Your Spooky Stories!

[00:00:05] Well, hello. Happy Halloween Eve. Today's episode is all about the spooky. A few weeks ago on Instagram,

[00:00:16] I posted my call to action for your spooky stories and man, I got some great responses.

[00:00:24] I was looking up the most haunted hospitals in the United States and here's what I found.

[00:00:32] So Linda Vista Community Hospital, located in Boyle Heights, East LA. This hospital is considered

[00:00:40] one of the most haunted in the country. It closed in 1991 and has been featured in many films,

[00:00:49] television shows, and music videos. Some say the hospital is haunted by lost spirits,

[00:00:56] a ghostly doctor, and a little girl laughing and singing. Okay, yeah, that's just creepy.

[00:01:06] In today's stories, you will hear a couple that have to do with kids and I have one of my own.

[00:01:13] Thank you to the four respondents. Sit back, get your candy bowl, put your costume on,

[00:01:24] and listen to these spooky stories. Happy Halloween!

[00:01:39] Okay, first up, Susan J. Faris. Susan was my guest for episode 88, nurse, poet, and author.

[00:01:49] She authored the book, Poetic Expressions in Nursing, Sharing the Caring. And Susan was amazing.

[00:01:57] If you haven't had a chance to listen to her episode, please go back and listen to it because she talks so

[00:02:02] much of the creative side that nurses have and really tapping into that and using poetry to express

[00:02:12] what we feel every day. Wonder, frustration, grief, love for our profession and our patients.

[00:02:20] So again, if you haven't heard it, go back and listen. She's great. She also has a podcast.

[00:02:26] Her podcast is Nursing in the Arts, where she has many creative guests on. I was one, and it was really

[00:02:36] a lot of fun. So Susan's piece is a poem, and it really highlights the connection that spouses have

[00:02:47] in life and in death. I think you'll really love this. Take a listen.

[00:03:00] Spousal Intuition by Susan J. Faris, MSN RN, SJF Communications. From Poetic Expressions in Nursing,

[00:03:11] Sharing the Caring, 2021-1993. With permission.

[00:03:16] The ICU 12-hour shift almost through at 5.10 p.m. that day, Mr. H. was transferred to our haven,

[00:03:24] confused impending doom and disarray. His charge nurse gave a quickened transfer

[00:03:30] report. They couldn't define what was wrong. He was just so different after the x-ray.

[00:03:36] He'll be sent via bed now. So long. Within minutes five, he and bed did arrive,

[00:03:41] then Vitals O2 IV and Leeds. His life traveled downhill. Shally resps, tacky pulse, low BP.

[00:03:49] O2 sat down, indeed. Sitting upright so ashen, he said,

[00:03:53] I'm not breathing well. I'm so thirsty, nurse, can I have a drink? Please call my wife. Am I going to

[00:04:00] die? Then the monitor alarms wailed in sync. He grew grayer in bigeminy, coughed frothy sputum,

[00:04:07] and stared. He trusted this was his last life's sale. We bolused with Lasix and lidocaine,

[00:04:14] did what we could, to no avail. Sadly, he coded at 5.25, enveloped in VTAC and FIB rhythms.

[00:04:21] Despite ACLS, our team efforts had failed. Then when everyone left, I stayed with him.

[00:04:27] We notified his wife, an invalid homebound. Her aide brought her in for the viewing.

[00:04:33] He asked for you at the end, I explained. She sighed, hugged me, cried, some renewing.

[00:04:39] But what was so coincidental, her home health aide said, was that at 5.15 at home,

[00:04:45] Mrs. H. was awakened by a dream while in bed. She sat up, yelled, my husband, and moaned.

[00:04:52] And so I must tell you to listen actively to our patients who tell us a story. Believe in what

[00:04:59] they're telling us. Believe them, for they know the glory. Take heed in their words and intuition,

[00:05:05] our missions to save them above all odds. But sometime, they've a strong, eerie vision

[00:05:11] for the ultimate visit with their gods. Thank you.

