Freaky Things

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So, am watching tv with the hubby. We are watching some ghost hunting show which he totally loves. I think it's poo poo. My arguement, "if places where people die are so haunted, wouldn't I always get spooked @ work. We don't have any ghosts or anything like that." He says we do, but we are just too busy to notice. Anyway, I think it would be fun if everyone told a freaky story. Surely everyone has a freaky death story, right? You know, the story everyone loves to tell. Here's mine. A few years ago a pt came in and she was really sick....near code sick. One of the md's was at the foot of her bed giving verbal orders. The pt begins moving her hand in this shooing motion. The nurse asked her what was wrong, what was she doing? The pt says, "get him out of here. make him leave!" The nurse said, "that's the dr, honey, he's trying to help you." The pt said, "no, not him! That man next to him, please, make him leave, he's scaring me!" (there was no one else there.) Seconds later, the pt coded. (insert scary music here)

Specializes in PICU.

Mine isn't a ghost story, but it was pretty freaky nonetheless.

Quite a few years ago, we had a teen who had taken a large number of cold tablets to get high, came in extremely belligerant and they ended up having to do 4 pt restraints on him. We had an ugly incident, they let him loose, he freaked again and it was a nasty takedown with security pinning him to the bed. He was yelling at them and all of a sudden his voice drops 3 octaves to this very low, scary tone and he started saying, "YOU CAN'T HURT ME."

Soooo scary, I swear I was praying for the blood of Jesus to protect me. It sounded like something from a horror movie but I really don't think he was playing.

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What's creepy about our place is that once in awhile you will hear a door slam close. But no one else is around when people hear that. You don't see the doors move or anything, it's really really creepy.

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Okay, I have my freaky story.

She offered poop balls to surveyers as chocolates :yeah::yeah::yeah:

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Specializes in LTC/hospital, home health (VNA).

Worked at a LTC facility shortly after getting out of school. Had a long time patient that was actively dying. Had just checked on her and knew that it would be soon. Went out to nurses station to do some charting. Hear a loud crash and sound of breaking glass coming from the area I had just been. Went to patient's room and she had passed....and her picture of Jesus had fallen off the wall and shattered. Freaky...I definitely grabbed some of the aides...I was not being in there alone!

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Specializes in LTC.

I was taking care of a lady with Alzheimer's who barely spoke anymore, and when she did, it was usually random syllables, not words. I hadn't heard her utter a full sentence in months. Well I was giving her a bath on the commode and I had my back to the door, and all of a sudden she looked over my shoulder, her eyes got huge, and she said, "Don't turn around" clear as day. This was in her home and we were the only ones there.

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My mother in law was in hospice care and one night while she was sleeping, my husband was with her in the room. She starting saying, "What's going to happen? How many people are going to die? Oh my gosh, No!" She never woke up and died the next morning. Two days later, I was getting ready for the funeral home and could news flashes about 9/11. My nephew lived in D.C. and was scheduled for a meeting at the pentagon that morning, but instead he was at the funeral home. I don't know who she was talking with, but believe they told her something.

Shortly after that, my 3 1/2 yr old was playing in her room and I could her laughing and talking. I'd ask who she was talking with, and she would say Grandma. It freak me out because she didn't know she had died! It happened occasionally for about a year.

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Specializes in Trauma, Tele, Neuro, Med-Surg.

During nursing school, I worked as a student/tech/aide on an inpatient hospice unit. This was my 2nd career, I was a grown adult, and the things that spooked most people on a hospice floor didn't usually phase me. One day I was caring for a patient who had not made a sound or twitched a muscle in days, and it had already floored the medical staff why she was breathing on her own at all. Anyway, I was in her room giving her morning care, all alone, when suddenly she began this moaning...it sounded like the kind of moan a person would make if they had a sheet over their head and were pretending to be a ghost! It did not appear to be in response to anything I was doing to her, in fact, the bath was done, and I was just cleaning up the room and tidying her covers. I went out and told the 2 nurses I was working with that I was not going back in there alone because she was freaking me out! She died later that night without another sound.

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Specializes in Emergency.
I was taking care of a lady with Alzheimer's who barely spoke anymore, and when she did, it was usually random syllables, not words. I hadn't heard her utter a full sentence in months. Well I was giving her a bath on the commode and I had my back to the door, and all of a sudden she looked over my shoulder, her eyes got huge, and she said, "Don't turn around" clear as day. This was in her home and we were the only ones there.

