Ghostly experiences??

zenman · Jan 14, 2004

There's been ghosts at almost every hospital I've worked at. Some stories too long to go into, however in our ED here we have a ghost kid that pulls the sheets down (at foot) of patients while on gurney.

suzanne4, RN · Jan 14, 2004

Cardiac monitors having runs of V-tach suddenly when the bed has been empty for several days---------------------lights going on and off in a room when no one was in the room..................

these happened when I worked in Scottsdale, Arizona long ago

momrn50 · Jan 14, 2004

Little old lady at a LTC facility i worked for, precious little thing, kept telling us her husband was coming after her. He had died about 3 years before. I went to check on her one night and she was looking up at the ceiling with a big smile on her face. I asked her what she was looking at and she said, "It's my John, he's come after me." I looked up and there was a ball of white light hovering above her bed. I looked back down and she was gone, very peacefully, and the light slowly faded away.... also, had a lady who rearranged the chairs in the dining rooms 2 months after she passed away. She had done it everyday when she was alive, and didn't stop after she passed...very comforting in a way and not scary at all.

FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I · Jan 14, 2004

had a similar experience to your own, Erin. I was a new employee working in LTC. I had just left my resident after performing his ADLs, and had gone to take care of another. After I was finished, I reentered my first resident's room to check on him, and I found him dead with his eyes literally bulging they were so wide open, and he had a look of horror on his face. That disturbed me for a very long time. And now many years later, I can still see him.

kc ccurn · Jan 14, 2004

I have chills....

Many years ago we had a patient, 19 years old or so, who was in a car accident and had bad pulmonary contusions. He was on a "jet vent" which is a high frequency vent, rr is about 200/minute, had 6 chest tubes, numerous vasopressors and knocking on deaths door for weeks. I was in his room with the curtain pulled to do his assessment and I felt someone looking over my shoulder watching what I was doing. My back was to the window, NOT the door so I knew no one had come in the room. I mentioned it to a few of my co workers what had happened, they said that they had the same experience in his room.

He actually survived his injuries and we heard afterwards that he told his sister that he would leave his body, fly out the window and go visit his family members at their houses. And he would be in the corner of his room watching the nurses take care of him. :eek:

JenRose · Jan 14, 2004

Hello,

This is my first post to this board. Your subject of ghosts caught my attention. When I was in nursing school, I worked weekends as a companion for the elderly. Late one night while working in the home of a 95 year old woman, I overheard her talking about me in another room of the house. I naturally assumed she was talking on the phone. When I went to check on her, she was not on the phone. She told me her sister wanted to know who I was. Trouble was, her sister had been dead for many years. This was a well-kept old victorian home, with all the rooms still filled with the possessions and furnishings of those who had passed on, as if they were coming home soon. Even before that night, I never felt quite at ease. I would go down to the kitchen around 3 or 4 AM, for coffee, and run back upstairs as fast as I could. After the old woman died, the house was sold several times. No one wanted to live there more than a few years.

Rapheal · Jan 14, 2004

The previous owner of the house I now own died here and laid here three days in the dining room before his body was found. I constantly am subjected to the screen doors locking behind me in the summer when I do yard work. Nothing wrong with the latches. At first I blamed my dog for doing this- until the dog and I were both locked out one day.

The dog occasionally gets all fired up and starts growling at what appears to be nothing. But my daughter and I know it's Tony and I tell him to please be nice to the dog. He has also turned TV's on, faucets on and drops things in the basement. Occasionally my daughter and I can see this black shadow in the upstairs hallway that nobody else but us and the dog can see. It is like a black wall and always stops us in our tracks.

The last house I owned before this was haunted with the best ghosts. Long story but I can tell you that some ghosts are nice, and some are not. I miss the nice ghosts.

