***Paranormal Metrou***(imported post) OLD WHITECROFT HOSPITAL Like a small self-contained town, Whitecroft Hospital was an Island institution for a century. This Isle of Wight County Lunatic Asylum, opened in 1896 at a cost of £45,000 . As attitudes to mental health changed, it became Whitecroft Mental Hospital, then Whitecroft Hospital. It closed in 1990, a century after the first Victorian pauper inmates were admitted, Whitecroft Hospital is no more. Like other redundant asylums elsewhere in the country, it is being redeveloped. The old hospital has long been reported, documented, and well-known as a most haunted place, with paranormal groups given permission to investigate ghosts there in the past. In the former nurses block behind the hospital, doors open and close on their own. Workers on site sometimes feel a ghostly hand tap them on the shoulder; they also complain that tools vanish, or are moved by unseen hands. One of the worst places for this is the base of the clock tower. Some of the men refuse to work there; others just treat it as a laugh. A misty white figure moves across an old car park near the laundry. This ghost, believed to be a former doctor, stops to peer into one of the empty rooms before vanishing. The figure of a young man in his twenties has also been seen running nearby by several people. Another doctor or senior member of staff has been seen in one of the patient blocks. This smartly-dressed spirit in a dark suit and cravat, and an unkempt mop of hair, moves quickly through the first floor wards, followed by an assistant who hurries behind.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:25:45 +0000
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