What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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Members are sharing personal experiences and stories related to ghosts, spirits, and paranormal occurrences in healthcare settings. Some members discuss encounters with deceased loved ones or unexplained phenomena, while others share their interest in ghost stories and movies like "Doctor Sleep" and "The Shining." There is a mix of skepticism, curiosity, and belief in the supernatural among the forum participants.

Nursing is a profession that often involves long lonely night shifts in eerie hospital wards. It's a perfect breeding ground for ghost stories. These stories often involve sightings of apparitions, strange noises, and unexplained events that are said to have taken place in hospitals, hospices, and other healthcare settings. Some of these stories are believed to be based on true events, while others are purely fictional. Regardless, they continue to captivate and intrigue both nurses and non-nurses alike - providing a spooky glimpse into the world of healthcare after dark.

I know you have seen and heard freaky things. Share your nursing ghost stories...

Specializes in ER/ICU/Dialysis.

Disregard the first entry....the website was acting screwy.....the second post is the one I was trying to submit. sorry.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
My story goes like this.....some years ago when I was a cna, I was employed at a LTC facility working the night shift. The shower room was located directly across from nurses' station. There were times when the showers would turn on by themselves. This usually occurred late at night. The managers had the maintenance men inspect the plumbing several times, but everything would always check out. On some occasions, and I am in no certain way joking about this, you would find wet footprints that came out of the shower room and went down the hallway that eventually faded, as it does when your feet are wet and dry as you walk. The residents were all in bed and we would check with the staff and nobody had been in the shower room. It was always a little unsettling when that happened. And I can't tell you how glad we were when our shift was over.
Aren't nurses supposed to document what they see?Well, how about those wet footprints?:D
Aren't nurses supposed to document what they see?Well, how about those wet footprints?:D

Theoretically, yes. But you've got to take under consideration how much you like your job.

Diahni

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
Theoretically, yes. But you've got to take under consideration how much you like your job.

Diahni

:yeahthat::yeah::yeah::yeah::nmbrn::hehe:
:yeahthat::yeah::yeah::yeah::nmbrn::hehe:

same goes for spectral auras, poltergeists, and anything else that goes bump in the night.

Can we still "bump" these threads? I LOVE this one!:D

Yes...., that is why I never told my boss about the phones.

For awhile, some nights the phones in the pt rooms would ring. It would ring several times and if I answered it, it make the sound of a fax machine. Soon after, another phone would ring, then another. We would run from room to room answering these "calls" as not to let the ringing wake up the patients, but it usually did any way. Why this only happened in the middle of the night, was odd, but I just figured it was some company attempting to send ads by fax. I teased the other nurses, that there goes our ghost again.

Well one night this happened and I was answering my 3rd pt phone, and it was the fax, so I explained to the bewildered pt that it was the wrong number. Next the room mates phone starts to ring and I answer it, and it is the fax and I hang up. Well, it continues to ring after I hang it up, so I answer it again, and it continues to ring with the receiver at my ear! I say " What's up?" and I get nervous, and completely disconnect the phone. The phone starts ringing continuously and I get really scared now, because there is no connection and it is still ringing! The patient says, " What's the matter?", and I quickly reply, "It's broken, let me get the charge nurse," as I run out of there, as it continues to ring! I grab the first nurse I find and ask her to come look at this phone. I certainly wasn't going to pick it up or remove it. I didn't want to touch that thing. I told her what had happened and I don't think she believed me, because the phone was not ringing now. She just told the pt we would change it in the morning. Yikes, I'll never tease like that again.

The next week the nurse manager is asking me if we have been having a phone problem at night. I felt the fear come back, and asked, " Why are you asking?", I know I didn't say any thing. She said she had got some reports from the operator, and if it happens again I should call them directly to report it. Well it never did happen again, as of yet, thank goodness.

I guess the ghost, thought you got the message :wink2:

Bump!! There MUST be some new ghost stories or at least some old ones from new allnurses.com members!?:yeah:

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.
Bump!! There MUST be some new ghost stories or at least some old ones from new allnurses.com members!?:yeah:

Nuttin' new to share from ol' Gracie. I used to be a little bit of a ghosthunter, mainly at work, but two nights in a row my little girls had very frightening nightmares about ghosts in their rooms. When they described them it gave me the major willies. They both told me that the background music in these nightmares was that of a certain musician I listen to. Because of that, I almost never play that music anymore. I stopped telling them ghost stories, actually quit going on any ghost hunter sites, etc., and don't have cable anymore so watching ghostly TV shows isn't an issue. Good ol' Gracie finally saw that her ghosthunting was scaring the crap out of her cubs. :crying2:

Fellow nurses,

I'm curious if anyone out there has any good ghost stories?

I used to work at a hospital in Detroit that had several ghosts.... some scary but

one friendly, little girl ghost who was very popular. At first, I was told she only made visits to those who were dying or those about to "code" but come to find out, that wasn't true. Many pt's and staff saw her regularly. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to see her or any of the others. Currently, I work in a place without ghosts or ghost stories so I'm hoping someone out there has some good ones to share.

check the thread 'WHAT IS YOUR BEST NURSING GHOST STORY'

it is long but it will scare you under the bed

don't read if you are going to be alone tongiht

boooooooooooo

i enjoyed everyone of them though

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