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 ortho/neuro/general surgery.
Hello, I was working as a hospice nurse a few years back. I had a step mother that would not the dying patient see his daughters. He was unable to speak so could not make his need known. I ask the step mom to leave for a 2 hours so the daughters could say there goodbyes. She started yelling and cursing so much so I had security take her out of the buliding. While the daughters where there I was a the foot of the bed of the patient.With daughters at his bedside he passed away. This was in a closed room while I stood there I felt a strong breeze past my face and I had the most calming feeling. As if to say thank you. It is something I will never forget.:redbeathe

that's wonderful that you made sure the patient and his daughters were able to say goodbye :redbeathe:redbeathe

I really love these stories! Please keep em' coming! :D I've always been interested in the paranormal, and many of these are quite fascinating and some are touching. I have a story that comes from my mother. She was an LVN who worked at a hospital downtown when she first became a nurse, but I forget what unit she was working on at the time. It's not as scary as some of the ones I've read here, but here goes:

My mother was working night shift and was walking down the hall with several other nurses when all of a sudden, plain as day, they see a lady crawling down the hallway with an evil smile on her face. She was crawling because she was missing a leg, and appeared to be wearing a hospital gown, but not one that they used in that hospital at the time. The halls were not kept too bright, so one of the nurses had a flashlight and flashed it towards the lady. They all saw the same thing, and freaked! They decided to follow her, since she made a turn into another hallway, but after they turned the corner, she was nowhere to be found, and it was impossible for her to go anywhere, because the only place after the turn was a door that to a stairwell that was always kept locked. There was absolutely no way she could have gone in there without the sound of that door opening, but it was locked anyway. This lady had completely VANISHED, and I don't think they ever saw her again.

Pretty creepy, huh?

Sounds like something right out of a horor movie.

Wonder if any other nurses over time saw this?

We were having a little family gathering in my Mom's living room. While the large floor fan, and air conditioner were running in an attempt to stifle the Iowa heat.

Six of us sat in the living room sharing remembrances of our lives together. At one point more than a couple of people were chatting, when I heard a short clip of a conversation that was blended into the conversation, sort of in the background of the conversation.

It was similar to other voices I've heard that have generated from the large floor fan we were using. Yet different too! Different because they didn't sound like they were coming from the fan, but from the middle of the group of people that were talking.

Immediately the color blue flashed into my thoughts as I heard these other voices. As usual I couldn't make out what the voices were saying. I tried to re-adjust my posture as I lost the connection to the voices. As I shifted positions in my chair, I caught a glimmer of the voices and lost it just as fast.

But the overwhelming impression that I had from these voices was the thought of the color Blue ( kind of an iridescent blue ).

And no I don't think it was an attempt of any Indigo Kids trying to contact me. I'm not an Indigo Person.

I was wondering if anyone else has ever experienced anything similar to this event. Or if anyone knows if there is such a thing as Blue Noise?

THis isn't exactly the same, but we keep a fan in our room at night for white noise. It helps us sleep. Anyway, since we moved into our new to us house about a year ago. I can hear music playing in the middle of the night if the fan is running. It's really strange. We always used the same fan at our old house and never experienced this. It doesn't happen every night, but it does happen often enough for me to notice. I've been woken @ 3am to the distant sound of music and muffled laughter only to get up, go outside and find nothing but the churping of the crickets. There were no TV's on in my house or radios. It still freaks me out when it happens. I have summed it up to the some residual energy in this area from long ago. Who knows. But my house is only 5 yrs old. We did find a funny looking rock in our backyard though that looks exactly like a tombstone with a simple Cross etched into the stone, nothing more. Spooky. Who knows what this land has seen.

Specializes in MICU, SICU, CRRT,.
We had a patient, chronic CHFer, always on the call button, hated being on fluid restrictions. you know the type: the nurses have to take turns during the shift answering the call button so the primary can actually do other work.

