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

I miss these stories too. Anyone got anymore??

This was pretty funny, while I was in school still externing I was working the night shift with another RN, we were siting talking with the night guard who was making their rounds, the back hall of pt rooms where empty, I thought I had heard a door shut in the back hallway, I said to the RN and guard did you hear that? the guard went over to check it out, while he was walking over we heard the toilet flush, the guard darted into the unoccupied room, and said theres no one here? I was a bit nervous the night RN thought it was funny and said at least he remeberd to flush...our hospital was built around the late 1800s he said he heard things at night all the time..I was still pretty freaked...

Specializes in Emergency Nursing, Cardiology.

This happened about 8 years ago and was told to me by the nurse who experienced it.

A elderly patient was receiving palliative care on our cardiology floor and was expected to die anytime. To make her more comfortable her family brought her her favorite white night gown to wear and her pillow and blankets from home. Her daughter was staying with her one night and brushed her long gray hair and the patient went to sleep for the night. The nurse did her final rounding on the patient, gave some pain medicine and put the call bell in reach.

At about 3 am the a call bell rang from the room next door. The patient said that someone was standing at the foot of his bead and he didn't know who she was and she wouldn't answer his questions. The nurse walked down the hall to the room and the patient was sitting up in bed. He said, "There was a lady with long hair and wearing a white gown standing right there (pointing to the foot of bed). I was about to get up to help her out into the hall when she just disappeared."

The nurse reassured him that there was no one there now and told the patient to call her if he had any other problem.

The nurse left the room and walked next door to check on her other patient. The daughter of the patient was softly crying and holding her mom's hand. She said that her mom died a few minutes ago.

The nurse was convinced that the patient in the next room had seen the ghost of the women who died next door.

"at least he remeberd to flush..."

:yeah:

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
The night RN thought it was funny and said at least he remeberd to flush... .
:yeah::yeah:Good one

OMG!! So funny!!!!

A friend of mine who worked night shift as a supervisor in ltc facility for mentally handicapped patients shared her experiences with me. She quit her job because of the encounters she had there.

The facilty was closed for a few years and eventually was purchased and re-opened for the mentally disabled. In the attic of one of the buildings(where the breaker box was) many employees had seen burn marks on the floor and pentagrams drawn all over the place. (I believe there are 6 buildings on the property). In that building, all the employees had tragic things happen to them, one lost her daughter in a car crash, one was diagnosed with cancer, one employee's house was burned to the ground, ect. There were two rooms in particular that things always happened in.

One had a radio in it that would come on in between stations even when it was unplugged. Outside the room was a clock in the hallway that would not fall straight down, but many employees saw the clock fall into the middle of the hallway like someone had knocked it off the wall, but there would be no one around.

One night as her an another employee were doing rounds, both her and the other employee kept hearing a voice calling for a nurse. She stated it sounded like the same voice, but it was coming from different places each time they heard it. And they BOTH heard it. They finally thought they had tracked down which room it was coming from. It was the empty room at the end of the hallway that everyone thought was creepy. My friend walked into the room, the door closed behind her and her eyes would not adjust to the light even though there was a window in the room. She opened the door and the other employee looked into the room. Neither one could see anything in the room. It was just blackness and it was so cold. They closed the door and took off to the nurses station.

She put in her notice the next day.

Very creepy!

Hope your friend found a new job, with no ghost!

ok people i love this thread .please keep it alive :) :)

Specializes in Medical Surgical.

A couple of years ago, we had a failed suicide attempt patient in the 4th floor pull out his ET tube, broke through the glass window with an IV pole and ran out, flipped over the balcony and off the building and into the MD's parking lot.

Since then, strange things have been seen or heard in that same room where it happened. A few weeks after the incident, a patient watcher in the same room ran to the nurses station and told the nurse that she saw a man fall over the balcony.

One time, I was working 3 to 11, and just about to do my 9pm med pass, in my LTC facility. There is NOONE down there except me and the elder people i take care of, some of them with mild dementia and some of them still 'with it'. There are cameras in the hallways, and the guard upstairs 'should' be watching them at all times. This is the basement of a huge facility that was bulit in the early 1900s. So, I was doing my 9pm med pass, and I go into the first ladies room and she said "some little girl came in and gave me a piece of candy, then she went out the window..." this lady has dementia so i didnt really take to it when she was telling me this. So i go into ALL 13 patients room, and EVERY SINGLE PATIENT is telling me about this little girl, and the candy.. right down to the pink dress and everything... I was so freaked out I tried to hide upstairs the rest of the night. Then when I was leaving the guard said he saw a little girl in a pink dress on the cameras, running down the hall with a basket on the camera, he was confused because he never saw her leave, and thought it was a daughter or granddaughter of one of the residents, even though it was 9pm and everyone was alone in their rooms.

So creepppppy.:eek:

Specializes in Medical Surgical.
One time, I was working 3 to 11, and just about to do my 9pm med pass, in my LTC facility. There is NOONE down there except me and the elder people i take care of, some of them with mild dementia and some of them still 'with it'. There are cameras in the hallways, and the guard upstairs 'should' be watching them at all times. This is the basement of a huge facility that was bulit in the early 1900s. So, I was doing my 9pm med pass, and I go into the first ladies room and she said "some little girl came in and gave me a piece of candy, then she went out the window..." this lady has dementia so i didnt really take to it when she was telling me this. So i go into ALL 13 patients room, and EVERY SINGLE PATIENT is telling me about this little girl, and the candy.. right down to the pink dress and everything... I was so freaked out I tried to hide upstairs the rest of the night. Then when I was leaving the guard said he saw a little girl in a pink dress on the cameras, running down the hall with a basket on the camera, he was confused because he never saw her leave, and thought it was a daughter or granddaughter of one of the residents, even though it was 9pm and everyone was alone in their rooms.

So creepppppy.:eek:

wow.... was the camera being recorded?

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