[lights flickering]
[surgeon] Stay with us, Alex.
[Alex crying]
[Alex] I was in a car accident...
[Alex screaming]
...I don't know if I died...
[machines beeping]
...but I could...
...see myself on the table.
What the hell is going on?
[Shannon] There was like this
feeling of someone's watching me.
[ghost] Sit!
How is that possible?
-It's okay, calm down. -[screaming]
[paramedic] I need you to calm down.
Her behavior completely stopped.
[paramedic choking]
[gasping]
It was...
terrifying.
I... started being in this constant state of panic.
[gasps]
It looked like she was staring into my soul.
[sinister laughing]
You need to leave me alone.
[screams]
-[thud] -Oh, my God! [screaming]
That wasn't what happened.
[screaming]
[theme music playing]
[woman screams]
Ahh!
[screams]
[machine beeping]
[sirens in the distance]
It was New Year's Eve, 2005.
I was on my way to a New Year's Eve party.
And it was about 8:30 at night.
[brakes screeching]
[loud crash]
I was in a car accident.
[sirens blaring]
[ambulance siren blaring]
[Alex crying]
[machine beeping]
It was absolutely terrifying.
[Alex screaming]
It felt like I was getting stabbed
by every sharp pain you could imagine.
[surgeon] Stay with us, Alex.
[Alex wailing]
You could hear me screaming
down the hallway.
[Alex continues screaming]
I need to...
black out.
I need to go in a coma...
or I need to die right now
'cause I cannot keep going like this.
[surgeon] You there, Alex? Stay with me.
[machine beeping]
And then, I thought if I didn't stay conscious,
that I was going to die.
But then all of a sudden,
things just stopped.
Like, it-- everything just went quiet.
[sighs deeply]
And... I don't know if I died,
but...
I could...
see myself on the table.
I could see the doctors working on me.
[indistinct chatter]
I don't know, like, it was an out of body experience from the trauma,
or it was a hallucination?
Or my body was so tired with the pain, it checked out.
As I'm standing there watching them work on me,
that was surreal.
And then I realized,
I'm not alone in the room.
There's a man there standing.
He's almost doing the same thing as me.
-[man groaning] -He's watching
this man on a table get worked on just like me.
He looks at me, I look at him.
-[man screaming] -He looks terrified.
I'm sure I looked terrified, too.
[surgeon] Stay with me, Alex.
You're not gonna die today.
Then, at that moment, it was like I was going down a roller coaster.
And I was back!
[gasps]
The pain comes back,
but I was back in my body.
[machine beeping]
I look to my right...
-and I see... -[surgeon] We're losing him!
...that man, on the table.
I was in a room
with someone else who had just had a devastating
motorcycle accident.
[doctor] Clear!
[man grunts]
[shuddering]
It was horrifying to see.
-The man was gone. -[doctor] Anything?
I was the one that survived.
It was after midnight. They finally got a room for me.
I don't know, like, how I was going to sleep.
But they wanted me to rest.
[footsteps approaching]
And I start hearing footsteps.
They're in the room with me and it's just pacing.
Pacing around the room.
And very... rhythmic.
[breathing heavily]
[eerie music intensifies]
But... I'm by myself.
My chest gets really tight.
I feel like I can't breathe.
I was begging in my head, like,
"Please, a visitor...
my nurse...
Somebody please be in here with me,
because I don't wanna be alone in this hospital room."
[crying]
[screams]
[crying]
The footsteps stopped.
[machine beeping]
I'm not sure if I fell asleep
or if I passed out, but...
I went to sleep.
[sirens blaring]
[monitor beeping]
The next morning,
as soon as visiting hours were open, my mom was there.
-Mom? -Good morning, dear.
My mom wanted to brush my hair.
That's my girl.
-Aww. -She was trying to...
be normal again, I guess.
Okay. Okay, okay.
-[gasps] -[Alex] Huh! What?
The brush
flies off the tray.
And it hit the glass on the way, and the glass tipped over.
That was pretty unnerving and...
I looked at my mom and she didn't have any answers.
[crying]
What the hell is going on?
[narrator] The next morning,
Alex undergoes a second surgery to fix a hip fracture.
[surgeon] I need you to count backwards from ten for me.
Ten...
Nine...
Eight...
Seven...
[machine beeping]
Six...
When I went under for surgery,
it was just, like, this blackness
around me.
[surgeon] Two...
One...
