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...

I'm not certain that this qualifies as a ghost story. But on a Med-Surg unit that I worked on several years ago there was a light that would dim really low, then flicker. When it happened we would say "go check you patients", you know as a sort of joke. Well after a while, there was a real noticable correlation between that light and the deaths that occured on that floor. I would say about 99% of the time on the 11p-7a shift when if dimmed then flickered someone was about to die or already gone. The floor has since been turned into a day surgery unit, and is closed at nights.

I need to STOP reading this thread. Every time I come back to it I end up sleeping with the lights and TV on because I'm terrified.

That link has too many stories! Anyone got any new ones?

At a former facility I worked at there was a room that was haunted by a "singing ghost." Every resident that stayed in it, whether they were AAO x3 or demented, would put on the call light in the middle of the night, freaked about the singing ghost. There were even some staff that REFUSED to go into that room at night (including myself). Management finally stopped putting people in it and just used it as a storage room.

Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Threads merged.

Specializes in geriatrics,med/surg,vents.

Not "going away",it was a coming home party

I was on the ACE (Acute Care for the Elderly) floor and I was sitting, looking down, flipping through my index cards and I heard a man say, "How do I get out of here?"

Without looking up, I said, "Follow the hallway all the way down, past the other nurses station and through the double doors that have an exit sign at the top of them. That'll lead you to the elevators, or as I like to call it freedom."

"Hmmm." is what I heard, still looking down, I chuckled and quickly added, "Don't forget to push the silver panel on the right side of the-" I looked up and no one was there.

I got up and looked over the counter down the hall and didn't see anyone on either side. My fellow student nurse came out of the room a little ways down the hall and I stopped her.

"Did you see anyone come down the hall?"

"No, why? did you lose somebody?"

"No, I gave directions to this guy, but I didn't seem him leave."

"Is that who you were talking to?"

"Yeah! Did you see him?"

"Uh, no. And I didn't hear anyone else either."

We both looked at each other and froze in our spots. Then the our instructor comes around the corner and says "What are y'all doing?"

"Uh, we finished assessing the patients, What else is next?"

"Do me a favor, make sure they cleaned the room there" She pointed to the room across from where I was sitting.

"I thought there was a patient in there.", My fellow student says.

"He died early this morning", the instructor explains, "Poor guy was so anxious, all he kept asking was how to get out of here."

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Specializes in Corrections, Cardiac, Hospice.

Just last night....Had a patient die and about 15 minutes later her sons came down the hall and asked if the electricty went out in all the rooms. Apparently, shortly after she died, the lights in the room all went out for a couple seconds, then went right back on. Now, in our facility when the electricity goes out, an alarm goes off. Never happened anywhere but that room.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
I was on the ACE (Acute Care for the Elderly) floor and I was sitting, looking down, flipping through my index cards and I heard a man say, "How do I get out of here?"

Without looking up, I said, "Follow the hallway all the way down, past the other nurses station and through the double doors that have an exit sign at the top of them. That'll lead you to the elevators, or as I like to call it freedom."

"Hmmm." is what I heard, still looking down, I chuckled and quickly added, "Don't forget to push the silver panel on the right side of the-" I looked up and no one was there.

I got up and looked over the counter down the hall and didn't see anyone on either side. My fellow student nurse came out of the room a little ways down the hall and I stopped her.

"Did you see anyone come down the hall?"

"No, why? did you lose somebody?"

"No, I gave directions to this guy, but I didn't seem him leave."

"Is that who you were talking to?"

"Yeah! Did you see him?"

"Uh, no. And I didn't hear anyone else either."

We both looked at each other and froze in our spots. Then the our instructor comes around the corner and says "What are y'all doing?"

"Uh, we finished assessing the patients, What else is next?"

"Do me a favor, make sure they cleaned the room there" She pointed to the room across from where I was sitting.

"I thought there was a patient in there.", My fellow student says.

"He died early this morning", the instructor explains, "Poor guy was so anxious, all he kept asking was how to get out of here."

:uhoh21:

Very interesting. Thank you.:up:
The 3 AM thing has something to do with it being half of 6 and 666 is the devil's mark. I'll do some poking around and find the exact answer. I'm with you on the black spirit Auntie...I freaked my sister out with the schroders_piano story too...but she's a nurse too.

I don't think 3am has to do with half of 6 or 666. I had learned (from some respected, deeply spiritual and mature Catholic teachers) that the reason for the 3am activity and reputation as a "witching hour" is that it is a mockery of the 3pm hour of death of Christ. Satan imitates and in his own way tries to "undo" God's work by inverting or doing the opposite. So we hear of things like upside down crucifixes, black 'masses' and the 3am witching hour (opposite of 3pm). Makes sense to me.

I know I am new here, and the last reply was a few weeks ago, but this is a very interesting thread I think :)

The LTC I work at now, has a few creeps to it.

We do in fact, have a death angel. A black female figure that stands around near a patient when the time is nearing for the pt to die.

We do have many cold spots, and black floating figures. I have only seen one of the black figures. In fact, it scared me half to death. I was with a fellow CNA on a hall during one of the dry rounds. And suddenly, felt somebody watching me and the other CNA. I turned my head, and there was a black figure hurrying by it seemed to a different room. The CNA and I went to this room, and checked on the resident - and the lights started flickering. This was very weird. Lets just say, me and the other aid did not stay on that hall much longer than we had to.

I have heard a story about a deceased resident from my hall, who was a devil worshipper. This guy died, but when he died, I am told that the aides found him with such a terrible expression on his face. He was so stiff when they found him dead. I would guess this is from the fear. When the heorifice came to get the guy, black clouds came through, but as the heorifice left, the clouds left. - I have been in this room, and it is always stuffy it seems, even with the air or fan on.

I just started working at this facility, when a very mean old man died. There has since been a few other residents in this same room, but for some reason, when I go into this room, especially in the dark, I can see red eyes glowing from the corner. Nobody else has said anything about seeing this, but i have never said anything, because I do not want people thinking I am crazy :)

The LTC I work at now, has a few creeps to it.We do in fact, have a death angel. A black female figure that stands around near a patient when the time is nearing for the pt to die.

Since everyone and their sister has a camera phone, many that can, in fact, record videos, please take some pics and videos of the death angel and get an interview with him or her if you can. That would be so great.

My favorite ghost story was told to me just this week. I have a friend who just graduated and started her first RN job working nights at an LTC. She has related quite a few ghost stories to me in the past and sure enough, just a week after she started her new job, she told me:

"This place is haunted."

I do a lot of hospice work and have been around dying people in hospice centers, nursing homes, and private homes at all hours of the morning, day and night. You'd think with the sheer volume of ghosts around and their unending proclivities for mischief making I would see SOMETHING.

But nooooooooo.....

Ghosts are jerks; they keep freezing me out and appearing for everyone else.

Happy ghost hunting.

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