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...

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We were with a 100 yr old woman when she died. The respers stopped and it took ten minutes for the heart to stop. She had lots of wrinkles that were soft and we could see her become younger and there was a rosy appearance in her cheeks. With the last beat gone you could see a mist raising upward to the ceiling. As it rose it disipated. The Black nurse's aide opened the window for the spirit to leave the room. Now when I have a death the window is then opened. There was 6 of us and we all thought we were crazy. We didn't talk for awhile.

The "Black" nurses aide?:confused: :confused:

Specializes in Ambulatory Care/Telephone Triage.

I have a personal one that just happened recently. The story starts 25 years ago when my grandmother died. To make a long story short, my parents and I had gone to pick her up for Christmas and found her dead in her apartment. My mom and I were talking on the way home and both shared that we had had dreams the night before in which grandma had said goodbye. (Incidentally, her best friend, who was in the hospital at the time, died within an hour of when Grandma died.)

Fast forward to December of 2005. I had a dream on December 15th in which my grandma appeared and said hello to me. In my dream she gave me a hug and said she was proud of me. I mentioned this to my mom the next day and she told me that it was the 25th anniversary of my grandma's death. My husband says I must have known, but I had no idea of the date of my Grandmother's death.

My other grandma visits me, too, but that's another story...

Specializes in Corrections, Cardiac, Hospice.
The "Black" nurses aide?:confused: :confused:

I am not sure, but I think she was pointing out a culture difference between herself and and African American aide. If you see, she has found that to be an important enough thing to do that she does it now whenever anyone dies.

I am not sure, but I think she was pointing out a culture difference between herself and and African American aide. If you see, she has found that to be an important enough thing to do that she does it now whenever anyone dies.

I think you are right. Kind of makes us Californians cringe, but I'm sure she meant no harm by it. As for opening the window to let the spirit out, I'm thinking that if a spirit leaves our body, it can find it's own way to "the other side".

:rolleyes:

Specializes in Transplant, homecare, hospice.

I can't think of any right now. I used to work hospice and saw some strange things there, but most recently (2 years ago..) I was working as a PCT on our sister unit and we (other staff) would have strange things happen...like the call bells going off and on in one room. The lights would flash off and on and the phone would ring. This only happened on a couple of nights and then it stopped completely. Never happened again. It was very odd. Spooked all of us.:chair:

Specializes in Transplant, homecare, hospice.
We had a patient, chronic CHFer, always on the call button, hated being on fluid restrictions. you know the type: the nurses have to take turns during the shift answering the call button so the primary can actually do other work.

And this was a frequent flier cause he was very chronic, very borderline, and the hospital was the only place he wouldn't fluid overload.

I work 7p-7a. He died about 8pm. Oh the look on his face, like, "how could you let me die!" - Like it was our fault.

Anyway, family came and gone by 9pm, funeral home gone at 930pm.

About 10pm, the call button starts going off. I was there - call button going off every 5 minutes.

One of the nurses was a very spiritual girl. At about 2am, after like 4 HOURS OF THIS, nurse Mary snaps, 'Enough!'

She walks down to the room, and, practically screams into the empty room, "Mr X, you have died. You can't be in here bothering us anymore. Move along. In the name of Jesus, I'm exorcising you from this plane of existence. Go to the light and be happy!"

And I kid you not, the call button stopped going off then and there.

~faith,

Timothy.

:chuckle OMG! LOL! That's a good one! :chair:

I'd have to say nurse managers. I've heard they exist, but I very rarely see one.

:rotfl: :chuckle :rotfl:

:roll

During one night shift an elderly man died on our unit. He was in a four-bed ward so we transfered him to a private room so that his family could come in to see him. While we were transferring him, another nurse answered one of her call bells. There was a young female pt, extremely upset, who said that a man had just awakened her and asked her to go with him. The nurse assured her that there were no "wanderers" on the unit but that she'd go for a walk to be sure. Before this nurse could finish her "search", the same young women rang again. She said, "He was just here again!!" There was no-one.

Anyway, this patient was so upset, we had to set her up in a recliner in the nurse's station for the rest of the night. We never found this "man". Weird.:uhoh21:

PS: There was no way that this women could have known that someone just passed away because we didn't call a code. (DNR order)

Specializes in Telemetry/Cardiac/Neuro.

Just last night, one of the secretaries called me over to look at the telemetry monitor for 6B. She was questioning the odd, faint pattern, when it occured to us that there wasn't a patient in either bed in room 6, & that the monotor had been cleaned & put away. Thinking the battery had been left in it, another nurse checked the monitor - no battery. About 5 of us watched for several minutes as the waves got more & more faint & then disappeared. There were no codes last night, so we're thinking it was just someone stopping by to say 'Hi'.

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