Yorktown Memorial Hospital in Yorktown, Texas ran for 35 years under an order of Polish nuns, and roughly 2,000 people are said to have died inside it. Tours still run all night. The city has ruled the place a public nuisance and talked about tearing it down.
People bring picture books into Yorktown Memorial Hospital in Yorktown, Texas. They carry them through the shuttered Catholic hospital to the first-floor library and set them down on the floor for a girl said to be about 8 years old, named Stacy.
She is the most reported figure in the building. As the story is told, a doctor there, Leon Nowierski, gave her a copy of "The Poky Little Puppy" with a note written inside it, and she never let the book go, so visitors keep bringing more. Ask her to roll a ball across the floor, and the ball is said to roll. What nobody has is a surname, a date, a cause of death, or a patient record. Stacy exists only in the telling.
The hospital opened in 1951, built for the Polish Catholic farming families around Yorktown and run by the Felician Sisters, an order founded in Poland in 1855. The hospital's own history page has the nuns nursing the patients and doing the cleaning and the upkeep themselves, and a Haunted US write-up lists polio, smallpox, flu epidemics, and later the first AIDS cases among what they handled. Roughly 2,000 people are said to have died in the building over its 35 years of operation, about one a week. Every account of the place repeats that figure. None of them cites a record it came from.
The sisters are reported to still be on duty, and they are said to be particular about behavior. The complaint that recurs is oddly specific: visitors with visible tattoos are the ones who get singled out, and they describe being scratched, choked, or rushed at in the halls. Others report shadow figures with red eyes, moaning through the empty wings, and tapping on the glass of the lobby door. Battery-operated dolls left behind as offerings are said to talk with nobody near them.
Ghost Adventures aired its Yorktown lockdown on March 18, 2011. The EMF meter fired in the basement, a thermal camera died at a room at the end of a hallway, and the recorders came back with voices: "Don't Go In The Bathroom." "It's Sick." "The Killer Is Coming, Get To The Hallway."
The hospital closed in 1986 and ran a while as a drug and alcohol rehab center before closing for good. A San Antonio tour company bought it in July 2025. Weeks later the City of Yorktown posted the property against entry "due to the risk of structural failure or hazardous conditions," and KENS 5's reporting on the city's October inspection lists leaning walls, a deteriorating foundation, and a property classed a public nuisance. In November the council tabled a demolition vote. "Demolition doesn't necessarily interest us," the mayor said.
The owners' own engineer calls the building sound. Their booking page lists overnight investigations, 8pm to 8am, continuing as scheduled.
