Welcome to Paranormal Nightshift, the podcast where we explore the eerie and mysterious experiences of those who work the night shift. Join us as we delve into the strange occurrences that only night shift workers can truly understand.
In today’s episode, titled “The Reaper,” we hear a chilling account from a nurse who worked in an assisted living facility. She shares her experiences with Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, recounting how one patient, Ms. Claudet, began seeing a terrifying figure, the Reaper, in her room at night. Despite her efforts to comfort and reassure Ms. Claudet, the nurse had to miss a night of work, and tragedy struck as three patients, including Ms. Claudet, passed away in close succession. The hospital conducted an investigation, revealing an unsettling detail in the security footage. Could it be that something paranormal was involved in these sudden deaths?
Our host also shares a personal story about their grandmother’s final days, where she spoke about portals, a concept she previously deemed as demonic. The intriguing connection between these two stories opens up new questions about the mysteries of life and death.
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The sun’s going down.
But if you’re clocking in,
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here’s some things that only
night Shift will understand.
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As a night shifter, we’re up at
the same time that the things
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that go bump in the night are,
So we bump back.
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Welcome to Paranormal night
shift.
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Your fan story is told here.
The day’s episode.
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The Reaper.
As a kid, I remember being
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afraid of midnight and 3:00
o’clock in the morning.
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Your parents always told you
those are the scary times.
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But on night shift, they’re just
regular times, right?
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My mom was a nurse, and I always
wanted to be a nurse.
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So right after nursing school, I
got a great job at assisted
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living facility.
The admin really loved my
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bedside manner, and with no time
at all, I got moved in to the
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dementia and Alzheimer’s unit.
It takes a special level of care
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to be able to take care of
people who are losing it day by
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day.
Alzheimer’s and dementia is so
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sad.
It’s there’s no cure for it.
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And you do.
You watch people lose a little
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bit of themselves every day.
Sometimes they see things.
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Sometimes they talk to people
that nobody else sees.
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And you can’t tell them that
they wrong because, well, to
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them it’s normal.
Miss Claudette was one of the
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nicest people I’ve ever met.
And her mind, yes, was slowly
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going, but she was so nice.
That’s why everybody was so
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concerned when her attitude
changed.
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One night she woke up screaming,
yelling at all of us, saying
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he’s here.
I see him, the Reaper.
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Remember that She was so afraid.
Her heart rate was elevated and
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she believed what she saw.
We had to give her a sedative to
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calm her down.
She slept right through the rest
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of the night, but in the morning
she said he was still there.
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This went on for almost a week.
She continued to see him and she
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would get in such a frenzy that
it would work the other patients
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up.
They decided that I needed to
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stay with Miss Claudette all the
time at night.
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From here on out was my job just
to watch her babysit, for lack
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of a better word, to help her.
When the Reaper came, just tell
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her it wasn’t real.
It was all a part of her
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imagination and he couldn’t hurt
her.
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I’ll never forgive myself for
what I did that night, but it
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was Taylor Swift.
I was young and silly, and I got
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free tickets, so I called out of
work.
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The hospital didn’t have anybody
but me to really watch her, so
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she didn’t have her caregiver
that night.
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The other charge nurses just did
rounds, but when it came time
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for the Reaper to show up, there
was nobody to help her calm
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down.
I was told the next day that she
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went into a panic, screaming and
going on and on about the Reaper
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and somehow, someway had managed
to move her bed in front of the
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door so nobody could come help
her.
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She passed away that night, but
here comes the scary part. 2
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other patients passed away that
night.
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The ones that Miss Claudette
told about the Reaper.
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Working in this kind of
environment, you’re used to
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having people pass away, but not
this many in one night, not this
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many within an hour apart of
each other, hospital actually
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did an investigation.
They pulled security footage and
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everything.
We all sat and watched the CC
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footage of the hallway.
I promise you at the time of
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their departion, you can see it
just for a glimpse, a black mass
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leaving each room.
They say that children are the
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most sensitive.
Maybe on our way leaving this
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world, we leave it the way we
started, knowing and seeing what
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no one else can.
I love this story because before
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my grandmother passed away, she
used to talk about portals.
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Now this was a strongly devout
religious woman who grew up in a
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very Baptist Church.
The word portal or Ouija board
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was not even in her vocabulary.
She felt like all those things
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were demonic.
In her final days suffering with
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Alzheimer’s, she used to use the
word portal all the time.
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She explained to us that there
was a portal in her closet and
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that’s how they were going to
come and get her.
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Well, Anonymous, we’ll be
sending you a Paranormal Night
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shift sticker.
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Send us a message and maybe
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