La Planchada
La Planchada (The Ironed One, referring to her perfectly pressed nurse's uniform) is a ghost legend from Mexico City hospitals that has spread through Mexican-American communities in the US Southwest. According to the story, a beautiful nurse named Eulalia worked at Hospital Juárez in the 1930s, deeply dedicated to her patients. She fell in love with a handsome doctor who courted her but ultimately abandoned her to marry another woman. Heartbroken, Eulalia died of sorrow, but her ghost now returns to the hospital where she once worked. Dressed in an immaculately starched white nurse's uniform,