I See Dead People

She looks blankly into the distance, her eyes wide but unseeing, a pained grimace flash-frozen on her parchment-white face. Then quite as suddenly - with a snap - she's back with us proclaiming to all.

"I see dead people."

Horned demon with blood-red eyes?

There on a cabinet at the side of the room where dozens of patients before her have claimed to see a demonic monster sneering at them. You can imagine the entire team of doctors swivelled around to stare at that very spot. Nothing there as expected - no ghouls or ghosts - but who knows what heightened senses were reawawakened during her comatose state.

Sounds like the script from a B-grade horror movie in homage of the Sixth Sense but it happened right today at work. Poltergeists in the intensive care unit? Or typical ICU psychosis?

Maybe ask her for 4-digits?


Whoa! She sees the dead!
Every other sane person would run screaming from such a patient - but of course with the physicians' taste for the macabre, this only lead to us reliving past tales of the supernatural. After all for faithful denizens of the hospital, we all know that we're not alone in the night. Phantom footsteps, grisly cries and creaking elevators are all part and parcel of an every day's work in a hospital.

Eve heard a lone trolley being pushed down an empty corridor past midnight?

Don't think Nervous Nancy's gonna get any sleep tonight.