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Woman over radio: 7837. Code 6. 105 north avenue, 52.

[ radio chatter ]

[ siren wailing ]

Just being able to help people is something I like to do.

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Lykins: Naturally, we want to save every one of them, but...

We don't save them all.

Do they hang around afterwards?

Burkhead: My profession is based on facts.

This didn't meet the guidelines for facts, at all.

[ screeches ]

I have never been more scared in my life.

Man: You're in grave danger.

[ loud crash ]

If I would have been laying on that cot, it may have killed me.

Burkhead: Seven or eight doors just slammed.

Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang.

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Olmstead: Anyone that told me they believed in ghosts?

I had no time of day for them.

[ whoosh ] [ screams ]

I'm 100% a believer now.

[ thudding ]

[ woman screams ]

Burkhead: It was something from another world...

[ growls ] ...And it was terrifying.

[ siren wailing, engine revs ] woman: Hello? Oh, my god!

Man: 911 -- please state your emergency.

I think it's a ghost! [ roars ]

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[ creature snarls ] [ gun cocks, fires ]

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[ woman screaming ]

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[ typewriter clacking ]

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[ whoosh ]

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[ gasps ]

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Burkhead: Sixth floor. 116. Copy that.

Narrator: The call of a possible break-in

Goes to jerry burkhead, an officer with

The u.S. Department of homeland security --

Responsible for guarding federal buildings.

Burkhead: It was probably close to 3:00 a.M.

There was a sound alarm going off

At a federal facility, on the sixth floor.

These facilities are locked down at night,

And there's really no federal employees on board at that time.

Narrator: The veteran officer puts

His life-long training into practice.

I went into the u.S. Marine corps when I was 18.

And when I got out of the marine corps,

I decided, you know, my path should be law enforcement.

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I checked all the doors. They were all secured.

As I walked into the facility,

All you had on is the emergency lights.

[ door creaking ]

It's creepy.

It's dark enough to where you can see

Maybe 2 feet in front of you.

Narrator: With all employees signed out of the building,

The place is dead silent.

The elevators are turned off completely

At, like, 9:00 at night and will not come back on

Till about 5:00 a.M. In the morning.

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[ elevator bell dings ]

[ bell dings ]

[ ding ]

Man: So who else could legally be in that building

Using the elevators?

Maintenance personnel are usually in the bottom floor.

They usually don't touch the top floors

Till around 5:00 or 6:00 a.M. In the morning

Due to the fact the alarm system's on.

[ elevator bell dings ]

[ bell dings ]

[ woman screams ]

I heard a sound coming from the stairwell,

And then went ahead and made my way to the stairwell door.

[ door creaking ]

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Didn't see anything.

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Nothing was going on.

Narrator: Dismissing what he heard,

And with the elevators on lock down,

The officer is forced to take the stairs

Up to the sixth floor to investigate the alarm call.

Burkhead: Every landing that I got to,

As I made my way to the sixth floor,

I was listening,

And I didn't hear anything.

Narrator: But all the way up,

He can't help but feel he's not alone.

I started getting this feeling coming over me

Of being overwhelmed.

You know, the hair was standing on my neck.

Narrator: Especially given all the stories

Concerning the sixth floor.

There was rumors that there was a woman

Who died decades earlier in one of the offices up there.

That runs around the building,

And that's why nobody works in this building after midnight.

Narrator: But the officer dismisses it

As simply a tall tale.

Burkhead: When I got to the sixth floor...

[ door creaks ]

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I had a feeling of dread. [ screams ]

Like, sorrow,

And I-I didn't understand why it was coming over me like that.

Narrator: He starts to hear footsteps

And other unexplained sounds... [ footsteps approaching ]

...Coming from the direction of room 116,

Where the alarm was triggered.

I thought, based on my training,

I'm gonna go ahead and make my way to the office

And see if I can catch the perpetrator in the act.

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As I approached the door of 116,

I noticed the door was opened two or three inches,

Like a crack.

Hello?

The feeling was getting stronger.

Is there anyone there?!

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[ door creaking ]

[ creaking loudly ]

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No sign of forced entry.

