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...

My mom died about 2 1/2 years ago from breast cancer. Both my sister & have felt her presence and have had very vivid dreams about her throughout these past 2 years.

A few months ago, while my sister was waking up, she suddenly felt my mother's presence very strongly. She opened her eyes to find my mom (transparent) standing by her bedside. My mom smiled at her, turned around & walked out of her bedroom. My sister watched her (shocked) until she vanished.

I have so much more stories, but I just wanted to share this one.

Regards,

Julie

Specializes in ICU & LTC.

I work in LTC so we see a lot of deaths in our facility. One day we had a CNA on our wing who was walking with a resident from another wing. She hollared for me from down the hall that "Ann" was up in her room walking. ("Ann" had always been very unsteady on her feet and wore a pull alarm) I went down the hall quickly to see what was going on. "Ann" had passed away several days before. But this particular aid was unaware of it. Needless to say there was no one in the room when I got there. but the feeling walking into the room was as if someone was there with you and a very distict odor of her perfume ( could have been left behind yes). We both had goosebumps and and the aid turned white as a ghost (no pun intended). She swears to this day "Ann" was standing by the desk in her old room. hmmmm.

I know I've already made a post on this topic, but have had a strange experience since that I feel like sharing.

I currently work in a private rest home for the elderly while I am training to be an RN.

For the last 7 months I have been the HCA for my best friends grandmother (Friends is a plural as they are identical twins... the three of us have been very good friends for over 10 years).

I had not met my friends grandmother before she became a patient, but we spent alot of time talking about her grand children.. my friends.

I formed quite a close relationship with this lady, and she was a wonderful woman.

Last Friday night I dreamt in which a young man came to me and said that my friends grandmother would be joining him soon, and thanked me for looking after her. The dream was an incredibly realistic and vivid dream, and I was actually unable to sleep for the rest of the night, thinking about it.

I rang work first thing in the morning, and checked to see that this lady was okay. She was apparently fine, and I dismissed my dream as a just that, a dream.

I had a second dream on Saturday night, in which the young man told me that I should warn my friends so they could say their good-byes.

Again I rang first thing in the morning, and she was fine.

At work on Sunday night, I noticed that this lady was not in a good way. She was not active at all ( and had previously required minimal help with her cares) and was lying in bed, breathing in short shallow, very wet breaths.

I took her hand and looked into her face. At that moment, I knew that the dreams should not have been dismissed. Before I finished my shift at 9pm, I made a last trip into her room. I felt very strongly that this would be the last time that I saw her, even though I have seen many patients bounce back from being unwell. I again took her hand, and told said my goodbyes. I told her that I was very grateful that she was a part of giving me two of the best friends I am ever likely to have, and that she had made a special impact on me.

My friends grandmother passed away at 9.30 that night.

I had another dream that night in which the young man and a young woman approached me holding hands. The young man laughed at me and told me I should have listened when he warned me about the ladies passing.

The young woman told me that I shouldnt listen to him, and that she was grateful for the company that I gave her in the time in the home, and that she was also grateful that I had helped her grandchildren through difficult periods.

She then winked, and said ' your welcome'.

I received the phone call to say that she had died the next day, and while going through some old photos with my friends, I discovered a photo of the young couple in my dream... happy and holding hands.

I was sitting at the nurses station one night with another CNA and a resident was sitting in a chair across from the nurses station, there was a soda can sitting on the countertop and I looked over and it was spinning around like a barber pole. I yelled at the other CNA that I was working with to look at it and she froze in place the instant that she saw it.

Specializes in Surgical Intensive Care.

I have not personally experienced any of these things..Yet... However, there is a nurse that I work with that told this one and it still gives me chills.

She was working In SICU as an aide through nursing school and a very sick little lady had coded. They were doing compressions and intubating her and going through the motions (about 8 people in the room) when the RT doing compressions just stopped and froze all at once. His eyes were fixed on the window (which is even with the first story roof). One of the nurses asked him if he needed a break and he just shook his head, his eyes continued toward the window. Everyone turned to see what he was gazing at, and lo and behold, the little old lady that lay lifeless and cold on the bed before them was standing full of life in her attractive hospital gown on the roof. The nurse swears that all 8 of them saw the same thing. The little lady was pronounced dead shortly thereafter and so the story goes. Whether the nurse actually experienced this or it was read from a ghost story post, I think it's a good one....

