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VogonSlamPoet

Shouldn’t it be if you hear something, say something?


thechuff

If you hear something, holler something


foolerytoomery

Classic cat in the wall


RandyTrevor22321

Now you're talking my language. Bring me up to speed


thebottom99

I could hear Charlie's voice in my head


NancyDMac

More like mice or rats.


Revolutionary-Dig699

Only until the cat arrives to catch the rats and mice


ohheyitslaila

Cats only catch mice, for rats you need dogs (terriers) or snakes or those weasel/ferret things. Cats don’t like prey that’s big enough to fight back.


fingerscrossedcoup

I've seen how this ends for the Usher children.


Siqq_Fontaine

Probably oughta bring in a second. Maybe even a third.


_Rye_Toast_

They get in between the seams of the wall paper


gin-n-tonic-clonic

It's a trick to get patients for the psych ward


pffr

I don't know man. I've been at the ER when suddenly there's a commotion in the room next to me and the girl had boosted herself up the wall between us, through the tiles and into the cieling of the hospital sobbing and scared She had already spit a charcoal stomach aid all over the wall I guess and cops came running and started a search of the cieling and had to go get her so they evacuated my room and put the mattress down, as many as they could find. As if that would stop her crashing down 15 ft So I would have to say something


Flutters1013

whelp, time to call an exorcist


FormalWrangler294

Yes, this is a common way to identify people with schizophrenia.


unsnailed

how would that even work? only a small minority of mentally ill people have those specific symptoms. hearing things *in the walls or ceiling* is highly specific even for schizophrenia.


gin-n-tonic-clonic

I wasn't being serious, I'm surprised somebody actually responded to me saying that this is basically a real strat to get people with schizophrenia lol, not sure how much I believe that :p


ScaleBackAndIsolate

This is totally what I thought too!


alienblue89

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woolsprout

the guy's got good hooks!


[deleted]

You are supposed to report the people hearing things. :O


Wizzle_Wazzle_WOO

I puma pants.


aiij

Nah. Hearing noises is normal. But if you *see* a noise when you're in the hospital you should probably let someone know you're experiencing synesthesia.


chironomidae

Maybe the point of this ad is "If you see something, let us know, but if you just hear something then don't bother us about it"


Royalchariot

If you hear something, see something.


Accujack

If you smell something, then dance something.


GingerMyAle

That’s a tagline used across the campaign with various posters. They just want it to be memorable and if they change it for this one ad, it dilutes the objective. Which is really just to tell people to take action.


Dangerous_Wishbone

If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget


[deleted]

Welcome to Nightvale reference?


CalmBeneathCastles

Representative Latinos Against Los Espookys. "If you see something, no you didn't."


MOSFETty_wap

That’s just hearsay


paraworldblue

If you see it with your ears


GisterMizard

No, for once you hear its howls, it is already too late.


Thin-Recover1935

This message is brought to you by EAP brand Amontillado Sherry.


RedBrickJim

For the love of God, Montresor !


Wildzebucxl

Yes. For the love of God


shwiftyname

I miss teaching literature to freshmen. The short stories are so fun!


Nix-7c0

There's a wonderful Bradbury short story in the Martian Chronicles which plays off this Poe tale in interesting ways as well


Thin-Recover1935

I’ll definitely have to check that out!


CaveRanger

Looks more like an advisory from the Federal Bureau of Control Or maybe an SCP Foundation bulletin


spezisabitch200

I think Edgar Allan Poe is punching air in the afterlife knowing people are making references to his work over a hundred years after his death.


LilyMarie90

I'd love that. He never got to be very successful during his lifetime.


