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...

Im So Happy That I Have Never Seen That Kind Of Stuff Before

:rolleyes: :uhoh3: stay in the field of nursing for more years and I'm sure you'll gonna experience it! Am not a believer of ghost or any scary unseen thing, but when I had my real experience . . . well . . . there goes a different story . . I do put on a brave front infront of my coworkers or sometimes pretend that nothing happends and that I did not hear it . . . but the truth is, i just ignored it. Well, have not encountered ay visual things just more of an audio (I hear it). . .:scrying:

but when we informed her that the patient is already dead when we entered the room, she suddenly jumped out of bed and was actually shaking in one corner of the room.:lol2:

:uhoh21: That is actually pretty sad. I don't find the humor in that. And I like to think I have a good sense of humor.

Ok you are all gonna say that I'm cruel as hell on this one and yea I guess I was. We had this one LPN that was scared of her own shadow but was constantly trying to scare us. The nursing home I worked in on 11-7 I was the nursing supervisor. (I still work there but now Restorative nurse) This home is infamous for being haunted even though it was a new building compared to the old home that a lot of the residents came from. (It had been the county poor house, infirmary, lunatic assylum etc since 1845) Well apparently they brought a few of their "old friends" with them when they came cause believe me there is wierd stuff happening there all the time.

Anyway, as the supervisor you had to go to the basement and check all the doors and make sure they were locked twice a night. Well it was Halloween time and they had an old casket down there for the haunted house they put on for the residents and families. Well I told one of the other nurses about it and she insisted we go down to see it. (I could already see the cogs turning lol) So I took her down and we pulled it down the hall so that it was right in front of the elevator. We got one of the aides to comes down and lay in the coffin and I went up and told this nurse that I had to go to the basement for supplies. (she should have known something was up cause I was the only one that would ever go down there alone). Well it was harder than hell to keep a straight face all the way. When the elevator doors opened, the aide pushed the lid of the coffin open and slowly sat up. I thought that nurse was going to go throught the back of the elevator and they could hear her scream clear upstairs. LOL. Needless to say she never tried to scare anyone else again. But me on the other hand, I'm bad it's just not so easy to do it when I work day shift now. HEHEHE

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Rosie:rotfl: :coollook:

LOL!!!! PRICELESS! I love it. :::making mental note, gotta do something like that someday:::

:uhoh21: That is actually pretty sad. I don't find the humor in that. And I like to think I have a good sense of humor.

:rolleyes: oh! you ought to read the whole story to get the joke. Yeah, I agree, its quite sad. . . but the joke is on the caregiver. . . she was literally sleeping beside a dead body for several hours before she got to know that the patient is dead.!:rolleyes:

:rolleyes: oh! you ought to read the whole story to get the joke. Yeah, I agree, its quite sad. . . but the joke is on the caregiver. . . she was literally sleeping beside a dead body for several hours before she got to know that the patient is dead.!:rolleyes:

I read the entire story and I understood she had been lying beside a dead body for hours. But when the Poster was laughing that the caregiver was in the corner shaking...........I didn't find that funny. And believe me, I have a good sense of humor. But don't find humor in someone else's sadness.

Ok, it's my turn. I've been reading this thread for several days now and am finally to the (current) end. I am a home nurse. Most of my clients are ventilator patients. I have been warned by one family that the house was haunted but nothing ever happened while I was there. The only nursing related ghostly experience I can relay actually happened nearly 17 years ago and I was not the nurse. I'm not even sure she was a nurse, she may have been an aide. So if when you read this story, you recognize it as yours, please let me know. It happened in a hospital in northern Kentucky in April of 1989. Here is the short version:

Postpartum - the room of a young mother and her newborn son - late afternoon. The nurse knocked and opened the door. She could not see the bassinet from the entryway, but could clearly hear the woman talking to the child so she walked into the room. As she got to the corner of the entry, the young mother popped her head out of the bathroom and just about startled the nurse into a heart attack. The nurse appologised and explained that she heard her talking to her child and didn't realize she was in the shower. The mother went on to explain that she was not the one talking to the baby, she thought it was the nurse and was just stepping out of the shower to see who was there. They talked about it for a minute or two and verified that neither one had said a single word until they were face to face and it was definitely another woman who's voice they both heard talking to the baby, who was asleep in the bassinet. The two agreed that the little one had just had a ghostly visitor.

