Mandy and Candy Nightshifters

What happens when a hospital closes its doors, the patients are gone, and the staff clocks out... but something apparently stays behind?

In this Halloween episode of Mandy and Candy Nightshifters, Candace and Cynthia take you on an international tour of five of the world's most notoriously haunted hospitals.

From an abandoned hospital in South Africa with a disturbing medical scandal to Singapore's Old Changi Hospital and its ghostly nurse who apparently never got the memo that her shift was over, we're exploring the strange history behind these unsettling places.

We'll visit Massachusetts and uncover the horrifying story of serial killer nurse Jane Toppan, travel to South Korea to investigate the psychiatric hospital that inspired a horror movie, and finish in England with wartime medicine and the mysterious Grey Lady of Nocton Hall.

But are these places actually haunted, or have years of tragedy, medical mistreatment, and folklore created legends that refuse to die?

Then, in The Final Shift Report, we turn to a disturbing real-life medical controversy: the reported failed execution of Christa Pike, raising serious questions about medical procedures, emergency response, and patient care.

It's a journey through ghosts, questionable medicine, historical horrors, and the occasional nursing joke.

Because sometimes the scariest thing in a hospital isn't what goes bump in the night. It's what actually happened there.

Clock in, Nightshifters. Hopefully, everyone clocks out!

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"We’ll see you on the next shift."

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In this Shift Report, we head to Chicago in 1977 for one of the strangest intersections of healthcare, true crime, and the paranormal.

Teresita Basa was a respiratory therapist at Edgewater Hospital who was murdered in her apartment. For months, investigators had few leads—until the wife of a doctor who worked at the same hospital reportedly began entering trance-like states and speaking in a voice she claimed belonged to Teresita.

The voice named a killer.

It described stolen jewelry.

And when police investigated, they found evidence that helped turn a bizarre paranormal tip into a real murder case.

Was it possession? Subconscious knowledge? Coincidence? Or something we still don't understand?

Then, before we clock out, we introduce Nursing News, looking at the nurses running for Congress in the 2026 midterm elections and the nursing issues appearing in their campaigns, including staffing, workplace safety, pay, education, burnout, and scope of practice.

Join us for murder, medicine, mystery—and one question that still remains:

How did Remy Chua know?

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"We’ll see you on the next shift."

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From the Apothecary Jar to the Transplant Operating Room

Fresh human blood. Powdered skull. Human fat. Egyptian mummy. Even moss scraped from a dead man’s skull.

For hundreds of years, people used parts of the human body as medicine—and believed those treatments could save their lives.

In this Shift Report, we travel through the strange and sometimes gruesome history of corpse medicine, from gladiator blood and mummy powder to King’s Drops, executioners supplying human remains, and the bizarre world of sympathetic medicine.

Then the story takes a surprising turn.

As medicine began to understand blood types, hormones, infection, tissue preservation, immune rejection, and transplantation, the human body stopped being viewed as a mysterious medicinal ingredient and became something very different: a source of biological material—and eventually, a donor.

So did corpse medicine disappear completely?

Or did science simply change the way we understood an idea humans had been chasing for centuries—that something from one human body might help save another?

It’s weird medicine, bad ideas, fascinating history, and some remarkably good science.

And whatever you do…

Do not lick the skull. 💀

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"We’ll see you on the next shift."

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This Halloween, we’re going back before hospitals, licenses, nursing schools, and white coats.

What happened when the person caring for the sick was also the village healer, midwife, herbalist… or the woman everyone suddenly decided was a witch?

In this Shift Report, Cynthia joins me as we explore healers, midwives, witchcraft accusations, strange medical beliefs, early remedies, and the long road toward modern nursing.

Some healers were respected.
Some were feared.
Some were accused.
And some of the things they used would eventually become part of real medicine.

So grab your coffee, light the candle, and join us for a little Halloween history.

Healers, Midwives, Witches & Nurses
A very Nightshifters look at where caregiving began.

#MandyAndCandyNightshifters #Nightshifters #HalloweenPodcast #NursingHistory #WitchHistory #Midwives #MedicalHistory #Nurses

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Oregon State Hospital has been treating psychiatric patients since 1883—but its history is filled with forgotten patients, dangerous treatments, tragedy, Hollywood, and ghost stories.

In this Shift Report, we explore early psychiatric treatments, the deadly 1942 hospital poisoning, the filming of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the discovery of more than 3,500 unclaimed cremated remains, and the paranormal stories still tied to the hospital’s old buildings and underground tunnels.

The ghosts may be legends.

The forgotten patients were very real.

"We’ll see you on the next shift."

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What do breakfast cereal, sexual morality, Victorian medicine, and bizarre medical devices have in common?

More than you might think.

In this Shift Report, we explore Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, historical fears surrounding masturbation and sexuality, the strange treatments and devices created to control human behavior, and the myths that have grown around this unusual chapter of medical history.

It’s a mix of strange medicine, questionable ideas, real history, and stories that require a little myth-busting along the way.

Shift Report: Sex, Cereal & Victorian Medical Mayhem  

James H. Bowen: https://alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar/1889-pubic-hair-anti-masturbation/

James H. Bowen and Frank Orth: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/bering-in-mind/a-bakere28099s-dozen-old-fashioned-anti-erection-gadgets-for-men-with-illustrations/

Jugum penis: https://www.ebaumsworld.com/articles/victorian-anti-masturbation-devices/87691018/

https://alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar/1889-pubic-hair-anti-masturbation/

Dr. Kellogg: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1447485/

https://library.uthscsa.edu/2014/05/dr-john-harvey-kellogg-inventor-of-kelloggs-corn-flakes/

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Candy and Cynthia explore strange medical practices used in the past including the medicines used, the bad or questionable treatment ideas, the science behind them at the time, and the things that came back.

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Candy reveals the things that every Nurse knows, but no one can explain.

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"We’ll see you on the next shift."

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