La Planchada, the legend of the Juárez Hospital in Mexico City
One night, the soldier was brought into the emergency room riddled with bullets. He was conscious and begged for Eulalia. Distraught, she abandoned her other patients to stay by his bedside, holding his hand as he died in her arms.
Dicen que La Planchada se aparece a los hombres que se encuentran solos en aquel edificio, ofreciéndoles planchar sus ropas. Algunos dicen que su presencia es anunciada por un golpe seco en la puerta, seguido de un silencio incómodo.
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: Patients frequently claim they were attended to by a kind nurse who gave them medicine or adjusted their pillows while the regular staff was busy. When the patients describe the nurse to the morning shift, the staff realizes that no such nurse is employed at the hospital.
Beyond the scares, La Planchada represents a unique intersection of: