The Paranormal Database

Pinkie

Location: EC1 (Greater London) - St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Grace Ward (once known as Pinkie's Ward?) is reputedly home to a nurse in old fashioned dress. Some say that she killed herself after administering an overdose to a patient, while other stories say she was murdered by an insane patient in the lift (after which, the lift would never work correctly). Another ghostly nurse haunts Bedford Fenwick Ward, and is said to be comforting in nature. Another story, or another version of the first story, says that the theatre lift in the King George the Fifth block is haunted by Jasmine, who smells strongly of floral perfume.

Headless Woman with Child

Location: Edinburgh (Lothian) - Site of the Gillespie Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century
Further Comments: Before the construction of the hospital, the land was given to a mansion that was haunted by a headless lady carrying a small child. When this building was demolished, their bodies were found concealed beneath.

Bearded Man

Location: Edinburgh (Lothian) - Unknown hospital, Ward D
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: This hairy man with mad-looking eyes was once a doctor on the site, killed by another medical practitioner over the love of a girl.

Grey Lady

Location: Enniscorthy (County Wexford) - St. Senan's Hospital (closed 2015)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghostly grey lady spotted around the hospital is considered to be a nurse or matron.

Victorian Nurse

Location: Exeter (Devon) - Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A ghostly nurse occasionally appears by the bed of anyone close to death and rearranges any nearby flowers so that they form a cross.

Soldier

Location: Glascow (Lanarkshire) - Cowglen hospital (now demolished)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 05 March 1984
Further Comments: During a night shift, one nurse watched a figure in Second World War uniform drift towards her, passing sleeping patients. The nurse fled as the figure reached her.

Lady with Grey Hair

Location: Glasgow (Lanarkshire) - Rosshall hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: January 2008
Further Comments: A grey haired lady who died in theatre three many years ago is still said to haunt the area. Staff report a fleeting glance of her ghost before it vanishes.

Ward Sister

Location: Glasgow (Lanarkshire) - Royal Infirmary Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Sister in Twentieth century, and patient in 2002
Further Comments: At least one nurse has claimed to have seen a ward sister walking around at night, normal looking other than the fact the apparition appears to be cut off at the knee. Ward 27 is reported to be home to Archie, a ghostly elderly man who wears a bun net and can be seen talking to dying patients. More recently, while answering an arrest call, a doctor was asked the way out by a patient. The doctor pointed over his shoulder as he continued to run down the corridor. When the doctor reached the patient, who had died, he realised that it was the same man who had asked for directions.

Strange Woman

Location: Glasgow (Lanarkshire) - Stobhill Hospital
Type: Crisis Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A student nurse spotted a woman slip into a side ward - the student followed her, only to find that the only person in the room was a patient who required immediate help.

Sir William MacEwen

Location: Glasgow (Lanarkshire) - Western Infirmary (hospital)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The ghost of MacEwen is thought to have returned after he deliberately failed to perform surgery that could have saved a man's life. In 1975 two nurses spotted a patient in a blue gown, one of whom recognised him as a man who had died a couple of days previous. The man suddenly vanished.

Ghostly nuns pop up across the UK.

Nun holding Child

Location: Gloucester (Gloucestershire) - Former hospital along Tewkesbury Road (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: The hospital was haunted by both the nun carrying a baby, and the sounds of the child crying. It is said that the woman committed suicide after blaming herself for the death of the infant.

Unknown

Location: Goosnargh (Lancashire) - Whittingham Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: As the building next door is allegedly the UK's most haunted, it only stands to reason that some of the shades would migrate to this hospital, though no one appears to know for sure which ones have.

Shaking Beds

Location: Gorseinon (West Glamorgan) - Gorseinon Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2005
Further Comments: Several strange events have been reported over the past few years, including empty beds which shake violently and the sighting of a shadowy nurse in an old style uniform.

White Lady

Location: Gosport (Hampshire) - Royal Hospital Haslar
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2004, and 1998
Further Comments: A phantom white lady is said to haunt the building. In 2004, an employee sitting in an office spotted a head pass the window in the door. Knowing he was alone in that part of the hospital, the man tried to follow the person - all possible exits were locked, but no one could be found. Six years previous, two people working on reception heard an internal door squeak open and footsteps walk towards the front desk, although no one could be seen and a walkaround found no one.

Mary Dolofus

Location: Greenfield (County Cork) - Old hospital (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nineteenth century?
Further Comments: This hospital was said to have been run by a protestant doctor who would only treat people of the same religion. After the site was left empty, it was said to have become haunted by a woman named Mary Dolofus.

Grey Lady

Location: Hartlepool (Durham) - Hartlepools Hospital (no longer standing)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: The hospital, built on the site of a Franciscan friary, was haunted by a grey lady. One patient commented to a nurse that a woman wearing a grey cloak had floated past and ignored him; the nurse was the only person on duty, and she wore the standard navy cloak (and likely did not float).

Male in Blue Uniform

Location: Hastings (Sussex) - St Helen's Hospital, St Leonards-on-Sea
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1980s
Further Comments: This old man dressed in blue has been reported near the area where the old hospital radio station once stood. His footsteps were also often heard down empty corridors.

Former Patients

Location: Hatton (Warwickshire) - Former Central Hospital, was known as Warwick County Lunatic Asylum, now Hatton Park
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Before modernisation, this hospital was said to have rooms haunted by former patients.

Old Man

Location: Hornchurch (Essex) - Copse near river close to St George's Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This phantom old man emerges from the copse and beckons people, trying to lure them across the river.

Inmates and Staff

Location: Irvine (Lanarkshire) - Former Ravenspark Asylum (hospital)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Ghost hunters claim that the former asylum is haunted by several former patients and at least one warden. Footsteps, banging doors and whispers have all been reported on site.

Gliding Lady

Location: Kingston upon Thames (Surrey) - Infirmary (would later become Kingston Hospital, Regent Wing(?))
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: January - April 1922
Further Comments: A child first reported the ghost, describing a lady who stood at the end of his bed before drifting into a nearby room. When examined, the room was empty. A sister in charge spotted a similar figure, with a thin white face, sad eyes, and a cap like that worn during the First World War. Another nurse felt two hands grab her wrists just after extinguishing her light.

Lift Travellers

Location: Leeds (West Yorkshire) - St James's University Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: A member of staff would often use a lift in the building, sharing with occupants who would travel upwards only to vanish just before the doors opened.

A Former Smoker?

Location: Lesmahagow (Lanarkshire) - Birkwood psychiatric hospital (no longer operational)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Twentieth century
Further Comments: Lights would turn themselves on and off, footfalls echoed down empty corridors, and the thick smell of cigar smoke was reported by staff when this former hospital was operational.

Footsteps

Location: Liff (Angus) - Staff Housing at Royal Liff Hospital
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1973, around 23:00h
Further Comments: Two witnesses heard footsteps ascending the staircase and coming to a halt on the landing. The witnesses investigated and found no one there. The building was locked up with no way in. A similar incident also took place at the house next door.

Nurse with Baby?

Location: Limavady (County Derry / County Londonderry) - Former Roe Valley Hospital
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Mid 2009
Further Comments: While photographing the building at night, a security guard caught a strange 'figure' on camera. Paranormal Society Ireland called the picture authentic. The former hospital is said to be haunted by the sounds of crying babies and uniformed men and women.