What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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TheGooch

775 Posts

My sister lives in a NH-it's old. It the Union Printers Home in Colorado Springs. Anyway, she says there are 2 ladies in white that roam the building-one on the basement floor and one on the 4th floor.

Not exactly a ghost story, but sort of in the same vein as some of the stories about souls or spirits leaving the body.

An older nurse told me that when she was in the hospital years ago, actually dying from an infection that had been complicated by her hard-to-control diabetes, she realized that she could see herself lying in the bed.

She said that she thought, "Poor Jo. She's had such a hard life, but now she looks so peaceful."

She felt so light & happy, drifting toward the open window; she knew she was about to be free.

Just as she got to the window, she thought to herself, "Is there anything I still need to do?", & she heard the answer "Roseanne (her daughter) still needs you".

Pop!

She was back in her body.

turns out, Roseanne's father, Jo's ex, had abused Roseanne, & Roseanne did indeed need her mother.

rynzoRN

14 Posts

Specializes in Psych, TRT..
Ruby Vee said:
I think the thread is about "Your Best Nursing Ghost Story," and not about your beliefs re: the paranormal.

It doesn't matter, ghost stories ARE paranormal, they are outside of the realm of science, they cannot be predicted, measured etc..

You are going to get many different theories on what this stuff is, if someone makes a theory that is against yours, who cares, no one knows for sure what this stuff is, to see you guys hammer this girl because she thinks some of this might be demonic is ridiculous. Like I said, if you disagree with her, ignore her and move on.

rynzoRN

14 Posts

Specializes in Psych, TRT..

Had a tech report to me that she was sitting one to one with a patient and she felt like something was watching her. She though the patient was awake. She looked over and the patient was gone and sitting on his bed was a woman with long dark hair dressed in red with no eyes and her mouth open looking at her.

pookyp, LPN

1,074 Posts

rynzoRN said:
Had a tech report to me that she was sitting one to one with a patient and she felt like something was watching her. She though the patient was awake. She looked over and the patient was gone and sitting on his bed was a woman with long dark hair dressed in red with no eyes and her mouth open looking at her.

I'm a hospice nurse and at work right now. Ok now this scared me. *looks over at my pt to make sure she's alive*

Postpartum RN

253 Posts

Specializes in Postpartum, Med Surg, Home Health.
rynzoRN said:
Had a tech report to me that she was sitting one to one with a patient and she felt like something was watching her. She though the patient was awake. She looked over and the patient was gone and sitting on his bed was a woman with long dark hair dressed in red with no eyes and her mouth open looking at her.

Argh thank you now I lay here and will not be able to sleep

DocWorkaday

15 Posts

rynzoRN said:
Had a tech report to me that she was sitting one to one with a patient and she felt like something was watching her. She though the patient was awake. She looked over and the patient was gone and sitting on his bed was a woman with long dark hair dressed in red with no eyes and her mouth open looking at her.

In my studies of paranormal phenomena, one of the hallmarks of demonic or malevolent manifestations is that the apparitions are often incomplete. The are "missing" eyes or some other part of the body, as if they are unable to completely form a human apparition.

Your story makes me think that apparition may have been there to take that poor person's soul to "you know where."

CFitzRN, ADN

385 Posts

Specializes in L&D; GI; Fam Med; Home H; Case mgmt.

I'm pretty sure I posted this somewhere in this thread, but in case it was missed, I believe I encountered a patient that was, at the very least, influenced by a demonic entity or possessed. As a nursing student doing one of my first clinicals (I think it actually was my first if I recall correctly), I showed up at the step-down unit and the nurse employees giggled when I got there. I asked what was funny, and the charge nurse said "oh, your assigned patient is interesting" or something to that effect. I looked at his chart and he was described as having borderline personality disorder. I was actually a little intrigued, as psych nursing was something I'd been interested in, although he wasn't admitted for that. Upon entering his room, he looked at me, narrowed his eyes, and said "oh, you're Catholic..." From my limited understanding of demons, they react most negatively to Catholic clergy and laity. I smiled at him and said "yes I am. How did you know that?" He claimed it was due to the cross necklace I had - which makes no sense because I don't wear a classic crucifix - I wear a Celtic cross. I could have been any Christian denomination. That was an interesting day, to say the least. He continued to make comments about me that he couldn't possibly have known. I made it through fairly unscathed though, I'm glad to say, and didn't have him as a patient again.

