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...

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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hello7.gif sarasunshine and welcome to allnurses.com

good to have you with us.

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:

Specializes in Ambulatory Care/Telephone Triage.

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.........

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