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 Rehab.

We had a similar situation with my gramma when she died. We moved her from her bedroom into a smaller bed that we could set up in the living room so that my mum and I could sleep on the couch beside her. The three days before she died, she kept calling out for Karl, who was her brother, her "Mamma" and "Papa" and then she kept saying, "Oh, but mama will be so upset!" and we never found out what mama would be so upset about. We kept waiting for her to talk about my grandpa, but he never came. I was kind of upset about that, but she still went peacefully.

Right after she passed, which was at 5:30AM, there was this overwhelming sense of peace in the room. I don't think I've ever felt so much love in one place at one time.

Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.
--- had to delete this because I remembered that too many people at work know the story and I would HATE for one of them to find out this me! I'll try to think of a way to adapt it so it's not so obvious---

Katie can you re-post this? I would love to hear what it was!

while these stories are surely fun to read,i am a big time skeptic conserning the afterlife. i think that everything supernatural is the work of our brain. i'm sure the nurses who work in neurology would understand our brain function and what causes all this stuff.

I know someone who works in the hospital (can't say which one) as a Nurse. This person told me the other day that while she was checking up on a patient of hers she was looking out of her bedroom window at the courtyard and said to the Nurse that she saw little children running around on the grass and their bellies were glowing. 0_0

Also, a family friend of mine worked in ISU where there were a mother and her child in critical condition from a car accident. As soon as the mother died the child woke up. This same family friend was taking care of a patient who I think had a stroke.. and she would come into his room and do his care and sing. One day she went in there doing the usual and he said " So you're the one that's been singing".

The rose petals just started floating down from the ceiling. It was like someone was just showering the room with them. This has happened several times over the years.

My creepiest and scariest ghost story for me happened about a year ago. It really was more of a posession than a ghost story. I was helping another nurse with a patient that had lived a very hard life. It had numerous things going on with him from cardiac to renal failure. You name it, he had it going on. This man was very much afraid to die. Every time his heart monitor beeped, he would just go into a rage screaming, "Don't let me die! Don't let me die!" The other nurse and I found out why he didn't want to die. About 0200 his cardiac monitor starts alarming V-Tach. We both rush into the room. I am pulling the crash cart behing me. When I get to the room, the other nurse is completely white. This man was sitting about 2 inches above the bed and was laughing. His whole look completely changed. His eyes just had a look of pure evil on them and he had this evil smile on his face. He laughed at us and said, " You stupid b****es aren't going to let me die will you?" and he laughed again. We were kinda frozen. I did reach up and hit the Code Blue button and when I did the man went into V-fib. He crashed back onto the bed. We started coding him, but after 20 minutes it was called. 5 minutes after the code was called several of the code team is in the room cleaning up when this man sits straight up in the bed and says, " You let him die. Too bad." and then begins laughing. The man collapsed back to the bed. We heard a horrible, agonizing scream ( actually every patient in the unit that night commented on the scream), and then you could hear "don't let me die" being whispered throughout the unit. Everyone of the nurses that night was pale and scared. No body went anywhere by themselves. By morning the whispers of "don't let me die" were gone. The night shift nurses had a prayer service in the break room before we left for home and then we all had nightmares for weeks.

OMG Im totally freaked out!

Not so much a ghost story, but a story about when my mom died a year ago. She was at my sisters house for two weeks and started going down hill. Hospice was called on a Saturday and she lapsed into a coma on Tuesday. Me and my other sister got to her house on Wednesday. On Thursday, my mom woke up for 3 hours and was talkling to "other" people in the room. My dad died in 2000, and she kept saying "Frank, would you leave me alone, I am not ready to go with you yet!" Then she would get ****** and yell at him in German, (she was from germany). Then she saw her mother who passed away in 1964. The said "Mama" and started to cry and then spoke german to her for about an hour. She was reliving her childhood with her and talking about things they did when she was small and she was laughing and having a good time with her. My mom lost twin boys in her 5th month in 1966 and she was talking with them and said "I am so glad your Oma was there for you. I was so affraid you were alone." All of us in the room, and there was about 15 of us were in wonder the entire time. This went on for 3 hours. She would talk to them and then us. At one time she turned to me and said "oh Suzie, I didn't know you were here too, do you see all the people waiting for me?' She was affraid to die because of the unkwown I guess. The next day, Thursday she didn't wake up at all and she woke up again on Friday morning for an hour while I was in the room with her. She said she wasn't affraid anymore and that she had seen heaven. She just wanted my dad to stop bugging her becasue she hadn't finished her job yet. She told me that my dog that had passed away 6 months before that was with my dad. She died the next day.

When we got back into town the following day to get ready for the funeral, we were staying at my mom's house and it was hot outside, but we all smelled wood burning from her fire place. I snapped some pictures and there are orbs all over those pictures. The only picuters in the set that has them.

Cool story :)

Before my dad came home on hospice, actually this was before I knew he wasn't going to recover from another CVA, he was on a Med/Surg until. When I went to visit him the day before he was fine and completely lucid, but this night he was acting really strange. He kept waving his hand at the curtain like something was there I couldn't see. He was really agitated. I kept asking him what was wrong, and he said through slurred sppech (because of the stroke 12 years before) "That thing up there." I moved the curtain , and he still was upset. I said 'I don't know what you want me to do Daddy, I don't see anything.' He pointed up toward the ceiling and said "You can't see that?" When I said I couldn't, he looked at me like he didn't know who I was, and said "You're sick." He took a turn for the worse and we took him home. A few days before he passed, he started doing what the hopice nurse called The Death Wave. She said a lot of pt's start doing this right before they go. Sometimes I still wonder what my dad saw in the room that night.

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

I've done lots of hospice work, and I've never heard of the 'death wave'.

Can someone enlighten me as to what this is?

I've done lots of hospice work, and I've never heard of the 'death wave'.

Can someone enlighten me as to what this is?

According to our hospice nurse, it happens a lot! My dad had been on hospice for about 4 days and he would raise his arm to his head, and then back down to his side again. He did this constantly. When all our family came over to say their final goodbyes, they thought he was waving at them or trying to grab their hand. At this point he wasn't really aware anymore. He died a few days later.

Specializes in telemetry, cardiac.

Oh wow! That's creepy!

Specializes in telemetry, cardiac.

I've seen dying patients do this 'death wave'. Never thought much about it til now...

Not nursing related but both are RN now. I was about the age of 10 and stayed home from school for being sick. Me and my sister have always been best friends. Well she decided to stay home as well think she was 20 and in college at the time. I wanted to play hide and seek in our backyard it was around 2 pm sun up and clear day!!! After I was counting I began to look for her and found her smiling at me on top of the garage on the roof!!! Me thinking it was odd she was up their said" come down" she just smiled. I then hear someone behind me say who are u talking to ? it was my sister to this day I have no idea what it was on the garage. House is about fifty years old we lives in it for about 30 years . someone apparently died in a fire in that garage and you can still see burn marks on the old wood ......

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