The World's Most Haunted Hospitals: True-Life Paranormal Encounters in Asylums, Hospitals, and Institutions

by Richard Estep

If hospital walls could talk, what tales would they tell?
Hospitals are the nexus point between life and death, the place into which people enter this world, but also exit it. In "The World's Most Haunted Hospitals," paramedic and paranormal investigator Richard Estep recounts some of the most fascinating--and often chilling--stories of hospital hauntings from across the globe, including:
The ghostly apparitions at an old Utah hospital, now a nursing home, whose appearances are said to predict a patient's death.
The Italian island referred to by locals as "the gateway to Hell," where the restless spirits of thousands of plague victims prowl the dark streets and fields.
The terrifying screams and violent phenomena that keep visitors away from an abandoned airbase hospital in the Philippines.
The ghostly nurse in grey who haunts the corridors of a London hospital and has frightened generations of doctors and nurses encountering her restless spirit.
Join Richard on this fascinating journey around the world, stopping off at a wide spectrum of haunted hospitals and asylums, old and new, and shiver at the personal encounters of doctors, nurses, patients, and others with the strange and inexplicable.

Genres: Paranormal, Nonfiction, Horror

256 pages, Paperback

Published January 25, 2016

About the author

I'm a 48-year-old child who has no plans to ever actually grow up.

I make my living as a paramedic, clinical educator, for a busy hospital system and work as a street medic in a 911 system.

In my free time, I serve as the director of the Boulder County Paranormal Research Society, and investigate claims of haunted properties, people, and objects on both sides of the Atlantic. I love to read, particularly SF/Fantasy, history and historical fiction, the paranormal, and basically anything that piques my interest. I appear on the TV shows Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911, Paranormal Night Shift, Haunted Case Files, and several others.

I am an avid video gamer, table-top gamer, and love to build Lego. My wife and I are the proud humans of five adopted rescue cats and one smelly but adorable dog.

Reviews

[Anna Bergmark · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ghostly visits to large English country houses and castles are cozy. Haunted hospitals though are genuinely spooky. Could be that illness and injury, death and insanity, pain and grief are things that frighten us as it is. Add the paranormal to the pot, give it a stir and we really get the chills.

Nothing out of the ordinary perhaps, but as I said... This often feels more erie than run of the mill white ladies in the great hall.

[Carolyn Di Leo · Rating 1 out of 5]

When you make glaring errors, such as "In 1903, President FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT..." I get mad and throw the book across the room. Where, oh where, were the editors? Now, as I am well aware that this is hardly a science book, by any stretch, but I did want to enjoy a few thrilling stories. However, that is such a dumb mistake, I could not continue with the book.

[Corrie Brookhouse · Rating 5 out of 5]

I throughly enjoyed the book, being a paranormal investigator myself I could see myself at some of the locations and others I have in fact investigated myself so I found to be taken back to these places. Rolling hills Asylum is still to this date one of my favourite places to investigate and Richard took me back there 😊

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading about these alleged haunted hospitals and asylums, many of them abandoned. There was a lot of interesting history (though I wish they had gotten into it more) with some of them. The book recalled what happened during investigations of these places by people who were trying to document hauntings. I took it all with a grain of salt, as I feel that the powers of suggestion play a major role in this. Also, there were a lot of references to EVPs, but I wasn't able to hear any for myself (obviously) do I dont' know how valid they are. Most EVP's I heard sound like noises that people creatively interpret into words. I've never really heard a clear one. I think imagination plays a big role in EVP recordings. But despite all this, I do try to keep an open mind. There may have been some actual stuff going on. Even if not, it was interesting to read about the different equipment/techniques the researchers used, and to read about their experiences and impressions of these places. The books didn't' have any information from so-called mediums, which is good because I think most, if not all are fraudulant.

[Tammy Mullis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is pretty awesome. You can tell Richard Estep put a lot of work into the book with research and interviews for the various hospitals. Each hospital is a different chapter that starts with its history. Then it goes into the paranormal side of things with interviews and thoughts of people who have lived or worked there to investigators who have walked the halls. All of them seem to have a sad story with them, tragedy that makes them haunted? There are 17 hospitals he picked from around the world and they are interesting for their own reasons and hauntings. Honestly, I would love to get inside one and I think I would start with Yorktown.

[Lesia Schnur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Estep never disappoints! Excellent writing with different perspectives.

[Carrie (The Butterfly Reader) · Rating 4 out of 5]

One Line Review

I really just read this for the chapter on Poveglia Island. Which I loved!

[The Life of a Kindle Girlie. · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found his other books more interesting than this one. I though that with most of the chapters it was more the history of the places then the encounters themselves. I didn’t find it as riveting

[Jen · Rating 5 out of 5]

What do a haunted house in Utah, a decrepit manor hall in Lincolnshire (UK), an abandoned island near Venice (Italy), and a former insane asylum in Danvers, Massachusetts (formerly known as Salem Village) have in common? Each location is home to one of the world's most haunted hospitals! Estep takes readers on a journey into the paranormal, where the halls of abandoned hospitals may be hiding more than just shadows and outdated medical equipment.

I really enjoyed the way the author delved into the history of each location, and his descriptions of the experiences people have had literally gave me chills!

[Francis Wiget ii · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good reading

Not as personal as most of his work. Well-documented with several pages of endnotes.
Won't convince a close-minded skeptic. Not as intense as Estep's personal explorations.