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...

Ok I have one I work 1900-0700 there is apart when the floors are full we move patients from the ER back there until their rooms become available. We very rarely use this area. Well one night we had to open it and I was stuck back there. I had 4 patients and placed them in rooms with doors and in the back so they would not be disturbed. The room right across from the nursing station the code blue button went off. Now the alarm doesn't sound really loud in the area but in the ER there are flashing lights in the ceiling and sirens. Out of nowhere I have 20 people busting in to help me with this code, and I am reading a book. MY point is there was NO ONE in that room, NO ONE near that bed. A few hours later it happened again to me. The siren never goes off if there is nobody back there but if there are patients its crazy.

I just quit being an airline pilot to purse my dreams of being a nurse. Anyway, my crew and I were walking down a jet bridge to the airplane, and we walked past a family that had just gotten off the plane. The mother was putting a baby in a stroller, the father was standing behind her, and their young son (about 6 years old) was standing right behind the father, doing a little dance. As we start to walk by this family, the son jumped across the jet bridge right in front of me and the other pilot. Then, in an instant, the son disappeared. I stopped dead in my tracks, and watched the family as the mother finished strapping the baby in, and the walked up the jet bridge to the terminal. I looked carefully, but there was absolutely no boy with them. I looked around inside of the airplane to see if the boy was in there, but he wasn't. I asked the other pilot if he had seen the boy, but he hadn't. I was the only one who saw him, but he was plain as day to me. I could tell exactly what he looked like, what he was wearing, and in an instant, he was gone. I truly believe that this was a son that had passed away, but continued to hang out with the family. This happened to me about 2 years ago.

Specializes in neuro, med/surg/, cardiac care.

More of a grim reaper story than ghost, but we were doing rounds one night and in a four bed room one of the fellows was awake and he said who's the guy with you tonight in the black coat? Being a neuro floor we thought maybe a little cuckoo but he was a with it patient and supposed to go home the following day . We all laughed and went on with the rounds. The next round we found him arrested. Hmm.... man in black, sudden death? Definately a twilight zone moment. He did not make it.

ok, here goes my exprience.

about 10 years ago, i worked in surgery. we had a gentleman for a procedure that would have required general anesthesia, but the surgeon and anesthelogist decided -due to the patients poor health condition, the minor surgery would be perform under local with xylocaine. the procedure was underway when the patient started yelling and fighting due to pain. i put my hand on the patients shoulder and said a silent prayer for god to send his angels to watch over the patient and help him tolerate the procedure. at that point the surgeon decided to give the patient ketamine (dissociative anesthetic). the patient rapidly calmed down and took a nap for the rest of the procedure (about 30 more minutes). after the procedure, when the patient was waking, he looked around in the room (not at the staff) and stated "i see angels" i will never forget the the strange feeling i had at that time. i didn't see angels but the patient did!

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
you all have nothing to worry about, ghosts are entirely made up in the mind. think about it, it almost always happens at night or when you are by yourself, and it goes against every physics law we know. all the people who have seen ghosts, yet there is absolutley no proof, it makes for good entertainment though and i'm not trying to spoil that.... i love ghost stories myself, but some people are mentioning they are frightened while reading these posts, and there just isn't anything to worry about.

i've had as many "ghostly experiences" during the daytime as i have at night! and i'm not always alone, either. if you don't believe in ghosts, that's fine. but some of us do!

Specializes in med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.

I have seen a good many things in the hospital during my 6 years as a nurse. Most memorable was one night in the ICU when I was working by myself, with one patient and his wife in bed 6. Bed 3's call light would come on, i would turn it off, the light in the room would turn on, I would turn it off, the the TV came on and would keep coming on until I put the remote at the foot of the bed where i could see it from the desk. Finally, I had had it and walked into room 3 and said, "Look, it's been fun, but i have work to do. Please leave me alone." I got back around the desk and looked up just in time to see someTHING claw its way up the inside of the bed curtain. I screamed, the patient's wife screamed (she had come out to see who i was talking to), and the security guard nearly tore the door down trying to get to us. My dh was never a believer, until one night I woke up right before he smacked the bed. i thought I was dreaming at first, but something literally picked him up and slammed him back down. He has never since poo-poohed my being a believer.

