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...

Merlyn

Really enjoyed your story about Sam :)

We have automatic toilets in the rooms. A new nurse and I were turning a patient who had been calling out for their late spouse and praying. They had a radio playing and we we turning them. The radio went to white noise and we looked at each other and thought it was odd but kept going. The patient started to recite the Lords Prayer and out of habit I whispered it along with them. We lowered the bed and walked out. We were discussing the care outside the room and the toilet flushed. The cleaning girl went in and the patient asked her "Can you please ask that man to leave?" When we asked which man the patient replied "The one standing next to you" and that damn radio went off again.

Chills up my spine every time.

Specializes in none.
Merlyn

Really enjoyed your story about Sam :)

Thank you.

I"M new here and started at 1 and by the 60th thread i came to the newest ones so i could comment.It also helps to post in between changing my pants due to freakin out at the slightest noise and i don't scare that easy!!!!!!! KEEP POSTING, THIS SITE IS ADDICTIVE AND A FOR SURE WAY TO SLEEP WITH THE LIGHTS ON!!!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU CAN!!!!!

Anything new happen lately?

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Specializes in none.
Anything new happen lately?

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Move into a house. The women had lived here about 30 years. She died and the house became available. From very first night I thought I heard my wife talking to me. I answer her and she mumbled something back. The only trouble was my wife was fast asleep in her bed. The voice that I answered came from the kitchen. This thing goes on every 3-5 days. I will hear a female voice mumbling something and I answer it. One time I heard the voice, my wife was staying over her mother's house some 45 miles away. My wife found that if she calls out the woman's name and tells her to stop it, there is silence for another 3-4 nights. A few nights ago we replaced the refrigerator with a new one. That night I heard dishes crashing to the floor in the kitchen. I went in to see what was wrong with my wife this time. Nothing was wrong with her. She was again sleeping in her bedroom. But our dog was up staring into the kitchen. Having lived in a haunted house before it's not scary just an annoyance. You don't have to be afraid of ghosts, it's the living you have to watch out for.

Specializes in LPN.

Hello everyone,

I am not a nurse.. yet. I am still a nursing student, so obviously I haven't had anything nurse-related happen to me yet. But I hope it's okay that I post some non-nursing experiences I have had. I am now 28, and nothing has happened to me since I was a kid. When I was around 8 or 9 I had something extreme happen to me. This might sound very odd, I can't promise that I wasn't imagining anything, but I definitely am not making any of this up. Anyway, there used to be a priest who used to come to our house once a week and have mass, neighbors would come and have mass with my family. I was brought up catholic, but as I grew older I am not really sure what I believe, sorry not trying to offend anyone of course. My parents never really explained to me why they had mass at our house every week, nor did I ever ask. Well, this priest was also the same priest who had baptised me, and used to tell me stories when I was very young. Stories that I was definitely too young to hear or even understand. Anyways, once he had given me a doll... one of them pink panther life-size dolls, well at least it was my size.. I was only 8. One night as I was getting ready to fall asleep (wasn't asleep yet), I glanced over and seen it floated (yes floating) to the side of my bed. It was dark, so it was hard to see that clear, but I seen it. My sister was in the bed on the other side of the room when she heard me screaming, she ran to the light and turned it on. I had explained to her what I seen, and we both ran and slept in our mothers bed that night... but eventually went back to sleeping in our room. Again, not sure if I was just a kid and my imagination ran wild, but I did see it, not sure what it meant, or why it happened.

