The Lady in the Hospital

From: Marie Jo Cantuaria (mariejopink25@yahoo.com.br)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Hospital - Rio Negrinho - SC - BRAZIL
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Tue May 15 11:47:12 2007

Well, about 4 years ago, my mother Ivete was feeding the dogs on the yard. Our house is in a kind of a mountain and then, we have to go upstairs ( cement stairs) to get to the yard.

When Ivete was coming down again, before reaching the stairs, her slippers slipped on the grass and she felt from the cement wall that hold the higher portion of the land. It was about 98,5 inches tall if I'm not wrong ( about 2,5 meters). As she was trying to manage to not fall with her head down, because she could hit the head on the floor or worse, being cut by the steel wires they use to hang the clothes to dry ( that's horrible to imagine, she thought she was going to get her head cut off by the wires); she sat on the grass and slipped down fast to the ground.

As she felt on her both feet, her ankle got broken on a weird position. She then started to scream, and as I was waking uo right that moment, I could hear her body falling on the ground, a soft moan from hers and then she started screaming... I thought that my shepherd dog was attacking her and rushed out on my pijamas to find my mother on the floor holding her leg in a strange angle and screaming in pain!

I tried to call for help but I was so nervous that I couldn't just dial. My brothers woke up and called the firemen who took my mother to the hospital. We were so nervous with the scene that I shouted on the firemen because they were almost missing my house and my younger brother Ritchie almost sick around...

Ivete then got to the hospital, and as it took sometime to the doctor to come, the nurses took her to a room and started cutting her clothes for the operation.

There was a woman in that room already, and she looked very sick. Although the nurses were doing such a noise cutting my Mom's clothes and talking to each other, the woman didn't seem to move.

I was so nervous with all that situation and I just couldn't look at my nude mother, that I got out. My mother then asked me to come back after the operation. It's hard to see one of your parents in this kind of situation. I still remember my mother going silently around the house in a wheelchair, wearing a black satin robe... ... she looked like a ghost and scared me all the time! But this is not the part of the story that interest us the most.

My mother had to spend two days in the hospital before going home. In the first night, she was alone in a room, and trying to sleep. This town hospital is very old, and you can hear noises and have strange feelings during the night. It looks like those old hospitals like the movies, with pale pink or blue walls, asking to be painted again... high doors and windows, high roofs and large rooms in germain and old fashioned style...

She was already feeling strange, but as she is catholic and very skeptical, she was not afraid. But, when she was almost falling asleep, she felt someone brushing the hands on her backs! But she was alone in the room, and her bed was attached to the wall, her backs to it! When I got there to visit her the next day, she told me about what happened. The right moment I was about to laugh at her, we heard the nurses on the corridor saying that the woman that was in the room my mother first got in the hospital had passed away before the dawn...