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...

Okay, here's the second part.

About a month or so after what happened in my previous post, I was at my friend L's house after work... it was probably around 1 am or so.

We were just sitting in the basement of her house talking and laughing (especially making fun of her teenage sister who was talking and giggling like a gushing fool to some boy on the phone upstairs).

I mention this, because I want to stress that we were not talking about anything scary, freaky, depressing or anything like that. We were in a very good mood.

We were going to head upstairs and L reached over to switch off the lamp on the end table.

No sooner than she had flicked the switch, the "blacker than black" guy was clearly visible and, I **** you not, was gliding toward us... fast.

(I just had a lurch in my gut remembering this.)

Again, it was blacker than anything else... and this time it seemed so black it almost seemed to have a bit of a glow (?) around it? It is so very hard to describe.

L and I are both are blubbering jibberish (you know, your soooo scared nothing comes out of your mouth) and we are fighting over the light switch.

We darn near toppled the lamp but L got the switch.

When that light came on, I tell you, L looked like death.

I'm sure I looked the same way.

We could NOT believe it.

And it was very upsetting to me, because I just had a very similar experience with my friend J.

Was something following ME?

It was scary, I tell you.

Really, the first time it happened, I thought it was soooo weird, it could never occur again. That would be my big "ghost story" of a lifetime.

But noooooo.

Both times, I had a witness.

I had never heard of such an apparition, but, let me tell you, I did find online, several descriptions of such a thing and it was freaky to learn it was not unique.

Why a fedora? Why a trench coat?

It was bizarre.

If these things had not happened to ME, so much I've read right here on this thread would seem unbelievable. But I know weird things DO happen.

You can also be sure I don't go around telling this story to just anyone. Who'd believe it?

Specializes in critical care transport.

Okay Hyg Queen- next time you write a story, put on a disclaimer that you need to wear Depends before reading!!!

Specializes in Home Health, Case Management, OR.

I have a fedora and trench story myself!

My friend lived in an older part of town on top of a beauty shop. She used to tell me about this guy who stood in her kitchen who was a side sillouhette (sp) of a man in a fedora and trench coat. She said that when she would close her bedroom door at night he would bang on it loudly, but he would leave her alone when she left it open.

I used to stay over at her house because she lived a ways from me and one night I was sleeping on her sofa and woke up, looked into the kitchen and there he was......watching me back. That time around I just went back to the sofa and hid under the covers! Next time I was staying over I was sleeping on the futon in her 2nd bedroom and suddenly out of nowhere something shook me out of a dead sleep. I woke up in time to see a black shadow gliding out of the door. Um yeah ok this time I hauled butt and slept on my friends floor!! For some reason he would not come into her bedroom, but apparently he had full run of the rest of the house! We saw him a lot after that, catching him out of the corner of our eyes, feeling this heaviness and senssation of being watched and even at times, touched. I don't think he was evil, just displaced and probably wondering why we were in HIS house!!

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread215062/pg1

AND...

http://www.ghostlytalk.com/node/502

These are just two I can find right now about the "Hat Man".

I mean, seriously, what gives?

I never had heard of it before and it just seems... well... plain silly that there is something floating all over the world scaring people and wearing, of all things, a top hat or fedora!

It was scary!!!!!!!!

...could it be.... SATAN?????????????

(sorry, couldn't resist!)

Specializes in ICU.
This isn't hospital related (I just graduated and I hope I don't run into any ghosts too soon...I have enough to worry about already!), but it is a ghost story. Actually, it's a story that happened to my best friend several years ago. About 14 years ago her hubby was worked for the air force and they were stationed at Edwards Air Force Base (where the shuttle lands). Anyway, her Mom had come out to visit and they were driving off of the base pretty late at night. Well, according to her, at Edwards in order to get off the base you have to drive for miles and miles through the desert and it is, of course, very very dark at night. So, they're driving through the desert she and her Mom and her son is in the back of the car when her headlights light up a guy walking on the side of the road way up ahead. He's got on a flight suit and he's carrying his helmet in his hand down next to his body. When they're getting closer to him, her Mom turned to her and suggested that maybe they should pick him up. My friend agreed and when they both brought their eyes back to the road he had vanished. She said it was the weirdest thing that has ever happened to her. They both just kind of looked at each other with shocked faces. The thing about Edwards AFB is that they do a lot of test piloting for planes out there and several planes have gone down in the desert killing men over the years. Anyway, that's just another story to scare you before you go to bed tonight.

Cindy

This was freaky to me..... 14 years ago I was living on Edwards AFB!! My step-dad was stationed there.

Specializes in Home Health, Case Management, OR.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread215062/pg1

AND...

http://www.ghostlytalk.com/node/502

These are just two I can find right now about the "Hat Man".

I mean, seriously, what gives?

I never had heard of it before and it just seems... well... plain silly that there is something floating all over the world scaring people and wearing, of all things, a top hat or fedora!

It was scary!!!!!!!!

Officially creeped out now! :eek:

Specializes in med/surg/tele/neuro/rehab/corrections.

Why a fedora and trench coat? Because those were common clothes some time ago for men.

Not the same guy

Absolutely awesome story (and phenomena!), HQ!

I have never heard of this before, and have now officially spent the afternoon reading the sites you linked above (instead of studying -- I'm a third semester nursing student!) I have never heard of (or experienced, thank God) anything like this, but now I'm like addicted to researching it. "Shadow People." "The Hat Man." Ultra creepy, just in time for Halloween!

The only thing I really picked up on from reading the stories on those links is that there are a LOT of times when I'm sitting at my computer and I catch movement out of the corner of my eye, like someone walking by the window, but when I turn to look, there's never anyone there. I never feel the coldness or get the chills, with the exception of one time when the shadow that moved across the window was HUGE and slow moving. That time, I swear a shiver went down my spine and the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I tried to rationalize that maybe it was a cloud covering the sun in the sky, but when I went out to investigate, it was an absolutely beautiful, clear, cloudless day. Also, it's important to note that I literally live in the middle of very dense woods without another house or any signs of human life in sight. We don't even have shades or blinds on our windows, so it wasn't like movement from a neighbor's house or a car passing by or anything. Wonder if that was a shadow person.

Anyone else ever had any experiences like this? Apparently, it's rather common! :eek:

Specializes in Birth center, LDRP, L&D, PP, nursing education.

A couple nights ago, the Respiratory Therapist was telling us about a man that shows up and asks the nurse what pt Mr or Mrs So&So are in. The nurse tells him and within moments, that patient is crashing. Supposedly, no one can remember what the "man" looked like afterwards.

Several seasoned ICU nurses and Respiratory Therapists swear this happens occasionally.

I don't know if I buy it, but I did find myself hugging my lab coat and following another RN to help when she went to bathe her patient. (After story time!)

Specializes in Author/Business Coach.

I love these stories! I've been glued to my computer for 2 days reading the threads...I'm subscribing to keep posted!

Bumping the thread... Hygine Queen, I have never heard Fedora man and hope I that I will not :eek::scrm::scrm:ever meet him.. off to read more...

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