Ghost Stories on the Forum

The old man predicts that right now you're lying in bed reading a novel, probably on your side, and your phone might be charging.

Yang Jian, a high school senior, was lying in bed, bored, flipping through his phone. He casually clicked on a forum post, and there were several users' replies below.

"Oh my god, the original poster is truly amazing, they even guessed this."

"Ha, would you believe me if I said I'm sitting on the toilet right now? No need to ask, my feet are numb."

"Tattoo 'Zhou' on me, I won't be a laborer anymore."

"Society, society."

Yang Jian closed the post and opened another one with a high click-through rate. It began with the following line:

"I am a physician at the Third Provincial Hospital, and I want to tell you all something. Recently, something extremely terrifying happened at my hospital. I'm so scared that I don't dare to go to work anymore, I'm on vacation at home."

"Enough, I won't buy shoes or add anyone on WeChat."

"The original poster must have been a victim of medical malpractice. If not, I'll eat my own excrement."

"Quick, look, the third floor is deceiving with its lies about food."

Yang Jian found the replies a bit boring, so he clicked to see only the original poster's content.

Immediately, the post became cleaner, and only the self-proclaimed doctor's post remained. This doctor's online name was "Lightning Master."

The post continued: Here's how it went. Last week, during my night shift at around midnight, an ambulance brought in an elderly person. The medical personnel in the ambulance said that this elderly person had fallen from the fifth floor. At that time, my colleague had something urgent to attend to, and I was the only one responsible for diagnosis. I could absolutely confirm that the old person had no vital signs left. They were already deceased.

Furthermore, based on the characteristics of the body and the temperature of the chest, I could determine that the old person couldn't have died from falling tonight.

People with common sense know that within ten hours of death in an average temperature environment, a body's temperature decreases by about one degree per hour. After 24 hours, the body temperature becomes similar to the environment. But that old person's body temperature, to me, was at least ten degrees below normal, even though the nighttime temperature was 22 degrees.

At that moment, I concluded that the old person had been dead for more than a day.

Immediately, there were comments from users:

"The 'common sense' the original poster has is terrifying. I salute you, master."

"Quick, see if the patient's shoes fell off. If not, there's a chance to save them."

"This is extremely terrifying. Original poster, update quickly. I've already hidden under my blanket."

Yang Jian continued scrolling down:

Lightning Master continued posting: It's not this incident that I want to talk about. It's what happened afterward.

There was a pause in the post, and the update was two hours later.

I'm sorry, someone knocked on the door just now asking about that incident. But it wasn't the police, and it didn't seem like journalists either, although they had national credentials. They said they were from some kind of criminal investigation unit. Oh well, I don't care.

It was probably the next morning.

I wasn't working yet, but my colleagues told me that the body of the elderly person who had been brought in last night had mysteriously disappeared from the morgue. The police were thoroughly investigating it, suspecting that the culprit had taken the body. There was a commotion, and they even reviewed all the hospital's surveillance footage, but in the end, they couldn't find the missing body of the old person, nor could they find the culprit.

I'm on duty again tonight...

But the events during the day made me uneasy. One of the patients in the hospital claimed they had seen the body of the old person, but not being carried out by anyone. Instead, the body walked out on its own. The patient even accurately pointed out the route the old person took. Looking at the route, it indeed led from the direction of the morgue.

I was a bit frightened when I heard that, but fortunately, I'm an atheist, and I didn't completely believe what the patient said.

Later, the head nurse said that Dr. Fang from the Neurology Department was planning to increase the dosage for that patient, which eased my mind a little.

As expected, not believing the patient's words was the right choice...

But what I want to talk about isn't this; it's what happened during my night shift.

That day, it was probably around two in the morning. I was in the emergency room playing the game "Greedy Blue Moon." You can't even imagine how fun that game is. If you're a brother, come challenge me...

"Damn it, original poster, you're really something."

"What happened to the sincerity between people? Your reverse psychology caught me off guard."

"Society, society. I guessed the beginning, but didn't guess the ending. But what I want to say is, third floor, what about your promise to eat excrement?"

Numerous users followed with comments, creating a lively atmosphere on the forum.

Yang Jian was lying in bed, unable to help but smile wryly. Have advertising tactics really become this advanced now?

But as he scrolled further down, something seemed off.

Lightning Master continued posting: Sorry, sorry, I'm not advertising. There really was an incredibly bizarre supernatural incident that happened that night. None of you will probably be able to imagine it. At about 1:15 in the morning, while playing games in the emergency room, I suddenly felt a chill, exactly like the feeling in the morgue. I got goosebumps.

And then, guess what happened?

That old person who disappeared from the morgue yesterday suddenly appeared outside the emergency room. He wasn't dead, but he moved slowly, step by step, walking away from the hospital.

My God, this can't be true. I personally saw that the old person was already dead, and dead for more than a day at that. How could he come back to life?

Prank? Faking death? Medical miracle?

At that moment, I had many thoughts, but perhaps due to frequent exposure to corpses, my fear wasn't so intense. The immediate concern was to take my phone and take a picture, planning to post it on my social media.

Below the message, there were comments: "Pictures or it didn't happen," "Show us the evidence," "We need to see the proof," and more.

And Yang Jian went further down the post:

Lightning Master continued posting: Sorry, sorry, I'm really not advertising. That night, a truly inexplicable and eerie event happened. None of you would believe it in your lifetime. At around 1:15 in the morning, while playing games in the emergency room, I suddenly felt a chill, just like the feeling in the morgue.