That is all I know of that nurse's experience on the event, so if that was you, let me know.

The rest of the story is just this:

That exact incident was actually the THIRD time I had heard the voice while I was in the shower, but every time I shut off the water and went into the room the voice stopped. So on the third time, I thought I would leave the water running and surprise whomever was talking to my kid. That poor nurse! :eek: She jumped about a foot when I darted around that corner. Well, all of the commotion must have scared the visitor off because after the nurse left I was able to finish my shower and nothing else happened in the hospital.

THEN: The second day we were home from the hospital, I was in the kitchen doing some dishes while the baby slept in his bassinet in the living room. We were alone in the house, and after a while I realized I could hear someone talking to him again, just like in the hospital. So I turned the water off and went into the room only to find my little angel still sleeping, and no voices. Well, on the third time I decided that I needed to leave the water running in order to approach without interrupting. I stood just shy of the doorway and listened to her talking to my son. It was really strange. I could hear her very clearly but couldn't understand anything she was saying (like listening to a grown-up talking in a Peanuts cartoon). I had already decided that it was probably my husband's mother, who died when he was only 10, as all of my relatives were still alive. So after a minute or so I called out her name to get her attention. It worked! :eek: SHE ANSWERED ME! She said "What?".

But that was all. And I never heard her again. :sniff:

liz

p.s. Did anyone else make the running water connection? I thought that was really strange too. A water spirit? Isn't that a sprite?

i agree with you.

I read the entire story and I understood she had been lying beside a dead body for hours. But when the Poster was laughing that the caregiver was in the corner shaking...........I didn't find that funny. And believe me, I have a good sense of humor. But don't find humor in someone else's sadness.

I was saying that I don't find humor in this either.

My scariest is probably a long time ago when I was a cna. I was taking care of this lady and she started screaming "they are behind you" She really believed there was something behind me. She did die later that night. A more pleasant story was when a lady was dying and she kept saying "look at those beatiful white horses" she too died shortly afterwards.

Another time was on my wedding day. My brother had been killed just seven months before in a car accident (he was 19). Anyway, my mother said as she was driving to the church, she was thinking about how she wished that my brother could be there. All of a sudden, the smell of roses filled the car. She said it was so strong, that it was almost overpowering. Then as quickly as it had come, the smell was gone. Maybe he was there, after all.

I know this thread has been going on for a long time, but please keep them coming. I love this kind of thing.

Oh man, this story made my eyes water! I hate when that happens!:wink2:

it happened to my friend during our student period..she was posted in ICU and was on night duty..thr was a diabetic patient complicated with many diseases,who was a regular visitor of our hospital since our 1yr of course..so many of us knws tat person..we have seen the whole period of his life stepping into the miserable state of his health condition..so whn my friend was on duty there was doctor's strict instruction to keep patient NPO...tat night whnte time ws around 11pm(23:00) he askd her to give him some water..bt she ws helpless..and being a student had no right to giv it by herself..so she first said y she cant giv him water..thn thot to wet his lips which could make him happy...bt by the time she was back to the patient he has died..evn nw she is sad of it tat she couldn't giv him te last drop of water...

I went into a patient's room late one night, he was asleep but when I looked at his feet they resembled the hoof of a horse! I almost passed out.:uhoh3: I was the only nurse on the floor at that time. He died soon after that and when I shared my experience later with my other colleague on duty, she told me that his neighbours claimed that he frequently turns into a donkey at night and roams the street! I can still remember his name and picture him clearly lying on the bed as if it were yesterday. Strange, isn't it! :uhoh3:

The best I have heard is from a nurse who said that one night she was floated to oncology at the hospital she used to work at. She was given a patient who was passing away and had been unconscious for several days. At one point during the night the nurse went into the room and the patient was at the top of the bed and looked at her and said, "don't let them take me!", the nurse was freaked out and asked her who was going to take her and she said that black thing up there and pointed up in the air. This patient died within minutes.

Come on now share your stories, I know you have seen and heard freaky things.

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