The Old Maternity Hospital Haunts the Building of Cordoba University

What used to be an old maternity hospital in Spain turned into a faculty of Cordoba University. Both staff working there as well as their students talk about it being haunted by the grieving mothers that lost their life in childbirth.

Have you ever heard of the mysterious and dark stories of a haunted school in Spain known as University of Córdoba or as it is in Spanish, Universidad de Córdoba? It has become one of the most talked-about topics in recent years due to its eerie atmosphere and paranormal activities.

Universidad de Córdoba is a university in Córdoba, in Andalusia, Spain, that started in 1972, but dates back to the Andalusian region’s Moorish roots.

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The Cordoba University offers both undergraduate and postgraduate studies in everything from humanities, social sciences, and engineering.

It used to be a lot of things before education and we can trace the building back to the 16th century when it was a convent, an anti tuberculosis sanatorium, a military hospital during the civil war as well as a maternity hospice.

The Old Maternity Hospital

At the faculty of Law, Business and Economics on Puerta Nueva street the students and staff alike claim it is haunted by ghosts. The building the faculty is in used to be a hospital from the 1700s.

During the late 80s there was a renovation that brought up the building’s old past and in the 90s there was a lot of talk about the hauntings the story of the building brought with it. And when the building was transformed into a college in the 70s, they found corpses and small bones belonging to babies in the ground.

The University of Córdoba building used to be a maternity hospital. The ghosts that roam the halls are often said to be women that died in childbirth, and they are seen crying of the loss of their children as well as their own.

What used to be an old maternity hospital in Spain turned into a faculty of Cordoba University. Both staff working there as well as their students talk about it being haunted by the grieving mothers that lost their life in childbirth. — **The Haunted Cordoba University:** The building that used to be an old maternity hospital is now believed to be haunted by the former patients//Source: Rafael Jiménez/Wikimedia

One particular ghost most seen is a long-haired woman in a white hospital gown. Apparently she had blood on her nightgown no one knows for sure what is from, but most speculate it was from the difficult birth she experienced. She is thought to be one of the women that lost her baby in childbirth and threw herself from the bell tower because she couldn’t bear the pain.

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It is also said the University of Córdoba is haunted by a soldier from the time it functioned as a soldier hospital during the civil war, angry in his afterlife and threatening to kill everyone that encounters him.

A lot of poltergeist-like activity like breaking windows and moving objects to scare people have been attributed to this ghost.

The Staff at Cordoba University Experiencing Paranormal Phenomena

The supposed ghosts are most often witnessed inside the faculty of University of Córdoba by the poor staff that has to remain there when everyone else is gone and darkness falls over the old building.

The cleaning staff have gotten the most of the paranormal experience and people that have worked there claimed to have been locked inside of the room, objects flying through the room.

According to one story a cleaner once got a child’s voice calling her name when she was listening to music with headphones.

Haunting at other Faculties of the Cordoba University

Other faculties under the Cordoba University are the philosophy faculty or Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. It is housed in the baroque building from 1703 that used to be a general hospital called Hospital del Cardenal Salazar in the old Jewish quarter of the city.

One cleaner in this faculty used to talk with a teacher during his shifts. One day he found out the teacher had been dead for many days, even though they spoke in the school after the teacher passed away.

People have also talked about seeing lights in the darkened windows, a ghost holding a light while floating past, and children wearing old fashioned clothes running around in the hallways.