La Planchada
- Date of account
- 20th-century tradition; date of origin disputed
- Location
- Hospital Juárez and Mexico City hospital folklore
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
La Planchada is a Mexican hospital apparition said to appear as a meticulously dressed nurse who tends patients or administers unexplained care. The story is associated especially with Hospital Juárez and later with hospitals elsewhere in Mexico, but accounts differ about her identity, biography, and historical period. It matters for comparison because it combines institutional setting, healing behavior, oral transmission, and later internet retellings. Researchers should distinguish archival hospital history from folklore collections and contemporary testimony; no single origin account is securely established.
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