WA: Hospital opened in 1918 to meet needs of flu pandemic believed by many to be haunted

[Emily]

http://archive.kitsapsun.com/news/l...ted-by-reputation-ep-729043801-355173741.html

[h=1]Perceived or real, Bremerton complex's residents haunted by reputation[/h] By Josh Farley of the Kitsap Sun
BREMERTON ? No matter how many times it has changed hands, the block at Eighth Street and Chester Avenue might forever be known as being a bit on the spooky side.
Many residents of the Frank Chopp Apartments, as they now are known, are keenly aware of the complex?s history as a hospital and nursing home dating back almost a century.
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Others aren?t so sure spiritis don?t roam the halls.
?Some days there are more than others,? said Lee, who declined to give her last name, as she puffed a cigarette in her flip flops on a drizzly Thursday. ?You can hear them as they walk from room to room.?
Lee has parrots who will randomly say ?hi? in the middle of the night ? but she can?t tell who they?re talking to.
She believes the complex?s history as a hospital, dating back to 1918, saw so many different eras of outbreaks ? the flu, polio, tuberculosis and others ? that there was just an abundance of unsettled souls....

http://www.ci.bremerton.wa.us/330/Rescue-History

Hospital's History
Prior to the advent of prehospital care any emergency treatment of the sick or injured was deferred until arrival at a community hospital. In Bremerton, the original Harrison Hospital, located at 7th and Chester, served as the county's only general hospital from 1912-1916. Originally, the hospital building was the shipyard's 1st hospital and called "Building 89." It was purchased by C.B. Poindexter and moved in 2 sections into Bremerton. The hospital functioned for only 4 years and closed on April 25, 1916. The hospital reopened as "City General Hospital" on October 16, 1918 in response to the Spanish Flu epidemic. Despite name changes to Olympic Hospital in 1931 and Harrison Hospital in the late 1940's the hospital operated at this site.

Many reports of strange experiences here:
http://www.realhaunts.com/united-states/chester-av/

Chester Av.
Bremerton, Washington
This apartment complex was used as a hospital during the early 1900s. Today, there are reports of ghostly nurses and patients wandering the halls.