Voices and a light on an abandoned hospital floor
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, describes a night on an abandoned, earthquake-retrofitted hospital floor in Southern California where they were working. The caller says they heard two voices that stopped when they approached. A bathroom light was on again each time they returned, and they found a nurse’s station empty. The caller adds an unnamed colleague’s separate report of a flash of movement and a call light that came on by itself. The caller calls the story odd rather than frightening, and the host closes the segment without further comment.
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The story as told
The caller, who gives their name as [name withheld] and says they are calling from Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, says the events happened while they were living in Southern California and working at a hospital, where they had been about six weeks. The caller describes an abandoned, earthquake-retrofitted floor where they did rounds, checking the rooms for transients. Getting off the elevator one night, they saw the bathroom light on in the first patient room on their left. They walked in, switched it off, and checked the rest of the floor. Coming around the other side, the caller says, they heard two voices, which they took to be a man and a woman talking. The caller wondered whether they were hospital environmental services staff. They went back. Nobody was there, but the light was on again. They switched it off, resumed their check, returned to the same spot, and heard the two voices a second time, without making out words. They then went up and around to the nurse’s station on the roughly circular floor and found no one. The caller says they began to feel something was up there, but they finished their rounds. Later, one of their partners told them that during training the partner had checked the same rooms, walked to the elevator, and pressed the call button. The partner saw something flash out of the corner of their eye and found the call light in the last room checked going off. The partner said this requires the button to be pressed from inside the room. The partner declined to go back and left quickly. [name withheld] describes it as [quote withheld] The host closes the segment.
Reported events, in order
- 0:05
The caller gives their name as [name withheld], says they are calling from Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, and says the events happened while they were living in Southern California.
- 0:19
The caller says they were working at a hospital, had been there about six weeks, and that one floor was abandoned after earthquake retrofitting.
- 0:35
One night the caller got off the elevator, looked into the first patient room on their left, and saw the bathroom light on.
- 0:52
The caller switched the light off and began checking the rooms along the floor.
- 0:58
Coming around the other side of the floor, the caller heard two voices, apparently a man and a woman talking.
- 1:08
The caller wondered whether they were hospital environmental services staff and went back to say hello.
- 1:15
The caller found nobody there, but the bathroom light was on again. They turned it off and resumed checking.
- 1:25
Back at the same spot, the caller heard the two voices a second time and still could not make out the words.
- 1:46
The caller went up and around to the nurse’s station on the roughly circular floor and found nobody.
- 1:51
The caller says they began to feel that there was something on that floor, but they finished their rounds because they had to do their job.
- 2:04
Later, an unnamed partner told the caller that during training the partner had also checked all the rooms on that floor.
- 2:12
The partner said that at the elevator they saw something flash out of the corner of their eye and that the call light in the last room they had checked was going off. The partner said this requires pressing the button inside the room.
- 2:28
The partner declined to go back and investigate and pressed the elevator call button repeatedly to leave quickly.
Claims
Each claim is labeled as something the person telling the story noticed (observation), what they made of it (interpretation), something others told them (hearsay), or something the host said (host statement).
- observation· 0:46
The bathroom light in the first patient room on an abandoned hospital floor was on when the caller arrived. The caller treats this as unremarkable because electricity and plumbing still worked on that floor.
- observation· 0:52
The caller switched the bathroom light off themselves and then checked the rooms along the floor.
- observation· 0:58
After coming around the other side of the floor, the caller heard two voices.
- observation· 1:05
The voices sounded like a man and a woman talking, though the caller could not make out the words.
- interpretation· 1:08
The caller considered that the voices might be hospital environmental services staff and went to check.
- observation· 1:15
On returning the caller found no one present, but the bathroom light they had turned off was on again.
- observation· 1:25
The caller switched the light off again, resumed their check, returned to the same spot, and heard the two voices a second time, still without making out words.
- observation· 1:46
The caller walked up and around to the nurse’s station on the roughly circular floor and found nobody there.
- observation· 1:51
The caller says they began to feel that something was on that floor, but they finished their rounds anyway.
- hearsay· 2:12
A colleague told the caller that during training, after checking the same rooms, the colleague saw something flash at the edge of their vision and found that the call light in the last room they had checked was on.
- hearsay· 2:12
The colleague said the call light can only be activated from inside the room by pressing the button.
- hearsay· 2:28
The colleague said they refused to go back and investigate and left quickly.
- interpretation· 2:35
The caller calls the story odd rather than frightening.
Scores, with reasons
An AI model gave these scores using a fixed set of scoring rules (scoring-v1). They are editorial judgments and rough guides, not the odds that anything paranormal happened. How scoring works.
This is a short but coherent first-person story with a clear sequence and no self-contradiction, told without escalation. It loses points because it has no details that can be checked and because an ordinary reading (people on the floor, a live electrical supply) is readily available and not ruled out.
Evidence for and against
- The core experience is direct: [quote withheld]
- The sequence is orderly and coherent: check, hear voices, return, light on, hear voices again, walk the loop to the nurse’s station.
