Whats your best nursing ghost story?

magjentes
Before you to go to bed. Ask your mom to come to you in a dream again. And, be more direct with her message to you.
I believe they can hear you on the other side.

You have quite a bit of fun with your history of rude posts, don't you?

OMG!!!

I apologize. That member has not posted for a long time. The matter has been resolved.

Not a ghost story (maybe an urban myth), but scary all the same:

A group of 4 nursing students were on their last day of a clinical placement and were very happy to be finishing. They decided that they would go out after their shift had finished to celebrate. However, by the evening one of the four had had such a tough day that she decided to stay in the dormitory and get an early night. The other three head to the nearest bar, where one of them realizes that she left her cash back at the dormitory. "Thats ok" said the other two, "we are walking past the dormitory on our way to the next bar, we can pick up the cash then". They had a few drinks and when it came time to move on to the next bar one of them slipped into the dorm building. Seeing no light on when she opened the door to their room she decided to be kind and knowing that her cash was on her bedside cabinet she tiptoed in with the lights off, grabbed her cash and tiptoed out.

Several hours later.....

The girls arrive home in the small hours and as they are walking up the street they see a lot of police activity. As they reach the police cordon they are stopped and asked to move on. They explain that they live in the dorm building and are immediately taken to a senior officer who explains that there has been a terrible incident and that their friend has been killed. They are not allowed into the building because the forensic team is there. One of the girls needs to get her medication which is in the room, so the senior officer relents and escorts her into the building. When they enter the room it is full of forensic teams in white jump suits. The matress is covered in blood. When she goes into the bathroom to get her medication she sees a message written on the bathroom mirror in her own lipstick...

"YOU WERE LUCKY THAT YOU NEVER TURNED ON THE LIGHTS!"

Your story does have elements of an urban myth but also is very close to a very real series of events that occured in Boston 1962-1963 with a serial rapist/murderer who became known as the Boston Strangler. For some strange reason a lot of his victims were nurses or worked in the medical field.
""WARNING" links give very graphic portrayals of the crimes and crime scenes.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...896645,00.html reprint of a story in Time Magazine from 1963

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/s...n/index_1.html very graphic depiction of the Bostone strangler muders.

And now a true story.

On our unit we were caring for a pt who was in heart failure. He was so skinny, but had this bloated belly. He was a DNR case and was fully aware that he was going to die. One evening he started to go downhill very fast and was very aware of what was happening and was very scared. He suddenly revoked the DNR order and asked that we resuscitate him. What happened next was bizarre - he arrested and we set about the resus, except the bed kept repositioning into a chair position. It must have been a short in the electrics or something. Anyway the resus was unsuccessful - coding a person in a seated position does not work well.

A few months later I was looking after a patient who had a really rocky recovery post op. Her mother was terrified. When we were finally able to extubate her the mother started to update her on what had happened and how close to death she had been. The patient turned to her mother and told her not to worry.... the skinny man with the big belly had been with her and had told her she was going to be ok. She couldn't tell her the mans name - he had never told her.. but he had a bird on his shoulder. The patient that died had an eagle tattooed on the upper arm!

Very interesting - thanks for the article.

Wow, your story is very good.

Now I have a true story that happened in the small PA city where I live. Her name was Cindy Song. She was a PSU undergrad student from Korea. Some of you may have seen her story on the TV show Without A Trace.

The night she disappeared, she had been out with some friends, and had gone home to her apartment located near our local Giant Market at around 2 AM. Cindy liked to party with friends, but nobody saw her with the exception of someone picking her up in a car at our local Walmart in the early morning hours. That was when she disappeared.

Top investigators were hired, the local newspapers were covered with news of her disappearance, and even private dectives were hired to look for anything that might have led to her disappearance. Nothing was found, and nothing was out of place in her apartment. The police even checked her emails and and anything that might give a lead to her disappearance. A famous medium was also hired, but no trace of her was ever found.

This happened around 5 years ago, and still there is no news about her whereabouts.