What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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...

[Winter Arashi, RN]

On 9/29/2013 at 5:17 AM, thomas81z said:

OK little stort about my mom passing away in feb 2010

in a nursing home well I brought her ashes home & put them in my bedroom

closet.

well as time went on we moved stuff around and I.ended u

p

putting the urn in the attic, well I guessmom didn't like that cause the attic light kept coming on nite after night so after 2 weeks I figured maybe it is her so I took the urn back down to the man floor & the attic light never came on again LOL

Okay, let me see if I'm following you correctly. First you put your dead mother's ashes in the closet, and then later on, in the attic? Guessing you two weren't close, huh ?

[thomas81z]

Winter Arashi said:

Okay, let me see if I'm following you correctly. First you put your dead mother's ashes in the closet, and then later on, in the attic? Guessing you two weren't close, huh

actually we were she was in my bedroom closet, but I moved her to the attic so we could move out the furniture since we were moving & I didn't want her urn to get broken 

[LiamJohnson]

How many times have I seen people die in my arms, it's quite painful to experience! And every time you don’t know what to expect, someone twitches, someone sees strange things! But I still wish everyone to be a little happier, I support you in our difficult work!

[londonflo]

10 hours ago, Dani_Mila said:

My first nursing ghost story.

You have a start of a great nursing Ghost story. Write it up as a short story....just like you did here. Ghost story compilations are made up of these short stories. Have her put her finger to her lips or something that shows she sees you. Give some history, even if made up. 

[NotNurse]

hppygr8ful said:

If you think the movie was good read the book. Read The Shining first as Dr. Sleep is a sequel!

I actually had watch 'The Shining' starring Jack Nicholson a long time ago and I also know 'Doctor Sleep' is the sequel.  What puzzled me is why it took almost 20 years for the sequel!  That 'thing' (woman or man ghost) in the bathtub appears to be the same character and may even be played by the same person.  Both movie very well made in my view.

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

1 hour ago, NotNurse said:

I actually had watch 'The Shining' starring Jack Nicholson a long time ago and I also know 'Doctor Sleep' is the sequel.  What puzzled me is why it took almost 20 years for the sequel!  That 'thing' (woman or man ghost) in the bathtub appears to be the same character and may even be played by the same person.  Both movie very well made in my view.

There are cuts from The Shining that have been cleverly inserted into Dr. Sleep and the lady in the bath tub was one of them. 

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

donnydilaudid said:

I worked in a sleepy little SNF for a few years and started out on the night shift.  I had a resident on hospice, end stage CHF and CKD, who was confused.  He'd call the nurses station instead of calling his wife by accident.  I'd tell him, "Mr. XYZ, you've reached the nurses station, this is DonnyDilaudid, your nurse.  I'll come in and call your wife for you."  It would happen like clockwork nearly every night around midnight for a few weeks.  He deteriorated, as expected, and eventually, he died.  For three nights after he died, the phone in his room would ring in to the station around midnight - nobody on the other end.  On the third night, my third of three in a row, when the phone rang into the station from his room, I said, "Mr. XYZ, this is DonnyDilaudid.  I'll come let you out."  Went into the room, opened the window for a few seconds and shut it again.  No more phone calls from an empty room after that!  The aides and I were spooked!

By any chance was your patient Irish?

Hppy

[donnydilaudid]

hppygr8ful said:

By any chance was your patient Irish?

Hppy

I believe that was his ancestry!

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

donnydilaudid said:

I believe that was his ancestry!

It is an Irish Custom that all windows in the room of a dying person be opened to prevent a soul from be trapped at the moment of death. 

[amoLucia]

I just got to shivering!