Elena felt a chill. The hospital hadn't employed religious sisters since the late 1970s.
The patient smiled weakly. "The sister. The one in the heavy blue habit. She was so kind; she stayed with me when the pain was worst, praying softly until I fell asleep." Monjas, hospitales y fantasmas | Relatos del lado oscuro
The old General Hospital was a labyrinth of cold tiles and echoing hallways. For Elena, a young nurse on the graveyard shift, the silence of the maternity ward was never truly silent. It hummed with the rhythmic beep of monitors and the distant, unexplained shuffling of feet. Elena felt a chill
As Elena backed away, she heard a whisper from the corner of the room, a voice like dry leaves: "She is rested now. Are you?" "The sister
Legend tells of a "Monja del Vaso" (Nun of the Glass), a spectral figure common in Mexican folklore who wanders hospitals to offer water to the dying —a task she supposedly neglected in life.