What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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...

[infermierequebecoise]

I heard this one from colleagues...On our department we have three isolation rooms down a hallway kinda out of site of the nurses station. Apparently one night right after diaper changes the patient in the first room started screaming bloody murder that the patient in the third room was dead, and why havent we done something about it? Well the nurses aides had just changed the mans diaper, and the screaming patient was known for dementia. She just insisted she had seen the man walk by her room. When they finally decided to listen to her and go check on him, they found he really had died...

[GHGoonette, BSN, RN]

Oh i have to jump on this. This is my story and I'm sticking to it. I'm really big in the paranormal. Matter of not only am i a ghost hunter in my off time. I'm also a don't freak a Witch. I worked in a old nursing home and in its day it was the county poor farm and psych hospital. In the winter when people die they would keep the bodies in the basement No I'm not kidding until the ground thawed. I worked the grave yard shift. 6:30pm to 7:00am. We have had strange things happen there. Whirlpool tub would turn on call lights would turn on in an empty room. We have seen spirits. My Charge Nurse who knows what I am trust me they all knew. And when strange things happen she wouldn't let me leave her side. In a way its funny. One night i got sick of it you know. Things go bump in the night well i bump back. So one night at work things were going ok but then things started to happen. If you don't know this the real witching hour is 3:00am not midnight like most people think. Well i brought my spritboard to work that night my charge nurse freaked she asked what are you doing i said I'm summonsing the spirit or spirits to us she freaked went to the breakroom i had one brave aid to summons with me i wanted to know who they are and what do they want. Things guys and i tell you as sure as I'm typing this went crazy. Call lights started to go haywire. My charge nurse came out of the break room and she was like what the heck. The tub turned on we had many spirits that night. and they started to talk through the board. Nicole my partner in crime or in the summonsing part seen something and to this day wont speak of it. Nicole left the nursing home shortly after that. And has not stepped foot in a nursing home since as far as i know. I left the home also after that not because of fear because i had my dream job open up and i landed it. I see the charge nurse every once in a while at Walmart and she ask me still if i do what i still do. Oh back to the end of the story. The next day i was called in from my DON who asked me what went on last night and asked me never to bring my board back in the building And i got a write up. While being there we still seen things out of the corner of our eye. MY Charge Nurse claimed its a man in a red shirt and overalls. So let me tell you this if someone dies open the window let the spirit out. If things start going bump in the night ignore it because it might become worse. And never and i mean ever summons or think you can summons something to you that you yourself can't banish you might not want what you get. And at night in a small nursing home out in the middle of farmland we do have to much time on our hands LOL Happy Samhain or Halloween

Amazing story but-please forgive me for saying this!-I'm not surprised you were written up...:rotfl:

[Darkpk55]

You guys are nurses... Why do you believe in ghosts!!!

[nicenurselpn, LPN]

Fran:

It put my heart at peace to know that once we leave this realm, our spirits or energy goes on!!! I like to think that he is in Heaven, running and doing the things that his poor little body couldnt do here on earth. I hope he is chasing little girls with frogs!!! lol

Wendy LPN

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

Fran:

It put my heart at peace to know that once we leave this realm, our spirits or energy goes on!!! I like to think that he is in Heaven, running and doing the things that his poor little body couldnt do here on earth. I hope he is chasing little girls with frogs!!! lol

Wendy LPN

Me too Wendy, right along with you. I know that gives you peace of mind hon. Have a blessed day my dear.

[mvg rn]

i took care of a premature baby whose father died just before she was born. this baby girl was always looking up and to the left side of the room when i cared for her. odd since 24 wk premature babies can't focus their eyes. her mom liked to think it was the dad looking after his baby girl. i took a picture of the baby girl and her mom one day and there was an orb in the picture and the baby girl was looking right at it.

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

i took care of a premature baby whose father died just before she was born. this baby girl was always looking up and to the left side of the room when i cared for her. odd since 24 wk premature babies can't focus their eyes. her mom liked to think it was the dad looking after his baby girl. i took a picture of the baby girl and her mom one day and there was an orb in the picture and the baby girl was looking right at it.

awesome!!!!

