Ghost Stories; La Planchada
La Planchada also known as the Ironed Lady, is a popular legend in Mexico.
The story dates at least as far back as the 1930’s
A nurse named Eulalia was working at the Juarez hospital in Mexico.
Her nures's uniform was always keept very clean and perfectly ironed.
She was said to be very good at her job and her patients felt enjoyed being under her care.
Then one day a new young and handsome doctor joined the hospital’s staff, Eulalia and the doctor started seeing each other socially, and eventually she fell in love with him and the two were engaged.
Not long after their engagement, the doctor left to attend a medical seminar. To her shock and surprise, the doctor did not return the following week. then another week passed and still he had not returned. Eulalia became increasingly worried and felt something bad must have happened to him.
But several weeks later, the hospital received word from the doctor. He had met a new woman during the seminar and the two had recently married.
Upon hearing the news Eulalia was heart-broken and fell into depression. Her work began to suffer and she started to neglect the patients that were under her care. As a result, one of her patients died.
Realizing her terrible error, Eulalia became ill. She did not have the fight in her to survive and died shortly after in the very hospital she worked in.
After her death strange things started to happen around the hospital. Patients, nurses, and even doctors started seeing a nurse in the emergency
room area.
Some versions of the story claim that she appears to glow and floats instead of walking through the hospital corridors.
Others state she appears to walk normally, but no footsteps can be heard. Eventually the hospital staff decided to call the apparition ‘La Planchada’ because she always appears wearing a clean, white, pressed uniform.
Several patients have reported seeing her and state that this ghostly nurse will appear at night on the ward she died in, too looks after the patients that appear to be neglected.
In the morning these patients are well enough to be moved to less intensive care rooms.
When asked how they are feeling, they reply, “a nurse came in and healed me.”
Some people believe Eulalia returns as a spirit because of a sense of guilt.
Now it seems she is forever doomed to pay for her mistakes in life.
There are a few other versions of this story.
One version claims she was a cruel woman who treated her patients badly, so when she died, her punishment was to take care of patients for eternity.
In another version, Eulalia was never engaged to the doctor, this version states he rejects her advances and marries the other woman that he was already engaged to. She then takes her disappointment and anger out on the patients, resulting in several of them dying.
In any case it's an interesting story.
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