La Planchada — The Ghost Nurse in White
La Planchada (The Ironed One, referring to her perfectly pressed 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 was deeply in love with a doctor who rejected her. Heartbroken, she took her own life, but her ghost now returns to the hospital where she once worked. Dressed in an immaculately starched white nurse's uniform, La Planchada appears in hospital wards at night, administering medicines and comforting patients. Some patients claim to have recovered mira