And this was a frequent flier cause he was very chronic, very borderline, and the hospital was the only place he wouldn't fluid overload.

I work 7p-7a. He died about 8pm. Oh the look on his face, like, "how could you let me die!" - Like it was our fault.

Anyway, family came and gone by 9pm, funeral home gone at 930pm.

About 10pm, the call button starts going off. I was there - call button going off every 5 minutes.

One of the nurses was a very spiritual girl. At about 2am, after like 4 HOURS OF THIS, nurse Mary snaps, 'Enough!'

She walks down to the room, and, practically screams into the empty room, "Mr X, you have died. You can't be in here bothering us anymore. Move along. In the name of Jesus, I'm exorcising you from this plane of existence. Go to the light and be happy!"

And I kid you not, the call button stopped going off then and there.

~faith,

Timothy.

Oh goodness..that is great! I hope i have the courage to go around kicking dead patients out!!

Specializes in CMSRN.

I have also heard music while sleeping at night. We use a fan but that actually muffles it for me. The quieter the night the more I can hear it. I mentioned it to my hubby and he thought I was nuts. So I just keep it to myself.

Also have you ever heard your name or anything else being said while you are starting to fall asleep. I never mentioned it to anyone for years and one day my brother in-law said it happened to him one night.

It sounds like it is coming internally from me and not from another part of the house. It is in a sharp tone like a parent scolding a child. It usually occurs when I am down or thinking about something sad.

Specializes in Med surg, Critical Care, LTC.

I often hear music at night. I can't never quite make it out, we also use a fan, but it is there none the less. I live in a haunted house, but this music thing is new in the past 6 months or so.

I have heard my name called as I am trying to fall asleep. Only once could I put a name to the voice. About 6 years ago, 2002, I heard my dad call my name. It was just as loud and clear as if he was in the room standing next to my bed. He was estranged from the entire family, long story. I found out 2 weeks later, that was the day he died. So I feel like some part of him was trying to apologize - at least that is the most pleasant thought for me. In his death his mind cleared and he was trying to reach out one last time.

This music thing is really irksome at times, keeps me awake. I can never tell from which direction it is coming, it's almost if I start to really pay attention, it quiets down. Weird.

Blessings

I often hear music at night. I can't never quite make it out, we also use a fan, but it is there none the less. I live in a haunted house, but this music thing is new in the past 6 months or so.

I have heard my name called as I am trying to fall asleep. Only once could I put a name to the voice. About 6 years ago, 2002, I heard my dad call my name. It was just as loud and clear as if he was in the room standing next to my bed. He was estranged from the entire family, long story. I found out 2 weeks later, that was the day he died. So I feel like some part of him was trying to apologize - at least that is the most pleasant thought for me. In his death his mind cleared and he was trying to reach out one last time.

This music thing is really irksome at times, keeps me awake. I can never tell from which direction it is coming, it's almost if I start to really pay attention, it quiets down. Weird.

Blessings

My son was always sensitive when it came to strange stuff. When we used to live in our mobile home several years ago, my husband and I always heard a T.V. or music on (it was some kind of noise) whenever the heater/air conditioner was running, but we only heard it at night when we were going to bed. But when the heater/air conditioner would shut off, we wouldn't hear it anymore. It was very strange, along with all the other strange things my son (who was between 2-3 years old at the time) would see. He started one evening, running from his room into the living room where we were at, saying there were people in his room. He seemed a little scared when he told us, so of course, we got up to investigate, but nothing. A few months later, he would talk about the three little boys who lived in his room, and would play with him. He said they would come out of his wall. He even told me their names. Now that was creepy. But over time that stopped, and we moved out of there when he was 5. Several months ago, I asked him if he remembers the little boys and he said yes, but seemed like he didn't want to talk about it, so I left it alone. But he did mention (which he never told me this before) the nightmares he used to have while living there. He said he had a nightmare of seeing the devil outside his bedroom window and came into his room. He also told me that sometimes at night he would feel his bed shake. I was STUNNED!! And also very glad that we're not living there anymore! Sometime I felt strange in the house, but never saw anything. But I also truly believe something was there that was not supposed to be.

