This story originates in San Luis Potosi, in an old hospital between the streets of El Montecillo y San Sebastian.
This is the story of Eulalia, a promising young woman, professional, who won the care, respect, and admiration of her coworkers and patients. Her life consisted of working as a nurse and also helping her family, her mom, and 2 younger siblings.
Years later a new hospital opened called Hospital General Dr. Morones Prieto, and a lot of medical staff and workers were transferred to this hospital. In this same new hospital, a Doctor named Joaquin also started working there.
Eulalia and Joaquin met, and after a short time, they became a couple. Eulalia was so in love with Joaquin, to a point that when Joaquin proposed she accepted. Joaquin only had 1 condition, they had to wait 6 months, he was leaving for Monterrey for some medicine courses, of course, she happily accepted this condition.
Months passed and the time Eulalia had to wait became less and less, her eagerness was so that she even bought her wedding dress. Then there was a dance party with the hospital staff, her coworkers asked her to join them, she rejected the offer because “her boyfriend Joaquin was still not present”, to her shock one of the doctors told Eulalia that Joaquin left for Monterrey to get married.
The news shocked Eulalia to her core, she changed completely, everything that she did with love, the patients she treated were now subjected to negligence, it is said that many of the patients died because of this. As time passed, Eulalia also became sick, and died in the same hospital she served.
The legend says that Eulalia felt regret for all the patients that died because of her negligence, which is why to this day she is still seen in hospital corridors, visiting patients that need help while she narrates her story.
Another variant of this story is that she committed suicide in the hospital but even after death, she continues to care for her dear patients.
The scariest variant of this story is that Eulalia made a pact with the devil and her spirit is cursed, so she visits patients at night to kill them, either by asphyxiation or giving them dangerous doses of drugs/medicine. This last one is the least believable one out of all of them.
Now, you might also be wondering why do people call her “La Planchada”, planchada comes from the Spanish word Plancha/planchar which means “to iron (clothes)”, a very characteristic trait of “the planchada” is that her clothes NEVER wrinkle and NEVER get dirty*. Hence she received the name of “La Planchada” or the English equivalent of “The Ironed”.
*When she was alive it is said that she had so much love and respect for her work that her uniform was always tidy and she was never seen messy, an attribute that passed on to her spirit.
The old hospital is between points A and C:
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