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, Peds, CCU.

I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry. You're right, we loved each other very much.............

Thank you for the wonderful stories, I have plenty to share working in the hospital, especially the ER but this was by far my most special.

Keep them coming, I just need to remember NOT to read them before bed time! :eek:

LOL

Specializes in midwifery, NICU.

staclyn..((((:heartbeat)))). heart-tearing story honey. you had one special man there..

Some call them "ghosts"... I prefer to think of them as "angels".

Specializes in Critical Care.
I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry. You're right, we loved each other very much.............

LOL

Please, don't apologize, I was so moved by the story. It really shows that love can conquer even death, if only for a brief moment.

Specializes in Geriatrics.

What a beatiful love story. If we all could be lucky enough to experience such a great love.

On another note- My office is in a building that is away from the main building of our LTC. The last 2 days, i've worked our odd shift of 11 am- 7:30 pm. Both nights when I've gone into my office before leaving to go home, I have heard a noise like someone brushing against one of the microphones in the auditorium nest to my office. Of course , when I went into that part of the building, NO ONE was there. Besidees that, the microphones have not even been on!!

Specializes in Geriatrics.
there is a 5 day novena that you can do that involves St Therese "The Little Flower" - among other things, you say a little prayer that asks for her to "please pick a rose from the heavenly garden and send it to me with a message of love" and for her to ask God to grant your favour (whatever it is - it can be anything) - I've done it countless times and have had many requests granted - the roses have appeared to me in some really strange situations - just to make sure I'm not seeing what I think I want to see, in my request, I usually specify a certain colour of rose and I get chills when I "get my sign" (as my mother calls it) but I know things are going to go my way.............

ok - enough about me - carry on with the stories..............

I've posted about my neice Macy before- but here's another one.

Macy was born July 30, 2004. When she was very new, my sister took a walk aound her front yard holding Macy. There was a rose bush with one red rose on it and the bright color caught Macy's eye, so my sis picked the rose and put it in a vase in Macy's room where she could see it. That was the only rose on the bush all spring/summer. Macy died on November 29, 2004 and when we returned from the hospital that rosebush was COVERED in beautiful red roses. :heartbeat

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Thanks for sharing your stories, from the heart.

Hugs to all........

These stories have been great! :yeah:Please more!!:typing Don't stop now!! Well maybe with Halloween coming they'll pick back up.:sofahider

I have a story that is not really a ghost story... it's a dementia story, really, but it still scared the pee outa me at the time.

I was putting "Edna" to bed one night. She did have dementia and was also veeeerrrry paranoid.

Anyway, I had her wheelchair by her bed and was getting ready to put her in when she yells, "Honeeee! There's a man under the bed!"

So I, all ready to reassure her, kneel down, swipe my hand around under the bed and say, "See, Edna, there's no one there!"

Edna screamed and goes, "Look out! Look out! He's evil... and he's looking right back at you!"

Of course, I'm down there on the floor with my hand under the bed and she's telling me this.

It gave me the heebie jeebies and, like a kid afraid of monsters under the bed, I was waiting for someone to grab my ankles the whole rest of the time I was putting her to bed!

Specializes in Home Health, Case Management, OR.
I have a story that is not really a ghost story... it's a dementia story, really, but it still scared the pee outa me at the time.

I was putting "Edna" to bed one night. She did have dementia and was also veeeerrrry paranoid.

Anyway, I had her wheelchair by her bed and was getting ready to put her in when she yells, "Honeeee! There's a man under the bed!"

So I, all ready to reassure her, kneel down, swipe my hand around under the bed and say, "See, Edna, there's no one there!"

Edna screamed and goes, "Look out! Look out! He's evil... and he's looking right back at you!"

Of course, I'm down there on the floor with my hand under the bed and she's telling me this.

It gave me the heebie jeebies and, like a kid afraid of monsters under the bed, I was waiting for someone to grab my ankles the whole rest of the time I was putting her to bed!

Oh on that note I will share my dementia pt story. My resident was up wandering on 2nd shift and started trying to go out to the courtyard. I was working on redirecting her when she starting talking about this man, who was crawling on the ground on all fours and coming straight towards the screen door we were standing at!! She was really freaked out by this invisible man and it gave me the heebie jeebies so bad I had a huge chill run through my body. I can't imagine how frightening it must be for the dementia pt, who really truely is seeing all this stuff!!

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That is creepy!

Our minds are truly wicked!

I was working at a LTC facility as charge nurse when this happened. (One of my CNAs witnessed this also, so I know I'm not completely nuts...) I was walking into the dining room at the beginning of breakfast (the residents were all in the DR already) and could see one of the med carts up against the wall from where I was. The med tech was away from the cart giving meds, no one else was anywhere near it. All of the sudden one of the huge vitamin bottles sitting on top of the med cart, at the back, flew straight across the top of the cart and out about three feet from the cart then fell to the ground.

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