Now we're living in a different house, and have been there for over two years. My son is now 10 and hadn't talked about seeing or hearing anything strange until a few months ago. He could have been dreaming this, but he said that one Saturday morning when he was sleeping, he heard a man's voice whisper "wake up", and he said it sounded like it was right in his face. He said as soon as he heard that, he woke up but there was no one there. It wasn't my husband either. That really freaked me out!

Here's another one... and at least I know I'm not the only nut who's seen them. Over Christmas our ward closed and amalgemated with another ward. Anyway, while up on the other ward I realised they didn't have an Antibotic we stocked on our home ward, so at 10.30pm I had to walk down to a closed ward and grab it (which didn't bother me)

So I walked into the ward and I noticed people had left lights on, so I went and turned them off, I went into the drug room, grabbed the ABs and then I heard someone walk passed. I shrugged it off as simple hospital noise and when I walked out of the drug room the lights were back on! But they were on down the end where they hadn't been on when I walked on the ward. Secondly, if someone had come on the ward to turn them on I would have seen them go passed the glass window in the drug room door. So I went and shut the lights off, thinking, well, if it's haunted, then whatever! I turned and started walking back to my ward, and the lights then flicked back on again. I was like grr, waste of power, naughty ghosts or whatever. I went back and turned the lights off, then when I closed the ward doors I saw a dark shadow pass from one room to the other accross teh corridor! I thought, must be a person playing a joke - and we'd have theives steal our milk, so I ran back onto the ward to try and catch them, they were in a patient room and so there were no other way out so I'd see them leave. But there was no one in there!

Anyway, later on my collegue needed to go down there and she asked if I'd go with her, and I said yeah, she addmitted to me she was scared! She told me she'd gone down there and seen the same dark shadow in the same location and the lights had flicked on and off while she was down there, and of course, that freaked her out. When I got down there, ALL the lights were on! Like ALL of them! Even in the exam room and drug room which have code locks on them! And the exam room wouldn't be used because all the exam stuff had been moved up to our host ward!!

Specializes in Med surg, Critical Care, LTC.

Dottie78, just FYI, demonic or evil spirits often don't "haunt" a house, they haunt people. So, when a person moves away from the "haunted" house, often it starts again in the new house. I don't want to frighten you, I certainly do not want to say that the being bothering your son was demonic, because I have no idea. Just thought it would be worth your keeping your eyes and ears open, and perhaps he will open up to you more.

Blessings

Dottie78, just FYI, demonic or evil spirits often don't "haunt" a house, they haunt people. So, when a person moves away from the "haunted" house, often it starts again in the new house. I don't want to frighten you, I certainly do not want to say that the being bothering your son was demonic, because I have no idea. Just thought it would be worth your keeping your eyes and ears open, and perhaps he will open up to you more.

Blessings

Babs, I know you're not trying to frighten me, but I can't help but be worried, because ever since my son was about 14 months, he's been seeing things...in almost every place we've lived! (I actually have more stories, but will save for another time.) Either that, or he has a very active imagination, but the dreams he described with the devil really scared me. He hasn't mentioned any other dreams with the devil, but he did describe another dream he had several months ago (involving ghosts trying to harm him in the house we live in now), and that was really creepy! But when he had the devil dreams, we lived in that mobile home, which was the only time he had them so I'm not sure what to think. I told him to pray more often, especially after having a nightmare. I don't understand why something evil would want to bother my son?? :confused: I also have a four-year-old daughter, but she hasn't said anything about seeing or dreaming anything scary.

Sorry...I realized that I got carried away with talking about my son and have gotten off the subject "Nursing Ghost Stories". Unfortunately I'm not a nurse yet, but hopefully I will have some interesting stories to post once I become one! :clown:

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