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...

Well, me and a technician where working alone (night shift) in an old SICU converted to cardiac floor. There had always been talk of ghosts down there but both of us had never experienced anything there before. We were talking about ghosts most of the night (we only had one pt). At 3 am the tech put her bucket of lab items on a very stable surface in front of me. She said something about no ghosts being there and then the bucket flew off the counter and all the stuff was thrown over the floor. There was really no way that the bucket slipped off the shelf. It was thrown at least 10 feet off the shelf!!!

We were really freaked out after that but managed to finish the shift. After that the hair on the back of my neck would stand on end sometimes when I was down there and it felt like something was watching me.:eek:

Very interesting. My post on Dec 5th should interest you. Like your experience mine happened at 3am. I heared somewhere that this is the witching hour. Strange things happen around that time.

I don't know if this is really spooky, but a while ago while I was working at a LTC facility on the MN shift, there was a hospice patient that required total care. One night when I finished doing my rounds, I looked down the hallway and I saw this tall white figure come out one of the rooms and walked into another. I knew it wasn't my imagination, so I did not go down the hallway to try to find out who it could have been. At that time, the hospice patient came out of his room via w/c and wheeled to the nursing station and asked me which way did his wife go. I was not really familiar with the patient so I asked one of my CENAs about his wife, because I knew that there were no visitors on the floor and she informed me that his wife a past away a couple of years ago. I then asked the patient when was the last time that he had seen his wife, and he told me that she was in his room a few minutes ago, and told him to follow her. Needless to say he past the following day.

I was working as an aide in a long term care facility a couple years ago, midnight shift. We turned most of the lights off in the hallways so the residents could sleep. It was always a little creepy walking down the hallways anyway. But one night I was walking down to answer a call light and passed a room and heard someone talking. I went in and asked the only awake resident who she was talking to. Her reply was "Oh that man won't leave me alone and let me sleep. He keeps asking me to come down to the basement with him to read the bible." I smiled and joked with her for a minute before going on my way. Due to her dementia I never paid a second thought to it. She ended up passing a couple weeks later. We had a rehab patient in the bed after the dementia lady passed. The new admit was a 45 year old knee replacement. Her first night she asked for Ativan because she had a night mare about someone luring her to the basement to read a bible. I've had many things happen over the course of my career that still give me chills but for some reason the bible story always sticks out. Weird things remind me of it too often.

With halloween now over, does anyone have any ouija board stories?

I recently stayed at the Myrtles plantation in St. Francisville,la and was too scared to bring a ouija board. Like many, im fascinated about the idea. Please share:uhoh21:

My advice - stay the HELL away from ouija boards. (no pun intended). THis is a non-nursing related one, but to be fair in my waste of bandwidth I'll add a nursing one at the end.

I was in 6th form at school, which is the second to last year in NZL secondary schools (High schools). ANyway, my chums and I went into religion class and the Nun who took the class wasnt' there. We waited about 20 minutes before someone realised we'd probably get in trouble if we didn't go tell someone we were alone and teacher-less.

Next day the nun was back and she told us this story - some boys from a local all boys school had been playing with ouija in the basement of one of their buildings and the result had pocessed one of them so violently that he was screaming in a language he couldn't have known and was convulsing and vomiting black tar like substance. The other boys were equally affected - these boys were actually like 18! Anyway, the school wasn't religious so the principal contacted the nuns at my school and the priests from the all boys' Catholic school near by. Our religion teacher showed up and told us in detail about the exorcism and the mess the ouija board had produced on idiots who thought they were just a silly toy. She also had some photos.

I also happened to know the cousin of one of the boys and she told me her cousin was never the same after that event.

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I've only been working as a nurse since Sept, and this happened at my new workplace.

I was working the PM shift and we were pretty empty on the ward. The other nurse had gone to the toilet. I had to get a patient an IVAB so I went into the treatment room and started getting it ready - the other nurse had already checked it out with me before she left for the loo. (we have a 2RN check on all paeds, IV drugs and fluids). So I was reconsistitituting the augmentim when I heard someone calling out. I put the drug down and went to see what the noise was about. I went into the room where the yelling was and instead of yelling there was silence, in the bed by the window was a man asleep in the bed. I figured it was just a night mare or screaming in his sleep or something and went back to the IVAB. When I got in the room the IVAB was on the other side of the room. Also, I'd left the syringe connected to the vial so the powder could continue to disolve. I figured the other RN had returned and moved it around. I finished up and administered the drug and as I was comign out of the pt's room the other RN was walking up the hall - she told me she'd had diarrohea and that's why she was so late. She hadn't come back!

And then I found out there wasn't a man in the room I'd gone into where the screams were coming from! No one else had heard any cries, the pt in the room across from the "screaming" room hadn't reported anything!

Specializes in Med surg, Critical Care, LTC.

You're right about Ouija boards, they should never be used. They can open a portal that is then difficult to close, and you don't know if what may come through is good or evil. Seriously, don't use them

Blessinsg

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

these ghosties are the mosties.:up:

Specializes in LTC, hospital, office.

I absolutely love all the stories. Ouija boards totally creep me out, have never touched one and never will!

Specializes in Breast Cancer, Arterial, General Surgery.

I want everyone to feel sorry for me :wink2:

I have no nursing ghost stories. All my colleagues have them, but not me - *sigh*

Specializes in telemetry, medsurg, homecare, psychiatry.

One night while working on a telemetry unit. We had noticed that one of our telemetry monitors began to spontaneously spit out strips of heart rhythm readings. The strange thing was,:eek: the actual telemetry device that attaches to a patient was sitting in the drawer with no batteries. It was the only one that correlated to the one on the monitor, and rhythm strips. It was the only one left without a patient hooked up to it. We never could figure out that mystery.

thank God it was a normal Sinus Rhythm:redbeathe

About a month after his death, I had a very vivid dream. On a bright, sunny day, with puffy white clouds in an azure sky, I find myself walking down a street. Obviously a new street, as only new construction is visible. Several houses are going up, with many busy workmen about, and I hear the sounds of their talking and hammering as they pound nails in the wall partitions going up. As I pass the first house, my brother jumps down from the open first floor where he is either working or supervising and steps out to greet me. He motions to the house and tells me that he is building this house and that, when it is finished, I will come and live with him there.

That's all I remember, but it is the ONLY dream I've ever had that I can remember for more than a day or two - and this is 33 years later (yep, I'm "mature"). I cannot share this with anyone, for it makes me cry to think of it, which it does now. A few years ago, I finally shared it with my sister, who says she has had the same dream. I am convinced (and comforted by the thought) that when it is my time to pass, my brother will be there to greet me.

Polly, your dream (all the more compelling that your sister had it as well) is actually in line with the Word of God ..... Jesus tells us that He has gone to prepare a place for us - and that there are 'many rooms/mansions' w/in His Father's house - and when it's finished, He will return for us.

What a blessing to be given that dream - such comfort!

Iam interested in any ideas on putting my career in medical field and experience with computers together as a new career start.Any thoughts or ideas besides billing?

How about working for medical software companies?

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