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...

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when working at a maximum security forensic hospital for the criminally insane, i had the scare of my life! another nurse and myself entered the hallway where a psychologist had been murdered and a social worker had been held hostage and raped by 3 patients that had gotten into the locked area. this incident had happened many years before. we had to use the bathroom and when we entered we noticed that the hallway was extremely quiet, all the doors to the offices were locked and we made sure we locked the two doors we entered. as i unlocked the bathroom door, i heard a male voice moan loudly! i didn't want to appear crazy so i slowly went to close the bathroom door because i wasn't about to go in there! as i closed the door there was a heavy sigh from this same male voice! as i locked the bathroom the door i asked my fellow nurse if she had heard "that". she looked at me in shock and stated she had! we slammed the door shut, ran down the hall, unlocked one set of doors to get out and then got out the last set of doors to the main hallway! we were so scared that we had to call security to come and check out the hallway where we had been. they checked every office and the bathroom and told us that there was no one anywhere in that hallway. needless to say neither of us ever went down that hallway again unless it was daytime and there were numerous other people in the hall. i know that male voice was the voice of the psychologist that was murdered there as he tried to save the social worker from those 3 insane patients!

this scared me.....

working in that place must have take alot of courage...

like ur dealing with criminals who are murderers and insane people!

i don't think i would ever want to work in a place like this...

i dread our psyc sem. although it's much better than this....lol

My mother died last year in one of the ICUs in the hospital I work at. Our family came to accept she was not going to ever come back to us so we made the decision to take her off life support. I was there holding her hand as she passed and did not see any of the black shadow people or felt any presence like other people in this thread have. Just before she died a RN came in and said they needed the bed and my mom would be moved to a private room in the step down unit to pass. I work on the step down unit and said to my mom (who was in a hepatic coma) "please don't die on my unit because then I will forever have to walk in that room and be reminded of this". Well not 3 seconds later she let go and passed away, after she had been off the vent 13 hours and hanging on. An amazing example of how a mother protects their own until the end. Since then I sometimes feel a heavy feeling over my shoulder when charting at night like someone is standing right there. It sometimes makes me feel dizzy and there's always a cold spot that accompanies the feeling. I had a baby 5 months ago and have his pictures all over my Kardex binder. Many times late at night I feel that same heavy presence and cold spot around where I lay my book. It makes me want to cry because I always wonder if that is my mom looking at her grandson and if she is trapped here in the hospital instead of moving onto someplace better. I don't dare tell my co-workers they'd probably think I'm nuts or imagining it because I'm upset my mother died where I work.

Before this job I worked in a nursing home and the staff there swears that ghosts are real. They often see residents who passed on walking the halls and hear people calling their names when noone is there. I guess you just have to be open minded to all of this to see and hear what is going on in another world around us.

Specializes in Obs & gynae theatres.

As stated previously, I don't believe in ghosts or the supernatural. This story was told to me by colleagues.

A AAA had been brought to theatre but they decided at the last minute not to proceed as the patient was far too poorly. On wheeling the patient back to the ward the patient started Cheyne Stoking (sp?). Wheeled them into the lift and pressed the button. The door went half way across and stopped, then opened. Pressed the button again and the same thing happened. Pressed it for the 3rd time and it worked perfectly. The staff looked around and the patient had died.

Upon returning to theatres and stepping out of the lift, there was apparently a cold spot outside the lift doors. My colleagues reckon the patients ghost had stepped out of the lift and was trying to get back to a&e where their partner had been when they last saw them.

Specializes in Geriatrics, Adult Psych, Peds HH.

i have become a believer in the supernatural since starting nursing.

First bad experience with a malevolent spirit is while I was working as a PCT at a ventilator hospital. We had one room on the C wing that was reputed as haunted. I was working a night shift one night and the call light to the room was going off nonstop. Every time I went into the room, the patient (a younger woman on a vent) was beet red, teary-eyed and pointing frantically around the room. She wrote out on her communication board there was a black animal in her room. I checked quite a few times and found nothing. About 3 am she pulls the light again. I went into the room and she's pointing frantically at the bathroom. I opened the bathroom door and I SWEAR TO GOD.....

....a large black CREATURE scuttled past me, with gutteral noises, and slipped beneath the bed. I panicked and turned on all the lights and looked under the bed. Nothing was there. I was terrified. I left all the lights on and left the room. I started to tell the RN what had happened and she cut me off. ''You saw the little black animal in 22, huh?"

Second one was at the LTC center I work at now. Bed 2 of that room is a death sentence. Nurses have reported being bumped, pushed, had cups knocked out of their hand. One male nurse reported the TV stand moved of it's own accord and slammed into him while he attempted to care for the patient in bed 2. Another CNA sustained a cut on the back of her leg when a wheelchair smacked into her on it's own. I was told by a patient shortly before she died "Do you see him? He's behind you. He's going to kill me, and then he's coming for her. He says so." I get the vibe that something in that room does not want the patients in the second bed cared for.