[00:05:17] Okay. Wow. That was great, Susan. Thank you so much for answering the call.

[00:05:23] Next up is my guest for episode 109, which was just last week. And this is Jennifer Johnson.

[00:05:33] Jennifer is an emergency room nurse and an author. She wrote the book, Nursing Intuition,

[00:05:39] How to Trust Your Gut, Save Your Sanity, and Survive Your Career. So if you missed Jennifer's episode,

[00:05:46] again, please go back and listen to it. She is, man, she is doing all the right things. She

[00:05:55] is an amazing nurse and an amazing person. Okay. So her story is really creepy. Well, let me explain.

[00:06:11] So death is hard, right? Death is hard for all of us in this profession. And children are no different. But I think

[00:06:23] children are really special in the sense that, and maybe this is naive of me, but we don't expect kids to

[00:06:34] die. It's just wrong on so many levels. And I know it happens. It's happened for millennia,

[00:06:41] but it's just such a profound loss that it's really hard to fathom. So Jennifer's story has to do with

[00:06:52] pediatric death and some things that she experienced in the emergency room one night.

[00:06:59] Get ready. Hold on. Strap yourself in for a wild ride. Here's Jennifer Johnson.

[00:07:12] Well, man, thank you so much for jumping on and telling a near spooky story.

[00:07:18] I can't wait to hear it. Oh my God. So one of my most favorite spooky stories. So this is

[00:07:25] almost a decade back, um, was working in a pediatric ER and had been there for maybe four, six months.

[00:07:34] You know, it's nice shift. It's a pretty decent day. Um, and then all of a sudden we get a patch to say

[00:07:41] there's a pediatric code. And so we're like, Oh no, here we go. And so the, the majority of the staff

[00:07:49] are very young new nurses who are looking to help and make an impact. And they're all like bright eyed

[00:07:55] and bushy tailed. They're like, Oh my God, I want to help. I'm like, I'm still fresh off of my trauma

[00:07:59] from like two years ago, my pediatric trauma from two years ago. Are you guys okay if I stay back?

[00:08:04] If you guys have all got this handled, I'm going to stay back. Obviously, if you need more hands,

[00:08:09] grab me, but I I'm going to, I'm going to remove myself out of this one if need be.

[00:08:13] Oh yeah, yeah. Not a problem. Not a problem. So they, they go in and do the code. And unfortunately it

[00:08:18] doesn't go. So the whole mood in the department changes, obviously when there's been a pediatric

[00:08:24] death and we're all kind of just getting by and all of a sudden all the lights go off.

[00:08:31] And when I'm saying the lights go off, entire lights go off, all the generators, all the,

[00:08:37] the background noise, all of the things silent and pitch black in this ER at like two in the morning.

[00:08:44] I don't know where we're like, Whoa, what just happened? And it takes a good 45 seconds,

[00:08:52] a minute, two minutes for the backup generators to finally kind of click on. And when they do,

[00:08:59] you know, the volume is still low. The, you're not having all the crazy background sounds that you

[00:09:04] normally do. And the lights are still very, very low. And we're all kind of like creeped out. We're

[00:09:11] and, uh, we were all talking and, uh, somebody pipes up, you know, Oh, when that happened,

[00:09:19] they were moving the child's body from the bed to the morgue stretcher. And the second that kid

[00:09:24] hit the morgue stretcher, that's when the lights went off. And we thought, Holy crap. Like, Oh, okay.

[00:09:32] We're like, Oh, trying to brush it off again and continue with the rest of the shift because

[00:09:36] there's still other parents and people in the ER and trying to get through everything.

