Midwest Preternatural Research


Why Are Hospitals Haunted?
by Matt

I'm going to offer a different explanation for why some hospitals are haunted, since I would think that a ghost would want to go back to the place where they lived or stay around their family. Since Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis (RSPK) is caused by someone who's in physical or emotional pain, and there are a lot of people in hospitals who are in pain, hospitals could be haunted not by the dead but by the living. This could be especially true in mental hospitals where people's perceptions of reality are warped. In fact, I think this is something that should be looked into. A lot of patients in mental hospitals who are seeing things may really be seeing something (and of course some of the things they're seeing are still imaginary). They could be seeing poltergeist activity, either created by themselves or by other people in the hospital. As we said earlier in the entry about the different types of hauntings, it IS possible in a poltergeist case to see apparitions, but what's actually happening is the person is telepathically projecting their fears to other people in the vicinity. It can be witnessed by multiple people at the same time, but the poltergeist agent has to be somewhere in the vicinity. No activity is experienced while they are away.

Then for the abandoned hospitals where there are no people anymore, they could be haunted because the patients were mistreated or it could be residual from all the people who were in pain when they stayed there. It's also possible that the person "wasn't all there" when they were alive, and that could be another reason why they're still hanging around.