About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. One morning, while a delivery driver was unloading boxes in the parking lot, he heard an eerie humming coming from inside the Rockford VA Clinic. Curious but cautious, he peered through the window and saw something strange: a patient’s wheelchair slowly rolling down the hallway on its own. The delivery driver watched wide-eyed as the chair made a complete circuit around the ward, stopping briefly outside each room before returning to its original spot. Smiling sheepishly, he knocked on the door of the nearest nurse's station and explained what he'd seen. 'Oh, that's just old Mr. Jenkins,' said one nurse with a laugh. 'He always gets his chair recalibrated after every nap.'
2. In the waiting room of Rockford VA Clinic, an elderly gentleman regularly brought his granddaughter for check-ups. One day, she pointed excitedly towards the ceiling and whispered, ‘Grandpa, look! Is that a bird?’ The old man squinted up and replied gently, ‘No, sweetheart, that's just the shadow of our favorite doctor’s hat.’ They both laughed softly as they waited their turn, unaware that outside, a delivery driver was trying not to burst out laughing while staring at the ceiling too.
3. In the dead of night, when Rockford VA Clinic's lights were supposed to be off, a strange humming sound would occasionally fill the air. No one could explain it. One night, an exhausted delivery driver pulled up to the clinic’s empty parking lot. Hearing the eerie hum, he got out to investigate and found nothing but shadows. Turns out, it was just the reflection of his truck headlights on the clinic’s windows—an optical illusion that had everyone spooked.
4. In the middle of the day, a neighbor stopped by the Rockford VA Clinic and asked: ‘Why does everyone here keep whispering “it’s alive”?’ The receptionist looked up with a smile and whispered back, ‘It’s our new robot nurse—it talks in whispers.’ The neighbor nodded knowingly and left, muttering under his breath, ‘Guess I’ll never understand technology.’