I recommend picking up a copy of his book. It will really give you a different feel for walking into a hospital... PART 3: Reactions of Hospital Workers and Hauntings in Rebuilt Structures.
Q: Did you find that medical staffers in the facilities that are still
open were reluctant to talk about their ghostly encounters or were they excited
to share them?
No reluctance at all, Rob.
More to the point, they were likely to tell more than I possibly needed.
Finding multiple employees who knew of a particular paranormal happenstance was
the initial challenge. For every
verification that something went on a particular floor, or room, or ward, was
accompanied by stories of events in other places about the hospital. As I talk about the book now that it has
been published, employees of medical-care facilities are sharing many more
accounts of eerie things that have occurred where they worked.
Q: You cited that some of the facilities that burned down and were
rebuilt still contain the ghosts that lived when the former facility was still
standing. So do you think they're more confined to the location than the actual
structure? Do you think that ghosts see the new structure or continue to
live in the past?
I’m not sure that you can burn out a ghost. That said, all else in your question
applies. Some ghosts are hanging
around the location and some the actual structure… and I am sure some ghosts
have attached themselves to things, as well, such as a particular bed or
chair. I do think most ghosts “see”
a new structure. In fact, it is a
new structure, and remodeling of an old one, that seems to call upon the ghosts
to become active. Perhaps they
found a way to rest that is being disturbed.
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| Author Randy Russell |
Let me add one word of warning to those who seek to understand ghosts and
hauntings. Do not be too quick to
assume that a particular moment of history is at play when you meet a
ghost. In most cases, the ghost is
there for you. A ghost is there because you are. Again, it is my personal belief
that the only way a ghost exists is through the perception of the living.
Now, it may be a ghost wants you, or anyone, to remember a particular
time in history. Ghosts may not be
stupidly reliving their lives as an unaware imprint on whatever the heck
imprints… They’re performing the
rote activity specifically for you. Because you are there.
A ghost is showing you what they did and perhaps how they did it. They know their time has passed. A ghost is only as stupid, or as smart,
as the person who is seeing it.
***************************************************************"The Ghost Will See You Now: Haunted Hospitals of the South"
BOOK SUMMARY: Organized as a state-by-state guide to known Southern hospital hauntings, The Ghost Will See You Now includes 40-plus ghost stories and lists of sightings at more than 160 haunted locations. In addition to the numerous hospital sightings, ghosts also haunt medical-care facilities as diverse as TB sanitariums, spas, dental clinics, treatment centers at historic forts, nursing homes, hospice centers, ambulances, hospital train cars, and an early-19th-century pharmacy in New Orleans. To Buy the Book on AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/The-Ghost-Will-See-You/dp/0895876310
*Randy has authored several other fascinating books I've also read:
Ghost Dogs of the South, The Granny Curse and Other Ghosts and Legends from East Tennessee and Ghost Cats of the South!
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