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OldTimeRadio Great Old One Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Total posts: 5539 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio USA Age: 72 Gender: Male |
 Posted: 30-03-2007 08:26 Post subject: |
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| escargot1 wrote: | And how could breath be seen, unless the air was cold?
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Might the breath of a sick or dying person (or anyone else present, for that matter) be seen if the air was hot and humid enough?
Many of these reports come from the late 19th Century when sick rooms and death chambers were often indoor swamps.
"For Heaven's sake, don't let the noxious nighttime air in here - it'll KILL the patient!" |
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| mindalai spinster of this parish
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| Posted: 30-03-2007 14:07 Post subject: |
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| Now you mention it Escargot I have seen similar "thick breath" (it's a catchy phrase isn't it?) come from my dogs when they yawn - even in summer. I suppose it's just a sign of how moist the breath is. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 30-03-2007 14:10 Post subject: |
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Nope. They are all possessed. It's the evil spirits popping out for a look around.
Later, when you're enjoying a cup of cocoa in front of a roaring fire, they pop out of the other end. |
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| mindalai spinster of this parish
Great Old One Joined: 27 Aug 2005 Total posts: 1739 Location: on the shelf Age: 37 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 30-03-2007 14:17 Post subject: |
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Yes.  |
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| TheQuixote Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Total posts: 4085 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 30-03-2007 14:38 Post subject: |
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| OldTimeRadio wrote: |
Many of these reports come from the late 19th Century when sick rooms and death chambers were often indoor swamps.
"For Heaven's sake, don't let the noxious nighttime air in here - it'll KILL the patient!" |
OT, most hospitals in the UK from the first part of the 20th C had open air wards for infectious diseases. The fresh air being seen as therapeutic. I have relatives who spent time in sanitariums during the 30s and 40s who can still recall having afternoon naps outside while recovering from diseases like Scarlet fever or TB. |
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| OldTimeRadio Great Old One Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Total posts: 5539 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio USA Age: 72 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-03-2007 20:18 Post subject: |
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| TheQuixote wrote: | | OT, most hospitals in the UK from the first part of the 20th C had open air wards for infectious diseases. The fresh air being seen as therapeutic. I have relatives who spent time in sanitariums during the 30s and 40s who can still recall having afternoon naps outside while recovering from diseases like Scarlet fever or TB. |
I think what happened is that with the coming of modern germ theory the "miasmic mist" theory, with its images of infectious diseases as vampire-like clouds prowling the night, finally bit the dust.
As late as the 1850s the standard method of combatting yellow fever in New Orleans was building huge bonfires in the streets to somehow scare away those noxious vapors. (There's a great scene illustrating this in the film JEZEBEL, starring Bette Davis.)
But I really should have written "mid-19th Century" rather than "late." Even so there remain strong elements of "keep the night air out" as late as Bram Stoker's DRACULA. |
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| Creamstick1 Great Old One Joined: 14 Mar 2002 Total posts: 281 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 31-03-2007 16:27 Post subject: |
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| There was a great thread on spooky hospital happenings ages ago, but I can't find it. Coincidentally enough, the story I remember most from that thread is one about a hospital morgue that no-one could ever seem to remember how to get to. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 31-03-2007 20:15 Post subject: |
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I wonder if the hospital ghost stories were on the 'Have You Seen A Ghost?' thread? 
Try here! 
Aaaaaaaaannnd here!  |
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| OldTimeRadio Great Old One Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Total posts: 5539 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio USA Age: 72 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 01-04-2007 03:05 Post subject: |
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| Kudos to Escargot for the links. I thank you and my files thank you. |
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| Cochise Great Old One Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Total posts: 1104 Location: Gwynedd, Wales Age: 58 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-10-2011 11:32 Post subject: |
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Huge vault of personal nursing ghost stories here:
http://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/whats-your-best-108202.html
Some interesting patterns in the reports (and some bloomin' scary ones too!) What's with the 'seeing young children running about signalling imminent deaths' that crops up quite a lot? That doesn't fit anything religious I know of - speaks more of mischevious elves or the like. |
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| Spudrick68 Great Old One Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Total posts: 1111 Location: sunny Morecambe Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 02-10-2011 14:13 Post subject: |
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| I love reading stuff like that. It will make me boggeldy eyed though! Will peruse it later. |
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| SameOldVardoger Great Old One Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-05-2013 23:24 Post subject: Stories from hospitals |
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http://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/whats-your-best-108202.html
| Quote: | I know several. I'll share more later if there is any interest:
We had a black girl, about 10 in ICU that was severely injured in a car accident. Lots of brain damage. She didn't die there but was moved to another facility after weeks and weeks.
After that, I know of 3 older black males, in their 50's, that, if they were even mildly sedated, would ask about the little black girl with the ribbon in her hair who was sitting at the foot of their beds.
One guy said, "she asked me how I was doing, and then got up and walked that way" while he was pointing towards the 2nd floor window. He paused, a wide-eyed look came over his face, and then he said, 'But I guess she really couldn't have left the room that way, huh?"
Personally, I think she was taking care of grandfatherly figures.
I worked in an ICU where a prisoner convicted of murder died in ICU 1 - and nobody would put a patient in that room after that cause the air was too heavy and the room was too spooky and 'dark'. It was so bad (nurses would refuse to put patients in the room even if it was the last available bed; they'd triage out a patient before they'd trust putting a patient in that bed 1), that the hospital eventually closed down the room and knocked out a wall to make it a separate entrance into the unit.
I used to collect ghost stories: I know several.
~faith
Timothy. |
A large bunch of stories at the link. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 10-05-2013 05:38 Post subject: |
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This must surely be one of the FTMB's legendary threads.  |
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| SameOldVardoger Great Old One Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-05-2013 09:12 Post subject: |
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| I wasn't aware of this thread. I only checked the Ghost forum. |
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