April 21, 2025 • 7 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to a truly haunted podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Southy Nows is here with us.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The podcast that brings you weekly true ghostly stories. In
this podcast, you'll delve into the depths of some of
the darkest paranormal experiences that cannot be defined by anything
(00:31):
less than truly haunting. Haunting. Now, sit back, relax, and
let's begin our journey into the mysterious and unknown.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Welcome to a truly haunted podcast. I'm your host, eve
As Evans. Today we have another haunting story for you,
So sit back and relax because ghost stories are next.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
In all of my years as a medical examiner, I
saw a lot of strange things. People die for a
number of reasons, and when I received their remains to
analyze and determine the actual reason for the miracle that
is the human body to shut down, they can have
some strange things going on. Almost everything I've seen can
be attributed to the body no longer being able to
(01:32):
stop or slow the eventual and unceasing power of time.
Everything had a reason until one day it didn't and
I was forced to consider other possibilities. She came in
on a gurney like any other body. Nothing about her
was unique or different when it came to someone in
their mid twenties dying. People of that age don't die
of natural causes. It's always some sort of tragedy that
has befallen them. Even after all the years I've done this,
(01:55):
they still leave within me a feeling of wrongness. It
doesn't matter the cause. It could be an accident, violence,
some pathogen being introduced, or the body itself going haywire
like cancer. People that it shouldn't be lost to the world.
The chart that came with her told me everything I
needed to know as far as the cause of death.
(02:16):
She had died during childbirth. If there was a positive
that could come out of such a tragic event, the baby,
a little girl survived. Maybe one day she will know
her mom fought to the end to make sure she
had a chance to live, at least, I hoped. So
I went about doing my due diligence, making sure there
wasn't some sort of mistake made by the doctors and
(02:37):
the nurses. In the end, everything comes down to money
and reducing the hospital's liability. My exam concluded that the
woman suffered massive hemorrhaging within the uterus, but there were
no signs of medical error. In the end, though death
is death. I finished the exam and sewed up the
incision and started to prepare the paperwork so we could
release the body to the family. What made her her
(02:59):
was now gone, but I found it important for those
left behind to be able to have some closure. It
was getting lad, though, and I decided to finish up
the last few pages in the morning that contained my findings,
placed the remains in the walk in, and went home
for the night. The following morning, I walked in and
immediately grabbed the clipboard containing the forms before walking over
to the door to the refrigerator. When I opened the door,
(03:22):
I can tell you that I didn't immediately know anything
was wrong. The white sheet that I had covered the
body with was still in place, and frankly, I wouldn't
have known if someone had moved it as long as
it still shrouded the entire body. I maneuvered the guarney
under the light overhead and pulled the drape back, revealing
her naked form. Nothing in my entire medical history could
have prepared me for what I saw, and I took
a few steps away and could only gape at her stomach.
(03:45):
It was a hand print, but not like one might think.
This wasn't the liquid that someone had on their hand
when they touched the body. No, the body had turned
a sickly brown and began to decay in the perfect
shape of someone's hand. I could clearly make out the
forefingers and thumb, the palm. Everything I'd seen bodies in
various states of decay, from the freshly dead to others
(04:06):
whose soft tissues had decomposed, living only skeletal remains. One
thing that is always consistent is that the body tends
to decay in a certain order, depending on exposure to
elements and other environmental factors. This didn't fit with that
the rest of her body had begun to lose its
normal color as the blood began to settle in the
lower half of the body, which only made the hand
(04:26):
itself stand out. My first thought was a staff member
had some sort of caustic chemical on some gloves and
it had begun to eat away at the surface. My
first thought was a staff member had some sort of
caustic chemical on some gloves and it had begun to
eat away at the surface. But when I tested for this,
there was no trace of any foreign contaminant. I even
placed a sample of the skin under a microscope, and
(04:47):
it exhibited all the normal traits of deterioration that would
have been consistent with someone who died over two weeks past,
not a day before, when the body had been placed
in cold storage overnight. I even had checked her chart
on the computer to see if there had been an
any notes made about the strange occurrence before her transport
to me. Again, I came up with nothing. Nothing about
this was sitting right with me, so I gave the
(05:08):
doctor who'd done the delivery a call and asked her
to come down to the morgue. It took her about
an hour before she was free, and by that time
I had gone over every part of her body, looking
for any further signs of the strange decomposition, but finding none.
