Nursing ghost stories 😧

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I've seen nursing ghost story threads on here before, but it's been awhile and everybody had a really fun time with it, anybody have any good ones?

Specializes in Ortho, CMSRN.

My mom had one :) She was a nurse at St. Johns Hospital in Joplin, MO (the one that got destroyed by a F5 tornado a few years back). They would get comments from patient's all the time about the nurse in the white cap on the night shift that took excellent care of them. They never remembered her name, but they would describe her. No one has worn white caps at that hospital in years. It's gone now. If the nurse in the white cap loved her patient's and her hospital so much that she stays there in the afterlife, I can only guess at how she copes now with it destroyed. Even with the stories, I'm still not entirely sure I believe in ghosts, but it's interesting.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
She was talking about possession, it's a famous line from the exorcist

Thank you! Wondered what kind of turn the thread was taking.

How about paranormal stories when the patients are still alive? I have come in contact with several "possessed" people. Call it psych issues all you want, but when the language line has no idea what creepy language the patient is yelling, you start to freak out a little. :blink:

Omg so creepy! Does this happen often?? 🙀

Specializes in Ortho, CMSRN.
Omg so creepy! Does this happen often?? ������

I worked with a Christian nurse who was 20 years in psych. We were in a pretty chill psych unit at the time. He said that in his career, he's seen genuine possession twice. In one case, a person was speaking with a voice that was not her own.

Specializes in Inpatient Oncology/Public Health.
I worked with a Christian nurse who was 20 years in psych. We were in a pretty chill psych unit at the time. He said that in his career, he's seen genuine possession twice. In one case, a person was speaking with a voice that was not her own.

Shiver. I'm not religious but The Exorcist gave me nightmares for weeks. I would be creeped out by a seemingly possessed patient.

Shiver. I'm not religious but The Exorcist gave me nightmares for weeks. I would be creeped out by a seemingly possessed patient.

Yeah that is actually one of my fears!

Specializes in ICU.

I met a patient that seriously made me question if she was possessed once. Just straight up creepy, held her head at weird angles, would smile this predatory, sinister smile, and had the most evil sounding laugh. So freaky. I remember her yelling, "My eyes! They took my eyes! They're taking yours next!" while she was looking at me with that grin, and then she just threw back her head and howled with evil laughter. I was really glad she wasn't my patient so I didn't have to deal with her.

By the way, her eyes were just fine.

My unit is 36 rooms and there are definitely 4 rooms that are creepy. Things like hair standing on end, missing water mugs, call lights that go off when the room is empty, one room people see a lady sitting on the couch, reflections in glass, sheets being taken off comatose patients, shadows out of the corner of your eye and many more. The strangest one was an alert and oriented patient who was found on the floor next to her bed, side rails still up, BED ALARM STILL ON (and not alarming), with a pillow under her head. She said it seemed like someone pushed her out of bed and she heard giggling. If you could have seen the position she was laying on the floor and the condition of the bed, there was no way that we could figure out that she would have stood up and fallen, and the nurse had been in the room 15 minutes prior.

Has anyone ever had creepy things happen during end of life care ? That's actually another fear of mine... I think I would lose it if anything paranormal occurred immediately after the patient died

Specializes in Acute Care Pediatrics.
I worked with a Christian nurse who was 20 years in psych. We were in a pretty chill psych unit at the time. He said that in his career, he's seen genuine possession twice. In one case, a person was speaking with a voice that was not her own.

I don't know if it happens often. I have only seen two that have truly given me the heebies. Like another poster talked about - this guy was posturing, speaking in an odd voice, and when he wasn't doing the above things, he was making eye contact and "listening" to the demon that was chilling out with him in his room all the time, telling him to kill people. Let me tell you, when I had to relieve that sitter that was in the room with him at 3am so he could take a lunch, I really felt the need to dose myself in holy water afterward.

My rationale mind of course says... this is a schizophrenic break. The patient had a family history. But still..... :zombie:

I used to work at a facility that took care of different kinds of disabled adults including cerebral palsy and the developmentally disabled. Apparently there was a patient who had died some time before I was hired as a nurse there who hated pictures that were hung on walls for some reason, and had had some fights with her roommates about pictures being hung on the walls. When I worked there, the two pictures on the wall outside her old room used to occassionally fly off the wall simultaneously. This happened two or three times when I worked there. I never saw the pictures fly personally, but I did come in once to find two or three horrified staff standing around the pictures that were lying on the floor several feet away from the wall.

One night someone locked themselves in the bathroom outside her old room and started banging on the door. The staff couldn't figure out which patient it was, and when the banging suddenly stopped, they opened the door to find the bathroom empty.

Another night I was passing through a TV room near her old room and at exactly 0300 the volume on the TV suddenly was set to the max. I was confused for a minute about what was going on, but I quickly realized the volume on the TV was up and muted it. But after I muted the TV I could still hear the sound from the TV blaring, and I realized the TV in the adjoining TV room was also set to the max volume and had been set at that volume at the exact same time as the other TV.

I never did ask, but part of me wondered if this patient also had fights with her roommates over the TV volume.

Oh, and the thing with the TV happened two or three nights in a row. Always at exactly 0300.

Of course, it could just be that a staff member programmed the TVs to do that. Although honestly, I don't know if TVs can be programmed to change the volume at specific times. Seems like a very unnecessary feature.

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