Ghosts of sister's past

[icghosts]

This comes from the web site unexplained-mysteries.com.



One night in 1975, Mary McLellan was working as a ward sister at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow. She was setting up a piece of equipment in a room facing a well-lit corridor when she became aware of a "tall, silver-haired man wearing a blue dressing gown and standing near the doorway of the ward opposite". He stood still and silent for a moment and then vanished. But she thought nothing of it, assuming he was a patient who had just gone back to bed. "Almost immediately, the ward nurse came over to me," McLellan recalls. "She was very upset at seeing the apparition. She recognised him as a patient who had died two days previously." The UK is full of old hospitals, many of which have at least one and sometimes several ghost stories attached. Veteran ghost hunter Andrew Green, who died this year, collected dozens of stories of hospital hauntings, including the experience of Mary McLellan. The stories vary, but a common theme is a "grey lady" or "woman in white" who made some terrible medical error and took their own life in remorse, only to reappear at times of crisis. Green believed that these apparitions are forms of electro-magnetic energy - a sort of faded echo of people whose lives were intensely stressful. Such tales are passed down by word of mouth through generations of young doctors and nurses. Part folk myth, part cautionary tale, they are a sort of paranormal aid to risk management. At the now defunct Mothers Hospital, in Hackney, east London, drowsy nurses complained of feeling a startling tap on the shoulder.

According to legend, a nurse who was bottle-feeding a newborn baby dozed off and slumped forward in her sleep, smothering the baby. In a fit of remorse, she killed herself and was condemned to walk the wards, tapping young nurses on the shoulder to keep them awake. A classic of the genre is the "nurse in a bluish-grey uniform" seen by patients at University College Hospital, London. It appears only when screens go up around a bed and is said to be the spirit of a nurse who administered a morphine overdose to a patient and was so upset that she took poison and killed herself.

[Allen]

Very interesting icghosts. You have me online looking for more stories like this one, I've always enjoyed reading a good ghost story.I'd also like to hear about some of your own experiences.