[00:09:41] Day goes on the backup power never really gets up to full power for the rest of the shift. So

[00:09:47] eerily quiet, um, you know, the, the clinking of the, the ice machine isn't in the background,

[00:09:54] the constant buzzing of this monitor or that monitor isn't on. So you're just kind of working through

[00:10:00] and, uh, you know, we're all kind of hanging around while the EMS crew that had originally brought that

[00:10:06] child in comes back around with a different patient. And my charge nurse goes, um, you know,

[00:10:14] we were talking and sure enough, they ask about the outcome for the child. Doesn't all the lights

[00:10:22] slam back off again. No way. Oh yeah. And so we're all again, stuck in the dark, looking at it,

[00:10:33] like trying to figure out who's where and the backup power again, takes it sweet time to come back up.

[00:10:39] And we're going, Oh man, somebody is not happy. That's what's gone on. And that continues to be one

[00:10:51] of my most favorite scary stories. I mean, there, there are countless hitting. Oh my God. The number

[00:10:57] of times where you've got your recess bay and nobody's in the recess bay. Somebody, somehow the,

[00:11:05] the monitor turns on, you know, we bump it, we can control it from the main screen monitor, whatever

[00:11:10] it comes on. The number of times that I've seen a perfectly pristine QRS, you know, cardiac outline.

[00:11:19] Oh no. Nobody hooked up to that monitor is excessive. So we usually in those times go like,

[00:11:30] Oh, okay. We gotta, we gotta walk the soul out or something. We gotta do something. So

[00:11:34] usually it's me who's got the sage spray. Open the window. Right. There's no windows.

[00:11:39] They don't trust people in the ER with windows. So usually it's me running around with like the

[00:11:44] sage spray and spritz place and just being like, okay guys, whoever's in here, ha ha ha ha. Very

[00:11:50] funny. Let's go and walk out. And I will physically walk out of the building and hopefully bring spirit

[00:11:57] with me. I have been in a blackout in a hospital and it's exactly as you described. You cannot see

[00:12:06] the hand in front of your face. It is so dark. You can't hardly make your way to where the emergency

[00:12:15] flashlights are. We all know where they are, but you're like feeling the walls and, and, and the

[00:12:22] quiet is so, it's so eerie. Oh my gosh. Because you don't realize all the, just the background noise,

[00:12:30] like you said, of, of all the machines that are running. Even if you turned off all the monitors

[00:12:35] and everything, it's just everything else, all the hum and there's nothing. The hum, yeah. The,

[00:12:41] the, you know, wheels squeaking on one thing or another or 16 others or somebody, you know,

[00:12:47] using the motorized, uh, stretchers to go up or down or whatever else. And yeah, it's, uh,

[00:12:55] yeah. That's not one. That one is, is probably my, my most favorite for sure.

[00:13:01] Yeah. And I don't know what it is about pediatrics. Um, it's a special, yeah, it's,

[00:13:06] it's very special. And you know, when I was working in pediatrics, we've got a brand new unit

[00:13:11] and after about a year we'd had some pediatric deaths and we always put them in this one room

[00:13:19] close to the nurse's station because we had full view, right? Yeah. Well, every so often the call

[00:13:27] light would go off in that room and nobody was in there. Yeah. It was, and it was only in that room

[00:13:34] and we had maintenance come and they looked at everything. They couldn't find anything,

[00:13:40] but every so often, and it was mostly on night shift. It's like, man, night shift and kids. It's,

[00:13:47] it's really spooky. Yeah. It's a same thing. So that same hospital, there's a, an elevator that

[00:13:54] takes you from the parking garage all the way up. And there was one out of two in the specific bank

[00:14:00] closest to the ER was constantly being fixed. Honestly, you know, every time I'd go in on my

[00:14:07] set, you know, out of four shifts, it would be down for three, nine times out of 10. And, you know,

[00:14:13] the times where it wasn't down, you get in, doors would close, you push, you know, second floor,

[00:14:19] we'd go up to the fourth. And you're like, what the heck is this? And then it'd go down to the garage

[00:14:23] again. And then it'll go up to, and then it'll go up to the fifth floor and then go down to third

[00:14:27] floor and then I'd go up to the fourth floor. Oh no. Someone else is driving that elevator.

