Post by tt on Jun 3, 2007 18:27:19 GMT -5
I had a weird experience at work one night several years ago. I was working the graveyard shift on the children/adolescent unit at the psychiatric facility where I still work.
We had one teenage female Pt. that was quite prone to violence, and if at all possible we wanted her to sleep through the night as she was also prone to making up lies about staff abusing her.
I was working the unit with a female coworker "Trudy Hardluck" who was busy in the nurse's station. I was out on the unit sitting facing south down a long corridor. The teenage girl's room was near the south end of the corridor. Her door was open while she slept. After about half way through the night I heard this weird noise coming from the south end of the corridor. I looked up, wondering where this noise was coming from and what was making it. It sounded like ( Whoompf, whoompf, whoompf ).
Just then one of 2 helium filled birthday balloons she had in her room, came out of her room. I guess you could chalk this up to some form of a gentle breeze if you're a skeptic. But I didn't feel any wind current.
The ceilings in the girl's room and in the corridor are about 2 ft higher than the top of the door jam. So the balloon had to lower itself down to get under the door jam to get out into the corridor. The ceiling had suspended ceiling tiles with metal ribs that held the tiles in place. The metal ribs ran down the length of the corridor. The balloon lowered itself under the door jam, and back up to the ceiling. It then traveled about 2/3 rds of the way across the corridor, and then proceeded to make it's way down to the end of the corridor at ceiling height. When it got to the end of the corridor, the balloon sank to the floor.
Now the only thing I could figure out that would cause the balloon to sink would be barometric changes.
I retrieved the balloon, and thrustfully threw the balloon back into the girl's room, where it again floated to the ceiling. I had no sooner sat down in my chair when I again heard "whoompf, whoompf, whoompf ", and looking up I saw the balloon again lower itself under the door jam, raise back up to the ceiling. It then traveled about 2/3 rds of the way across the corridor, and then proceeded to make it's way down to the end of the corridor at ceiling height. When it got to the end of the corridor, the balloon sank to the floor. That was the 2nd time it had followed the same path.
I called the LPN out of the nurses' station and told her to watch this. Again I threw the balloon into the girl's room. Walked to my chair and sat down. Sure enough the balloon came out and traveled the same path, and getting to the end of the hallway lowered itself to the floor.
I retrieved the balloon, and threw it in the Pt's room again.
We watched it a total of 5 times, and even the Nurse came to watch and be mystified by the balloon's action.
By this time I was growing tired of fetching the balloon and putting it in the girl's room. So the last time I wedged the balloon behind her door so it couldn't get loose, and come out again.
In retrospect I shouldn't have messed with the Balloon to see what it would've done after it had lowered itself to the floor.
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My brother had a similar experience with one of those mylar helium balloons, like the girl had in her room.
My brother had one of these balloons, and it would follow him and his wife where ever they went in the house. If they went up stairs it went too. If they came down stairs, it followed them down stairs. No matter what room the went to, sure enough the balloon would follow them. Eventually they became annoyed with the balloon following them around the house, so they popped the balloon and threw it away.
Now if it wasn't the barometric pressure, or some kind of static charge, or some type of faint wind current that caused these 2 balloons to behave this way, then I guess it must have been some type of paranormal event going on.
Wouldn't you say?
We had one teenage female Pt. that was quite prone to violence, and if at all possible we wanted her to sleep through the night as she was also prone to making up lies about staff abusing her.
I was working the unit with a female coworker "Trudy Hardluck" who was busy in the nurse's station. I was out on the unit sitting facing south down a long corridor. The teenage girl's room was near the south end of the corridor. Her door was open while she slept. After about half way through the night I heard this weird noise coming from the south end of the corridor. I looked up, wondering where this noise was coming from and what was making it. It sounded like ( Whoompf, whoompf, whoompf ).
Just then one of 2 helium filled birthday balloons she had in her room, came out of her room. I guess you could chalk this up to some form of a gentle breeze if you're a skeptic. But I didn't feel any wind current.
The ceilings in the girl's room and in the corridor are about 2 ft higher than the top of the door jam. So the balloon had to lower itself down to get under the door jam to get out into the corridor. The ceiling had suspended ceiling tiles with metal ribs that held the tiles in place. The metal ribs ran down the length of the corridor. The balloon lowered itself under the door jam, and back up to the ceiling. It then traveled about 2/3 rds of the way across the corridor, and then proceeded to make it's way down to the end of the corridor at ceiling height. When it got to the end of the corridor, the balloon sank to the floor.
Now the only thing I could figure out that would cause the balloon to sink would be barometric changes.
I retrieved the balloon, and thrustfully threw the balloon back into the girl's room, where it again floated to the ceiling. I had no sooner sat down in my chair when I again heard "whoompf, whoompf, whoompf ", and looking up I saw the balloon again lower itself under the door jam, raise back up to the ceiling. It then traveled about 2/3 rds of the way across the corridor, and then proceeded to make it's way down to the end of the corridor at ceiling height. When it got to the end of the corridor, the balloon sank to the floor. That was the 2nd time it had followed the same path.
I called the LPN out of the nurses' station and told her to watch this. Again I threw the balloon into the girl's room. Walked to my chair and sat down. Sure enough the balloon came out and traveled the same path, and getting to the end of the hallway lowered itself to the floor.
I retrieved the balloon, and threw it in the Pt's room again.
We watched it a total of 5 times, and even the Nurse came to watch and be mystified by the balloon's action.
By this time I was growing tired of fetching the balloon and putting it in the girl's room. So the last time I wedged the balloon behind her door so it couldn't get loose, and come out again.
In retrospect I shouldn't have messed with the Balloon to see what it would've done after it had lowered itself to the floor.
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My brother had a similar experience with one of those mylar helium balloons, like the girl had in her room.
My brother had one of these balloons, and it would follow him and his wife where ever they went in the house. If they went up stairs it went too. If they came down stairs, it followed them down stairs. No matter what room the went to, sure enough the balloon would follow them. Eventually they became annoyed with the balloon following them around the house, so they popped the balloon and threw it away.
Now if it wasn't the barometric pressure, or some kind of static charge, or some type of faint wind current that caused these 2 balloons to behave this way, then I guess it must have been some type of paranormal event going on.
Wouldn't you say?
"TT"
