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

327 replies

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:
ponkydonkey · 02/02/2022 10:54

We had a very similar minor injury's hospital near us with a maternity hospital attached. Had been closed up for years, with a few porta cabins for out patents etc. eventually they built a new one and the old Victorian building was turned into flats.

GrannytoaUnicorn · 02/02/2022 10:59

@SnotRags

I’m going to insist they let me back up tomorrow, I’ll record it all just in case but very much doubt I’ll be the first person in the world to ever catch a ghost on camera 😂
If you do capture anything, please upload it to YouTube and share the link with us! You can't upload videos onto Mumsnet - Mores the pity!

You are braver than me!

Though I did see the ghost of my Dad once, a few days after he died. This was spooky as he was wearing certain clothing that my mum had chosen for him to wear in his coffin and I'd not known! I didn't visit him in the Chapel of Rest. She hadn't told me any finer details such as his clothes and decisions about the funeral as I found it all too much.
When I told my mum and described the clothing he was wearing, she went white....

TiddyTidTwo · 02/02/2022 11:02

👀👻👻

HangoverSquare · 02/02/2022 11:03

Poor Julie, stuck in work for eternity. If I'm gonna do some haunting it had better be somewhere a bit more fun than the office.

KarenTheGammonRemoaner · 02/02/2022 11:11

You saw a ghost, but you are more willing to believe you are going mad because it's not the norm to "believe in ghosts".

You SAW one.

I had a ghost cat in my house. My cat saw it. They are just residual energy. This world is made up of energy, everything is energy, including ghosts.

Believe your own eyes.

Baggiepussy · 02/02/2022 11:11

@HangoverSquare

Poor Julie, stuck in work for eternity. If I'm gonna do some haunting it had better be somewhere a bit more fun than the office.
Lol so true!! Imagine being trapped as an nhs worker for eternity 😂 they would probably still say you weren’t entitled to breaks 😂😂😂
REP22 · 02/02/2022 11:15

@Baggiepussy as long as Julie's been vaccinated she's probably good for another few millennia Wink

1TheCircle · 02/02/2022 11:18

We had a small unit like this near us. Was an old cottage hospital. Open for one thing, skeleton staff as I had to take a family member there.
Eventually got turned into housing. Was a lovely old building, before NHs used to be a working Mill.

EscapeTheCastle · 02/02/2022 11:20

Poor Julie indeed. What a shame that happened to her.
It's just a recording, she's not stuck at work for all eternity.

DaisyChains3 · 02/02/2022 11:21

It was a ghost. Why are you so flabbergasted?

DobbyTheHouseElk · 02/02/2022 11:21

I’m sure you did see a ghost. Hospitals are creepy places when deserted. I know of two hospitals locally, abandoned because no one knows what to do with the building. Old Victorian buildings, not fit for purpose now. (SW) As they started to wind them down the same thing was happening. One clinic occasionally. I totally believe this situation.

SnotRags · 02/02/2022 11:22

@DaisyChains3

It was a ghost. Why are you so flabbergasted?
Because as I said, I don’t believe in ghosts
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GoldenOmber · 02/02/2022 11:23

Lol so true!! Imagine being trapped as an nhs worker for eternity 😂 they would probably still say you weren’t entitled to breaks 😂😂😂

“Well I’m sorry, Julie, but we’ve done the leave rota now. Yes I know you’ve died but that’s no excuse, you’re still coming in.”

InisnaBro · 02/02/2022 11:23

@KarenTheGammonRemoaner

You saw a ghost, but you are more willing to believe you are going mad because it's not the norm to "believe in ghosts".

You SAW one.

I had a ghost cat in my house. My cat saw it. They are just residual energy. This world is made up of energy, everything is energy, including ghosts.

Believe your own eyes.

But the OP didn’t ‘see a ghost’, she saw a nurse who looked entirely ordinary, and whom she accepted as just another hospital worker going about her job.

The security guard and receptionist are the ones who claim it’s a ghost. That interpretation hadn’t occurred to the OP until they started oohing and ah-ing about tragic ghostly Julie.

