CHARITY HOSPITAL
Site — New Orleans, Louisiana
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/charity-hospital-new-orleans-louisiana/

The 1736 hospital—abandoned since Katrina.

Charity Hospital is a site in New Orleans, Louisiana. The 1736 hospital—abandoned since Katrina. Its accounts name only a collective — the charity dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.

Charity Hospital opened in 1736 — New Orleans' hospital for the poor, the institution that treated the city's destitute for nearly three centuries, its wards holding the sick that no one else would take.
The file's documented spine is the hospital's mission: a charity hospital that served the city from the colonial era through Katrina, its wards being the record of the poorest city's care for its poorest.

THE PATIENTS
The lore reports the patients seen — the file's haunting being the hospital's dead: the people who died in the wards reportedly still in the building where the city's sick were kept, the hospital's residents being its most enduring.
The Charity dead are the file's signature — a hospital that treated the poor keeping its patients, the wards reportedly still holding the people who had nowhere else to go.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Charity is the archive's hospital file — a 1736 institution that served the poor for centuries, keeping its patients reportedly still in the wards. The documented mission is the record; the lingering sick are the lore of a hospital that took everyone.
A hospital that served the poor keeps its patients — the file's suggestion being that Charity's wards still hold the people the city sent to its cheapest beds.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The patients are reportedly seen. The presences go by the Charity dead in the file. The reports at Charity Hospital are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.
  source: Charity Hospital (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_Hospital_(New_Orleans))
· [Investigation claim] apparition: Reported figures in the building. Charity Hospital's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's an investigation claim — the kind that convinces the people who were in the room. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped. The report keeps its place in the record.
  source: Charity Hospital (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_Hospital_(New_Orleans))

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1736] The hospital’s history is documented. The documented date is 1736. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Charity Hospital'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Charity Hospital — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_Hospital_(New_Orleans)

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