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Saturday, July 23, 2005

Interesting lunch break.

We were busy as heck yesterday but we still find the time to eat together. I happen to be lazy enough to join the younger nurses and they were talking about a time in the Philippines when a series of serial killers were terrorizing a part of Manila.

One nurse was telling us a story of a young nurse about 22 yrs old who was raped and murdured. This woman was having a hard time dealing with the death of her mother and grandmother. She was depressed and was very vulnerable. Like some days being a nurse, a doctor will end up yelling at you and call you "stupid" for not being able to insert a foley catheter, one of those that goes up the bladder to drain the urine. So, this nurse decided to go home at 2 o'clock in the morning. The hospital owners are usually nice enough to accomodate the late shift and will let them stay and sleep in the staff room. She decided to go home. Some of the staff decided to look after her while she waits for a ride.

Unfortunately, she didn't make it home. They found her shoes by the gate of her house and her body was found a few hundred feet in a kamote field in the outskirts of a new subdivision development. She was raped and murdered. According to the story teller, she haunted the hospital for a long time.

Babies in the nursery will all cry at the same time. As if they were pinched because they all cry in a high shrill. Slippers will fly out of no where. An autoclave machine was opened right after the the cycle. A practice that will incinirate who ever is stupid enough to try. She said that she left that autoclave 15 mins to the end of cycle and they went out to lunch. Hoping that she can unload the machine after lunch, she came back with the machine door open.

One day someone brought a weegee board. They had fun with "spirits" answering questions like who is knocking at the door? and they will get the right answers. They also asked about who has a crash with this person and that. They had a good time.

Well, one day the murdered nurse answered. She spelled her name with great speed. The board was moving swiftly as the spirit spelled her name. They tried to trick the spirit by asking it things only she whould know. The spirit answered each questions right. One of the staff members was writing down the answers/messages.

The spirit then made a request. She was asking for justice. She described her murderers. One was a tricycle driver and his three drug addict friends. They were not sure who will believe the story as the source was a weegee board. She described how they violated her with foriegn objects such as a bottle. They nabbed her in front of her house.

They spoke to the spirit and told her to be in peace and that her justice will be granted by God. Her hauntings of the hospital finally stopped. Talking about goose bumps.