NHS calls in exorcist

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That's correct.

An exorcist has been called in by the NHS to a hospice because of many paranormal incidents and sightings of the ghost of a girl in a red dress, witnessed by staff and also patients.

You'd think there has to be something in this right? And if not, what on earth could be going on?

Normal for Norfolk.

I was a porter, and worked alternating weekends. A few departments are only open during the week.
Outpatients was one, and also consisted of other smaller departments that were only open Mon-Fri. CAHMS and Audiology were based there, and also what we called the "Rainbow Room"... that was the place parents went to view deceased patients. Deceased patients were also stored in the room next to it.
One weekend, I was walking through the big open bit of Outpatients, and I saw a small boy run through one of the side corridors. Of course, no one should have been there at all, so I followed him. Saw him dart past me in another bit.
I got fed up and gave up... went to the rest room where the cleaners were having lunch and told them some kid was running about. They asked if he had a blue t-shirt on. Yep, and then I was told he was a ghost, and a few people had spotted him before.
Night shift staff have also reported seeing kids run about in the departments that were closed at the time. Although some have admitted they were doing far too much overtime then and were probably sleep deprived!
Out hospital opened in 2001, so it is not like there were little Victorian children causing havoc.
I keep an open mind about things.

My degree is in physics, so I should be a sceptic, but I've watched too many water board engineers, totally unable to locate pipework off plans resort to divination using a couple of bent metal rods and promptly finding what hours of conventional searching failed to do, to dismiss the paranormal out of hand.

Fiber optic internet was installed in my neighborhood a couple of years ago. I watched a man walk around with divining rods looking for the water lines when they were digging to the yard across the street from mine. It was fascinating.

It's more likely than there being a ghost though.

It's astonishing!! In places where staff regularly work long night shifts! And, famously, where junior medical staff work, known for always being very very tired! In placea where issues of life and death are discussed every day, and where there are sick people hovering between life and death, and hugely upset relatives coming in and out. A place where different strangers are often moving around in corridors at the edge of your vision.

Who would have thunk that ghostly sightings might be a thing?????!!!

No. It doesn't.

Hospices aren't run by the NHS, and this is most likely to be a free service by the CofE. Not that it makes it any less weird.

Oooo I love a creepy ghost story

During the height of the 1976 summer drought on a remote farm in Devon, we (a bunch of scruffy students) called in the local dowser to find water on the land, as we were many miles from an emergency standpipe.
He and his magic sticks found an underground stream.

And they need them, with the kind of chap they install as Bishop in Hereford 🤣

Where’s Uncanny, when you need it!
Love Danny Robins, ‘Bloody hell Ken’

I mean... I work in mental health and I've seen an exorcist called by the NHS before but its been due to the beliefs of the patient not the beliefs of staff or the NHS as a body.
Could it be that the hospice residents wanted it and it was felt it would be reassuring for them?

In the instance where I saw an exorcist be called it was actually surprisingly reasonable.

I'm not a believer but a hospital will have seen many more deaths than your average family home. If only a percentage of deaths result in a ghost, statistically hospitals will be more likely to be haunted. Perhaps.

People have been on this land mass for thousands of years, and so logically every inch of ground has had a death on it at one time or another...so there should be spirits everywhere

Just out of interest...someone put up on another thread about going along a country road afrer dark and seeing a man with shadowy body, black eyes and white face...and then it disappeared.....it got me thinking....does anyone think there are people who dress up and spring out at people....i dont mean sex attackers but people trying to scare people...i remember that man in devon who wore a latex suit and sprung out at people....is this a thing ?

@Daygloboo how strange
You mean it was definitely a man in a costume? Was it Halloween by any chance?

I don't know about the man in Devon either. Sounds worrying.

She said she had to walk back along the country road she lived on one night and she heard a scratching sound and when she looked round it was a shadowy body, black eyes and a white face and then it was gone. The one in Devon was a man in a mask and latex suit who was jumping out at people. It happened several times in several.places. I just wondered if there are people who are lurking in isolsted places doing stuff like this and if it's a thing.

@Daygloboo oh my God that's awful. She was walking bloody hell. I foolishly assumedshe'd seen it from a car.

Wouldn't be surprised if people are doing that

I dont think you have to pay

I think deliverance ministry is given free of charge by the C of E

That's incorrect : the Vatican treats them as real, still.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43697573.amp

No i think she normally drove but had been out and her husband couldnt meet her that night and she lived slightly out of the village on a country road and decided to walk back. I think she had a house on a dark road about half a mile outside the village or something. It did sound very odd and her story sounded true. I dont know what she saw and obviously neither did she. But then I thought of the man in the black latex suit snd started to wonder if there are weird people who do this.

I'm am just looking for friends wanted to play with me a Ouija board game

Exactly.

If they'd already been searching for hours, they must have nearly run out of places to look. There possibly some confirmation bias there!

Brian Cox says it's all hocus pocus doesn't he. And if it's good enough for Brian, it's good enough for me.