What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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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 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)

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

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

Specializes in OB, Med-Surg.

this one happened to me at home not long ago.....i was in that dreamy almost awake state of mind early in the morning and heard a woman whisper "tey tey". It sounded like jibberish and I paid no attention to it, thought i was dreaming. But when i was all the way awake, curiosity got the best of me and i googled the phrase "tey tey". And GUESS WHAT???? It is a hebrew biblical word which means "come with me" AAAGGGHHHHHHH!!!! I am glad I did not go! and i have tons more stories....all true

this one happened to me at home not long ago.....i was in that dreamy almost awake state of mind early in the morning and heard a woman whisper "tey tey". It sounded like jibberish and I paid no attention to it, thought i was dreaming. But when i was all the way awake, curiosity got the best of me and i googled the phrase "tey tey". And GUESS WHAT???? It is a hebrew biblical word which means "come with me" AAAGGGHHHHHHH!!!! I am glad I did not go! and i have tons more stories....all true

That was creepy. Lets hear some more.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
:eek: It definitely was creepy.
Specializes in OB, Med-Surg.

Ok you wanted more...here it goes....I guess I have had some strange experiences from very young. The crazy thing is I do not believe in ghosts and I think some of those so called "psychics" are lunatics. But things have happened I have yet to explain, like these:

1. The time when I was about 7 yrs old and left my favorite stuffed animal at my aunt's house. I was heartbroken and wanted to go back to her house to get him but my mom said no. I went to my room and sat against the wall, had my arms around my knees and laid my head down and cried my eyes out. As I was sitting there I heard out of no where this very calm sweet endearing male voice that sounded like it was in a canyon say to me "now don't cry about it". I instantly stopped crying right then and there and slowly got up and went to the window. I seen nothing but the beautiful sun shining through. There was no one there. No one in my room, no one outside my window. But I HEARD it clear as it could be. I have never heard that voice again but sometimes wish I could.

2. When my husband and I first moved into our house we live in now. We could hear all kinds of noises....file cabinets shutting ( and there weren't any ), chairs scooting across the tile floor in the basement, toys randomly playing themselves ( musical ones ), and the piano play by itself one or two notes. We ignored all of it and it all quit.

3. My daughter used to talk about the "friends" that lived in our basement, and she even drew a picture of them and their skeleton looking dog.

4. My son woke up aggravated one night and told me the man at end of his bed kept telling him to wake up each time he almost fell asleep. I told it/him/them/whatever to please stop and there was no more trouble.

5. The only one I have ever been afraid of is the one that tried to look like my husband. I thought it was him sitting on the end of the couch as I was coming down the stairs talking to him I noticed he was not responding to anything I said. I started to get ticked but just when I got close enough, he faded away. This same one climbed into my bed one night and I was so afraid. I knew it was not my husband and I thought if I made one move to let it/ him know I knew he was there i was in trouble!

Specializes in MED/SURG, ONCOLOGY, PEDIATRICS, ER.

Scary!! I can't live in a place like that!! : o

Ok you wanted more...here it goes....I guess I have had some strange experiences from very young. The crazy thing is I do not believe in ghosts and I think some of those so called "psychics" are lunatics. But things have happened I have yet to explain, like these:

1. The time when I was about 7 yrs old and left my favorite stuffed animal at my aunt's house. I was heartbroken and wanted to go back to her house to get him but my mom said no. I went to my room and sat against the wall, had my arms around my knees and laid my head down and cried my eyes out. As I was sitting there I heard out of no where this very calm sweet endearing male voice that sounded like it was in a canyon say to me "now don't cry about it". I instantly stopped crying right then and there and slowly got up and went to the window. I seen nothing but the beautiful sun shining through. There was no one there. No one in my room, no one outside my window. But I HEARD it clear as it could be. I have never heard that voice again but sometimes wish I could.

2. When my husband and I first moved into our house we live in now. We could hear all kinds of noises....file cabinets shutting ( and there weren't any ), chairs scooting across the tile floor in the basement, toys randomly playing themselves ( musical ones ), and the piano play by itself one or two notes. We ignored all of it and it all quit.

3. My daughter used to talk about the "friends" that lived in our basement, and she even drew a picture of them and their skeleton looking dog.

4. My son woke up aggravated one night and told me the man at end of his bed kept telling him to wake up each time he almost fell asleep. I told it/him/them/whatever to please stop and there was no more trouble.

5. The only one I have ever been afraid of is the one that tried to look like my husband. I thought it was him sitting on the end of the couch as I was coming down the stairs talking to him I noticed he was not responding to anything I said. I started to get ticked but just when I got close enough, he faded away. This same one climbed into my bed one night and I was so afraid. I knew it was not my husband and I thought if I made one move to let it/ him know I knew he was there i was in trouble!

Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.

I was working as a private duty nurse overnight, for a vent dependent child. The house was an old remodeled farmhouse. Mom and Dad slept upstairs. One night I heard a woman humming. The sound was coming from the ceiling in the room where I was sitting. At first I thought it must be Mom upstairs, but ordinarily I could hear nothing from upstairs. No TV, no coversation. The humming eventually stopped. I wasnt' afraid at that time, but I don't think it came from upstairs. Also, night in this house was extremely uncomfortable. All the lights out. Whenever I had to walk into the main part of the house I felt like there was someone watching me. I dreaded it. The client always wanted his door closed, and his face covered. I always wondered what he didn't want to see, or what he didn't want to see him. I asked the day nurse if she'd heard any other night nurses report haunting activity. She scoffed at me, so I never mentioned it again.

Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.

I love a good ghost story. I have more. One night at work, I worked at a hospoital at this time, I lost the stethoscope I had been using. It was another nurses' expensive littmann, and I was frantic to find it. I searched high and low, every room I'd been in. It was the middle of the night, and all my pts were sleeping. I entered a room in the dark, scanned the room and heard a voice distinctly whisper my name. It was as plain as day. I thought the pt had awakened, but she had not. I looked at the doorway and no one was there. I wasn't scared, but I left that room. Eventually, I found the stethoscope. Guess which room. The room where the voice whispered my name.

On the floor I use to work on we have four rooms at the end of the hall that are dedicated to Gastric Bypass pts. There was always freaky things happening in those rooms and of course they were at the end of a long hall. On several occassions the call light would go off when noone would be in the room. A few times we could here someone/something moving around in the room and we assumed maybe a family member or other staff went in to watch tv or something. We would investigate and noone would be in there. One time I had a pt in one of these rooms. I didnt turn the lights on to get her vitals at 2am but used the light coming from the hallway. As I was about to leave her room I heard the door at the end of the hall rattle like someone was trying really hard to open it. I can see it from her room and there is glass in the door so I didnt see anyone trying the door handle. I was so scared I called to the front from my pts room for someone to " COME GET ME". So everyone came rushing down thinking my pt was crashing or something. The pt asked if something was wrong and I lied and said no. I hurried out of the room and waited until I got halfway up the hall before I told my coworkers what happened. They all laughed at me and gave me a hard time for days...until the door rattled for someone else. I hated going down there. This is an old hospital that is over 100 years old and they also found a families human remains on the grounds about 10 years ago. Just a creepy little place. I have had other personal experiences, saw a ghost through an infants eyes once. I cant go into detail cuz I work tonight and dont want to set myself up for the creeps tonight.

Specializes in Army Medic.

Only ghost experience I've ever had was when I was a kid, and it scared the crap out of me.

Sitting in the bath tub at about 8 years old, and a bunch of slashes start going through the bubbles around me - like some one was slicing through the bubbles with their hands, karate chopping if you will - get out of the bath tub screaming. Run into my parents room, but they weren't in there. See a shadow outside the door moving by like some one was running down the hallway.

Found out a long time later when I was 18 that some one had murdered their kid in the houses bath tub. Still creeps me out, and I don't know how else to explain what happened.

Used to think I was feeling hands crawling up my legs when I'd sleep in bed at that place too, hear things whispering my name from under the bed. That could all be chalked up to an over active imagination - but thin air physically moving the water around that I'm in convinced me there are some angry ghosts out there.

When I get to the room, the other nurse is completely white. This man was sitting about 2 inches above the bed and was laughing. His whole look completely changed. His eyes just had a look of pure evil on them and he had this evil smile on his face. He laughed at us and said, " You stupid b****es aren't going to let me die will you?" and he laughed again. We were kinda frozen. I did reach up and hit the Code Blue button and when I did the man went into V-fib. He crashed back onto the bed. We started coding him, but after 20 minutes it was called. 5 minutes after the code was called several of the code team is in the room cleaning up when this man sits straight up in the bed and says, " You let him die. Too bad." and then begins laughing. The man collapsed back to the bed. We heard a horrible, agonizing scream ( actually every patient in the unit that night commented on the scream), and then you could hear "don't let me die" being whispered throughout the unit. Everyone of the nurses that night was pale and scared. No body went anywhere by themselves. By morning the whispers of "don't let me die" were gone. The night shift nurses had a prayer service in the break room before we left for home and then we all had nightmares for weeks.

I do NOT want to believe this is true. I am going to nightmares for weeks. My Goodness. I think I would have died myself (from fright).

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