A SPOOKY image of a Christmas tree shining from the window of an abandoned
hospital has mystified the local community and taken the internet by storm.
The eerie snap was posted on Facebook by Lisa Walley Staggs, a nurse who works
at the medical centre directly opposite the deserted building in New
Orleans.
She spotted the glowing tree as she was leaving work on December 27 and
uploaded two photos, both of which show the strange purple light shining
from a window surrounded on all sides by dark, empty rooms.
Walley Staggs wrote: “Charity hospital has been closed, it’s windows darkened,
since hurricane Katrina, and is a gloomy and dreary sight on the best of
days…at night it’s down-right scary.
“Until tonight.”
She added: “I wish the pictures did it justice.
“I don’t know how it’s lit.
“I don’t know how it’s even in there, but it made me smile just a little bit
tonight (sic)!”
While many were intrigued by the pictures, others were well and truly spooked
as to how the tree got there.
One Facebook user wrote: “Woah…is somebody living in there? What in the
world? That kinda makes it creepier to me…like are ghosts having xmas up
in there?”.
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Another commented: “Not so much a Christmas tree as a glowing human!” while
one suggested: “It’s so people don’t forget. The bodies may have been
removed…maybe…but the souls are still there.”
The tree was also spotted by a Reddit user, who uploaded a snap of it from a
different angle.
Could it be a Christmas miracle?