?
Straight away, I hear, "Get out!"
- Get out!
Do not belong here.
- He doesn't want
to speak to me directly because I'm a female,
I'm below him. And I'm in an area
where females were very, very much
in a lower position, and that's his view.
He was just... motionless.
He wasn't communicating anything back to me.
He was just motionless.
This man didn't appear
to really fully understand that he was dead.
- What he needed to do was
to pass on to whatever comes after this life.
Sandrea's plan is a very simple one:
help it transition to the next life.
- The entity is suddenly attracted
to a brilliant burst of light.
- Goes on his own free will.
A portal has opened.
- This is a doorway through which spirits
can pass and move on to whatever comes next.
- And I invite him
to leave our world and go back to
where he belongs. Look to the doorway.
There's a woman beckoning him. She says she's
his mother. And I say to him,
"Your mother is there. Turn to the doorway.
Look at the doorway. Your mother is there."
And he just fell through.
At the last moment, he just resists
and just melts through into the doorway.
- The trapped spirit
is freed of his earthly bounds.
- The love of a mother,
that only a mother can give, just beckoning him and just calling him,
trying to reassure him, telling him it's safe,
telling him it's OK to do so.
- When she did some investigation later,
Sandrea found out that this specific part of...
This hospital in time was a strictly segregated area.
It was off limits to women.
He wanted women out of his environment.
- About a week later,
the receptionist came to me and said, "Sandrea, corridor
seems OK now." She said, "I'm no longer frightened."
She said, "Have you noticed how much better it is?"
And I never said a word. I never told her what we'd done.
- : Donald Partin is one week
into his very first job in medicine.
- But I had been
employed before that in machine shops
and then was in the military for eight years.
And after I completed my time in Desert Storm,
I came back, went back to school.
As medical technologists, we drew blood samples,
tested blood and body fluids
for different types of diseases, for disorders and cancers.
That kind of drew me into the field wanting to
investigate diseases and illness and try to help people.
The way I look at things is
evidence based. I like to look at
why I can find a reason for why things happened
and try and discover a root cause.
I try to look at it analytically as possible.
Before these events that I witnessed,
I was kind of more skeptical, I'm sure,
about these type of things.
I thought there was a possibility,
but I never expected to really experience anything like this.
- Dr. Roberts, please report to obstetrics.
Dr. Roberts to obstetrics. - I was relatively comfortable
at the hospital for the most part. There were a few places
that I didn't like to go. I didn't like to go down to the cafeteria.
Just didn't feel right down there for some reason.
Being alone at night, there was
no one else in my department, so there were
a lot of noises, but it was noises I was used to,
like the sounds that machines make.
Some noises that I heard at night,
they didn't match up
with those things specific to the lab.
- Most paranormal activity
is reported at night. That doesn't mean
it actually happens more frequently at night,
but that's when our senses are most attuned to it.
There's less ambient noise, sound travels further.
And plus, the way that we're all wired,
we think more about ghosts
and the paranormal when it's dark.
- And while I was standing there, I heard kind of a growl.
Like an angry dog. And it sounded like a low
growl that basically says,
"Get away from here, I'm gonna bite you."
When I realized that
that what was making this growl
was there with me -
it was not outside, it was in - I just had to leave.
It sounded to me like it was circling.
My coat had got caught on something.
And so I reached back and looked back
to unhook it from whatever it was caught on.
There was nothing there.
There was nothing behind me for it to being caught on.
The tug on my coat was like
someone trying to keep me there.
Or at least to scare me enough that I would leave.
And that worked because I left.
I said to myself, "That's it,
I'm never coming back down here again."
- All nurses to the nurses station.
- Not being able to explain something for a person like you doesn't sit well, does it?
- No. It doesn't sit well for me
to not be able to understand why something happens.
- Dr. Roberts... - The incident makes
Donald uneasy, but he finds comfort
in the soothing repetition of his work.
- I was working in the lab one night,
doing maintenance on one of the analyzers,
and I heard a fluttering noise.
It sounded like
a piece of paper.
I felt the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.
- Donald's immediate reaction is to search
for a logical explanation.
- I couldn't find a fan.
I couldn't even find any loose paper.
- A fairly common manifestation of paranormal phenomena
is the movement of objects through the air.
We've all seen this in Hollywood ghost movies -
things that float through the air -
and the truth is that this is one of the ways
in which spirits try to either communicate with the living,
signal their presence, and sometimes instill fear.
