Spooky Stuff

t2000JC · Jan 3, 2005

When I was working at one hospital, all the nurses were sitting at the nurses station and a call light goes off for the room at the very end of the hallway. We thought the system was just not working because there was no patient in the room. Then over the intercom we heard a voice saying "please help me." This really spooked us because the intercom system hadn't worked in 10 years. We got up and started walking toward this room. When we got halfway down the hallway we see this lady wearing the old fashion white nursing uniform start to walk into this room. She turned to us and said, "It's okay. I'll get this light." By the time we got to the room she was gone and the call light was off.
At a Catholic hospital I worked at, were the OB unit is was once the convent for the nuns. Anytime a laboring mother is having difficulities, the room is filled with the scent of roses. If the mother or the baby dies, rose petals appear all over the room out of nowhere. It is very creepy.

um..those stories are super spooky!! i think more so b/c there is concrete evidence (the roses) and i am sorry but a voice over the intercom like that would just make me sleep with the light on for a month! t.

BabyNurseBSN2006 · Jan 4, 2005

oh no! I already sleep with the light on at home because my house is haunted, now you're telling me hospitals are haunted too! haha I'm never going to get to sleep!!!:chuckle

stbernardclub · Jan 4, 2005

I was working 7p-7a. There were 3 r.n's on counting myself, and 1 aide, 34 patients (a horror in itself being most were on cardiac monitors, lol ). Around 1am we here a loud bang. You could imagine, we were all trying to run out of the same exit in the nurses station. We searched every room, including our lounge, nothing. Not one patient seemed to have heard it. So we all try to go back to work, sure enough, it happened again.Ok, I said, I heard it coming toward the end of the hall, near one room. We all go in, little old lady had the double to herself. I had a flashlight, went over to see if she was asleep, she is laying there with her eyes open. The other nurse asked , mary, are you ok? NO she said, Im afraid of that Dr. What Dr??? She said the DR that keeps coming in and slamming her door........

bsnrnoh · Jan 4, 2005

Don't know if this counts but, at one facility I worked at we had a reident cat (pet therapy for the residents) that usually ignored residents unless they were feeding him. The cat never jumped up on beds or tables in the usual course of events. When he did jump up on a resident's bed though we all knew to watch the resident and make sure we had proper code for the person because invariably the resident would decline and die within 48 hours. And that cat would not move from the resident's bed unless we moved him to change the bedding or clean the resident. We would then watch for the cat to leave the room because as soon as he did we knew the res had died, and the cat was never wrong.

wayover20 · Jan 4, 2005

When I was a student nurse 30yrs ago, I was on a geriatric floor and heard a patient call out for help. I went into the room and found the patient, an elderly hispanic lady who was saying in spanish "I'm falling, I'm falling!". I remember she had a strange look on her face, like a far away look, not making eye contact with me. Being all of 19yrs old and new to patient care, I ran out to the nurses station to tell the other nurses this pt. was saying she was falling. No one would get up to come look especially after I told them she was in bed with the bed rails up. They passed her off as just confused. I was concerned so I went back in and her pleadings came stronger and she asked me to hold her hands because she was "falling". After a few minutes her hands lost their grip on mine, she closed her eyes and said nothing more. I ran out to tell the nurses that someone HAD TO come now and check this lady. They did and a code was called but was unsuccessful.

Although this was so long ago, I will always remember it.

Quailfeather · Jan 4, 2005

Don't know if this counts but, at one facility I worked at we had a reident cat (pet therapy for the residents) that usually ignored residents unless they were feeding him. The cat never jumped up on beds or tables in the usual course of events. When he did jump up on a resident's bed though we all knew to watch the resident and make sure we had proper code for the person because invariably the resident would decline and die within 48 hours. And that cat would not move from the resident's bed unless we moved him to change the bedding or clean the resident. We would then watch for the cat to leave the room because as soon as he did we knew the res had died, and the cat was never wrong.

Wow! That is indeed creepy! I have heard that animals are able to sense things like impending death. I wonder, did the residents know of Kitty's mortiferous reputation? I would suspect that if they did, Kitty might find himself being briskly launched from any bed that he tried to settle on.

loriangel14, RN · Jan 4, 2005

ok this is creepy. I was sitting here reading all these stories and I felt what seemed to be the touch of a warm hand on my shoulder....but I am all alone. I do believe that I have a guardian angel so maybe she was letting me know she is here.

bsnrnoh · Jan 4, 2005

Wow! That is indeed creepy! I have heard that animals are able to sense things like impending death. I wonder, did the residents know of Kitty's mortiferous reputation? I would suspect that if they did, Kitty might find himself being briskly launched from any bed that he tried to settle on.

Most of the residents were, shall we say "not with it".:) Many did not have an actuall dx of dementia or alz. but they were not with this timeline most of the time. So no they did not know and the staff did not advertize his abilities to the residents.

Thunderwolf, MSN, RN · Jan 4, 2005

Yeah, my nurse manager walked on the unit during the night shift. Scared the heck out of me! D**n near fainted.

TeeHee...couldn't resist.

Dalzac, LPN, LVN, RN · Jan 4, 2005

Many years ago I was a tech in a ccu unit late at night I saw an old lady with a red plaid shirt walk in front of the desk holding something Since there were no visiting times I called out to her that the visiting times were not until the morning and she just kept walking. The rest of the staff just started laughing and said that was Sally her husband had been a patient there about 10 yrs ago and she would bring him prune juice every night to help with his bwels. He died and she died just a month or so after he did and she still keeps bringing him his juice. I saw her several times after that but she never reaaly spooked me.

NYCRN16 · Jan 4, 2005

I have no spooky stories to tell, but I am enjoying the stories that everyone else has to share!

Just wanted to add..

The theory about the 2 pounds being lost when someone dies is related to a study done by a philosophist back in the 1500's or something like that. Many theorists at the time believed first that the soul was part of the body physically, and first believed that the soul was in the brain (I beleive they thought it was in the hypothalmus?) and then decided that it was throughout the body even though it couldnt be seen. So weighing the body afterwards and seeing a loss of weight made them believe that the soul left the body.

I know that my explaination of the above is not 100% accurate, its just what I remember briefly. I read it in the book "Stiff" if anyone has ever read that, it mentions it in there somewhere.

Roy Fokker, BSN, RN · Jan 4, 2005

Don't know if this counts but, at one facility I worked at we had a reident cat (pet therapy for the residents) that usually ignored residents unless they were feeding him. The cat never jumped up on beds or tables in the usual course of events. When he did jump up on a resident's bed though we all knew to watch the resident and make sure we had proper code for the person because invariably the resident would decline and die within 48 hours. And that cat would not move from the resident's bed unless we moved him to change the bedding or clean the resident. We would then watch for the cat to leave the room because as soon as he did we knew the res had died, and the cat was never wrong.

I know animals can sense a lot of thigs we humans can't.

One of our family dogs was particularly sensitive to bad things like fires, floods and bad rainstorms and earthquakes. Somehow, Caesar ust knew and he would't let the entire neighbourhood sleep with his howling...