Atlas15

3 Posts

Thank you to everyone for sharing your various experiences. It has been enriching to read through each of them.

I would like to share a story that doesn't fit the "ghost story" category, but will fit in to the spiritual theme this thread has also adopted.

I apologize that I cannot quite keep up with all of the medical knowledge/terminology most of this community is well-versed in. I am very new to the medical field...

(thank you for your patience and understanding) :shy:

One of my very best friends growing up had a sister born with Cerebral Palsy. She was severely disabled physically and mentally, completely dependent on her caregiver. She could not speak, but could laugh. My friend lived in a very old country home that had been added onto. Her room was one of the add-ons, and you had to walk through her sister's room to get to it. Most days, her sister would sleep in like any other teenager (she was several years older than us). However, without fail, any time I stayed over on a Saturday night, my friend and I would be woken up bright and early on Sunday morning from her sister in the next room laughing hysterically. Her sister would seemingly trace things with her eyes across her ceiling from her electric bed, and would simply be elated and amused by whatever she was "seeing(?)" every single Sunday morning. Her family, being religious, simply chalked it up to, "Angels visit her on Sunday". I, growing up in a non-religious setting (not Atheist, just not practicing any religion), was intrigued by this explanation. How exceptional that a person whom you may figure has a low quality of life was potentially aware of a realm in which the able-bodied may never fully experience... :saint:

AspiringNurseMW

1 Article; 942 Posts

Really mild story, but I was doing my clinical rotation on the general med surg floor of a local hospital. Apparently one wing has a lot of stories. This happened before I knew about those stories...

I was priming IV tubing for a piggyback over the sink in my patient's room. Her nurse and husband were also in the room. All of a sudden we hear water running. Confused, the nurse looks at me but sees I'm not using the sink. She asks the patient and her husband if they have a guest in their bathroom to which they say no. I go in the bathroom and the shower is running, with no one having been in there. I reach for the handle to see if I can turn off the water, but just before I touch it, it turned off by itself!! Totally weirded us out, even the patient.

When we get to the nurses station and tell the charge nurse, I learned it's very common for that room and a few rooms around it to be subject of paranormal activities like that.

Maria425

10 Posts

I've seen the black shadow thing before too!! Always with dying patients. This one lady kept de-satting in her sleep suddenly and every time the alarm went off that shadow thing was there.

Specializes in Med Surg, ICU, Infection, Home Health, and LTC.

I have several but will share this one. Our security system has video cameras all over our hospital and the 2 office building attached to our hospital. The guard was a friend of mine back in the day when we could take smoke breaks and she came and got me one day and said I "had" to go with her to see what the camera had taped during the night. The video was playing and then you see in this empty hallway the perfect outline of a young woman in a long floor length night gown holding a baby in her arms and she walks out of one wall, across the hallway and into the other wall. We freeze frame the picture and there the outline is, looking all like a cloud or mist. You can see it is a lady with a baby. She doesn't really freak us out, she has a comforting feel about her. Come to find out back when our facility did deliver babies it was in that office building according to some of the old timers. They said there was a young mother whose baby was stillborn and there were complications and she died the next day. They didn't let the momma's see their dead babies back then and she cried and cried. It was rumored she could be seen in the hallway of the old baby wing searching for her baby and you would hear crying and then it would stop when she found her baby and she would hold him and seem to rock him in her arms and walk off humming to him. I have the still photo somewhere on disc. There were other pictures that showed up like that with a snap shot and someone standing in the background that was not really physically present.

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