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 Obs & gynae theatres.

The dead can't hurt you, only the living can.

1. I am not a nurse but my experience is hospital related. In the summer of 2001 I was going to the hospital to get all pre-op info for my hystorectomy. While at Anethesialogosts on the first floor (Near the ER and ER operating room) of the hospital I was waiting for the nurse to finish up the paperwork she was addressing. While sitting at the desk, I saw a woman in the hall walk into the womens bathroom. I needed to go and thought wow this will be fast, I can go now instead of waiting , so I excused myself. I never took my eyes off the bathroom door. I walked in fully expecting one of the stalls to be occupied or someone washing and there was no one in the bathroom. Whomever went in there just before me just vanished. I looked under the stalls and opened the stall doors... Nothing!

2. Perhaps my mind was playing ticks. I don't know. I have however had another event I know was unexplainable as I had a witness. I was 12 yrs old and we had just moved into our new home my parents had just built. My brother was old enough to work but did not have a drivers license yet. My sister age 9 at the time who was at home with just me while my parents left to get my brother from work. We were getting ready for bed. Her room was right next to mine and our brothers room was right across the hall from my room. As I was preparing for bed I was brsuhing my hair in front of my dresser mirror and was looking deep into my own eyes (the pupils) I was trying to envision what I would like being an old lady someday by just focusing on my eye and letting the rest of my face come out of focus. Thats when I heard a womans sobbing coming from outside my door. I called out to my sister but there was no answer and the sobbing stopped. I opened my door there was no one there. I walked over and knocked on her door and I asked her why she was crying. She opened her door and told me she was not crying. Just before she closed her door we both heard squeeking coming from my brothers room. I turned on the hall light to see and we both stood there aghast at what we saw. The corner of my brothers bed was bouncing, box springs and all and with each depression you could hear the springs squeeking. It was fast and furious. We both ran into my room and huddled on the bed until my parent came home. We have no pets, we were the only ones home and there is no explaination for the chain of events that happened. I slept with my light on for a VERY long time.

3.We stayed at a haunted bed and breakfast at Gettyburg. We had the whole down stairs to ourselves. Everyone was alseep and I ventured about in the house trying to catch EVPs, I then focused on my eyes in the a mirror and tried to see if perhaps this could trigger an event since I belive that might have triggeredwhat happened in my childhood. It turned out to be non eventful and I gave up and crawled into bed next to hubby who was sound asleep. Before I was able to drift of to sleep, right next to hubbys head around the night stand area inches from his head I heard a clanging of a chain against some other object. Sounded like a small pull chain like ones on a lamp, and it sounded like it was claging against the lamp. My husband is a sound sleeper and even this woke him up. As soon as he asked "what is that" we heard the chain hit the floor. We turned on the light and saw the lamp had no chain on it and never did because it is a switch lamp. We looked all over for anything that would have caused this ( under the bed, behind and under the night stand, all over the room. we found Nothing. When I retuened hom I listened to the EVP's not expecting to hear anything and biy were we in for a suprise! We hard loud healed boot stomping as if pacing back and forth and constant repition of GET OUT. Get out... stomp stomp stomp.. GET OOOUUUT! sometimes it was closer to the recorder other times it would stomp off and sound distant. Just kept repeating "get out" with one so loud that I thought the speakers were going to burst, also occasional bangs and what sounded like furniture banging and sliding.

Please forgive my typos I really know how to spell better than this (except anethesiologist). It is very late here and my head is about to hit the keyboard. I just typed too fast and decided to go to bed without correcting.

Well I tried to go to sleep and I keep wanting to come back for more to read. I have the EVP on my PC and have uploaded it if you want to listen. I will warn you TURN YOUR SPEAKERS TO LOW it is VERY loud.

This recording is from my stay as mentioned in the post above at a haunted B&B. This is the one I said was VERY LOUD. It sounds to me like "GET OUT.. NOW" in a very angered male voice. I have other EVP's from this recording session that I will post a link to it if I can remember where I saved the others on myPC. This recording was at night and the house was quiet.

Link to EVP http://www.ebaumsworld.com/audio/play/80924324/

after reading so many of yours, i feel comfortable sharing a few "experiences" ive had, and had shared with me, without you all thinking im crazy :dzed: ...in chronological order, present to past...

