Spawns randomly underneath patient beds in Rooms 1–5 and Room 7. The red floor area around the bed marks its grab range.
| Where you meet it | Spawns randomly underneath patient beds in Rooms 1–5 and Room 7. The red floor area around the bed marks its grab range. |
|---|---|
| Damage | −10 sanity on the initial grab, then −5 every 2 seconds after that. If you're ignored/stuck, it drags the patient to death within 30 seconds. |
| How to counter it | Feed it Maple Syrup, an Organ, or a Transplant, and stay off the red floor entirely. A community trick: you can even lure a Hider into the red zone to feed the Bed Monster instead of yourself. |
The ongoing −5-per-2-seconds drain is what makes this one dangerous beyond the initial hit — the first −10 is only the entry fee, and the bleed keeps running for every 2 seconds you stay on the red floor. Stepping off the red zone is always the first move; feeding it comes after you're safe.
The raw figure is −10 on the grab, then −5 every 2s. What matters is what that is a fraction of: with no class bought you start a shift on 61 sanity, and reaching zero puts you down — a teammate can revive you with a $1,000 Teddy Bear, but you cannot use one on yourself.
Worth knowing before you spend a shift carrying the wrong thing: a weapon is the answer to only 3 of the 10 threats in this game. The Bed Monster is answered by one item:
Feeding it is what buys the patient back; staying off the red floor is what stops it starting.
The nine threats split into three planning problems. The Bed Monster is in the group that can arrive at any point — it has no shift gate and no trigger you control, so the only defence is being equipped before it happens.
The others in that bracket are the Mimic, the Stalker and the Hiders. Grouping them this way is more useful than a flat list, because a threat you can wait out, a threat you set off yourself and a threat that can arrive unannounced each call for a different habit — and only the last one justifies carrying gear all shift.
Every threat in the game, so you can see which ones share a counter with this one and which demand something completely different.
| Threat | Where | What it costs | Counter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🎭 Mimic | Disguised as a patient — check-in, treatment or recovery | −15 initial, then −6 per 0.5s | 1 gun round or a taser |
| 🚪 Head Banger | Shifts 2–5, at the side check-in window | −20 sanity jumpscare if shooed without coffee | Hand it a coffee (sip twice first for +10 net) |
| 🛏️ Bed Monster ← this page | Under patient beds in Rooms 1–5 and Room 7 | −10 on the grab, then −5 every 2s | Feed it Maple Syrup, an Organ or a Transplant; stay off the red floor |
| 👤 Stalker | Hallway corners, the lobby and the surgery room | −10 sanity on eye contact | Cannot be killed — look at its legs, not its face |
| 🫥 Hiders | Camouflaged as wallpaper, in groups of 1–6 | Steals your held item and stuns you | Fire extinguisher, taser or gun |
| 👻 Ghost | Spawns after a patient dies, roams the whole hospital | −2 sanity per second nearby | Fire extinguisher to force it visible, then taser or gun |
| 👀 Mass of Eyes | Ceilings of patient rooms and the front desk, Shift 2+ | −2 to −5 sanity per 0.5s while you look up | Don't look up — or hand it Eyedrops from the window ledge |
| 📹 Camera Monster | 50% chance on a broken CCTV feed | −20 sanity jumpscare if you zoom in | Switch feeds or close the camera; repair cameras in advance |
| 🧬 Tentacle | Random 'Monster emerging' event after surgery in Room 8 | Kills the patient outright on a mistake or timeout | Scissors → Transplant → Scissors → Transplant, then 3 random steps |
| 🟢 Slimebert | Slime Shift — from around Shift 10 onward | −20 sanity on catch, then −3/s while digested | Fire extinguisher stuns; Cough Syrup blocks; no taser/gun |
One class starts you holding the item this threat responds to, which removes the scramble to find one mid-shift:
at level 3 begins each round with the backpack already full of supplies, which is how you have the consumable before you need it.
One to avoid for this specific fight: the Psychologist doubles every sanity effect in both directions. It starts you at 100% rather than 61%, but it also makes this threat cost twice what the numbers above say — a trade that only pays if you are confident you will not be touched.
−10 sanity on the initial grab, then −5 every 2 seconds after that. If you're ignored/stuck, it drags the patient to death within 30 seconds.
Feed it Maple Syrup, an Organ, or a Transplant, and stay off the red floor entirely. A community trick: you can even lure a Hider into the red zone to feed the Bed Monster instead of yourself.
Spawns randomly underneath patient beds in Rooms 1–5 and Room 7. The red floor area around the bed marks its grab range.
Maple Syrup, Organ or Transplant. Feeding it is what buys the patient back; staying off the red floor is what stops it starting.
Verified against community data. Last checked: July 26, 2026.