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...

I have many--after working LTC many years. One that comes to mind is: one morning after report and hearing of this dying resident, who rested quitely "except when the monster was chasing her." and need a personal alarm, as tried to climb out of bed then.-- I checked her first and took in her am meds. She ask: "Do I have to go with that mean man?" I told her No, that she could go with someone nice. Went on to visit about her serious illness and I ask if there was anyone she wanted to come sit with her or a minister called. She replied in the negative. No family and not religious. I ask if she wanted me to say a prayer with her. That was affirmative and we said the Lord's Prayer together. On finishing she stated, "He's gone!" She died the next day and never from the time of the prayer, was she trying to escape the bad man or monster. (She could definitely see him. I couldn't)

This is not totally nursig related but there was hospice involved and is an amazing story of one's will to live and die.

Wanda is my best since 7th grade (24 years now). Her father had recently passed of lung cancer and shortly after her mother was dx with terminal liver cancer. Given 6 months to live, she should never have made it to Thanksgiving that year. Well, she wanted a granddaughter (wanda only had 2 sons) badly and a few months later on Thanksgiving, she said she was sticking around to see her granddaughter. Wanda had no idea she was even pregnant and on dec 6 of that year lost everything to house fire. Somehow all pics of parents had survived despite all else being lost (it was the only box to survive the fire). That weekend Wanda discovered she was indeed pregnant- HUGE surprise since they were not planning it and took precautions.

Her mom was deterioriating greatly but somehow managed to stay on and fight. Easter came early and we were literally at her mom's home on a death vigil thinking any time it would happen. Poor Wanda, who wanted her daughter to be born so badly KNEW that once she was here, that her mom would go and this tore her up so much! Well April 15 rolls around and Wanda goes into labor. Katrina was born and polaroids were taken and brought to her mom at home with hospice. Once her mom saw the pics she was finally at peace and expired very peacefully.

Wanda tells Kat (new 7) that the same angel that brought her here also brought her grandmother back to heaven.

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This is not totally nursig related but there was hospice involved and is an amazing story of one's will to live and die.

Wanda is my best since 7th grade (24 years now). Her father had recently passed of lung cancer and shortly after her mother was dx with terminal liver cancer. Given 6 months to live, she should never have made it to Thanksgiving that year. Well, she wanted a granddaughter (wanda only had 2 sons) badly and a few months later on Thanksgiving, she said she was sticking around to see her granddaughter. Wanda had no idea she was even pregnant and on dec 6 of that year lost everything to house fire. Somehow all pics of parents had survived despite all else being lost (it was the only box to survive the fire). That weekend Wanda discovered she was indeed pregnant- HUGE surprise since they were not planning it and took precautions.

Her mom was deterioriating greatly but somehow managed to stay on and fight. Easter came early and we were literally at her mom's home on a death vigil thinking any time it would happen. Poor Wanda, who wanted her daughter to be born so badly KNEW that once she was here, that her mom would go and this tore her up so much! Well April 15 rolls around and Wanda goes into labor. Katrina was born and polaroids were taken and brought to her mom at home with hospice. Once her mom saw the pics she was finally at peace and expired very peacefully.

Wanda tells Kat (new 7) that the same angel that brought her here also brought her grandmother back to heaven.

That is so sad.:crying2: I can't imagine having my dd's birthday on the anniversary of my mother's death. What a bittersweet day for your friend.

BTW, my dd's birthday is April 15th! She will be 7 this year:biggringi

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Im So Happy That I Have Never Seen That Kind Of Stuff Before

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Here's mine.

I was working the Night shift in a very small hospital. The RNA (this was years ago, before they became RPNs) and I had just finished our 1:00 rounds and were doing our paperwork at the Nsg Station. We heard a loud scream that cut off short. We looked at each other and ran to the room where we heard the scream come from. A patient we had just turned, repostioned, etc was dead. She wasn't expected to die and was quite medically stable. She was a DNR so we did nothing, but that scream creeped us out for the rest of the shift.

All I can think of is that she didn't like who came for her!

Ok you are all gonna say that I'm cruel as hell on this one and yea I guess I was. We had this one LPN that was scared of her own shadow but was constantly trying to scare us. The nursing home I worked in on 11-7 I was the nursing supervisor. (I still work there but now Restorative nurse) This home is infamous for being haunted even though it was a new building compared to the old home that a lot of the residents came from. (It had been the county poor house, infirmary, lunatic assylum etc since 1845) Well apparently they brought a few of their "old friends" with them when they came cause believe me there is wierd stuff happening there all the time.

Anyway, as the supervisor you had to go to the basement and check all the doors and make sure they were locked twice a night. Well it was Halloween time and they had an old casket down there for the haunted house they put on for the residents and families. Well I told one of the other nurses about it and she insisted we go down to see it. (I could already see the cogs turning lol) So I took her down and we pulled it down the hall so that it was right in front of the elevator. We got one of the aides to comes down and lay in the coffin and I went up and told this nurse that I had to go to the basement for supplies. (she should have known something was up cause I was the only one that would ever go down there alone). Well it was harder than hell to keep a straight face all the way. When the elevator doors opened, the aide pushed the lid of the coffin open and slowly sat up. I thought that nurse was going to go throught the back of the elevator and they could hear her scream clear upstairs. LOL. Needless to say she never tried to scare anyone else again. But me on the other hand, I'm bad it's just not so easy to do it when I work day shift now. HEHEHE

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Rosie:rotfl: :coollook:

This is not totally nursig related but there was hospice involved and is an amazing story of one's will to live and die.

