Here are some I've posted.
Where a story uses the term 'I', that's me, Scargy.
Jan 2023 -
Our nearest hospital is a big purpose-built 1970s building; well, it's getting like a little town now, what with all the improvements and additions.
Here is some weirdness I've heard from a reliable source.
1. In a certain hospital lift, an elderly woman sometimes appears after the door has closed. Source has seen her, possibly more than once.
Source took a friend to try out the lift in the hope that the ghost would appear to both of them, but the friend ruined it by screaming her head off in fear. Lightweight.
2. A man will walk in front of people along the Top Corridor, then disappear. Source has seen this too.
3. The operating theatres were closed down when new ones were built. Staff were happy because Theatre No. 3 was heavily haunted. Taps would turn on, light flick off and on etc and small equipment would be moved around, all when staff were present.
Plumbing and electrics would be inspected with no faults found.
After every day's work large equipment would be wheeled away from the walls by staff so the cleaners could access that part of the floors.
When the cleaners came on duty everything would be back where it was in the daytime.
Caused some friction between the cleaners and theatre staff as the cleaners would grumble about having to move it all themselves!
Source witnessed all this many times.
At some point there was a plan to hold a ghost vigil overnight but everyone chickened out. Probably too tired, being overworked NHS staff.
So as I was going to that very hospital the next morning after hearing all this I decided to ride the Haunted Lift. It's one I used when I worked there although the ghost business was new to me.
I called the lift, braced myself, stepped in and looked forward to a scare.
Sadly, it was Mrs Apparition's day off.
I'll certainly try again though.
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I used to have a job where I'd have to patrol at night. Part of the building was single-storey with a flat roof. When I walked along the corridor there in the early hours I'd often hear someone walking on the roof above me.
The floor was carpeted so it wasn't my feet and part of the job was accounting for everyone on site and I'd know nobody was up there.
I could easily check for intruders but there never were any. I just got used to it like everyone else.
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...Reminds me of the care home where I worked, where after a resident died her room was found set up how she liked it at night (all the lights on, doors open etc) when it had been only just been checked by a night carer.
The carer had reached the far end of the corridor, turned round and seen the lights etc and had hysterics. She had to be more or less physically restrained from scarpering and leaving the place in breach of staffing regulations.
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I was walking off a ward. The way out was along a wide corridor which had lines of chairs stacked up along one side. Some of the stacks were very high.
As I walked I suddenly noticed a woman walking in front of me and thought ‘Where did SHE come from?’
She’d seemed to appear from nowhere and certainly hadn’t left the ward shortly before I had or I’d have seen her.
She wore a calf-length pale coat with the hood up and her hands in her pockets, no handbag.
(I was heading towards the cloakroom to collect my own coat and handbag. If she worked there she’d have stored her coat in there too.
Also, it was high summer and not only did she have her coat on indoors, having the hood up looked strange.)
I could see her lower legs so she had a dress or skirt under it.
Then - one of the high stacks of chairs started to vibrate as if someone was holding and shaking it, though there was nobody near it.
As the woman went past it, the top chair lifted clean off the stack, rolled forward in the air and fell on her!
As I opened my mouth to warn her, the chair passed through her and landed with a big clatter on the floor. She was gone, just disappeared.
I didn’t even have time to stop and gawp, and a few seconds later I reached the chair.
As it was in the way I picked it up and placed it on a stack. Not the one it came off though as that was too high for me to reach.
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My mother's retirement complex has only been standing for a few years and already has anomalies.
For example, staff see people walking about on the CCTV screens in the early hours and send people out to investigate in case it's someone with dementia having a wander.
They can then see the staff member standing next to the wanderer, and will ring them and say 'Look to your left! She's walking off down the corridor!' But the person they've sent can't see anyone.
Some night staff won't patrol alone any more, and a couple of the visiting night carers have refused to set foot in the place.
This last is a big deal as visiting carers are poorly-paid and need all the work they can get. They're not in the habit of turning down jobs.
There's one particular 'haunted' spot which I visit every time I'm over there. Haven't seen anything yet but I'm hopeful.
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When I was learning to drive buses I saw a ghost at a bus depot.
I'd got off the bus to go for lunch and was heading for the world's greasiest works cafe which was straight across the concourse.
Outside the cafe I could see a man in overalls sitting, grinning broadly at me. He was tall with a balding head and gaps in his teeth. I smiled back at him then looked left and right before walking across in case any vehicles came in- it's busy and quite a dangerous spot if you don't watch out.
When I glanced back- he was gone. I'd only looked away for a couple of seconds. I rushed over and checked the chair. It was heavily encrusted with pigeon crap! Obviously nobody had sat on it for months.
Whoever he was, he could see me, and thought I was hilarious.
