The Spirits Still Within Stimson Hospital, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 22 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 Two 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, part two of our conversation about the haunted Stimson Hospital with owner Chris Sturgel. |
| 0:11.5 | How did you guys end up with all the haunted objects? |
| 0:16.0 | I've watched, I've watched video of you given a tour to a group, like they're going in to investigate, |
| 0:22.4 | but you met with them first, showed them around. |
| 0:25.7 | And there's a lot of various objects, a lot of dolls. |
| 0:29.2 | There was a mirror. |
| 0:29.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:30.2 | We have some really crazy haunted dolls. |
| 0:32.1 | And we have a lot of the medical devices we have were very intrusive and very scary. I mean, and that's why I tell the tour of guys, I say, tell you what, I don't care what you see tonight, I don't care if it grabs you, it's none of it could be as scary as this shit in these cabinets. The stuff they hear to you in the name of medical science in those days was just... Brutal. Totally brutal. You just can't even believe it. I mean, we have like various, we have a portion tool, we have |
| 0:58.0 | we have like various weird. |
| 0:56.3 | We have abortion tools. We have cranial drills for lobotomies. We have a suborbital lobotomy |
| 1:01.6 | kit. We have gall of saw. We have a thing called the giggly saw that's like a serrated |
| 1:06.3 | wire that was used to separate the top of your head from your brain so that you could do brain |
| 1:10.7 | surgery. |
| 1:11.5 | We have just all these weird, bizarre things. And so we've been collecting this weird shit for six years now. People know that we want weird stuff. And so it's like, hey, man, I got this weird prosthetic limb laying around it. You know, it's like, oh, hell yeah, bring it by. You know, we had a friend who had a paranormal museum where we bought like all of his shit. He had a couple really haunted dolls. And I mean, we're just kind of weird. I mean, I've gotten Pam, like a femur bone for her mother's day. Then I got her a small pair of a scientific, uh, I just have to say this. Nothing says happy Mother's Day more than a fever bone. Hey, that's not as fun as the fact that she used to |
| 1:45.2 | keep it on the dash of her car, because I'll tell you what, somebody tries to carjack your ass and you beat them off with leg bone, pretty good chance the words out, nobody's ever going to fuck with you again. Oh my God, she beat him to death with a leg bone. And don't even go near that girl. She's guys are hers. She knows how to get rid of a body. |
| 1:59.6 | Freaking embalming kits. |
| 2:01.2 | We have all that stuff. So, nope, |
| 2:03.2 | you know, you're not even going to find your near that girl. She guys are hers. She knows how to get rid of a body. Freaking embalming kits. We have all that stuff. So, |
| 2:02.8 | nope, you know, you're not even going to find yourself on a discovery information special because |
| 2:07.6 | we're too good at the shit. Not that we've killed so far as far as you know. I mean, |
| 2:12.6 | all your listeners, we're good, right? So yeah. But, and so all this stuff is all still fully functional and all of just bizarre. |
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