[00:14:32] Yep. So you end up talking, right? So, you know, and there's, um, it's mirrored panels along the top.

[00:14:40] Oh no. So you're just like looking at yourself going like, okay, like where are we at here?

[00:14:44] And so I would start talking to them to just say like, okay guys, like, haha, very me. Um, you know,

[00:14:51] I do need to get to work if there's any way that we could probably just drop this down to the second

[00:14:55] floor so that I can go to work. Um, and sure enough, after I said something back down to the

[00:15:01] second floor, no problem. Wow. So the, um, the elevator closest to the, the pediatric ICU also.

[00:15:10] So, you know, it was just like, you know, they kept working on it. They keep trying, but I'm like,

[00:15:15] you're not going to fix that. Those kids are playing in the elevator. The kids are goofing off.

[00:15:21] You just have to talk to them. Oh my God, Jen. That's great, man.

[00:15:25] Thank you so much for sharing that. Uh, no worries.

[00:15:30] Thanks Jen for coming on. I appreciate it.

[00:15:33] Anytime, whatever you need, whenever you need it, you know, the deal.

[00:15:37] Well, you answered the call and I appreciate it.

[00:15:40] Anytime.

[00:15:41] Have a good one.

[00:15:44] Well, that was spooky. Thank you, Jennifer, for giving me nightmares.

[00:15:50] Yeah. Okay. Next up is another amazing Jennifer. This is Jennifer Crowe, my guest for episode 103.

[00:16:03] Jennifer is the founder of Nurses for Nurses. If you have not already checked out nursesfornurses.org,

[00:16:11] you need to get on there because she is definitely somebody that is up and coming. I love what she's doing.

[00:16:19] She created Nurses for Nurses. It is really a social media platform and it's going to be packed with all things nursing.

[00:16:29] So there are nurse entrepreneurs. There are legal nurses. There are nurse podcasters. I am proud to say I am a member.

[00:16:39] It's just going to be filled with everything nursing in one place. So this is really awesome.

[00:16:46] And Jennifer works in Alaska and she works night shift. Yeah.

[00:16:55] Let me just say her office is in the basement of the hospital.

[00:17:00] So I don't need to say any more. Take a listen to Jennifer.

[00:17:10] Well, let's bring everybody up to speed.

[00:17:12] So you are Jennifer Crowe and you were my guest for episode 103.

[00:17:19] And I just absolutely love talking to you because you're the creator of Nurses for Nurses,

[00:17:25] which is an amazing social media site where you bring nurses from all different disciplines with all different talents together.

[00:17:35] So just update us on what's been going on with Nurses for Nurses.

[00:17:39] Right now I have out a marketplace for nurse creators and writers.

[00:17:46] So what I do is I put in their business information, links to their to their websites,

[00:17:52] little blurbs about their businesses just to help get the word out because there's so many nurse owned businesses out there that truly like it's hard to keep up with them all.

[00:18:01] And there's there's new ones coming out every day.

[00:18:04] And so my page right now, nurses for nurses dot org is an advertising space for nurses.

[00:18:11] We did some beta testing on our social media platform and we have a little bit of work to do still.

[00:18:17] So it's going to be a little bit longer before we can officially launch it to the public.

[00:18:21] I want it to be perfect before it goes out so it's not buggy and obnoxious to be in.

[00:18:26] And so I'm working through some of the issues there.

[00:18:29] And yeah, that's that's where we're at.

[00:18:32] It's been a really good journey.

[00:18:35] I've met a lot of really great people and got a scholarship to go to health conference.

[00:18:42] So I'll get to meet a lot of the extraordinary nurses that are there going in with the nurse approved group.

[00:18:48] So I'm really, really excited.

[00:18:50] Yeah.

[00:18:50] Yeah.

[00:18:51] Yeah.

[00:18:51] Lots of great things are happening for you.

[00:18:53] And I have referred, gosh, so many nurses now, nurse entrepreneurs, nurse artists.

