What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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Nursing is a profession that often involves long lonely night shifts in eerie hospital wards. It's a perfect breeding ground for ghost stories. These stories often involve sightings of apparitions, strange noises, and unexplained events that are said to have taken place in hospitals, hospices, and other healthcare settings. Some of these stories are believed to be based on true events, while others are purely fictional. Regardless, they continue to captivate and intrigue both nurses and non-nurses alike - providing a spooky glimpse into the world of healthcare after dark.

I know you have seen and heard freaky things. Share your nursing ghost stories...

Specializes in Transitional Nursing.

I had a call bell continuously go on with no one in the room. We'd go in to shut it off an no sooner than we got into the hall it was back on.

"No day but today"

Specializes in Acute Care Pediatrics.

We have a room which we think is "cursed" - I swear, it's where all our kids code! If we ever get an unstable patient wheeled into that room, everyone's hair on the back of their neck stands up. One night that room was empty but yet the TV kept turning on in there. Freaky. I am not a fan. LOL!

I have heard so many stories from my teammates about devil possession on the floor. *shiver*

Specializes in Public Health, L&D, NICU.

I have heard so many stories from my teammates about devil possession on the floor. *shiver*

Well, share them!:yes:

Specializes in acute care then Home health.

I have heard so many stories from my teammates about devil possession on the floor. *shiver*

I bet those patients are getting ambien

I'm amazed this thread is still going on; I got here from Catholic Answers Forum in mid 2011 and have been reading it from the beginning since. :up:

And we need new stories!

:spit: I want a story!

I think I've told my best ones but I'll share one from my hubby who is a retired police officer.

My husband was called to the scene of a rather gruesome car accident. An elderly couple were returning from vacation and had just stopped and filled the car with a full tank of gas. It was shortly thereafter that a drunk driver struck the elderly couple's car. The cars crashed and elderly couple's car exploded before anyone could get too close to the car.

When my husband arrived at the scene, there were several distraught witnesses at the scene who had immediately stopped to help, but there was no way. The car was completely consumed in flames and the driver, the poor elderly wife, most obviously already dead and burning up. The elderly husband, who was last seen in the passenger seat as the car went up, was assumed to have met the same fate.

One of the witnesses was a young man who had been on the road and knew that there had been two people in that car and had saw the whole thing happen. He hung around to answer questions and out of concern (or even stunned horror) and he was adamant that there were two people in that car... because, interestingly, when the flames were put out... there was only the wife's remains in the car.

No witnesses had seen the husband escape the car-- he had appeared unconscious as the car exploded. No one had been able to reach him to get him out. He didn't fly out of the car. He was most definitely inside the car-- knocked out or dead-- in the moments before the car exploded and to the absolute horror to the witnesses who could not reach him.

And then... weirdly, lo and behold... some yards down from the wreck, there is the husband laying back in the weeds, unconscious, but alive. There was no sign of him having been dragged to the spot. He was too big for someone just to carry. No one saw anyone carry this man to safety. In fact, witnesses swore he was still in the car when it exploded. How the heck did he get there and why didn't anyone see him lying there right away? My husband swears up and down that the husband was not laying in that spot when he arrived on the scene.

Interestingly, the young man who was the witness (mentioned above), was the brother of a young nurse who was brutally murdered very shortly before this incident occurred. Personally, I think this theory is over-the-top, but somehow the cops decided that the ghost of this nurse was riding along side the brother (as a guardian angel, perhaps) and had made a ghostly save from beyond the grave and carried the old man to safety...;)

I'm not so sure about that, but it is certainly a story that makes you wonder how that gentleman came to be lying along side the road the way he was, when there just was no way... no way, he could have gotten out with all the witnesses that were there...

Latest story of the ghostly hauntings of the adult foster care where I work. So now there are at least three ghosts at the home. One I have seen, a little dog that was a housemates that got ran over. One others have seen, a former roommate of a client I will call mary. And one Mary see's, mama. Mary is bedridden and wheelchair bound, total care. Often she is my client at work. She does not speak. She understands us, and often laughs at us, as we tease her playfully. I have only heard her say two words, mama being one of them. She will say mama and look at the ceiling corner while we dress her in the morning and we will ask if mama is visiting.

