Ghostly staff at the hospital! Submitted by Rita: mylonnie@pacbell.net My neighbor was born in York England. As a child she experienced the assault of Hitler on her Country, but the most mysterious experience happened to her at a historical hospital near Buckingham Palace, London, where she was working as a nurse in the 1950's. The hospital is 250 years old, and there has long been the story of the Victorian nurse, who mysteriously fell to her death from the top of a spiral staircase, dying instantly when her body hit the stone floor below. She was known through the centuries as the "Gray Lady Nurse". When observed, she was wearing a long gray dress with her white cap, placed on top of her blonde hair, wearing a pleasant smile on her face. The staircase was at the rear of the hospital, and was used to reach doctor's offices, medical supplies, and patients' rooms on the multiple floors. In the 1950's the staircase was still in use. Judith was a recent graduate of nursing school, and was working evenings at the hospital. She was in charge of twelve patients on the first floor. She was alone on the floor and it was a quiet cool misty night. She was checking on her patients, and was going to replace a stomach tube in a male patient, when she discovered she had forgot the surgical tape to attach the tube. She had inserted the tube, and asked the patient to hold the tube while she went to medical supplies to get the tape. She was only gone a few minutes, when returning was surprised to find the tape applied to the patient's stomach, securing the tube in a very professional manner. She asked the patient who had applied the tape, knowing she was alone on the floor. He said, "A very pleasant nurse with a long gray dress applied the tape and repositioned the tube." The Gray Lady told the patient he would be well soon, and not be depressed. Knowing she was being watched and judged on her professional behavior, Judith always made sure she had her supplies with her on her rounds. In the 1930's a biochemist, who had worked at the hospital for many years, was found dead in his office by the staff. He had a crippling disease as a child, that left him with a shuffle when he walked. His office was near several patients' rooms, and the base of the spiral staircase. It was common for patients to ask the nurses on duty the following morning, who was shuffling in the halls in the wee hours of the morning, waking them from sleep? This was reported 20 years after his death. I guess, even in death, the welfare of the hospital and patients must go on? Hi Jim, I have an addition to the story of the hospital. *The hospital was named St George's Hospital in Hyde Park. Since the 1950's, the hospital has been moved to a new location. The old hospital is now a hotel and a tea room. Judith returned last year to London and had High Tea there and wondered if the Gray Lady Nurse and the bio-chemist were there or moved to the new location? She said she didn't have the nerve to go back to the rear of the building to see if the spiral staircase was still there. Rita   BACK TO GHOST MASTER HOME PAGE Thanks Rita for sharing your amazing experience!  :)   .

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