[00:19:01] I just had an interview with Erica Browning and she is from a shop rebel nurse and she has an amazing line of merchandise, hats, stickers, shirts.

[00:19:16] And I said, you got to get on Jen's site.

[00:19:20] So she's like, oh, my God, this is so cool.

[00:19:22] Thank you so much.

[00:19:23] So everybody that I meet, I send them over to your site.

[00:19:27] Oh, thank you so much.

[00:19:28] I appreciate that.

[00:19:29] Yeah.

[00:19:29] I'm so excited for for what's to come.

[00:19:33] So thank you so much for coming on and responding to my call of wanting to hear some spooky stories.

[00:19:41] Oh, yeah.

[00:19:42] Yeah.

[00:19:42] What do you got?

[00:19:43] So I have a good one and I've never had anything very like creepy happen to me before.

[00:19:49] So this took me like totally aback.

[00:19:52] I just it still gives me goosebumps.

[00:19:54] It was years ago and I get goosebumps every time I talk about it.

[00:19:57] And so just to kind of like set up the scene of it.

[00:20:01] This is I was working as a house supervisor, kind of right in the middle of COVID.

[00:20:06] Maybe 2021, 2022.

[00:20:10] We our office was located down in the basement of the hospital.

[00:20:15] It was kind of a large square office where we had my house supervisor nurse that does the transfer center bringing patients in from rural areas.

[00:20:25] And then there's a desk for an office manager that does like the supply ordering and keeps, you know, the meetings, does books all the meetings, that sort of thing.

[00:20:35] And then a central staffing person.

[00:20:37] So there's like four people that populate this office.

[00:20:40] It's just this big open space.

[00:20:42] Everybody has their own like desk with a computer and a phone system like hooked up to like our network.

[00:20:48] Network and night shift.

[00:20:51] It's just me, the house supervisor and the transfer center nurse.

[00:20:55] And so this night we had had, you know, it's COVID.

[00:20:59] So we were utilizing our morgue a lot.

[00:21:02] And we had just taken it's like 3 a.m.

[00:21:04] We had just taken a patient, an elderly woman down to the morgue who had passed away and kind of getting ready for like the starting to prep my like end of shift stuff and just kind of chatting with the transfer center nurse.

[00:21:17] And this we hear this both of us hear this voice and it's just this like little old lady voice that says, hello, hello.

[00:21:29] And we kind of sounds really close.

[00:21:32] Yeah.

[00:21:32] And so we don't kind of turn around and like assess the office.

[00:21:36] There's nobody in it.

[00:21:37] And we're like, well, maybe it's just like somebody like outside the hallway or, you know, something like that.

[00:21:42] And so we just kind of chalk it up to not really worry about it.

[00:21:46] And then we turn around and then it comes like through.

[00:21:49] It comes again.

[00:21:50] And it's just this little like old lady.

[00:21:53] Hello.

[00:21:53] Hello.

[00:21:54] And kind of like with a question mark at the end of it.

[00:21:58] So like you can tell there's like there's she's like asking for help or asking for like like a hello.

[00:22:05] Is anybody there type of?

[00:22:07] Yeah.

[00:22:07] And so I'm like, OK, there's just got to be somebody like outside the office door.

[00:22:11] So I go walk across the office.

[00:22:14] And as I'm getting to the door, I look down and it's the office manager's desk and her speakerphone button is lit up.

[00:22:24] And so I realized that this voice has come is coming through her speakerphone that just turned on all by itself.

[00:22:33] Oh, my God.

[00:22:34] And then I'm standing right there and it comes through again.

[00:22:38] And like I basically scream like nobody touched this button.

[00:22:43] And it's this really creepy voice.

[00:22:46] And I like go to pick up the phone.

[00:22:49] And then before I can touch it, the phone completely shuts off, like has to reset itself.

[00:22:56] And like it goes black.

[00:22:58] It was it was the craziest thing.

