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...

Well....it's not a nursing story, but it happened to a nurse so does that count?:coollook:

A friend of mine has a three year old son. A neighbor of theirs was dying of cancer, and my friend was going in to the home daily to help out as a neighbor, not as a nurse. Anyway, one morning at 9:00 she called the neighbor's husband to ask if he needed anything from the store as she and her son were on their way. He named a couple of things, and she and her son went to the store. It took about an hour, and at 10:00 she and her son drove up to the neighbor's house. The woman was in a coma and was expected to die at any time. My friend was kind of leery of taking her son in to the home because of the woman being in a coma, but she decided to anyway. She explained to him that the woman was not sleeping, she was in a coma and she wouldn't wake up and was very likely to die soon. He cut her off and said "Mama, she's already dead." She said, not yet, honey but soon. He said again very emphatically "Mama, she is dead." He was not upset about it, he was just stating a fact. She and her son walked up to the door and rang the bell. The hospice nurse answered the door and told them that the woman had passed away at 9:30 that morning. My friend and her son returned to the car, and she asked him "How did you know she was dead?" He said simply "Tony told me." My friend did not know anyone named Tony, either in the family or as a friend. She asked him to describe Tony. Her son said that Tony was a child who was about one year old and he was in the same house as the woman who died. The problem with that is that there had been no children in the house at all besides my friend's son, at least no LIVE children......

it happened to my friend during our student period..she was posted in ICU and was on night duty..thr was a diabetic patient complicated with many diseases,who was a regular visitor of our hospital since our 1yr of course..so many of us knws tat person..we have seen the whole period of his life stepping into the miserable state of his health condition..so whn my friend was on duty there was doctor's strict instruction to keep patient NPO...tat night whnte time ws around 11pm(23:00) he askd her to give him some water..bt she ws helpless..and being a student had no right to giv it by herself..so she first said y she cant giv him water..thn thot to wet his lips which could make him happy...bt by the time she was back to the patient he has died..evn nw she is sad of it tat she couldn't giv him te last drop of water...

I went into a patient's room late one night, he was asleep but when I looked at his feet they resembled the hoof of a horse! I almost passed out.:uhoh3: I was the only nurse on the floor at that time. He died soon after that and when I shared my experience later with my other colleague on duty, she told me that his neighbours claimed that he frequently turns into a donkey at night and roams the street! I can still remember his name and picture him clearly lying on the bed as if it were yesterday. Strange, isn't it! :uhoh3:

The best I have heard is from a nurse who said that one night she was floated to oncology at the hospital she used to work at. She was given a patient who was passing away and had been unconscious for several days. At one point during the night the nurse went into the room and the patient was at the top of the bed and looked at her and said, "don't let them take me!", the nurse was freaked out and asked her who was going to take her and she said that black thing up there and pointed up in the air. This patient died within minutes.

Come on now share your stories, I know you have seen and heard freaky things.

I went into a patient's room late one night, he was asleep but when I looked at his feet they resembled the hoof of a horse! I almost passed out.:uhoh3: I was the only nurse on the floor at that time. He died soon after that and when I shared my experience later with my other colleague on duty, she told me that his neighbours claimed that he frequently turns into a donkey at night and roams the street! I can still remember his name and picture him clearly lying on the bed as if it were yesterday. Strange, isn't it! :uhoh3:

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I've also enjoyed reading these stories. I don't have a ghost story, but I do have a "dream" story.

I am currently a nurse at an independent birth center. At the time of this story, there were three nurses that took turns taking call, and three docs/mws who took turns with call. Meaning that a patient could end up with any combination of nurse and doc/mw at their birth.

I got called in one night to the labor of a woman who had five children, all boys, and the last pregnancy an "ooops." She wanted a girl (even though we all figured she was having a boy, since her previous 5 had been), so as a joke, we put pink sheets on the bed. When she and her husband arrived at the birth center, we said, "Look, D., pink sheets for your little girl!" and her dh looked at us very strangely and said, "Did she tell you about her dream?" And then she got upset with him and said "No, no, don't say anything, I haven't told anyone but you, if I tell, it will spoil it; it won't come true!"

