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...

More stories please!! It's taken me over a month to finish this thread but I'm addicted! In the mean time I'll add my story... and maybe someone can help me understand what/who it was that I experienced? It isn't a nursing story because I'm still a student, but non the less to me a terrifying experience.

At the time I was still living at home, in college, and working. Life felt pretty fast paced. Anyhow, I was having an earlier night than normal and was actually in bed by 10 pm. I had just gotten into bed, lights out but wasn't asleep yet. In fact, my eyes were still open I was just laying in bed thinking about my day. All of the sudden I felt and absolutely without a doubt knew that I wasn't alone. The feeling of helplessness and utter terror came over me. Suddenly I couldnt move and felt pressure over my wrists, ankles, and chest. I couldn't move, since it was dark in my room (black out shades) I couldn't see any outline, just darkness. I wanted to scream and couldn't. Absolutely nothing would come out. I was praying in my heart for it to end all the while trying to scream. Suddenly I was able too, and the gripping pressure around my wrists and ankles release and I could finally scream. I ran out of bed flipped on the light an no one was there. It felt like someone, or more than just one someone was pinning me down.

I've heard of sleep paralysis. Which is the closest thing I've found to my experience. The only issue I have with that explanation is that I was awake, fully thinking about the day I had just had.

Any how that's my story!! Any thoughts would be awesome, and PLEASE more stories! :D:redpinkhe:heartbeat

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

mrsecookie, are you SURE you weren't asleep? I've had nightmares like that where I could have sworn that I was awake - I could smell, see lights from the street, everything seemed normal - but I got that heavy feeling like someone was holding me down and I have actually managed to pull myself out of a very, very deep sleep.

My gf used to get this as well when she was younger & she reckons she was awake, but it disappeared as she got older. Maybe it's some medical condition of the limbs/muscles we haven't discovered yet? The human body is a strange and scary thing sometimes!

Specializes in L&D; GI; Fam Med; Home H; Case mgmt.
More stories please!! It's taken me over a month to finish this thread but I'm addicted! In the mean time I'll add my story... and maybe someone can help me understand what/who it was that I experienced? It isn't a nursing story because I'm still a student, but non the less to me a terrifying experience.

At the time I was still living at home, in college, and working. Life felt pretty fast paced. Anyhow, I was having an earlier night than normal and was actually in bed by 10 pm. I had just gotten into bed, lights out but wasn't asleep yet. In fact, my eyes were still open I was just laying in bed thinking about my day. All of the sudden I felt and absolutely without a doubt knew that I wasn't alone. The feeling of helplessness and utter terror came over me. Suddenly I couldnt move and felt pressure over my wrists, ankles, and chest. I couldn't move, since it was dark in my room (black out shades) I couldn't see any outline, just darkness. I wanted to scream and couldn't. Absolutely nothing would come out. I was praying in my heart for it to end all the while trying to scream. Suddenly I was able too, and the gripping pressure around my wrists and ankles release and I could finally scream. I ran out of bed flipped on the light an no one was there. It felt like someone, or more than just one someone was pinning me down.

I've heard of sleep paralysis. Which is the closest thing I've found to my experience. The only issue I have with that explanation is that I was awake, fully thinking about the day I had just had.

Any how that's my story!! Any thoughts would be awesome, and PLEASE more stories! :D:redpinkhe:heartbeat

This happened to me once, at about age 12. It was terrifying. Check out this link: http://paranormal.about.com/od/humanenigmas/a/Old-Hag-Syndrome.htm

Specializes in LTC, Acute care.

Some scary stories on this page! :uhoh21::uhoh21::uhoh21::uhoh21:

I like...

I am a Director of Nursing in Virginia...I have worked in several ltc facilities and have noted some of the SAME occurrences in different buildings. I was wondering if any of you could relate to any of these as well?

* the children - at least half of all of my residents have seen and talk about the children

*call lights going on and off in certain rooms for no reason

*Residents identifying an "upstairs and downstairs" even though all of my facilities have been 1 floor

*residents' voices changing and telling you things such as "DO not be afraid"

*residents who are actively dying and turn their heads slowly to look at you with this look I cannot describe but send chills up your spine

*the woman in white

*Vital signs machines, oxygen concentrators not working in an end of life or acute situation

*residents seeing "the man" or "the dog".

Any of these things could absolutely be chalked up to hallucinations or dementia, HOWEVER in so many residents in different places?? Or when you have a string of actively dying patients in the building - everything going wrong.....

Has anyone experienced any of these before or can anyone perhaps shed some light on these things for me? Ive been doing this for 20 years and its always the same.