No sign of anything in disarray.

Everything looked neat, as far as I was concerned.

Narrator: Trained to think logically,

The officer is left but with one possibility.

I thought about, you know, possible false alarms

Because it happens on occasion.

[ footsteps approaching ]

Narrator: But that theory is shattered

By the sounds of more footsteps,

And by the elevator. [ elevator bell dings ]

[ bell dings, metallic rattling ]

[ ding ]

[ ding ]

It shouldn't be going off at 3:15 in the morning.

Narrator: A false alarm in an office is one thing.

An elevator gone haywire is another.

[ metallic rattling, ding ]

When I finally regained my composure,

The scenarios were going through my head again

That someone's on this floor.

[ ding ]

I looked right. Nothing was in the hallway.

[ ding ] and I looked left.

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[ loud thud ]

Narrator: The officer sees something move in the darkness.

I could tell it was female

Because I could tell it was a dress.

But I couldn't see her face.

Federal police! Stay where you are!

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Then all of a sudden, she took off

Down the other hallway.

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When I got to the corner...

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Nobody. Nothing.

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And all the way at the end of the hallway,

There she was again.

Stay where you are!

But all I caught was the backside of her,

And the bottom of her dress whisked around that corner.

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As I rounded the corner, didn't hear no running,

Didn't hear anything.

I took it slow and I kept checking my six

To make sure nobody was coming up behind me.

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Nobody. Nothing.

She just disappeared.

Narrator: The officer suddenly feels

The room filling with dark energy.

Burkhead: And I got this unholy feeling...

...Cold sweats,

And the hair stood up all over my body.

Then, all of a sudden...

[ doors slamming ]

...Seven or eight doors just slammed.

Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang.

[ doors slamming ]

It hit me that there's no way that one person

Could make these doors slam in succession like that.

There's no way.

Narrator: When federal security officer jerry burkhead

Investigates an emergency call for a triggered alarm,

He comes face to face with a mysterious woman

In a white dress, whose sudden disappearance

Throws the entire sixth floor

Into unimaginable chaos.

[ doors slamming ]

Something's not right on this floor.

Something not normal on this floor.

I was unwanted, and I could feel that.

[ breathing heavily ] the grip of fear just had me.

Narrator: The officer calls for backup,

And his partner soon arrives on the scene.

Hey. What the hell happened?

Narrator: Given what he's seen, the officer is forced

To consider the ghost story attached to the sixth floor.

Burkhead: The rumor was a woman had died decades earlier.

She always wore white every day.

[ gasping ]

Narrator: Just like the figure

Jerry believes he saw moments ago.

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[ metallic clank ]

Burkhead: That's when we heard the elevators again.

What the hell? [ elevator bell dings ]

[ ding ]

We are hearing a sound for elevators

That should not be going.

This seems like a case where a spirit's objective

Is to trap a human through fear.

[ ding ] they almost create a web

Where they can capture a person,

Giving them enough time to feed off this person's energy.

When they're done with them, they scare them off

And they get ready for the next victim.

[ ding ]

[ metallic rattling, dinging ]

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Burkhead: Suddenly, all the elevator noises stop.

It was actually quiet on the floor.

Narrator: Jerry notices a light on in room 116.

I looked at my partner.

I said, "check the rest of these doors in this hallway."

And I'm making my way back to the actual office, room 116.

Police!

If you're in here, you need to come out with your hands up!

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Nobody. Nothing.

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[ woman screams ]

As I was making my way out of 116...

Help!

...Got that unwanted feeling again.

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It felt like it was a warning,

That something didn't want me there.

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I looked up, and there she was.

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Her eyes were glow-y -- yellow, orangish, kinda reddish.

Face was crackly.

And she just was giving me the cold stare

That went right through me.

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[ screams ]

[ screaming ]

It scared the living... Out of me.

I screamed loud.

I don't even remember what I yelled,

But I know I yelled, "oh..."

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What?!

She just disappeared.

And my partner rounded the corner

And he had his weapon out.

[ grunts ]

-What happened? -I don't know what that was!

I don't know what that was!

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This is the moment where I thought,

The run-in that I just had was -- was not of this world.