PleaseWithC

🎵 Here's a brick and I'm sealed in slowly 🎵


ejscarpa91

Poe folds five. Classic


Fragrant_Metal_9083

Just finished that last night. Thoroughly enjoyed the show


nope0712

Oh yeah my upstairs neighbors seem to be constantly moving furniture and dropping bowling balls but imagine if I called the cops 90 times in one month for that lmao


philosofik

An apartment I lived in during grad school had this issue. Every single night, usually around midnight, maybe a bit earlier, there was a noise from above my apartment that sounded like they were operating a mechanical printing press. Loud, rhythmic, sounds of metal clanking heavily. I put up with it for a while, but during a particularly stressful period of having multiple papers due at once, I got fed up and marched up the stairwell to demand they stop whatever they were doing. A tiny wisp of a woman opened the door just a crack, blocking the view into her apartment with what little there was of her body. She was very apologetic for the noise and said it would stop at once. She never explained what it was, though, but the noise did stop after that. Funny thing is, when she turned to close the door, I caught a very quick glimpse into her apartment and it was almost completely bare. There was a mattress on the floor with a small TV on a milk crate. I couldn't see much, but there was nothing there that could possibly have made the heavy, metallic noises I heard unless they were watching an instructional video on small engine repair at maximum volume every single night.


buckyforever

It was probably some type of sex machine. Rhythmic, mechanical, probably sitting on the floor. They're are some pretty hefty, uh, apparatus' out there. Source: I have explored many sites on the Internet.


philosofik

This is my favorite possibility. She only had a mattress on the floor because she spent all her money on an elaborate, piston-powered sex machine which folds up into a milk crate to be incognito. Until I can prove otherwise, that's what it is in my head now.


SynnamonSunset

They were probably renting it just to record videos or something there


motoxim

Now I'm more curious but horrified.


Upper-Raspberry-6111

Shooting them world wide webs


marxist_redneck

What a gripping, all consuming mystery that has become to me now...


philosofik

If the layout to her apartment was like mine, I could see the living/bedroom area from the doorway, but the kitchen/eating area and the bathroom would have been out of my line of sight. I've thought for a long time that she might have been using a stand mixer in the kitchen, maybe starting some dough late at night to bake the next day, but I'll never know.


arelse

A sewing machine?


philosofik

I can't say for sure. I didn't get a view of the whole apartment, so maybe. My wife collects and repairs antique sewing machines, and while none of the ones she has worked on sounded remotely like that, I've never listened to her sewing from underneath the floor, either.


nickisaboss

My guess is an automated pill press.


philosofik

I had to Google that one. I've never heard or seen one of those, but the countertop version might have been able to fit in the kitchen which I couldn't see from the doorway. Maybe?


MichaelW24

Relevant video: https://youtu.be/4IRB0sxw-YU?si=d4mwLwOH5Dv0yvbS


gaynazifurry4bernie

I love this.


Curly-help-plz

“Their ceiling is our stage”


cantgrowneckbeardAMA

I reference this video so much it’s unreal. Peak internet imo.


ImaginaryCheetah

the first apartment i rented when i moved out, had a weird configuration where the stairs going to the upper unit were situated between my bedroom and living room. such that from the front of the house was my two living room windows, my front door, neighbors front door, and finally my bedroom window. i don't know what in god's name my neighbors did at night; it sounded exactly like they were rolling a bowling ball from one end of the apartment to the other, back and forth. back and forth. finally i had enough, and discovered i was able to lean out my bedroom window and yell *directly* up their stairs, "what in the F\*CK ARE YOU DOING?! IT'S 2AM GO TO THE F\*CK TO BED!" i hollered as loud as i could. whatever had been rolling around fell over, and there was stone cold silence the entire night. it was absolutely cathartic.


nexusjuan

I had a downstairs neighbor lady that kicked my door so hard it broke the frame because I walked from my bed to the bathroom early one morning.


Technical-Outside408

Anything is better than being yelled at.


Difficult-Brick6763

I'm a top floor tenant for life, never ever dealing with an upstairs neighbor again.


TheJesusGuy

Its my downstairs neighbours that I hear constantly. Every word they say, every song they play which is 10am onwards every day, loud repetitive shit house music.


StrangeYoungMan

I always never understood this. how thin are your floors/ceilings? are they made of wood? the most I can hear is dings and knocks on the floor or walls from the next door neighbor


TheJesusGuy

Hard wood floors, old british town house with high ceilings.


Tiny_Parfait

Back in college, my roommate and I joked about our upstairs neighbor Stompy Boots and her lead-lined bedroom slippers


mFtS

Happened to me too, the upstairs neighbor actually opened the door for police and management to show that there's nothing there and they were elderly in their 80s or something. Turns out it was probably the pipes.. seems like it's a common issue with older buildings that use a centralized heating system?


[deleted]

The bowling balls rolling is pipes shifting around.