  • i work at a SNF/rehab... i havent seen anything personally but one night one of my A&Ox3 guys was very upset/anxious. he told me a woman came into his room the previous night, he said that he thought she was a new CNA who didnt know he was independent for toileting, told her he didnt need @ which point she came closer- staring at him as her face became increasingly distraught. she then vanished. he described her to the housekeeper, the next person he saw. she said, "i know her, she used to work here." when he told me about this, i mentioned it to one of the CNAs on duty with me, who has worked there for about 10-15 years. she told me other people have seen this woman @ our facility, that the woman was restorative staff about 10 years ago & worked alot because her husband was abusive & she preferred overtime to going home to him. she murdered by her husband.
  • the above experience by that resident led a bunch of us to talking. one of the nurses told me she was working 11-7 one night and that there was a married couple on one of the units. the wife passed away and about a week later, 2 nurses & a couple CNAs saw a woman in white go into the room that the couple were in. they started to walk down the hall to investigate, the call bell went off. when they got to the room, there was no woman but the man (the husband) had CTB.
  • i live in a side by side duplex, across from a HUGE cemetary. since we moved in ive gotten "weird" feelings. one night i was trying to fall asleep in bed- my fiance was downstairs on the couch. one of my dogs was sleeping with me & he jumped out of bed & was staring in the hallway, which kind of roused me. then, i swear something pulled my hair. hard. it freaked me out, i tore down the stairs & promptly had an asthma attack because i was so freaked out. our neighbors (2 girls, 1 guy) moved in about 2yrs after we did. when they first moved in they asked if anything weird has happened, because the one girl had a really bad nightmare. she was walking to the guys room afterwards, he was already awake because he heard a scream... the 2nd girl was awake in her room, in between the 1st girl & the guys rooms- she heard nothing.
  • my best friends younger brother, who was also my fiances best friend was killed last march. the following things have happened since then, i dont know if its related to him or not. our ipod docking station has turned on twice by itself (once to a track on the ipod, once to the radio). another time, we were sitting on the couch, and heard "at the next turn make a left, then turn right..." our freaking GPS turned itself on. from in a basket on the bottom shelf of the coffee table. the only thing that i truly believe was related to our friend, was a shooting star i saw one night, when i was outside talking to him a couple of months ago. i texted his mom & she told me she had seen one about an hour prior.
  • i was an aide for individuals with MH/MR. one of my residents had a bowel obstruction, he perfed & was sent out but it was too late & he died. he was one of my favorites, he would hide my pen under the couch. he also had pica & would get on the ground if you werent looking to pick up lint. there was this one block that he always picked out of the bin, he didnt try to eat it but he would mouth it & roll it in his hand over and over. after he passed, i started nursing school & was working 11p-3p on the weekends. at about 1a i would start cleaning, there were a couple times where i would look @ the floor & note that it needed swept, go on to dust & when i got the sweeper, all the lint was gone. i found "his" block under the bed that he used to have on multiple occasions. and wouldnt you know, my i lost my pen & found it under the couch (that i never sat on) @ least once a weekend.
  • when i was a teenager, i spent many nights awake in my room. i would hear childrens voices- playing, singing- coming from the vent that led to the basement. im bipolar & i started to have symptoms in my teen years, so i never told my mom about the voices because i was afraid she would think it was psych related. (ive been diagnosed & stable on meds since i was about 18)... well when i was about 22, my aunts friend came for thanksgiving & he was talking about ghosts & stuff. he said he felt a "strong presence of children" and asked if he could take pictures in our basement. no lie, he was a weirdo & i do think he was full of it BUT if he didnt bring this stuff up, my mom wouldnt have ever told me that she used to sometimes hear children playing as she fell asleep. oh & by the way, we found an old headstone in the backyard- it probably was stolen from a cemetary but hey... :uhoh3:

an aside, its interesting to me... alot of my pts do talk about kids. one in particular has gotten herself in a tizzy a few times because of it- "what are we going to do with all these children?!"... i just figured that she thought the other oldies were children, but after reading all these stories about "the children," im not so sure.

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

Cherry, you need not be concerned about being judged for being crazy. None of us is perfect. I have had ghost experiences too, and have mentioned them earlier in this thread.

Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.

Was it the Cash Towne Inn?

No nursing ghost stories but I do have two myself. When I was a teen I used to share a room with my 12 years younger sister. Sometimes, for reasons unknown, I would wake up in the middle of the night. A couple of times I woke up in the night and just glance over at my sister, I would see this very tall figure around like 6.5ft or so, blonde hair, very broad and Goliath-like. He would be standing over my sister as if protecting her, I thought to myself that I better not look too long because he might sense I was watching and look over to me which I did not want! I would pull the covers over my head until daylight and hope the thing went away which it did.

