Ghostly experiences??

Mandarella · May 21, 2004

At a hospital on the other side of town from us a crotchety old woman kept coding and she was the type that EVERYONE knew and dreaded taking care of. Well one night she came into the ER as a code I guess and they worked on her for 45 minutes and called it. Everyone left the room to go about the routine and the Respiratory Therapist was still in there getting her things together when Mrs. Happy let out a yell.."Is someone gonna come in here and help me?!?" Poor Deb passed out and cracked her head. That is a classic.

Haven't seen any ghosts.....but when a terminally ill patient is dying in the ICU where I work, the nurses place the pt on their left side and open the window. This is to let their soul fly out. Does anybody else do this or is just superstitious WV nurses?
Did have the bejezzus scared out of me once though. Had a brain dead MVA pt who actually had her skull separated from her spinal column and was still "alive". The docs were shocked becuz this is mostly seen on post-mortem only. Family was gathered at the bedside when the pt raised her arms up simultaneously, wiggled her legs and let out a huge sigh!!! Of course, the poor family thought she was "back" but the other nurse and I knew it was reflexes but it sure was spooky!!

Dixiecup · May 21, 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.

that.s eerie because we have a ghost kid at our ER too

nurturing_angel · May 21, 2004

I got a job once in a older hospital and heard the nurses talking about one of the pt rooms at the end of the hall that seemed to be haunted. Apparently the call light would come on numerous times when no pts were in that room. The door would open and close by itself, and the curtain between the beds would be suddenly jerked one way of the other. One nurse told me that she was in there attending to a woman in bed A and had pulled the curtain around her. No pt was in bed B. She told me that all of a sudden the curtain was jerked opened but no one was there. She said when she started to pull the curtain back again, she felt a sharp slap on her wrist and hand. The pt even said she heard the slap. Both the pt and the nurse left the room and did not return.

Months later, I was very busy and and ran down the hall to the linen closet on the end opposite this room. This hall was not being used for pts at that time. I leaned into the closet and grabbed a handful of towels and as I whirled around to run back down the hall the door across the hall suddenly opened and I saw a little wrinkled white face peering around it. She had disheleved gray hair and a white gown on and appeared to be floating ever so gently just off the floor. I stopped dead in my tracks as I felt a cool breeze blow past me. She just smiled at me and floated back into the room. I wasted no time getting back down the hall and grabbed a co worker to tell. When I told them where I had seen "my ghost" they all just smiled and said, "Oh thats Emily. She won't hurt you. Lots of people have seen her down there just rocking in her rocking chair." They said she is one of the friendlier ghosts and was always very "social"!

shrek · May 21, 2004

I worked at a state prison for 2 years.I could tell you some really scary stories about night shift and empty death row cells.........

Well...were waiting. :rolleyes:

tylerlvn · May 21, 2004

I love these stories! Keep 'em coming!

BabyRN2Be · May 21, 2004

I think that someone has to compile these into a book, if this hasn't already been done. Send the royalties to me if this hasn't been done.

Actually this would make a great long term TV show. After all, the Travel Channel has their "Haunted Hotels" program. Discovery Health should follow up with a "Haunted Hospitals" show. Like I said earlier, only if this already hasn't been done.

Stitchie · May 21, 2004

My best friend's mom died a few months ago from COPD. She had been sick on and off for about 5 years and was really, really ready to join her 'one true love', her husband John, who died about 18 years ago.

My friend's mom was very special to me; she is the first person I went to after my own mom died.

I was napping one ugly Sunday afternoon in March when I had a dream about my friend's mom. She smiled and said 'I know you'll take care of my girl' and told me that she felt so much better now, that my mom was with her and they'll look after us together.

