Interesting, about the hospital. I did a bit of a Google search after that and found that it is common for Psychiatric hospitals to be reputed to be haunted. And that got me thinking about my Mother's cousin George. I rather wish i hadn't now.
George was a biochemist. according to the family he "always had his nose stuck in a book" and had only one , close friend. Prior to World War II he was perfectly sane, it seems, just odd. An Aspie, hmm? During the War, he was pressed into service identifying the remains of the dead. The work drove him out of his mind, and he was committed to Hatfield Hospital, Warwickshire, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was visited by his brother, but didn't recognise him, nor recall his own name.
I always felt a bit of an affinity for George. I'd first heard about him during my teens, i think, when Mum admitted that George was the reason why she discouraged me from reading so much; and told me the reason being that I reminded her too much of George , who'd been driven mad by reading too many books. Seriously, that's what she believed. Well, she's been a very young girl at the time, andmental health matters were spoken of in whispers , if at all; so that's the idea she got, and it made a deep and lasting impression on her. She didn't find out the real story until 1990-ish, when George died, and she had a good long talk with his brother about him.
So Mum and I were
both wrong. My own, long cherished private theory had been that George had been blessed with a Mother just like mine, and
that was what had driven him mad
Anyways, so I just had to go and see if there anything online regarding ghosts at Hatfield Hospital, didn't I? In the course of which, i found the video below, which is creepy, but largely on account of the reepy soundtrack, I believe. But more than creeped-out, I found it really profoundly sad. I got about 2/3 f the way through and couldn't stand any more of it.
That's unusual for me, believe me. I
thrive on depressing stuff
I don't know what to think about the ghost stuff. I just feel horribly sad for my own family ghost, all of sudden.
-WalkiePS I deliberately didn't embed the link, because I don't want to look at it. But would welcome any comments