spooky spooky spooky

[babynurselsa]

last nightI worked L&D in my hospital. I usually workNICU. Well, we were sitting around talking and the subject of ghostly inhabitants came up and our scrub tech went on to relate the story of how she can go back to the surgical suites and turn off the lights and return a little later and the surgical lamps over the tables will be on.

We had this med student with us and he walked back with her and they turned off all the lights, waited half an hour and went back to check.

Sure enough, the spotlights were on. well this was where a couple of the other nurses and I came in on this story and of course I jumped right in and so BS! So she did it again with us all with her.

we went back a little later and they were on again.

Of course we had to try it again. This time our med student went back and checked from the hall and the lights were still off, a short time later 3 of us went back and the 1st OR light was not on, but in the 2nd OR the light was on as was the anesthessia machine.

We decided to mess with the whole thing a little and adjusted the light and pointed it towards the wall to the right of the table and left, a short time later I peeked in and the light was on, pointed back to the center of the table and the machine was off. Then I pointed it to the wall at the head of the bed and left. Tight after we counted I peeked in again and it was pointed toward the wall at the foot of the table.

Our poor tech would not even go down there alone to collect instruments for CS without someone with her, after that she wouldn't even go down there with someone.

Now being the eternal skeptic, I tried to be aware where all of us were and watch for someone to go back there and did not ever catch anyone sneaking back.

What do you all think???

[nurse51rn]

And another one...

My mom was dying of CA and I kept her here at home. She had lived with us for about 15 years before she died. Anyway, about 5 days before she died, (she was in a coma at this time), she was holding her arms up, pushing someone away, frowning the entire time and shaking her head 'no'. I kept saying something along the lines of, "it's all right, go to the light". But the more I said that, the more agitated she became. But, by Fri. night, she was smiling out and reaching for whoever came for her. She died peacefully early Sat. am.

Yet still another one...

When my mother-in-law was in ahospital dying, my hsband drove to the western side of the state to pick our dughter up at school, drove clear back across the state. then to sw PA. When they walked into m-i-l's room she sat up in bed, looked at my daughter and husband and said, "oh good, you're here, now I can die. She laid down and died. :eek:

[S-Tech]

I started reading this and could not resist adding my ghost story

When i was still in uni i worked at a theatre/arts centre as a sound and lighting technition. One night (about 3 in the morning) i was walking around the building doing a lockup after a show that night. i was the only person there for about 2 hours before i went and did the lock up. (i had been working there about 6 months)

Before i go on i have to add that about 20 years ago 6 months after the centre opend the cleaner fell in the orchestra pit onto the grand piano and died. and nobody found him untill about 12 hours later.

Anyway... When i was walking around making sure the place was locked up i am 100% sure i herd somebody walking down the steps towards me and then call my name. i thought it must have been the other technition back for some reason so i answerd him. but i got no response. so i turned back to see who it was when i walked past the orchestra pit door i herd a huge bang. so i got out of there as fast as i could. i went in the next day and went into the orchestra pit and a leg on the grand piano had snaped off. i asked the othe guy i worked there with if he came back to get something and he said no. then he told me about when he first started working at the same place and he had the same experience but without the grand piano. instead he actualy sore a guy in overalls standing on the steps going into the orchestra pit.

to all you non belivers out there i didnt blive in any of this stuf before this but i just can not explain what happened???

To this day i dont know what happened. and i never did a lockup on my own again and i am a 6'6 300 pound aussie bloke and scared of ghosts.

[Mimi2RN, ASN, RN]

A story that my mother told me.

When she was young, she worked at a photographers. One day a girl came in to have a portrait taken. Something went wrong, and there was another woman on the print behind the girl. When the girl came back, they explained the problem, and told her they would retake the photos, showing her the prints. She exclaimed "That's my mum, she died six months ago!". They did not have any pictures of mum, so she took the prints.

That always gave me chills!

[redshiloh]

I guess I'm not observant enough to see ghosts. The nearest I came to was walking into a room and seeing this rocking chair slowly rocking back and forth. I kind of freaked. The room was dark, so I turned on the light. Turned out, it was our old dog, who was black in color, sleeping by the back of the rocker and when she breathed, the rocker moved!

