The Removal Doctor

The Midnight Article "THE REMOVAL DOCTOR: POLICE WARN OF DANGEROUS INDIVIDUAL" was written by Fernando Iglesias Meléndez (u/MidnightPaper) and posted on r/NoSleep.

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THE "REMOVAL DOCTOR:" POLICE WARN OF DANGEROUS INDIVIDUAL After a spate of reports of a so-called “Removal Doctor,” local police urge residents to stay away from strangers who approach them in public places and to avoid abandoned buildings of any kind.

It started a few months ago. The first report appeared on an online forum for reporting interactions with strange individuals. And this one certainly fit the bill.

The anonymous user stated that she was walking across a public park just before closing time, when a man approached her and introduced himself as “the Removal Doctor.” The woman wrote that, at the time, the man seemed “professional,” “reliable,” and had a “strange persuasiveness” about him.

The man gave the woman a card and walked off. She has since lost it, but according to her, the card simply had an address printed on either side.

The next day, the woman decided to check the address out. She inputted it into a map application and arrived…only to discover that the building had long since been abandoned.

Undeterred, she found an open door and walked in. The rest is internet history.

Inside the building, the woman was greeted by what looked like a state-of-the-art clinic. The floors were epoxy and spotless. The walls were painted white, and there were tarps set up to cover any broken windows. There were even fluorescent lights hanging from the ceiling.

This was a far cry from the “kill room” the woman had imagined upon finding the abandoned location…but now her mind was wandering more toward an underground organ trafficking ring. She was half right.

The woman reports that she found the door to a clinic in the back of the building. She knocked and was welcomed inside.

What was awaiting her was a consultation office straight out of a high-end hospital. There were doors to several rooms, one she could see was labeled as containing a CAT scan machine, another was labeled as a dental office.

In the center of the room was a desk, and behind that desk was the same man she had met in the public park. The woman was unable to describe him clearly in her post, only stating that the man was wearing a lab coat and that his face was hidden behind a surgical mask.

The man wasted no time getting down to business. He introduced himself again as “the Removal Doctor,” and explained to her that he was in the business of “removing things” from the human body. “Anything you can think of,” he said.

The woman was clearly unconvinced (and somewhat alarmed), but the man assured her that it was a voluntary procedure, and one that had the potential to be life-saving.

The “doctor” proceeded to ask the woman to “name one thing about herself” that she was unhappy with. “A memory, a body part, an inconvenient habit.” Anything. “Even a tumor or a fatal condition such as cancer or a clogged artery.”

Online, the woman admits that she wasn’t “in her right mind.” She was, after all, ignoring a million red flags that are staples of a dozen alleged accounts. Accounts that have transcended culture, time, and location, to become old-wive’s tales everyone has grown up with. Like waking up in a bathtub filled with ice only to discover that your kidneys have been stolen, for example.

Luckily, this wouldn’t be the case for this woman. Nor has it been the case for anyone who has encountered this strange man. There was no bathtub filled with ice, at least.

The woman decided against asking to have anything physical removed, perhaps fearing that there were other parties listening in who were ready to act on her words right away. She did, however, state that she wouldn’t mind parting with her “crippling procrastination.’

The “doctor” nodded, as if he were expecting this answer, then explained to her that this was “an exchange.” He would take something she didn’t want about herself, but he could pick anything of her’s that he wanted in return. The woman was hesitant, but ultimately agreed, allowing the man to lead her to a private examination room.

The woman claims that, a few hours later, she woke up in the same building…but everything around her was different. The floor was filthy concrete, the walls were covered in chipped paint, and there were no examination rooms or medical equipment of any kind.

She stated that she immediately chastised herself mentally, for falling for a trick a child could see through. After quickly checking herself for stitches or wounds, she was unable to find any mark on her skin. “Not even a bruise,” she wrote.

It was only a few days later that she realized that something actually had happened in that building. She’s a writer, and she was unable to start working before hours upon hours of watching YouTube videos and playing mobile games. But now, she could sit and get to work immediately. It really did seem like the Removal Doctor had “surgically removed” her procrastination. She was elated…but only at first.

Soon, she realized that something was wrong. First, it happened when she was in a video chat with her sister and her newborn. Then, it happened when her girlfriend arrived at their apartment. Finally, she confirmed her fears in front of their bathroom mirror…no matter how hard she tried, or for how long, she was unable to smile.

Dozens of doctor’s appointments later, the cause is still unknown. “Some of them have said that it may be a mild facial paralysis caused by stress. But I know better,” the woman wrote.

She’s convinced it was the Removal Doctor. “I hate him,” she wrote in her post, “everyone used to say I had the nicest smile. Now it’s gone.”

But, why take her smile? The woman described her last moments of consciousness. Just as the Removal Doctor administered an IV filled with anesthetic, she spotted a room off to one side. The door was half open, and she could see a gurney with a blanket over it. It was obvious that, given the size and the shape of what was underneath it, that it was a person. But the shape was wrong.

“Parts were missing,” she wrote, “the shape was off. But it had a head and two legs.” There were jars along the far wall…jars with all manner of body parts.

