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Volume 9, Issue 42 - Feature #3066

Ghostly Spirits of Alva's Old Hospital

I had polio Sept of 1952. I remember a clown coming to entertain the patients. I was scared of him do he sat outside my room and listened to me sing. Dr. travis was my doctor. Two more of my sisters and one brother also had polio at the same time

Patsy Ashley - 2018-01-30 19:24:41

Hi. I'm a small town Alva, Oklahoma girl myself. My name is Melissa Beason. This takes place on March 17, 2008 my ex-boyfriend Travis Dailey and I were walking home from fishing at the park pond. We decided to walk up to Mill Street so we could just walk down to 8th st. We had walked down past the old hospital. I had looked back behind me when I had started hearing some one say my name so I looked around and saw no one but Travis. I told him that if he was calling my name to stop it. He had told me that he was not saying my name at all. But when he was talking to me I was looking back behind me. When I had seen some spooky glows from the old hospital. It had looked like a littel girl looking out the front door of the hospital. But it was a weird glow of green. I told him about it and he had taken some pictures of the hospital through his cell phone. When we had got home we went back through those pictures and saw not just one green glow but at almost all of the windows had the same green glow to then. This has got me a little bit more serious about wanting to do it this year. To see if I find another part of this story. If any of my family might have died there. All that I do know is that my dad Bob Beason was born there back in 1954. In the 2 story of the hospital.

melissa beason - 2011-10-07 21:08:28

I have grown up in Alva, and have been to the Museum many many times. Only once did I ever see anything, and it was when I was in 8th grade, back in December of 1996. My entire 8th grade class was up there to look at the rooms decorated for the festival of the trees. I was with several friends and we went into the room which decorated as a post office. And there was a lady with a red bob standing behind the bars, but when I glanced back, she was no where to be seen. Initially I only thought that it was a maniquien, but when she disappeared I turned to my friends and asked "Did you guys see that?" Two of the three responded. "the lady with red hair." There was no cold spot, no chills, just a lady standing there one moment and then gone the next. And so we poked our heads in to see if somehow the dummy had fallen over, but there was nothing and no way for someone to easily get in or out either. I know that I saw something. And as we were trying to figure it out, we noticed that the shadow of the bars was moving on the wall. The light source wasn't moving, the wall wasn't moving, the bars weren't moving, but the shadow was. Its the weirdest thing I have ever seen there.

Alica Hall - 2010-05-26 17:50:37

How funny! Just the other day, I was telling my ten-year-old the story about how when I was 5-6 years old, I had my tonsils out at Alva General Hospital. I described the backless gowns and how "Dr. Steve" carried me piggyback down the hall to the operating room as I tried my best to cover my butt! I doubt that the old hospital is haunted, but as I recall, when several college students lived there in the 70's, they told the Daily Oklahoman that it was haunted and went into great detail. Anyone save that newspaper article? One of those students, Benny Buckland, now haunts the OKC Ford Center as the team announcer, when the Blazers have a home game.

Scott Downs - 2007-10-22 05:27:55

I had polio in the fall of 1952 and was in the north wing of the old hospital for 9 weeks. I was 4 years old and my Mother stayed with me for the entire time. I was treated by Dr. Traverse. I still remember all the toys I got (nearly all had to be burned) my Mother reading to me for hours on end, and my favorite driver at the old ABC Speedway, Pee Wee Long, coming up to my room and standing in the doorway to say "hi"!!!

Edward Lyon - 2007-10-20 23:55:45

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