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Did I see a ghost? Or am I going mad?

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SnotRags · 02/02/2022 09:45

This happened on Monday. It’s been playing on my mind since.

I work in a largely unused community hospital. Some days, I’m the only person working there other than reception and a security guard. I run a clinic and my room is down the end of a corridor - remember there is nobody else in the entire building, all other rooms unused. Just mine at the end with its little light on.

So anyway, I don’t believe in ghosts, never have. However this corridor is bloody spooky sometimes and on a number of occasions I’ve thought I’ve seen someone walking around a corner only for there to be nobody there. I’ve heard the sound of a Zimmer frame walking towards my room, gone out to greet my patient and nobody is there. My cupboard door in my room has had a random rattling handle on a few occasion. A pair of scissors weirdly left my trolley and ended up on the floor (I didn’t see how, just heard the clatter on the floor and saw them lying there). Now, not saying those incidents are ghosts but it was unnerving so I asked security if we could put the waiting room TV on a music channel or something just to make the corridor less silent.

Anyway, on Monday I asked reception where I could find something I needed. She said “that sort of stuff is upstairs”. I asked how I got up there (didn’t even know there was a second floor!) and she said “you can’t, it’s locked”. So I asked security to let me up. He laughed and said “you going up there on your own? Because I’m not coming with you!” … long story short he unlocked the door to the stairs, I went up - was sorting through the stuff I needed and saw a nurse walk past the room I was in (not a shadow or Victorian dressed character, just an actual nurse). Thought nothing of it. Went back downstairs and as security was locking the door again I said “you know there is a nurse up there? Does she have a key for this door?” He said “nobody is up there” and locked the door. I said “I literally saw her! You can’t just lock her in!” He maintained nobody was up there and we walked back to reception where he told receptionist I’d seen “Julie”. Lots of dramatic faces and gasps, they tell me Julie is a ghost - had an aneurysm at work and died years ago.

As I said I don’t believe in ghosts but I can’t stop thinking about it! I definitely saw someone, they even described her and it was the same person I saw. Only thing I can think of is it’s an in joke and there is a nurse who works up there?? (But no patients go up there so what is she doing exactly?)

YABU - it’s clearly an in joke and the nurse works up there, the others say she’s a ghost to freak people out
YANBU - it’s a ghost, why would a uniformed nurse be working on an unused floor on her own?

It sounds ridiculous even to me as I’m writing this but I just can’t stop going over it in my head.

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myusernamewastakenbyme · 02/02/2022 09:47

Yep you saw a ghost...how cool Op...i'd love to see one.

Toanewstart22 · 02/02/2022 09:49

Going mad

AuntyClem · 02/02/2022 09:51

It’s impossible to say but if your mind is playing tricks on you then you were definitely in a frame of mind for it to do so - spooky environment, closed off second floor, the comment by the security guard.

SnotRags · 02/02/2022 09:51

@Toanewstart22

Going mad
I’m currently suffering from insomnia so you could be right!
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MorningStarling · 02/02/2022 09:51

It could be either. Statistically it's more likely to be a wind-up I suppose. Try to engineer a reason to go up there again, preferably with someone else, and have cameras with you.

SquidWordle · 02/02/2022 09:52

Fucking awesome

Suzanne999 · 02/02/2022 09:53

Yes, you saw a spirit. Don’t worry about it, can’t hurt you.
Have you ever had a dream , or series of dreams, where you keep doing the same thing ? ( I’m always driving round a car park!) well, some spirits are like that, they are sort of stuck doing something repeatedly. Or maybe they were so attached to their job that a bit of them has stayed redoing their tasks over and over.

SnotRags · 02/02/2022 09:53

@MorningStarling

It could be either. Statistically it's more likely to be a wind-up I suppose. Try to engineer a reason to go up there again, preferably with someone else, and have cameras with you.
Nobody else will go up, I asked security to come up with me so I could point her out and he refused. Receptionist said she’ll come up with me tomorrow but afterwards remembered she doesn’t work Thursdays so either she was just trying to shut me up or genuinely forgot she wouldn’t be in tomorrow (unless she’s working an extra shift I suppose)
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stonebrambleboy · 02/02/2022 09:54

Ghosts exist. Be prepared to be ridiculed on here.

Londongent · 02/02/2022 09:55

You need to go up there again and film it

LadyCluck · 02/02/2022 09:55

Spooky!

How would you feel about going up there again but taking someone with you?

SnotRags · 02/02/2022 09:56

Just to add in the past I’ve walked down “my” corridor recording trying to get the sound of the Zimmer frame for DH, the audio did pick it up but DH insists it’s just general hospital noises (doesn’t believe me that the place is 98% empty!)

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Colleen92 · 02/02/2022 09:57

Yeah you probably saw a so called ghost, I did when I was 8. Clear as day real person in my home Christmas Eve. Thought it was Santa so not worried but brilliant I got older! People that "are sure there is no such thing" are just not going to believe it until they see it personally. End of story.
The souls of the departed? Overlapping realities? No idea but they are there whatever they are! Just not often a person sees one, hence the billions of people that don't entertain the idea!

SnotRags · 02/02/2022 09:57

@LadyCluck

Spooky!

How would you feel about going up there again but taking someone with you?

I’m going to ask them to let me back up tomorrow after my shift ends. If they don’t come with me I’ll go on my own (they already think I’m weird anyway so I don’t have to worry about my reputation 😂)
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Lockheart · 02/02/2022 09:58

I asked how I got up there (didn’t even know there was a second floor!)

How do you not know there is a second floor in the building you work in? Presumably you'd notice when you, I don't know, arrive for work every day?

SnotRags · 02/02/2022 09:59

@Lockheart

I asked how I got up there (didn’t even know there was a second floor!)

How do you not know there is a second floor in the building you work in? Presumably you'd notice when you, I don't know, arrive for work every day?

You’d think so wouldn’t you, but no … the building looks single story from the outside. I’ll see if I can find a pic of it
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LadyCluck · 02/02/2022 09:59

Please update us if you do venture up there again!

Colleen92 · 02/02/2022 10:01

I recorded my father's voice in his flat the week after he died, distinctly his accent, a whisper that I didn't hear at the time. I only tried as I had nothing to lose and had seen something at a young age so always had an open mind. Never heard it again, just 3 short sentences like a whisper but very clear. Still got the recording on an old Motorola somewhere.

Joystir59 · 02/02/2022 10:02

We experience things we can't explain rationally. Is it the pleating of time? Who knows.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 02/02/2022 10:04

I asked security to come up with me so I could point her out and he refused

What the hell are they afraid of?
I don't know if it was a ghost or not - I have an open mind on these things, remembering there's so much we don't know - but unlike some of the living, the dead can't hurt you

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 02/02/2022 10:04

I have seen a ghost. It’s much simpler not to have done. People wouldn’t believe you, and you never tell friends in rl in case people think this very sane, normal person they love is turning crazy.

Pahahahahahahahee · 02/02/2022 10:09

Ask your husband or a friend to go with you? Where abouts in the country are you, someone could know the history or seen her too, you never know

NYnewstart · 02/02/2022 10:11

I think you were so hyper vigilant that your mind was playing tricks on you. At least that’s the explanation I’d prefer to believe.

stonebrambleboy · 02/02/2022 10:12

If you go looking for her you won't see her. She'll just turn up when you are least expecting her. That's when you think ' what did I just see' 😯.

Inthesameboatatmo · 02/02/2022 10:17

Sounds like you did op. I have a also seen things like that . I would've shit myself though.