St Bartholomew’s Hospital in Rochester, Kent, has been abandoned for eight years (Picture: KHUrbanX)
Visitors can hear a little boy crying inside the UK’s most haunted abandoned hospital.
St Bartholomew’s Hospital in Rochester, Kent, which has now been demolished, was the oldest hospital in the UK before it was closed in 2016.
Some claim they have seen a woman ‘walking through the wall in one side of the rooms’.
Others reported seeing a six-year-old boy wearing a tatty white shirt, grey pullover and long socks crying for his parents in the corridors, KentLive reports.
It was rumoured if the little boy was spotted, it meant there was going to be a death on one of the wards.
Kim Hargreaves, who took the footage, explored the building in 2020 after it was closed down in 2016.
Images show filthy floors and walls stripped of paint.
Muddy footprints van be seen scattered across the floor along with old markers to remind people to use hand sanitizers.
Images show filthy floors and walls stripped of paint (Picture: KHUrbanX)
It was the oldest hospital in the UK before it was closed in 2016 (Picture: KHUrbanX)
Kim Hargreaves explored the building in 2020 after it was closed for four years (Picture: KHUrbanX)
It was open for more than 900 years before being sold for £2.65 million (Picture: KHUrbanX)
At the time of its closure, St Bartholomew’s was the oldest operating hospital in the UK having opened in 1078.
It was open for more than 900 years before being sold for £2.65 million for redevelopment into a block of flats.
Throughout its history the building kept falling into disrepair and required rebuilding.
In the 19th century, it was built with charitable donations after the hospital continued to operate in unsatisfactory conditions.
In 1948 the hospital came under the juridiction of the NHS, and most of the general hospital work was transferred to Medway Maritime Hospital.
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