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 ICU, Public Health.

I am sitting here reading these stories and an onion randomly fell out of it's bowl, off of the kitchen counter, and onto the floor. It scared the sh!t out of me.

Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.
I am sitting here reading these stories and an onion randomly fell out of it's bowl, off of the kitchen counter, and onto the floor. It scared the sh!t out of me.

I know I shouldn't laugh, but that was funny. I needed the laugh

I heard this same story before ,and it was a young girl like 19 or something wow crazy.

Specializes in Med surg, Critical Care, LTC.

In 20 years of nursing, I only saw a ghost at work once. I was in PACU, called in for a case in the middle of the night. So, most of the lights in the OR suite were turned off. I was at the desk, putting my purse down and looked up. Across the hall we had a holding area for patients who were next up for surgery. I saw the silloute of a man with a hat standing there, not looking at me, but down another hallway. Even though the OR suite is locked, the main doors next to PACU can be opened by pressing the plate on the wall - so my first thought was this was a visitor who got lost. I started to walk toward the man, when he began walking toward the side hall - I said "Excuse me sir, can I help you?" He went down the hall and I turned down the hall because I knew it was a dead end, the door being locked. But when I turned, he was no where to be found. There was absolutely no place he could have gone - he just wasn't there.

I went back to PACU and realized I had seen a ghost. I live in a haunted house, so it didn't bother me, I was more concerned that I wasn't able to communicate with him and therefore help him.

My patient came to PACU a few minutes later and I was busy with the patient. After I got the patient recovered, brought to the floor and got back to PACU to close up, I checked the waiting area again, this time turning the lights on, but no one was there and nothing was amiss.

This was the "old" portion of the hospital - so who knows back in the 1920's when this part of the hospital was built, what type of ward it was. After that episode, I always looked for the man, especially when called in overnight - but I never saw him again.

Specializes in Urgent Care, MedSurg, SNF, ER..

Once while caring for a nice old lady I asked her of she had any requests before I started to give report and she said "yes, could you please show this little boy back to his room. He keeps waking me up and I can't sleep with him coughing like that." she pointed to the chair next to me. there was no child in that room or on that entire floor for that matter. Later when I told my coworkers I was informed that a little boy had died on that floor 8 months prior due to pneumonia and other patients had c/o the same thing. :0 this patient was on no meds that would cause any type of hallucinations and had no prior hx of having any either. I was scared for awhile after that.

So, how did you get the child out of the room?

Share your nursing ghost stories....

I know you have seen and heard freaky things.

I became an RN in the 80's, I worked on an Oncology Unit and we had the first HIV patient that was ever admitted to that facility. HIV was new then and everyone was afraid of this patient. Sadly, staff avoided his room as much as possible; this patient constantly rang his call bell too. About a year after he passed away, the unit was closed for remodeling. After a few months of construction it was to be reopened; I was working the nigh-shift the day before it was to be reopened to patients. Well, myself and the LPN working that night with me decided we would take the back stairs and go up to the newly renovated unit and take a look around. I can not explain how creepy it was going onto that dimly lit unit, a place that had seen many, many deaths over the years. As we were at the nursing desk, looking around the call light came on in the room where the patient with HIV had been. The LPN looked at me with terror and related that she'd heard other staff that had gone up to the new unit say that the call light in that room kept coming on. I thought she was playing a joke on me, so I went down to the room and flipped on the lights and looked around. No one was in there, and I turned off the call light. I stepped out of the room into the hallway, where the LPN was waiting on me, and the call light came on again. I was standing right in front of the room, so no one could have gotten in there. My friend and I beat a hasty retreat out of there!

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

Goes to show how lonely that poor HIV guy was. He's still trying to get attention.

Sad story.

I pray someone will come and help this soul

cross over. And, any others still there.

have you spoken to the ghost in your home?

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in 20 years of nursing, i only saw a ghost at work once. i was in pacu, called in for a case in the middle of the night. so, most of the lights in the or suite were turned off. i was at the desk, putting my purse down and looked up. across the hall we had a holding area for patients who were next up for surgery. i saw the silloute of a man with a hat standing there, not looking at me, but down another hallway. even though the or suite is locked, the main doors next to pacu can be opened by pressing the plate on the wall - so my first thought was this was a visitor who got lost. i started to walk toward the man, when he began walking toward the side hall - i said "excuse me sir, can i help you?" he went down the hall and i turned down the hall because i knew it was a dead end, the door being locked. but when i turned, he was no where to be found. there was absolutely no place he could have gone - he just wasn't there.

i went back to pacu and realized i had seen a ghost. i live in a haunted house, so it didn't bother me, i was more concerned that i wasn't able to communicate with him and therefore help him.

my patient came to pacu a few minutes later and i was busy with the patient. after i got the patient recovered, brought to the floor and got back to pacu to close up, i checked the waiting area again, this time turning the lights on, but no one was there and nothing was amiss.

this was the "old" portion of the hospital - so who knows back in the 1920's when this part of the hospital was built, what type of ward it was. after that episode, i always looked for the man, especially when called in overnight - but i never saw him again.

Specializes in geriatrics,med/surg,vents.

not ghosts at work but my oldest son was taking a picture of his girlfriend and her daughter and on the first pic there was a funny mark right next to them so he took another shot,same mark only bigger this time.He tried again and got the same mark but with the face of a woman with long dark hair hovering over the mark.Creepy.He also took a picture at his job of a car he had repaired and there were orbs around the car,his girlfriend uploaded?downloaded? the pics to their computer and enlarged the orbs.Each one turned out to be a skull and each skull was a different just like faces would be.I think his camera's haunted.

Last november I showed up early for a first clinical shift. It was very cold and very dark, and I had to park way out back where the original hospital still stood.Built in the late 1800s, and continously added on to, I was assured that I would be able to enter thru the old ER. Turns out, at 5 in the morning, the empty, under renovation ER was quite locked, and I had to buzz security to come let me inside.I froze outside for a bit before security showed up from a different building, gave me directions to navigate the labrynth to the newer (and confusingly attached) buildings. With the warning the direction signs were wrongSecurity didn't enter...just swiped his card and let me in.... and I stood in an old, vacent, silent, dimly lit ER... trying to remember the complicated directions.I looked back outside, and considered going back out, but that would be a 15+ min walk in the frosty winter dark.Turning again towards the interior, I happened to see someone just pass at the nearby end on the corridor."EXCELLENT!" I thought....I'll just follow that guy! (Since this whole building is empty..he must be heading for the new building!)

Rushing to make the turn, I faced a looong corridor with few heavy old doors....old cumbersome doors that would make noise to open or close... a hall too long for anyone to make it to the end, or thru a door before I turned the corner...

Just a long spooky hallway, on a cold winter morning, and myself the only living thing around.

I never entered via the old ER again!

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