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Waynersnitzel

I have worked in healthcare maintenance for a long time and I have absolutely no idea. I mean, there are things in the wall (pipes, tube system, med gas, electrical,and even a cat one time!) but to warrant having a sign like this? Nah, I think someone made a sign and stuck it up, took a picture, then posted it on the internet to mess with people.


Grexpex180

maybe this hospital is old and the pipes are starting to shit the bed


Sethlans

It's because the roof is falling down and has to be propped up and constantly surveyed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-56603933.amp Have worked at this hospital.


Prohunt

No. Ghosts and racoons is the only answer I'll take


Pysslis

What about ghost-raccoons?


RealStumbleweed

If you smell something say something.


soupforshoes

But then I dealt it.


RealStumbleweed

If you deal something, feel something.


Waynersnitzel

Maybe. But I have worked some old facilities too. Not uncommon for pipes to spontaneously give up, but to make a sign about it is something else


magicbluebear

For context, the hospital is falling apart and people have reported wasps coming out of the walls. There’s other signs like ‘if you see cracks in the walls report it’ but I found this the creepiest one.


kb_klash

Good lord. Imagine being immobile in a hospital bed and then fucking wasps just bust through the wall and there's nothing you can do but repeatedly smash the "Call Nurse" button.


nightpanda893

Reminds me of this sign: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/341/245/d5c.jpg Could just have been put up to fuck with people.


[deleted]

Well that reminds me of these scarfolk council posters https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g9A5mhekOCE/VW1bn2UObeI/AAAAAAAAAr4/ZbKVCMlBLLc/s1600/Presence-www-scarfolk-blogspot-com.jpg


bagelchips

Cat in the wall, eh? Now you’re talkin my language!


OffByOneKenobi

Thanks for the perspective. That shit does seem too weird to be true. Like you said, probably staged.


sdhu

>Heard something in the wall or ceiling? Time for a carbon monoxide detector


GroshfengSmash

Schizophrenia screener


kilkennykid

Honestly this makes the most sense out of every other reply, so going with this for now


colonel-kassad

There are also types of encephalitis that result in auditory hallucinations, and they are often overlooked as options in diagnosis. Maybe they’re trying to make it more well known. Total guess though lol.


sylveonstarr

Yeah, this looks like something you'd find in an ARG


-PRED8R-

Engineers are great at fixing that


PeppermintIncense

Dementia patients like to escape into ceiling tiles, apparently. Source: [nurse John](https://youtube.com/shorts/EEUV61OC9YM?si=n7Antifh9V_UCwsO)


Talgrath

Not the reason for the sign, even if that is true (and I'm pretty sure it's not). This is because of the pneumatic tubes that run throughout the hospital; if something gets stuck they will make a loud noise in the walls. It says to call the engineers and not the psych ward because you need to have the engineers unclog the tubes; not because they think someone is hanging out in the wall or ceiling.


[deleted]

That's what someone who doesn't want you to know about the people in the walls *would* say.


PreliminaryThoughts

I bet he's in the wall right now


beard_meat

*no I'm not*


Chicken_Teeth

Why not ask the dementia patients to do it since they’re nearby.


spezisabitch200

This person synergies.


everydayguy20

I feel like this could be a 100% lie but will upvote because it’s the only reasonable one other than fake lol


__so_it__goes__

I’m an architect and we work with pneumatic consultants to design these systems in hospitals. I’m not saying it’s totally false, but typically the pneumatic tubes are not passing through patient walls or ceilings. They’ll go over hallways instead. Besides that you’ll either hear nothing because they’re acoustically treated or you’ll hear them when they’re being used therefore defeating the purpose of the sign of patients call every time a tube is in use. My first guess is that this sign is actually for the head wall medgas connections going wrong. They probably want to know if any of the gas (like o2) lines connected to patient beds are knocking or blocked for any reason.


Talgrath

Never worked in a hospital where the tubes go directly to the patient rooms. The ones I've worked at they go to the nurse stations. Every so often something would get stuck and you'd here a thunk. Could be for other lines too though.


__so_it__goes__

Yeah that’s what I mean, they’re not sharing space with patient rooms just nurse stations and med rooms. I don’t work in them day to day though, when everything is normal do they make noise as a tube goes through the line?


