Charity Hospital's Eerie Light New Orleans

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Charity Hospital in New Orleans shows life is left in the abandoned building - Charity Hospital in New Orleans has been left abandoned since Hurricane Katrina struck more than a decade ago. Still, on Dec. 27, a Facebook poster proved that something strange is happening in this forlorn edifice that sits in the Crescent City just below the Mercedes-Benz Super Dome.

Indeed, Lisa Walley Staggs put up two photos on the popular social media site, showing the distinctive building in question. Staggs states that she works at another hospital which is right across the way from Charity Hospital, a place this familiar soul refers to as "gloomy" and "dreary" and even "scary".

However, these feelings did not stay in place a couple of days after Christmas. It was then that Staggs noticed the lights from a very small tree coming through one of the windows of the nearly forgotten building. To make sure she got her point across (and possibly to remind herself she wasn't just seeing things), she took two images of what she could see from her parking spot across the street.

Lisa Walley Staggs has no idea how the Christmas tree ended up in a window of the abandoned healthcare facility, but the idea that something is still going on in this otherwise sad reminder of such a major tragedy made this New Orleans resident happy.

In fact, after she put up her images, Staggs didn't seem to question what she had documented. She was simply thrilled to have come across this unlikely scene.

However, some of Lisa's followers made notes under her posted shots, saying that those lights out of nowhere were a bit ominous,and that they made this place seem more scary than before this unexplained phenomenon happened.

Indeed, some commenters were leery. They asked if perhaps a homeless person might be living in this unforgiving place, a place that certain citizens who live in the Big Easy are trying to find a way to preserve. Others thought maybe a ghost had taken up residence.

That said, as a bit of hope for that very same structure sprang forth for Lisa Walley Staggs, Charity Hospital in New Orleans now shows that there still seems to be life in the empty building that lost its way like so many others did, courtesy Hurricane Katrina.

Wouldn't that be great? If this is so, it seems that maybe, in this once unfortunate Louisiana city that lost so much when that huge storm hit, that there may just be a miracle occurring. Perhaps the miracle has arrived in the form of an authentic Santa Claus of sorts who has decided to visit at least once a year, if not more. Here's hoping!