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...

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here you go: https://allnurses.com/forums/f8/whats-your-best-nursing-ghost-story-108202.html

post on that thread your fav nursing ghost story!!

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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:
Same here Gracie. I remember back when my youngest daughter was just 5. My niece, as she did many times before, spent the night with us. Only this time she brought along a very bashful friend.

Knowing my niece liked ghost stories, I decided to turn on the TV, and watch "Night of the Living Dead" for all of us. Boy was that ever a dumb move!!!:bugeyes:

The movie was very frightening, but we seemed to all enjoy it until I got up and went to the bathroom. I quickly learned I had a following. That's right, even the bashful friend accompanied me to the bathroom.:D

Then to top it off, I made another very very :down:move. After the movie ended, I told the kids; "Remember, we live just across from the big cemetery." Ugh! I could have smacked myself silly after I saw the damage I did to my baby girl. She had nightmares for several years after that. No more.:no:Na da with my grandchildren. We watch cartoons and stories like Heidi, or Little House on the Prairie, etc. now.

I originally come from South East Asia. One of the superstitions that we have is that when you go to a funeral/a wake/visit the dead, you have to pass by some place else (let's say a grocery store/ a gasoline station/a shopping mall, etc) before going home so that the angel of death couldn't follow you home. When I moved to the US, I told my in-law (who is also an RN here in the US) about this superstition and she didn't believe it but obviously got scared and shared it with her nurse co-workers too because they were going to a wake of one of their co-nurses. Her co-workers laughed at her saying it is the first time they heard about it and that they don't follow such rule and it was an old wives' tale. After going to the wake, my in-law, together with some of her co-workers finally agreed that they were going to follow this superstition and they passed by a restaurant first before heading home. Her NM according to her didn't. She proceeded home. Three days later, my in-law gets a call that the healthy 32-year-old sister of her NM who lives with her at home had a heart attack and died in her sleep! That was so sad and scary! :( :eek:

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Just last Friday, my husband's 90 year old grandfather passed away. He was completely alert and oriented right up to the end of his fight with cancer. He died on Friday, July 13th at 12:05am. He was a veteran and was shot in the knee during WWII on Friday the 13th. When he was in the ICU last month, he was in room 13. The hospice facility in which he died was exactly 13 miles from his home. Here's the clincher: His wife died on Friday the 13th, 13 YEARS AGO!! Guess what his favorite number was....

Yesterday I was out on my deck reading when my almost three year-old son started talking to someone in the corner of the deck by the house. He kept on having a conversation with this person so I finally asked him who he was talking to. "Great Grandpa" was his response. "He's right over there." My husband told him to tell him he said hi, so he did. He said "Daddy say hi" and then he giggled at the unheard response he got. Later I heard him talking to himself on his toy phone and he said, "Great Grandpa was in the hospital, and then he died and then he came here." I asked him if Great Grandpa was still around and he said, "He's not here now."

Sorry to hear about your grandfathers passing. Sounds like it was planned in the stars to happen that way.

Your son, seems to be gifted. Perhaps you can Keep talking to him about others he may see.

Ck out the new tv program on Monday nights. Psychic kids. A&E 10p

Seems alot of children have special gifts.........

Seriously, as soon as I starting reading a story on this thread my computer and air conditioner turned off.

Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

Well, it's not a ghost as in white floating blob kind of story, but....

I had a little guy 2 nights ago, 90 plus, just as demented as he could be, and terrified of going to sleep at night. I mean, he would just scream, "help me, help me!" at the top of his lungs. I asked him what was wrong, and he kept saying "grandpa's at the foot of the bed." Obviously, this guy's grandpa was long gone.

When the family came in, I asked them if he often saw or talked to deceased relatives, specifically his grandpa. His daughter started crying, and said that her dad's brother said the same thing the day before he died -- that "grandpa" was at the bedside. Their father had died as a young man, and Grandpa had raised them.

Well, you could guess it. Grandpa came for his boy this morning. I didn't have him last night, but the nurse that did said the patient said, "hi, grandpa" and stopped breathing.

I was working as an aide years ago in MN, at a dual care facility. the side i worked on used to be a real old tuberculosis hospital from back in the day. they tore down the old building and replaced in with the one i was working in. it was less than 5 years old i believe. anyhow,...

I would be the ONLY one that stayed until about 11p.m on that side of the building. think MILES of hallways. it was independent living with "services" so i was doing my 100mph med-pass and i noticed the radio was on. i looked around (NO-ONE in sight) and flipped it off.....i entered and exited a residents room within 1 minute and there it was, on again.....no kidding.

this happened several times, ALWAYS the radio.....

then everyday all the residents complaining someone walking up and down the halls, knocking on their doors at all hours of the night. 3 and 4 am.....many residents complained of this for years....

i remember coming in one day for shift and they were installing security cameras. this is how often the knocking happened....not sure if anything came of it.....moved back to CA.

MN itself is creepy....

