3 from my work in a loony bin
1. Doing 2:00 am round with another nurse in a "veggie" ward, open the door to one of the bedrooms and see a man syanding next to the bed. He turned and smiled at us at which point we both screamed and ran to the next ward. Came back about 10 mins later with 4 other staff to find man dead on the floor. Weird part was that for 62 years, since birth, he had been a quad with very little brain function.

2. Same place, trying to get an old duck to go inside and go to bed but she refused to go in the building. Kept saying "I won't go in while the white ladies are there". Tried dragging her, threatening her and drugging her, wouldn't move - ended up spending the night sleeping on the verandah. In the morning we found one of the oldies dead. Over the next 5 years that i worked that ward she did it 8 times, dead one the next morning every time. Still does it apparently.

3. I was supervisor one night, got a phone call saying get here quick, we have trouble. Took 2 other staff with me, opened the ward door, place looked like a slaughterhouse, blood on walls, ceiling and floor. In one corner there was a body laying in a pool of blood with a kid squatting down by the head. I asked the staff what the fuck was going on and they just stood there pointing at the body. Looked back and the kid has got one hand inside the skull and sucking the other hand with a look of glee on his face. Turns out the "body" had had a fall against a window and smashed his head. The eater was a little blind kid i'd known for years who just used to sit in a chair and rock all day, never interacted with anyone. It was one of the most gruesome things i've ever seen, big red smile - even the police that showed up all vomitted.

Lots of weird shit happens here, they reckon it's cos of all the "tortured souls" that have died.
(wallynothere rnot without protection, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 14:14, 10 replies)

The gore curve
is rather steep on that posting.

1) Fine, creepy, dead... ok
2) Ok, dead again... no problem
3) WHAT THE BUGGERING FUCK?
( chart cat has an itch, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 14:31, closed)

Sorry to be all rational and everything...
"Lots of weird shit happens here, they reckon it's cos of all the "tortured souls" that have died."

Don't you think that it's more likely to be down to all the "tortured souls" who are still alive?
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 15:08, closed)

Cooool
sounds like the game F.E.A.R...

but with more old people.
( scoshi pretending to diet since, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:06, closed)

worrying to hear that no.3...
was only ONE of the most gruesome things you have ever seen...
(wrigglesworth, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 16:41, closed)

ACKK!!!
hopefully 3 is ripped off from the Wasp Factory and never actually happened.
(little fawn, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 21:16, closed)

wasps
Wasp Factory, brilliant book!
( P, Benny P, Fri 4 Jul 2008, 22:27, closed)

Even yummier and more disgusting
3 isn't ripped off from the Wasp Factory.

I haven't heard of the specific incident, but I know of one very similar, where a compulsive eater (Prader Willi Syndrome) ate his own hand after sustaining nerve damage when he stuck it through a glass door.

Psychiatric nurses have all the best gross out stories.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Sat 5 Jul 2008, 22:11, closed)

You get a click...
...for shitting me up in a very simple, very scary fashion.

Sometimes it's not the story-teller, it's the stories themselves...
(.click, Mon 7 Jul 2008, 16:38, closed)

Ooooo
More, more! Nurses have the best stories.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Tue 8 Jul 2008, 5:24, closed)

holy crap
I'm glad I read that at work with lights and people and not by myself at home.. in the dark...

*vivid imagination notches up to 11*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Wed 9 Jul 2008, 12:14, closed)