What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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...

[grace90, LPN, LVN]

Came in for SOB from LTC, but had resolved to the point where she was getting discharged. :bowingpur

She did get a discharge...a celestial discharge.

[nurseofalltrades]

I work in a LTC/ Skilled facility. We have residents (some who are surprisingly with it) mention seeing a little girl in a yellow dress and a little boy in a blue suit. Shortly after they are seen a resident dies somewhere in the facility.(not the one who sees them). There is actually a story that says a little boy and girl (brother and sister) died in the building a long time ago when it was a school. They fell off a balcony during a show in the auditorium. Strange things happen all the time like call lights coming on in empty rooms, Tvs coming on by themselves when residents arent even in the room. They were having church service a week or so ago and the big screen popped on by itself to a bra commercial....silly things that we just chalk up to the little ones playing games. A few weeks ago our fire doors kept opening and closing by themselves...we just say "Ok kids, thats enough".

[MaryAnn_RN]

As much as I like spooky stories I can not watch "A Haunting" on Discovery Channel. I get scared of the images and sounds they put out there.

I can't watch it either yet it doesn't bother me at work when things get spooky in the small hours.

[MaryAnn_RN]

I went through an Agnostic phase when I was a teen. But I have seen things I cannot explain, and it has renewed my faith. My parents still visit me in my sleep. Usually when I am conflicted about something. They will come and haunt my dreams until I make the right decision. I guess even in death they are still looking out for me.

A little over two years ago I was on sick leave following surgery and not feeling too well. I dreamt I was in a beautiful garden and my dad came to me stating that he had come to take me home. Well, I woke up totally freaked because dad died in 2000 and I thought he was telling me it was my turn to pass.

Got up and went and watched tv all that night. Couldn't go to bed on the next night, still freaked out. On the next day the police came to tell me that my mother had been found dead. Now when I think about it he had probably come to tell me to go home - but to their home.

[Little Panda RN, ASN, RN]

This is not a nursing ghost story, but here goes.

About 3 years ago my husband and I went out to a movie on a saturday night. It was a movie with Johnny Depp I think it was called The secret Window. This theatre has 10 movie rooms. The one we were in was at the end by the back doors. During the movie we started hearing all this banging and it sounded like someone was either hitting the walls or throwing something around. I looked at my husband wondering what was going on? He got up and went out the doors of the theatre we were in, but no one was around, the halls were quiet. He came back and sat down and a couple of minutes later it started again. We just looked at each other and thought how strange.

After the movie that night when we got home there was a message on our answering machine. It was my mom telling me to call home that my brother has passed away.

My mom was the one to find him and start CPR. I asked her what time he passed and it was at the exact same time that we were hearing the banging at the movie theatre. Coincidence?

I still think of it to this day and wonder what it meant.

[trippinwitchu]

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.

[trippinwitchu]

This happened some years ago when I was working as a cna. I was working second shift at a local LTC facility. The shower room was located directly across from the nurses' station, so you could see who went in/out. From time to time, at night, the showers would turn on by themselves. This happened a few times when I was working. The managers had the maintenance men inspect the plumbing, but it always check out and they could never explain why it happened. On two occasions, again late at night, we found a trail of wet footprints coming out of the shower room and going down the hallway until they finally faded, just like when you are walking with wet feet and they dry as you walk. We checked, but all the residents were in bed and the we would have seen somebody if they had come out because it was right there and the door was noisy when you opened it. No one had been in there. It was really creepy. I can tell you that when that happened, we were so happy when our shift was over and we could get out of there. I had talked to some of the other nurses and they had had a similar experience when working nights.

[trippinwitchu]

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

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

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?

[Diahni]

Aren't nurses supposed to document what they see?Well, how about those wet footprints?

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

Diahni

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

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

Diahni

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

[Diahni]

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

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