OK, I have to apologize profusely if this is totally rude -- I am not a nurse, I just surfed in here via a ghosty site a few months ago and have been making my way through it off and on since then. But this is THE BEST ghost story thread I've ever read! Wow, nurses are my new best ghost-loving friends ;)

Anyway, first off, regarding the above post, this is the THIRD time on a ghost forum that I've heard someone describe the state of Minnesota as creepy. I've lived in MN my whole life and I LOVE that! Of course, I don't think it's creepy (now, New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, they seem to have a creepiness in parts, but MN? The whole state?) But it's home, so of course to me it's normal. But I think that's great to hear :)

OK, and my actual, nursing-related story/question: I work in film and TV production, and was shooting a movie in a closed-down nursing home in south Minneapolis called First Christian Residence.

If there is ANY long-shot chance someone here knows anything about the place, I would die to hear it. Please please post if so!

The facility is attached to a church via a weirdly roundabout, looong hallway, with a door locked on both sides (key left in door for us), etc. We had to go this way to get to the bathrooms and it was a good 10-minute round-trip if you hurried. On the way back from my trip to the restroom, I saw a door in the hallway close. Odd, as we were the only people there as far as I knew (the staff member/minister was with our crew back in the nursing home area), but maybe it's a janitor. I didn't hear anyone walking away (and where would they have come from, they weren't ahead of me in the hall?), but I didn't think much of it.

A few minutes later, I was standing outside, and a normally funny, smirky, happy-to-be-there crewmember came rushing out the door looking positively sick. I asked what was wrong, and he said, "This place is haunted!"

Of course, I was excited and badgered the story out of him (he didn't even want to tell it at first). He too was coming back from the bathroom and heard someone coming up a set of stairs, the open kind where you can look over a railing and see down to at least the first landing, if not most of the way. He stopped and waited to see who it was, and NO ONE APPEARED.

I dragged this poor kid back in and made him show me (he was scared -- I'm evil!). It wasn't far from the door I had seen close. As we were standing there, we heard footsteps coming up those very stairs -- eep! Well, a living person appeared. We asked him about it -- he was with a theater group rehearsing in the basement. They had just arrived and hadn't been upstairs and had never heard of ghosts there or seen anything strange. But as we were walking away, my crew friend said that was exactly the sound he'd heard of feet coming up the stairs. At least this had shown up that there was no way you wouldn't see the person as they came up, and there was no other stairway nearby that would have been as loud and clear.

Of course I went around telling everyone the place was haunted :) Most laughed, but one guy immediately said, "I know, when we were here scouting a couple weeks ago and were the only people in the building, I saw a door close by itself!" Another simply said, "I know, I've shot here before." He wouldn't give me any more details.

This might be the power of suggestion at this point, but later I was going back upstairs -- you walk in glass doors and there's an elevator right ahead of you. Most of the fixtures have been ripped out of the building, so it's pretty empty. There are rooms and hallways all around the elevator (hard to describe so I won't try more than that). I SWEAR I saw someone dressed in black walk through a doorway next to/behind the elevators, so I ran back to see who it was (assuming it was a crewmember -- we wear a lot of black -- and hoping to find someone who wanted to explore with me). I got to the room the door led to and no one was there...

Anyway, this is the closest I've come to seeing real ghostly activity (if it was real, of course I'm always skeptical, but also excited to see something). I've tried researching the place online, but the only mentions are about how it closed, etc. If anyone has ever heard of, or even worked there, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear more!

Thanks!

Thanks for sharing your story with us.

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I enjoyed reading it as well.

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time for a shameless bump of my favorite thread here....:nurse:

LOVE this thread! My story is nothing really freaky, but worth mentioning. I should mention that I work by myself (nights), so this makes it even more strange.

I have worked in my current job for about 3 months now. About a month ago, 10 minutes before the morning person arrived to take over, our "Nurse Call Alarm" system went off. I thought, "Of course, right at the end of my shift when I want to go home". Just my luck! ;)

I went to the control panel expecting one of my "regulars" to be buzzing.....the alarm panel read: "Tub Room". ?

I had never seen this come up before. In fact, I couldn't make sense of it, considering that the new system relies on call buttons that Residents wear around their neck and not the older "cord pull" system that the Tub Room has. I didn't even know it worked, let alone thought it was connected to our new system.

I ran to the tub room, thinking that just perhaps, someone had wondered in there and/or fell. I got there...no one. No lights, no residents, no light flashing on the cord pull panel. Nothing.

I shrugged it off and sort of laughed, I figured that I must have been dreaming. That's what you get for working nights! ;)

But I knew I wasn't. When I mentioned it to the day staff, she got a strange look then laughed awkwardly. She mentioned that it was a "glitch" and that it freaked another girl out so much that she left. There has been a very high turnover rate at my work. I thought it was due to invisible management, not a ghost. ;) Funny, it had never happened before nor since.

I didn't think much of it until I noticed something REALLY strange. On at least 3 separate occasions, I had left a room with the lights on or off. These are rooms in another part of the building where there are no Residents, like our med room and staff washroom. For instance, I was in the washroom. I had left the office light on. I walked out of the washroom and turned the corner and saw that the light to the office was off. No one was in sight (it was 3 am) and I would have heard them if they were. The switch was down, so it looked as though someone had physically turned the light off. I knew it was on when I left, as I never bother to touch it.

Similar incidents have happened at least 2 other times.

I am not freaked out yet, but I am curious if something paranormal is going on.

Or I am just going crazy from working nights! ;p

There is rumor that our building is built on an ancient Native burial ground. Since I live in a province with one of the highest rates of Aboriginals, this could very well be true.

Interesting...

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