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 L&D; GI; Fam Med; Home H; Case mgmt.

I agree with you - it wasn't only the creepiest story, it was very powerful from a spiritual perspective. I have come face-to-face with evil before and it is absolutely real. What I pray is that these women (and men if there were any) took that occurrence and used it to either strengthen an already existing faith, or to come to realize that the spiritual realm is just as real as the physical one - and as they witnessed - the two can cross over one another. I think God permits these things so that people who are resistant to Him will be unable to deny the truth of good and evil; God and satan. He does not will evil though - the man who was possessed had most likely allowed evil into his life and simply would not surrender to the truth of God and accept Him. As they saw first-hand, satan will claim whomever has given themselves to him. And denying God is giving oneself to satan, whether anyone wants to believe that or not. It is really sad what happened in that hospital room. I wish it never happened.

Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

Not a hospital ghost story, but one that happened to my non believing son. He, at the time, was living in a dorm called Kamola on a college campus in Eastern WA. I guess there is a ghost there called Lola.

Lola was a young woman that lost her fiance to the war back around the turn of the century. She went to the attic of Kamola and hung herself.

My son scoffed at the stories and for months never heard a thing. Then one day he had a friend come dashing into his room, telling him to come quick. He raced to her room to hear this horrible scraping noise. They both lived on the third floor and Lola killed herself on the 4th. The noise was coming from above. An entire floor that had not been used in over 30 years.

Another time, shortly there after, my son went to take a shower. He always left is door unlocked to his dorm room. Many times, he'd go back and find it locked. He had to hunt down the RA to open up the door for him until he got smart and just took his keys with him.

The last straw for him, was a window that normally stuck and you had to use both hands to push it down. He was on the phone to me, when suddenly I heard, "OMG!" and then banging and crashing. I asked him what had happened. He said he was sitting there talking to me, when he saw his window slam shut. He jumped from his desk, knocking his junk aside and finished the conversation outside. He moved out 2 weeks later and never went back.:lol2:

I used to tease him and when I'd visit, I'd sing the Barry Manilow song that had the lyrics, "Lola, she was a showgirl" but replace it with "Lola, she was from Kamola". I'd do it while walking down the dorm hallway. I never made her mad enough to come out. ;)

Anyway, they closed the top floor of Kamola back in the 60's. They had way to many people hear crying and chairs scraping. The dorm is overflowing, but they won't open up that top floor to remodel it. It will remain sealed.

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

I agree with you - it wasn't only the creepiest story, it was very powerful from a spiritual perspective. I have come face-to-face with evil before and it is absolutely real. What I pray is that these women (and men if there were any) took that occurrence and used it to either strengthen an already existing faith, or to come to realize that the spiritual realm is just as real as the physical one - and as they witnessed - the two can cross over one another. I think God permits these things so that people who are resistant to Him will be unable to deny the truth of good and evil; God and satan. He does not will evil though - the man who was possessed had most likely allowed evil into his life and simply would not surrender to the truth of God and accept Him. As they saw first-hand, satan will claim whomever has given themselves to him. And denying God is giving oneself to satan, whether anyone wants to believe that or not. It is really sad what happened in that hospital room. I wish it never happened.

I know exactly what you mean. Hopefully, many who have rejected God will submit to Him and accept Jesus as their Savior. He died so we could have access to eternal life. What an awesome deed. One we should always be grateful for.
Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

Tokmom, that was a creepy story too. I'm amazed they even use the building.

I just joined this site today and I realize this post is off topic but I was wondering if anyone could help me. I am in the process of taking the NCLEX (waiting for my ATT letter) and I need to get in touch with the Board of Nusing of my state (which is California). I cannot get in touch with them by phone. I have called over 50 times in the last couple of weeks and just get a message that says "we are experiencing a high volume of calls and cannot take your call right now". Then I get disconnected. Does anyone on this site have any advise for me regarding how to get in contact with the board (short of sending a registered letter or driving the 400 miles to talk with them). Please help...Thanks

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

scroll down to the bottom of this page to the NEED HELP link. There you will see a link to the Information Center and FAQ. Log onto that link. You most likely will find what you are looking for there.

Specializes in ICU, Float RN , Quality & PI.

i worked in ICU straight out of grad school. I had a patient who was dying and was all alone. The family was there early in my shift. (7p-7a) We informed them he wasnt going to make it through the night. They left anyway and told us NOT to call through the night. They said they will call in the morning to see if he passed. They also told us they didnt need to see the body just send it along with his belongings to the funeral home. I thought to myself, "you have got to be kidding me! how can you leave your loved one. i felt sick for the patient." anyways long story short he was a DNR went into lethal rhythm brady down and passed. Once i saw the monitor I did not want him to be alone in his last moments. I asked the charge nurse to come in with me. We held his hand as he passed away. I was very emotional for me being i was new at this. We completed postmortom care and as you all know there are 3 tags. one goes on the toe and one goes on the outside of the bag after it is locked and the other goes with the belongings. We filled all 3 tags out. I personally put tag on his toe. had my charge double check it. We closed the bag double checking the tag was still on the toe. Once the bag is closed the tag ties through the zipper so it can not be opened with out taking tag off. The other tag was on the outside of personal belonging bag tied tightly. The supervisor came to get the body and took it to the morge. Shortly after she left house keeping came in to clean the room. They brought me out a tag filled out with his info on it. I looked at the charge nurse she said oh it must have fallen of the bag. She called the supervisor and the bag tag along with the personal item tag was intact. It was very freaky because I filled the tags out there were 3. I put toe tag on it was secure and double checked prior to zipping the bag. The other 2 tags were in morge. Where did this tag come from? How did it get off the toe and out of the bag???? it was a cold chilloment for me.....

Thanks

some of these story are freaking me out but thanks for sharing your experiences with the paranormal with us : )

wow, that must have been a very special experience.

Specializes in Med/Oncology, Emergency, Surgery.

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I love this! Keep 'em coming!

Specializes in Corrections, Cardiac, Hospice.

Not so much a ghost story, but interesting none the less... Had a patient recently transfer from a hospital that was completely unresponsive for 3 days. 6 hours into her stay at my facility she woke up, looked her daughter straight in the eye and said "Where is Bill, he needs to know he is going to have a heart attack!" (Bill was the patient's youngest brother) Daughter asked what she should do and I highly recommended she call her Uncle Bill and tell him to make a call to his cardiologist. Would you ignore such a message?

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