Royal Haslar is not just an abandoned hospital; it was one of Britain’s most important naval medical sites, admitting patients from 1753 and completing its great Georgian form in 1762. Designed by Theodore Jacobsen, it was conceived on a huge scale for Royal Navy casualties and later treated civilians and all three services, which gives the place an unusually dense medical and military past. The grounds matter as much as the main building: Haslar’s burial areas held thousands of dead, including sailors from disease outbreaks, men from the Royal George disaster, casualties connected to Trafalgar, and even the bodies of John Millward, Thomas Burkett and Thomas Ellison after the Bounty mutiny hangings. Human remains were still being uncovered during later building works, which help keeps the haunting stories alive. The best-known apparition is the White Lady, with reported incidents in 1998 and 2004 involving footsteps, doors, and a figure seen where no living person could have been. After the hospital finally closed in 2009, its derelict wards, chapel and mortuary made it a magnet for urban explorers, paranormal investigators and television crews, including Time Team.