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

The stoty that freaked me out was the one that when a male parient was dying, he begged the nurses not to let him die, because he wasn't going to be in a good place. Then after he did die, a couple nurses entered his room and saw him levitating above the head of his bed, wnd cursing them out for letting him die. YIKES! :eek:

Hi, frist please forgive the spelling in this post . I found this thread on the net and have been reading it all night and it has helped me so much . My mom just passed away in July she had been sick for years and was in the hospital when she passed .my dad did tell me how sick she was becouse I have been sick for months myself and he did not want me to get upset. So he told me she was geting better the night befor she died.

the next day I went to vist my mom and becouse I am leagly blind I could not read the sign that said to go see the nurse befor going in . I walked in the room and my mom laying on her bed her face was this odd yellow and she was not moving they ran in and told me that 15 min. Befor she had vomited so much that she breathed it in and died becouse her small bowl was blocked.

I sat with my mom for about an hour or two and when I went to leave I kissed her and said I love you ,you know I love don't you ? And right then the tv turned on the remote was on the table next to bed so there is no way I hit it . I now beleave my mom was and maybe still is in that room I am now thinking of doing something in the nursing feld as soon as I find out what I can do being half blind I have never run into a blind nurse

Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.

My father was home with hospice when he was dying. A few weeks prior to his death, he would get quiet, look intently out his bedroom door and down the hall. It was obvious he was seeing something I could not. When he did this I would get scared. Broad daylight no shadows, but I could feel something was there, that he could see and I could not. He did not seem afraid. But I was afraid to ask him what it was/ who it was.

I compared notes with my other siblings, and they also experienced the same feelings when my dad would look intently out the doorway and down the hall.

Specializes in PACU, OR.
Hi, frist please forgive the spelling in this post . I found this thread on the net and have been reading it all night and it has helped me so much . My mom just passed away in July she had been sick for years and was in the hospital when she passed .my dad did tell me how sick she was becouse I have been sick for months myself and he did not want me to get upset. So he told me she was geting better the night befor she died.

the next day I went to vist my mom and becouse I am leagly blind I could not read the sign that said to go see the nurse befor going in . I walked in the room and my mom laying on her bed her face was this odd yellow and she was not moving they ran in and told me that 15 min. Befor she had vomited so much that she breathed it in and died becouse her small bowl was blocked.

I sat with my mom for about an hour or two and when I went to leave I kissed her and said I love you ,you know I love don't you ? And right then the tv turned on the remote was on the table next to bed so there is no way I hit it . I now beleave my mom was and maybe still is in that room I am now thinking of doing something in the nursing feld as soon as I find out what I can do being half blind I have never run into a blind nurse

I am so sorry for your loss. I am sure your mom is watching over you-but you know that, don't you?

I'm afraid I can't think of anything in nursing that you could do, but maybe someone else on AN knows of a field you could get into. I wish you the very best of luck :redbeathe

Thanks for taking the time to look. I know some good sites I can maybe find it on, and there are also other good ghost videos on Youtube but if you do find it, just post it on here :) I love all that stuff - it scares me but I always have to go back and watch it, usually just before bedtime! :eek:

Sorry, I have been looking and looking and haven't been able to find the segment on the - well, found it listed as the show, but not a video of it. You will love it, I try to catch all of the ghost stuff on tv, and this is one that definitely gave me the major creeps. Someone will post it eventually!

Hi, frist please forgive the spelling in this post . I found this thread on the net and have been reading it all night and it has helped me so much . My mom just passed away in July she had been sick for years and was in the hospital when she passed .my dad did tell me how sick she was becouse I have been sick for months myself and he did not want me to get upset. So he told me she was geting better the night befor she died.

the next day I went to vist my mom and becouse I am leagly blind I could not read the sign that said to go see the nurse befor going in . I walked in the room and my mom laying on her bed her face was this odd yellow and she was not moving they ran in and told me that 15 min. Befor she had vomited so much that she breathed it in and died becouse her small bowl was blocked.

I sat with my mom for about an hour or two and when I went to leave I kissed her and said I love you ,you know I love don't you ? And right then the tv turned on the remote was on the table next to bed so there is no way I hit it . I now beleave my mom was and maybe still is in that room I am now thinking of doing something in the nursing feld as soon as I find out what I can do being half blind I have never run into a blind nurse

Good story, your mom probably did stay behind to say goodbye to you.

As for nursing, not sure what you could do with really bad eyesight. So much rides on vision when it comes to assessment. However, maybe you as a nurse could work with children who are also blind or adults who are losing their vision for whatever reason. Good luck to you

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??

the creepy thing is that years ago mental hospitals were a much more unpleasant place to be than they are today. All the anguish and anxiety and emotional negativity is what is left behind after people die in places like that, which could contribute to a more sad or creep atmosphere.

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