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...

Sorry - I meant care_baer! See - the night is playing tricks on my eyes - lol :)

Specializes in med/surg and Tele.

For all of you new cna's that think going to the night shift is alot easier. It can be and then it can be a night that the devil himself conjured up. Night time is when all of the sundowners go crazy, when these people get some diff meds and people just genreally go nuts. People dont always sleep at night. Peple still are incontinent at night and they all need to go to the bathroom at some point through out the night. I have only worked in a hospital for my CNA job. People will die and you will walk in and see weird things that might startle you. It has happened to me so many times i cannot even count. You might walk into a room with a PT laing on the floor and thats a bit scary because falls are not good. But you just have to get your footing and you will be fine.

Specializes in L&D, Nsy/NICU, Med/Surg, UM, CM.

I was in an unoccupied pt's room getting it ready for an admission when I was slapped hard on the back. The room is small. There is no way someone could have snuck in w/o me knowing... besides, my back was to a wall. I froze and when I finally built up the courage to walk out, I turned to look and saw nothing.

Another night, I it looked like one of my co-workers was going into the supply room. I walked in after her to ask if I could do anything to help.... and there was no one. There was only one way in or out.

Close to that time, I was walking the hall making rounds. I walked by a room and saw my co-worker bent over a pt. I went to the nurse's station and there she was! There was only 2 of us, so when I asked her where she was the last 45 seconds, she said she had been there for the last 15 minutes charting. We 2 chickens walked back to that room but there was no one in the pt's room.

Other nurses began to complain of odd sightings so our supervisor called in the Hawaiian priest to have the floor blessed.

Hi RockinCNA8705,

Thanks for the info on nights - I appreciate it.

I am not interested in nights because I think it will be easier. It is the only shift that will work for me as I have someone to watch my daughter who is handicapped and I am in school during the day - just to that clarify point.

But thank you for your info - it was very helpful.

Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Threads merged.

Specializes in Home Care,Psych, Long Term Care.

Mrs.Doolittle,

Ghosts are fascinating to me but I would probably have a major Code Brown if something unseen slapped me on the back!!!!

I am curious about this part of your experience:

"Close to that time, I was walking the hall making rounds. I walked by a room and saw my co-worker bent over a pt. I went to the nurse's station and there she was!"

Did you get a good look at the figure in the room? I am wondering whether the ghost made itself look like your co-worker.

I remember hearing stories of nightwalkers or skinwalkers(cant remember which) when I visited Hawaii. People sometimes see the figures of the native Polynesian people, dressed in the old way,walking single file. Supposedly it is bad luck to look at them.

Specializes in Acute post op ortho.

We had an elderly, terminal woman in a room right next to the nurses station. One night we heard 2 distinct voices, it was around 3am & we all thought it was odd for a visitor to come at that hour. I went in to see what was going on & she was alone in her room.

When I asked her about the voices she said "oh, that was my husband, he just dropped by to see me. She passed the next night. I was breaking her chart down & something on her H&P caught my eye.

Her husband had been dead for 20 years.

We had an elderly, terminal woman in a room right next to the nurses station. One night we heard 2 distinct voices, it was around 3am & we all thought it was odd for a visitor to come at that hour. I went in to see what was going on & she was alone in her room.

When I asked her about the voices she said "oh, that was my husband, he just dropped by to see me. She passed the next night. I was breaking her chart down & something on her H&P caught my eye.

Her husband had been dead for 20 years.

Whatevs, they were probably just talking about her travel arrangements.

Specializes in Getting my LVN first, the onto my RN!!!!.

There is one room in the post partum unit of the hospital that always smells like men's cologne! When you enter the room, the door shuts without being touched, and the lights appear to be off from outside the building, when they are on on the inside!!! Creeepy! We have to warn the newbies from mentioning anything around patients!

Specializes in LTC private/CBRF.

I am currently taking CNA classes and our class's labs are split up between the nursing home the classes are in and another nursing home.

The other nursing home is where my mother was for a couple of months and where she died.

A fellow student and I were talking about where we would like to work after we are certified and he said, "I wouldn't want to work at 'DS'!" and he shuddered. "It's CREEPY!"

I told him I knew it was creepy. When my mom was in her last few weeks, my brother came to see her and she said to him, "Are you the angel of death, coming to take me away?" My poor brother was devasted.

"No, Mom, it's me, Tim."

And she told him there were people there for her -- often. She told me this also and mentioned dark and shadowy figures. As she was closer to death (liver failure from massive meds for congestive heart failure) she was foggy and confused and eventually had no idea what was going on. Of course that could have been much of it, but it made sense...

I don't know anyone that works there to ask just what goes on there at night, but I do know from spending many days and evenings there that her wing was very scary. When you'd walk down the hall away from the nurse's station, you could definitely feel "presences" and the air was very heavy and rather ominous. To leave the building at night, you'd have to take the elevator down to the first floor where there were a couple of offices and the cafeteria at the end of a VERY DARK hallway. The glow of the EXIT lights were enough to light the hall so you did NOT want to look! I would avoid looking down that hallway and walk so fast the other direction to the door that I practically ran!

*shivers*

I don't particularly want to work there either. Maybe that's why they pay so well and their pm/night differential is so great!!

Specializes in acute rehab, med surg, LTC, peds, home c.

My 1st job was 3-11 in LTC and we had a lady who would always ring a bell when she needed something instead of a regular call bell. After she died, once in while we would hear the bell, even though no one had a bell anymore. We would all tip toe down the hall together looking for a pt with a bell and could find none but we all heard it.

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