[snoogans]

Nursing home I onced worked at the call lights were always crazy. One would ring others would go off. One of the patients was in the hopital. One day all the lights lit up. Couldn't tell who was ringing. When we finally found the light, it was in the patients rooms who was in the hopital. Found out later she died at the exact time the call lights went off.

The nursing home I work at now used to be a hopital. I worked the old maternity ward, on evenings. I could swear I could hear babies crying. And so could some of the residents.

[chipper]

when the gentleman first came to our N.H., He was pleasant, happy man. He would get up at night to talk to us night nurses. In the course of a month, he became cranky, hard-to-get-along-with guy that slept or at least stayed in bed all day and night. One night, he was crying and saying that he didn't want to go. We tried to comfort him, but he remained scared. A few hours later, he died. I wonder if maybe he was one that didn't see the "bright light"?

There is one room down the hall that always gives me the willies. No one recently has past in there, but when approach the door and reach in to turn on the light, you find yourself tense, as if you are expecting to see someone in that empty room.

Last night, a man that the doc says has maybe 2 weeks, sat in the lobby with his eyes closed, praying that the Lord come take him out of here. A little later, he started to cry, mumbling that he was sick and tired of being sick and tired. An aide gave him some tissues and very plainly said,"Thank you." Prior to that, you could not make out what he was saying.

[purplemania, BSN, RN]

ok-here's mine.

Worked in pedi's. Co-worker in nursery was daughter of pediatrician. He was killed in MVA. A few nights later I "felt" someone behind me at the nurses' station (I was alone at the time). Looked up to security camera and just saw white light, but blew the whole thing off. EXCEPT, I really felt like that Doc was near. Later another nurse came to the station from down the hall stating "You aren't going to believe this but I thought I saw Dr. X in the stairwell". I believed it. Another night I was working with Dr. X's daughter in nursery and she told how she and another pediatrician had "seen" her Dad recently. Turned out it was the same night we had "seen" him on pedi unit. Guess he was making rounds one last time.

[maggiesma]

Originally posted by dhogan

I have a very unerving experience. My mother in law died 6 years ago unexpectely at the age of 46. I have dreams about her as though she is alive but only my family can see her. I started to notice that when I dream about her someone I know would die the next day. This has happened to me atleast 5 times in the past 2 years. My G-mother, G-father, Uncle, Aunt, and a friend. It is very scary now when I dream about her. Especially the last time when my 10 year old was out of town with friends. The next day I was on pens and needles until I found out it was a lady who was my friend and my oldest childs teacher. She went to church with my mother and me for many years. Though I was sad about her dying I was relieved my child was fine. I believe she tries to prepare me because we have had so many deaths in our families in the last 7 years. But is it better not to know, especially when you dont know who it will be? Though, I am not scared during the dream, I am happy and relieved. I guess because she died so unexpectely she feels she needs to let me know.

OMG!!! That has got to be pretty scary!!!! You must have some sort of Psychic powers!!!

[Scotty]

I don't believe in ghosts but.....

10 years ago on nightshift in a surgical ward a bath tub tap gushed water just seconds after I had checked bathroom lights were off etc. No-one could have got in or out of that bathroom without going past me and I assure you no-one passed me. I explained it to myself as an air lock in the pipe, or an empty water tank just filled up etc. Maybe one day I'll ask a plumber.

I worked in a hospice and staff told me about call bells going off in empty rooms on night shift. I didn't believe them, but then it happened when I was on night duty, a few times. Once it was crazy - lots of buzzers going off repeatedly and all together etc. Although I don't believe in ghosts I wasn't brave enough to investigate those empty rooms myself. I told the security man who found nothing untoward. I've blamed it on electrical or equipment faults (despite no fault found by maintenance) or mischevious unknown others. I've thought maybe it was homeless people who sometimes used to sneak into the unocupied rooms in the hospice (one time I bumped into one of those and he gave me a hell of a fright - probably worse than seeing a ghost -despite being utterly benign and just looking for a place to kip.

