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.
How about working for medical software companies?

Not to be too much of a beach:cool:, but could you guys take this outside, the OT discussion that is.

Gracey

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.

We have an empty unit in our hospital currently. It still has supplies on it, so we go up there occasionally (actually daily) to snag some when we are out of something, especially on nights. One nurse went a-borrowing up there and saw a call-light on. :eek: It lit quite the fire under her tush, and she came right down again freaked out. I was tempted to go up there and cruise the halls but chickened out since no one wanted to accompany me. :no:

I was working in a nursing home that was having some "state" issues and one entire wing of the building was empty because we had temporarily lost Medicare patients. Anyway, we had to do rounds of every wing of the building every shift and I would not go to that wing alone because there was one room that the call light was always on. You could turn it off and get down the hall and it would come back on. It was so spooky!! When we got our accreditation back and got that wing filled with new patients, there was never a call light issue again.

My best ghost story doesn't involve a ghost but rather myself. I was working my usual wing on a graveyard shift. I was the only staff on the wing. I went to do rounds on a resident when i saw my own shadow on her door. My hart jumped about en feet in the air before i realized it was just my shadow.

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

Specializes in GENERAL.

While working as a student nurse on a florence nightingale ward on night duty, I noticed the TV which was above the door beginning to flicker on and off, at first this startled me, but then I thought I would just go down and switch it off at the plug, I very bravely walked towards the TV in the darkness and reached down to the switch, only to find that it was never plugged in, I ran back to the nurses station NOT SO BRAVELY!!

I was working a night shift in a nursing home, there were 3 floors in the home, at 3.30am a call bell sounded, I made my way up in the lift and along the darkened corridor to the clients bedroom.

I asked him if he was OK, he asked me if I could go upstairs to the room directly above his and ask the gentleman who was walking back and forward for the past 20 minutes to get into bed,as the noise was keeping him awake.

I reassured him that I would do this, I left the room and ran down the corridor to the lift and quickly pushed the button to the ground floor.

The client that had rang the call bell was on the 3rd floor.:confused:

I love your stories.

And, look forward to more in 2009.

I think it is important to make the last moments as peaceful as possible.

Someday it will be our turn.....

Hugs to you all !:redpinkhe

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!!

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