Oh my Ghost [YiZhan FF]

Chapter 4 - The hospital on the hill

A/N: Hey ghost hunters! Would you like to help me with a decision? It's about the question how we should proceed with Zhan. Should he be the ghost of a deceased person? Or should he be alive, similar to "Dance with Me", but for some reason his spirit has left his body? What do you think? Which decision should we make?

Another location that I remembered very well was an abandoned hospital. Just like all the other buildings before, the hospital had been very old. Once it was said to have been a convent, then a boarding school, then a military hospital during the war, then an orphanage, and then it became a hospital.

The title of the episode in the documentary was, "The Hospital on the Hill" and was one of the most talked about episodes of this documentary series. There were a total of 12 episodes in the series and no other episode was as hotly discussed and shared as this episode about the hospital.

We were actually on our way to a ranch in Texas when we received a call from the TV station asking us to fly to Germany and to definitely check out this hospital. They would have received many calls and emails, with the tip to go to this hospital. So instead of going to the ranch, we went to the nearest airport.

On the flight from Texas to Germany, I did some research on the hospital and it quickly became clear that this building had been through quite a bit.

For almost a century it was a convent where nuns lived, worked and of course prayed to God. Why the nuns left there at some point I did not find out. The convent stood empty for only about a year until it was used as a boarding school. A few renovations here and there and it was a school and home for children between the ages of 8 and 16.

But already after 11 years the boarding school was closed again. Because then it was used for about four years as a military hospital in the Second World War by the Nazis. They brought their wounded there to be treated. Many did not come out of there alive. Corpses are said to have piled up in the yard because no one knew where to put them. The condition was said to be catastrophic. There were not enough beds, hardly any painkillers, no proper operating room, it was dirty and there were hardly any medical professionals.

As soon as the Nazis left, it was used as an orphanage for all the children who had lost their parents during the war. But neither children nor caretakers nor educators felt comfortable there. Again and again there were strange occurrences. At that time, people talked about noises like gunshots or screams. But also of the fact that some of those living there were pushed by invisible hands, in the process two children are said to have fallen down the stairs and injured themselves. Or that objects moved by themselves. Doors opened and closed by themselves. And also that suddenly there was a green light and fog everywhere in the building.

Eventually, they quickly closed the orphanage again after not quite two years. Then a priest consecrated the building and it became a hospital. But because more patients died there than were cured, it was more of a hospice than a hospital. At that time the hospital was quite modern and all the employees were very experienced in their professions. There was even an investigation, but it revealed nothing. Nobody could explain the enormously high mortality rate of the patients.

Patients who had been discharged from the hospital alive told of noises, a draft when the doors and windows were closed, fog that suddenly spread on the floor. A green light shimmering under the doors. Whispering in the corridor in front of the rooms, although no one was there. Some patients suddenly had bruises that no one could explain how they got.

And despite the bad reputation and persistently poor chances of survival as a patient, the hospital was closed only in 1980, after several suicides of patients had occurred and loud demands for closure had been made.