The Face in the Morgue Window Although I love a good ghost story, I've always been too much of a skeptic to believe in actual phantoms. Until, that is, my first hospital job, more than 20 yrs ago. Fresh out of LPN school, I joined the night shift of a small community hospital in a town that in a previous century was a Long Island shipbuilding and whaling port. Nowadays it's an antique-y summer-ferry tourist town.
Hired as a float nurse, I got to know nearly every unit in the hospital, and before long was made privy to the latest hubbub, only this was no ordinary gossip. It seems there was a face in the morgue window, and the topic of all conversation was 'Who was it and Why was it there?' Naturally, I wanted to see it for myself, and of course, didn't have long to wait before a trip to the infamous morgue was necessary.
There really was a face! A twisted, open-mouthed horrifying face, right there in the glass. The security guard with me who had unlocked the place refused to look at the window anymore, but bade me to touch the glass, which I did. I pulled up a chair, reached up and rubbed the glass. It was not dirt. It was not a stain. It was a frightening screaming skull trapped inside the glass! The guard had checked, after his shift one day, the outside of the window as well. The face was fixed within the glass, and what's more, it wasn't always there.
Seems like one snowy night only weeks before, a serious car accident brought in a young woman named Ms. Q. This unfortunate girl had been impaled on a piece of guard rail, and there was little the ER staff could do. Truth be told, they were amazed she wasn't a DOA. Not only was she alive, she was agitated and coherent .She was screaming, "Don't let me die, I'm supposed to get married next month!"
But, die she did, and just about the time her wedding was supposed to take place........you guessed it, the Face appeared in the morgue window. The Face was soon deemed to be a distraction to the staff. Employees were either refusing to go near the morgue, or bringing in their friends to see The Face. The Hospital Administration ordered the window broken and replaced, which it was The Face never reappeared.
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