Ghostly experiences??

sprtbikegrlsv65 · Jan 14, 2004

this didn't happen to me, it happend to my mom. it was about a year after my grandfather died. Mom had taken it really hard. she said that she woke up suddenly to see him sitting at the foot of her bed. it took her a minute to realize what he was saying. he told her that he loved her, and to stop hurting...then he looked out into the hallway where my room was, and said to my mom to hurry and check on me, that something was wrong. then he vanished. mom jumped out of bed and ran into my room. i was having trouble breathing. she called 911 and got me to the hospital. i was not ill the night before, so there would have been no reason for her to check on me. sometimes i like to think that grandpa is always just out of sight watching over me!

babynurselsa, RN · Jan 14, 2004

https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12142

try this thread that I started a while back there are some great stories here.

kc ccurn · Jan 15, 2004

When my husband and I first started dating I always felt uncomfortable at his townhouse, there just was something that wasn't right but I couldn't put my finger on it. I always figured that it was because that was the house he shared with his previous wife, etc. Until I found out that his mom had died in that townhouse, in his room. We're very happily married but that God I didn't spend much time at his old townhouse-too creepy.

At work one day we responded to a code on the medical floor, a 32 yr old guy in with pancreatitis secondary to alcohol that was unresponsive. The doors to the rooms are arranged like 4 corners to a square. We were coding this guy on the floor in the doorway. Unfortunately, the gal across the hall had a prime seat to watch the action. We were able to get a pulse back and transfer him to ICU where he died the next day. Our hospital chaplain followed up with me and we were discussing how unfortunate it was for the patient across the hall to have seen us cor the patient. The chaplain told me that the patient wasn't as upset as watching us cor the 32 yr old, as she was seeing him standing behind us as we did CPR on him.

Another short one: I was taking care of a stable elderly man in the unit. I had taken care of him for a couple of days so I was familiar with his neuro status. One day mid shift he started getting anxious and confused, talking to someone in the corner of his room. No amount of reassuance was helping. Then he started telling his deceased wife that he would see her soon..his VS were rock stable but we knew that something would happen anytime. Within an hour he cored and we weren't able to get him back.

Just one more: We had a young late 20's ish women in the unit to obs after MVA, she had a prior congential cardiac history and cor'd. We were able to get her back. She shared with her cardiologist later that she remembers floating above the bed and seeing a bright light. But then the nurses beside her bed that were working on her kept telling her to come back so she did. I keep that story in mind to this day with every cor and am well known for talking to my patients as I'm doing compressions to come back, or, it's okay to go.

JacqueOCS · Jan 15, 2004

Once when my Mom was in the hospital for chemo I noticed she was looking up to the corner of the room and smiling (she was very much alert and had her wits about her). I asked her what she was looking at and she said "Oh Dad was just telling me this treatment was going to be okay." My Grandma (her mother) and I looked at each other w/a blank look as my Grandpa (her father) had passed approx 6 yrs prior.

The day my Mom passed she had been pretty much comatose since early that morning. When our asst Pastor walked in the room and called her name, she opened her eyes and smiled. He asked her what she was seeing? She told Earl that she seen beautiful flowers, her dad and her grandma. She never said anything else and passed in the wee hours of the morning.

Up until I witnessed this, I had heard so many stories about those ready to pass seeing loved ones and being so at ease. It was amazing and something I'll never forget.

Erin RN · Jan 15, 2004

Wow..cool stories and scary ones. Next question...do any of you feel like nurses and other healthcare professionals are more "sensitive" to this type of thing? I have thought that since we are exposed to death on a fairly regular basis and have (for the most part) come to terms with our own mortality we are able to "see" things ..I have read literature which talks about the fact that children are more open to these sort of experiences but I was wondering if perhaps those who deal with death on a regular basis are also?

phn92 · Jan 15, 2004

Some of you have mentioned people struggling with death and having that terrified look on their faces. I had an experience many years ago that I will never forget.

I was working in LTC on nights. My great uncle was a resident in this nursing home and was dying when I was working. I knew his history, he was not a pleasant man when he was younger. As he got older, he wasn't much better. He was very difficult to take care of and most of his family had very little to do with him. I remember how he struggled against death for a long time. I finally told him it was ok to "go on"! It was painful to watch him pass away. I don't think he even realized I was there. He had such a look of horror on his face. Several years later, the movie "Ghost" came out and when the demons came for the bad guys, it reminded him of my uncle! I often wondered if he saw the demons coming for him. I hope not!

I do think that nursing is one profession that makes people a little more sensitive to the supernatural. We all deal in death at one point in our careers and in our personal lives.

hatzi · Jan 15, 2004

Yes I have had a few "strange experiences" on my ward, especially since I only normally do night duty. Although I did have a weird thing happen on day shift, one end of the ward was closed, nothing unusual, but this darn call bell kept going off far down the end room. I kept turning it off, I was on my own as my colleague had gone to lunch. I went down ther, quite dark, to turn it off again, but the bed light had been turned on this time, I turned them both off, not thinking anything, but then the cleaners came and they alerted me to the bell once more. I returned to the room, but with the cleaners in toe this time, I fear my bravery was running out. We opened the door and the light and bell were both on again, the room was icy cold this time. The cleaners then thoguth it an opportune time to tell me of all the ghostly experiences they had observed in their 20 years at the hospital. Suffice to say I did not listen intently, as I was having trouble believing what happened next. We returned to my end of the ward, and we had only had the ladies bay open at the time and the side rooms, as we were low on admissions. So we have two bays of 6 beds, one empty and in darkness, but when I returned I found all the lights above the beds in the empty bay ahd been turned on! Not only that, when my colleague returned from lunch, she asked " who turned the radio over to this crap?" It had been changed from a "cool" station to a "classical music" station!! Weird huh?I have heard very weird things about night shift too, but obviously someone wanted mya ttention this particular day and they got it, albeit eventually!!

