Nursing and the supernatural

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Just wondering if anyone has seen some patients near death/in the process of dying, have something supernatural happen. I can't say I've ever seen anything with the deaths I've seen, in fact generally it hasn't been very pleasant at all, but within the last year, some spooky things began to happen when a new nurse joined our team, and the school bought an run down old people's home and renovated it, to use as our new health center.

Two things happened recently; the first was on the night shift, when the clinic was empty, with my new colleague. She was just about to go to sleep, when there was a loud bang, and her bed shook violently. She was pretty freaked out, and refused to sleep there, and every night shift stayed up all night with the light on, reading or on her laptop - unless of course students are in for observation, whereupon she's busy.

The second thing happened soon after this first event, which we were both discussing one evening, was she got a phone call saying a friend had died in an accident. She was naturally upset, and we were discussing whether we thought there was more beyond this life, when the door between the offices swung closed and clicked shut. Sent a shiver down my spine, and hers too. It's an enclosed space, with no breezes. We were quite freaked out.

Anyway, we find in a cupboard in the bedroom some salt, incense, candle and big crystal rock, with a hole cut out to put the candle in, and talk about this with the other nurses, and one admits to being a 'spiritualist' and the noises in the night are nothing to worry about.

Anyway, the new nurse is quite upset, and we agree to get the local minister in to have a look around. He blesses the place, and since then nothing has happened.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced anything.

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Specializes in MDS/ UR.

Neat thread here that talks about supernatural/ghost stories:

https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/whats-your-best-108202.html

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Specializes in MDS/ UR.

I thought you had gone over the wall. Back so soon?

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

The abovementioned thread is great reading, but it's at least six years old. Maybe it's time for a new thread on the supernatural. Personally, I've never worked in a hospital that WASN'T haunted. Except maybe the brand new one I'm working in right now, but even this one has some "kinks" that cannot be explained by science.

The old building, where our unit used to be located, has been converted to offices. There's one office that is perpetually empty -- no one will use it for long. Maybe it's coincidence, but the location of that office coincides with the location of an old ICU room that we all swear was haunted . . . .

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I've noticed that a lot of people poop when they die. But poop is natural.

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I think a lot of hospitals are haunted. I don't have the gene to perceive this stuff, but a lot of my former patients did.

It used to creep me out when I'd have patients ask me who the strangers in their room were, when the only person there was me.

A few asked what the children down the hall were giggling about (no peds and no visitor kids).

One elderly lady told me she saw her mama walking toward her and it was time for her to go home. She died within the hour.

There was one room that a had wild call bell that would randomly go off, no matter how many times they rewired the room.

There was one morgue that I swear was haunted. This is the only time I perceived the weirdness myself. Whenever I would make a deposit, I swear I heard laughter. I stopped going down there by myself. I had a coworker try to pawn the sound off on gas release. Nope, I can tell the difference between a fart and a laugh. I'm getting chills just thinking about it.

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I used to work at a nursing home before I was hired at a hospital and we had this one little old lady who was blind and she liked to get up every day at 2/3 in the morning. Well one morning I was getting her up into her wheelchair when she looked behind me and asked who that young man was sitting on the bed.

Creeped me out because 1) she's blind and 2) there used to be a young man in there who had passed away...

At the hospital we also get a bunch of older dying patients who ask about the children in the hall... It's the adult side of the hospital and there are no kids around.

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I guess if there is a supernatural world, then there probably is a God then.

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Neither of the two events described in the OP sound remotely compelling as to evidence of the supernatural.

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Oh, he is the supernatural part, didn't ya hear? He has superpowers as a nurse like no other.

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And here we go again ... :sarcastic:

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Specializes in Hospice.
And here we go again ... :sarcastic:
Elk park, can I go with you?:banghead:
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