Night nurse mystery.
In 1950, I was stationed at an RAF Hospital, in Ely. As duty officer, I was completing a routine night patrol of the building when, to my surprise, I met a nurse. She asked me where ward 12 was, and I directed her to the appropriate corridor. As I had never seen this nurse before, I informed the Matron, but she had seen no one in the vicinity of ward 12.
I was about to leave, when the Sister and I became aware of footsteps within the ward itself. Our flashlights revealed nothing. We turned the main lights on and saw no one, but clearly heard the same mysterious footsteps walk past us.
The mystery was never satisfactorily solved, although the Matron could remember a young nurse who had contracted a fatal disease while working on ward 12. Her description fitted exactly that of the lady I had spoke with that night.
But that was not the end of the matter. Furniture started to wobble and fall over, and then smaller items were seen, by myself and others, flying around, crashing against walls and breaking windows. A guard was immediately posted around the area, and a thorough investigation ruled out the obvious, such as pranksters.
The Institute for Psychical Research were called to investigate but were unable to pin down the cause of the phenomena. Their instruments measured an unexplained temperature drop in the building, despite the blazing heat of a summer’s day outside.
Mr S.
Sunday Life, 8th February 1998.