In a medical ward on night shift, infusion pumps and feeding pumps would alarm in empty rooms, or go on hold repeatedly, despite no-one touching them etc etc. Those of us who worked nights were getting a bit spooked by this. One night an infusion pump that was not in use or even plugged in alarmed. It was in the room of a patient who was comatose and dying. The pump was still not plugged in but was alarming because it was on hold! I was so spooked by it that I started to think maybe it was a sign that the patient didn't want to be alone, or in the dark or something. I did everything I could think of to ensure the patient was comfortable and sat and held his hand for a while. Eventually I had to leave to attend to other things. Later I was at the nurses' station alone and a freaky creep of a patient approached me with handcuffs and a policeman's torch and told me he really cared about us girls and would always make sure we were safe. It was a real cringe and laugh moment! Anyway, something twigged. This creep was a frequent flyer and when I checked his admission dates they coincided with all of these strange night time occurences. I sort of spied on him after that, and eventually caught him turning a patient in bed, who was begging to be left alone for the nurses to attend to him. That turned my stomach. I think I'd rather it was a mischevious ghost than that creep.

One morning at 7am Iwas driving to work and a psycho truck driver nearly killed me. It is the worst driving fright I have ever had. I lost control of the car, but somehow it came right again. I was upset all day at work. I'd had such a fight or flight rush that I was jittery all day and desperate to 'phone my husband, but I didn't do it, because I knew he would worry about me driving home. I was terrified driving home. When I got home my husband gave me presents of a new perfume, body lotion etc. I didn't tell him about my day, but asked what he had done wrong what the presents were for etc. Eventually he said that he had a horrible nightmare and woke up at 7am with an overwhelming feeling that I had died in a car crash. He couldn't get rid of the horrible feeling, so at lunchtime he had bought me gifts. That is my favourite perfume now!!!

I do believe that some patients choose to die when the relatives are not present, despite an almost continuous bedside vigil, maybe because the patient wants to protect them. I've seen that happen quite a few times. Sometimes I do feel honoured when patients die when I am present.

Lots of colleagues have told me spooky stuff, but I just can't give any credence to what I have not seen myself.

So, I still don't believe in ghosts........but then again, I can't explain everything.

[maggiesma]

These are all such cool stories!!! I truly believe in Ghosts or spirits or whatever you want to call them. I have never "seen" one, but I have felt their presence and have seen them move things. Several years ago we lived in a house that had belonged to my father in Law before he died. For over a year we experienced all sorts of strange things (lights coming on that were off, footsteps on the stairs, chairs moving, garage doors opening)...my husband, me, and 2 of my stepsons all noticed these things. Our dog Maggie (hence my "name":) ), also would notice these things and would bark or whine and follow movements around the house that we couldn't see. After awhile it all stopped.

I've also had patients who've seen things or people that weren't there right before they died. I once had a patient who had been roomates with another patient who died. For the 3 or 4 nights after the one patient died, his former roomate told us that this guy had visited him every night. Not long after those visits the other patient died also. WIERD!

[lissagirl]

Here's mine tho not work related...

My son was my grandfathers first great grandchild. I was due August the 20th and my grandfather lived in another town. He drove down on Friday the 18th and arrived that night at my mothers house. My mom said "what are you doing here" He didnt call or tell anyone he was coming ahead of time. He said "Im here to see Lissys baby" My mom told him I hadnt had the baby yet and he said well she's going to. I didnt talk to either of them that night but I had started having mild contractions and my son was born at 8:36 the next morning and my Grandfather was at the hospital before noon to see "Lissys baby" Maybe thats coincidence but to me its one of the sweetest stories I have about my grandfather... very special.

Bout 2 years later, same grandfather, came into town again and had a *strange* conversation with my mom. He had a horse and he wanted my mom to keep it in a stable near her home because he said he couldnt take care of it anymore. He talked to my mom for a while and seemed to be telling her goodbye in a more tender/serious way than someone who you'd expect to see again would. If I remember right he asked my mother if she was happy and if she was ok. Then he went back home and was found dead in his bedroom 2 days later. I think he knew what was coming. He was always a happy man and he loved my mom so much. She said he didnt seem upset just concerned about her when they had that last talk.

[OnMyWay]

OK, this is not really a ghost storey but more of a permonition:

When I was about 6 and living in New Jersey, I had a dream that I was a nurse taking care of a little boy who was covered in bandaids only he was sitting in a fountain in front of a hospital. Now I am not one of those people who always wanted to be a nurse and I didn't think about this dream for years. Over 20 years later, driving through Deland, Florida - I saw THE EXACT hospital and fountain that had been in the dream. Again, I haven't thought of this until reading these posts and realized that here I am becoming a nurse 10 years later in Florida - only about 1 1/2 hours from that hospital!

Hmmmmm......