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.

Yesterday I was laying on my bed with my purring sleepy cat and started thinking about some Ghosthunters episodes and similar shows. All of a sudden my cat meowed, quit purring, and jumped up on a bedside table. He was staring wildly at something, and then he would turn his head and stare again. This went on for at least 5 minutes, it seemed. :uhoh21:

I know exactly what your talking about. I've worked security at 2 different hospitals. I've had my fair share of experiences. I'm the only one here today (small surgical hospital) and I completely feel watched here all the time. I'm about to get up and close the door behind me that looks out into PACU because several things have happened out there that has made the hair on the back of my neck stand up and I feel like I'm being watched right now.

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k heres another..

this story was told to me by my friend jone.

jone and i live in the small town of chippewa falls, wisconsin. it is located about 90 miles east of the twin cities. one evening, jone drove to minneapolis to pick up her daughter who was attending school there. on the return trip jone let her daughter drive and they both conversed about school and other events in their lives. it was approximately 10:00 at night and small pockets of fog banks began to develop on the highway. jone turned from looking at her daughter and yelled at her to slow down and avoid what looked to be a motorcyclist. she recalled seeing a leather jacket and various details of the bike. but she vividly remembers how the headlights reflected off the chrome of the bike yet it went through it at the same time. the motorcyclist was in front of their vehicle for about five seconds and then drove off into the ditch. jone's daughter pulled over to the side of the road and the both looked at each other and verified what they both had witnessed. spooked out of their minds they sped for home. they were traveling on highway 29 which links i94 to green bay. currently hy29 is being expanded to a four lane highway due to the many fatal accidents that have occured in the past.

When I first left home and went to college for the first go round... I was awakened at 0300 b/c I heard our grandmother clock dinging and donging. Thing is- I was in a dorm room about 300 miles away from the clock in my parents house. No biggie, maybe I was just home sick I think. So my mom calls me the next morning and tells me my grandma had unexpectedly died in her sleep at 0300. omg. So then she proceeds to tell me, through tears, that she was awakened by my grandma at her bedside at that very time and was talking to her- telling her she was okay and that my mom would be too, love ya and all that stuff. I told her how I had awakened also and we both had chills all over, but in a good way.

Specializes in Med-Surg/Peds/O.R./Legal/cardiology.

I live in a 108 yr-old restored home in the south. A couple of days ago, I was sitting in the family room in a recliner reading. All of a sudden, a flower arrangement in the foyer fell off a perfectly level marble top table and crashed into a hundred pieces! I was the only one home (I thought!) The arrangement was in the very center of the table and there is NO WAY it could have just fallen off! About 5 minutes later, the light in the same foyer started to flicker and went out. I got up to go look, thinking the bulb had blown. It hadn't...The switch was turned off!!! I have also seen "butt prints" on my beds upstairs. I asked my husband if he had been sitting on the beds (I didn't care if he was) and he said "no". He came to look and was amazed too. Perfectly formed butt prints like someone had just gotten up from the beds! I don't know--we've been here 5 yrs. and I ignored some stuff earlier thinking I was imagining things. NO MORE! I'm getting freaked out!!! :uhoh21:

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I have had many personal experiences.

This last week. I woke at 6am. To someone sitting on the side of my bed. It was very dark. I have my room darkened to keep out any light.

I thought it was my sister. I heard a crinkling sound of my bedspread. Like someone was shifting their weight. I kept real still as this was happening.

I then reached out, to see if it was my sister. And, no one was there. So I turned on the light. No one in the room.

This is not the first time this has happened to me. I was very awake.

Not sure who was visiting.

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