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...

[sirI, MSN, APRN, NP]

OMG SIRI !!!! That avatar is terrifying!!!! :sofahider:chair:

Isn't it though?

I hate clowns.

LOL!

[nightmare, RN]

Just seen that!!It's horrible,I'll blame you if I have nightmares sirI!!!Is that the clown for IT ,reminds me of Ronald McDonald!

[sirI, MSN, APRN, NP]

Yes. Pennywise is in there a couple times.

I hate clowns...

[nightmare, RN]

Me too! [[[[[[[shudder]]]]]]] never liked them,always used to scream at the circus!!

[Babs0512]

Well, this is kind of a nursing ghost story, I am a nurse, and it is a ghost story, so I'll tell it.

We live in a haunted house, I know of one ghost, possibly two. We were even talking with TAPS about them coming to do an investigation, however, I decided not to - in New York you have to disclose if your house is haunted, and I didn't want it formally "documented" as haunted - right now I feel I can say it is my "opinion" - don't want to screw with the resale value.

Our female ghost is named Mary. I found this out from another nurse I work with who grew up playing in this house with her two friends, this nurse is now in her 60's. I named our ghost Mary the first week we were here in 2000, she just "felt" like a Mary. While at work one day two years ago, I was telling Stella about my ghost Mary, she found it intriguing, so she called her two sister friends who grew up here and began telling them of my stories - one sister said, "Stella, our mothers name was Mary!" Stella said, "It was not, it was Isla!" The sister said, "No, she went by Isla, but her given name was Mary!" Stella said her hair stood up. Anyway, that is my brief hx, now for one or two stories.

One day I was in my basement painting a piece of furniture. My husband was in the garage sanding, so I was alone in the house. I was at the far end of the basement room, which is 30 feet long, so my exit was 30 feet behind me. I felt a very gentle "tug" on my shirt. I was so gentle, that I passed it off as my shirt settling on my body, and I kept on painting. About a minute later, I felt a sharp "TUG" on my shirt. I whirled around instantly, and no one was there, no one would have been able to get out that fast without being seen and/or heard. The hair stood up on my neck, and ran out of the basement and out to the garage and told my husband what had happened. I decided that I would NOT allow a ghost to frighten me in my own house, besides, the ghost never touched me before. I went back down to the basement and in a loud voice, I said "I do not mind sharing my house with you, but you are not to touch me or frighten me again, okay Mary?" It never happened again.

One night my hubby and I were in our soaker tub relaxing in our upstairs bathroom. We weren't talking, just sipping wine. I distinctly heard someone come up the front stairs, walk down the hall, "jiggled" the bathroom door knob, then continued down the hall to the back stairs and went down the back stairs. I said to my husband "Please tell me you heard that!" he said "Yes, stay here, I'll go look around. He threw on a robe and went looking through the house. The windows were all closed and locked as were the doors. There was no other "living" person in the house with us.

What caused me to call TAPS, was this incident, which completely un-nerved me. My hubby and I had been watching TV, a re-run of "Friends" and I wanted something to drink. In order to get to the kitchen from the living room, you have to walk through the dining room. The lights were off in the dining room, but they were on in the kitchen and the living room, so the room wasn't completely dark. I rounded the corner and dam near ran completely into this dark almost smokey opaque form - I managed to side step it in the last instance, and as I turned my head to look at it as I passed, it was gone.

This "thing" had the vague shape of a head and shoulders, but then progressed into a shapeless sort of blob. It was tall, about 6'6" because we have a plate rale at the 6 foot level in our dining room, and this was taller. It also had substance, because it blocked the light from the kitchen. This completely freaked me out, and I felt it was evil. This episode happened about 4 years ago. Nothing like it has happend since.

Our house is 107 y/o. Between 1984 - 2000, the county coroner did three body removals from this house - I only know this because I worked with her in the ER, and she didn't tell me about it until after I began telling her my ghostly happenings. One of the bodies was Mary "Isla" - she told her daughters she would never leave "my house" - and she has apparently been true to her word. Two others were also elderly persons.

None was due to foul play. I asked.