At that point, we just wanted to get out of the facility...

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...Out to the outside.

Brewer: I think it was the spirit's intention

To kind of lure jerry with the tripping of the alarms.

When you think about a spirit, what a spirit is,

It's no longer of a physical makeup.

It's a being of pure energy.

So it's quite easy for these beings to be able

To manipulate electronic devices --

Alarms, elevators, and so forth.

The case closed on the alarm.

We got to the, you know, the outside

And called it off that,

You know, it was a false alarm.

If I would've mentioned this to my superiors,

They probably would've gave me a couple days off and said,

"take a break."

A spirit might be bound to a particular spot

Where a tragedy occurred...

...Where there is a high release of emotion, of shock,

Of panic, of anger,

Keeping them to that place.

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[ screams ]

[ gasping ]

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[ ding ]

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[ screams ]

Man: Why do you think the spirit of this murdered woman

Was haunting this building?

I believe these are sometimes warnings,

That perhaps you're treading on very dangerous ground.

She might have been trying to protect jerry

From another spirit

That is dark and dangerous.

[ doors slamming ]

One thing that's changed since this incident

Is that I am a true believer in the paranormal.

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I used to be like this, and now I'm like this.

The box is wide open.

It was something from another world,

And it was terrifying.

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[ wind howling ]

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[ labored breathing ]

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[ man groaning ]

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[ vomits, coughs ]

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Narrator: In response to the emergency call,

Hospital corpsman john lykins races across the base

To tend to two critically sick marines,

Battling through a raging category 2 hurricane.

[ wind howling ]

They were getting gusts from 95 to 100 miles an hour.

Narrator: The conditions force him

To race to the barracks by foot and alone.

There were no jeeps available. No ambulances available.

They had already evacuated most of the base,

Except for medical personnel and central personnel.

So I basically had to hoof it.

[ panting ]

[ thud ]

Narrator: As a medical specialist,

The rookie corpsman finds himself

In a situation way beyond his experience.

I'd been out of school for approximately one year

When this happened.

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Narrator: Immediately, john realizes the men are too sick

To move to the field hospital.

Lykins: One marine had nausea, vomiting.

Both of them had flu-like symptoms and were pretty sick.

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Narrator: But with the storm only getting worse,

Moving them across the base is not an option.

Alone, with limited supplies,

John focuses on trying to keep the men alive.

The plan was to get these two individuals stabilized

So we could get them transported to a better facility.

Narrator: But the storm only keeps picking up steam.

It was a pretty bad one.

Narrator: The medical officer wonders

If the barracks themselves

Can even hold up to the fury of the hurricane.

Lykins: I was concerned with the storm intensifying.

I had no idea how long the hurricane would last.

Narrator: With his patients at least stabilized,

All john can do now is wait out the storm.

I was very tired.

I thought maybe laying down would help for a little while.

Take a little catnap.

Narrator: But the storm makes getting any rest

Nearly impossible.

[ thud ]

I would hear a tick bang.

[ clank, thud ]

Tick tick bang bang.

[ clank, thudding ]

[ wind gusting ]

The tree outside the old barracks

Was kind of banging on the window.

Narrator: John feels a strange dizzying sensation move

Through the room and through his body.

It was a feeling of impending doom.

Man: Was it all to do with the storm?

Or was there something else at play?

I knew it wasn't all the storm.

It's one of the first times

I really ever got one of those feelings.

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Narrator: John pushes the strange thoughts

Out of his mind and tries to calm down.

Lykins: But as I was laying down...

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...I had this kind of jittery,

Strange, electrical feeling.

It was kind of spooky feeling.

I basically slept with one eye open.

Narrator: Drifting in half-sleep,

John hears someone else in the room.

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You're in grave danger.

There was a marine standing beside my bed.

I had never seen this gentleman before.

He goes, "I'm major anderson."

And I said, "oh!" so I snapped to.

You gotta move now.

He goes, "that tree is starting to really kinda hit here.

I think you better get your patients away from that window."

You got to help me move these marines, now.

About that time we heard kind of a cracking sound...

[ cracking ]

[ wind howling ]

...And so we moved them.

