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5 min readThe Night Nurse and the 104-Year-Old Patient
A night nurse named Burrows accepted a position caring for Rudolf Tweeg, a 104-year-old man who had been in a catatonic state since a stroke 25 years earlier. Tweeg was wealthy and remained in his large home rather than a care facility. On his first shift, Burrows arrived at 7:50 PM to find the house empty except for the patient. The head nurse, Mrs. Bowie, had left a letter with detailed instructions for the night—and seven rules that quickly revealed this was no ordinary nursing assignment.
The Rules of the House
The letter explained Tweeg's simple evening routine: he would listen to the radio in the parlor until 8:45 PM (the dial set to AM frequency 1013, which Burrows was told not to change), then move to his study for audio tapes until 9:30 PM, when he would be put to bed. But the seven rules that followed were anything but routine.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:00) **Narrator's Arrival and First Impressions** - A former military medic accepts a night nurse position for a 104-year-old catatonic patient, Rudolf Tweeg, and arrives at his large, isolated home.
- 2 (02:34) **The Rule Letter** - The narrator reads the full set of seven bizarre and unsettling rules he must follow for the night shift.
- 3 (06:39) **Meeting Mr. Tweeg and Initial Routine** - The narrator finds Mr. Tweeg in the parlor and begins the prescribed nightly tasks.
- 4 (08:02) **Study Time and the Mannequins** - The narrator moves Mr. Tweeg to his study to listen to an audio tape, and first encounters the two mannequins, Edda and Nina.
- 5 (10:42) **First Strange Occurrences** - The narrator begins to notice unsettling sounds and receives the first mysterious phone call.
- 6 (12:44) **Scratching and a Mysterious Injury** - The narrator hears scratching from the floor and suddenly suffers a sharp, bleeding cut on his forehead.
- 7 (15:00) **Discovery of a Disturbing File** - While trying to calm down in the study, the narrator finds a manila folder containing a medical file on a young girl.
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I used to be a night nurse with 7 simple rules to follow, I failed...
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