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September 10, 2025 • 21 mins
Two true scary stories where two storytellers share experiences that begin in the most ordinary of settings; a family dinner at home and a night shift in a hospital at the dawn of the pandemic. What follows in each story defies easy explanation. From unsettling events that left a father and son questioning their own eyes, to a nurse answering calls she could never quite account for, these encounters remind us how the line between the everyday and the unexplainable can vanish in an instant.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
I kind of felt every hair on my body stand.
I've never felt anything like that before. I just felt
a presence. I feel like overwhelmed that probably just stood
there motionless for about a minute.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
We have two storytellers in this episode, Jerry and Angie. Now, first,
let's go back to two thousand and seven. A father
and a son stayed home for what should have been
a quiet Friday night dinner, but were unfolded in their kitchen.
That evening and the years that followed turned into a mystery
that still leaves them wondering what was really going on

(00:38):
in the house. My name is Edwin and here is
Jerry's true scary story.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
My name is Jerry Taylor. This is a very odd
incident that happened in two thousand and seven at the
family home in Potter Springs, Georgia, which is a suburb
of the metropolitan Atlanta Georgia area. My late parents had

(01:14):
decided that they would take my ex wife and my
two daughters down to Walt Disney World because they had
never been. Unfortunately, my son and I could not go
because he had graduated high school a couple of years
before and was working at a warehouse for an autopart store.

(01:39):
I was working as a computer security architect for a
large media company that everybody knows. My paternal grandparents were
from a small city and northwest Georgia.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Known as Rome, Georgia.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
We moved up there when I was a small child,
not quite two, in nineteen sixty four.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
We resided with my paternal grandmother.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
There until nineteen seventy five when my father got a
position with Colonial pipelines. He was an electrician, so we
moved to Zachary, Louisiana. We lived there until nineteen seventy seven,
and that's when we moved to this small town in

(02:36):
Potter Springs. This house was built in nineteen sixty four.
The property was cleared. There was nothing there previously. I
was in and out of that house over the next
thirty seven years, on and off, except for travel when
I was in the US Army and with my computer

(03:00):
consulting gigs all over North, Central and South America. It
was a Friday evening and there was a very tasty
local barbecue place that we were a regular customers. Also,
with it just being me and my son, we bear

(03:21):
we'd just have a guy's night and hit home. We
went down to the local barbecue place and got a
pound of beef with all the fixings.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
We came back to the house. We had a very
small terrier Pickanese.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Chihualam mixed dog that we named Joanne that my daughters
had taken to calling No No Jojo from the Powerpuff Girls.
Got home, started looking through the food that we had gotten.
We're unable to locate the barbecue be so to keep

(04:04):
joe Inn from jumping up in a chair and helping herself,
which is things she had done before, we took the
food and placed it onto the high top counter near
the stoven range. Then me and my son went back
down to the barbecue place. We just thought it was

(04:24):
a mistaken they had forgotten the barbecue. When we returned
to the house, the door was locked. We had to
open the door and go back into the house. Sitting
in the middle of the previously empty table was the

(04:46):
pound of barbecue.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Don't know where it came from. My son and I thought.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Perhaps we had had an intruder or break into the house,
so we proceeded to do a whole search of this house,
which is about thirty five hundred square foot. It was
a ranch style house with a full basement. We went
through the house looking weren't able to locate anyone. In fact,
my son and I thought, well, you know, it's early August.

(05:14):
Somebody'd be crazy to be up in the attic, but
let's just make sure. So we had one of those
pulled down add doors that you pulled down avid stairs,
and it was that leaves out in thirty degrees. There
was nobody in this house but us, my son and
I before we got off, and of course watched the
fiberglass which is always up in the ceiling off of ourselves.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
We essentially said weird and ate dinner. A couple of
years later.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
A car pulled up in the driveway with an older
couple probably looked like they were in their early to
mid seventies. Lady asked me if I was the homeowner
for the home, and I said, no, my parents on
the home, but I'll get them. And the lady said, well,
me and my husband had this property built in nineteen
sixty four and it's really beautiful. If I went in

(06:12):
and got my father, my father had osteo ors writers
very severely, so it took him a little while to
get out. I kind of hung out on the carport
while my dad and this couple were talking. During that conversation,
the lady just stopped, looked at my dad and said,

