My husband worked at a hospital rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a former patient who had spent a long time there and reportedly grew fond of the place. He shared this story with me.
A man named Ed, a nurse or technician at the hospital (his brother and father were both doctors there), had a strange experience. The sixth floor, once a patient ward, had been converted into administrative offices due to declining patient numbers.
One night, Ed took the elevator to the sixth floor to retrieve records. As the doors opened, a man was standing directly in front of him, staring. [The man may have been wearing a hospital gown.] Startled—as no one should have been there at that hour—Ed froze, staring back. The man then turned and walked away without a word.
A few seconds later, Ed regained his composure and ran down the corridor to follow him, but the man had vanished. Terrified, Ed fled to the Emergency Room without the records he needed. ER nurses noted he was pale and genuinely distressed, not pretending. Other employees also reported sightings of this figure. It seems he liked the hospital so much he simply didn't want to leave.