"You mean that after the chair was disposed of, the dead woman's ghost was still seen in the hospital?"
"Yes. And... and it wasn't beside the hospital bed. It was inside the hospital. A nurse on night duty saw her. She was in the hallway around two or three in the morning, about the time the old woman died. She walked down the hallway, checking one hospital room after another, as if she were looking for someone... At first, the nurse didn't recognize her. She thought she was a family member who'd come to stay with a patient and had stepped out to do something, so she went over to ask. The woman didn't respond at all. She just walked straight through her..."
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"Phew... Maybe the nurse was frightened, or maybe she was genuinely affected by something. She fell seriously ill that day, before her shift was over, and later quit. After that, other nurses on night duty saw the woman too. There was nothing we could do... She'd go into the rooms and look over the beds one by one. She'd touch the patients and their family members. A lot of people got sick. They fell ill for no apparent reason—colds and fevers, heart palpitations and shortness of breath, body aches... all kinds of problems... The hospital tried to handle it, using ordinary methods... The chair was thrown out, first at a recycling center and then at a dump, but... but it kept coming back, appearing in the storage room... That's how it went..."
"Did the hospital bring in anyone to deal with it?"
"Yes. We brought people in... Actually, people around here are a little superstitious. We've seen so many deaths and so much of life and death, but it still gets to you a little... The