Ghosts at the Hospital de Clínicas de La Paz

“The proximity of the Thorax Hospital to the morgue is its avatar and its seal. Irrelevant for most afternoon and morning shift staff, but not for those who work at night, especially nurses.
one of them, Wilma Huañapaco, in charge of the Intensive Care room on the first floor of the building, will never forget what happened on Saturday 4 of August.

Five minutes before two in the morning that day, Huañapaco transcribed, like every night, patient status report, whose delicate situation allows no mistake.

Immediately, A sudden heaviness invaded the environment and the nurse's body was paralyzed.. Neither arms nor legs, not even his eyelids responded. Desperation led her to make greater efforts until she could turn around.. At that moment he saw a tall man, outlined by an olive green aura and headless. Although the figure disappeared instantly, The feeling of immobility remained for a few more seconds..

“The only thing I knew was that I was awake.”, she would later tell her companions, some still incredulous about the Huañapaco experience, for whom the apparitions are, after all, normal, since she says she has been in contact with this type of phenomena since she was a child..

But this nurse is not the only one who sees apparitions at the Thorax Hospital, nor this decapitated form the first time it appears.

In fact, Through the corridors the story is still told of a man who walks through the gardens near the hospital every night on his way to the morgue.. Although some have baptized him with the name of the Headless Horseman, has no relation to Washington Irving's story.

So strong is the presence of this faceless man, like that of a mother carrying her child who has made more than one nurse's hair stand on end in the section known as Pensioners., on the second floor of the hospital, which is where wealthy patients are hospitalized and where until a few years ago people in delicate condition were transferred.

“Appears in complete silence, visit some rooms, stops in front of a particular person, He watches her and then he disappears.", It is the coincidental story of those who have experienced firsthand the presence of the so-called Mother of Pensioners.

A few steps from the Tórax is the Hospital de Clínicas, also known as General, the oldest in the Miraflores complex and also in the city of La Paz.

Thousands of people passed through its long corridors, between doctors, nurses and patients, some of whose spirits refuse to leave the place. Don Eloy Ticona confirms this., hospital porter and who every night, during 25 years, runs from end to end of the old structure.

A night of a year that Don Eloy does not remember, the figure of a woman of tall stature and fine bearing appeared in the garden. “Doña Mercedes?”, Don Eloy asked, hoping to find an answer from the thin lady whom he mistook for a nurse who was working at the time..

In that moment, the mysterious woman came out of the garden, He took the hallway and walked away at a slow pace towards a room where some patients were resting.. The spirited doorman followed her and entered the room almost behind the woman., but found nothing, which was corroborated by a patient who was awake and did not see anyone enter.
Since then, Many of these apparitions have disturbed Don Eloy's nights., who, however, He has put aside his fear to give way to curiosity. There are countless opportunities in which the lady in black has reappeared and some already know her as the General's Widow..

The most senior officials of these and other hospitals assure that these apparitions are the souls of people who died leaving something unfinished..

Such is the case of the figure of a nurse in a blue cape who has made the ramps of the Children's Hospital her favorite place for night walks..

Those who have seen her claim that she is the spirit of a former hospital official., to whom her appreciation and dedication for children still keeps her with them. About it, Some representatives assure that the infants have not forgotten their favorite nurse either..

One of these people is the current head of the Neonatology service., Teresa Aguilar, who in his 20 years of working in this hospital I had never had an experience like the one four years ago.

It was a night in which the routine tour of the rooms was interrupted by some elusive laughter from children one floor above.. Believing that a group of his little patients had decided to start a round of games in the dark, He went up in silence trying to surprise them.

The closer he got, the louder the laughter.. Without thinking twice and two steps from the indicated floor, he let out a scream., but there was no one.

An intense cold shook him from head to toe and the sensation of immobility took over his body for a few seconds.. “I'm crazy”, she said to herself as if convincing herself that she had not heard the multitudinous voices. The uncertainty ended the next day when the concierge asked, in a tone of complaint, Check on your children because they had been laughing all night.

Although there are not many people today who say they hear children's voices and laughter in the hospital, The officials assure that their little visitors hang around the rooms all day.
The Pharmacy manager on the afternoon shift cannot explain why some of the medication boxes appear disordered whenever she leaves the place for some time.”

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