[ grunts ]

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[ coughs ] -come on. You got this.

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After we moved the patients to a safe area...

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[ loud crash ]

...There was a big smash.

[ crash, glass shatters ]

A tree limb smashed through the window.

This limb landed on my cot

And one of my patient's cots that they were on.

If I would've been laying on that cot,

It may have killed one of my patients, or even me.

I turned around, and the major was gone.

Major!

Sir!

There was nobody there.

It froze me in my tracks.

Narrator: While a vicious hurricane

Forces a u.S. Marine base

To evacuate all non-essential personnel...

[ loud thud ]

...Hospital corpsman john lykins fights through the storm

To reach two critically ill marines...

...Who narrowly escaped being crushed...

You gotta help me move these marines, now.

...When a major shows up out of nowhere to help.

But not only has john never seen the officer before,

He soon realizes that major anderson

Has now vanished into thin air.

Lykins: Major! Sir!

Narrator: With a major possibly outside and hurt,

John decides to contact his superiors.

I went ahead and alerted via radio the military police

To assess the situation.

Over and out.

At that moment, I just wanted to get the hell out of there.

Narrator: As the night gives way to morning,

The storm comes to an end...

You're gonna have to take it easy, now.

...Allowing the military police

To finally make their way to the barracks

To help transfer john's patients.

Good to see a friendly face.

How's it goin', sir?

Before transport begins,

John has one final responsibility.

As these two individuals were about ready

To be transported out of the barracks on to further care,

I did want to give them one final check-over.

As I was doing the vital signs

And just doing a general check on them,

I mentioned, "hey," you know,

"what was it like having a marine major

Come in and check on you?" -sir?

Well, it's not every day you get to be with a major.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

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He kinda looked at me.

"what?" you know.

I said, "well, major anderson was just here."

And he goes, "who's major anderson?"

The guy who hooked you up on this I.V.

Me and him carried you out of here earlier.

Sir, I...Sir...

I-I don't know what you mean.

He said, "all we heard was you jibber-jabbering, doc."

They thought I was jibber-jabbering,

Just talking to myself,

John checks with his other patient.

Did you see the major? No.

You didn't see the major that helped us?

No. He helped you.

He carried you out of here. -Really?

Narrator: But he too has no idea what john is talking about.

The patients never saw him. They just saw me.

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The military police would know everyone left

On the skeleton crew of the base.

Ah, come on. You saw the major, didn't you?

On your way in? Uh, no.

You didn't see the major? Uh, no.

I said, "he was from headquarters company."

"doc," he goes, "headquarters bugged out a long time ago.

Nobody's here."

What was going through my mind about this time was,

These people are going to think I'm nuts.

Now darn it, I knew that I talked to this guy.

I shook hands with the guy.

I'm like, well, these marines made a mistake.

These mps made a mistake. He was flesh and blood.

Major!

Sir!

Narrator: The hurricane might be long gone,

But a deep, dark mystery has been left in its wake.

The next day, after the hurricane,

I went to headquarters company.

I asked the female sergeant,

"try and locate a major anderson."

"nobody here by that name."

I said, "you don't have a major anderson?"

Narrator: The sergeant guides john to the back offices.

There was a picture on the wall.

Sergeant: Is this who you're talking about?

And she goes, "that's major anderson.

Major anderson was killed while in vietnam."

Before then, he was stationed in the barracks you were in.

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That sent a big chill down my spine.

That's when I realized I had been talking to a dead man.

I was very, very freaked out.

You got to help me move these marines, now.

[ loud crash, glass shatters ]

I realized that I'm not dealing with something of this world.

There is no other explanation for what I saw.

We find that often, with spirits,

They will come in in helpful situations,

Just to help out humankind in general.

As I look back on it, I think to myself,

"what really happened?"

You know, "why was this individual there?"

[ labored breathing ]

Anderson: Easy, soldier.

Investigators often find that these entities

Will return to places they knew,

Specifically ones that they were really passionate about in life.

-Headquarters. -Headquarters company.

We have two very sick marines here.

We need a corpsman.

