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 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.

I once had a patient that had expired down the end of the hall. She was in room 210a by herself, and there were only maybe a couple of other patients in other rooms in the same area whom could not get up OOB. All of a sudden a call light goes on and I look to see who it is and guess who? It was room 210a. I am thinking and saying out loud to my co-workers "someone come down there with me!" Light was on and the patient was still dead waiting for the morturary. Now 20 years later on that same floor that section had been renovated to be the ultrasound area, but was in the process of becoming a patient room again. The call button system was not supposed to be hooked up to the nursing station. Anyways, the nurses that work on that floor now are all new staff and I was telling them about that story. well the next day apparently the call system kept going off in that area and kept paging this one really new nurse all night. I guess it freaked her out esp after that incident that happened. I do think that there is something down that hall, but like I told those nurses, don't worry it's a nice ghost! :chuckle:eek:

I hope my family and friends come to get me. So I do not hang out , anywhere after I am dead.

Yikes :cry:

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

Keep them comingghostflyl.gifdevilsmile.gifcobweb.gifhalloweensmile.gif:yeah:

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.

Bump!!!

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Well, in the spirit of keeping this entertaining thread going, I will share a story, even if it is not "nursing related".

Waaaaaaay back in my wild and crazy days, some friends and I went out on the town and whooped it up. I was just too dang tired to drive all the way home at 4 in the morning, so I crashed at my friend, J's house.

We sharing a bed in J's room (and before you think I was some cheap tart, I'll mention here he was very gay and very harmless to me!!!).

Anyway, we fell asleep, but after some time (?) I was suddenly quite awake. My eyes wandered off to the corner of J's room and, God as my witness, there stood a man in what looked like a fedora and long coat.

He was like a shadow, but he was blacker than the black of the room.

It is hard to explain. I can only say he was "blacker than black" and he was definitely there.

He was very tall and he was absolutely terrifying. He did not move, but he gave off an aura of fear, evil, and just bad bad feelings.

I was so incredibly scared, I was frozen. I closed my eyes and kept telling myself it was in my head. I eventually fell back asleep, believe it or not.

The next morning (ok, ok.... it was probably 2pm!) my friend J wakes me up by grabbing my shoulder and shaking the hell out of me.

I will never forget the look on his face. He was FREAKED.

He said, "Oh my God, last night I saw something!"

WHOA!

We were ******* our pants as we realized we had NOT been dreaming. We BOTH saw it and were unaware the other had saw it too until then.

The only difference is that, while I saw waaay it across the room... J saw it... at the foot of the bed against the wall... AAAAAAAAARGHHHH!!!!!!!

I told J this, "I hope you saw it BEFORE I did!"

He asked me why.

I said, "Because I like to think when I saw it, it was moving AWAY from us... not TOWARD us!!!"

He hadn't thought of that and looked like he was going to puke.

There is a second part to this I will post separately... this is rather long for one post...

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