I worked in direct care for a few years in group homes caring for individuals with disabilities. My coworker and I who both worked overnights on different days at the same house became good friends and over time we were convinced there was a ghost in the house and also knew that a client passed away shortly before we both started working. We would hear sounds and footsteps when it was utterly impossible due to clients physical abilities/limitations. We would wake up to locked med cabinets wide open when we knew we locked them the night before. Lights on when we knew we turned them off. One day my friend/coworker told me a story from the job she had before.
She said she worked at another care facility where two staff were on for every overnight shift due to the number of clients. There was one client who was elderly, had never walked nor talked, and was always hooked up to monitors at night to ensure she could breath properly every night. Then one night they heard footsteps in the hallway outside the staff room. No monitors had gone off so they were really surprised, they go to the hallway and there is said client, standing, and she goes “boo, did I scare you”.
They are both in utter shock, they get the client back to bed none the less, hook all the monitors back up, and continue on with their shift. In the morning the client is dead.
Real life ghost story. Scariest thing I ever heard and I think about it constantly.
