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...

Had always heard ghost stories but never had my own until I had been nursing about 6 years. We had a bed tower in the hospital where I worked the night shift as a float nurse. It was a pretty quiet night at about 3am and the nurses were sitting at the desk charting when my patients light went off. His room was the right in front of the station so I went in to check and he wanted to know "if everything was OK" and I said, "what do you mean" and said, "someone just came in here. I woke up and someone was standing by the bed and then they went out but didn't say anything. I didn't want to upset him, but I knew noone had been in there so I just said, Maybe it was the CNA or maybe you dreamed it, but I was secretly a little freaked out. Then I was REALLY freaked when I went out and told the others. They weren't surprised, said it happened all the time in that room and the call light frequently went off when the room was unused. No one was sure who the ghost was but had been seen many times. Sure enough not a while later I was working that floor and in the early morning hours the light went off, same story, different patient.

Specializes in Med/Surg.
For anyone interested. There is a short documentary about possible proof of ghosts. Some of it looks fake, but some of it looks authentic.

http://www.wimp.com/proof/

Then click on ghost proof

I about wet my pants when i clicked on that link!!!! :lol2:

My first med surg job was in an old hospitl where the new addition and the old wing didn't quite fit together.Doors would slam, creaks and bangs could be heard. We always said it was the ghost of Sister So and So from the early days of the hospital.

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

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Whenever we have a death in our unit, we have call lights going off in rooms that are empty. This happens for about 2 or 3 days. We thought it was due to a short circuit or electrical work on other floors, but no...

My nursing supervisor told me that when she was doing her peds rotation in school she had a litttle 4 or 5 yo keep calling her into his room, and when she went in there he was laughing and saying.." Look..look at the angels..aren't they pretty, they want to play with me." She said she turned around to look where he was pointing and as she turned back around to him, he passed away.

nrse judy

Would love to see your ghost site. Please pm link to me. Thanks so much!!

Specializes in Gerontology.

Nrse Judy

I would like to see your website too please!

Creepy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I used to work in a state inst for developmentally disabled. We were temp relocated to another building for remodeling of our bldg. Anyways...I was working one nite, 2nd shift. We had a locked pica unit. I saw one of the residents walking down the hall. Very distinct gait and very distinct yellow t-shirt w/ a happy face on it. I went into the ward to let staff know that they had an escapee. This was a serious situation because this particular resident, Larry, would ingest absolutely anything (from clothing to pens to belts to *ugh* a bird's head)...literally anything. He was also very reluctant to go back to his home ward (hence why I didn't bring him back myself...he needed two escorts). When we got back into the hall, less than 15 secs later, Larry was gone!! We searched the entire building! Outside, downstairs, all wards...he was NO WHERE to be found!!! This whole search lasted last than 10 mins because I had all extra staff looking for him. I was just about to call the house supervisor to let her know that we "lost" someone when out from the bathroom walks Larry w/ one of the staff. He had been getting his bath in the bathroom for the last 30 mins or so. Kind of freaky! I absolutely, without a doubt, saw Larry in the hallway. I never would've short-staffed the wards like I did if I hadn't seen him! Like I said, very distinctive gait, look, clothing. I took a lot of razzing that nite! They all thought that I was crazy. Anyways, come to find out the next day, after the story goes around that I am crazy (haha, gigglegiggle, funnyfunny)..............Larry had an identical twin brother who died in that building 10 yrs previously.

CREEPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ohhhhh Wow....now That Is Creepy!!!!!

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