Healthcare workers said they've heard confessions ranging from murder, sexual encounters, serial killers and more.
Every profession has its brand of horror stories of clients and customers, but it appears the healthcare workers working with elderly patients are the ones who've seen and heard it all. From murder confessions, sexual trysts, getting rid of abusive husbands, to serial killers, healthcare workers have heard it all. Elderly patients seeing out their final days are more likely to open up about their past as they tried to let go of their guilt. It all started with a tweet explaining how the nursing school doesn't really prepare healthcare workers to handle the stories of elderly patients.
Nursing school doesn't prepare you for the number of elderly patients who will casually confess to decades-old murders.
— zorn (@zozagoon) August 15, 2021
Most of the stories raised eyebrows and even warranted calls to the cops. Here are 25 of the most bizarre stories from the list:
As a CNA in the 90s a woman with Alzheimer's thought I was her husband. She kept asking me if I was sure I buried the children under the church we can't let anyone find their bodies.
— YancyJames (@YancyJames1) August 16, 2021
My grandma at 87 mentioned in passing that she shot a man who tried to carjack her. "I didn't stop to see if I killed him".
— Flow with Chaos and Tired (@Fanaphoenix) August 16, 2021
Knocked me speechless....
Worked in a facility where they had a mobster and a fbi agent both residing in their lock down Alzheimer unit. No one knew they were life long arch enemies until the families put it all together. They were best buds on the unit, inseparable.
— Glenn (@rigwitchdoc) August 16, 2021
This lady one time kept yelling out “I didn’t do it” at like 3am and then would say “he killed him self!” I believe she did it and she was consumed with guilt
— mama of the cheese (@cheesemama_) August 16, 2021
In ER- suicide attempt patient- both her husband and boyfriend at her side so…
— Diane (@seohilljill) August 15, 2021
The number of century-old women who will suddenly tell you EXACTLY how their husbands died…
— Melissa. (@auntiefixesit) August 16, 2021
an old man confessed to killing his little sister accidentally when he was 12 when i visited my grandpa at the home once. sure enough, i looked it up and a little girl had been found dead sometime in the 40s right where he said it happened. he died a few days after that
— danny (@asstr0n0my) August 16, 2021
he told me he panicked and told his parents she fell and hit her head when the real reason was that he'd accidentally elbowed her off a large rock. she was only 10 years old :(
— danny (@asstr0n0my) August 16, 2021
and it's fine, i understood why he told me. guilt needs to be alleviated at some point.
When my grandmother was passing her father appeared to her. She told him off for beating her with a bull whip. I was really proud of her. She yelled at him that she was just a little girl. After that day, when she would say he was there again, she was just happy to see him.
— Fox Woadhill Rogers 🌈💗🎨 (@HseThistleRose) August 16, 2021
I had a lady in nursing home with whom I volunteer insist she had killed 3 people & needed to talk to 🚔. I told staff.
— Sam I Am (@PHX2YOW) August 16, 2021
Staff: "Oh yeah, that's just Mrs. X, she has dementia."
Me: "Or the perfect cover for a prolific serial killer."
Staff: 😳😳😳
Me: 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/a3prwLnaQW
I once had a WWII vet tell me about how he started to drop a live grenade into a baby carriage in Paris because the child was mixed race. Both parents were standing next to it. His sergeant stopped him. Evil walks among us.
— Nessa (@AlohaKamama) August 16, 2021
A family that came for Mom's final days complained when she rallied, that she was spending their inheritance on the hospital bills. They told her she needed to move on, and they wouldn't be visiting her anymore. She died next day all alone. Harsh.
— Lol (@LauraLu83603730) August 16, 2021
the amount of old Finnish men who get drunk and weep about the time they killed a child when they were a mercenary in Africa is.... surprising
— Lord Kinbote 🕋 (@meatdog6669) August 16, 2021
This sweet old guy told me my voice sounds just like this girl that he liked when he was a teenager.His parents wouldn’t let him date outside of his race. They would have basically disowned him. He said that he always thinks about what life could have been like with her 😢.
— Jewel Evans (@CuteSmileyFace1) August 17, 2021
2. She then told me how on her wedding night she was so scared to get undressed because she didn’t want her husband to see the scars…as I’m bawling she then says when her husband did see them he not only comforted her…
— Christopher Wills (@darth25) August 17, 2021
3. He told his mother-in-law if she even looked at his wife cross-eyed she would never see either of them ever again…and she said they never had another argument and she was happy with her husband for years…sorry I didn’t comment this one correctly
— Christopher Wills (@darth25) August 17, 2021
My great grandmother killed a man. My mother told me the story, she was a nurse in the 1930s (I think) caring for a man dieing of cancer who was in a lot of pain, to use her exact words "he was screaming his way to death" so she & his wife put a pillow over his head & sat on it.
— Sneebs🌹 (@th3FatRat) August 16, 2021
I once had a WWII vet tell me about how he started to drop a live grenade into a baby carriage in Paris because the child was mixed race. Both parents were standing next to it. His sergeant stopped him. Evil walks among us.
— Nessa (@AlohaKamama) August 16, 2021
My coworker and I were not prepared for an old dementia patient, who was a former judge, admitting to being a pedophile. The way he longingly talked about 8 year old blond girls made me sick.
— Michael Clark (@IndignantIll) August 16, 2021
Had an elderly home care hospice pt whose wife killed squirrels in their yard with a shotgun. (In NJ!) When I went there to pronounce him, the expression on his face made me think he’d been smothered with a pillow.
— auntanne 🌛 (@auntanne9) August 16, 2021
I've had 2 murderers confess to me. One was an inmate that was getting eaten up by guilt. The other was a deathbed confession. The police found the body right where he said it was. Really sad.
— Walter Houston (@Floatable_LPN) August 15, 2021
This whole thread is a trip pic.twitter.com/g6cqUrmaim
— regretti and meatballs (@BlubberSocks) August 16, 2021
Not ratting out Auntie Peaches!
— laura : I make a lot of communication mistakes (@lauralake3) August 16, 2021
Working in a nursing home.and the 89 year old client I’m caring for told me today that he regrets not marrying his first love. He has four retired children and his wife of many years already passed away. Hes about to be 90 and he still has that regret. Truly crazy.
— i wanna go home (@ewnndungu) August 16, 2021
While working in healthcare I managed meds for an elderly KKK member. He called me a slur one day. While looking in his eyes, I asked if it was wise to insult the woman responsible for keeping him alive. We never had any problems after that.
— chasing summer (@_flowerchild9) August 16, 2021
I was a nurse but it was my grandfather who confessed to killing his commanding officer in the Austrian Hungarian army in wwI. He shot him in the back during a battle because he was a bad man who was going to get a lot of people killed.
— ANSJanet - tax the pandemic profiteers (@ANS_Janet) August 16, 2021
A good friend of mine works in a care home and she'd say she wasn't prepared for the number of cruddy old men who would try to bed her. One of them requests help getting onto the toilet and tells her he can't get his thing over the lid on his own. He's a retired Priest, btw.
— willigara ☯️🇩🇪🗽🤦♂️ (@williwillchilli) August 16, 2021
Also, the amount of old ladies dropping hints about sexual endeavors. “I use to be able to put my legs behind my head until my mom told me not to 😉” 😳 Gram! 😂
— Jasmine 🌼💜 (@Jay_Elle_Elle) August 15, 2021
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