[Alex] I immediately recognized him.
This was the guy I saw in the trauma room.
It was horrifying.
Why you...
I was terrified.
...and not me?
[Alex screaming]
I could feel him breathing on me.
Why you and not me?
He kept screaming in my face.
Why do you get to live and not me?
[deep growl]
When I woke up,
I looked for him in the room.
He was gone.
And I thought...
that was the end of it.
[monitor beeping]
It was far from over.
[footsteps approaching]
[ghost] Why you...
[loud growl]
[Alex] I see this man,
lurking in the dark.
It was the man in the leather jacket.
[breathing heavily]
His eyes just had so much rage
and so much... anger.
And I was alone. Alone in the dark.
And that's your worst nightmare.
Out!
This man just starts shouting...
Out!
"Get..."
Out!
Leave me alone!
-He's back, Mom. He's back. -My mom comes running in,
and I said, "The guy in the leather jacket."
-Where? -And she's like...
What are you talking about?
I don't see anybody.
[ominous music playing]
[Alex crying]
My mom couldn't see him or hear him,
but she could feel this
really powerful anger in the hospital room.
-You're okay. Oh, you sweet girl. -[sobbing]
It's okay. You're okay.
There's an attachment that's going on between Alex
and her paranormal stalker.
[Estep] They were both in the same circumstances,
the same situation, at the same time.
It was a life-or-death situation.
And the truth of it is that Alex lived,
and he did not.
And I think that there is a tremendous amount of resentment
on this man's part.
Alex walked away and he lost everything.
Including his life.
[Alex] The doctors decided I was ready to go home.
It had been about a week and a half.
And I was...
...relieved because
I felt like I was finally free
of the man in the leather jacket.
I've left him behind.
And I was never going to see him again.
That wasn't what happened.
I was standing in the bathroom washing my hands...
[ghost] Why you and not me?
Chills...
immediately come back.
I see this black shadow cross the doorway.
Not again.
He's back.
[floor creaking]
I started being in this constant state of panic.
Looking over my shoulder,
I was trying to find him.
Where are you?
-Alex? -[gasps]
My mom came home from work and I said...
I think he's back.
-[screams] -Oh, my God!
-[loud crash] -No, no, no!
It was like when I said the word "back",
there was this sonic boom.
-[crash] -Boom!
Everything on our wall in the living room
fell.
[both screaming]
I was terrified.
Leave us alone!
[growls]
[ominous music playing]
[ghost] Why you and not me?
What am I gonna do?
"Even though I walk
into the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil."
My mom gets out her Bible,
and she starts reading scriptures.
-[ghost] Why you... -"...Lord...
...will keep you from all evil."
[growling]
And... I could hear like this...
underlying, like, growl.
Very sinister sounding.
[growling]
Stop!
I said, "You're making this worse.
Please, please, please stop."
[growling]
I saw him just standing in the doorway.
[growling intensifies]
He just looked...
He looked evil.
[both women screaming]
[loud growl]
And he dissipates.
[both women crying]
He was getting bolder.
I felt like he was trying to make me snap.
Alex is being stalked
by an extremely angry,
resentful male entity.
The truth of this is
that when we die, we don't instantly gain a halo and a set of angel wings.
We have the same personality that we had
right before we died.
As in life, so in death.
So, if you are an angry,
resentful, bitter person before you died,
you're taking that over with you.
[narrator] Desperate for peace,
Alex and her mom look for help.
My mom, I guess, told one of her clients about what was happening.
And she recommended her church.
[speaking in foreign language]
They were a Greek orthodox church.
They sent this lady.
[speaking in foreign language]
She gets olive oil and puts a cross on my forehead.
And then she just starts praying in Greek.
[church woman praying in Greek]
I was thinking,
"is this for real?" I'm thinking,
"I don't think this is gonna work."
[praying continues]
[ghost] Why you and not me?
[ominous music playing]
[low growl]
[praying continues]
It worked.
Whatever she did, not just freed him,
but it also freed me.
I have never...
seen...
or heard from him ever again.
There are two reasons I think this ritual was so successful.
Belief and focus.
Belief is an extremely powerful force.
But you also have to focus that belief.
This final successful ritual
was targeted upon the aggressive male entity himself.
It was aimed at getting him out of there.
And it succeeded.
[indistinct announcement of PA]
[Alex] It was the hardest chapter of my life.
A lot of people died
on New Year's Eve.
