I have also seen a ghost, I suppose what made me disregard it was the uneventful nature of the experience and I was more worried about other things at the time. It was back in the 90's and as a student I was working in London as a security guard during my summer vacations. One of the sites on my supervisory round was The South London Hospital for Women & Children, closed in 1984. It was an impressive building, opened by Queen Mary in 1916. It became that familiar mishmash of great 20's architecture with bolt on '60's blocks. Later, Tesco developed it, only the facade remains with flats, car parks and shops now on the site. During its demise, protesters and squatters had occupied it. This lead the local authority to have quite a robust security presence there including a visiting dog patrol for external checks at night.
The squatters had left a mess in one of the wings and a constant team of 2-3 guards looked after the place, night and day. As duty supervisor I would visit day and night to allow the team to patrol or take breaks and make sure they were all right. I arrived one day with a fellow supervisor. We stuck our heads into the door of the enquiry office in the entrance hall. Everything was ok. My colleague and I would take a walk around.
After taking several steps we saw the figure of a women walking away from us down the corridor. As we jogged after her we called out: "hey, excuse me, what are doing here?" One of two wooden swing doors swung open and closed as she walked through to the staircase, we could clearly see her ascend the stairs through the large glass panes of the door. We quickly caught up, dashing up the stairs to the next corridor. There was no one there or in front of us. We checked the corridor and linked rooms, nothing. I felt no fear, as I had just assumed at that moment it must have been an intruder. It was daylight. We walked back to the office; something would need to be entered into the duty log.
The guards sitting in the office shrugged their shoulders they said it was the sound of crying babies that they could not stand. They could hear crying, talking, lights would go off and on. The lift could be heard going up and down yet no power was connected up to it. They would secure windows only to find them open again. The lady I recall looked like a nurse dressed in dark blue. Events happened quite quickly, I estimate we saw her for about 10 seconds. Definitely a ghost, intruders were not a problem.
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