The Lift: Goosebumps Storytelling contest #1

This tragedy happened years ago shared by a friend of mine who works in a hospital. It happened on the night when he was on his night duty. My friend once heard rumors about the lift incident but he did not believe it because he had never encountered such experience before until it happened to himself.

What happened was on that particular night, he was assigned to deliver the blood samples to the ground floor from the 8th floor. So he rushed to the lift to sent those samples as soon as possible as the number of patients were increasing exponentially as time goes by.

As he arrived in front of the lift, he pressed on the lift button and waited for the lift to come. When the lift arrived and the door opened, he noticed an old guy wearing a patient gown was standing next to the lift floor buttons. He walked straight into the lift and stand behind the mysterious old gentleman. At first he did not notice anything odd but later when he looked at the man's feet, there was a wrist tag attached on his bare ankle. That particular tag will only be present on a feet of a deceased patient.

In the midst of a busy working night, superstitious entity wasn't in his initial list to explain the odd thing that he saw. In confusion, he attempted to engage in a conversation with the old guy by asking where is he going in the middle of the night. The old guy ignored him. He examined the patient in that brief moment. Grey hair, deep sunken eye, emotionless face, pale looking & very cachexic.

Then suddenly in that very moment, chills felt to his spine, heart starts to pound faster, both limbs starts to tremble in fear. Everything that he saw and experienced so far can only fit 1 entity and that entity was not supposed to be existed in the living world.

He kept silent and closes his eyes trying to avoid eye contact just in case if the 'patient' decided to turn around. That was the longest lift ride he ever experienced. As he heard the lift bell rang he open his eyes and storms out of the lift as fast as he could to the laboratory counter. As soon as he arrived at the counter he passed out.

Few hours later, he woke up from his sleep. Still in shock, he told his story to his colleagues and nurses. He describes that incident as his scariest moment in his life. Since then, he never uses the lift alone anymore no matter how busy works may be.