During a BRMB. radio programme in 1978, three nurses from this well-known hospital, situated some two miles from the City Centre, told Colin Smith, the local expert researcher, that one part of the building is regularly visited by a ghost. As is usual, no-one has been frightened by the sudden appearance and disappearance of the figure of the nurse who is known to have died some years ago. Probably connected in some way with the haunting is the often-repeated sighting of a ` middle-aged man in a long white coat` seen walking beside the service station immediately opposite the hospital. Assumed to be a doctor, the ghost has been witnessed by so many of the staff of BMP. Motors, opposite the hospital as well as by casual and regular visitors, that the local police no longer bother to investigate claims of `a mysterious figure in white, gliding round the service station. The maintenance and repair buildings were built on the site of a mortuary originally owned and administered by the hospital authorities. The brief is that a staff-nurse who had an affair with one of the house surgeons died suddenly ` under mysterious circumstances` and the medical executive involved was so disturbed that he continued to visit the mortuary for several days after her death. Concerning the authenticity of the haunting of the Neurosurgical Wing of the hospital, once a fever hospital, is a letter from a former patient who saw the phantom staff-nurse during the autumn of 1976. She claims that she saw her more than once and was thus able to provide a good description. `She was good-looking, a blonde in her twenties, wearing a grey uniform. When I asked another staff-nurse who her companion was, she looked slightly apprehensive`. So adamant was the patient about the `visitation` that one doctor questioned her about it. The ghostly nurse seems to visit those who are very ill and the belief is that if a patient sees her they will rapidly improve in health. Four witnesses claim that, in fact, there are two phantom nurses both in grey uniform that haunt this hospital, and this was confirmed by a couple of the medical staff who called in at the service station whilst Colin Smith was researching the case. If this is correct, and there is no reason to doubt it, then obviously, it would be confusing and practically impossible to clarify which ghost was which. Perhaps it does not matter.
� Andrew Green