Spooky Happenings on Shift?

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Anyone got any stories about incidences that happened to them that didn't feel right or were downright spooky?

Let me tell you mine.

It was a dark and stormy night...nah, just kidding ;)

A few years ago, I attended the scene of an accident. A two car wreck, the devastation was complete and I remember being surprised to find a man at the scene, lucid and with what appeared to be minor damage. I took details from him: names of the occupants of the vehicles, how the accident happened etc. His hand was damaged and the ring he was wearing - a distinctive gold and onyx setting with an intricate design of a griffin in the middle (I'll never forget it) - threatened to cut off circulation so I sent him over to the truck to be treated. Then I was called to assist the firemen cutting bodies from the wreckage and as they pulled off the car door there he was, in the car wreck with the life knocked out of him, the guy I'd just been talking to, exact same ring attached to his damaged hand.

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

a friend of mine did home health care for several years. he took care of one man who was dying of renal cell ca. the man had been paraplegic for several months due to mets from his cancer. bill was on the night shift, and the patient had difficulty sleeping at night for whatever reason, so he and bill used to talk half the night away. they got really close.

one night, the patient actually did get to sleep and bill had stepped out of the bedroom to go downstairs to make himself some coffee. "i looked up," he said, "and i saw willy come walking down the stairs, " bill said. "it felt so right, i didn't think anything about it. he sat down at the kitchen table with me, and told me that he had really appreciated the good care i took of him and the conversations we'd had. he said he thought i'd make a wonderful nurse, and i should go back to school -- not to worry about the money. then he got up and started walking away. about that time, i remembered that willy couldn't walk -- had been a para for months!"

bill ran upstairs to check on willy -- and willy had passed peacefully.

in his will, willy left bill the money to go back to school be become an rn.

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