Knudsen: There are many instances throughout history

Where some sort of non-physical entity

Has interjected itself in a life-and-death situation.

[ loud crash ]

Why do you think the major happened to be there

At that crucial moment, to save these lives?

There are theories that the entity actually may be

Moving through a timeline, or be actually having

Experienced this event in the future,

And maybe reporting back on it...

And in this way, preventing it.

[ loud crash ]

Lykins: The whole thing did change my life.

It changed the way I worked

With young emts and paramedics,

About death and telling them and explaining to them,

Hey, not only do you have to deal with it,

But strange things may happen to you too.

Man: I'm walking out of here in a couple days. I'm-a run out...

Lykins: It changed also my way of thinking

About what happens to my patients once they're gone.

Naturally, we want to save every one of them, but...

Unfortunately, we don't save them all.

So it makes you kinda wonder,

Do they hang around afterwards?

Do they come back and see how you're doing

And thank you in some way?

Makes you wonder.

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[ woman humming ]

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[ heartbeat thumping ]

[ gasping ]

[ grunting ]

♪♪

Can't be.

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It can't be.

[ line rings ]

[ raspy breathing ]

[ call disconnects, rapid beeping ]

Narrator: The 9-1-1 call reaches rookie emt tyler olmstead,

Only a few miles away from the patient's residence.

Woman over radio: Base to car 6.

We have a call from maple creek. Over.

I was with the ambulance service

For about three months at this point.

I liked the ever-changing environment, the fast pace.

Narrator: As he arrives on site, he's met there by his partner,

Who's raced over from the station.

Immediately, they're confronted by an odd sight.

We're expecting, you know, the person's gonna be awake,

The lights are gonna be on. They've called 9-1-1.

Pitch-black. No outside lights. No inside lights on.

[ static crackles ] car 6 to base.

We have a 1023. Requesting rcmp back-up.

Base to car 6... [ speaks indistinctly ]

I immediately got on the radio and asked for rcmp.

Base to car 6, rcmp are en route.

Still about 5 minutes away. Over.

Man: Why did you contact the mounties?

Just to be there with us because we're in

A random person's house that we don't know.

Narrator: But with no signs of life

And fearing the worst for the patient,

The emts decide to proceed without back-up.

-Woman: Hello? -Tyler: Hello?

Paramedic. Hello?

We said, "paramedics. Is there anyone here?"

Narrator: They make their way

Into the dark, dead quiet living room.

Olmstead: We look around...

[ gasps ]

...And we see a gentleman,

And that completely freaked me out.

Sir? Are you all right? Did you call 9-1-1?

He sat there, blank stare on his face.

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The man deflected any emotion. Didn't look at us.

That's definitely something that made the hair

On the back of my neck stand up.

Bedroom.

Narrator: The man directs them up the stairs.

We assumed he was the husband

Of the person that we were there for.

It definitely seemed odd that he wasn't with the patient.

I know if it was my loved one,

I'd be in the room with them and be there comforting them.

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Man: So did you attend to him?

When he said, no, it wasn't him, "bedroom,"

We didn't continue on with him.

We went to the bedroom to assess his wife.

Our concern was to provide patient care

To the person that needed it.

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We proceed down the hallway to where the bedrooms are...

...Checking the bedrooms

To figure out which one we're going to.

We ended up going to the master bedroom at the end of the hall.

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My partner and I both saw an elderly female

Roughly about the same age as the male.

Very pale, sweaty, shivering,

And sitting straight up in her bed.

Eyes wide open like she just saw a ghost.

Ma'am, are you all right?

We're thinking,

Okay, medical cardiac, medical respiratory.

Narrator: The way she clutches her chest

Suggests pain in that area.

Olmstead: But she didn't really seem

To be visibly short of breath.

Ma'am, we're gonna ask you a few questions.

The protocol calls for us to be questioning this patient

In terms of what they were doing beforehand.

Any history of allergies against...

Narrator: Throughout the questioning,

The woman remains unresponsive.

She wasn't answering our questions.

She barely looked at us.

Narrator: The rookie emts have never dealt

With such a puzzling case.

We were both new and this was a bit of strange call, and...