Well? Did you turn around? I would have HAD to!!

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Specializes in ED.

I was in the trauma room helping to get ready for a code coming in, I was making sure we had all the proper paperwork out all all. I felt a hand on my shoulder just touch me gently. So I asked anyone if they had had a similar experience and everyone just said well sure.

Have had other experiences but not in a health care setting.

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I was taking care of a lady with Alzheimer's who barely spoke anymore, and when she did, it was usually random syllables, not words. I hadn't heard her utter a full sentence in months. Well I was giving her a bath on the commode and I had my back to the door, and all of a sudden she looked over my shoulder, her eyes got huge, and she said, "Don't turn around" clear as day. This was in her home and we were the only ones there.

Ooooho-ho-ho!

Man!

I tell ya, it's those little things that get me.

I would have had every hair standing on my body.

I told a story on the "best ghost story" thread:

"I was putting "Edna" to bed one night. She did have dementia and was also veeeerrrry paranoid.

Anyway, I had her wheelchair by her bed and was getting ready to put her in when she yells, "Honeeee! There's a man under the bed!"

So I, all ready to reassure her, kneel down, swipe my hand around under the bed and say, "See, Edna, there's no one there!"

Edna screamed and goes, "Look out! Look out! He's evil... and he's looking right back at you!"

Of course, I'm down there on the floor with my hand under the bed and she's telling me this.

It gave me the heebie jeebies and, like a kid afraid of monsters under the bed, I was waiting for someone to grab my ankles the whole rest of the time I was putting her to bed!"

I think your story is creepier though!!

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Well? Did you turn around? I would have HAD to!!

Yes, but at first I kept asking her "what? did you see something? why did you tell me that?" but she didn't answer. So I turned around and nothing was there.

Before she died there was a red bird that always flung itself against the window, trying to get in. All day long. Every day. The same bird. It was relentless. I mentioned it to my mother and she said she always heard that happens when someone's going to die.

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Specializes in tele, oncology.

We had a patient not long ago who was scheduled to be d/c'd back to his SNF the next day. He told his family members all day and all night not to bother b/c he was going to die. The nurse the next day was getting him ready to leave b/c the ambulance was supposed to be there shortly when he looked right at her, said "I told you all I was going to die today" and fell backwards, dead, in the bed.

I started out in geropsych on a very small eight bed unit. The way it was laid out was that on one side of the hall were the patient rooms, with the utility room and the shower room at the end, and the day room, nurses station, and manager's office on the other side of the hall. Being psych, we had the old-fashioned bells that you ding (like you see sometimes at hotel reception desks at night). We always had to have two nurses on, even if there was just one patient, for safety reasons.

We had one night where it myself and Joyce, an older woman from Georgia, working. We only had one patient, a very pleasant but confused woman who I'll call Jane. We got her tucked into bed for the night and went into the day room to do our paperwork and while away the time. I heard a call bell dinging, so got up to go check on Jane, who was sound asleep. I was a little puzzled but brushed it off b/c Joyce had not heard a bell, I figured I had just misheard some other noise. Then it happened again...Jane was still sleeping. Given the fact that Jane was too confused to use the call bell at any rate, and we could see the end of her bed and her feet and legs from the doorway, I took the bell out of her room. Then it happened again, but this time Joyce heard it and I didn't. This happened a few more times, and we finally went from empty room to empty room and collected up all of the call bells and put them in a box in the day room with us. By this time, we were both feeling a little frightened and foolish at the same time.

Then we started hearing furniture move around in a room down the hall. Keep in mind, being psych, it was a locked unit and only the two of us had keys; even the night supervisor had to be buzzed in. I bravely (okay, not really, I was practically shaking) went from room to room and locked the doors to all the empty rooms, checking to see if any furniture was displaced; none was.

At this point, we ended up standing in the hall right outside Jane's room. We were trying to talk ourselves into the fact that we were just overreacting and being silly. The night supervisior came by at that point, and we buzzed her in, told her what was going on, nervously laughed about it, and all three of us went to sit in the day room.

Suddenly we heard a horrendous crash coming from the directon of the utility room and shower room...all three of us jumped up and ran down there, and flung open the doors. I figured, as they probably did, that a stack of commodes had fallen over or something similar. Nothing was out of order though!

The rest of that night, until dawn, we kept hearing noises. Nothing like that ever happened again, and I have no explanation for what we did experience. I was just glad that there were other witnesses, b/c it sounds so crazy!

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