Then there was another time, around 12. I was riding my bike outside and a van came flying down the road, almost hitting me until I heard a woman scream my name... after the van left... I looked around, but there was no one there. Not even my mom seen it happen. I still to this day have asked everyone on the block (small block) and no one knows. It was just one of them moments I guess an angel was looking over me... if they hadn't have screamed... I am sure I wouldn't be here today.. I will never forget that voice. Over 15 years later and I still remember the voice like it happened yesterday. Hope you enjoyed my stories. I did have a few more, but there weren't as shocking as these ones. I am a believer of ghosts, I have to be, I have had too many things happen to me that I still can't explain. People may think I am nuts, but oh well... I am a middle child. I have a younger brother and an older sister... my brother never seen anything, and my sister has seen and heard many things. My mom never seen anything (but she jokes and says that her eyes are so bad that she wouldn't know a ghost if she seen one lol), and my dad has seen many things, since he was a child. I guess some people are open to that world and some aren't. Not sure, but it does make you think. I love this thread! Keep em' coming people :)

Specializes in Adult ICU/PICU/NICU.

The hospital were I worked for many years had an old wing that was no longer used for patients. There were offices and storage rooms and radiology had a clinic on the first floor, but there had not been inpatients there in years. The old hospital was easily accessed by a short corridor to the main hospital. I am a rational woman, but I always felt that the 5th floor of the old hospital was particularly dark and creepy. It was here where the education department stored their extra equipment for discharge teaching...annie dolls and the like. One evening shift I mentioned to a security guard that I thought the old hospital was creepy and he told me that he had seen a child run around the 5th floor with the old fashioned pajamas...the kind with the rear end that had a flap that buttoned up. The child laughed and ran down a dark corridor. The guard followed the corridor and found an empty room that housekeeping used to store cribs. There were plenty of cribs but no child wearing old fashioned pjs. He checking with the closest nursing unit (hem/onc) and no child was wearing old fashioned pjs. This guy wasn't one to make up stories. Perhaps our minds get the better of us in these situations, or perhaps some people are more sensitive to such things than others. I've never seen a ghost myself, but then again, I avoided the old 5th floor whenever possible. Ghost or no ghost, it was a creepy place. That wing was torn down about fifteen years ago and the education department moved to a brand new building ....very bright with modern sleek lines.....not at all a kind of place where one would expect to encounter a ghost.

Specializes in LPN.

Wow, I would have avoided the 5th floor as well :eek:. Great story! I haven't seen anything in a long time, and that's what makes me wonder... are children more open to seeing these type of things... or do children just have a big imagination and make these things up in there head. I can't really tell.. but when I seen the life-size doll come to the side of my bed... I don't think I was imagining that, but again.. you never know. I wish I did. Or maybe it's good I don't! lol

Do any of you see a soul leave a body

I work on a neurology unit in london. we had a patient with us called kevin ellerby (fake name) for about 1 year with CJD. during this time he had various problems which needed a lot specimens with lables we'd print out or them.

well for some reason we all had difficulty printing most of his lables for him, the system would crash or, more oftern, the printer would jam up.

unfortunatly for keven he died after 11 months with us, which was a sad time since we'd really got to know the family and kevin himself. but after a year of kevin passing we started getting a different lable being printed off, for no reason, at 4am every day. we cant stop it, 3 different printers and various people out to sort the system out...all have failed. its still happeneing to this day 2 years after mr ellerby passed.

Specializes in acute & emergency.

I've been working in a nursing home for the elderly for a good while now, and seen quite a few deaths... not a single ghost, though, but I've witnessed something very odd happening in there. Cue lengthy explanation! The building has six floors, and the actual wards are on floors 2, 3, 4 and 5. The ground floor - or 1 - has the kitchen, recreation rooms, auditorium, the secretary's office and such. The 6th floor only has some storage space, and the smoking terrace for nurses. Our call system shows the calls for the entire building, and the call lights are numbered by floor and room, for example 211 - room 11 on floor 2. There are no patient rooms, no call buttons, nothing, on the sixth floor, yet on more than one occassion I've seen the number 666 flash on the call screen for a few times, then turn off by itself. I'm not the only one who's seen this... the first time it happened, I asked a fellow nurse if I just really saw what I saw. She confirmed, said it happens every now and then and no one knows why. I don't usually believe in ghosts and such, and I'm not even a religious person, but it really makes my skin crawl for some reason. :confused:

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