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 LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
LOL... I took physics and always heard of ether as in reference to time and spaces and such.

I would like to say (uhmm) Ether is conscious gases-- but in nursing terms that would mean something totally opposite of what I am trying to difine LOL:lol2:

anyway here are a few of the definitions for it:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ether

Ether was used as an anesthetic for surgery when I was a child. It was used for my tonsilectomy in 1954.
Specializes in L&D; GI; Fam Med; Home H; Case mgmt.

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure Curious George got really high on it once.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure Curious George got really high on it once.
I don't know about that nor your sarcastic remark, but it was the primary general anesthetic that was used when I was a child. Just look, I'm 22 years your senior, which means I was an adult when you were born. A lot of medical advancement had probably already been created.
Specializes in Med-Surg/Trauma.
Yeah, and I'm pretty sure Curious George got really high on it once.

I remember that book!

Franemtnurse I don't think that comment was meant to be sarcastic or mean at all. Perhaps you just aren't familiar with the Curious George books. I read them as a child and there was one book where Curious George did get into the ether and the man in the yellow hat had to deal with all the hijinks that ensued. I had totally forgotten about that book-- thinking back on it maybe it wasn't the best thing to read to children :eek: (Boy that monkey sure did get into a whole lot of trouble)

Come on people keep the stories coming- I've read them all and want more, more, more!

Specializes in Labor/Delivery, Pediatrics, Peds ER.

We used to have a hand-held ether mask on a chain at a military base L&D, for precipitous deliveries. The patient could hold it to her face, supposedly could not get too much, as if she passed out, she'd drop it and it would be just hanging on the chain from her wrist. That was a real throwback! I also think they used ether on me when I had my tonsils out in 1967.

More stories, please! :)

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

Thanks Katie - I definitely did not mean to be sarcastic or rude, I was talking about the book! It was hilarious! Fran, sorry if you took my comment the wrong way - no offense intended.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
Thanks Katie - I definitely did not mean to be sarcastic or rude, I was talking about the book! It was hilarious! Fran, sorry if you took my comment the wrong way - no offense intended.
Thank you for your understanding. I'm the one who should apologize. I made a hasty comment without knowing about Curious George. Those books weren't around when my children were small.
Specializes in L&D; GI; Fam Med; Home H; Case mgmt.

No harm, no foul. Have a great day! :)

Specializes in Neuro.

For those of you who posted things about this thread being so spooky, I've got a funny story for you.

I was reading some of these posts last night before bed and was getting pretty spooked myself. Well, I went to help my five year step-son with his bath and he was talking. All of a sudden, he screams, "There's a human in here!" I screamed to the top of my lungs and whipped around to see what he was talking about. What did he see? A moth! Why is the world he said it was a human I have no idea, but it scared me enough to make me scream!

Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.

Since my shift got cancelled today I may as well start writing.

My Mum told me this story many years ago......

My grandma used to be a nurse way back in the olden days. She is dead now, & I don't think they ever had formal training then.

Well she used to live & work in an old miner's home (as in mining coal) when she was 15. Nobody really stayed at school in those days - at 14 years old or so you were sent out to work. She had done all her work for the day and was on her bed reading or whatever. Well this miner's home was really, really old & used to be an old mansion or something with a lot of history. Anyway my grandma felt a really cold wind all of a sudden & looked up at her sporificely furnished room, & got the biggest shock of her life. There was an old dressing table in the room, and this spirit/ghost in very old fashioned dress (like a ballgown) drifted through the stone wall, sat down at the dressing table, & started brushing her hair (my grandma couldn't remember if the brush was one the ghost had or the one on the table). Anyway my grandma just stared at this lady, who dreamily gazed in the mirror brushing her hair. My gran wasn't scared or anything but the room had turned very cold. Well this ghost sat there for a few minutes, finished brushing her hair, looked at my gran, smiled and drifted out through the wall. My gran said she could see THROUGH this ghost, & she was never scared. She never told anyone, feeling that it was something private. She ended up moving on, changing jobs, getting married etc but never forgot this experience, because she just felt calm.

She had many ghost stories she told my Mum. I often wish she was still alive so I could get more!

Specializes in med-surg, MCH home visiting.
I think that a very creepy but fun thing to do is to visit an old mental hospital that has been shut down for years, and see if there is any paranormal activity there, especially at night.

why? people die everywhere. is it suppose to be creepier because they were mentally ill??

Specializes in med-surg, MCH home visiting.

i used to have a friend that lived in savannah GA and i went down there to help her get ready to move out. the reason she and her 2 other room mates was leaving was because every night the one girl would wake up in the middle of the night screaming and feeling as if someone was choking her. she said it felt like a man and he was a dark figure and he would whisper "die b**** die" in her ear. then the room mates would rush into her room and there would be no one there. one day my friend was alone and in the bathroom and she heard a man whistle in her ear and when she looked around and found no one she heard a man's voice laughing. the last straw was one morning they woke up and on the hall closet door was a child's writing all over the bottom half of the door. in the middle was a drawing of a house which looked like kinda like the house they lived in with an X over one of the rooms and all around the drawing in a spiral was the words "i see i see i see i see i see" and in the middle by the house drawing was a big "YOU" so it said " i see i see i see i see YOU". they tried painting over it and it wouldn't disappear. i saw this with my two own eyes when i was there to help her pack. i almost passed out when i heard the story and saw the drawing.

omg.i really wish i hadn't read this one. that's too damn scary to read by yourself :uhoh3:

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