Halloween Week: Short Story from my book "Ghosts and Spirits: Explained"

Because it's Halloween week, I thought I would share a short story that appears in my first book "Ghosts and Spirits: Explained" by Rob Gutro.  A woman named Jennifer worked in a hospital in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. and shared her experience.

Ghosts in a Former Hospital

Submitted from: Jennifer N., Maryland

I worked night shift for 7 years in an elder care facility. The building had originally been the county hospital about 100 years ago. Some of the elderly female residents I was assisting would tell me that they had delivered their children in this building when it was a hospital. While working there, many unexplainable things happened to me.

Strangely, I didn't experience any of the hauntings at the facility until after I had returned from a trip where I had my first paranormal experience. Once I had my first experience in this care facility, I had so many unexplainable things happen that I don't know where to start.

I think the first thing happened one sunny morning when I was just getting off work and heading out to the parking lot to get in my car. I was the only person in the parking lot - everyone else in the facility was busy getting residents ready for breakfast. As I approached my car I suddenly heard a woman crying loudly. She was crying as if something horrible had just happened. I immediately started looking for this woman as I thought it might be a fellow nurse needing consoling or possibly a visitor very upset about something. I walked all around a large flowering bush from which the crying seemed to emanate but there was nobody there.

I began walking down the driveway beside the facility that led to morgue behind the building. The loud crying persisted throughout my walk to the back of the building. It was as loud as it was when I was next to my car in front of the building. It seemed to be following me. I could find no living person crying. The crying lady followed me back to my car never answering my questions as to who she was, what I could do to help her or why she was crying. I finally drove home and went to bed.

I experienced the crying lady two more times, both inside the building and on the wing closest to the driveway to the morgue. My assistants also heard her. We checked all of the rooms to no avail. None of the residents were crying, they were all fast asleep.

The cook had a similar experience when he was arriving to work early in the morning. It was still dark outside and he was the only person in the parking lot. He heard the crying lady behind the same bush where I had thought she must be.

He brought his flash light with him and pushed the bush back fully expecting to find a living person there. When he discovered no living person behind the bush he made his way back into the building as fast as he could.

 EDITOR'S NOTE: It sounds like a woman at the facility may have perished outside and is still wandering around lost and panicked, and needs to be crossed over.