Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Scary Hospital
Urban Legends.
Quickly before we get into this video, I just want to ask you guys if you want to hear more
urban legend videos?
Also, as this is a hospital themed episode, let me know if you have ever been to hospital.
I was in hospital for over a month when I was a child…I’ll tell you all about it
at the end of the video.
So – scary hospital urban legends….
Hospitals can be a scary place to be at the best of times, but these horrifying stories
make them like truly terrifying places best avoided.
To make matters worse, I have done some digging and some of these urban legends have turned
out to be true.
10 - In Germany, Legend has it that an abandoned hospital is over run by zombies.
The Kinderkrankenhaus on the outskirts of Berlin is pretty terrifying a) because it
is an abandoned Children’s hospital and B because it might be infested by brain sucking
zombies.
Frim the outside, the the building in the woods has been battered by the elements and
ransacked by vandals.
Who knows what is going on on the inside….
Urban legend in the nearby town is that the old abandoned hospital is home to a number
of zombies waiting to strike.
Those who dare visit the location have taken some terrifying pictures if the interior and
exterior.
On the flip side, though, some of the graffiti is pretty cool.
My question is, are they regular zombies, or child zombies?
9 - Killed By Death Killed by death is an urban legend that focuses
on sick kids in a childrens hospital.
Children are admitted to the hospital with severe flulike symptoms and see a creepy,
nightmarish monster stalking the corridors at night.
Those still ill with the flu are taken, one by one at night by the Kindestod, which means
the Childs Death in German.
The Kindestod sucks out the kids souls, leaving them to die prematurely, with doctors thinking
it was their weak immune systems failing to fight off the flu.
Only people with the flu can see the monster, leaving healthy people to think the kids are
delirious when they complain of seeing the beast.
It turns out that while this creepy child killing monster seems like the stuff of Urban
legends, after some digging, I found it was an adapted creepypasta from a 1998 episode
of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
8 - Red Wrist Bands The wristband story is a creepypasta about
a doctor who sees dead people.
Basically the story goes that a Doctor Ulman was working as a surgeon and unfortunately
could not save the life of one of his patients.
As a signifier that this patient was dead, Dr Ulman placed a Red wristband on the deceased.
After cleaning up and taking a moment, Dr Ulman hopped in the hospital elevator to take
a break in the cafeteria.
As he was heading down, a woman in a hospital white gown hopped in after him.
Ever the gent, Ulman asked which floor the woman was heading to.
She said she was expected in the morgue.
Baffled, Dr Ulman noticed another passenger try to jump in the elevator, but miss as the
doors closed in his face.
Ulman locked eyes with the man before the doors shut.
He went white.
The lady asked what was wrong.
He said that he thought the man was a patient who had just died.
The woman asked how he could be sure, and Dr Ulman said that he was wearing a red wristband.
The woman smiled and held up her arm, and said…
like this one?
The elevator went down.
7 - You should never go to a hospital at the beginning of a fiscal year because you’ll
get hurt.
Ooh, fiscal year….talk sexy to me.
No, seriously though, this is actually an urban legend.
People think that if they go to a hospital, particularly a training hospital, they are
likely to suffer an injury at the hands of doctors because the new fiscal year marks
a new intake of junior doctors who are inexperienced.
While there is some slight evidence to back this up, health care providers insist this
is an urban legend.
6 - Babies Switched At Birth We have all heard the urban legend of two
babies born in the same hospital getting switched at birth, right?
They are then brought up by the wrong families and on their 18th birthday they find out they
were actually switched?
It’s a classic, there was even a TV series about it on ABC.
Well, this actually does happen!
How scary would it be to realise you were actually from a whole other family entirely
and you could have had a very different life?
This happened to Doris Gruenwald, born in 1990.
27 years later, following a routine blood test, she found out that she had been given
to the wrong family.
Speaking to local news outlets, she said: My whole body started shaking...
It was like the ground under my feet disappeared.
The woman from Australia took University Hospital Graz to court, and the medical facility was
ordered to pay 90 thousand euros in damages.
This is a crazy story….
5- Toxic Blood Infects Hospital On a cold February evening in 1994, a 31 year
old women, Gloria Ramirez, visited a hospital in Riverside California.
The woman was ill and had been previously diagnosed with cervical cancer.
The woman had some unusual symptoms…her heart was beating rapidly, he blood pressure
plummeting and she was taking slow shallow breaths.
She was injected with valium and other drugs to sedate her.
When she was stripped of her clothes, they noticed her body was covered in an oily sheen
and there was a garlicy odor coming from her mouth.
When her blood was taken, they noticed it smelled very strongly of ammonia.
The medics who had taken her blood became queasy, then fainted.