10 minutes later my friend called me and told me her mom had died at home.

cmaffett · May 21, 2004

My and my fiance had 4 girls between us and found out we were pregnant again, but with a boy. FYI; both my parents are alive, both of his parents are deceased, mother of liver failure and father died in a car accident. So finally I gave birth to a 10pd baby boy. I got two balloons that said baby boy on them and one had a pictue of a cartoon like baby. This balloon where in our room with the crib. For 6 weeks this one balloon stayed in the exact same spot. One night I woke up to a strange noise. I saw the balloon dancing up and down and spinning around. At first I was scared but then I started to talk to it. I asked it if it was his(my fiances) mom to go up and if it was his(my fiances) dad to go down, the balloon just keep moving on. So I turned over and went back to sleep. I woke up at about 5am and the balloon had traveled over our bed and to the window where we had the flag that was on his dad's coffin (he was military) hanging up, it was like pinned up against the flag. I automatically thought, Oh your his dad. So we woke up alittle while later and the balloon had sunk to the floo. We went about our day as usual. When my husband came home I was explaining the whole thing to him, when I got off the couch to point into the bedroom the balloon was moving up across the bed and coming right toward me at the door. I screamed and my fiance got up to look and the balloon hoovered in the doorway for at least 1 minute then went up over the door and stuck to the wall. On the other side of that wall was his dad's picture!!! TRUE STORY. Scariest but most peaceful thing I have ever been through. :stone

ejpetey · May 22, 2004

My grandfather was in the hospital dying of colon cancer.. he was on morphine and not really lucid most of the time. One day my dad and aunt and I were in the room, and all of a sudden he called us all over to his bed and wanted us all to hold hands, including the nurse that happened to be in the room. He had never really expressed his feelings much or been very emotional, but he proceeded to tell us how much he loved us all and how much he appreciated us being there for him, and that it was his time to go now, and he loved us... and it was his time to go.. he closed his eyes, and stopped breathing.. for at least a minute. We all were just looking at eachother in shock. Then all of a sudden he opens his eyes again, sighs, and says "Well, there seems to be a slight scheduling problem."

We all did this nervous/relieved half-laugh, but we laugh about it today. He died a couple days later.

Stitchie · May 22, 2004

My grandfather was in the hospital dying of colon cancer.. he was on morphine and not really lucid most of the time. One day my dad and aunt and I were in the room, and all of a sudden he called us all over to his bed and wanted us all to hold hands, including the nurse that happened to be in the room. He had never really expressed his feelings much or been very emotional, but he proceeded to tell us how much he loved us all and how much he appreciated us being there for him, and that it was his time to go now, and he loved us... and it was his time to go.. he closed his eyes, and stopped breathing.. for at least a minute. We all were just looking at eachother in shock. Then all of a sudden he opens his eyes again, sighs, and says "Well, there seems to be a slight scheduling problem."
We all did this nervous/relieved half-laugh, but we laugh about it today. He died a couple days later.

You must miss him. It seems he had a dry, wonderful sense of humor, and certainly didn't take himself too seriously. What a lovely man. :)

Heartsofangels · Jan 6, 2005

When I worked in the nursing home, we had a main floor with 60 patients on it, and a subacute unit, which was in the basement near the kitchen, and laundry room that held 10 patients on vents. I used to fill in on 3rd shift sometimes and if our unit was low on patients, I would be alone down there since the CNA was needed on the main floor. I remember sitting at the nurses station facing the patient rooms. I would be looking down charting. I remember seeing a flash of something dark go by me a few times, but when I looked up there was no one there. I also used to hear footsteps a lot but one particular night I was again at the nurses station and I was expecting the CNA to be on her way to help me when I heard footsteps and I thought it was her. I waited a few seconds then got up and looked and no one was there! Another time I heard footsteps in a different area than the first time. It is really spooky down there when you are alone at night. You could be with a patient and hear footsteps and go out into the hallway and no one is there.

DR2004RN · Jan 6, 2005

I used to work at an LTC when I was a CNA. I worked there for 8 years and did post-mortem care many many times. All of the residents I took care of (post-mortem) looked very peaceful as though they were sleeping. However, one woman scared the beejeses out of me! She had a look of utter terror on her face. Her mouth was open as though she had gasped at the sight of what she saw. She was the only person that I refused to do post-mortem care on. She scared me sooo bad. Also I agree that those who are about to pass on see their deceased loved ones. We had sweet old lady who was very ill and she talked of a black horse and a chariot that was waiting outside to pick her up. She also began to speak of her dead husband coming for her. Sure enough a couple of days later she died.