There are nights, the woman wrote, where she dreams she’s back in that strange clinic. Nights where she’s convinced she remembers part of what happened when she was under. She spots grotesque and bizarre surgical tools through blurry eyes, hears the doctor muttering to himself. Hears him say that something, or someone, is “almost complete.”

Other stories about the Removal Doctor’s “patients” have surfaced. One man who claimed to have asked the Doctor to remove his addiction to cigarettes had his tongue removed as well. Another man who asked to have his fear of heights removed had his ability to drive taken. A man with a brain tumor asked for it to be removed, only to wake up without one of his legs. A woman asked for her depression to be removed, and lost one of her eyes in the process…

One of the accounts spreading the rumor even claimed that a missing person who was found without his head was one of the Doctor’s victims. Still, when asked what, if anything, this person may have asked to have removed, this anonymous poster couldn’t say. “Whatever it was, it had to be huge. Maybe something that he and a large group of people shared, like a fear or a financial condition.” Speculation abounds in most of these reports, but this headless corpse shares something in common with all other alleged reports.

In all cases, there were no stitches, no wounds, no scars of any kind. Whatever the Doctor took, it was as if it had never existed. This fact has baffled both law enforcement and medical professionals looking into these reports.

This publication would like to remind you of the police department’s request. If a man approaches you with a business card and introduces himself as “the Removal Doctor,” remove yourself from the situation immediately and call 911 when at a safe distance to report your sighting. Do not, under any circumstances, go to the address on the card. Do not, under any circumstances, ask for something to be removed from your body or your personality…you will lose something in return.

Description:

"The Removal Doctor" is a Biological-Type Oddity taking the shape of a man who claims to be a strange kind of doctor. He approaches strangers in public places, introduces himself as "The Removal Doctor" and offers them a business card with an address on it. The woman who wrote about encountering him on online forums stated that he had a "strange persuasiveness" about him. This could be one of his anomalous qualities, as a certain amount of trust is required for what he plans to do next.

Upon going to the address on the business card, recipients will see an apparently abandoned building on the outside, but a "state-of-the-art" medical installation on the inside. This "clinic" has the potential to be a Location-Type Oddity on its own, as it displays several anomalous qualities. But, as of the present, it only serves as part of The Removal Doctor's anomalous qualities. This clinic is stocked with all kinds of medical supplies and all kinds of medical installations.

There is a consultation office of sorts at the back of the building, where The Removal Doctor awaits recipients of his card. Once they get there, he will explain to them what it is that he does.

Procedure:

The Removal Doctor will state to the recipients of his card that he is in the business of "removing things from the human body." He will ask the recipient to name one thing about themselves they are unhappy about. This apparently includes both physical traits and body parts, such as limbs and organs, as well as mental attributes that make up a person's personality, such as bad habits, addictions, and memories. The Removal Doctor will also state that "this is an exchange." The recipient can name one thing about themselves, which the doctor will remove, but he will then be able to choose one thing about their person to take as well.

After naming one attribute about their body or their mind, the recipient will be led to another room. There are many rooms, each labeled with their respective medical fields, and it can be assumed that the doctor will lead each recipient to the relevant room depending on what they have chosen to have removed from themselves.

An unspecified amount of time later, the recipient will wake up and discover that the high-end medical facility they were just in has changed into being an abandoned building. There will be no medical equipment of any kind left behind, and no evidence that the Removal Doctor was ever there. But the recipient will be missing two attributes about themselves, whether they notice it at this time or not.

The woman whose account of events the Article mentions stated that she remembers seeing "bizarre" surgical tools, which could explain the strange aftermath of the surgical procedure.

Aftermath:

The recipients will have no scars, blemishes, bruises, stitches, or incisions of any kind to show for what the doctor took. It will be "as if what he took never existed." It can be assumed that a removed limb will only leave behind perfectly unscathed skin, as if it never grew at all. Medical, and even forensic, specialists will be unable to find any evidence that there was anything there at all.

Criteria:

The Removal Doctor's criteria for choosing what part of a person to take in exchange for what that person wants gone is unknown. While some online users have tried to equate a larger body part being taken for something of life-changing importance (like a brain tumor or a mental disorder), this doesn't exactly hold up. A man who asked for a fatal brain tumor to be removed woke up to find that the doctor had taken one of his legs. A leg is, after all, a small price to pay for decades of life expectancy.

It is possible, however, that online users have it wrong. Maybe the doctor isn't matching the request of the removal of something of importance with the removal of something of equal importance...maybe he's simply taking what he needs at the moment.

Project:

Indeed, it appears that The Removal Doctor is performing an unknown experiment of some kind. The woman who reported meeting him on an online forum stated that she saw an incomplete body on a gurney. She also recalled hearing the doctor state that "something, or someone, was almost complete."

All the evidence seems to be pointing to the fact that the doctor is building a body out of the parts and mental attributes he takes from the recipients of the card. What kind of body this will be when it is complete, whether it will appear to be a normal human body or not, is unknown.