Fright Bites: The Transfer Call
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In the quiet hours of a hospital night shift, routine can feel strangely fragile.
A porter receives a transfer call just after three in the morning. No patient name. Only a ward number. The ward is in an older part of the hospital, half-empty and dimly lit, with beds left behind like the last traces of a forgotten shift.
One bed is occupied. The patient lies completely still beneath the sheet. There is no nurse waiting, no name on the board, and no explanation for where the patient is meant to go. Then the call bell lights up above the bed, and a quiet voice says one word: “Sorry.”
The transfer begins as normal. The bed moves through the corridors and down to the lifts. But when the doors open on the lower floor, the bed is empty.
A short, unsettling Fright Bites account from a hospital night worker, where the ordinary machinery of care — wards, call bells, transfer requests, and silent corridors — becomes the setting for something impossible to explain.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fright Bites, a mini-series from the Haunted UK podcast. |
| 0:14.7 | Over the years, you've trusted us with your true paranormal experiences, stories that chilled us, |
| 0:23.0 | unsettled us and stayed with us long after the episodes ended. In Frightbytes, we bring you the very best short-form |
| 0:29.3 | listener submissions we've ever received, hand-picked, stripped down, and told in their most |
| 0:35.3 | terrifying form. These are short stories, real accounts. |
| 0:40.7 | No filler, no distractions, just a single moment |
| 0:44.2 | where something unexplained stepped out of the shadows |
| 0:47.2 | and into someone's life. |
| 0:50.1 | So dim the lights, get comfortable and brace yourself. |
| 1:05.9 | This is Frightbytes episode 8, the transfer call. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm not a writer, so I'll just say what happened as clearly as I can. |
| 1:17.3 | I won't mention the name of the hospital, and I prefer to remain anonymous. |
| 1:22.1 | This was a good few years ago when I worked nights as a portrait at a hospital. |
| 1:27.7 | If you've ever been in one late at night, you'll know it feels very different once things quietened down. |
| 1:29.4 | You notice noises more. |
| 1:31.4 | The corridors seem longer. |
| 1:34.1 | I mostly moved patients between wards or took people to scans. |
| 1:38.5 | The job was routine and I was used to it. |
| 1:41.2 | One night just after three in the morning, a transfer came through with only a ward |
| 1:45.5 | number on it. No patient name. That wasn't common, but it did happen. The ward was in an older |
| 1:52.9 | part of the hospital. Some of it wasn't really used anymore, but the lights were on when I got there. |
| 1:59.5 | Most of the beds were empty, curtains half-pulled, |
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