I didn't have to point out to her my reason
for calling. When she took one look at the woman,
she swore once and went over to put on a
(05:28):
pair of gloves to begin her own examination of the
woman and her stomach. I didn't take it personally when
she asked me what I'd done to cause the damage
to her body, But I can't say she was understanding
when I told her I was going to ask her
the same thing. I understand her concern because if she
had I could be accusing her of possibly causing the
death of the woman in front of us. It took
me a minute to calm her down as I went
(05:49):
about my report in my findings, including the fact that
I hadn't found anything in or around the handprint that
would have explained away its existence. By the time I
was done, and she also reviewed and verified my findings,
we'd gotten the result to the law that said there
wasn't anything present in the blood that wasn't supposed to
be there, so science couldn't explain what we were looking at.
What did that leave us with? Truthfully, I didn't really
(06:09):
have an answer or even a suggestion as to what
could cause a body to decompose in the shape of
a hand that would be limited to the stomach of
a woman who died during childbirth. My hope was no
one would ever ask, or even better notice it. It
was the other doctor that came up with a supernatural possibility.
As a mother herself and also a believer in spirits,
(06:30):
she thought it could have been the ghost of the mother,
saying goodbye to her child before she passed on. She
went on to explain that the woman's heart had stopped
before the baby had been removed. She even suggested it
might have even been her protecting her offspring from the
same fate. When I first heard her, I was struck
speechless for a moment. To hear a woman that has
spent as much time as I had suggests that a
(06:50):
ghost had been the one to leave a handprint on
the woman's stomach seemed nothing short of heresy. We dealt
with facts and things that could be proven, not super
stition in the like. Still, given everything else we'd done
to reason out what had happened had fallen short, who
was I to dispute what she suggested. I never did
hear back from the family after the funeral home picked
(07:11):
up her body. Did they know the handprin was there?
Or is it a secret that went into the ground
with her? To this day, I don't totally buy the
idea that the mother's ghost touched the place where her
on board child still remained after she passed on. I'm
not sure there's anything someone could say that would make
me believe it. However, nothing I could say for certain
would prove it didn't happen, Either a medical anomaly or
(07:32):
a mother saying her final goodbye to her child. That
is for you to decide.
Welcome to a truly haunted podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Southy Nows is here with us.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The podcast that brings you weekly true ghostly stories. In
this podcast, you'll delve into the depths of some of
the darkest paranormal experiences that cannot be defined by anything
(00:31):
less than truly haunting. Haunting. Now, sit back, relax, and
let's begin our journey into the mysterious and unknown.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Welcome to a truly haunted podcast. I'm your host, eve
As Evans. Today we have another haunting story for you,
So sit back and relax because ghost stories are next.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
In all of my years as a medical examiner, I
saw a lot of strange things. People die for a
number of reasons, and when I received their remains to
analyze and determine the actual reason for the miracle that
is the human body to shut down, they can have
some strange things going on. Almost everything I've seen can
be attributed to the body no longer being able to
(01:32):
stop or slow the eventual and unceasing power of time.
Everything had a reason until one day it didn't and
I was forced to consider other possibilities. She came in
on a gurney like any other body. Nothing about her
was unique or different when it came to someone in
their mid twenties dying. People of that age don't die
of natural causes. It's always some sort of tragedy that
has befallen them. Even after all the years I've done this,
(01:55):
they still leave within me a feeling of wrongness. It
doesn't matter the cause. It could be an accident, violence,
some pathogen being introduced, or the body itself going haywire
like cancer. People that it shouldn't be lost to the world.
The chart that came with her told me everything I
needed to know as far as the cause of death.
(02:16):
She had died during childbirth. If there was a positive
that could come out of such a tragic event, the baby,
a little girl survived. Maybe one day she will know
her mom fought to the end to make sure she
had a chance to live, at least, I hoped. So
I went about doing my due diligence, making sure there
wasn't some sort of mistake made by the doctors and
(02:37):
the nurses. In the end, everything comes down to money
and reducing the hospital's liability. My exam concluded that the
woman suffered massive hemorrhaging within the uterus, but there were
no signs of medical error. In the end, though death
is death. I finished the exam and sewed up the
incision and started to prepare the paperwork so we could
release the body to the family. What made her her
(02:59):
was now gone, but I found it important for those
left behind to be able to have some closure. It
was getting lad, though, and I decided to finish up
the last few pages in the morning that contained my findings,
placed the remains in the walk in, and went home
for the night. The following morning, I walked in and
immediately grabbed the clipboard containing the forms before walking over
to the door to the refrigerator. When I opened the door,
(03:22):
I can tell you that I didn't immediately know anything
was wrong. The white sheet that I had covered the
body with was still in place, and frankly, I wouldn't
have known if someone had moved it as long as
it still shrouded the entire body. I maneuvered the guarney
under the light overhead and pulled the drape back, revealing
her naked form. Nothing in my entire medical history could
have prepared me for what I saw, and I took
a few steps away and could only gape at her stomach.