So fast forward three hours, when her baby makes an entrance. It's a girl! We hand her up to mama and are drying her off, and I say, "Wow, I think that's your smallest baby yet! She can't be over 6 pounds!"

And she says, "She is, too, she is 6# 4oz and her name is Amelie. Last night I dreamed all about this, that I would have the baby tonight, that you and N (the mw) would be on call, that you would put pink sheets on the bed for my baby, and that it would be a girl. When she came out, in my dream, she looked up at me and said, my name is Amelie. And I said, no it isn't, I don't like that name. And then she said to me, I don't care, that is my name, you have to name me that!"

The mw and I just looked at each other and had goosebumps. Later I weighed her; she was 6# 2oz. I said something to the mw that "Well, she was two ounces off!" and the mw said, "No she wasn't, the baby peed right before you weighed her!"

Okay, it gets even better. One and a half years later D walks into the clinic, unannounced, no appointment, and asks me if I have time to listen to see if I can hear heart tones. I said, "I didn't even know you were pregnant!" She says, "I'm still nursing, but Amelie keeps coming up to me and pointing to my tummy and saying baby. You probably think I'm crazy!" I said, "D, I was at Amelie's birth, I have never seen anything like that. If I hear heart tones, I wouldn't be surprised." Sure enough, I could get heart tones. I looked over at Amelie and said, "Are you going to have a little sister or brother?" And that kid, all 1 1/2 years of age, said, "Baby - Me!" I looked at D and she said, "She's saying, the baby is a girl like her."

We did an US this time for unsure dates; sure enough, that baby is a girl.

I have never experienced anything like that. It wasn't scary or creepy, and I don't get an odd feel from Amelie; but there is no doubt something special about that little girl.

I've never posted before, but I had to respond to this one. Not a ghost or dream story, but still.....

After two heart breaking miscarriages, I finally gave birth to my second son in '95. My grandmother, who I was very close to, was in a nursing home & was very aware that she was now a great-great-great grandmother (meaning she had 3 great-grandchildren). Exactly one week after my son was born, completely out of the blue & before I could get to the nursing home for her to see him, I got the call that she had passed. Fast forward a couple months. Every time I changed my son on his changing table, he would laugh & coo at someone/thing just over my left shoulder that no one else saw. I'm convinced that it was Grandma, having a little fun with her great-grandson.

When this child was 2, I got pregnant again, & my son simply wouldn't put up with anyone saying that the baby was a boy. He'd point to my belly & insist that the baby was a 'sister', although the baby always turned away from the u/s so we had no idea if it was a boy or a girl. Well sure enough, the baby was indeed a little sister.

I have some nursing ghost stories, but I'll save those for another time.

I've never posted before, but I had to respond to this one. Not a ghost or dream story, but still.....

After two heart breaking miscarriages, I finally gave birth to my second son in '95. My grandmother, who I was very close to, was in a nursing home & was very aware that she was now a great-great-great grandmother (meaning she had 3 great-grandchildren). Exactly one week after my son was born, completely out of the blue & before I could get to the nursing home for her to see him, I got the call that she had passed. Fast forward a couple months. Every time I changed my son on his changing table, he would laugh & coo at someone/thing just over my left shoulder that no one else saw. I'm convinced that it was Grandma, having a little fun with her great-grandson.

When this child was 2, I got pregnant again, & my son simply wouldn't put up with anyone saying that the baby was a boy. He'd point to my belly & insist that the baby was a 'sister', although the baby always turned away from the u/s so we had no idea if it was a boy or a girl. Well sure enough, the baby was indeed a little sister.

I have some nursing ghost stories, but I'll save those for another time.

Let's have them now. Love these stories!

Specializes in NA, Stepdown, L&D, Trauma ICU, ER.

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More stories please please please!!!

Graduation MAY 2006 :balloons:

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We once had a patient on our unit who ended up passing away. A few hours later, we got a call for a baby being born who was prenatally diagnosed with a cardiac defect. His last name was the same as the baby who died's middle name. When we admitted him, we asked the father what his first name was, and it turned out that he also had the same first name as the other baby who had passed. When the doctors performed his echo, they found a completely different defect than he was prenatally diagnosed with, the same diagnosis as the other baby. After this, we moved him to another room because we were all so freaked out about it.

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