Then I was overseas once. I was camping, sleeping in a tent pitch black couldn't see the nose on your face. I awoke alone in the tent to sounds of small giggling above me. Well when I looked up I saw two very small figures perched high on one of the tent poles. At first I thought it was people fixing the tent, but then they were really small, and I'm like why would they be perched that way. It didn't make sense. Though pitch black I could see them and they me. They looked like little demons or something. They looked down at me knowing that I had noticed them. I hollered out for Erica, this girl that was supposed to be in there with me, she wasn't. I must've passed out with fright until the next morning. I never told them what happened in that tent that night.

imintrouble, we stayed at the "Battlefield Bed and Breakfast". It is located on the battlefield and very close to Devils Den. I had thought about staying at the cashtown inn but it was a bit farther away than I wanted to be from the battlefield. I hope to go back there again. I am very sesitive to paranormal happenings. I find it intriguing yet also feel like im playing with fire for personal religious reasons, so im somewhat reserved about making inquisitive attemps at things like that again. Human nature keeps us curious.

Specializes in ARMY MEDIC.
I know several. I'll share more later if there is any interest:

We had a black girl, about 10 in ICU that was severely injured in a car accident. Lots of brain damage. She didn't die there but was moved to another facility after weeks and weeks.

After that, I know of 3 older black males, in their 50's, that, if they were even mildly sedated, would ask about the little black girl with the ribbon in her hair who was sitting at the foot of their beds.

One guy said, "she asked me how I was doing, and then got up and walked that way" while he was pointing towards the 2nd floor window. He paused, a wide-eyed look came over his face, and then he said, 'But I guess she really couldn't have left the room that way, huh?"

Personally, I think she was taking care of grandfatherly figures.

I worked in an ICU where a prisoner convicted of murder died in ICU 1 - and nobody would put a patient in that room after that cause the air was too heavy and the room was too spooky and 'dark'. It was so bad (nurses would refuse to put patients in the room even if it was the last available bed; they'd triage out a patient before they'd trust putting a patient in that bed 1), that the hospital eventually closed down the room and knocked out a wall to make it a separate entrance into the unit.

I used to collect ghost stories: I know several.

~faith

Timothy.

Do tell!!!!:yeah:

I have a few other stories all though this is about my two aunts. She was being cared for by another aunt (her sister). My aunt wasnt expected to live much longer and had Parkinsons. Because of Parkinsons she spilled her drink on the carpet and her sister who was apparently overly stressed out caring for her made a comment "Ohhh... thats new carpet" and went quickly to clean it up. The Aunt who spilled the drink felt very bad about it, and was assuerd its ok. She passed away a few months after. Not long after her passing late at night the aunt who cared for her was in bed, the house was quiet and the distinct sound of rubbing on the carpet was heard it sounded like someone spot cleaning the carpet. Not only did she hear this but her husband aslo heard it. A week later they were sitting at the counter eating lunch when they both caught a glimpse of my deceased aunt leaving the bedroom where she died, she was wearing her black winter coat and went right out the garage foyer door (which was the width of the hall apart from bed room to garage door). They both saw her and they heard the door shut. Apparently my deceased aunt came to get her coat that she left in the guest room across from the garage entry.

Also another aunt of mine who had adopted children was finally able concieved a child. It wasnt long after that she learned her husband had cancer. He was in remission more many years before subcoming to it, he was able to watch his daughter grow up as a young girl. During this time this baby apparently had a gaurdian angel watching over her (atleast that what my aunt always called it) Whenever photos were taken, there was a aura/ glow present above her head. She told me of one event where she was warming milk but had carried the nipples and rings for the bottle into the nusery and set them down on the bed. She took up the baby and went to check on the milk and when she came back to the nursery the nipples and rings were gone. This happened many times and my aunt knew she wasnt going crazy. At one point she demanded that they be put back and that when she comes back into the room they had better be there. She left the room came back and there they were right where she originally put them. Only the girls in the house could experience the strange events they guys never did.Things like vision being obstructed while trying to watch tv, Piggy bank sliding across the dresser and crashign to the floor, Door handles being jiggled and not being able to open the door for it to suddenly release and no one is there. My neice has since moved off to college and now her roomates are having to deal with simular events.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
My aunt wasnt expected to live much longer and had Parkinsons. Because of Parkinsons she spilled her drink on the carpet and her sister who was apparently overly stressed out caring for her made a comment "Ohhh... thats new carpet" and went quickly to clean it up. The Aunt who spilled the drink felt very bad about it, and was assuerd its ok. She passed away a few months after. Not long after her passing late at night the aunt who cared for her was in bed, the house was quiet and the distinct sound of rubbing on the carpet was heard it sounded like someone spot cleaning the carpet. Not only did she hear this but her husband aslo heard it.
I bet your aunt's sister regretted even mentioning about the spill, and didn't realize how much your aunt was really affected.

I think these stories are intriguing, and after a while you do get used to them if they aren't ghoulish. I know, I have experienced a few myself.

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