Saturday, 31 January 2009

Thankyou to the Times Newspapers


I just wanted to thank Kaya Burgess of the Times Newspapers for featuring a quote from a piece I wrote on NHS Hauntings sometime ago.

The Times Article can be read here. I am not surprised at all about the rumours in Derby. The hospital has always been full of stories.

My interest in ghosts and ghost stories arose from my days on Ward 80 North Staffordshire NHS Trust where I would turn up for coffee and toast and the next ghost story tale from the nursing staff. The nurses in those days were brilliant at telling ghost stories of North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

I would listen to those stories until the next cardiac arrest bleep went and the next death certification :) and perhaps the next morgue visit.

The Times has always been good to all of us on the radical side of medicine.

My coverage of the Times story on the blogs is here.

Just to clarify one issue, I have never seen a ghost, the only brief encounter with the afterlife was a mobile picture of a bright round ball of light that we took a few minutes after my father died. It could have been a artifact or it could have been something else. That was difficult to decipher. White lights though are reported in paranormal studies.

In the and, I have always accepted than science cannot explain everything. Some fascinating material is present here.


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