Article: SCARE-DIFF ROYAL INFIRMARY; World War One soldiers, vanishing matrons and poisoned chalices - with the impending renovation of Cardiff Royal Infirmary set to open another chapter in 130 years of history, JOHANA HARTWIG examines the Victorian building's eerie past...

THEY are visions that would have driven some to madness.

Imagine staring at a woman on a security camera filming the scene just yards ahead of you.

When you look up there is no-one there. Then the ghostly figure on the camera turns and walks away.

This was just one hair-raising experience of security guards at the iconic Cardiff Royal Infirmary, but there are many more.

The CRI stands in the city centre with stories of more than a century of history and heroism, illness and death in its walls.

It is soon to be partly demolished ...

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