(03:45):
It was a hand print, but not like one might think.
This wasn't the liquid that someone had on their hand
when they touched the body. No, the body had turned
a sickly brown and began to decay in the perfect
shape of someone's hand. I could clearly make out the
forefingers and thumb, the palm. Everything I'd seen bodies in
various states of decay, from the freshly dead to others
(04:06):
whose soft tissues had decomposed, living only skeletal remains. One
thing that is always consistent is that the body tends
to decay in a certain order, depending on exposure to
elements and other environmental factors. This didn't fit with that
the rest of her body had begun to lose its
normal color as the blood began to settle in the
lower half of the body, which only made the hand
(04:26):
itself stand out. My first thought was a staff member
had some sort of caustic chemical on some gloves and
it had begun to eat away at the surface. My
first thought was a staff member had some sort of
caustic chemical on some gloves and it had begun to
eat away at the surface. But when I tested for this,
there was no trace of any foreign contaminant. I even
placed a sample of the skin under a microscope, and
(04:47):
it exhibited all the normal traits of deterioration that would
have been consistent with someone who died over two weeks past,
not a day before, when the body had been placed
in cold storage overnight. I even had checked her chart
on the computer to see if there had been an
any notes made about the strange occurrence before her transport
to me. Again, I came up with nothing. Nothing about
this was sitting right with me, so I gave the
(05:08):
doctor who'd done the delivery a call and asked her
to come down to the morgue. It took her about
an hour before she was free, and by that time
I had gone over every part of her body, looking
for any further signs of the strange decomposition, but finding none.
I didn't have to point out to her my reason
for calling. When she took one look at the woman,
she swore once and went over to put on a
(05:28):
pair of gloves to begin her own examination of the
woman and her stomach. I didn't take it personally when
she asked me what I'd done to cause the damage
to her body, But I can't say she was understanding
when I told her I was going to ask her
the same thing. I understand her concern because if she
had I could be accusing her of possibly causing the
death of the woman in front of us. It took
me a minute to calm her down as I went
(05:49):
about my report in my findings, including the fact that
I hadn't found anything in or around the handprint that
would have explained away its existence. By the time I
was done, and she also reviewed and verified my findings,
we'd gotten the result to the law that said there
wasn't anything present in the blood that wasn't supposed to
be there, so science couldn't explain what we were looking at.
What did that leave us with? Truthfully, I didn't really
(06:09):
have an answer or even a suggestion as to what
could cause a body to decompose in the shape of
a hand that would be limited to the stomach of
a woman who died during childbirth. My hope was no
one would ever ask, or even better notice it. It
was the other doctor that came up with a supernatural possibility.
As a mother herself and also a believer in spirits,
(06:30):
she thought it could have been the ghost of the mother,
saying goodbye to her child before she passed on. She
went on to explain that the woman's heart had stopped
before the baby had been removed. She even suggested it
might have even been her protecting her offspring from the
same fate. When I first heard her, I was struck
speechless for a moment. To hear a woman that has
spent as much time as I had suggests that a
(06:50):
ghost had been the one to leave a handprint on
the woman's stomach seemed nothing short of heresy. We dealt
with facts and things that could be proven, not super
stition in the like. Still, given everything else we'd done
to reason out what had happened had fallen short, who
was I to dispute what she suggested. I never did
hear back from the family after the funeral home picked
(07:11):
up her body. Did they know the handprin was there?
Or is it a secret that went into the ground
with her? To this day, I don't totally buy the
idea that the mother's ghost touched the place where her
on board child still remained after she passed on. I'm
not sure there's anything someone could say that would make
me believe it. However, nothing I could say for certain
would prove it didn't happen, Either a medical anomaly or
(07:32):
a mother saying her final goodbye to her child. That
is for you to decide.
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