Old Gastonia Hospital N.C. Ghosts
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Check out the two videos on this page and the information about the location and the stories about the two videos and see what you think about Ghosts when you watch these two videos. In the second video you can clearly see the shape of a human form inside the front door of the hospital and in one of the upper left hand side windows in the second video. It is very clear it is a human shape but you can not see any detail. Was it a ghost. Who really knows. We did not see the shape in the upper window when we were making the video. We saw it when we were playing back the video and we called the police to tell them some one was inside the building. The doors are chained with heavy chains. And the alarm was on. No one was in the building when it was checked. Was it a ghost. No one will probally ever know but the shape can be seen clearly in the video. And if you watch inside the front door of the video you can see a shape there also. In fact if you watch the video closely you will see it twice inside the front door of the old Hospital.
On this page in the videos you will find the best video evidence ever that Ghosts do exist. Watch the videos and read the information on this page and see what you think.
Old Orthopedic Hospital Gastonia N.C.
The Ghosts In The Haunted Old Orthopedic Hospital In Gastonia N.C.
Over the years since 1982 when the old Orthopedic Hospital at Gastonia NC was closed down many people have claimed to see strange things both on the Hospital Grounds and in the Hospital there.
The Hospital was used as a Gaston County Welfare Office after it was closed down in 1982. After a few years with all the strange and unusual things going on the Gaston County Welfare Office was moved to a new location. While the building was being used as a County Welfare Office people saw and reported strange things even that people setting at their desks working would be touched by people that were not there.
On the second floor was where the most activity was seen. Many people saw and talked about the Nurses they would see there only there was no Nurses working there. Some times people would be ordered out of a room by a nurse and when they would take the problem to a supervisor of course no Nurse was there.
Many times police would be called to the building at night when people would see people inside the building but when the police would get there no one would be inside the building.
A lot of people even those that did not believe in Ghosts became believers when they worked in the building during its period as a County Welfare Office. Some people even quit rather than work in the building any longer. Because it was clear to many people that the building was very clearly haunted and very strange things went on in the building and the only answer for what was going on was Ghosts.
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I was a patient in the old orthopedic hospital in Gastonia in the mid 1960's. It's almost impossible to find any info on it on the net. I would love to see those ghost videos.
Where is the hospital located ?
It is located on New Hope Rd. between Toysrus and a graveyard. This page is a bit out of date I think that the building is being used. I know a good 5 years back or so they did something for people with ADD there.
I was also there in 1967. I would also like to see more info.
I would love to find out more about this hospital...www.featherstonehollie@yahoo.com
I was in this hospital from 1967 to 1969 and I've experienced it's haunting. Since we were in Wards there were many patients in beds with rails that were lifted at night. Reminded me of large cribs. I remember waking up nights and seeing what seemed to be an old ragged man standing in the doorway going out onto the patio. Always thought it was a dream, but now I'm wondering, and yes, it happened many times.
if anyone has any information about locating my medical records from this hospital, please let me know Smackeyz@aol.com. I've been searching for years now with no luck.
Stanley-Dr. Angus M. McBryde, Jr. wrote a book called A History of the NC Orthopedic Hospital. He has a web site, and I was able to reach him thru it. He was on staff when the hospital closed in 1979. He may be able to tell you how to get your records. I was there from Nov 1976 till the end of Jan 1977. I never saw a ghost but there were a lot of strange sounds. I attributed that to the fact that the hospital was so old. I am working on a web site now, to tell my story and hopefully get in contact with others that were there. I'll post here when ready.
I have looked for info on this hospital and I have had no luck.I actually stopped by the hospital on my way to work a couple of weeks ago,I got a strange feeling about it,needless to say..I didnt hang around.I would love to find out more!
ive spent many a night sitting up on that hill for the view of charlotte it has. we've walked all around the outside of it. its a drug rehab center now. the only weird thing we saw a light that cut off inside as we walked by it.
Hey everyone. Look up the Gaston County Museum. They have an exhibit of the old NC Orthopedic Hospital. There is also a reunion later this month for anyone connceted to the hospital. Check it out. I'm going. Hope to see some of you there.
I was born there and the last time i went there it was used as a probation office and also I was in thr detox there too
I was also there in Oct. 31,1971-Early Feb. 1972. I had surgery for scoliosis. I don't remember seeing any ghosts, but did make a lot of friends. I was in Ward T. Does anyone remember a nurse named Poppy? She was such a sweetie.
I was under the care for 21yrs and like alot of you I'm strangly drawn to it memory my last stay was in the east wing that is in the post card and the viw of the grave yard is etch in my mind for ever as much more I'm 60 now and the storys told about walk throughs in the nite are real.
please if anyone knows how to get the records please let me know. my mother was there in the later 60's and now my daughter is 11 and is very interested in this place because her nannie was there for several years. any thing would be greatly appreciated.
