Freaky? or is it just me...

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Specializes in Intermediate care.

Not really a "funny" story, but it freaks me out everytime it happens...

So about a year ago, i had a patient who was palliative care and did end up passing away. Well, i was assisting a CNA to take the body down to the mourge. We have designated "staff" elevators that are kind of hidden. Families can take them--if they can find them. So they are more used for transportaion of patients instead of using the main elevators (supposed to protect patient privacy). ANYway....so we took these elevators. As we got to the elevator doors, we didnt even push the down button yet. We were just walking toward the elevator doors and BOTH doors "ding" and opened up.

We look at each other "K that was weird" and get in one elevator and continue on our way.

well every since this patient passed away, everytime i get near these elevators "DING" and one, sometimes both, doors open for me. I don't even ever push the button to go up or down.

I'm not a huge believer in "ghosts" but it doesnt happen to anyone else except me and this other CNA. And people think we are crazy....it also only happens when we are alone. So i can't prove it to anyone.

I get freaked out, and resort to taking the family/visitor elevators...bad i know! but really??

Anyone else have something like this?? I dont know what it is, they just give me the creeps now.

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Specializes in LTC.

:thankya: that sounds like a ghost to me, baby!

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Specializes in PERI OPERATIVE.

At our old building this used to happen to some nurses. Just specific nurses, mind you, and usually just the morgue elevator. Creepy.

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Specializes in ICU & ED.

Once on evening shift (pretty early about 2100,) I was walking towards the main elevators from one hall, and a Doctor was too, coming from the opposite hall. As we neared the elevator, the doors on ALL FOUR elevators opened in unison!!!

She looked at me and we both said "Stairs!" We hit the stairwell running! It was so weird, and creepy! Definitely got my heart rate up!

I avoided them from that day on and a few months later that Doctor confided in me that she did too! We both laughed at it… But I never rode them again!

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Specializes in Skilled Nursing/Rehab.

To the OP: this DOES sound "ghostly," but consider this: maybe it is a FRIENDLY ghost. Isn't it nice when someone opens a door for you? Perhaps your patient liked you, appreciated the care you gave, or just wanted to make the job of taking him/her down to the morgue a little easier for you. It would probably be better for him/her to move on, but until then, maybe just smile when he/she opens the door for you! ;)

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

Yeah I'm going to go with Baubo's interpretation. You've simply got a new friend, and that can never really be a bad thing. It would be really cool if he could mess with people like Patrick Swayze with that jerk Carl in the movie Ghost! :)

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Specializes in Intermediate care.

Well glad i'm not losing it and things like this seem to happen to other people... i seriously was like telling myself "this is all in your head Jenni, just ignore it" but its the feeling you get too. It never fails, the doors open in unison (like the other person said). What would really get me to take the stairs is if it took me to the 6th floor, which is where i work. Maybe if i get up the guts sometime i'll just wait to see where it takes me instead of pushing a number right away. :D

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
. . .What would really get me to take the stairs is if it took me to the 6th floor, which is where i work. Maybe if i get up the guts sometime i'll just wait to see where it takes me instead of pushing a number right away. :D

:lol2: Sounds like a perfect idea for an episode of Twilight Zone!

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Specializes in Psychiatrics.

I used to work in an old hospital, and one night I was about ready to clock in, when both of the two elevators opened up, no one was around to push the buttons, and both opened at the exact same time. The elevators tended to do things like this anyways, so I said to the elevator's invisable operator "Thanks, but I still have a few minutes before I can clock in," and the doors closed.

In this hospital, we had nuns wandering the halls, and on the second floor, we heard whistling all through the night, even if nobody was there. For years this "presence," if you will, was called "Chip"....and Chip and the nuns made for an interesting shift some nights.

Oh, how I miss those hospital days.....

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

We have a "crisis" phone -- only used if the switchboard/power goes out, etc. Right after I got to work on the unit, it was explained to me that we have a ghost and the phone will ring, and the more it rings, the worse the night. If you pick it up, there's no sound, no dialtone, no sound like someone's misdialed and are in the process of hanging up. And it will only ring one ring. I kinda blew this off as "okay, they're pulling my leg."

Not.

Usually, we have one ring a night, almost like a "check in" ring. And, one horrible night, when we had 3 patients pass away, that phone rang its solitary ring about 10 times. After the 3rd patient died, the charge nurse unplugged that phone. Had it rung again while unplugged, I was leaving!

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