Well, that's my tale for tonight, I could go on and on, feeling something sitting on my bed, seeing the imprint of someone on my bed, rappings and knocks, the cats watching something in tandum moving above and behind me (many, many times), the apparitions, but if I tell you everything tonight, I won't have anything to post another time.

Blessings

[Hygiene Queen]

Oooooh, I do love ghost stories, heheh!

I grew up in an old house that was haunted, I swear!

My friends never liked coming over. It just felt creepy.

Anyway, I was in bed sleeping and woke up to hear my name called in a smooth voice that sounded as though it came from a tin can... it sounded "tinny". It was right in my ear and I freaked and ran to my sister's room where I slept on the floor!

Another time, something YANKED the covers down on my bed. It was a yank, not a gentle tug. I could justify it as a muscle spasm or something on my part, but the room felt so "heavy". I freaked and ran to my sister's room... and prepared to sleep on the floor, once again.

I told my sister what happened and that there was NO WAY I was going to sleep in my room. My sister was a little scared, but not scared enough to not be amused.

She says, in a low creepy sing-song voice (as I'm trying to camp out on the floor) "Hygiene! It's coming to get yooooou....It's slithering across the floor... it's not using it's arms or legs...it's just slithering across the flooooooor....."

I told her to shut up! shut up! shut up!

I slept on her floor for over a month!!

I also ran from that house several times when I was alone. I'd just get these horrid creepy feelings that I was not alone... I was convinced something was around and it wasn't comforting.

I once got to work an hour early because I just couldn't stand it. I felt like something was upstairs while I was downstairs... it was odd. It felt bad. That time, I literally ran out the door, barely able to lock it behind me, I was so freaked out.

There was a lot more weird stuff, but that's enough for now. I have to study!

[twistedpupchaser]

I have two stories, the first was when I was working on a different ward I felt a weirdness when I went to the storage cage at the end of the ward. I felt an anger suggesting I leave immediately. I got what I needed and left. I didn't speak of this thinking it was just tiredness. A few weeks later another nurse came running from the hallway looking dare I say as white as a ghost saying that the empty room next to the storage cage realy freaked her out. The other staff laughed and each had their own stories of that particular room.

A few weeks later we had a Pt wanting earplugs because the people in the next room were talking too loud. We assessed him and sat in the room with him and heard nothing. After the team leader called the RMO for an Ax we heard screams from the Pt telling the voices to stop. It was then that I thought of the room where the voices were coming from. Maybe he was oriented.....

My other story is from last week, we had a Pt pass in one of our rooms. In the next room we have a Pt who is constant care, a PCA sits outside his room in the hallway betwen both rooms. The PCA heard a noise like someone urinating in the toilet followed by thye toilet flushing. Knowing that the room was empty she checked out the room and it was stil empty and noone could have gone in or out without her seeing them. She told me about this and I mentioned the Pt who had died several days earlier, bad move this just put her on edge even more.

I told the team leader wanting to know if there was a ghost on this ward and he laughed at me and my silly imagination. He told me to watch the PCA from the other end of the hallway he went into one of the Pt's bathrooms and flushed the toilet. Amazingly the PCA jumped up and bolted down the hallway as if the hounds of hell were chasing her. My team leader was rolling around laughing, aparantly the plumbing pressure builds up when the toilets are not flushed and for some reason this particular toilet would flush when the pressure was built up and another on that hallway was flushed. They get all of the new staff with that one.

[ShayRN]

I can almost always tell when we are going to have a death at work. When I am sitting charting at the nurses's station I see things out of the corner of my eye. But when I look up there is nothing there. Told night turn the other night, we are going to lose more than one soon down the high hall. There was A LOT of activity going on tonight. Within 12 hours two patient died.

[grace90, LPN, LVN]

Geesh, it's broad daylight and I'm freaked out and home alone after reading the stories above. Yikes! :sofahider:dzed::gtch:

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

Yes. Pennywise is in there a couple times.

I hate clowns...

Where's the clown? I don't see one.

[sirI, MSN, APRN, NP]

Where's the clown? I don't see one.

I got the distinct impression members were bothered by the avatar, so I changed. it.

[nightmare, RN]

I got the distinct impression members were bothered by the avatar, so I changed. it.

Certainly freaked me out! [[[[[shudder]]]]] love the witches,sirI.