- The caller keeps the story modest: [quote withheld] and [quote withheld]
- No details that can be checked: the hospital, the floor, and the date are all unnamed or not stated.
- A straightforward ordinary reading is available and never ruled out by the story. The caller supposes living staff.
- Roughly half the story (the colleague’s flash and call light) is secondhand and cannot be examined.
- The caller’s job title is garbled in the transcript ([quote withheld]).
- No date or length of time is given beyond “about six weeks” at the hospital.
- The colleague’s story may have been compressed in the retelling.
- 0:35
- 1:25
- 2:35
What the model inferred (not said on air): The component judgments (specificity, how well alternative explanations fit) are a reading of the transcript content, not statements by the caller. The low score for alternative explanations reflects that the caller suggests the staff explanation. It is not a judgment about the caller.
The score sits in the scoring guide’s range of 11 to 25. A second witness is claimed (the unnamed partner), and the surroundings could in principle be checked, but nothing was checked and no physical evidence was examined. No outside check was made, so the hard cap of 50 is not approached.
Evidence for and against
- The caller gives a firsthand story of hearing voices and of the light switching on after they turned it off.
- The caller names their own current location and the region of the events, and describes the floor’s history (earthquake retrofitting), which could in principle be identified.
- No names, addresses, dates, records, photographs, or recordings are offered for the events.
- The only other witness is claimed secondhand and does not speak on air.
- Nothing in this part of the broadcast can be checked against an outside source.
- Whether any physical evidence (security logs, incident reports) exists is not addressed in this part of the broadcast.
- 2:04
What the model inferred (not said on air): Where the score falls is an application of the scoring guide. The transcript contains no documentation of any kind.
Mild to moderate unease: an isolated, unused hospital floor, repeated unseen voices, a lamp that will not stay off, and an unresolved ending. The score is held down by the absence of any threat and the caller’s own flat description of the story as merely odd.
Evidence for and against
- The setting is an empty, closed hospital floor at night: [quote withheld]
- The light the caller turns off is found on again, and the voices repeat at the same point of the loop.
- The caller reports a growing sense of a presence: [quote withheld]
- The secondhand detail of a nurse call light turning on from inside an empty room is an intrusive, institutional image.
- No threat, contact, harm, or hostile intent is described.
- The caller plays it down: [quote withheld]
- Both incidents end inconclusively rather than in a confrontation.
- The transcript does not show whether the caller’s delivery was calm or animated, and delivery is not used in this score.
- 0:27
- 1:51
What the model inferred (not said on air): This is a judgment about the story as heard, not about the caller’s feelings or whether the events were real.
The frame is familiar (empty hospital floor, voices, self-operating light), with one distinctive institutional detail: the nurse call light that can only be pressed from inside the room. The score is provisionally around the [quote withheld] level. The published originality figure depends on a comparison with the rest of the archive and is provisional while the archive is small.
Evidence for and against
- The specific detail that a hospital nurse-call light had to be reset from inside a room the colleague had already checked.
- The reason for the emptiness, an earthquake-retrofitted, closed floor, is a distinctive framing detail.
- The experience is framed as an oddity in a work routine rather than as a haunting.
- Unseen voices and a light that turns itself back on are very common motifs.
- An empty institutional floor at night is a familiar setting for such stories.
- Comparison with the rest of the archive was not done in this run. The figure is provisional.
- 2:12
What the model inferred (not said on air): The model’s originality score is a judgment about the content only. The value compared with the rest of the archive cannot be worked out here.
Scoring confidence 0.60 · analysis confidence 0.72 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: The caller’s firsthand story of hearing two voices and of a bathroom light being on after they switched it off (one night’s rounds).; A second, separate incident on the same floor, told secondhand by the caller on behalf of an unnamed colleague.; No names, dates, records, photographs, or recordings. No on-air witness other than the caller.. The originality score blends the model's score (45) with how rare the story's details are across the archive. This method is still provisional.
Ordinary explanations to consider
These are possibilities only. None is a finding about what happened.
- The voices were living people on the floor or elsewhere in the building, such as hospital staff (the caller names environmental services) or a transient, with sound carrying on a floor the caller describes as roughly circular. This would also account for the light being switched back on between the caller’s checks. · The caller raises this possibility and then goes to check it, finding no one.
- The bathroom light was operated by another person using the floor, or by a switch or fixture fault on a floor whose electrical supply was still live and in use. · The caller notes of the abandoned floor that [quote withheld] and that the bathroom light was already on when they first arrived.
- Faint, indistinct speech from other parts of an active building, heard twice at the same point of a circular corridor where sound focus or reflection is plausible. · The caller says they could not make out what the voices were saying, and the floor was part of an operating hospital.
What stands out
The story is presented as a workplace oddity rather than a haunting. The caller’s own words are that it is [quote withheld] but [quote withheld] The most specific detail is institutional: a nurse-call light that can only be activated from inside a room that had already been checked. The story also includes a second, separate incident told on behalf of an unnamed colleague, who does not speak on air.
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