I was not one of them.
But I'll live for those
who didn't make it that night.
Sometimes,
we're just in pain and I think
spirits can be in pain, too.
And they are really looking for someone to just listen to them.
And...
even though I don't know what exactly happens after we die...
after this experience,
it's given me a whole new appreciation for life.
It's made me realize
I need to live my life to the fullest.
[screaming]
[narrator] Shannon Mackinnon
is six months into her job
at a large hospital with a long history.
[Shannon] It's a catholic hospital.
It was founded by nuns.
When the hospital first started,
they would live up on the higher floors.
I tell everyone that I'm a housekeeper.
[patient] Hey there, how are you?
The correct term for the job
is Unit Support Person.
You know...
back in the day,
I had a secret girlfriend.
-You remind me of her. -Really?
Well, you make conversation while you're in the room
and try to make that day,
you know, better for the patients.
My parents did not approve.
-Did they ever find out? -[chuckles]
Eventually.
-I married her. -[laughs]
[both laugh]
I'll get stories about them growing up,
or things that they haven't told anyone.
Sometimes they'll tell the housekeeper,
or what they think about the nurses,
which can be kind of funny sometimes.
It can completely change someone's day.
So it's been really awesome.
[narrator] But at times,
the hospital has an air of darkness.
[ominous music playing]
[Shannon] This hospital is huge.
In certain parts of the building,
there definitely is a very creepy,
very uncomfortable
feel to it, but you can't
really put your finger on what that is.
[elevator dings]
[gasps]
-I'm sorry. -It's okay. You scared me.
[chuckles] Sorry again.
[elevator dings]
[narrator] On one night shift,
Shannon heads to the empty tenth floor.
We had more people on that night than usual,
so there was no carts
and I was, like, "Wait a second, there is a cart up on the tenth floor."
Those particular floors
are for mental health patients.
We have had patients
that have jumped from those floors
and committed suicide.
There was like this overwhelming feeling
of someone's watching me.
[humming softly]
So just...
for pure comfort, I just started humming.
[humming continues]
Someone's here. Someone's watching me.
[music intensifies]
My heart was racing.
Shannon.
I'm thinking, "Is something gonna pop out?
Am I gonna see something?"
I can just feel like an energy.
But there's no physical evidence to explain.
All my senses are on high alert.
[continues humming]
So, I walk to where the carts are stored.
Got my cart ready.
[door unlatches]
[creaking]
[light switch clicks]
The light turned on.
How is that possible?
I'm alone.
Hello?
My mind was thinking
there has to be a logical explanation for this.
Hello, is anybody there?
I'm gonna check it out, in case...
maybe a patient is up here.
But I'm just feeling panic and feeling of...
like, I shouldn't be here. I need to go.
No one's in the bathroom.
I was so confused.
There's no one here.
There's no way to rationalize this.
I still had that feeling
that someone is here.
The hair is standing up on the back of my neck.
My heart is racing. My mind is racing.
[ghost] Shannon.
[growling]
[door slams]
I need to get out of here.
[banging]
-[elevator dings] -I was so confused.
I don't know what's going on.
Someone is watching me.
[elevator dings]
[suspenseful music playing]
Are you okay?
No. [chuckles nervously]
I told a couple of people
about my experience on the tenth floor.
I explained about the light switch,
I explained about how I felt and just this
feeling of panic and feeling of being watched.
I couldn't believe that it was happening.
I felt like I was crazy.
Well, you're not crazy. I get the same feeling.
My co-worker was a comforting friend.
He said, "I know that feeling that you're talking about."
The feeling of, like,
you're being watched.
There's something here.
That made me feel better, like,
"I've seen stuff, too.
You're not the only one."
There's a ghost here.
There is a ghost.
I thought this was probably the worst
experience that I could ever have at this hospital.
But, unfortunately, I was wrong.
[crow cawing]
[narrator] Three days later,
Shannon has to return to the tenth floor.
It is the same floor
where the hospital's nuns once lived.
[eerie music playing]
[Shannon] I was cleaning the bed
getting it ready
for whoever was gonna come in next.
I am still
thinking of the other night, of, like, what happened.
I started having that immediate feeling of
"I need to get out of here."
My intuition is screaming.
I saw this...
woman in front of me.
She was wearing this long...
white conservative outfit.
And you could tell it was a nun
because of the habit on her head.
[voice shaking] Hello?
[ghost nun] Sit down.