[cleback]

Ahh... Good forum. Some stories are awesome, some are a little too awesome I'm not sure if I believe them. LOL. Anyway, my mom used to work in a nursing home that used to be a orphanage back in the 50s. She told me that she would always hear multiple residents complaining of hearing children running around at night. It's not unusual for someone with dementia to hallucinate or insist something happened, but it is unusual for residents in different rooms to report the same things the same night...

I worked PMs at a small nursing home as a CNA for almost 2 years. We only had about 30 beds spread among two halls. Many of the rooms were double occupancy, so each hall only had about 9 rooms each. In addition to those two halls, we had an older, unoccupied section used only by the beautician and for storage. Occasionally, at night, we would have the call lights go off in this section. Strangely, they never went off during the day (that I'm aware of). Additionally, one night at the end of the shift, the aides and I were sitting at the nurses station when I heard the sound of a walker making its way across the linoleum floor. Thinking a resident was trying to make it to the bathroom (most residents were fall risks) , I got up and started down the hall to see who it was. Another aide also got up and headed down the other hall. We both came back immediately. Everyone was fast asleep. The other two aides just smiled at each other... They believed it to be the spirit of resident who died a week before I started. She had been semi-independent and was one of the handful of residents who used a walker.

I only heard the sound maybe two times after that... Never could explain it. Just glad I didn't accept the nights position offered to me after graduation... yikes!

[MassED, BSN, RN]

This isn't really a ghost story, but it definitely gave me chills.

I was working in a critical care unit and there was a minister that was a pt. I can't really remember what was wrong with him but I do remember him saying that we better get his family because he would be "going home soon". In the course of the next hour, he was made a DNR.

I promise you, after that man died, he had a GLOW coming from his face and a smile that was so sweet.....I have never seen anything like it. Nurses from all over the unit came to see this man's face and everyone that saw it, cried. To this day, I get tears in my eyes thinking of it. I can not think of any other word to describe it but "heavenly".

I'm not really religious, per se, but that was moving.

[2bRNot2b]

Unbelievable! A five year old post, and it's still alive! I'm, definitely going to read all of them, but I'll have to do it a few pages at a time-over 1,700 to get through! The scariest one I've read so far was the Schroeder's Piano story about possession; now that's terrifying...

Interesting how many hospitals have "grey lady" stories. Cape Town's old Groote Schuur hospital had a grey lady who used to hand out the patient's chocolate drinks in the evening. The kitchen staff would push the trolley into this specific ward, and when the nurses came to hand out the drinks, the "grey lady" had already done it. I might have written it off as just another old hospital legend, but my nursing tutor had experienced the "lady" herself when she was a student. Nobody knew who she was though, even though she was so famous that newspaper articles were written about her.

I remember hearing about Groote Schuur's "grey lady" when I trained there. Never met her though... :)

[GHGoonette, BSN, RN]

I remember hearing about Groote Schuur's "grey lady" when I trained there. Never met her though... :)

I had to go to the "newish" UCT hospital section (run by Netcare) earlier this year to do my CPR certificate, and what I could see of the old place is still as gloomy and spooky as ever. GSH has seen so much history, there must be dozens of ghosts prowling the empty corridors at night...

[tiredstudentmom]

i took care of a premature baby whose father died just before she was born. this baby girl was always looking up and to the left side of the room when i cared for her. odd since 24 wk premature babies can't focus their eyes. her mom liked to think it was the dad looking after his baby girl. i took a picture of the baby girl and her mom one day and there was an orb in the picture and the baby girl was looking right at it.

a great big "aw" ^_^ that was so sweet! perhaps dad was making sure that she was okay.:heartbeat:rolleyes: there will always be things in this world that will be difficult to understand (besides "rocket science" lol ) and even more difficult to explain. perhaps we need to experience these things for ourselves...i myself have seen and experienced things that i cannot explain by any other means. keep an open mind and you never know what might be let in!