I don't know where the records are. I have even heard that 7 years after the hospital closed that all the records were destroyed.
I was a paitent at the hospital in the early 7o's me my sister and a cousin were there at the same time I also have 2 brothers that were there one before and one after me...does anyone remember Bobby he was the guy that took the cast off...Alot of people in my family have ricketts..
I was there from 1940-1946; my brother, Joe, was there for 2 yrs 3 months. I was in the Girls Ward; he was in the Boys Ward but used to sneak over to visit with me. On sunny days our beds were rolled out into the sunlight. I remember looking out over a park. We were entertained with Tarzan movies. I would love to get copies of my medical records.
I was too a patiendt at that hospital . I saw many horrorfic acts there. It was a very bad place but a necessary place for children that thier parents had no money . It was a state charity hospital mostly for polio but other birth deformities also. My sister was also there and they nearly killed her. It was a terrible story. We had two different problems. I think I faired better because I was older and neither of us like to talk of being in that hospital. I learned to lie, steal and cheat there to survive ..none of which I carried to long life traits, thank goodness and the good Lord. I was however called to be a nurse there and had a long career in the health care profession...I had to cut short my career as I have Post Polio Syndrome. As for all that want their record . They are in Raleigh NC.I got mine in 1992 . They are archived and for the life of me I believe it was form the NC health Dept in Raleigh NC . Good place to start anyway.. as for the ghosts.. well the horrors that happened behind those walls .. well it is pretty hard to forget ..pattyjocline@hotmail.com
I read my earlier post and please excuse all the typing mistakes.. lolol.I wanted to say a little about the life there at the hospital. I was there during the early 60'. I went to Charlotte originally , taken by my Uncle to see if there was anythng they could do for my foot and leg. I am asuming they told him about the hospital there, and I am pretty sure my parents were identfied as low income. My Mom was not working and taking care of my younger sister who was also disabled from birth defect.We both then started going to clinic.. A place that no matter what time you got there to see the Doctors , you would not leave before late afternoon and as a child I was so humiliated in that clinic..mostly because I was so shy about showing my body . They gave you these two piece little things that were white and startched hard with strings and barely covered your body . sort of like a bikini.. but to a child like myself it was torture and also then the two doctors would come in with several residents and they would poke you around and make you walk up and down the hall. It was mortifying. They rarely spoke to you and you darest not speak to them... Later I found out just who these two were Dr Roberts and Dr ??? anyway they did surgery over in Charlotte during the week and came once a week for surgery at NCOH.. always on a Friday ..When I was admitted to the hospital my Mother had already had a few ugly rounds with the Doc over my sister and she still let me come to the same hospital , I guess I was older and she felt like my surgery was simpler and really there was no other choice.I went there in late May of one year and waited several months to even have surgery..and stayed so many months after They only did so many. No physical therapy no nothing , just life in Ward T (big T) not little T.. That life was getting breakfast each moring none of which I ever ate except for bread and juice. Men came with startched white clothing on and wheeled everyone to a big gym like place and we went to school every day on stretchers, wheel chairs, what ever . All went unless you had just had surgery and then you did not get many days without going to school. It went on year round.I don't remember much about the teachers, mainly because I was put in the same grade I was already in and being a book worm there wan not anything they put before me that I had not already covered. , the school was mainly for me to be able to SEE anyone but the confines of that Ward.This was the only time boys and girls were together.Boys had a different ward. we were wheeled back to the Ward and had lunch(I hated meals with a passion) and then a quiet time (nap) and then we could talk ..NO TV.. nothing but high celings and fans and lights and little tiny bedside tables. If you were ambulatory you must make your bed each morning even in casts.. I went thru some tough times but I endered myself to the nursing staff as I LOVED BABIES and I was a good hand with them , changing them and bathing them and playing with them, they were just over in Little T . I could hear them cry and I would rock them and the aides liked me so they would give me privledges like there was a recreational room . Nothing much in it except a piano and some old things that did not interest me. no books no nothing.. So to excape I told them I played the piano and was allowed to go up there and practice by my self once a week (first of many lies I told) While up there I was a curious child and I would follow the sounds of crying and awful sounds where I found one day the Black children's ward. They were all together , little, big, boys and girls in one place. Well the day I got caught seeking out the horrific sound is the last day of my piano practcing. Funny all I could play was heart and soul.. but I played that a million times. Before my pano days were over I found out that on my treck back from the rec room a kitchen with cookies and I would stuff as many in the top of my cast as I could which made me very popular for a short while(Stealing lolol ) . Then I had to go back to the ward and just survive. Every day