[Shannon] It was the skin that gave it away.
It looked like the skin of, like, a dead person.
I'm terrified.
[shrieks]
It wasn't human.
It was a ghost.
It had to be a ghost.
We're making eye contact.
Her eyes were very piercing.
It's like she was staring into my soul.
I wanted to scream.
But I couldn't physically scream.
Shannon.
[dramatic music playing]
[evil laughter]
I'm terrified.
[laughing]
Come on!
I'm pressing the buttons,
pressing the buttons.
[elevator dings]
[screaming]
[breathing heavily]
[trembling]
My heart is just racing.
I'm...
literally just trying to calm myself down.
Stay with me.
I need you with me now.
I know you can hear me.
I have, um, angel wings
that I wear.
And...
It's, um...
supposed to be for... [sniffles]
my, um, guardian angel.
I had an ex-boyfriend Jason
that passed away.
And I like to think that he's always with me.
I'm like, "Jason,
I need protection right now."
I think it was a very natural instinct
for Shannon to touch her necklace.
Like sending an energetic SOS to her boyfriend.
[Brewer] We all have a layer of spiritual protection.
Spirit guides, guardian angels,
our ancestors, even animal totems.
I do think her boyfriend was there
offering her protection and blessings from that realm.
[elevator dings]
[Shannon] I didn't really
tell anyone after I saw the nun.
I don't wanna say anything.
Maybe she's listening.
I'm just gonna keep this to myself.
I'm thinking, "Do I need to quit my job?"
Like, what is going on?
[narrator] Shannon requests a transfer to the ER,
but still feels uneasy.
[Shannon] My future is uncertain at this hospital.
I'm always thinking if I'm gonna see something.
If I'm still being watched.
I feel like
the nuns that used to work at the hospital
are haunting it.
[laughing]
Maybe they feel a little territorial
about the hospital.
They changed my life
and the way I think about the paranormal.
[screaming]
This is absolutely terrifying
and I wouldn't wish it upon anyone.
[ominous music playing]
[sirens in the distance]
[narrator] Grant Evans
works out of a small hospital as an emergency medical tech.
[Grant] I grew up
always wanting to help people.
I always knew I wanted to help.
I mean, I knew I wanted to do it through medicine.
[narrator] Grant has learned over 15 years
to expect anything.
But when he is sent from the hospital
to transfer a patient,
he had no idea what was coming.
There's always gonna be one night that I won't forget.
It was a big, big winter storm.
It was pretty much a blizzard, white out.
We get dispatched to a residence
for an individual that had barricaded themselves in their house.
Yeah, we're going in. We got a live one for ya.
All right, thanks.
The police officers said when they first got there,
the person started throwing knives at them.
[woman screaming]
All of a sudden, we see
police officers carrying a woman.
All it was was immediate chaos and her screaming
and violence.
[woman grunting]
[woman screaming]
-Just hold her. -Let go of me!
Let go of me!
They ended up handcuffing her behind her back.
-Um, and then placed her on the stretcher. -No, no!
She didn't look like...
someone that was intimidating.
[woman thrashing]
Get me out of here!
-[woman crying] -Hey, hey.
Lay back, just lay back.
There we go.
-Right now! Let me out! -It's okay.
Hey, I'm right here.
I'm right here.
It's okay, it's okay.
The handcuffs were behind her back.
I felt quite confident that
we could control her for the rest of the night.
No! No, no!
So I jumped in first.
Get me out!
It's okay, it's okay. Calm down.
Calm down, I need you to calm down, okay?
[screaming]
Calm down. It's gonna be okay.
That was when I had
the first sensation that something could have been wrong.
-[screaming] -Okay! Calm down. Calm down...
She was screaming,
"Can't you see they're hurting me?"
I need you to calm down.
Her behavior completely stopped.
And all of a sudden,
I felt
a cold breeze going
through my chest
and out my back
as if something was traveling through me.
[Grant choking]
The air got thick in the back of the ambulance.
[gasping]
Something was there that wasn't supposed to be there.
[choking]
It was terrifying.
[gasping]
You all right?
Yeah.
So my partner,
slow and easy,
starts turning the ambulance around and,
with my luck, the ambulance gets stuck in the snow.
Great.
This is just what we need.
[loud thud]
All of a sudden, I start feeling feel the ambulance
rocking back and forth.
[thud]
What the hell?
[tires spinning]
Oh. It's just that the guy's trying to get us unstuck.