Cheers

n8isgr8 · Jan 15, 2004

There has been so many of these "expeirences" in my life. Well first off, Dad lived in HI and I lived in PA with my mom. I was 12, dad was 37. I had a dream one night of my dad showing me baby pictures of me telling me that he was holding me in that one and then said goodbye, I woke up around midnight, and immediately went into mom's room and siad" What's wrong with Daddy" (I have no idea why I said it) I just sort of ran in there and said it and then I realized mom was on the phone and she said to the person on the phone, ( Jami just asked what happened to her father!) and she put the phone down and told me that Daddy had just died.-Totally unexpectadly. I also saw his smoke shadow? There is no other was to describe it, like a floating, hovering spot of smoke, with no real shape and about a foot or so in length/width. I knew it was him cause I could feel it. Then weird things started happening in our house, like vertical blinds would just "swoosh" like someone ran their hands against them, we has a ten pound plant be moved from on a table to behind the table, and then I went away as a mother's helper down the shore and was really upset and would talk to my Dad begging him to come back so I could just say goodbye. Well when I got back my mom sat me down to talk to me and said she didn't want me to think she was crazy, or to scare me, but when I was away, My bedroom keep giving her the chills everytime she walked passed it and when she would go in it was icey (It was the middle of Summer) and my phone kept going off the hook. She told me she sat donw and told him to go, and not linger and he did. Room was back to normal weird things stopped happening. Yet I know he is still looking over me, Everytime I talk to him and ask for help he always comes through.

Here is a real weird one My mom and I were both at church and I thought I saw the statue of Jesus's arm move on the crusifix. I did not say a word, when Mass was over We got in the car and my mom said, Something really weird happened, I thought I saw the statue of Jesus move!" Needless to say we both started crying,and no we aren't nuts.

One more... My boyfriend ...Who I ended up marring, was stabbed about 1/2 in. above the heart with a Buck knife. It was in the middle of the day and he ended up falling down drenched in a literal puddle of blood at a corner where there was a bus stop.(long story) he couldn't move, could BARELY talk was white except for his lips and was going in and out of conscienceness(sp?) I "knew" he was going to die. I was a mess, needless to say, when a little old black lady came off the buss put her hand on me and said" He is going to be ok, It is not his time" That was the last I saw of her, It was like she was there and then she was gone...And she was right! PTL It just goes to show you that Angels come in all shapes sizes and colors. I think of her as my guardian Angel....Anyway a neat aside to that story is that when we were taken to U of P Medical it turned out that they were filming for this "fairly new" show" Life and Death in the ER " to be shown on the learning channel, That was about 1996. So we were on it and Hubby had a souviner video to show off to everybody, about the huge five in scar he has on his chest.

Be nice to everyone, cause you neve know who is an angel.:kiss

zenman · Jan 15, 2004

In 2001 my dad had a cardiac arrest while in the doctor's office. He was revived and transferred to the small hospital across the street. He coded again, was revived and flown by helicopter to a larger hospital 50 miles away. He was in CCU for a week and got a pacemaker. I lived hundreds of miles away and when I called MD prior to leaving my house after hearing about his intial code, the MD told me that my dad was sitting in his office laughing and talking and "I was running around trying to get a temp pacemaker cause his heart rate was 30! Then he coded on me!"

About 6 months later, I told my dad that he was lucky that he had a doctor's apointment that day or he would have died. He replied that he didn't have a doctor's appointment that day and was not going to the doctor's office but to the grocery store. However, 3 "guys" got into his pickup truck and "made him" drive to the doctor's office. He said he really couldn't make out their faces!

RNSuzq1, RN · Jan 15, 2004

Until reading all your posts I thought what I'd witnessed with my own Mom was an unusual situation.

Mom was in an ICU in the last stages of emphysema 2 years ago, our Dad had passed on a year before from kidney failure. She had been on a ventilator for a week and was thrilled when they took her off and was able to talk again. My brothers and sisters were in the waiting room - I got a chance to be alone with her and talk for a short time. She suddenly looked towards the other side of the room near the closet and said "oh I didn't see you - what are you doing over there"?. I said - Mom, I'm over here - who are you talking to? She said - your Father - he's standing over there, why doesn't he sit down?

She gave me the strangest look and said - Susan that couldn't have been your Dad, he's gone, but I swear he was standing there beside my bed. That Man was the most Fantastic Husband, Father and Grandfather you can imagine - he was always there for all of us when we needed him. I told Mom I had no doubt that Dad knew she needed him, so of course it was him that she saw standing by her bed watching over her. She was just shaking her head trying to figure out what had just happened.

When I told my very no-nonsense siblings what had happened they chalked it up to Mom's lack of oxygen and me being overly-emotional - Dad was gone and buried and that was that. Sadly, My Darling Mom passed away a few weeks later but I know in my Heart that Dad was there in that room and had come to be with her when she passed on.

It's incredibly painful losing both of your folks - but when they go so close together and you aren't finished grieving the loss of one when the other passes on is really traumatic. They both knew my life-long dream was to be a Nurse and I know "wherever they are" they'll be cheering me on through school. I know that dealing with their losses will help me be very patient and understanding with family members of dying patients who are going through the same things that I've dealt with in my own life. Peace - SusanNC

dragonfly954 · Jan 15, 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.........

Erin RN · Jan 15, 2004

Originally posted by dragonfly954
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.........

Dragonfly

I bet... :eek: !!