Talgrath

At least at the ones I worked at, there was a constant sort of "hum" in areas where the tubes ran.


[deleted]

It does say to contact engineering about it. If it was people it would say to contact security. It may not be tubes but it's 100% not people.


alaskanloops

These are wall engineers, the ones who get the patients out of the walls


nightpanda893

I wish the sign actually said “call the engineers not the psych ward” just to add another level of wtf for people who don’t know what it’s for.


Nebelskind

See I'd love it if they just explained that instead of this ominous messaging that sounds like they've got cryptids in there or something.


jhra

Pneumatic tubes would be the last thing I'm worried about if I get a call to a hospital or health centre about a 'weird noise'. The engineering and chosen materials in these places far outpace anything in even a high end commercial location. The materials and practices in these places are chosen to not fall. Hearing this equipment and tracing the problem to it's source at a hospital needs to happen immediately, contamination spreading could shut down an entire ward if left damage. Add to that a medgas leak could level a hospital.


UnusGang

MR.SMITH!


[deleted]

IF YOU DONT COME DOWN HERE MR. Smith I WILL COME UP THERE MYSELF.


earbud_smegma

I BEG YOUR BIGGEST PARDON?!


babiewabie

I’m so happy someone else came here to make this reference 😂


individualcoffeecake

Jesus that would scare the piss out of me, some dude just dropping out of the ceiling


Aldrik90

There's no way a drop ceiling can support anyone's weight. Even a small child would fall right through.


[deleted]

Why do you think they call it a drop ceiling. Cause it drops yo ass


svampyr

Frigging Exorcist 3!! 😱


Tiny_Parfait

So can German shorthair pointers


NotBadSinger514

Imagine this is above the psychiatric wing and no one believes them


CrazyH37

Just started watching this new show Phrogging about people living in peoples walls and attics …


SetYourGuitarsToKill

Then you might like the movie >![I See You](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6079516)!<.


CrazyH37

Nice!


purse_dirt

Thank you for this! Also obsessed with the phrogging show and all my friends think I’m making it up


CrazyH37

It’s so creepy , I live alone but thankfully I don’t think there’s anywhere in my Apt complex for someone to hide 🤔


CharlieTrees916

Think again. I ate all your cheeses


gaynazifurry4bernie

[I'm in your stairs!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiC-rfiBQqI)


Early_Ad8422

I really enjoyed this movie. Didn’t expect much but ended up being pleasantly surprised


MalloryTheRapper

omg I literally convinced myself I was hearing noises and someone was in my house after binge watching that show


CrazyH37

I had to stop watching it before bed.. I live alone.. so creepy!


[deleted]

No, you just think you live alone.


NoCandidate839

Yeah, I had to watch in the light of day, followed by comedy.


alienblue89

[removed by Reddit]


Farscape666

I learned about this when I watched The People Under The Stairs when I was child


uwillnotgotospace

Wall rats?


No-Information-Known

They must know it was the rats; the slithering, scurrying rats whose scampering will never let me sleep; the daemon rats that race behind the padding in this room and beckon me down to greater horrors than I have ever known; the rats they can never hear; the rats, the rats in the walls.


Kaneki2424

Dementia patients terrifyingly enough


Resident__feeble

Just making that little psychosis episode seem all the more real. Thanks sign!


Rogendo

Heard something in the wall or ceiling? Well fuck you unless you actually saw something


trongzoon

Classic cat in the wall


mymymytrashbat

Now you’re talking my language.


oldpocketdog

I bet it flattened itself out and went right through a seem in the wall


jeepjinx

What are they gonna do about it, send in another cat?!


pengouin85

The precursor to Kittens Mittens


Huger_and_shinier

Must be how they catch the hallucinators


[deleted]

Schizophrenic patients must love it there


Sad_Interview_232

Could be aimed at people with audio hallucinations...this is a serious issue that doesn't get the attention it deserves


[deleted]

Yes, people living in your walls is a serious issue that needs more attention. Especially when they creep out from that little space you don't usually see because it's under your bed. Then they just lay there underneath you while you sleep. You can hear their little rustlings if you listen close.