It's also possible (and I emphasize the word possible rather than probable or likely) that merely by asking one's future that the future is altered in a negative manner. That is to say by seeking such information one may put one's self under greater influences from "negative" forces. Your mother may have considered this possibility if only at a subconcious, intuitive level. Analogies would include asking questions from a Quija board et (I am also reminded of the story of I believe it was Saul in the Old Testament who sought counsel from a dead ancestor only to be told accurately that he would meet his doom). I have read many accounts of people who "dabbled" in various ways with the "occult" and experienced incredible strings of bad luck (of course I have read perhaps an equal number of accounts where just the opposite occured). It makes me think of this song http://hit-country-music-lyrics.com/johnnycashlyrics-mancomesaround.html !

Also anyone who has enjoyed reading these first hand experiences might also appreciate this site http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/ which claims more than 9,000 ghoststories submitted as true, mostly first hand experiences.

I agree with you.

I believe that it increases the chances of being deceived by a menevolent (evil) spirit. I have never played with a oija board, been involved in a sceance, or contacted a "psychic".

I feel that if it is meant for me to receive a message from the spirit of a deceased person - the spirit will contact me directly.

Thanks for the website. I find paranormal research interesting.

I believe there are many who are truly "gifted". However, there

are also many who are deceptive and fraudulent.

Remember, our energy needs to go somewhere after we die....this thread is good!

After a busy evening in the long term care facility where I work, one of the nursing aids and I were doing a last check of all of the resident rooms, making sure all windows were closed, all residents were safely sleeping, etc. As we made our way up the hall, she went in one room, and I went in the next. I left the hallway door open to allow a bit of light into the room so I wouldn't have to turn on the overhead light, possibly waking someone. There was enough light so I could see all four residents were sleeping, windows were closed, etc. As I turned to leave, my eye caught sight of a glowing 'orb', which appeared to move across the room and disappear behind bedside curtains. Still wondering what I had just seen, I went back out in the hallway at the same time as my co-worker came out of the room she had been checking. At the same time, both of us said "I think I just saw a ghost!". Same words, same time! We had both seen this glowing orb....she saw it cross her room and disappear, as I saw it appear and travel across my room! We figured it had to be one of our deceased residents come back for a visit!

I'm not a nurse yet, but I have a hosp. ghost story. I was in recovery from an emergency surgery. While I was coming too I had two every attentive nurses always at my side. One was an older woman that had the softest hands she was rubbing my forehead softly while talking to me, waking me up from the anestha. After I fully woke up and regained my senses I asked the male nurse where the other nurse was, he told me there was no other nurse, I was his only patient. I'm getting cold chills just typing this out! lol

I am not a nurse yet, I'm currently waiting on an opening for NS but I've had several 'strange' experiences myself.

First one- I'm Catholic and was going through CCD in the 8th grade when we all went to the church to give our first confessions. I went into the confessional and was waiting for the priest when I heard what I thought was a big moth flapping around. I listened intently trying to figure out where it was. The more I listened the louder it got until I believed it was a small bird or something stuck in the confessional. During this, the priest had taken his spot and we were going through the confession. The whole time I'm thinking 'isn't the priest hearing this' it was pretty loud. The next week we went back to church and my CCD leader was speaking to the priest. I went over and asked them if there had been a bird stuck in the confessional the week before or what may have happened. They both looked at me sort of weird and when I described what I had heard they looked at each other and the priest said 'no, there wasn't a bird or anything stuck in there, but it's said that when the Holy Ghost comes to visit, it comes on the sound of wings.'

Another story- I went to visit my sister Lori in San Fransisco about 10 years ago. She was just engaged to her dh and when I got there I found out my other sister Sarah was also going to be there with her new boyfriend. We were all sitting around the living room eating when I got this overwhelming deja vu type feeling. I just KNEW someone was pregnant. I went into the kitchen and asked my sister Lori and my mom if SArah was pregnant. They looked at me sort of weird because SArah had JUST started dating her new boyfriend, but I just said I have this overwhelming feeling that Sarah is pregnant, or at least someone in this room is. A week later Sarah told us that she was pregnant and had just found out the day we saw each other in San Francisco.

