Some haunted places are built of brick and bone.This one was built of wires, tape...and silence.When documentary host Angel Mukhiya takes a small crew into an abandoned American asylum, they expect the usual ghost-hunting clichés: cold spots, strange shadows, maybe a voice on a recorder. Instead they find the C-Ward monitoring wing, a forgotten research unit where experimental machines once listened to patients without ever being turned off. The power was cut in 1987. The recordings were not.Inside St. Augustine's crumbling walls, heart monitors with no power still beep, tape reels turn on their own, and speakers whisper in voices that belong to no single throat. When two crew members vanish into the hospital's bowels, Angel traces the horror to a buried "central recording node" that has spent decades hoarding human suffering and learning to talk back. To get their people out, they will have to do the unthinkable: make a system built for endless listening to hear the story it was never meant to record on its own.Blending found-footage dread with techno-horror and medical thriller, True Stories is a chilling novel of haunted hospitals, weaponized empathy, and the thin, breakable line between documenting trauma and feeding it. For readers of supernatural and artifact-based horror, this is a journey into the dark heart of a machine that doesn't know how to stop...and the people who finally teach it.