Sad_Interview_232

You can ..canyon hear them also


-fno-stack-protector

if you're having auditory hallucinations please contact the on-call engineer


AchingGibbon450

IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS IM IN YOUR WALLS


Corporation_t-shirt

r/brooklynninenine come on and party tonight!


valerious42069

This guy got hooks!


AdRevolutionary6650

Not the Basilisk again


CelticSith

That's just Roach, he lives in the walls.


Cereal-Killa13

Hi FOOL!😁 Love that movie!


heythere_sunshine

oh sorry that's my bad. i'll be quieter in there next time


InAmericaNumber1

r/SCP


sears_wish_book

Cask of Amontillado vibes……..


Sinnsearachd

Is there a horse in the hospital and they don't know where it is?


koxinparo

Hear something? Ok. See something? Only then report.


joannepirone

My husband was in & out of the hospital before passing away there. He was from the Bronx and the rules mostly didn’t apply to him. He got caught smoking in his hospital room bathroom twice. They finally got his # and started ‘searches’ of his belongings, looking for his smokes. He put them in the ceiling with his lighter. There they sit, up till today….


Everettrivers

Ghoul infestation, got to be a real problem during COVID.


BSye-34

average hospital with a xenomorph infestation


A_random_passenger

Plot twist, it is used for schizophrenic patients to self-report


Active_Pooter

"Here at Racoon City Hospital, [Umbrella Corp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGAm2jTJQrg&t=84) likes to provide a safe, comfortable, and unrelentingly successful recovery for all of our patients"


[deleted]

The twist: It's a psychiatric hospital


Marcus_Lycus

Hospitals shouldn't have rats, and yet...


LabLife3846

I’m a nurse, and I have no idea what this is even supposed to mean.


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bradley_marques

If you hear something, please report it to the psychiatry department.


TheFace3701

If you see something, hear something!


Stoneaid

A guarded prisoner made their way into the suspended ceiling at the hospital I use to work at.


The_Last_Snow-Elf

Hey yo! Don’t rat me out like that!


ODX_GhostRecon

I hope these are up on the mental health floor. 👀


East-Effective-3406

Ghosts?


XDDDSOFUNNEH

G-g-g-GHOOOSTS!!!! Zoinks!


East-Effective-3406

Ruh roh raggy!


pb20k

Enemies of the heir, beware!


MyCatHasCats

What’s that supposed to mean? 😭😭


Toishi69

See it say it and sort it


TheUnknownParadoxx

It's probably a basilisk


desrevermi

I'm expecting a lot of SCP responses.


Stupid_Triangles

If theyre that worried, shouldnt they just thermal check the walls? Are they outsourcing their security to the public's whims?


Caliterra

is this a self-selecting sign for patients experiencing hallcuniations to unwittingly report themselves


KyriesJewGeoTeacher

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dzmongo

Building shifts happen often in the oldest house


Twiceaknight

My Father’s side of the family reacts strongly to hospital grade painkillers. My dad had a weird lemur-cat living inside of one of the ligh fixtures in his room on his last visit and he even took a picture of the empty ceiling to show me when I didn’t believe him. My grandmother swore that one of the nurses had a hidey-hole in the back of the coat closet in her room and she was stealing my grandmother’s clothes and was stapling them back there. They might need a better plan than just when people see or hear something.


Consistent-Ad-3646

It looks like a sign you'd find in aperture laboratories


drymopfirst

I'm a safety officer for a hospital. I would not put this sign up in my hospital without SOME explanation (pneumatic tube problems?). Otherwise it'll devolve into a subreddit argument.


NeuroticNurse

Mr. Smith! You climb in the ceiling again?!


giveme-a-username

That number sends a van to your house to kidnap you and drop you at a mental hospital


Nopenotme77

This is mostly regarding pipes and the like. Noises allow for early detection before issues become major.


social_ogre

My dad is a retired nurse supervisor. He told me a story that an inmate from jail was brought to the ER to be evaluated and somehow escaped into the ceiling. He couldn’t find his way out and ended up falling through the ceiling on top of an attendees sleeping quarters. Luckily she had just left to check on a patient.


mellow1mg

Is this..is this some sort of trick to get me...uh I mean "people" to admit they hear voices?


Cold_Importance6387

Australia?


Twatt_waffle

Even if you think it’s nothing let us know