[00:23:00] And to this day, like I think it's the lady that we took down to the morgue that was right next door to our office.

[00:23:05] Like it just had to be because there's no other explanation on how the phone could have like turned on by itself.

[00:23:11] That is so creepy.

[00:23:12] First of all, you're in the basement.

[00:23:15] Yeah.

[00:23:15] You know, though, that's creepy right there.

[00:23:18] It's like every horror movie, anything that's ever happened bad has happened in the basement.

[00:23:25] Right.

[00:23:26] Right.

[00:23:27] Oh, my gosh.

[00:23:28] Yeah.

[00:23:28] Yeah.

[00:23:29] I think about it all the time.

[00:23:30] And it's just it's like never we've never been able to explain it.

[00:23:33] It's never happened again.

[00:23:35] It just it was it was very strange.

[00:23:37] Yeah.

[00:23:38] There's something about speakers and call lights going off that where nobody's in the room that, you know, that's just uncanny and something's going on there.

[00:23:49] Yeah.

[00:23:50] Have you ever walked through like the middle of the hospital, like the guts of the hospital?

[00:23:55] Basically, have you ever seen gotten to see that at all in your years?

[00:23:59] Oh, my God.

[00:24:00] Yeah.

[00:24:01] So when you there's usually some sort of floor in the hospital where it's like the the middle part of it, all the oxygen and like all of like where the facilities people go and they do all their work on all the systems.

[00:24:13] And if you ever have the opportunity to get a tour through that, it's literally it reminds me of like a Freddy Krueger nightmare.

[00:24:21] Like something's going to pop out from these like dark pipes.

[00:24:25] Oh, my gosh.

[00:24:26] That is a creepy place to be.

[00:24:28] I don't know how people can work in those spaces.

[00:24:31] Yeah, there there's definitely all parts of the hospital.

[00:24:35] So when when our new postpartum unit was being made, we had to move.

[00:24:41] I did postpartum for a very short time and we had to move to an area of the hospital that was it was a it was an old cardiac floor.

[00:24:49] And I imagine they had many codes there where people didn't make it.

[00:24:55] And I didn't work night shift.

[00:24:57] I worked day shift.

[00:24:58] But I would come on and the nurses would be just totally freaked out.

[00:25:04] And they'd say, we saw it again last night.

[00:25:07] They would see like apparitions in the hallways.

[00:25:12] Yeah.

[00:25:12] Floating in the hallways.

[00:25:14] And they were just some of them would be just completely freaked out.

[00:25:18] And there was like two nurses stations.

[00:25:20] One was at the south end.

[00:25:22] No, one was at the east end and one was at the west end.

[00:25:26] And the apparitions, it always happened at the west end.

[00:25:32] And so none of the nurses would be at that nurse's station.

[00:25:36] They would all like be huddled at the other end because they just said it was too creepy and they would see things floating in the halls.

[00:25:44] So I know that there's a lot of hospital hauntings out there and yours just proved it.

[00:25:52] Yeah.

[00:25:52] Well, yeah, there's definitely something to, you know, to death and, you know, this whole getting kind of that transition phase between here and there and what happens to what happens to us when we really die.

[00:26:07] So, yeah, we've seen it.

[00:26:09] We believe it.

[00:26:09] So I'll be coming on speakerphone when I die, I think, because that was really scary.

[00:26:15] I love it.

[00:26:16] We're probably going to haunt the halls of the hospitals that we worked at, right?

[00:26:20] I hope not.

[00:26:21] Not for too long.

[00:26:22] I want to go away from that place sometime.

[00:26:25] Just a little mini haunting.

[00:26:27] Yeah.

[00:26:28] Remind them I was here, right?

[00:26:31] Exactly.

[00:26:32] Love it.

[00:26:32] Thank you so much for sharing your story.

[00:26:35] And, man, continued success with nurses for nurses.org.

[00:26:40] And I would encourage everyone listening to go check it out.

[00:26:44] It's really an awesome place that you have created.

