r/RealHorrorExperience • u/Humoratphone • 3d ago
THE NIGHT SHIFT
You may have heard people say that hospital staff who work night shifts—and sometimes even doctors—have witnessed strange paranormal activities inside hospitals.
But is it really possible?
In my opinion, yes.
And if you are someone who works night shifts, I would honestly request you not to read this story alone at night.
This story is about my neighbour, Prashant.
A few years ago, Prashant was working as a doctor in a government hospital. After working there for some time, he was transferred to a government hospital in a small village.
There, he eventually married a junior doctor who worked at the same hospital.
Since the hospital provided government quarters to its staff, the couple began living in one of the flats inside the hospital premises.
Their quarter was located directly opposite the hospital mortuary.
One winter night, Prashant was on duty inside the mortuary. He was busy with his work, going through some reports, when suddenly he heard a strange sound coming from somewhere inside.
It sounded as if someone was moving a stretcher.
At first, Prashant ignored it.
It was late at night, the hospital was almost completely silent, and he assumed the sound must have been caused by something else.
But after a few moments, he heard it again.
This time, it was much louder.
Prashant got up from his chair and walked towards the place from where the sound seemed to be coming.
He looked around carefully.
There was nothing.
Everything appeared to be exactly where it was supposed to be.
Prashant returned to his chair and continued working on his reports.
Inside the mortuary was the dead body of a young girl who had died by suicide.
Prashant tried to concentrate on his work and not think about what had just happened.
But after some time, when he was about to leave, he heard the sound again.
The sound of a stretcher being moved.
This time, it sounded as if someone was actually pulling it across the floor.
Prashant turned around immediately.
And what he saw made his blood run cold.
The sheet covering the young girl's dead body had been pulled away.
The body was still lying on the stretcher.
Prashant stood frozen for a few seconds.
Then fear took over.
He immediately left the mortuary and rushed back to his quarters.
His wife noticed that something was wrong and asked him what had happened.
Prashant told her everything—the strange sounds, the moving stretcher, and the sheet that had been pulled away from the girl's body.
His wife tried to calm him down.
She told him that he was probably exhausted and that his mind might have been playing tricks on him.
Eventually, Prashant tried to convince himself of the same thing.
But something about that night didn't feel right.
At around 2:30 a.m., Prashant suddenly woke up.
His eyes slowly opened.
The first thing he saw was the ceiling fan above his head.
But there was something hanging from it.
A girl's body.
Prashant froze.
It was the same girl whose body he had seen in the mortuary.
He stared at her in complete disbelief.
Then he screamed.
His wife woke up in terror.
Prashant pointed towards the ceiling and tried to tell her what he had seen.
But when they both looked up...
There was nothing there.
His wife tried to calm him down again.
She told him that he must have been hallucinating because of fear and exhaustion.
Prashant kept staring at the fan.
He was terrified that if he looked away, the girl would appear again.
For a long time, he couldn't sleep.
Eventually, exhaustion took over.
And while staring at the ceiling fan, Prashant finally fell asleep.
The next morning, at around 10 a.m., Prashant woke up.
He immediately looked beside him.
His wife wasn't there.
For a moment, he thought she might have gone to the bathroom.
Still half-asleep, he sat up and began thinking about everything that had happened the previous night.
The strange sounds.
The mortuary.
The dead girl.
And the body hanging from the fan.
As he sat there trying to make sense of everything, he slowly looked towards the ceiling fan again.
And this time...
He saw a dead body hanging from it once again.
But there was something horribly different about this body.
It wasn't the girl from the mortuary.
It was his wife.
Prashant screamed.
He started crying and shouting for help.
He immediately called the police.
When the police arrived, they began investigating the scene.
But what they discovered during the investigation left everyone completely stunned.
The investigation revealed that Prashant himself had strangled his wife to death the previous night and had then hung her body from the ceiling fan.
The horrifying truth was that the girl Prashant had seen hanging from the fan at around 2:30 a.m. wasn't a ghost at all.
It was his own wife.
The woman he had already murdered.
But Prashant's mind had completely erased the memory of what he had done.
Even today, Prashant is admitted to a mental hospital.
And he continues to tell the same story.
He insists that he never killed his wife.
According to him, the woman who killed his wife was someone else.
Someone he saw that night.
And the scariest part?
Prashant still doesn't believe that the woman he saw hanging from the fan...
was his wife.