Christian Church Boulevard
Christian Church Hospital is located in Kansas City, Missouri and as soon as anyone walks towards the site where this hospital once stood, they feel an overwhelming sense of death. Pictures that are taken inside reveal hundreds and sometimes even thousands of orbs flying around. Some photos taken at night reveal evil figures in the windows. The ghost of Dr. Patterson can also be seen in the windows of where the staff offices once were on occasion. The hospital opened its doors on Halloween in 1914, with some saying this would be a bad omen to start a hospital.
The hospital was well known for its excellent health care that people came from all over to be treated there during the 1919 flu pandemic. The hospital didn’t turn anyone away, but since there was such little knowledge of the flu, more people died than survived. The hospital was then sold to the federal government and then sold to Dr. Robertson in 1927. Dr. Robertson was a well known and respected European trained doctor. He was trained in the most advanced methods of cure at that time.
These methods of cures seem cruel and unconventional today. They included chains, cages, wet sheets, beatings, and the ice pick method (considered to be the worst). Dr. Patterson would go on to use these methods for 30 straight years. In 1957, he went insane and his own staff could not find a cure for him so they used the same methods that he did. They performed the ice pick lobotomy and Patterson died not too long after this. After his death the building was abandoned and then bought by the city and turned into a place to house the criminally insane.
For over twenty years, the city kept using the same methods that Patterson had practiced in the hospital. This all came to an end in 1975 when the city moved out. The building now stands abandoned and decaying. The city is now in the process of turning the building into apartments for retired peoples. The progress for building is going slow because the workers don’t want to work in its haunted halls. Among the paranormal experiences that they have are doors opening and closing, sounds coming from different places, and tools being hidden or even thrown at the workers.
(Source: Belanger, Jeff. Encyclopedia of Haunted Places. 2005.)
