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Posted: 10-05-2013 11:45 Post subject:

Yup, it's not in the forum you'd expect so peopler're bound to miss it.

Hospital ghosts! Bring'em on! Very Happy

Posted: 10-05-2013 11:57 Post subject:

Ohh, nice! That's how I plan to spend my work afternoon Wink

Posted: 10-05-2013 12:21 Post subject:

One of my life's delights is to re-read a long old spooky thread. A bit like exploring a haunted house. Cool

I'm easily pleased. Wink

Some years ago, another poster, I'm thinking Johnnyboy, remarked that a long ghostly thread was JUST the thing to read late at night. On your own. With the Devil.

I still laugh about that. Laughing

Posted: 10-05-2013 13:25 Post subject:

Moved to, Ghosts - General.

Left its ghostly shadow in the IHTM section.

P_M Smile

Posted: 11-05-2013 21:31 Post subject:

Although it adds very little to the discussion, I work in a school which used to be a TB hospital. I am always amazed that there are no ghosts, stories of ghosts or even a bad feeling.

Posted: 14-05-2013 23:33 Post subject: Many friends of friends...

In the pub Saturday, I mentioned to my mate Don that an ex-gf who has moved recently into a flat briefly saw a ghost. We then swapped a few stories and he told me this one.

Thirty odd years back Don's mate was on holiday abroad, and managed to fall off a hotel balcony a couple of stories up. He was medivaced back to UK, and ended up in the LGI.

The ward was filled with both young blokes, most of whom had had motorbike accidents, and old men with various fractures from falls.

Don's mate was in a bit of pain and couldn't sleep - and one night clearly saw a 'nurse' in an outfit similar to a nuns walk onto the ward and then sit by the bed of an old man opposite. After half an hour or so she stood and went into a small side room. And although he watched for some time, she did not come out of the room.

The morning after this chap wakes up and - you guessed it - there are screens round the bed opposite and turns out the old man has passed away

Weeks later, Dons mate is discharged and goes for a pint with his wife, Don and Dons girlfriend, who is a nurse at LGI. She promptly asks him if he had seen anything odd on the ward, as it has a 'reputation', and he describes what he saw. The nurse tells him the ward used to be staffed by nuns.

Don added an extra twist. A few years ago he was browsing the Yorkshire Evening Post website and chanced on a link to 'Haunted Leeds'. First page he comes to has an account of that meeting in the pub, written by his mates wife.

When I spotted this thread had 'risen up' Rolling Eyes

I decided to add the story, and I wanted to include the 'Haunted Leeds' page. I had to get mildly inventive with Google (ended up using 'leeds hospital ghost husband' !!!).

Just look for the LGI story:

http://www.hauntedleeds.co.uk/yourcomments.htm

And you can see Dons and Kathryn's recollections are different in one very key aspect. I'm going to ask Don if he is in touch with his old mate, and if he recalls what happened.

Posted: 15-05-2013 06:42 Post subject:

Of course, LGI has since become famous for another type of historical haunting. Shocked

Posted: 16-05-2013 21:40 Post subject:

True.

Posted: 17-05-2013 23:05 Post subject:

which includes the rattling of chains.

Posted: 05-07-2013 07:39 Post subject:

I work some nights in a hospital , and can honestly say that it can be the creepiest place on earth sometimes . The room I work in is empty all day , but used for a few hours in the evening and when I'm there I'm usually alone . At night , the hospital is deathly quiet (apart from myself obviously) , and as such the slightest noise coming from the corridor seems amplified tenfold and can be a tad unnerving.

I think the creepiest thing I ever saw was an overturned wheelchair at the top of the stairs , it was lying on its side with one wheel spinning . Although I discovered there was a logical explanation (some guy had fallen out and down the stairs on his way out for a sly puff) , it scared the bejeezus out of me nevertheless and prompted an unsettling evening alone at work.