Absolutely 100% seen one!!
An old girlfriend was a cook at Leigh Infirmary and Atherleigh hospital, she was responsible for being first in one day at the latter to get breakfasts on the go.
As it was ridiculously early, around 5.30am, and the Kitchen at Atherleigh was down a long corridor, about 50yds, I used to walk her in.
One morning we arrived in the pitch black corridor and flicked the corridor’s fluorescent lights on. These came on separately, one after the other, for the long length of the dark space.
As the last light came on, ie the one just before the empty kitchen, a woman in a grey looking Victorian nurse’s uniform with white cuffs and a frilled cap was clearly visible for about 3 seconds, she glanced our way briefly and continued walking (just as if something caught her eye briefly).
This wasn’t just a shadow or our own reflection as there was no reflective surfaces whatsoever and all her features were quite visible which seemed to be of a woman in her late 40s or early 50s.
After she disappeared, we both stood there in drop jawed shock and asked each other, almost simultaneously, “Did you see f*cking that?”
We had both witnessed EXACTLY the same sight!!
What made us realise it was a ghost? Well, where the woman walked from, and to, were solid brick walls but, apparently, used to form part of another corridor crossing which, years before our time, had been demolished and the ends bricked in!
Atherleigh used to be, I’m told, an old workhouse so I can imagine this matronly looking ‘lady in grey’ was from that era.
Suffice to say, after she told catering management, she point blank refused to be first in ever again and went back to work at Leigh Infirmary.
I feel what we experienced was one of two things, either a residual haunting ie something played over and over again when circumstances are right or a brief rip in time itself? What crossed my mind years later was, when she glanced our way, did she have a split second vision of us? Did she go back to HER employer in her time and say SHE’D seen something?
Sadly, it was early ’80s before camera phones and non-videocam video so, you only have my (and I presume hers!) word for it but I swear, to this day, we saw ‘something’!!!
I did, one day, come across an image purporting to be of a similar experience and have posted it below to, try, to give an impression of what we saw but for the record I’m NOT claiming this to be the same woman or even the same hospital.
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