About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, a delivery driver asked curiously: ‘Why does Dr. Smith always leave through the emergency exit?’ After pondering for a moment, an old neighbor chimed in with a twinkle in his eye: ‘Oh, that’s because he’s sneaking out early to avoid those pesky patients asking when their noses will be done!’ Everyone burst into laughter, realizing it was just another quirky local tale.
2. Last week, a curious nurse asked her colleague: 'Have you noticed how Dr. Johnson never uses the elevator?' Her colleague shrugged, smiling. ‘He’s just old-fashioned, I guess.’ Later that day, an elderly delivery driver mentioned over coffee: “I saw him today—walking like he owns the place.” Turns out, Dr. Johnson was born in 1917 and had never bothered updating his routine.
3. In the quiet hallway of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, a strange humming sound could be heard late every night. At first, only cleaning staff noticed it, but soon patients began reporting the same eerie tune. One evening, a delivery driver swears he saw an old man in a surgical mask whispering incantations over instruments. Turns out, it was just an orthopedic surgeon practicing his Italian opera arias during breaks. The last report came from a neighbor who claimed she heard voices arguing in the operating room—until someone realized they were watching a rerun of Friends on someone’s phone.
4. At dawn, when the hospital corridors were empty, a janitor noticed something peculiar. Every night, a shadowy figure in surgical scrubs would appear, whispering softly into the operating room's ventilation shaft. Curious, he followed the ghostly figure until it disappeared through an open window. The next morning, everyone laughed when they found him sitting in the cafeteria, wearing surgical gloves and sipping coffee from a sterilized cup. 'Just checking if the coffee was up to standard,' he explained with a straight face.