For those who havent read earlier posts I will recall some of the stories. One time we had a clothes basket come flying off a flat surface it should not have come flying off. The roommate has been seen at the end of the hall going into Mary's room. Window blinder went flying up while I and the boss and one of our staff who is afraid of this stuff. We all said its the spirit, and she was a bit upset. Once while I was doing paper work, a bunch of I can only describe it as a mass of fur went wipping by my legs, towards the back door, where we used to put the dog out. No one else saw it, and they they insisted I was seeing things. (well yea, I was!)

Later when I began to work thirds, the dog has showed up two more times. Once I was knitting at the kitchen table, concentrating really hard as I was trying to correct mistakes, when I felt something by my right side, just out of my vision. I looked to the right and in my minds eye I saw the dog. I jumped a foot in the air, I swear. I used to hold the dog at the table while I read.

One time recently caught me falling asleep. I was sitting in Mary's chair in the living room. I felt hands touching me I awoke and drifted off again, and got touched some more. In my minds eye I saw the dog again,and mary was calling for me. I believe is was the combination of spirits that woke me to take care of Mary.

I wouldn't say this is a very "spooky" story like some of the ones I have read on here, but it's the only one I've got (so far!)

I worked for a home health agency as a CNA, and one of my clients was in her mid 90s with COPD and on palliative care. A day or two before she was admitted to a hospice facility, she was having conversations with people who weren't there, and she told the night CNA a girl was standing at the foot of her bed staring at her, and to get the girl out of her house. I don't believe there was anything "supernatural" about this, though. She was on morphine and we all know what effects morphine can have on people. Her health took a turn for the worst and her case manager admitted her to a hospice facility. Since my client's husband was deceased and her nieces and nephews (next immediate kin) live out of state, I stayed with her at the hospice facility so that she wouldn't be alone until her family could fly in. I was told her nieces would be arriving that night around 2000. Although she was non-responsive, I was talking to my client and kept telling her, "Your nieces are going to be here at 8 pm tonight, only X more hours. Just hold on until then." Unfortunately 2000 came and her nieces hadn't arrived. At 2005, I turned around to wash my hands, and when I turned back my client had passed. She had held on until 2000.

The nieces got into town at 2100 and stopped at my client's house first to drop off their bags and also have a drink to toast their aunt (the RN was unable to get a hold of any of them to tell them their aunt had passed.) One of the nieces took three iPhone pictures of them toasting their aunt, and in all three pictures (taken from different angles and facing different directions) there was a white streak of light in each. The nurse finally got a hold of them and when they arrived they were already informed of their aunt's death. They also showed me the pictures, and I told them their aunt had passed at a little after 2000. We figured, since the pictures were taken at 2100, my client was "there" with her nieces for their toast to her. They were understandably upset by her passing, but I think the unexplained streaks of white light in those pictures comforted them to some degree as well.

This place in working at now is a SNF. Its prob 40 yrs old and I'm not sure if the original building was a medical facility or what. .I'm doing NOC charge so I've got 2 units in a circular building and about 27 PTs. Just last week I had patients in both units asking about the children playing in the hall. One was complaining they were keeping him up and another lady was talking to them. The lady has dementia but the guy on the other side is just there for pt and still practices law part time..the week before we had people calling a gold colored puppy into their rooms. Again more than one person asking about the puppy on the same night.. I don't know ..kinda weird..but As long as were just talking kids and puppies I'm not too freaked out lol..one lady was seeing the devil devil which disturbed us Lol

Specializes in ER, PACU.

I have never had an experience at work..Until a few weeks ago. I was assigned to the last 2 rooms at the end of the hall in the ICU, and when I was in the last room, I saw from the corner of my eye, a man walk past the room but the direction he was walking was towards the end of the hall, other other side of the wall would be the outside. He walked by so fast it only lasted a split second. Not scary but creepy.

We have a door with an alarm that acts up when a resident is actively dying or has recently died. It started acting up a few weeks ago, with no resident who was obviously at that point. We wondered who it might be. A CNA looked over at the door and said "You, stop it". It did.

A resident who was out at the hospital passed an hour and a half later.

Specializes in Gerontology.
We have a door with an alarm that acts up when a resident is actively dying or has recently died. It started acting up a few weeks ago, with no resident who was obviously at that point. We wondered who it might be. A CNA looked over at the door and said "You, stop it". It did.

A resident who was out at the hospital passed an hour and a half later.

That is creepy!

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