- I went back to work, and I just kind of tried
to put it out of my mind, but it still bothered me
for a while. I didn't quit thinking
about it. And I was a little more weary
after that. I guess, kind of a little more on edge.
I was beginning to think
that maybe there was more to this than I realized.
- Code blue, section 8. Code blue, section 8.
- On one particular night, I was working
on a... we call it cookbook chemistry.
It's basically a kit where
you have to add reagents
and watch for its colour change.
And I was kind of leaning over a counter
in the main lab.
At first, I just felt uneasy. Just an uneasy feeling,
like that you were being watched.
And I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a shadow.
First, I thought that because the lighting was staggered in there
that it might have been two of my shadows.
So I moved just a little bit, and that shadow didn't move.
It just... it just scared the hell out of me.
- Lab Technician Donald Partin
is confronted by horrifying paranormal events
he cannot understand.
- I could see my shadow, but it was kind of faint,
but there was a shadow directly behind my shadow
that looked a little larger, a little more solid.
You could see a head. You could see shoulders.
I-I-I was shaken to my core.
- A very common form
of paranormal manifestation is the shadow figure,
which seems to be a step removed from the full-bodied apparition.
And it's almost as if we're seeing
an incomplete sketch of a human being.
- It looked to be probably between
6 and a half, 7 feet tall.
- When you turned around, what did you see?
- When I turned around, there was no one else there.
When I realized that there was no one behind me, I was shook up,
I was really scared.
When I was trying to understand
these things I couldn't explain, it definitely made me scared,
but it also kind of confused me a little bit
because I was looking for a rational explanation.
And so at first, I thought, "Well, you know,
the shadow in particular, it was the light"
or "it was somebody." But when I ruled those two things out,
it only left the fact
that it was something I couldn't explain,
and that was just kind of hard for me to deal with.
- Donald hopes that focusing on work again
will help to settle his nerves.
But working does not change anything.
- I could feel as though something was leaning
on my shoulder to get a better view of what was happening
in front of me where I had the sample. It was like
they were leaning over me, looking at what I was doing.
I thought I felt, like, a breath on my neck.
It just felt like that there was a person there.
And so I kind of pushed back
and said, "Get off, I'm doing something," but there was no one there.
It... it just... it just
Listen, it just... it just scared the hell out of me.
I knew whatever
this thing was that it wasn't of this world.
- The truth is that most of us are born with five senses,
and there is a limit to what we can
perceive with those senses.
The shadow figure may be a good example of how
we cannot perceive spirit entities
in their full, natural appearance.
- I was shook up. I was... I was really scared.
I had to get out of the lab for a few minutes.
Probably gone
a good 20 minutes, and I didn't want to go back
in there when I knew I had to.
- Donald knows that the patients' lives
are at stake. He must continue working.
As much as I didn't want to, I went back in,
but I felt like I was
looking over my shoulder the whole rest of the time I was
in there. This... this was a very important job to me.
I just had completed my training.
The pay was better than any job I'd had before.
It was a stable work situation.
Good prospects to stay there and possibly advance later on.
Despite the bizarre incidents,
Donald keeps his job.
Several weeks pass,
and his routine returns to normal.
He's even joined in the lab by a co-worker
who likes to have fun. - Right away, right away.
Very important, very important.
- It's good. That's good, yeah.
No, you can keep it. - Oh no, that's my gift to you.
- The people that I worked with were very good people. This one guy, he was a big
joker. He loved to pull practical jokes on people.
- But even with a livelier environment
at work, Donald continues to feel uneasy
in his surroundings.
But what happens to Donald three nights later
is beyond anyone's practical joke.
- Around 3:30 or 4 o'clock in the morning,
I'd go out and start drawing blood from patients,
collecting samples and bring 'em back and start testing.
The goal was to have all the tests done by 7 a.m.
so the doctors could come in, make rounds
and look at the patients.
And as I came
around the corner, I saw a guy
sitting on the couch. He was sitting with his hands
folded in his lap, had a white lab coat.
Hello? Are you...?
Everything all right, sir?
Are you OK, sir? - Code blue, room 305.
Code blue, room 305.
- I know I saw somebody. I didn't try
to rationalize it or second guess it
or think maybe I'm just tired.
I saw someone sitting on that couch,
and when I turned back around, they were gone.
There's no way they could have got out of that lab
without me seeing 'em or hearing 'em.
