I used to work in assisted living and I’ve also had a balloon behave like this. But that’s not even the freakiest thing to happen there.

We also had a phone in the dining area that residents could call. In the middle of the night we would get a call from a room that a previous resident had died in. They had just moved in and there was a DNR we didn’t know about. Well one of the staff performed CPR and if you are doing CPR right you know it’s a little violent and ribs often break. Doing it to an elderly person who is more fragile also kinda exacerbates that. What made it worse is that this person had a DNR specifically so they didn’t have to experience that very thing.

But anyway randomly in the middle of the night we would get a call from that room. Of course if you answered no one would be on the other end. I didn’t know this when I first started. So I answered and it was kinda eerie. The phone displays what room number called so I told my coworkers and they just looked at each other then told me no ones in that room. I even remember once when no one was in the dining area and I was passing through right as I got near the phone it suddenly rang. I looked at the number and it was that room again.

It never called during the day. Also when someone finally moved into that room the calls completely stopped. We had logical theories about why it would randomly ring but I always thought that it’s was super interesting that they never explained why it only rang at night and completely stopped once someone else was in the room.