It was just a very strange feeling

To be in that room with her.

M-m-m-m-m-mar-- mar-- mar-- martin?

M-m-martin?

Narrator: The woman finally breaks her silence.

She just randomly started mumbling "martin."

Mar...Tin?

Ma'am, is that your husband?

Is that the man in the living room?

Narrator: The thought that her husband might have hurt her

Suddenly crosses tyler's mind.

Was this person just hit in the chest?

Is that why they have a hurting chest

And they're a little bit short of breath?

Narrator: With nothing but unanswered questions,

Tyler and his partner still have no idea

What happened to their patient.

We didn't really know what was going on.

My partner opted for me to get a set of vitals

While she talked to the husband to figure out what was going on.

Sir?

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Narrator: But the old man is no longer there.

♪♪

Sir?

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There's no one there.

-Martin? -Where'd he go?

Myself and my partner didn't hear him move around.

We didn't hear anything of that sort.

Narrator: But the mention of the missing man

Triggers a dramatic shift in their patient.

Martin? M--

We briefly talked about it in front of her,

Saying that we just saw a gentleman.

We asked her if that was her husband.

Is that your husband?

Narrator: The woman's vital signs

Suddenly shoot through the roof.

It looked like she was almost on the point of shivering.

Martin? Martin? Martin?

[ heartbeat thumping ]

Narrator: The woman shows tyler

A sheet she's been secretly clutching --

A funeral service card.

It was for a funeral that took place a month ago.

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And in the picture was a younger version

Of the man we saw before.

It was her husband martin.

This was when I realized that we'd spoken

To a gentleman who had been deceased.

That scared the ever-loving [bleep] out of us.

Narrator: Dispatched to the home of an elderly couple,

Rookie emt tyler olmstead and his partner

Are directed to the bedroom...

Bedroom.

...By what they believe is the patient's husband.

But as they tend to his wife, they discover, to their horror,

That the old man died a month earlier.

We had spoken to a gentleman who had been deceased for a month.

I have never been more scared in my life, and you get that --

The chill just goes up your spine.

My partner and I both looked at each other

And we knew just by looking at each other, time to go.

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Narrator: After getting the woman

Loaded in the ambulance,

Tyler and his partner are finally joined

By their rcmp backup.

She said, "do you want me to go get the husband

And see if he wants to come?"

He just went into the house.

He told me you were in the bedroom.

Narrator: Tyler and his partner know that can't be possible.

And we said that we think that that guy's dead.

I just saw him go into the house.

He's coming to the hospital.

Olmstead: He talked to us and he just went into the garage.

We think he's getting ready to take the car

And go to the hospital with you, and we said,

"nope, this lady's husband died a month ago."

Narrator: Tyler produces the evidence --

The funeral service card with martin's photo.

That's where we all kinda looked at each other in disbelief.

Three people, at least, saw a ghost.

I think in this case, it's really clear

That martin did know that he was completely visible.

He wanted to make sure that the first responders

Get to his wife.

When we got to the hospital,

They determined that she was having a heart attack.

Man: So what would have happened

If somebody hadn't placed a 9-1-1 call that night?

It's very clear that if somebody hadn't placed a 9-1-1 call

That night, that she could've very well died.

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But the thing we couldn't figure out is who called 9-1-1.

We learned that the call was placed from that landline

At that house.

The person that placed the call was a very raspy-sounding man

And didn't say much.

[ gasps, groans ]

She needs you.

Sir, what's wrong with your wife? Sir?

No doubt in mind martin placed the call.

I think oftentimes we forget that these intelligences

Are emotional beings,

And that they can think and feel and process,

And that they still very, very much care

For the people that they observe all the time.

[ whispers ] can't be.

It can't be.

♪♪

I think this case is incredibly amazing,

And I think it's absolutely possible that the entity here

And that bond that she had with her husband

Absolutely transcended death.

♪♪

My sweet.

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I can say that up until that moment,

Anyone that told me they believed in ghosts?

I put them off to the wayside. I had no time of day for them.

And after that experience, I'm 100% a believer now.

That's definitely been a bit

Of a life-altering experience for me.

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