Also, in my family and among my close friends I have been able to tell them what sex their baby will be. I've been correct 8 out of 9 times and only incorrect when my sister was pg with her second baby and I told her her third would be a girl (turned out to be a boy). But my sil- I told her she would have a little girl with curly red hair. Both her children were blond, and she and her husband had light brown hair. Sure enough, they have a fiery, curly headed little girl.

When that Susan Smith(?) girl drowned her two boys years ago, I saw her on TV, looked at my dh and said, she did it. A couple of days later I had a 'vision' of a car going into a lake and told my dh and a couple of friends that the cops should look in a lake in the area.

TG I've never seen a ghost, that would scare the begeezus out of me. I did tell my aunt after my gma had passed that I beleive people stop by and say goodbye before going on. She called me a couple of days later and said that although she hadn't believed me when I told her that, that night as she was lying in bed she felt someone sit on the bed beside her, and knew that her mother had stopped by to say goodbye.

I get chills reading all these stories, but I love them. I lost a baby almost three years ago and my daughter yelled up at God 'God, give my mommy another baby girl in her tummy', she was 3yo at the time and I found out I was pg again the next month, with a baby girl.

The weirdest thing that has ever happened to me in the hospital was about 22 years ago. We had just passed out all the dinner trays and we had gotton KFC . I told the other LVN and CNA's to go ahead and eat their chicken and I would watch the call lights. I was at the nursing station when a woman who was a patient walked up to me and said ," My roommate is choking.I asked her what room and she replied "Room 211B". I know I probably rolled my eyes at her because people always came up tell us that someone was choking and they really weren't. I started walking down the long hall thinking to myself " this woman is not choking, I'll walk real fast" then I thought to myself what if she is choking , I'd better run.then I thought this woman is not choking I'll wallk fast. and then I thought she might be choking I'd better run. Well when I got halfway down the hall I heard (and I don't heard voices) a man say "RUN"! His voice was loud and kind of vibrating but it didn't hurt my ears. I didn't even contemplate or question him. It was definitly a man's voice. If it was my own mind talking to myself I would hear my own voice.Anyways as I walked in the room I saw this little old lady and I asked her can you speak and she shook her head NO. So I got behind her in the bed and pushed her body a little forward so I could give her the hemlich. Being old she was a little stiff. So I then gave her one hemlich thurst. nothing happened, then all of a sudden it seemed like everything went in slow motion and I could see that her earlobe was cyanotic, a shade of light purple. I then gave her another abd. thurst and out flew a piece of meat. She was OK but we sent her to CCU overnight because she had some EKG changes. She came back to us the next day. To me it was not scary at all, if anything it was comforting. I don't know who it was but I believe it was a guardian angel. or Jesus or God. Whoever he was he told me to run and if I had been a few seconds late this little old lady would probably have died.

I also had a patient die in room 210B. A lot of the rooms were empty down at the other end of this hall. We had already cleaned her up , just waiting for the morturary to come and pick up her body and the other bed in the room was empty. I was at the nursing station when a call light went on. Guess who's light it was? It was the little old lady that just expired light's. I felt oh my god someone come down there with me and see what's going on down there. Another nurse went with me and sure enough the light was on and the lady was still expired. I turned off the light . I don't know who did it maybe the same guy that told me to RUN with the choking lady.

One of my coworkers told me whe was working at this really old hospital and had a patient in a back room on a vent and she was sitting nearby and thought she seen something in the corner of her eye. Then her patient's alarms on the vent starting going off like crazy. She said she went to his bedside and he had this very frightened look on his face and was shaking and freaking out. Since he was intubated. she gave him the notepad that he had and he wrote that a man that looked like a black shadow was hovering over his bed and was trying to get him. She said it was really creepy because she also said that she thought she saw something in the corner of her eye but didn't really see anything or anybody. I think that the patient did expired the next day.

Hi,

My friend told me when she was delivering her son she went into cardiac arrest and was hovering over her body and saw her grandmom and was told to go back, cause it was not her time yet. While she was hovering over her body she saw the medical staff doing cpr and one of the med students was so upset he threw up on the floor. After she was back in her body she asked the student how he felt, and everyone was freaked out that she knew he got sick since she was in cardiac arrest when it happen.

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