The Hospital

This story is inspired by true incident!!!

I am a resident of Houston and I hail basically from Pakistan. It was a regular Friday, I was at office trying to wrap up my work quickly and get back to home. In the meantime I received a call from one of my friend who put up in Austin. Actually the phone call was from her roommate, that she had met an accident and is critical. Since I was caught up in work, and there were people to take care of her, I decided to wait for sometime, for the doctors final say. Till evening I got updates that she is not well and has been moved to ICU. After a series of calls and updates from her friend, finally, I decided to drive to Austin and be with my friend for 1-2 days. Since, next two days were weekend.

I reached Austin, and met my friend and then decided to stay back in hospital that night, so that her roommate can get little rest. That night after my dinner in food court, I was sitting at the resting place that was dedicated for ICU attendees, and was trying to wrap up my office work. I was so engrossed in my work that I didn’t realize that it was 2 am. I just came out in the hallway to take a stroll and then thought to go back and sleep for few hours before I get any update from doctors.

When I was in the hallways taking a stroll, I saw another young girl, dressed in hospital gown, too taking a stroll. We both were facing each other like strolling in the opposite direction. That girl looked very sick, pale and weak. Her eyes seemed shrunk and her facial muscles looked withdrawn inside. I gave a glance at her while she was strolling my side, and expected a glance from her too. She saw me or not I am not sure, it seemed she is looking at me but looking through me as if she was thinking something or lost somewhere. She moved ahead and I too got back to my place to take a nap.

I closed my eyes and was so tired that fell asleep instantly. Next morning i woke up and started freshening up. While i was freshening up, I just started recollecting about last night. I felt so sorry for the sick girl taking stroll so late night unaccompanied. I felt there are many unfortunate people in this world who don’t have people to take care for. But then suddenly, i FROZE!!! Something flashed my mind!!! What the HELL!!! WHAT WAS IT? How come such a dilapidated ICU patient is allowed to stroll unaccompanied at that odd hour of the night. Forget about the family members or friends, where were the hospital staffs? (According to the hospital rules, ICU patients are not allowed to move out from bed unaccompanied). Last night even my friend’s nurse told me the same hospital rule, and had assured me that she won’t be left unaccompanied. Also, the appearance of the lady kept on bothering me. There was something wrong about the way she looked; very pale, sick and weak. There was something fishy about the way she was looking at me or THROUGH ME to be exact. That exact scene kept replaying in my mind throughout the day.
The thoughts scared me to death like what did I encounter last night? Was it a wandering soul of any girl patient in the ICU, who was badly bed ridden? Like what we call Out of Body Experience or was the ICU patient dead and the trapped soul finally was finding a way out?

Whatever it was the questioned still remains unanswered but the feeling and the sight is so vivid till today.

Acknowledgement : This story is inspired from a true incident of one of my husband’s colleague. Thanks to her for sharing this story with us.

Do you have any out of body experience? or real scary incidents? Do share your or your dear ones experiences.

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