This case happened in the Colombo General Hospital’s Intensive Care ward where patients always died in the same bed, and on all Sunday mornings at 11am regardless of their medical condition.
This puzzled the doctors and some even thought that it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths took place at 11am. So a hospital-wide expert team was constituted and they decided to go down to the ward to investigate the cause of the incidents.
So on the next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11am, all doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were holding wooden crosses, prayer books and other holy objects to ward off evil.
Then the clock struck 11. And then…
Sumanadasa, the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward, unplugged the life support system and plugged in the vacuum cleaner…