St. Thomas’ Hospital, Stockport

St Thomas’s Hospital in Shaw Heath, originally built as a workhouse in 1841, has long been linked with tales of ghosts. Nurses once spoke of a glowing White Lady who appeared smiling in corridors, believed by some to foretell death. Later reports told of “Old John,” thought to be the spirit of a psychiatric patient who hanged himself decades earlier. His ghost, seen by staff and patients alike, prompted priests from Our Lady’s Church to bless the ward in 1992. Though the haunting brought unease, clergy described the presence as sorrowful rather than sinister.