To ask for your hospital woo?

[NHSWoo]

I'm a lurker on the other woo thread and saw a few posts from people who've worked at hospitals and had spooky experiences.

I made this thread as someone commented on making a hospital woo kind of thread and also I'd really would love to hear people's stories working at hospitals, care homes, maybe even doctors surgeries of things they've experienced. Please post any story you have experienced or someone you know. The more stories the better. I really want to hear them as I can imagine hospitals are creepy places in certain areas, especially morgues. 👻

That is some fetish OP..

How is it a fetish? There's a woo thread and a few people who have worked in hospitals have posted their experiences, I was wanting to create a thread just for that? There's no need to be nasty about it..

I worked in a victoriana style hospital for 20 years. I never saw anything but victoriana hospitals are creepy. We used to scare each other so much telling ghost stories we had to go everywhere in twos.

Sat in a meeting room on a Saturday even with 2 others in a secure part of a very old building that used to be hospital wards. Someone walked past the door, it was obscured glass but all of us saw a person pass as the corridor was well lit. We got up and opened the door to check and there was no one else in the corridor, and after further exploration no one else in that part of the building.

The secure door history to the building showed no one had come in or out since we had arrived.

I had not heard any tales or rumours of any woo, like ghosts etc. at that point but after that others told stories of spirits matrons patrolling the wards during the nights.

I didn't find it scary, just curious

@Shehasadiamondinthesky
I imagine they have a really creepy atmosphere, especially at nighttime.

@HesDeadBenYouCanStopNow
That's weird how you all saw it at the same time, but I imagine it was more of an oohh what was that than a scary experience.

My aunt was a paramedic and has been to some creepy places seeing to patients. She hasn't outright seen anything but just been in houses or old buildings that felt very active or woo and she isn't even a woo type of person, she just said some places had an overbearing atmosphere to them.

How won earth is wanting to hear ghost stories a fetish?

You sound like the odd one here...

It really interests me how things become ‘creepy’. So is the Victorian hospital creepy because it has more shadowy corners for ghosts to lurk or is it just because we have seen so many horror stories with that kind of architecture?

See also -clowns and talking dolls. Are they inherently creepy or are we just conditioned by movies?

I know what you mean, sometimes it could be biased. I've read a few stories on here in the past based on hospitals that wasn't even the witness/es trying to look for something though. Like the story above of the person walking past the door that everyone saw at the same time, or on the other thread of the nurse who saw a patient behind him/her in a hospital gown holding a drip tray and his/her patient also saw the person.

@MoonShadowMoonShadow yeah I didn't understand that post either 🤔

I worked as an agency staff nurse in Southampton and picked up a shift at the eye hospital. This was in the 80’s and the eye hospital was a Victorian rabbits warren in Bedford Place Southampton. When it was time for my break I asked the auxiliary nurses where I could take a nap and they said that there were several rooms upstairs unused. Excellent, I thought.
I found a suitable room upstairs ( looked like a clinic room). I admit to feeling like ‘wow! Everything is so empty and eerie!’ Got woken up by a noise or something and saw a woman in Victorian/earlier garb walking through the room. My blood ran cold but I told myself it was just a dream.
went back to the ward and the 2 auxiliaries asked me how my break was. I said fine apart from a weird dream. Then they told me the whole story that apparently it was a ‘thing’ that there was a ghost there.
Im not sure but I will always remember it.

@CrowFriend Wow I bet that was terrifying, maybe the nurse didn't want you to oversleep 😂

I think she was joking 🙃

DH used to work in one of the old asylums, lots of accounts of spooky stuff including babies crying in closed off wards which used to be the ward for unmarried mothers.

Now works in a nursing home and some of the paramedics are really reluctant to go in certain rooms because they’ve had spooky experiences there when coming out to see residents in the past.

@SandieCollins did the paramedics tell him what they experienced and has your DH seen/experienced anything at the nursing home?

Yes both got stuck in a room when there was no one outside. The handle wouldn’t turn, when they stepped away the handle turned and door opened on its own. The paramedics won’t go in that one room on their own now, they’ve all heard odd noises in that one room too.

@SandieCollins that's freaky, no wonder they don't want to be alone in that room again. I feel sorry for whoever will have to stay in that room in future as it sounds very active and freaky in there.

Both when Ds was born and when he was in ICU at 10 weeks old I was overcome with the smell of my late granddads cigarettes in the hospital rooms. Neither of which where close to where people would be smoking.

My NHS team moved from one site to another, which was an old, empty crumbling hospital. One day a colleague was there on her own and she walking down the corridor and saw a little old lady with a hat on, smiling.
There wasn't any way the lady could've got in.

Does anyone remember a thread in the last year or so about a healthcare professional who saw a nurse called Julie in the attic and it turned out there was a nurse who used to work there called Julie that died?

Not me- but a patient of mine came to see me and asked me what the (old, Victorian) building use to be used as, as she had a strong sense of sadness in the room. I said I would find out for her. It used to be an asylum.
I never felt comfortable in the building after dark by myself- but didn't think much of it until she said that!

When I was a student nurse I had a placement in a community hospital (this is around 2013). So it would be where people go for rehab if they aren’t safe to go home yet, and also palliative care for people who were dying. I was walking down the corridor and saw an elderly woman walking with a frame as if she had come out of the toilet and move into the the bay where the beds were. I remember thinking, “That’s weird, none of the ladies in there can walk by themselves”. As I got to the doors of the bay, probably 5 seconds after this lady had gone through the door, everyone was sat in their chairs. I know some people will say it was just one of those ladies, but it definitely!!!! wasn’t.
Thinking about it, I have a couple of these

I was 😁

@Luredbyapomegranate I'm sorry, it's hard to read sarcasm over message and with my autism I struggle with getting sarcasm sometimes.

@JinxandBinx please share anymore (if you want to)

@EeeByeGummieBear that's eerie, I can see why you wouldn't want to be alone there, especially after she's told you that. Did you feel any sadness or just eeriness?

@Scuttlingherbert I remember that story, it was quite recent wasn't it? Beginning of the year? I found it fascinating, many people were skeptical but the OP seemed genuine.

@Sirzy that's a really sweet story, he clearly wanted to bring comfort to you ❤I'm glad to hear your DS is well now.

@NHSWoo I didn't feel the sadness as such. I did start to notice what I can only describe as a heaviness in the air. However, this was after the conversation with the patient so I put it down to attention bias! I didn't notice it all the time, only occasionally.
The patient herself was so matter of fact about it- like she often noticed things about buildings. I wish I'd asked her more about it at the time, but didn't have the time in the appointment.

Just as an aside to earlier comments, I think that the reason films &c have used clowns and dolls as subjects of horror is that they are creepy in and of themselves.
I reckon it's partly that they are associated with childhood, and warped/evil childhood is so incongruous that we instinctively shrink from it. There could also be an element of the "uncanny valley", whereby things that look almost human but not quite are really repellent.
The films then take those qualities and exaggerate them, and enhance them with music, lighting, context etc.

I've worked in a lot of hospitals over the last 40 years, and in each one it's generally accepted that a ghost shows itself in one place.

In one, it was in an old A&E department which was demolished, and which is now located in a car park.