Decorator Jamie-Leigh Brown catches ghostly doctor on camera while exploring haunted hospital

A woman exploring a derelict hospital was left stunned after a photo she took in the spooky building appeared to show the ghostly figure of a doctor.

21 year old decorator Jamie-Leigh Brown, who was exploring a derelict hospital was left stunned after a photo she took in the spooky building appeared to show the ghostly figure of a doctor.

Jamie-Leigh was walking the abandoned corridors of St Thomas’s Hospital in Stockport – which closed down in 2004 after treating thousands of psychiatric patients over the years – when she took the chilling picture above. She did not check the photo at the time as she and her and friends were too concerned with the footsteps they were hearing above them – despite the hospital having no usable staircases.

The group became spooked and fled the building after only a few minutes and it was not until later that Ms Brown discovered the haunting figure lurking in the background of the shot.

She told The Sun:

‘It freaked me out. It’s standing in a lift shaft. It’s really creepy to think my friend was just heading towards the area where the ghost was. We’d only gone into the workhouse for a laugh and to look around. We kept hearing noises above us like shuffling and footsteps but hadn’t actually seen anything.’

The derelict building was once a Victorian workhouse known as The Grubber and three years ago it featured in an episode of paranormal investigation show Most Haunted.

Other sightings of ghoulish figures have been made at the site, including a ‘radiant woman dressed as a nurse or a nun’ according to paranormaldatabase.com – a website that lists reports of ghosts.

It is estimated around 25,000 people passed through the building’s doors when it was brutal Victorian workhouse

St Thomas’s Hospital, once the Stockport Union Workhouse, was erected in 1841 to accommodate up to 690 inmates. 

Males lived at the north side and females at the south. Children’s quarters and school rooms were located in cross wings at each end of the main block, with the area to the front containing enclosed boys’ and girls’ exercise yards. 

In 1894, the British Medical Journal set up a ‘commission’ to investigate conditions in provincial workhouses and their infirmaries. 

On their visit to Stockport, the commission found that due to a trade depression, inmates in the workhouse were ‘packed like sardines in a tin’.

The management of the hospital appeared to be ‘completely without plan or method’ and the female wards were ‘comfortless and barnlike’. Many wards were so crowded as to present a serious danger in the case of fire.

A new infirmary was built in response in 1905 – and the workhouse later became the Shaw Heath Hospital, before becoming St Thomas’s. 

The hospital finally closed in 2004 and the site acquired by Stockport College as part of their

Although planned for completion in 2011, the buildings remain derelict.

It is estimated around 25,000 people passed through the building’s doors when it was brutal Victorian workhouse. 

Source: The Sun/UK Daily Mail

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Decorator Jamie-Leigh Brown catches ghostly doctor on camera while exploring haunted hospital