Halloween 2012 - Haunted Hospital Traditional Cache
Orosman: This cache no longer seems to be giving the finders joy and unfortunately I think the area has gone backwards
Time to archive and clear the map
Halloween 2012 - Haunted Hospital
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Come one come all to the terrible tail of hauted happens and scary stuff
In this the Year which the world will end it is our last chance to scare the poop out of each other and in honer of that I am placing this cache with a twist
The Kempton Park Hospital was closed due to short staff. There were only two part time doctors left and most of the nurses had resigned. They were planning to have anta-natal services and other small ones. The weird thing is the hospital was not closed, it was abandoned. They literally just left. Why did they not take the equipment to other hospitals and why are they still spending R1m a year in maintenance and security to protect an abandoned building?
The hospital was shut down in 1997 and is allegedly haunted. Once a premier hospital in Gauteng province, it’s been sitting alone and abandoned – except for night security and the occasional film shoot – ever since. From the number of broken windows and graffiti on the walls, you can see that this place has been the object of many a ghost hunt. They say the ghosts from the psychiatric ward are the most mischievous.
EVERYTHING from the hospital’s operational days is still within its walls, left standing and intact as in a mysterious reverence to days gone by. It’s as if in 1997 all the doctors, nurses and administrative staff put down their scalpels, stethoscopes, and notebooks and just up and walked away. They left behind hundreds of hospital beds; X-rays of teeth, lungs, and bones; rooms full of incubators; cabinets full of medicine, gauze and bandages; stacks of medical records – full handwritten reports (in Afrikaans) of patients’ medical histories, diagnostics and prescriptions; signs for the waiting rooms and newest vaccines; hospital intake and discharge logs; doctors’ ID badges; desks, chairs, stretchers… so why did they do it?
New development on the Hospital has shown an interest in bringing it back to life but will it last or will the ghosts not want to be disturbed
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