What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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...

[I_LOVE_TRAUMA, RN]

We had an extremely slow night once when I was still a PCT on the PCU unit. One nurse brought a laptop and we fiddle around on youtube (after rounding on our very few patient's of course). Well, we got to looking at one of those "Screamer" vids (the ones where an ugly face pops up at the end, screams, and forces you to go the bathroom to check your' drawers). Now, I realize it was probably the video making me sense things, but I was in the hallway, the lights were dim, there were no patients on this end (I was emptying a linen cart); I sensed something behind me, I saw a shadow on the wall, I turned.....no one was there.... I went back to the nurse's station real quick:D

There are also stories about the floor I work on now, water turning on by itself and so on....

If I had time, I'd tell about the time we pranked a co-worker who had just seen "Paranormal Activity".....

aww, no fair...you have to tell us now...you can't tease us like that

[JC_Smith2009]

I also have a story, not sure how spooky it is, but it will raise your faith alot. I am not a nurse yet but my father about 3 years ago was admitted to the ER then to the ICU due to a sever car crash. He was in a coma for a few days and when he came to, a few days later he told me about what he saw when he was asleep. He said that he saw angels and the well known bright light, but he said he knew it was not his time yet. Well then, the strange part comes to when he says that he had seen the devil and the devil handed him a pipe to smoke out of and my father refused to smoke out of the pipe, then he came to. A quick history about my father, he did smoke ciggarettes and pot back in the day and I personally think this could have been his test, and then and there he had to make a choice and I think his choice gave him life again. He was in very critical condition, to this day he is still disabled, but I will not ever forget that story that he had told me. Makes you realize life is much more beyond just what we see.

[poopyhead]

when i worked in Singapore,in our ICU that particular room was really famous for that kinda stuff. so one day we had this old lady who was really sick for CHF and she was barely able to move her hand and stuff was put in that room. we thought she would be gone anytime soon. all in sudden the next morning she woke up and went out of control. the nurses on day shift gotta put her on full body restraints cos she tried to bite and attack nurses. After taking over shift that night, i tried to do assessment on her as she looked calm and sleepy. while I was assessing the NGT placement, her eyes suddently opened with that green evil look and said she's gonna eat me up and tried to bite me with her mouth wide open. the way she talked to me was like those ppl who were in chinese opera kind of tone. (she spoke chinese) i was so scared and ran out of the room. that very same night she passed away. the very coincident thing was that i had fever the next morning and came down with severe abd pain. i ended up going for the emergency op for my severely bleeding ovarian cyst on that night.. thank godness was able to be discharged within a week... I didnt believe those nurses' ghost stories before. after this incident, i was like 'hell yeah, they exist'.

[imsodizzy]

I saw a patient in the afternoon that I didn't know went to cardiac arrest & died in the morning.

[nunnurse1]

Now that is scary!

[rumorasit]

Holy cow! No more posts?? What am I going to read now? I've been reading this thread for the past week or so!

[arnie1234]

scary mary! You just made the hair on my neck stand up. Crrreeeepppy!!

[Faith283]

bumpity bump any more stories??

[mondkmondk]

Yes, more stories please people!!! As an avid fan of anything to do with the paranormal, (you should see all the paranormal shows on my DVR) and as a nurse of many years...I love reading these stories!

Blessings, Michelle

[NurseNinaFla]

One night at the nursing home while flushing a GT I saw a ghostly white figure floating in the hall (the small hall of a 4 bed group) I checked all 4 patients..knowing none of them could walk but just to make sure and they were all in their beds asleep,also checked all the staff members,none were wearing white that night (again just to be sure

also in the dietary dept at night it literally sounds like they are working in there,pots and pans rattling sounding like they are being thrown about,again no one is there it is the middle of the night,one night it was so bad about 5 of us went in with our flashlights and checked every nook and cranny and nothing was out of place,this has been going on for years,I don't even pay attention to it anymore

[pashark]

I am a nursing student so this is not a nursing ghost story, but, it is pretty creepy. When I was a teenager, I spent the night at a friends house. It started off as a typical night until his little sister came up and kicked me. I asked her why and she told me her "invisible friend" Jullian told her to do it. My friend just shrugged and said she has been blaming her imaginary friend for everything. Her weird behavior continued for a while until she picked up a bible that was on the coffee table. She screamed and started to cry dropped the bible and said,"Julian is mad at me now and won't play with me anymore." As soon as she finished saying that, every light in house went off at once. I did not stick around to see what happend next. (I never went back to his house either)

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

That is creepy, and I don't blame you for not wanting to ever go back there again. I wouldn't either.