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5 min readA nurse working the night shift in a New Orleans emergency room watched a colleague die in his sleep weeks after a patient’s widow screamed a voodoo curse at the medical team. Then the nurse who took the curse seriously died too, falling asleep at the wheel and plowing into oncoming traffic. The narrator quit his job and moved back to the Midwest, still unsure whether the deaths were coincidence or consequence.
The Emergency Room Curse
The first story establishes the episode’s central tension between rational explanation and supernatural belief. The narrator, a young nurse from a small Midwestern town, had just finished a quiet Friday shift when an elderly man was wheeled in with a rotting wound, high fever, and fluid filling his lungs. Two women followed the stretcher, wailing and chanting. The doctor ordered the women removed, and a large male nurse named Andre spoke to them in French Creole, convincing them to leave. The patient coded and died despite the team’s efforts.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:31) **Story One: The Voodoo Curse in the ER** - A nurse recounts a series of deaths that follow a voodoo curse placed on him and his colleagues.
- 2 (07:34) **Story Two: The Entity Named Bill** - A roommate duo in Denver is terrorized by a poltergeist-like entity that eventually reveals itself to be a voodoo curse.
- 3 (27:06) **Story Three: The Aftershocks of Voodoo Revenge** - A man describes seven years of supernatural torment after rejecting the romantic advances of people involved in voodoo and other occult practices.
- 4 (29:45) **Story Four: The Voodoo Bunker in San Francisco** - A group exploring an old military bunker discovers a room with voodoo dolls and unsettling graffiti.
- 5 (31:30) **Story Five: The Fishing Pond Voodoo Jar** - A fisherman catches a sealed mason jar containing a voodoo doll and bound ID cards.
- 6 Standout Quotes
- 7 “He tells me that she was blaming us for her husband's death. Andre tells us that she is a practitioner of Voodoo, and that she cursed us and the doctor for not saving her husband.”
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Show Notes
I was cursed, then my life turned upside down..
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