(06:33):
is anything weird ever happened to you in this house?
My father actually got a peekach you face. My son
and I were trying to keep from falling down laughing
because he was completely stammered.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
He managed to mutter out no.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
But afterwards, my daughters and I were talking in the
living room, so my daughter started mentioning that there was
a lady with dark hair that used to come down
and open their.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Bedroom door and look in on.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
My younger daughter says, I remember that lady that used
to happen all the time. I thought it was Granny,
But Greeny doesn't have dark hair. My mother had went
gray after a series of strokes and then eighties nine
and two thousands.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
We didn't know what tis were then, but she had
been having.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Them, and I had said, here, you sure it wasn't
your grandmother, And then I got to thinking about it.
My mother wasn't actually capable of going up and downstairs
when we were living there. My dad wasn't able to
really get around as well, so my ax and my
three children and myself moved into the house to be

(07:54):
able to assist them. There were three bedrooms upstairs and
three bedrooms downstairs.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
My son took the biggest.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Bedroom that my youngest brother had lived in when he
was in high school. My daughters lived in two bedrooms
that had been built after that that were in a
former family game room. My mother was a very superstitious

(08:25):
person who did not believe in keeping pictures of the
deceased around. I actually got a family photo album out
and said, these are people that are in the family,
and I flipped the page over and my daughter said.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
That's the lady.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
She pointed at my paternal great grandmother that we had
lived with in Rome and said, that's the lady that
checked in on us.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
My grandmother was a florist and she was very.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Vain about her hair. She would go get it dyed
up into her when she passed away in her eighties.
She always had to be presentable, was the way she
put very formal woman. I looked at my ex and
I looked at my dad, and my dad was kind
of had a nonplus look on his face at the time,

(09:16):
and I said, well, how many times did this happen?

Speaker 4 (09:19):
They said all the time.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
And they had just never said anything up until this
conversation in two thousand and nine.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
That house was built in nineteen sixty four.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
In nineteen sixty four, I was living in the old
family home in Rome, Georgia, about one hundred miles away
with my grandmother, their great grandmother.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
She didn't even pass away though until the late nineteen eighties.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
She couldn't have been the person or whatever that was
the basis of whatever weirdness was going on the house.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
They built it in nineteen sixty four.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
My understanding is the couple that built it, they had
only lived in the house till about nineteen sixty seven
or sixty eight, and then when she retired, they moved
out of state. I have always wondered and wanted to
ask this woman, and wish that I had to ask
her what weird self was she talking about. There is

(10:25):
just nothing in any of the records untoward about this house.
It's just weird. I've always wondered what the heck was
going on at that house.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Next, we have Angie's terrifying account as a nurse in
a hospital. We're now in Pennsylvania at the very beginning
of the COVID nineteen pandemic, and just moments after a
patient's death, a series of prey calls from is room
left her with an unforgettable experience of what felt like

(11:04):
one final goodbye. My name is Edwin and here is
Angie's true scary story.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
My name's Angie. I'm a nurse in Pennsylvania. This was
back in March of twenty twenty. I've been a nurse
a few years. At this point, COVID nineteen cases were
starting to hit my smaller community hospital. Everybody working with me,

(11:41):
all of us on like coworkers. We had no clue
what to expect. I was just trying to provide patient
care as usual. My floor became the designated COVID floor
for a while on account of having single occupancy rooms,
which the rest of the hospital have. This was an

(12:01):
effort to kind of isolate away uninfected patients as much
as possible. My hospital floor had a single room that
was negative pressure and I'll ever forget it was Room
two six. The airflow of this room would not enter

(12:23):
the rest of the hospital, so looking in from the hallway,
there was a small room which we would call an
ante room, just had a sink in like a little
maybe three by three foot room before the patient's actual
room to the hallway, and there was two doors, glass
panes at the top half, so you could easily see

(12:45):
into this patient's room from the hallway. It was easy
to see outside the negative pressure room and outside of
a lot of rooms. We had these clunky yellow isolation cards,
and we had our and disinfectant wipes and all this
lined up the hallway just to have ready for us.

(13:13):
One night, on my night shift back in March twenty twenty,
an elderly man was assigned to our floor. He was
COVID positive or presumed positive. Results were taking a while
to come back, but we treated him like he was positive.
He'd be on enhanced isolation precautions and we put him
back in that room two o six. He was assigned

(13:36):
to my friend Shay. We wore masks, gloves, face shields,
these plastic blue disposable gowns before entering the rooms as
a precaution. This patient was on comfort care, meaning like
his end was near. We were going to do no
life saving or CPR type measures, but we made sure

(13:57):
everyone was clean, comfortable, medicated, and tucked in. Shay attached
a portable vital sign machine to his finger and pointed
it to the door anyone walking by. We could see
his pulse rate, see his oxygen status, just that he
was alive still, and pointed at the door so that
that'd be an easier way to see it. Shae's one