ShelleyERgirl, LPN · Jan 14, 2004

Man, you guys gave me the creeps! Especially about the patients you found that looked terrified. I have had my own ghostly experience although it is not patient related. When I was in the Navy stationed in New Orleans, I had a spooky experience. A bunch of us were coming back from a bar in Metarie. We couldn't get in for various reasons so we weren't drinking....yet.....anyway, as we coming back over the bridge, I saw a man in a rumpled,gray dusty suit standing on the edge of the bridge. As I watched to see what exactly he was going to do, he vanished into thin air! I remember asking my friends if anybody else saw what I saw, and of course no one had. I remember wondering if he was a suicide ghost which he probably was, who knows?

:eek:

mittels · Jan 14, 2004

Originally posted by momrn50
Little old lady at a LTC facility i worked for, precious little thing, kept telling us her husband was coming after her. He had died about 3 years before. I went to check on her one night and she was looking up at the ceiling with a big smile on her face. I asked her what she was looking at and she said, "It's my John, he's come after me." I looked up and there was a ball of white light hovering above her bed. I looked back down and she was gone, very peacefully, and the light slowly faded away.... also, had a lady who rearranged the chairs in the dining rooms 2 months after she passed away. She had done it everyday when she was alive, and didn't stop after she passed...very comforting in a way and not scary at all.

Just thought I would mention: Pt's who are nearing death see their loved ones (who have already died) and other figures not seen by those taking care of them. I have cared for many pt's near death in hospice and experience them telling me these stories. I whole heartedly believe them.

When I worked at a hospital, there was a room that was picked for the terminally ill. The hospitals reconstruction on the floor stirred up alot of odd feelings in the corner where the room used to be and now is a ns station. Sudden cold brisky winds would be felt by everyone. Things lost when not more than a minute placed on the counter. Least to say, not many nurses challanged to sit back there during noc shift.

greeneggsnham · Jan 14, 2004

One night in the med room of the LTC facility where I used to work, I felt a cool draft and felt a presence behind me and as goosed in the rear end. No one else was in the room with me. A resident had recently died and had a habit of goosing the rear ends of some of the staff for fun.

I was a teenager and living at home the first time I saw a ghost. I was typing a paper for school and hte hair on my neck went up and I got a chill. I turned to see my grandmother putting away laundry. She'd been gone only a few months and had lived with us at one time. Guess she was still taking care of the family in a way.

barefootlady, ADN, RN · Jan 14, 2004

When I was working my first job, I had a lady who was scheduled for a routine hystie, she knew she had a benign tumor about the size of a cantalope, she knew it had to be removed, it had grown to this size in 3 months. As I was doing the preop prep that evening, she started crying, I spoke to her, she said her mother had visited her earlier and told her not to have the surgery the next day. I could not calm her down, so I called her daughter, her daughter said her grandmother had died 5 years before. When I spoke with the patient, she said yes, but she knew her mother was giving her a warning. I called the doctor, he got mad because it was late, told me to sedate her after her prep was finished. I offered the patient the sedative after she finished with her last enema result, she refused and stated she had writing to do. The next morning , the gourney would not steer easily into the room, finally when she walked to the gourney, it was difficult to steer down the hall. When the elevator doors opened, the gourney would not be pushed onto it. It took 6 people to get that gourney onto the elevator. For some reason the patient asked me to ride to the surgery unit with her, I did, I told her she could refuse, she said "no, I am ready." Just one hour into the surgery, her heart stopped. She could not be revived and they tried. Day shift stated daughter went blastic and started screaming " staff killed her mother." I was talked to by the doctor, the HN, and the administrator. Told then exactly what happened, then they told me writing patient did was her will and a letter. She said she knew she was going to die, took care of all of her bequests, remembered friends, and lastly thanked me for being kind and not dismissing her statement. I learned then, when a patient makes this kind of statement, treat it very seriously. I have called many a doctor since then, told them of patient's feeling of unease, and requested they come and talk to patient, some doctor's do this and some don't. But I NEVER ignore a statement like this.

I have lots more of these stories, but you always remember the first incident best.