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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.

OP posts:
iwishu · 06/02/2022 21:57

This story is probably the most convincing I've read on ghosts, about a car ghost, I've read it many times.

www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/a3-burpham-ghost-crash-2002/

littlerebellion · 06/02/2022 22:19

[quote iwishu]This story is probably the most convincing I've read on ghosts, about a car ghost, I've read it many times.

www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/a3-burpham-ghost-crash-2002/[/quote]
A relative of mine attended this incident. True, and freaky, as fuck.

PolytheneRam · 07/02/2022 16:20

Did you Google Julie, OP?

Does anyone have any good Woo links? I think I've read the most famous threads on here. I could do with a distraction to immerse myself in at the moment

QuimReaper · 07/02/2022 22:03

I love the ghost crash story, amazing!

Not sure I find it that convincing though - if it's a perilous stretch of road where chandler did lose control of his car, it's not too unlikely another driver did eventually, and it's not really clear the caller who reported that was sure what they'd seen. Chances are that later incident was just a near miss and the driver recovered control, but it led to the discovery of Chandler's less lucky encounter with the same stretch of road.

Metabigot · 07/02/2022 22:40

@Suzanne999

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.
I hope never to be this attached to a job. It's bad enough doing it every day in this life let alone the hereafter!
Doodar · 07/02/2022 23:04

OMFG! Cannot believe you went back up there!

BertramLacey · 08/02/2022 12:12

@QuimReaper I was thinking the same. You can tell it as a spooky story or you can reframe it:

There is a stretch of road where conditions mean drivers often lose control, especially if they don't know the road and are driving too fast. Recently several witnesses saw one car appear to veer off the road, and phoned police to report it. When police arrived it appeared that that driver had had a near miss. No sign was found of them so it is presumed they managed to regain control and carried on.

However, during the search, police officers discovered signs of a previous crash. Sadly on that occasion the driver did not avoid a collision. It appears his car left the road and he died of his injuries at the scene. although not before first exiting the car. It appears he and the car had lain undiscovered, in thick undergrowth, for several months.

Told like that it's not nearly as freaky.

CounsellorTroi · 08/02/2022 12:23

@QuimReaper

I love the ghost crash story, amazing!

Not sure I find it that convincing though - if it's a perilous stretch of road where chandler did lose control of his car, it's not too unlikely another driver did eventually, and it's not really clear the caller who reported that was sure what they'd seen. Chances are that later incident was just a near miss and the driver recovered control, but it led to the discovery of Chandler's less lucky encounter with the same stretch of road.

Exactly what I thought.
QuimReaper · 08/02/2022 22:02

Bertram I liked the reporting of the second car being reported by 'at least one member of the public' Grin

BlondeWidow · 09/02/2022 10:46

I'm gutted the OP never came back :(

BlondeWidow · 09/02/2022 10:47

@SnotRags What happened??

Cheesybiscuitsmineallmine · 09/02/2022 20:06

Also here for an update, but thinking it might have all been made up ☹

BertramLacey · 09/02/2022 21:15

Either that or the OP has fallen through the veil to the other side and she and Julie are now forever locked in mortal combat, trying to get blood test results and wandering the empty halls, throwing scissors and trays around, as you do when you get to the afterlife, apparently.

MissConductUS · 09/02/2022 21:21

There's a podcast I listen to called Haunted Road. It's by a fairly serious paranormal investigator. Apparently, this is quite common for older hospitals.

Jedsnewstar · 09/02/2022 21:52

@BethAfra there are legends in forests about Stick Men. (There are other names for them) You don’t want to see one or they will haunt you forever. It’s said you can anticipate their arrival as everything in the forest goes dead quiet, not a single sound.

BethAfra · 09/02/2022 22:52

Oh crap, I'm glad I didn't know about them!

BlondeWidow · 09/02/2022 23:30

@MissConductUS

There's a podcast I listen to called Haunted Road. It's by a fairly serious paranormal investigator. Apparently, this is quite common for older hospitals.
Where might I find this, please? 🙏🏻
MissConductUS · 10/02/2022 00:29

@BlondeWidow I stream it from Apple Podcasts, but it's also on Spotify. Just search for "Haunted Road".

chillydownwiththefiregang · 10/02/2022 22:26

@BertramLacey

Either that or the OP has fallen through the veil to the other side and she and Julie are now forever locked in mortal combat, trying to get blood test results and wandering the empty halls, throwing scissors and trays around, as you do when you get to the afterlife, apparently.
GrinGrinGrin
Ladylornax12 · 10/02/2022 23:31

What was the one about the woman looking out the window and seeing her neighbours daughter in the garden with really dark foundation on? It turned out the young lady had been in hospital for a few days and died of jaundice or something. No idea if it’s true but it freaked me out.

SerotoninAnswerMySoul · 11/02/2022 01:24

YANBU you saw a ghost and now I'll never sleep again!!

sleaf · 11/02/2022 19:07

@VenusClapTrap

On my way home driving anti clockwise at around the junctions for Leatherhead and roads for A3 and then A24 I often had a real feeling of loneliness and melancholy for no obvious reason. Later on once I got to M23 junction I'd feel fine again. It was very strong feeling and I did the journey on and off for seven years. I'm just wondering about that now and whether there could have been bad RTAs at that point.

There’s a stretch of the M23 that always used to make me feel creepy, together with a sense that I should slow right down. Eventually I googled and discovered there was a horrific RTA there about a hundred years ago.

There was a great thread on creepy stretches of roads actually, some time ago.

The A24 around Dorking and towards Leatherhead gives me the creeps, and also on its junction with the M25.

Agree the M23 is a bit off in places.

MissConductUS · 11/02/2022 19:20

We had a horrific crash near me in 2009. A woman, high on cannabis and alcohol drove the wrong way on a four-lane highway with her daughter and three nieces in the back and caused a head-on collision with another vehicle. Eight people died. I take that route at times and always feel awful when I go past the spot where it happened.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Taconic_State_Parkway_crash

ExpectingLady93 · 21/02/2022 10:24

OP you are so brave!! I would crapppp myself. Anyone heard of the 13 bends of death in Oxfordshire?

It is Britain's deadliest road apparently. My mum's friends were driving down the road middle of winter a couple do years ago. Pitch black.

They saw a young lady in a dress walking alone, no coat on. Of course they stopped the car in front of her to offer her a lift home. They turned around and she had vanished!! I remember first being told that story and not able to sleep well that night.

Certainly wouldn't catch me driving down that road alone at night. Not if you paid me a million quid.

ExpectingLady93 · 21/02/2022 10:25

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