[00:26:47] So thank you.

[00:26:48] Thank you so much.

[00:26:49] Yeah, I'm excited to see where it is like a year from now.

[00:26:52] I can't wait to see it kind of in full bloom.

[00:26:55] So.

[00:26:55] Oh, yeah, me too.

[00:26:57] Well, hey, happy Halloween.

[00:26:58] And thanks for sharing your story.

[00:27:00] Thanks so much, Michelle.

[00:27:02] You take care.

[00:27:02] You too.

[00:27:03] Bye.

[00:27:04] Bye-bye.

[00:27:06] All right, Jen.

[00:27:08] That was just too scary.

[00:27:10] Oh, my gosh.

[00:27:12] What is it with basements?

[00:27:14] Don't go into the basement.

[00:27:18] Thank you.

[00:27:19] Thanks, Jen.

[00:27:20] Really appreciate it.

[00:27:22] Okay.

[00:27:22] Last submission is from my friend, Linda Ledesma.

[00:27:27] Now, Linda and I go way back.

[00:27:30] Oh, man, I want to say 2011, 2012, if my memory serves me right, which it doesn't always do.

[00:27:39] But we worked together on a grant.

[00:27:42] It was my first grant that we worked on.

[00:27:45] And we live in a community here in the Central Valley in Tulare County.

[00:27:52] And we were working on this grant to improve breastfeeding rates in our county, which were really dismal.

[00:28:02] And we were pretty successful in bringing those up.

[00:28:08] So we worked together for a couple of years.

[00:28:11] And then Linda went on to do great things.

[00:28:13] She is now the director of the Healthy Start Family Resource Center in Lindsay, California.

[00:28:22] And she's with the Lindsay Unified School District.

[00:28:26] So Linda wrote in and she said,

[00:28:29] We have a young girl at our Family Resource Center.

[00:28:33] And she only shows herself to our promotora.

[00:28:38] She's about six years old.

[00:28:40] And our building used to be a church.

[00:28:43] The room she goes to hide in used to be the old music room.

[00:28:49] And this is, this is, I love this.

[00:28:53] To me, this is like Casper the Friendly Ghost, right?

[00:28:58] If you're my age, you probably grew up watching that.

[00:29:02] But just think about a six-year-old and how much they love music, right?

[00:29:10] And it sounds like this little girl, she used to love music.

[00:29:15] And man, just the fact that the building used to be a church.

[00:29:20] And what happens in churches?

[00:29:22] Lots of funerals, lots of services, right?

[00:29:26] So to think that this little girl maybe had passed away at an early age, obviously, six.

[00:29:34] Yeah.

[00:29:35] Wow.

[00:29:37] Amazing.

[00:29:37] Thanks, Linda, for sharing that.

[00:29:39] And for those of you that don't know what a promotora is, Linda and I worked with the

[00:29:43] promotoras.

[00:29:44] They are a group of people in the community that live in the community and they have a specific

[00:29:52] health training.

[00:29:53] And they share accurate, up-to-date information with the members of their community that they

[00:30:03] live in.

[00:30:03] They are such great partners for fostering trust, fostering relationship.

[00:30:13] And they've gone really far in educating their community.

[00:30:18] Where we live, we have high rates of diabetes, heart disease, obesity.

[00:30:26] And so these ladies, they just are in the community and they help educate the community.

[00:30:32] And they are vital.

[00:30:34] It's just such a great relationship.

[00:30:37] Thank you, Linda, Jen, Jennifer, and Susan for sending in your contributions to the Spooky Stories

[00:30:49] compilation.

[00:30:50] I have really enjoyed listening to your stories, reading your stories.

[00:30:56] And Halloween is tomorrow.

[00:30:59] I hope it's all a happy one for you.

[00:31:02] And if you see a call to action, answer it.

[00:31:07] Answer it like these ladies did.

[00:31:09] Thank you.

[00:31:11] Happy Halloween.

[00:31:12] Happy Halloween.