One stopped breathing for several minutes and another shook uncontrollably, losing the
feeling in their limbs.
It seems that Ramirez was releasing a toxicity.
23 of the 37 emergency room staff members on shift that day experienced symptoms, 5
were hospitalized and one spent two weeks in intensive care for apnea.
Ramirez died that evening and there was no official explanation from Livermore investigators
for the bouts of illness on the ward.
Weirdly enough,this Urban Legend seems to actually be true – there are news articles
and studies about the incident.
Well, this urban legend turned out to be true….
We have Dr Death at number 4 Dr Death is the legend of a seemingly lovely
family doctor who would charm the elderly within his care.
Secretly though, he was convincing the vulnerable OAPs to write him into their Wills, then slowly
killing them off with lethal drug combinations.
When they died, he recorded their deaths as old age and would pocket their money.
Sounds like a murderous creepypasta, but it is true.
In the late 90s in South Manchester , UK, Linda Reynolds of Donneybrook Surgery expressed
concerns about the high mortality rate of Dr Harold Shipman’s patients.
Police were alerted, but unable to initially gather enough evidence.
6 months after the initial claims, Police found sufficient evidence that Dr Shipman
was spiking his elderly patients with Diamorphine and forging their wills.
In total, Harold Shipman is thought to have killed over 215 patients between 1975 and
1998.
The majority of his victims were woman, although he did kill some men.
The majority of the victims were over the age of 75.
The youngest was in their 40s.
3 - The Legend of the Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital
You could not pay me to go here….you literally could not.
This is an old, abandoned mental asylum in New Zealand of all places.
Staff were nasty to patients, with many abuse claims and even murder claims coming from
relatives of those admitted to the facility.
Interestingly, despite many patients dying in their stay at Kingseat, it is said by locals
that more staff members and nurses died than any of them.
There are suggestions that something in the place led people to suicide.
Now the building is abandoned, which makes it even creepier.
I have no idea why you would ever visit, but if you did, you can still see the scratch
marks on the wall where patients tried to claw their way out of their rooms.
That is not all you might find, either.
It seems that the building has been at the centre of paranormal investigations for years,
with local legend saying the building is haunted by as many as 100 ghosts, most famously the
ghost of a grey looking nurse.
Get me awaaaay from there.
2 - The Russian Sleep Experiment The Russian Sleep Experiment was a hospital
experiment that was said to have taken place in Soviet Russia on political prisoners during
world war 2.
Russian doctors were reportedly fascinated by the reason why people sleep and the use
of sleep deprivation as torture.
Prisoners were told they would be freed if they took place in a 30 day experiment.
Allegedly, a special gas was used by medics to keep patients awake.
For five days, patients were seemingly okayish, but after the five day mark, they became increasingly
paranoid and erratic.
After 9 days they started screaming until they tore their vocal chords.
Then patients began smearing their faeces over the room they were in.
After 14 days, the captives became very quiet and claimed they no longer wanted to be free.
In this time, one of the test subjects had passed away.
When the gas was turned off that was keeping them from sleeping, the remaining patients
screamed that they wanted the gas back on.
They had torn muscle and skin from their bodies, with some organs even being removed and thrown
on the floor.
Eventually the patients could no longer be described as human or even human looking.
When asked what they were, one of the subjects smiled and said We are you.
We are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every moment in your
deepest animal mind.
We are what you hide from in your beds every night.
We are what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal haven where we
cannot tread.".
Rhiiiiiight.
This is probably just an urban legend, but honestly who knows when it comes to war crimes
committed by Soviet Russia.
Finally at number one, a disgusting and scary urban legend that turns out is the truth…..
1 - Chinese Hospitals Sell Dead Babies to Eat
The rumour was that a number of hospitals in China were selling aborted child foetuses
as Chinese people believed that eating the will boost stamina and sexual health.
This, unfortunately, is true.
It was even reported that surgeons were eating the foetuses themselves.
In 2011, South Korean Customs seized 17 thousand pills containing powdered baby flesh that
had been smuggled in from China.
There was a documentary made about the practice that aired in South Korea that showed doctors
refrigerating dead babies.
An undercover reporter learned that corrupt medics at hospitals are selling the dead babies
on to paying customers who want to eat the babies for their health.
One consumer said that he would cook the foetuses in a soup with ginger and orange peel.
So there we have it, that was the Top 10 Scary Hospital Urban Legends.
Which of these do you think was the scariest!
Let me know?
So I said I would tell you about a time I was in hospital – some if you may or may
not have seen my scar in a few videos – I was in Hospital for 6 weeks when I was 6 – I
had my 7th Birthday there.
*story* But it is okay, I live to tell the tale and
tell you all about these scary urban legends!