Wanda is my best since 7th grade (24 years now). Her father had recently passed of lung cancer and shortly after her mother was dx with terminal liver cancer. Given 6 months to live, she should never have made it to Thanksgiving that year. Well, she wanted a granddaughter (wanda only had 2 sons) badly and a few months later on Thanksgiving, she said she was sticking around to see her granddaughter. Wanda had no idea she was even pregnant and on dec 6 of that year lost everything to house fire. Somehow all pics of parents had survived despite all else being lost (it was the only box to survive the fire). That weekend Wanda discovered she was indeed pregnant- HUGE surprise since they were not planning it and took precautions.

Her mom was deterioriating greatly but somehow managed to stay on and fight. Easter came early and we were literally at her mom's home on a death vigil thinking any time it would happen. Poor Wanda, who wanted her daughter to be born so badly KNEW that once she was here, that her mom would go and this tore her up so much! Well April 15 rolls around and Wanda goes into labor. Katrina was born and polaroids were taken and brought to her mom at home with hospice. Once her mom saw the pics she was finally at peace and expired very peacefully.

Wanda tells Kat (new 7) that the same angel that brought her here also brought her grandmother back to heaven.

That was really sad:crying2: but I guess she (grandmother) was happy that she has seen her little angel before she goes to heaven. She has this sense of fulfillment after seeing her granddaughter.:saint:

Ok you are all gonna say that I'm cruel as hell on this one and yea I guess I was. We had this one LPN that was scared of her own shadow but was constantly trying to scare us. The nursing home I worked in on 11-7 I was the nursing supervisor. (I still work there but now Restorative nurse) This home is infamous for being haunted even though it was a new building compared to the old home that a lot of the residents came from. (It had been the county poor house, infirmary, lunatic assylum etc since 1845) Well apparently they brought a few of their "old friends" with them when they came cause believe me there is wierd stuff happening there all the time.

Anyway, as the supervisor you had to go to the basement and check all the doors and make sure they were locked twice a night. Well it was Halloween time and they had an old casket down there for the haunted house they put on for the residents and families. Well I told one of the other nurses about it and she insisted we go down to see it. (I could already see the cogs turning lol) So I took her down and we pulled it down the hall so that it was right in front of the elevator. We got one of the aides to comes down and lay in the coffin and I went up and told this nurse that I had to go to the basement for supplies. (she should have known something was up cause I was the only one that would ever go down there alone). Well it was harder than hell to keep a straight face all the way. When the elevator doors opened, the aide pushed the lid of the coffin open and slowly sat up. I thought that nurse was going to go throught the back of the elevator and they could hear her scream clear upstairs. LOL. Needless to say she never tried to scare anyone else again. But me on the other hand, I'm bad it's just not so easy to do it when I work day shift now. HEHEHE

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Rosie:rotfl: :coollook:

:roll :yelclap: Ha ha ha that was neat, Rosie! We also do a lot of that jokes here. . . you're not cruel, you just wanted to have some fun in the right time!!!!!!. . . .

Im So Happy That I Have Never Seen That Kind Of Stuff Before

:rolleyes: :uhoh3: stay in the field of nursing for more years and I'm sure you'll gonna experience it! Am not a believer of ghost or any scary unseen thing, but when I had my real experience . . . well . . . there goes a different story . . I do put on a brave front infront of my coworkers or sometimes pretend that nothing happends and that I did not hear it . . . but the truth is, i just ignored it. Well, have not encountered ay visual things just more of an audio (I hear it). . .:scrying:

Pepper The Cat said:
Here's mine.

I was working the Night shift in a very small hospital. The RNA (this was years ago, before they became RPNs) and I had just finished our 1:00 rounds and were doing our paperwork at the Nsg Station. We heard a loud scream that cut off short. We looked at each other and ran to the room where we heard the scream come from. A patient we had just turned, repostioned, etc was dead. She wasn't expected to die and was quite medically stable. She was a DNR so we did nothing, but that scream creeped us out for the rest of the shift.

All I can think of is that she didn't like who came for her!

Well, just remembered a similar experience, when we found out that during our change of shifts rounds that an old lady patient just passed out without letting us know and what is more funny is that her caregiver who is with her does not even know that the patient is already dead and she was sleeping BESIDE the patient (the two of them are lying side-by-side in one bed). When we woke her up and asked her what time the patient passed away, she gave us an angry look, but when we informed her that the patient is already dead when we entered the room, she suddenly jumped out of bed and was actually shaking in one corner of the room.

but when we informed her that the patient is already dead when we entered the room, she suddenly jumped out of bed and was actually shaking in one corner of the room.:lol2:

:uhoh21: That is actually pretty sad. I don't find the humor in that. And I like to think I have a good sense of humor.

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