The time between where I saw him
and looked back was only seconds.
It made me scared. To be honest with you,
it was... it was, uh...
it was... it was one of those feelings
where you just feel, in the pit of your stomach,
like something here is not right, something...
something's happening that shouldn't be happening.
Donald can no longer stay quiet
about what he is seeing.
He decides to reach out to his co-worker
for answers.
- One night, talking to one of my friends,
I said, "Have you ever had, you know,
any of these experiences?"
And he said, "Did you see the doctor?"
And I said, "What are you talking about?"
He said, "Well, there's supposedly a doctor
that haunts this hospital.
- This hospital is haunted. - He said that he had
seen him. He said that one of the nurses
had seen him. He said
that she was getting ready to leave one morning after working night shift.
And they had just been talking about it,
and she told him she didn't believe in any of that,
and there weren't any truth to it.
And she hit the button
on the elevator, and when the elevator doors opened, she saw the doctor.
The doctor that I had died was standing
inside the elevator door.
- The Lab Technician Donald Partin is overwhelmed
by the terrifying paranormal events happening to him.
- And she knew that he was dead, and she just stood there
until the doors on the elevator shut again.
- She hit the button again
to open it and there was no one there.
- When lives are lost and one finds ghosts, all of the energy
generated by that death and dying, this can have
after effects and echoes which linger for years,
if not centuries after the original incident.
Donald is in disbelief
by how closely this story matches
what he has heard and seen.
- Co-workers would tell me that they'd seen things too.
I realized, "OK, I'm not crazy."
I'd seen the shadow. I'd heard the growls
and the tug, and then I saw this doctor
sitting on a couch there. I knew that somebody was there, but then they weren't.
That's when I started believing in ghosts.
Donald's co-worker gives him
one more surprising piece
of information. - Go to the old maternity ward
about 3 a.m. and just wait.
It might take a little bit of time, but just be there.
- And I said, "What will happen?"
He said, "Just go stand and see what happens." And so,
I thought, "Well, OK, I'll go see what happens," but I decided
by this point I'd seen enough stuff, that I was afraid to go by myself.
- Dr. Roberts, report to unit 7.
Dr. Roberts, report
to unit 7. - All set?
Donald enlists the help
of a trusted colleague, who also wants to understand
the paranormal events happening in the hospital.
- Come on.
- This particular area of the hospital
was the old maternity wing,
which had actually closed down back in 1983.
So take me to
2 a.m. and what are you doing?
- We were standing. There was an old nurses station right there.
We were the only two in that entire area
because you could see in all four directions.
I said, "What's that noise?"
Sound start out faint,
but then over time, and it grew
in intensity to the point that it was identifiable.
He said, "That sounds like babies."
They sounded like that...
that they were either hurt or angry.
It was that kind of cry like,
"I need attention. I need somebody
to get me." It was a pretty urgent cry.
I've got four kids of my own,
and at that time,
my two youngest ones were toddlers.
And so, you know, hearing that cry,
it kind of tears you up because you're thinking,
"This is a baby in distress."
And I think that's some of what drove my co-worker too.
I think he was feeling the same thing I was.
When you first hear it,
your first reaction is, "You gotta get in there to these babies." Then you realize that
there's no way there's going to be babies in there.
Nobody leaves babies in there at night.
Then, it kind of turned from, you know,
that kind of anxious wanting to help
more to a... a fear.
- Hearing a baby crying
under any normal circumstances can be a distressing sound.
Imagine how much worse that would be,
how terrifying if you're in an area
where there are no living babies.
- I was honestly afraid. In my mind, I'm thinking,
"OK, I need to know why we're hearing
"this sound and I need to know what
the cause of it is."
- Donald and his co-worker hone in
on the source of the intensifying sound.
- I think personally that this was a type
of residual, audible phenomena,
that he was somehow replaying a type of paranormal
recording that was made back in the days
when this was a fully functioning maternity wing.
- A sudden shift in energy
stops Donald in his tracks.
- At this point, I'm terrified.
- Determined to find the source
of the sound,
Donald inches down the corridor.
- Do you think there's a connection
between the crying babies that you heard and this doctor?
- I think they might be connected.
This doctor, he'd been a surgeon up on third floor.
When all this started, I never really gave
thoughts much about ghosts and spirits or anything,
and then as I experience these things
and things I've seen and heard since,
I don't have any doubt
that this hospital is haunted.
I think that... I think that there are still spirits there today.