Christmas Tree Is Spotted In A Derelict Hospital Abandoned Since 2005

A Christmas tree complete with fairy lights was spotted several floors up in a derelict hospital.

Charity Hospital in New Orleans has been abandoned since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Lisa Walley Staggs spotted the tree are posted a picture on Facebook, which has since been shared more than 22,000 times.

Ms Staggs wrote on her profile: ‘For those few of you who may not know…I work at an inner city New Orleans hospital that happens to be situated directly across from Charity hospital.

‘Charity hospital has been closed, its windows darkened, since Hurricane Katrina, and is a gloomy and dreary sight on the best of days…at night it’s down-right scary. Until tonight.’

(Picture: Lisa Walley Staggs/Facebook)

The nurse added: ‘I park on the roof of my parking garage, and tonight as I was leaving work, I glanced over at the forgotten building, only to see the lights of a tiny Christmas tree!

‘I wish the pictures did it justice. I don’t know how it’s lit. I don’t know how it’s even in there, but it made me smile just a little bit tonight!’

The culprit, believed to be an urban explorer, is yet to be found.

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) told WWLTV that the hospital police found some lengths of wood wrapped in fairy lights to resemble a ‘Christmas Tree’ when they investigated.

The spokesperson for the LSUHSC, Leslie Capo said: ‘We are treating this as a break-in.’

An Instagram user known only as @shortestsim posted the below photograph with the following caption: ‘Someone is taking credit for sneaking in and putting a tree in this room, can’t personally confirm… photo of the outside of this room is going viral and people think these lights are a ghost Christmas tree.

‘The only thing scary about this is how much the City of NOLA spends to keep the power on.’

(Picture: @shortestsim/instagram)