THE ELEVATOR -short story ¹

...The hospital named St. William was known for its lots of scary stories. That was the 25th of December winter night at 11:30 O'clock. The whole hospital cover with Dim, flickering overhead lights cast long, there shadows that seemed to stretch and contort the sterile white walls. The air was heavy with the scent of antiseptic and medicines, animals cries from the forest which is surrounded around hospital form echoes. Abandoned gurneys and medical equipment left to rust and decay. The silence was oppressive, broken only by the occasional creaking of old floorboards and the distant disembodied footsteps of unseen figures. Each hallway felt like a passage to the unknown with closed doors bearing warnings and the feeling of unseen eyes watching your every move. In this terrifying place every room held the potential for chilling revelations. There was the biggest and narrowest hallway of the hospital which connects the front door to the back door of the postmortem. This hallway is the darkest place of the whole hospital even overhead lights don't work there. This hallway is divided into six narrow routes which connect different rooms together and an elevator. Today is the late shift of Dr. George because half of the staff take leave on the occasion of Christmas. He takes a nurse with him and goes to visit the patients. After an hour later he told the nurse to inform him if anything happened and went to the postmortem room to look at some new cases. He got five new cases, so probably he has to spend the whole night there and make their reports. He stretches his body and takes the longest hallway of the hospital to that room. He entered the room and turned on the light. Wear his gloves and mask and start doing his work. Two hours later he feels thirsty, so he calls the peon to bring water. A person comes with a glass of water. He is almost 189 cm in height probably one hand longer than Dr. George with broad shoulders and deep dark circles around his eyes. Dr. George looked at him, took water without speaking a word and started doing his work again. It's 2 o'clock the next morning, and he feels a little uncomfortable and hears some voices coming from outside, so he goes outside to take some fresh air. He walked in the hallway and suddenly felt someone was behind him. He looks back but doesn't find anyone, "Ah! I might be tired… I should take some rest first". He moved towards the elevator and pressed the button. The elevator arrived and the door is open with a Ding! Sound. A woman is already there who wears the clothes of the nurse. She greeted him. He went inside and stood beside her. "Oh! I've never seen you before are you new here". "No, actually I've been working here for the past 20 years ". ...

..." Past 20 years but how come I'm not seeing you". " That's probably because I'm working in the night shift ". " Oh?! Yes that's also the case ". ...

...Her phone rings and she starts chatting with someone. For a moment he surprised and hurriedly pushed the terrace button as he saw a person standing on the third floor and signing to stop the elevator. His face gets pale for a moment. The woman next to him saw everything and asked him, "isn't it rude to not open the door for others". He looked at her with the face which gives the horrific view. He replied," All the patients in this hospital wear dresses with their name slip in blue colour stick on them, but that person had a strip of red colour that corpses wear"....

...That woman gets a little shocked and shows him her dress," umm… Are you talking about this type of red strip? "...

Dr. George gets chills down to his backbone, His face gets paler than before, eyes widen and feel suffocation after realizing that she is the nurse who he is doing postmortem before. She died by falling from the terrace. The elevator door opens with the Ding! Sound.

In the morning everyone gathers around the body of Dr. George and most of the people say he commits suicide by falling from the terrace.

"FROM THAT DAY ONWARDS THAT HOSPITAL GET SEALED FOR FOREVER. NO ONE DARE TO WALK ON THE ROAD AFTER 7 O'CLOCK IN EVENING "

... TO BE CONTINUED ~...

bye~☺️

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