Demons

A Living Patient from the second film

The Living Patients are a type of ghostly phenomenon that occur within the abandoned Collington Psychiatric Hospital in the movies: Grave Encounters and Grave Encounters 2.

Appearance and behavior

The Living Patients make their appearances in different forms throughout the Grave Encounters duology. Unlike other poltergeists that occur throughout the films, the Living Patients are figures that take on a corporeal form, appearing in the flesh as a mental hospital patient with an often emaciated appearance.

Grave Encounters (1)

1. A girl whose face is recognizable as human, but appears bruised; as the investigation team approaches the girl, she turns in their direction and screams, her face contorting into a ghostly visage.

2. A girl emerges from a blood-filled bathtub and pulls in one of the members of the paranormal investigation team. He disappears along with the apparition, having apparently ceased to exist in the physical world.

3. A male patient whose tongue had been severed by unknown means appears to Lance Preston; the patient is clinging onto the wall, blood pouring from it's mouth. It proceeds to chase him throughout the hospital.

4. A corporeal image of Dr. Arthur Friedkin and two nurses in the midst of conducting a lobotomy on a patient in an operating room. Dr. Friedkin appears before Lance Preston and confines him to an operating table before lobotomizing him. They appear to be tall, pale-skinned humanoid creatures that haunt together the Collingwood hospital in the night along with ghosts. They might even be undead patients and residents of the hospital.

Grave Encounters (2)

In the second film, a group of film students led by Alex Wright are led to the Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital by an anonymous entity known as "Death Awaits". Subsequently they find and manage to break into the building in which they planned to film a documentary/horror film based on it's predecessor. During their exploration they encountered the following:

1. A young girl - self addressed as Kaitlin - whose face contorts into a twisted version of herself, prompting the film team into a hasty retreat.
2. A tall, emaciated figure towering at a height of 7-8 feet; it's jaw is grossly extended, as though it had been violently unhinged.
3. A female child appears in a ventilation shaft situated in the underground sector of the hospital; her limbs appear bent at odd angles.

Known weaknesses

Nobody in the two films was able to fight off a Living Patient since they always were too scared by their appearance to fight them.At the first film where Lance used a pipe to open up the empty elevator's door and a Living Patient was coming towards him he took the pipe with him but he didn't used it against the creature.Also in the second film the Living Patient was chasing Alex and his friends towards the door when it got out of the building it exploded, this possibly indicates they are bound to the building and cannot leave.