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.