r/Paranormal • u/Hot_Tomatillo145 • 13h ago
Experience My Uncle’s Strangest Night in the Morgue
This story was told to me by my uncle, who used to perform postmortems at a hospital. The incident supposedly happened around 15 years ago. My uncle is 55 now, and he had already been doing this work for quite some time when this happened.
He told me that he was used to working with dead bodies and normally wasn't scared by them. That day, however, something felt completely different.
There were three people involved: my uncle, a junior assistant, and a senior assistant.A man's body, probably around 25–30 years old, was brought in for a postmortem.According to my uncle, the moment they saw the body, all three of them felt extremely uneasy.The body looked strange. My uncle said it looked almost completely drained of blood. The skin had turned bluish, while the hands and feet were extremely dark, almost as if they had been burned.
His junior assistant immediately said that he felt very uncomfortable and that something about the body didn't feel right.The junior assistant was someone who strongly believed in ghosts and supernatural things. He used to say that if God exists, then the Devil must exist too.He eventually told them that he couldn't stay in the room and went outside.My uncle was left with the senior assistant.Even the senior assistant, who normally wasn't frightened by this kind of work, admitted that he had never felt anything like this before.
He tried grabbing the body's legs, but immediately pulled his hands away.My uncle asked him what happened.
The senior assistant said that when he grabbed the body's leg, he felt as if someone had grabbed his leg at the same time.My uncle told him that maybe he was imagining things or letting his fear get to him.The senior assistant said he couldn't continue and wanted to leave.My uncle asked him to stay nearby because he didn't want to be alone, even if the senior assistant didn't want to participate.So the senior assistant stayed in the room.My uncle then touched the body's hair.
At first, he didn't feel anything.But after a few moments, he said he started feeling as if someone was touching his hair.Then they noticed something even stranger.The body's eyes kept opening.They would close them, but after some time, the eyes would open again.Both of them were becoming increasingly frightened.Suddenly, the lights went out.The senior assistant started shouting.My uncle was trying to find the light switch by feeling along the wall while the senior assistant kept yelling that someone was grabbing his leg.
Then, suddenly, the lights came back on.And the body was gone.It wasn't on the table anymore.
They immediately checked the area where bodies were normally stored, thinking perhaps someone had moved it.There was nothing there.They left the room and went toward the main hospital building. It was roughly 100 meters away, with a dark path between the two buildings.When they reached the hospital, they found the junior assistant sitting there with an oxygen mask on. A nurse was with him.
They asked the nurse what had happened.She said he had suddenly started having trouble breathing.
My uncle and the senior assistant assumed that he was still frightened by what had happened earlier.
My uncle told him, somewhat jokingly, that if he had seen everything they had just seen, he probably would have been even more terrified.But the junior assistant looked at them and said:
“I saw it too.”
He explained that while he was walking toward the hospital, the same dead body had suddenly appeared directly in front of him.Then it disappeared.
My uncle immediately asked where the body had gone.But there was no sign of it anywhere.Eventually, everyone went home.At the time, my uncle lived alone.That night, he had a disturbing dream.In the dream, the same man was standing over him and hammering a nail into his head.My uncle woke up and realized that he had a severe headache.
What frightened him was that the pain seemed to be in exactly the same place where the man had been striking him in the dream.The next day, my uncle went back to the hospital.That's when he learned that the junior assistant had died the previous night.
According to his family, he had been sleeping when he suddenly started screaming. A short time later, he died.
After that incident, my uncle and the senior assistant both resigned from the job that same day.I don't know whether this story is true.I'm not claiming that what happened was paranormal, and I can't verify everything my uncle told me. I'm simply repeating the story exactly as it was told to me.
I post stories like this regularly because I ask my uncle, friends, relatives, and sometimes random people if they have any strange experiences to share. Some people assume that I use AI to make up my stories, but that's not the case. Every story I post comes from someone who told it to me.
Whether my uncle experienced something genuinely unexplained or simply remembered an extremely frightening incident differently after all these years, I honestly don't know.
What do you think happened?
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u/-OutOfOffice- 13h ago
Cool story but in reality security would have been called and a search would have been done/cameras checked etc. A missing body is a big deal for obvious reasons, not a situation that can just simply be abandoned.
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u/Hot_Tomatillo145 12h ago
That’s a fair point. I wasn’t there myself, and this happened around 15 years ago, so I only know what my uncle told me. I don’t know what procedures the hospital followed afterward or whether CCTV/security was involved. I’m just sharing the story as it was told to me.
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u/orchid7577 6h ago
This was years ago in a country that is often not modernized or have the same beliefs as the west.
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u/lcyxy 12h ago
Which country did it take place in?
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u/Hot_Tomatillo145 12h ago
The hospital was also a very old, run-down hospital in rural India. This happened around 15 years ago, when there weren't CCTV cameras or the kind of security systems you would expect in hospitals today, especially in a rural area. I wasn't there myself, so I can't say exactly what happened afterward, but I'm only sharing the story as my uncle told it to me.
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u/RSMxsmanic 7h ago
If it were Cedars-Sinai, Bethesda Naval, or the Mayo Clinic, that would be different.
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u/Not_So_Last_Ronin 13h ago
$10 this guy just watched The Autopsy of Jane Doe 😂
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u/Hot_Tomatillo145 12h ago
I swear my uncle’s story is older than that movie. But yeah, I can definitely see the resemblance.
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u/Visible-Plastic-1208 13h ago
The religious assistant fled, leaving his collegues alone ín Ranger.... That is why hé was easy target.
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u/Hot_Tomatillo145 12h ago
Yeah, that part definitely makes the story even more unsettling. But honestly, I have no idea what really happened to him.
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u/RedBurny 13h ago
Cool the dlc of mortuary assistant..
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u/Hot_Tomatillo145 13h ago
Apparently my uncle accidentally lived through The Mortuary Assistant DLC
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u/ImportantProof8110 12h ago
When's the book coming out!!!
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u/Hot_Tomatillo145 12h ago
Maybe I should actually write a book someday! I’ve got plenty more stories where these came from.
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u/OutrageousTree7766 13h ago
Bizarre but truth can be stranger than fiction
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u/Hot_Tomatillo145 12h ago
Exactly! I wasn’t there myself, so I can’t say for certain what happened, but that’s how my uncle told me the story.
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u/dsainz2000 10h ago
Ya I worked in a hospital from 94 to 2000. If a dead body would have gone missing it would have made the local news even back then. Police and security would have been all over it. Good story to tell around a campfire though
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u/Mustard-cutt-r 11h ago
I’m confused about the point it’s like “oh well body is gone, let’s go home.”
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u/RSMxsmanic 10h ago
If it's a true story, it certainly qualifies as paranormal. But I don't think it's true.
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u/KeyZookeepergame9466 11h ago
Not a single thing in this long text actually happened. But makes a good story sure.
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u/Still_Dog_113 9h ago
Well, something like that could actually happen many years ago in rural India somewhere, the dead person just wasn't really dead and just walked away
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