Medical Spoops

My personal favorite genre of ghost story is the healthcare ghost story. Nurses have told me some stories that have made my eyes water, though that's not the tale I came to tell, because for all of my later attempts, I've never been able to do it justice. Let's share our medical spooks

I have 13 years of experience working on an ambulance as a paramedic. I've seen a lot of things, some horrible, some funny, some downright bizarre, but nothing I'd really classify as paranormal. This story was told to me by a co-worker on another ambulance shortly after it happened to her, while she was wrapping up documentation at the hospital.

They'd been dispatched to a sick person, which is sort of the catch-all complaint when dispatch doesn't have a more applicable complaint. When they arrive at the house, they find that the patient is a man in his late fifties who's gone unresponsive. Thankfully, the man's parents are able to let them inside the home and provide them with the information they need. Suspecting Sepsis, they try to hustle and get the guy out and down to the hospital. He dies shortly before arriving at the ER. Despite the efforts of both the crew and the emergency room, they can't get him back and the man is declared dead. Law enforcement comes by to start writing up their report and starts asking for information that the crew didn't obtain. It's no problem, though, the crew tells law enforcement to just do a 911 callback to the house and ask the guy's parents. So, the officer tries it, but gets no response. Having exhausted the easy stuff, the officer goes out and decides to visit the guy's parents. When he arrives, however, the doors are locked up tight, and there's no sign of anyone else. As the officer's poking around, a neighbor notices and goes to ask if he can help. The officer tells the neighbor what's happened and asks if he can help him contact the man's parents. The neighbor looks very surprised and says that the guy's parents have both been dead for years. And that's the story of how a co-worker got medical history from a dying patient's dead parents.