While Working In A Retirement Home, She Cared For A Resident Who Always Greeted Her With, “Good Morning, Tinkerbell,” But After He Passed Away, She Still Heard Him Say The Phrase The Next Day
This woman started working at a more than 100-year-old retirement home not long ago. When it was first built, it functioned as a homeless shelter. A hundred years ago, it was called a “poorhouse,” the American version of what was known as a “poor farm.”
Over the years, it eventually was converted into a retirement home. Everyone thought it was haunted and shared ghost stories.
Nearly all the town’s citizens and retirement home employees had a personal encounter with the ghosts of former residents. Until a few days ago, she hadn’t seen a ghost, but that recently changed.
“One of my favorite residents was this spritely elderly gentleman named Paul. He was one of the first residents to greet me when I moved in (part of the job requires that I live on the property if there were emergencies in the middle of the night,” she said.
Whenever she cared for Paul, he requested a black coffee with two teaspoons of sugar. He always told her she was the only employee who made his cup of coffee correctly. Paul was a kind man.
During the workday, she had to ring a bell to inform the residents it was mealtime. Every morning, she walked down the hallway and rang the bell.
“Paul always said, ‘Good morning, Tinkerbell! as I went down the hall. It eventually became his nickname for me,” she explained.
Three mornings ago, she went through her usual routine, walking down the hallway and ringing the bell. She walked by Paul’s room and heard him greet her as usual, “‘Good morning, Tinkerbell!'”
After finishing her rounds, she made Paul’s coffee and put the cup in his usual spot at the breakfast table where all their residents eat together.
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Once breakfast was served, she realized Paul hadn’t come to the table. When this happens, it’s her responsibility to check on residents who haven’t arrived for meals. She wrote a list of all the residents who weren’t present at the table and started searching for them.
When she knocked on Paul’s door, which was closed, he didn’t answer. She knocked again, but he still didn’t answer the door.
Their elderly residents sometimes needed medical assistance, so part of her job duties involved entering residents’ rooms to check if there was an emergency after receiving no answer once she knocked twice at their doors. She got her keys, unlocked Paul’s door, and entered his room.
“Inside, the room was immaculate. The bed was made, and there was no sign of him. Indeed, it was like he had just stepped out of his room. When I returned to the dining room, Paul’s spot was still empty,” she shared.
She wasn’t worried because it wasn’t unusual for residents to go out to breakfast or run errands in the morning. Sometimes, residents didn’t inform employees before leaving, so she assumed that Paul was out and about.
A couple of hours passed after breakfast, and while she was setting the table for lunchtime, the retirement home administrator, Luke, walked in. Luke needed the set of master keys, and he told her Paul had a massive stroke and died while he was visiting his daughter.
She was understandably crushed by this news and mentioned that Paul must have passed away not long ago because he told her good morning while she was ringing the bell for breakfast hours ago.
Luke gave her a stunned look and told her that wasn’t possible because Paul had been pronounced dead at the hospital the night before. In response, she asked Luke who had said good morning to her.
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