Morgue Guard Part II

Tonight as usual, he's doing his graveyard shift. Sitting at his usual spot, reading newspaper to kill time, but ever since the last close encounter with the ciggy corpse, the guard has quit smoking totally. But to keep him company, he has a small radio with him.

He look at his watch, it show 2AM sharp. "Oh well... another 5 hours to go...", he sigh.

He looked around. As usual, at this ungodly hour there's no one around except himself. The whole area is very quiet except the music’s from the radio, which is playing slow classical music from the 50s, which he likes. He started to hum along with the music, but suddenly he thought he heard noises of faint footsteps. He turns down the volume and listens again. No mistake! He heard footsteps, sounds like someone is walking around barefooted. When he listened carefully, the noise actually came from the corridor leading to the morgue. No body (alive) supposes to be in there during this hour!

He just froze there, unable to move. "Aiyo~~ Not Again!! Not another one asking for light", he thought. The corridor is dimly lit, but he still can't see anyone or anything making the footstep noise there. So he shone his torchlight at the corridor. To his horror... there's nothing! and he can hear the footstep get louder and louder as if it's walking towards him.

Slowly the footsteps getting closer... closer... and closer... until he felt the footsteps has stopped just right in front of him. Then the noise of the footstep started to walk towards the morgue, getting fainter and then finally stopped and he didn't hear any footsteps anymore for that night... Then throughout the whole shift, he turns on the volume of the radio to high, so that it can cover up any weird noise... It's feels like the longest 5 hours of his life...

Morgue Guard Part I

It happened in a hospital morgue, which hospital I can't remember but I remember it's a general hospital. For a GH morgue, everyday there are "fresh" corpses coming in.

There is this guard in his 50s, doing graveyard shift and his post is nearby the entrance of the hospital morgue. During his duty, he'll be sitting on a chair near the entrance, reading newspaper to kill time. Beside him it's a long corridor leading to the only entrance of the morgue. Anyone coming out or going into the morgue will be visible by him. At night, there's only one lamp switched on at the corridor to preserve electricity, so it's a bit dim there.

One night as usual and it's already way past midnight, he's sitting there reading newspaper and having a ciggy also... There's no one around except him... then suddenly there's a voice coming from beside him, from the direction of the morgue entrance, "Bang, ada api tak?" (Bro, got light?) Which spook him suddenly. Then he looks up, and saw a malay guy standing just beside him, with a ciggy in his hand. He thought it must be one of the caretakers or one of the corpse's relative. So he passed him his lighter. The malay guy light his ciggy and take a puff, then said, "Ahhh~~ Enaknya~~ Sekarang elok sikit.. Sejuk sangatlah dalam tu..." (Ahhh~~ That’s nice~~ Now feels better… It’s cold inside there.) Then he just turns around and walks through the corridor and into the morgue.

The guard thought, "Hey!! How come he went into the morgue! He’s not supposed to go in there without permission!" So he quickly rushes into the morgue, and to his surprise... There's no one (alive one of course) in there!!! But he can smell the ciggy, and still can see some fresh ciggy smoke in there... "Oh no! I must have bump into "something" already". He quickly leave the morgue, paged his supervisor giving excuse that he's not feeling well and need a MC, and went home that night.

Next evening when he came back to work, he was asked by his supervisor whether he has let anyone in the morgue last night or not, because in that morning, the coroner actually found one of the corpse had a half burned ciggy in his mouth!