The Spirits Still Within Stimson Hospital, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In 1870, a grand private mansion rose in Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Nearly fifty years later, that home took on a new identity when Harriet Chapman purchased it and transformed it into a hospital. Within its walls, more than 3,000 children were born. Yet, alongside the joy of life, there was also loss. Patients passed away, and eventually, so did the hospital’s very founders.
Dr. Stimson, Dr. Blanchard, and Harriet Chapman all devoted their lives to the institution. But the end of their lives came tied to the very building they had helped create. Dr. Blanchard suffered a tragic fall down the hospital’s elevator shaft. Harriet Chapman and Dr. Stimson also never left the grounds in life—or, some believe, even in death.
The stories tied to Stimson Hospital are layered. People have reported strange sounds echoing from the basement, objects shifting when no one is near, and voices with no source. Perhaps most unsettling are the accounts from children who grew up inside its walls. Many spoke of an “imaginary friend” they spent time with. Oddly enough, though separated by years, the children all named the same figure: Blanchard.
Today, Chris Sturgill owns the property. His connection to the building isn’t just about bricks and mortar, but about preserving a story that refuses to be silenced. In this episode of The Grave Talks, Chris takes us inside the history, the lives lived and lost, and the lingering experiences that make Stimson Hospital unforgettable.
This is Part One of our conversation with Chris Sturgill about the legacy and mysteries of Stimson Hospital.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, a conversation about the Haunted Stimson Hospital. |
| 0:06.0 | In 1870, in Eaton, Rapids, Michigan, construction began on a private home, a mansion that would later become the Stimson Hospital. |
| 0:28.6 | In 1917, Harriet Chapman purchased the home and turned it into a hospital. |
| 0:34.4 | She brought in two doctors, Doctors Stimson and Blanchard, to help run it. |
| 0:40.5 | More than 3,000 children were born within its walls and countless others died, |
| 0:46.1 | including all three of the hospital's founders died there. |
| 0:50.7 | In fact, Dr. Blanchard fell to his death in the hospital's elevator shaft, and it seems |
| 0:56.4 | all three founders have never left. |
| 1:00.3 | There are reports of strange noises coming from the basement, objects moving by themselves |
| 1:05.5 | and disembodied voices. |
| 1:08.2 | Children who have lived there speak of an imaginary friend and the odd thing is all the children |
| 1:13.8 | mentioned the same name of this imaginary man blanchard on this episode of the grave talks |
| 1:21.0 | the haunted stimson hospital with owner chris sturgel so if you go to the Facebook page, Simpson Hospital, go to the videos page. |
| 1:32.3 | The last one I posted was something that happened that was really just freaking weird. |
| 1:35.9 | We've been having some poltergeist activity in the round room, which actually used to be the porch of the old hospital. |
| 1:41.5 | And so I was down, I have a laser engraver that I do artwork and stuff on. And so I was opening up a pack as you would to get ready for that, to do some more burns on some stuff. And I walked away from a table to get like something to cut the tape on it. And as I was walking back, a small piece of metal on the right hand side of the table just kind of flopped over all by itself. And I was still like three foot away from the table. |
| 2:02.6 | And I heard it, but I didn't see it because it was out of the periphery of my vision. So I'm stopping to say, well, what the hell was that? And so I started reaching around a table and I picked up a tape measure that was there because, well, it's metal. And then I reached over and looked at the piece and mouse. Well, that wasn't sitting like that. |
| 2:16.5 | Okay, I mean, whatever, you know. |
| 2:17.9 | And so I start opening the wood again because you get used to this shit, you know. |
| 2:20.7 | You are... reach over and looked at the piece of mouse, well, that wasn't sitting like that. Okay, and whatever, you know. And so I start opening the wood again, because you get used to this |
| 2:20.1 | shit, you know. You are exactly describing what I'm watching. Right. It's funny. I'm |
| 2:26.9 | sitting there. And as I'm standing there, a small aluminum scalpel by my left hand right behind |
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