The patient was totally quiet
and she was empty.
She was not responding to anything.
Her eyes were open.
No expression on her face.
Just staring...
...into nothingness.
Ma'am.
You all right?
Experiencing any pain?
I'm going to go help 'em out.
I felt anxious I was by myself again.
[ominous music playing]
I heard this strange noise.
How did she get her arms in front of her?
You'd have to dislocate your shoulders over the top.
But then, you would hear that.
You'd hear some kind of struggle.
In that moment, I knew I was dealing
with something that
was not of this world.
[screaming]
I've seen many people suffering from
mental illness
and this was definitely unnatural.
This situation was paranormal.
I cannot explain how this happened.
The moment where Grant experiences
the handcuffs moving to the front of her body,
to me, indicates a more paranormal experience.
This ultimately doesn't make any sense.
This woman's not a contortionist.
And even an escape artist
and people that are attuned to this type of performance are--
It takes a little bit of work
in order for them to get the handcuffs
in and around their body.
So this seems quite paranormal.
[screaming]
Hey, hey.
Lay down, lay down. It's okay.
Right away,
instant panic.
-I need you to lay down. Lay down. -[screaming]
It's okay.
No, let me go!
Let me go.
No, no--
[in childlike voice] Oh, please no.
It hurts, it hurts.
Please don't hurt me.
You're cold.
-It feels so cold. -It's okay, it's okay.
I'm here to help you.
[in demonic voice] Wait! Wait!
[woman growling]
While I was holding her down,
she switched personalities
at least ten times in one minute.
[woman] Please, help me. I can't do this right now. Please.
Where's my mom?
Where's my mom, she has my doll.
You wanna play with...
To hear a voice of a child come out of someone
is very unnerving.
Where's my father?
I need my father.
To actually see something like that happen,
it...
...brings a chill to your soul.
Help!
[Grant yelling] Help!
Another one that she did was
very animalistic and gnashing her teeth.
Stop! Stop!
[woman crying]
[sobbing in normal voice] Please...
I can't-- I can't do this.
I need you to kill me, please.
I need you to kill me.
I can't do this anymore.
The last personality that...
that had...
had a lasting impression
on me was her.
It was her true personality.
[gasping] It's too much.
Please...
She looked dead in the eyes...
[crying]
You need to kill me, please.
And she said, "You need to kill me, you need to end this and kill me."
Please, please... I need help.
This is the first time I've had someone
deadpan stare me
right in the eyes and say, like,
with a genuine tone saying, "You need to kill me."
Hey! Hey!
I will always remember that
moment of that call.
No...
No, I'm getting you to a hospital.
Hey, I need some help in here. I need some help in here, hey!
Hey!
The officer that jumped out jumped back in.
[women panting]
I thought you handcuffed her, man.
I don't know. Something happened and...
She was freaking out.
-She was freaking out. -[grunting]
No! Get me out of here!
Get me out of here!
No! Ah, stop! Let go of me!
Let go of me!
It's okay, it's okay...
Hey, hey!
Let me go!
Then the two of us were able to restrain her and tie her back down
the way that we had her before.
I got her, I got her. Get her back, get her back.
Let me go!
-It's okay, it's okay. -Now strap her down tight, man.
And as soon as she was restrained,
she went back to staring straight ahead.
Um, not confrontational, not aggressive.
Just absent.
As if she wasn't even there.
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
I'm fine. Let's just...
Let's just get the hell out of here.
[officer exhales]
So, once we got unstuck,
we just drove to the hospital.
[ominous music playing]
I told the nurse my report,
but I don't think anyone really took me seriously
with what I had said.
I recall her just grinning.
And almost taunting me, like, as if to challenge me. Saying, like,
"Look what I can do.
Don't mess with me," almost.
Like a standoff.
I don't have any rational explanation
how some of these things could have happened.
It struck me... It was meant for me
in some strange way.
That I was meant to experience this with this person.
Which... which is chilling to even think about.
[sirens blaring]
In the 15 plus years
of me doing this job,
I've never seen something...
before or since then that...
...that was so extraordinary.
A spirit possessed her whether it be...
something demonic...
[choking]
I...
I... I can only speculate.
[screaming]
It definitely did not feel worldly.
What I experienced makes me definitely question
what comes after...
life.
There's a possibility
that people can be afflicted by something spiritual.
Or even demonic.
[closing theme music playing]