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 Postpartum, Med Surg, Home Health.
TheGooch said:
No, rude is spouting religious crap on a non religious thread.

Wow, "rude" is you saying "spouting religious crap". Why disrespect what a person believes in, you could have voiced your opinion in a much nicer and respectful way. She has her opinion and so do you. And frankly I agree with her. And yes you are the one being rude.

My son was a little escape artist and would run down the driveway to cross the street to go where Grandma lived. I would chase him and every single time he would "trip" right as he got to the busy road and when I began to panic I wouldn't catch him in time.

That is more disturbing to me than most all of the ghost stories. Sad!

Postpartum RN said:
Wow, "rude" is you saying "spouting religious crap". Why disrespect what a person believes in, you could have voiced your opinion in a much nicer and respectful way. She has her opinion and so do you. And frankly I agree with her. And yes you are the one being rude.

Attempting to impose your beliefs is rude, gooch, is just being straight forward.

Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

It is fine to disagree with another person's opinion or beliefs as long as you do so in a respectful way.

Calling another person's beliefs "crap" is definitely not respectful.

If you think a post is inappropriate in content or in the wrong forum, please report rather than engaging in rude and divisive conversation.

Further rude posts will be deleted.

I've left my body many times. Once I visited a friend and described his bedroom, I'd never been to his house before. Kind of freaked him out.

Except a professor discovered 666 was an incorrect translation and it should be 616.

I know this is a blog but should give a starting point for more research

Beast's real mark devalued to '616'

The best ghost story I ever heard was from an LPN who had worked in a LTC facility. One of their oldest residents, a nonagenarian we'll call "John", had been a very evil, violent man in his younger years, and had been in an out of prisons for much of his adult life. Late one night, several terrified residents and staff reported seeing (and hearing) John being dragged screaming down the hallway by several shadowy, black-clad figures. When they checked John's room, they found the old man, passed away in his bed. The shadowy figures were never seen again, and there was no explanation as to how they were able to leave the building, but for years after there was a lot of speculation among staff and residents that what they had witnessed was John's soul being carried off to Hell. Creepy.

As a young nurse many years ago working PMs on the surgical unit. Only one elderly lady in a four bed ward room who was upset about being alone in there on Halloween so I made sure and rounded every hour. About 9pm she started getting upset saying there were ghosts outside (you could see kids dressed to trick or treat on the sidewalk across the street) and a man under her bed. After the third time in 15 minutes she turned on the call light (I had four other patients as well) I sat with her for a few minutes and she said "LOOK UNDER THE BED, HE'S THERE!" So to prove a point I dramatically lifted the bedspread and looked under and there was some guy looking back at me! He snuck in thru ER to hide from the cops, intoxicated. Luckily we were in a small hospital with the police right down the hall and they took him out. The rest of the shift I had to listen to her go on and on about not believing her, she was right--I was wrong, she told me and I didn't listen...yadda yadda.

I was told the story by a nurse who worked at a military hospital in North Dakota. She related that a patient of hers, who was a middle-aged man, died unexpectedly in the middle night during one of her shifts. Within a month of that happening, whenever that room (313!) in which the patient had been was vacant and that nurse was working, the call light would go on. Again, the room was vacant and it was the middle the night and the call light would go on... By itself. This began to occur with some frequency, but only when that specific nurse was working. At first, it was thought that someone is playing a practical joke on a very mean level, but then others came to witness the same thing and talk to begin the spread that there was a ghost … Likely that man's spirit. Finally, it came to a point, that one night, again, that that yours was again working, the room is vacant and the call light came on in the middle of the night. that same nurse went into the room and said, " i'm sure you died, it wasn't my fault, we have much work to do, please give us some rest." And never happened again.

Specializes in Med/Surg crit care, coronary care, PACU,.

Years ago while working one night on our oncology floor (where else would you get a good story?) I answered the call light of a very alert and oriented senior lady. She asked me to find the young man who wandered into her room, then the bathroom as he looked confused. When I asked her to describe the young man as I had not seen anyone in the hallway, she described perfectly the young man across the hall who had passed away a short time prior. Creepy, but cool at the same time. Not related, but within a couple of years from that, an angel shape started forming on the metal roof that could be seen only out that wing of that same floor...a homage to so many that have passed on.

Yikes! We had the SAME type thing at the 1st place I ever worked.

A man called out saying he saw a dog between him & his roommates beds. He swore he saw it IN the mirror. We rolled him over to show him it wasn't there. He said, "turn the lights off & look in the mirror." Sure enough, we saw a HUGE black dog between the beds lying there that we could only see in the mirror. The dog would have been ON my coworker otherwise!

We booked it out of there & told the charge nurse. She shrugged & told us to keep an eye on him, that he was about to die. Sure enough, he was dead when the day nurse aides went in to get him up for breakfast.

I've had several other experiences...

In nursing school, my BFF and I were walking home frof our study group at the library. It was dark & moonless that night. As we were walking toward our dorm, we saw a woman in a long white dress fall from a balcony of a classroom building, screaming as she fell. We ran up to the stairwell below & she wasn't anywhere to be found!

About a month later, we went to the supply closet to get some cleaning supplies with the RA. We all had cleaning duties assigned in our dorm. I opened the door & had a cold blast of air shove me backwards. I walked back up to the door & said, "I believe in Jesus. This is a CLOSET, not an elevator anymore! By the power of the name of Jesus, I say to you to leave & trouble this place no more." Well never had this issue again.

But, one girls had a boyfriend working library archives & apparently, there HAD been an elevator in that building & a girl did fall to her death there....

He also told us about the girl who was killed by her boyfriend, shoved off the classroom balcony when it was a dorm. Whenever I was in that classroom, I had to sit in one place in the room. Anywhere else I couldn't breathe & felt like someone had their hands about my neck.....my BFF & I saw her fall again on the anniversary of her death.....

We had someone get killed in a hotel room nearby. The ENTIRE hotel had been gutted and redone. I went straight to the room where the murder had happened. It was NOT in the papers or on the news what the room number was. I didn't live there at the time of the murder. The desk clerk was a friend of mine & I showed her which room the murder had happened in. We both saw blood stains on the walls, carpet, bedding, furniture.....and NONE of it was there before. It kept showing up even when it was replaced. During the remodel, it was knocked down to the METAL studs! My mom says the murder has never been avenged & that's why we can see the blood. You know what else? Only a single woman can stay in the room. Men get greeted by a housekeeper offering them another bed! She tells them she's just come out & there's a bad spill in the room that needs deep cleaning....the murder was a young woman who was shot by her boyfriend in a drunken rage. He's never been caught as far as I know (I've since moved).

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