Sierra Vista Hospital

New Mexico · United States · Hospital

Nurses at this New Mexico hospital say they hear a baby crying the day before one is delivered. Ask anyone who has worked a night shift there.

Sierra Vista Hospital on East Ninth Street in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico was built in the early 1950s, and the reports from it are told among the staff rather than to visitors.

The one that comes up in every account is the crying. Nurses say they hear a baby crying in the building the day before a baby is delivered. Not after. Before.

What that describes is not really a haunting. It is a small hospital in a small town where the maternity ward runs on a schedule everyone knows, and where the staff have worked together long enough to have built a shared piece of folklore around something they cannot quite account for.

Night shift staff also report figures at the edge of vision.

This is a working hospital with patients in it. It is listed here because the staff tradition is genuine and long standing, not because it is somewhere to go. The nurses telling it are the ones who deliver the babies the following day.

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Where is Sierra Vista Hospital located?

Sierra Vista Hospital is in New Mexico, United States.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.