Specializes in Geriatrics.

When I worked as a CNA in Kansas, the facility where I worked at had a nurse die of a heart attack several years previously. So it was always just a little creepy to be working 3-11 and 11-7! The best one that I remember, tho, happened after a resident died. We would often find the door either opened or closed, the opposite of how we had left it!! One day the CMA went to go close the door, and she felt a DISTINCT, UNMISTAKABLE cold chill go over her right shoulder!! (Always open the window before they pass away, is what I have heard):chair:

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

IMHO, I have learned that it could be fallen angels or demons if you will that were cast down to earth when the arcangel Lucifer was cast down to earth, and according to the Bible, 1/3 of the angels followed him and became demons when he became Satan or the master deciever, liar and accuser of us all. I have learned through Bible study that they are capable of causing a lot of this stuff.

Specializes in Geriatrics.
I am a Director of Nursing in Virginia...I have worked in several ltc facilities and have noted some of the SAME occurrences in different buildings. I was wondering if any of you could relate to any of these as well?

* the children - at least half of all of my residents have seen and talk about the children

*call lights going on and off in certain rooms for no reason

*Residents identifying an "upstairs and downstairs" even though all of my facilities have been 1 floor

*residents' voices changing and telling you things such as "DO not be afraid"

*residents who are actively dying and turn their heads slowly to look at you with this look I cannot describe but send chills up your spine

*the woman in white

*Vital signs machines, oxygen concentrators not working in an end of life or acute situation

*residents seeing "the man" or "the dog".

Any of these things could absolutely be chalked up to hallucinations or dementia, HOWEVER in so many residents in different places?? Or when you have a string of actively dying patients in the building - everything going wrong.....

Has anyone experienced any of these before or can anyone perhaps shed some light on these things for me? Ive been doing this for 20 years and its always the same.

I think you hit the nail on the head when you remarked, "In so many different residents in different places". I beleive in bad spirits, but I also believe these residents could be getting ready to die and are seeing glimpses of heaven. I guess we all have our opinion!

Thank you all for sharing your stories. Keep them coming!

I am a Director of Nursing in Virginia...I have worked in several ltc facilities and have noted some of the SAME occurrences in different buildings. I was wondering if any of you could relate to any of these as well?

* the children - at least half of all of my residents have seen and talk about the children

*call lights going on and off in certain rooms for no reason

*Residents identifying an "upstairs and downstairs" even though all of my facilities have been 1 floor

*residents' voices changing and telling you things such as "DO not be afraid"

*residents who are actively dying and turn their heads slowly to look at you with this look I cannot describe but send chills up your spine

*the woman in white

*Vital signs machines, oxygen concentrators not working in an end of life or acute situation

*residents seeing "the man" or "the dog".

Any of these things could absolutely be chalked up to hallucinations or dementia, HOWEVER in so many residents in different places?? Or when you have a string of actively dying patients in the building - everything going wrong.....

Has anyone experienced any of these before or can anyone perhaps shed some light on these things for me? Ive been doing this for 20 years and its always the same.

So, we have parishioners in our church (Orthodox) who each have their own story to tell. One of them, a husband and a father, describes an event where he is walking in the countryside and has an encounter/meeting with a dog, a very large dog... as I understand it, he didn't go into any specifics when he was telling my mom this, but this encounter was enough to push his life in a different direction. Before this time, he used to openly make fun of his wife and daughter for going to church regularly, for praying, etc. Now he prays alongside everyone.

Thanks for reading!

I really hope it was a nice dog....didn't say.

Anyone have any stories about dogs in heaven??

My friend's brother was in a bad car accident in the middle of the night, and was brought to the hospital I work at. My friend came to the hospital, leaving her husband and two small children at home. She didn't say anything to her children about what had happened, and didn't wake them up either, as she thought it would be best to wait.Anyway, despite the efforts from the medical team, her brother did not survive the trauma and died a few hours later. When my friend got home from the hospital, exhausted from her night and in shock from what happened, she was greeted by her very sleepy 6yr old daughter, who heard her keys in the front door. She was rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, and said "mommy where is uncle Timmy?", my friend, not expecting this from her daughter, only answered "what sweetie?", her daughter said " uncle Timmy was in my room and told me to always where my seat belt, and that he loves me, but mommy where did he go? is he having breakfast with us?" My friend was in such disbelief she didn't know how to respond and just told her daughter that uncle Timmy had to go. Its amazing what messages spirits can leave behind and how they can still get through to us after they have passed.

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