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Haunted hospital ghost stories are the stuff of legends. Hospitals and other health care
facilities are often places of emotional trauma, as well as death. This makes them a
deep source for many a ghostly tale.
When one reads accounts of hospital ghost stories, it is not uncommon for certain
areas of the hospital to be deemed "active." In other words, certain areas within health
care buildings seem to be more active than others. And, the active areas are more likely
to be certain patient quarters, operating rooms and morgues that are the most haunted.
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Haunting activity by ghosts within hospitals
seems to be centered around places where
death has taken place. Interestingly, areas
that are especially known for mental
disorders may also be more actively haunted.
There are no boundaries or written rules that
ghosts must follow, however, for ghosts may
haunt whatever areas of a hospital that
please them most, should they choose to
haunt a hospital at all.
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Why do hospital ghost stories persist? Well, what makes a ghost? A ghost is a
disembodied human being who is "lost." Medical facilities may be the last place a
departed soul remembers, and a place where their last state of mind was not so good.
Hospitals are places where heavy drugs may be administered, along with the possibility of
strong physical and emotional suffering by the deceased (and loved ones, too). It could
be possible that the mental condition of the disembodied spirit may still be off-kilter and
searching for help and direction. Could this be the reason so many nurses have ghost
stories from within the hospital walls? Could ghosts be asking for staff help?
Some nurses do report that when dealing with death, they often want to help the person
"cross" over. Some caregivers willingly stay as the person's soul departs, providing
comfort and guidance. Some nurses, when they realize the spirit of the room's occupant
has not moved on, will speak out loud to the deceased, letting them know their body is
now expired. This way, the ghost (a human spirit without a body) has some direction and
might understand their condition. The goal is for the person's spirit to move on unto the
light, leaving the earthly realm behind.
It should be surprise that many hospital ghost stories can be found circulating about
now-defunct hospitals. One such notoriously haunted (former) tuberculosis institution is
Waverly Hills Sanitarium in Louisville, Kentucky. The abandoned hospital is said to have
ghosts that manifest as moving shadows, see-through apparitions, cold spots and
disembodied voices. Many deaths due to tuberculosis occurred there, as the place could
only use natural and experimental cures to attempt to heal the ailing.
After tuberculosis was cured, Waverly Hills became a geriatric and mental hospital.
In-humane treatments, such as electro-shock, were administered at the hospital until it
was closed in 1981 due to patient abuse.
Almost every hospital has some sort of ghost story attached to it. For example, an old
military hospital in England had an oncology ward that was known for one strange
occurrence: the nurses' keys would turn up missing, only to re-appear in one of their
pockets after quietly searching the entire ward. This ghostly event happened more than
once and to more than one nurse! Yet, it was not the only ghost story to be found in the
same ward. There was another ghost story about two soldiers who were both sick with
cancer became friends, both surmising that if they both passed, they would leave this
Earth together. When one of them died, he appeared to his screaming soldier friend, who
was said to have screamed in terror, "I'm not ready to go, yet!"
A Derby (UK) hospital recently had it's own ghost story come to the forefront. A
mysterious apparition has been seen regularly by both patients and staff, so much so that
a chaplain was called in to help the situation. This is a new hospital, but it was built on the
site of an old hospital. Could former ghosts still haunt the same grounds? Apparently, so!
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Left:
Ghost story video about a ghostly little girl
that appears to staff in a hospital.
Read More Ghost Stories:
Nursing Home Ghost Stories
Hospital Ghosts
See Hospital Ghost Pictures:
Haunted Hospital Ghost Pictures
1918 Haunted Hospital Ghost Picture
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More Hospital Ghost Stories...
Another hospital ghost story involves a nurse working in oncology one night. A female patient in the cancer
ward, who was near-death, was given to her to look after. When the nurse entered the room, the patient was
standing at the top of her bed exclaiming, "Don't let them take me!" She was pointing to a black mass the nurse
could physically see up in the corner of the room. The patient died a few minutes later.
This next hospital ghost story is from a nurse who also saw something similar. She was caring for a dying man.
He was frightened and so the nurse spent quite a bit of time calming and reassuring him. Eventually, the man
calmed down and the nurse left to go to her station, which was very close by. As she glanced over to him, she
saw a shadowy-shape standing over his bed and looking down at him. Needless to say she was terrified!
Another true, hospital ghost story tells of a nurse who worked in a labor and delivery unit. Being a small hospital,
the nurse was often there by herself. To keep things quiet, the lights were often kept low in the delivery unit
behind her. Back in the unit, the nurse could often hear metal objects clanging and doors shutting; sounding
similar to somebody who was being prepared for a C-section. There was also a presence always within the
small room, though no one was there. If that weren't enough, a patient room nearby, that had been converted to
a storage room, had a nurse's call light that would go off in it. Was the delivery unit haunted by a former patient,
a deceased doctor, or both?
Speaking of nurse call lights, some nurses report having answered them to find patients asking, "Who is the
man in black standing at the foot of my bed?" When asked if the man is "scary," patients typically reply, "No."
This is said to really freak a few nurses out! Interestingly, dark, human-like figures standing at the foot of
hospital beds do nicely parallel near death experience reports of loved ones coming to help the dying cross over
from this plane to the next. (See: Near Death Experiences)
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Hospital Ghost Stories Copyright 2009 Angels & Ghosts, LLC
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