The deceased arrives at the mortuary

A late-night shift at a Los Angeles hospital morgue took a shocking turn when a worker was startled by unexpected movement from a body he was preparing for storage — all captured on the facility’s security cameras. The footage shows the technician calmly checking inventory and closing one of the cold-storage drawers when the sheet-covered body on the gurney suddenly twitches. A split second later, a knee visibly bends, tenting the white sheet upward. The worker freezes, then jumps back in fright