The World's Most Haunted Hospitals : True-Life Paranormal Encounters in Asylums, Hospitals, and Institutions

If hospital walls could talk, what tales would they tell? Hospitals are the nexus point between life and death, the place into which people enter this world, but also exit it. In The World's Most Haunted Hospitals , paramedic and paranormal investigator Richard Estep recounts some of the most fascinating--and often chilling--stories of hospital hauntings from across the globe, including: The ghostly apparitions at an old Utah hospital, now a nursing home, whose appearances are said to predict a patient's death. The Italian island referred to by locals as "the gateway to Hell," where the restless spirits of thousands of plague victims prowl the dark streets and fields. The terrifying screams and violent phenomena that keep visitors away from an abandoned airbase hospital in the Philippines. The ghostly nurse in grey who haunts the corridors of a London hospital and has frightened generations of doctors and nurses encountering her restless spirit. Join Richard on this fascinating journey around the world, stopping off at a wide spectrum of haunted hospitals and asylums, old and new, and shiver at the personal encounters of doctors, nurses, patients, and others with the strange and inexplicable. A paramedic and paranormal investigator takes readers on a terrifying tour of haunted hospitals, asylums, and medical facilities across the globe. Hospitals are the nexus point between life and death, the place into which people enter this world, but also exit it. When we consider what has taken place behind the closed doors of hospitals since the inception of the medical profession, it should come as no surprise to discover that so many of them are haunted. In The World's Most Haunted Hospitals, paramedic and paranormal investigator Richard Estep recounts some of the most fascinating—and chilling—stories of hospital hauntings from across the globe, including: The apparitions at an old Utah hospital, now a nursing home, whose appearances are said to predict a patient's death. The Italian island referred to by locals as'the gateway to Hell,'where the spirits of thousands of plague victims prowl the streets. The terrifying phenomena that keep visitors away from an abandoned airbase hospital in the Philippines. The ghostly nurse who has haunted the corridors of a London hospital for generations. Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgments Contents Foreword Introduction 1 Asylum 49 2 RAF Hospital Nocton Hall 3 The Clark Air Base Hospital 4 The Spencer State Hospital 5 The Aradale Mental Hospital 6 The Linda Vista Community Hospital 7 St. Thomas’s Hospital 8 Poveglia Island 9 The Rolling Hills Asylum 10 University College Hospital 11 The Yorktown Memorial Hospital 12 The Danvers State Insane Asylum 13 Grace Hospital 14 Metropolitan State Hospital 15 The Old Changi Hospital 16 The Old Yoakum Memorial Hospital 17 St. Albans Sanatorium Notes Index About the Author