after nap a person would come by and ask if you had a bowel movement that day and I answered no , well then I found out what a torture of soap suds enema was and the people that gave them , they were so mean.. at that early age I saw terrible people that enjoyed torturing children.. I never forgot theat feeling and later in life I could alwsy tell if a person enjoyed being mean to people. I never answered no again and made it my business to figure out how to avoid being tortured by these few and schooled my fellow "inmates" how not to get in the traps of others. I became very watchful. I saw a girl fall out of a Stryker frame right after surgery, I saw so many terrible things I won't write them here.There was an inspiration in a nurse named Mrs Bates. She was kind to me when I was sick with fever. She wore the reddest lipstick and she was very kind ,When I had surgery I remember I was put in a crib sort of after and I was shaking the bars so hard I guess it was in recovery that someone came in and told me Dr Roberts was going to get me something terrible I was so loud he could hear me in another operating room. I continued to scream and when I awoke I started screaming agin> Iwas back at Ward T , there was nothing they could do to make me stop .I was holding on to the side bars and I gues they were giving me medication but the pain was so great .. nothing even childbirth has ever dome close to the hours I endured the pain untill late that night when the Doctors made post surgical rounds . I was still screaming and moaning and assoon as I saw the Doc I started shouting to him , He wanted to go over to a patient that had her spine fused however I was making so much noise he came to my bedside. He was so mean but recognized the problem , the cast was on so tight that I had lost all circulation in my whole leg .. He called for some tool (a spreader and a saw) and then he sawed my cast at my foot and spread it some open and I did not remember anything untill the next day.. Well life went on after that. Saturdays we got to order from Tony's. milkshake or ice cream. Thank you Tony who every you were .. YOu gave me something to look forward to. There was strict visistation . two hours on Wed and Sunday for parents and very close relatives. My Dad drove a truck and came when he could My Mom came every time. It used to make me so mad she always visted with the other children that did not have a parent (now of course that was a very kind gesture) but then it was treason. She always went by the rules and never would bring me anything I was not supposed to have.Some of the others would get koolaid but me ...never. We got to go outside on a big brick porch and no it ws not a park it was the grounds.. The grounds of that hospital were like many mental institutions builted about the same time, very spacious and almost hiding the hospital... . I don;t remember anything like fun there as it is depected in the pictures. I made my own fun . none was given or provided.. It was a time when polio was scary to the public and threfore kind of misunderstood, so the adminstration had it's policies of strict vistors because of that and really who wants to go visting someone that they thing might give them polio ?? Now I understand all that but then no. Back to my calling. I was very sick one night.. high fever .. none much cared , they might give you a aspirin but nothing much more. Mrs Bates was especially nice, and I remember praying that I had had no attention during the day to GOd please send Mrs Bates on that night to help me and she did come and it was in my heart that night if I ever got out of that place I would never forget how it would feel to be a patient and need someone and I vowed in my heart to be that someone and I can say from my heart to this day in my career I was that person I vowed to become with God's help. So that is pretty much an outline of my story at NCOH. Others were worse some maybe better.. I don't know. I just know what happened to me then.. pattyjocline@hotmail.com
Are those videos around - send them over if so.
I was there in 1967, I remember seeing this old lady with rags of blood in her hand, i heard crying and never knew if anyone had babies or what. I was only 5 years old. My mom wasnt there.. I was by myself.. i didnt know what to do..It scared me to DEATH!!
it seems like this is the only site with info about this place on it. i tried shadowlands but nothing. im reading over Patty's story..and it seems that docs back then did what they knew. if no bowel movement rather than let it sit in you, they tried to help. in most physical cases, they need to have little or no cloths to view the body and try natural movements (like walking up n down a hall) to see if they can come up with ways to help correct any abnormal movements.
"He was so mean but recognized the problem"...Bedside manner is good but not the main concern when the docs are tryin to do all they knew how to back then.
sorry if i come off as mean. it was just a different time back then. especially medical-wise
who owns this place now? is there anything in it?
I like the sound of this place... not as in what happened here wasa good, but as a paranormal investigator perspective i would love to be able to gain access to this place and look around.
as far as claims go, i would love to hear your stories about paranormal experiences that you had here. and who you believe could be still roaming the halls of this place.
I am hoping to get in touch with the sites current owner and if i can gain access to the place for an investigation i will link my findings so that you all can see what happened while we were there.
I look forward to bringing new evidence towards the paranormal aspect of this place, and who knows maybe i will be able to find out why this place is shrouded in so much secrecy now.
I would love to be able to go inside this old hospital and have a look around! Very interesting to me!
