Woman Reports Series of Paranormal Experiences Had While Working at Assisted Living Home

*(Emily Wayland / Singular Fortean Society)*

Georgia-based paranormal investigator Aubrey Bowen corresponded recently with a woman who claimed to have experienced a number of paranormal events between July and September of 2014 while working in an assisted living home.

Although both Bowen and investigator Tobias Wayland verified the woman's identity and the location of the experiences, both are being kept private to protect those involved.

Bowen first became aware of the events through a post on social media.

[I] worked at an assisted living home on the night shift. I lived in the basement apartment of the place and had a handheld camera walkie-talkie that could switch to see all the cameras. Mostly you just switched between cameras to make sure no one was wandering and only went upstairs if someone had fallen or gotten up. We were caring for this super tiny old woman. She was coming up on 100 [years old] and weighed like 60 [pounds]. She fell a lot, so it was easy for one person to pick her up and move her back in bed, it happened at least two times a week.
One night shift I was clicking through the cameras and saw what I thought was her standing in the hallway, it looked like a small short person who was looking right at the door to her room just staring, not moving. As soon as I saw her standing in the hallway, I heard the sound of someone falling from upstairs. [I] ran up the stairs expecting to see her in the hallway, she wasn't there. She was in her room and had rolled off her bed. When I got her back into bed, she kept asking who was standing in the hallway. Noped out of that job a few weeks later because I hated how often people asked about someone who wasn't there, among other things.

In response to further questions from Bowen, the woman elaborated on more of the unusual occurrences.

The residents always complained that time moved weird, like it was breakfast forever ago and they felt like they were being starved by the time next meal came. One of the old men complained that his shows would last too long and when he'd look at the clock no time had passed but he had been watching TV for hours. Weird stuff like that, we actually had to start setting timers for like every 10 minutes so everyone knew time was still passing because it would freak them out so badly. I never had any issues with that, so I figure it had to do with them being old—it was just a weird thing to have to do.
They would also complain someone would follow them around the halls. Mostly the women would complain about someone standing in their door watching them and they thought it was an employee, so they would make complaints about us staring at them from their doorway even though there was video proof that no one was doing that. It was a lot of weird things. Being in the basement was almost worse because every footstep or movement was super loud, and you really had to gauge if it was someone moving upstairs or if it was "nothing" or you'd spend all night running up and down the stairs for no reason. A few times it was things falling over or the piano slamming shut but for the most part it was never anything.

According to the woman, the assisted living home “was a regular house that they converted into a retirement home/care facility. It was constructed very oddly, but well, it was an entire two-story home but tacked on the back was another full sized three-bedroom home. The upstairs was the care facility, the basement was the employee living area and then through one more door in the basement was the other entire house. It was built around the 80's and then remodeled in like 2002 when my friend's dad bought it, which is when they added the house add-on and upgraded a lot and became a facility.”

“It was in a residential area completely normal as far as anyone could tell. We did ask some of the neighbors if they had issues with anything weird and no one had anything to say,” she added.

She concluded that she felt like “retirement homes just have a different energy stemming from the intention. Like they're being built to house people who are close to death, I feel like that alone could bring some weird energies into it. [I don’t know], just a thought.”

As for other members of the staff experiencing anything paranormal, she said “I know one other girl saw people in the cameras like I did, but everyone else just kind of ignored things like that. Everything was easily explained away to them. I don't believe they ever saw anything. The time thing was something everyone dealt with even if they didn't experience it directly, like I said we were having to set timers for the residence for almost every 10 minutes to reassure them time was still passing. I have never heard anyone anywhere ever experience the time thing, I've even tried to search it up as like just something older people experience or even something paranormal but never found anything.”

Ultimately, the experiences had at the home are unlike any she’s had before or since.

“I've had a few paranormal experiences before this that had to do with my grandma's house but nothing this extreme or severe,” she said. “I'd never experienced anything like it before, especially with the time stuff.”

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