(14:20):
of the most gentle kind people I've ever worked with,
so she provided him great care. He had his oxygen
canyon in his nose, you know, he just give him
whatever medicine he needed, tucked in, and his call bel
was laid gently on the bedside table, you know, plugged
into the wall in his reach, not that he was
really in a state to use it. We went about

(14:43):
our night. We're all buzzing around. We're admitting patients coming
up from the emergency department, we're giving our medications, we're
checking in on our patient assignments. And it's probably ten
PM or so. When I strolled past this gentleman's room,
I can notice the vital sign machines blinking, showing no

(15:06):
heart rate, no oxygen. I think, oh, I feel a heaviness.
I'm sure he was peacefully passed, but he's no longer here.
I can see the blinking and the beeping from the hallway.
I think, well, he was heavily sedated. I'm sure he
was comfortable. I find Shay and I tell her that

(15:27):
from the hallway I can look in and see that
he has passed. She's upset, and I try to reassure
her that, you know, he was comfortable. There's a few
steps that she has to do as his nurse. Now
just call the doctor to pronounce him the paperwork. A
couple phone calls, so I go about caring for my patients,

(15:50):
doing what I normally do on a night shift. I'm
standing in the hallway not too long after my work
phone buzzes. It's these brick looking old fashioned kind of
like ascom Brand phones. And then I see two O
six's call bell is coming to my phone like as

(16:12):
a phone call. I pick it up Hello, and then
a call drops. I walk by the room and the
call bell is still plugged in. It's out of reach,
it's not going off. I mean, huh, well, I go
on about a short more bit of time, you know,

(16:33):
I go down the hallway. I'm gonna go reposition a
patient with another coworker two rooms down. My phone rings again,
and I was honestly gonna like not answer it. I'm like,
I just can't get anything done. But this coworker goes, well,
you're gonna answer that phone kind of short with me,
so I do. I see it's the same room again.

(16:57):
I'm like hello yet again. Like I pick it up
and the call drops. So I just hang up, I
reposition my patient, I leave, and I go and find
the charge nurse Christine. She's the kind of nurse that
she's seen it all. She could take on the world,
you know, just the stereotypical like ten twenty year experienced nurse.

(17:22):
But I ask her, I say, hey, have you guys
been ringing or pressing the call bell from two oh six?
Call bell has been like going to my phone and
it just drops. When I answer, She's like, Nope, haven't
rung his call bell. We haven't gone in to do
post mortem carry yet. He's probably just telling you goodbye.
She's just smiling, like says that nonchalant And when it

(17:46):
all clicks, I kind of felt every hair on my
body stand up. I've never felt anything like that before.
I just felt a presence. I feel like overwhelmed that
probably just stood there motionless for about minute you could
physically see only in that room, and that's what made
it spookier. I kind of almost feel like if I

(18:07):
couldn't see, it would be more like, oh, maybe if
the call bell fell or something, but like I could
physically see it sat there the whole time. Not long
after those, Shay and Christine do gather their supplies, they
go do post mortem care on the patient, meaning like
they're gonna give them, you know, a wipe down bath,
clean him up, do all the steps they have to

(18:29):
do to take care of him, and get him off
the floor. I try to go about working, not feeling spooked,
and then my coworkers wheeled him off downstairs to the morgue.
Once all the phone calls are made and all the
steps are done, and I get no more dropped calls
to my phone. I had never had a phenomenon like

(18:50):
that in my nursing career, and my phone at work
never malfunctioned in such a way before that night. The
next day, I'm talking to my boyfriend about what happened.
He's the very rational, objective type, and he says, I'm

(19:11):
probably not remembering things right, or some malfunction or it
glitch must have happened, and I run this theory by Christine.
The next day, I'm working and she's like, no, Angie,
I was there, That's exactly what happened, and she reassures me.
But as more time passes, I wonder, why does this

(19:33):
seem so familiar to me and so almost like welcomed.
Then I remember this phenomenon happened to me back when
I was thirteen. My grandma had passed away. I got
a call from a landline phone from my parents' room,

(19:54):
and I pick it up. I say hello, and there's
a moment of some distant noise, but no one answered,
and then the call just dropped. And my mom essentially
said the same thing that my chargers told me all
those years later. She's like, oh, Angie, don't worry that happens.

(20:15):
Grandma's just saying bye to you.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
If you're curious about breakdowns, conversation, and more about these stories,
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If you want to get in touch or send me
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can find me as edwynd Cove. That's edwi nCoV short

(20:50):
for my name, Edwin Kobarubias. Anyway, a huge shout out
to your newest Scary Plus members Ashley, Sophia, Gloria and
Veronica for joining us recently. As always, if you're subscribed,
I'll be back next week with another story. Thank you
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