Hereford General Hospital has been around for over one hundred years and stands beside the river Wye over looking the Victoria foot bridge. It has recently been closed with its services being transferred to the Hereford County Hospital which is near by, and the building is in the process of being renovated into a number of luxury appartments.

Not only will one purchaser of these appartments acquire a luxurious home but they will also, unknowingly, play host to the Grey Lady.

Rumour has it that the Grey Lady is the ghost of a kind and caring nurse who lived and worked on the premises and who fell in love and had an affair with one of the doctors at the hospital. Eventually it transpired that the doctor she was having the affair with was not going to leave his wife for her, and being so distraught about this she committed suicide.

Two young nurses were on duty one night, the patients were all sound asleep and everything was in order. One of the nurses went off to have a break whilst the other remained at the nurses station in case any of the patients needed her. As it was very quiet and the patients all settled, the nurse fell asleep at the nurses station and did not wake until the other nurse came back to the ward from her break. Feeling a little embarrassed at having fallen asleep when she shouldn't have, the nurse took her torch and went for a quick walk around the ward to make sure that all the patients were okay. She was surprised by one patient who stirred when she shone her torch on him and thanked her for kindly covering him up with the blanket earlier on as he had been feeling cold. The nurse thought this odd as she hadn't covered anyone up but did not say anything and continued her ward round. She came to another patient who made a similar comment, and mentioned that she must be feeling the cold too as she had been wearing her cape, and at this the nurse became worried. Perhaps it was the other nurse, she thought, perhaps she had come back from her break and the patients had attracted her attention and she had gone to help them.

When she returned to the nurses station she asked the other nurse if she had covered the patients with the blankets to make them warm but the nurse said that she had not and that she had not returned to the ward until now. Perhaps it was another nurse from a nearby ward and at the end of the shift the nurses asked the staff, but they denied coming onto the ward too.

On another occasion staff were working on a ward beneath an old closed ward one night when they heard a bedside call bell ringing. They went to investigate on their ward but there were no call bells ringing but they could distinctly hear the noise. Their investigations led them upstairs to the empty ward where sure enough the call bell light was lit on the wall indicating that the bell was ringing from the empty ward! They switched it off and went back to their own ward and questioned nurses from a nearby ward if they had gone upstairs. None of them had. Later on, the sound of a macerater was heard coming from the sluice in the ward above and again two nurses went to investigate. Sure enough the macerator was on and making a noise, but no one had switched it on!

Occurrences like these were quite frequent and put down to the Grey Lady who haunted the ward above them. Not many nurses actually saw her, but many said they could feel her around them.

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