My brother was in there in the fifty's with polio and I was a child and I had to stay out side when we went on Sunday to see him. When I think back on all those awful days for him and what he went thru it will make you cry. He is died now and I miss him. I would love to have his school record and medical records. Does anyone know how to get in touch with any one that has them or know who has them. I also would love to see the video. fatkins@surry.net
I was a patient at NCOH from April through June 1965, then returned in November of 65 to stay through April of 1966. I was 11 years old at the time and don't remember any ghosts or being mistreated by the staff. I do recall learning lots of bad habits and mean attitudes as well as being very homesick.
Some of the treatments seemed horrific at the time, but looking back, I know it was the best that medicine offered at the time. I particularly hated the stretcher that they put scoliosis patients on in order to extend the spine.....sort of like a medieval torture rack.
The exam attire mentioned above was referred to as a "guard and gown" and when I first arrived I thought they were saying garden gown. The main method of punishment for unruly patients was having to wear a guard and gown and being confined to bed for several days.
Some of the nurses were very strict while others were more kindly. Looking back, I think we took advantage of the nicer ones. Mrs. Helton was a head nurse over Little T and Big T for a while, and I remember Mrs. Ballard and Mrs. Hoffman, who was called Hoffy. I'm wondering of she was the Poppy mentioned above, because she wore very red lipstick....she also had extrememly hairy arms....strange the things you remember.
We had PT every morning and every afternoon with Mrs. Lucy Straw, and after breakfast the orderlies would roll us to school in the auditorium. The teachers I had were Mrs. Yarborough (hated her) and Mrs. Mason. Going to school in bed and not falling asleep was a very difficult task. marycomer@earthlink.net
I was there twice once when an infant and then in 5th grade. I was 10 then there was a ghost all over the place because I could see them. I hated that place so the ghost told me to cause trouble I was booted out after 6months. Hated school and the teachers Mrs. Mason was a b@#%@. Loved Dr. Moorefield he was an intern then and Mr. Bobby the cast guy. Dr. M and Bobby have taken care of my son. I think the year was late 60's. Did anyone else get put into a dark room for misbhaving? Haed that place.
was there around 67 ...stayed in ward c...remember no ghosts or etc. Cant say i was abused in anyway...just thankful they did surgery on my feet and corrected my club-feet. have been trying for so many years to contact anyone from there. i can b reached at rehudson1960@yahoo.com
Wow this sounds like a crazy place, i live in gastonia and ive never spotted the hospital, but sounds like a fun place to go.
I stay in the same area as the old hospital and there is activities that we can not explain.I have seen a lady dressed like the old days in a white petty coat with brown hair walk into the laundry room and we hear her cough all the time ecspecially at night when the lights are out and everyone is asleep.My room mate seen her walk past the living room door and thought someone broke in but when she went to look there was no one there.
Hello, I wasn't at the hospital but my deceased husband was there when he was 4 years old. He is dead now and I am wanting so badly to get his medical records from there because he has a little twin grandaughter who possibly might have the same bone disease as my husband did. The doctors have told her parents that she will never walk because of her bone disease. The doctors had told my husband's mother the same thing when he was 4 years old unless he would get treatment at the old Gastonia Orthropedia Hospital. I am wanting my husbands medical records from there so I can get them into the hands of my husbands grandaughters doctor. Please if anyone can tell me were those records were sent I would deeply appreciate it very much!!!! Thank you!!! E-mail me at resmith1331@att.net. Again thanks!
I was 6years old when I spent 6 months I had to learn how to walk again .I learned how to ride a tricycle befor I could even walk.the Dr. Gave me the tricycle. I have many memories of the hospital but not the ghosts. My time there. Was in 1968
i was there from 1956 to 1958..again in 1960 and again from dec. 1965 tilfeb. 1966. i started school there. i loved it. i have been dreaming of it lately and would like to go see it. i don't remember any ghostly activity. i started out on little t an then big t. i remember hoppy. she was one of my favorite nurses. i also would like to find out how to get my records. my e-mail is mhotmomma03@aol.com. i do miss the place. when i got home i never felt like i belonged because of being in the hospital so long.
i was a patient there 3 different times. i loved it. i don't remember any ghostly activity. i started an went to schoolthere 1st-3rd grades. i went part of my 8th and 12th grades there. i do remember mrs. yarborough. i also remember hoppy and another nurse who was redheaded but i can't remember her name. after leaving there i had a hard time fitting in with my family. i wanted to go back. if anyone wants to contact me, please do. my e-mail is mhotmomma03@aol.com. i would love to hear from you. if you have any idea how to get medical records please let me know.
I was in the hospital around 1955, for about 1 year. Most of that time I was confined to my crib because I was in a body cast. I don't remember anybody being abused or any ghosts, but I was only between 1 and 3 years old. I went back for evaluations every year until I was 17, in 1971. My parents and I were always treated with respect, and I don't remember anybody being treated badly. After reading some of these comments maybe it's a good thing I was too young to remember much!
moefry47 4 years ago
WOW, lots of writing but the vids are gone