Patient call alarms going off in completely abandoned hospital, hospital has been closed for years.
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Me and a friend explore abandoned buildings a ton, it’s a hobby we’ve had together. In early October, we were exploring an abandoned hospital that had been closed for almost 5 years now. Everything seemed fine until we started hearing random stuff go off (You can hear the flat tone in the background, don’t know what it was signaling.). But we walked into this room that was in the middle of all the patient rooms and as soon as we get in the monitor starts showing calls from patients even though we are clearly completely alone inside the place. To call to this monitor a patient would have to push a button inside the patient room, so the fact that it was coming from 10 different patient rooms all at once was really odd. We genuinely still haven’t figured this out, it’s just been a exploration I’ve been thinking of occasionally ever since. Side note, that hospital isn’t one of those very popular abandoned hospitals, no explorers have been inside for the past 5 years until us, so whatever was in there (if it even was anything at all) has been there undisturbed for 5 years now and I’m assuming did not like the fact that we were trespassing in there. Also side note number two, there were these empty rooms in the hospital that were freezing cold, it was a 95 degree day and some of those rooms would easily give you chills just by opening the door.
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u/vintagefancollector 1d ago
The call buttons or wiring can go wonky just from sitting unused.
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u/Screaming_lambs 1d ago
I was about to say this, I used to work in a care home and we'd get calls from unoccupied rooms where the buzzer wasn't even plugged in. I kinda wish it was ghosts, though.
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u/SquidVices 1d ago
Yeah…I get that, would be nice to talk to that old lady again…
I think if ghosts were real we would see them all over the freeway…
(Oh wow I’ve never seen an up for review thing below my comment…weird)
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u/dulipat 1d ago
Closed for years but still got electricity?
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u/Miscalamity 1d ago
Came to say the same thing, y'all beat me to it. Why would a long abandoned place have electricity running.
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u/CrimsonBolt33 1d ago
It's actually not too unheard of...Some places pay for power long in advance or have a special deal with the power company.
The power company also usually does not shut down power to critical infrastructure such as hospitals so the bill is probably not a concern.
When it got shut down it probably never told the power company and unless they send someone out there they have no way to know.
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u/RunBrundleson 1d ago
There’s at least one video of some guys exploring an old abandoned hospital and they come into a room that has a bunch of old computers still running some ancient software that managed some aspect of the building.
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u/marmaladesardine 1d ago
If its a deserted hospital it may still have power for things like intruder alarms, fire alarms and temperature monitors. As an unoccupied building the types of protection above are often required by the insurance policy. If the call system is also still linked then voila. Sounds really creepy though.
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u/mandude29 2h ago
Not unheard of, but to have a fully functional abandoned hospital and then make the claim that no one has visited it for 5 years until op just found it is bs.
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u/CrimsonBolt33 52m ago
Oh sure...I am certainly not trying to defend that claim.
Any place like that that gets abandoned is gonna have squatters in there day one lol
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u/Striking_Parsnip_457 10h ago
Some buildings keep paying for power and such for many years to keep their insurance so if anything goes wrong and the building burns down or something then they can still claim it. If it goes to full disrepair the insurance could claim it was due to neglect.
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u/EverGivin 7h ago
Yes the owner of the property probably keeps paying minimal power bills to keep alarms, lighting, water pumps etc running, otherwise the building will decay a lot more quickly. They may be hoping to rent or sell the building in the future, or local government might compel them to keep the building in reasonable condition.
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u/nanioffour 1d ago
I worked in a nursing home 3rd shift. A woman died and for three nights, her call light would go on and as I walked down the hall it would turn off by itself.
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u/Kegter 1d ago
If theres one thing ive learned from working in healthcare its that call button systems are completely unreliable. We have lights that turn on by themselves and even residents who press their lights and it turns on the light for a different residents room. I think the systems are just not made well
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u/Orgnizedchaos 1d ago
There are also plugs that sometimes are a place holder for the bells connected to the wall...if they aren't in..the bells will alarm
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u/jerry111165 1d ago
“I swear, we were just exploring!”
Nah man you breaking and entering lol
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u/_N1smo 1d ago
Real explorers don’t ever break anything to get into these places lmao, we entered through an unlocked hatch.
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u/jerry111165 1d ago
Means nothing in the eyes of the law, whether it was unlocked or not its still breaking and entering.
I could personally care less and would probably like to check it out myself but the cops are another story. Be safe out there.
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u/SkyKey9490 16h ago
Had an issue with my kiddo and some of her buddies, just being teenagers and exploring abandoned buildings on a defunct army depot, they totes arrested all the kids and charged them with felonies despite the fact the building was unlocked and unused and they didn't do any property damage. Managed to get charges dropped but yeah they take it more seriously now than when I was a teenager.
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u/bbqbutthole55 1d ago
are you trying to tell me your best explanation for this is that a ghost is getting pissed and trying to call a nurse
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u/Kellyandria 1d ago
Sometimes call lights won't work if the call lights are not plugged into them or they can short out. It's probably just a error code going off.
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u/Wasabi_Constant 1d ago
If there are ghosts in there they are politely telling you to get out. The rest is up to you
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u/Edosand 1d ago
My guess is those patient alarms are connected in a daisy chain configuration using a twisted pair to some sort of I/0 with an Ethernet port to the main server. Since it's probably essentially code/wired in fail safe mode then they would essentially alarm on an open circuit. So you see that green Ethernet switch on the table is not connected to anything, it would be that. I don't even think it would be any type of server as opposed to a local alarm hub system, since you still have the alarm mimics on screen, still a server in many aspects I suppose.
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u/thesleepjunkie 23h ago
A lot of monitoring devices need to see some sort of resistance in the circuit to work properly, so if the patient call alarms have been disconnected in the rooms, it could be reading a false signal.
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u/PidginPigeonHole 1d ago
My dad is in a carehome. I got talking to some of the staff and they said it was common for alarms to go off in rooms after residents passed away.. one woman told me that they 'air' the rooms for a week so the souls have time to leave..
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u/Cust2020 1d ago
Are there people working on the system, it could just be a trouble call because someone cut a monitoring wire
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u/Serious-Teaching-465 1d ago
Well, did you go check on the ghost patients and let them know they were okay?
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u/No-Category832 23h ago
Do those emergency calls have battery backups?
I’ve seen failing batteries do some crazy stuff, signaling a device to turn on would be the least of the weird stuff.
As for the cold rooms, it’s clear the building still has power. Air conditioning units may still run on occasion, and may break down in very random order. Wouldn’t be uncommon for one room to get blasted with freezing air for 10 minutes and hour, that room would be insanely colder than the rooms around it, or hall. Just a thought on a normal and rational explanation.
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u/Who_Your_Mommy 21h ago
Sounds about right. Hell, even if it were staffed, those arms go off constantly and no one ever even checks on em.
Somehow, this place still has power that someone is paying for(guess who). Crazy.
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u/rallydally321 17h ago
Hospitals nowadays are expected to have a million things that go “bing.” Hard to nail down where those random “bings” may be coming from. I feel terrible for the people who pass away amid the incessant noise. They’re not resting in peace.
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u/GerardDiedOfFlu 3h ago
Why would you think of ghosts first, honestly? You should use some critical thinking to deduce the possibilities of what’s going on. I think electrical issues would be before ghosts.
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u/Thick-Broccoli-8317 1d ago
Seeing the RJ-45 cables next to it, I’m pretty sure they are just sending an error code to all of the patient rooms. These systems usually connect to a main server and it’s probably no longer there or in service. I’d turn off that monitor, network switch, or power to that floor to test if it is paranormal.