Given that this is still a functioning medical site that does have other medical staff working there sometimes, and the upper floor is used for storage for stuff that medical staff still use, isn’t it more likely the top floor has other access points from the back and this nurse went to get supplies she needed via a different entrance and stairs?

(I’ve certainly gone in via ‘other routes’ to buildings or areas where security guards tended to huff and puff about unlocking spaces that weren’t often used.)

Andacherryonthetop · 02/02/2022 11:23

@GoldenOmber

Lol so true!! Imagine being trapped as an nhs worker for eternity 😂 they would probably still say you weren’t entitled to breaks 😂😂😂

“Well I’m sorry, Julie, but we’ve done the leave rota now. Yes I know you’ve died but that’s no excuse, you’re still coming in.”

Haha this made me laugh.
trumpisagit · 02/02/2022 11:25

Ghosts are a universal global experience (like witches, religion and magic).
They exist in some form whether that's in our minds, or "real".
You saw a ghost and it is inexplicable, but you will never be able to prove (or disprove) it.

InisnaBro · 02/02/2022 11:26

@GoldenOmber

Lol so true!! Imagine being trapped as an nhs worker for eternity 😂 they would probably still say you weren’t entitled to breaks 😂😂😂

“Well I’m sorry, Julie, but we’ve done the leave rota now. Yes I know you’ve died but that’s no excuse, you’re still coming in.”

Grin

‘Dead? I’m sorry, that’s a ridiculous excuse. Listen to this, everyone, Miss Hoity-Toity Julie wants to be taken off nightshift because she’s dead — did you ever hear the like? You’ll have to do better than that, Julie!’

burstcouch · 02/02/2022 11:27

I've never seen a ghost but that doesn't mean I don't believe in them.

My mum worked in the old diva building in Chester. It was part of the hospital and she has some stories to tell.

SnotRags · 02/02/2022 11:27

Poor Julie 😔 hope the story isn’t true, would have to think we’re laughing about it otherwise.

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Mooserp · 02/02/2022 11:28

Maybe the upstairs can be accessed from somewhere else in the building and it was just a nurse from a different part of the hospital?

JustAnotherPoster00 · 02/02/2022 11:31

@KarenTheGammonRemoaner

You saw a ghost, but you are more willing to believe you are going mad because it's not the norm to "believe in ghosts".

You SAW one.

I had a ghost cat in my house. My cat saw it. They are just residual energy. This world is made up of energy, everything is energy, including ghosts.

Believe your own eyes.

Believe your own eyes? One of the easiest of our senses to trick, evolutionary, humans developed the need to see patterns, our brain still functions like this
Ohyesiam · 02/02/2022 11:33

I guess you don’t have to believe in something for it to exist.
I’d like it if I could not believe in gravity and no longer be overweightGrin.

Wagsandclaws · 02/02/2022 11:35

I believe in ghosts, I grew up in a house that was absolutely haunted. Friends, family all had things happen to them, on bright sunshiny summer days sometimes, hardly ever at night tbh.

When we sold it the people who bought it got in touch with us to ask if we'd had any 'experiences' and we said we had.

They are still there though and seem very happy Smile

To all those poo poohing, I'm super skeptical, unless it's right there in front of me I find any explanation that will collate with a scientific reason as to why that has happened.

Some things you just can't 🤷‍♀️

BooseysMom · 02/02/2022 11:37

Dead? I’m sorry, that’s a ridiculous excuse. Listen to this, everyone, Miss Hoity-Toity Julie wants to be taken off nightshift because she’s dead — did you ever hear the like? You’ll have to do better than that, Julie!’

Stop!! I need the loo!! 🤣🤣🤣

RockinHorseShit · 02/02/2022 11:37

You saw a ghost, they definitely exist & can be intelligent or residual. I've experienced both. You will be ridiculed & disbelieved ofc, that's par for the course from those who have never experienced it, it doesn't make what you saw less valid though, just that it's outside of what they have experienced or can mentally deal with