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...

Specializes in Med/Surg.

I guess we could always call that show "most haunted" and have them come to one of the hospitals or LTC facilities mentioned in this thread!! they'd probably have a field day!!! :lol2:

I have a strange story to tell. Not nursing related, but strange.

I would say about 15-18 years ago, my nephew and niece were at my mother's house. {Her grandchildren**.

I was in town.

So that afternoon, my mother said that she heard ME outside calling for "Cissy" {my niece**.

My mother looked at my nephew and said "Did you hear that? Cathy's out there calling for Cissy."

He said, "Yeah I heard it."

They got up and went to the door, expecting me to be there, but of course I wasn't.

I"ve also thought at times that I have heard someone call me.

My mother freaked me out...she kept saying "It was your voice."

I said, "No, don't say that. My voice was in town with ME!"

We had a patient one night tell the doctor when he was making rounds that Jesus was in the doorway and was telling her to come home. The doctor told her to go. That night she did.

Not nursing, but when I was 18 years old my boyfriend and I were going to prom, we had one of his friends and his date in the car with us. We went to eat in the town I lived at then we were headed back to his home town. Well his friend told him to take a certain road that it would be a short cut. As soon as we turned on the road, I heard a voice that said "put your seat belt on." I did and told everyone else to do the same. Well the other girl put hers on and made her date put his on. Everytime my date would reach for his seat belt a curve would come in the road and he would let go of his seatbelt to drive. I undid mine, put his on him, and then put mine back on. The next curve we went around the car went straight. My boyfriend swore that he turned the steering wheel but it still went straight. I hit my head on the plastic piece on the side of the front windshield holding it in. Other then that no one else was hurt. I was just shaking. The house we went to to call for a tow truck belonged to a nurse, she was afraid I was going into shock, I told her I was just cold (Arkansas in MAY, not cold). When I went home that night I knocked on my mothers door to let her know I was home. She asked was everything alright. I told her I'd like to talk to her. She opened the door and said "You were in a car wreak tonight about nine weren't you." I told her yes, she said about 9 she got this weird feeling that we had been in a wreak but that we were ok so she was not worried.

If that voice wouldn't have told me to put my seat belt on I would have possibly been thrown out the windshield because of how hard we hit the ditch then went into the field.

Specializes in Gerontology.

When I first moved into my new home,many years ago, I would sometimes feel like someone was watching me. One night I said 'Look, you are welcome to stay, but you'll have to help out with the housework. I'll leave the vacuum out tomorrow". Never felt the presence again! (which is too bad, I was hoping I could get help!) :)

Specializes in Ortho/Neurosurgical.
I've never heard of anyone seeing just the skeleton; I've always heard that you see them as they were in real life, or in a healthier state. It's also rare to hear about "ghost" animals.

I have a good one, at least it was for me. I was about 7 years old and my family pet a harlequin great dane named Holly, she was previously abused and coming to our house was a new "life" for Holly. She loved women and not so much with the men. Anyhow, my brother and I were at summer camp and at that time during the summer she basically got puppy dimentia and began deficating throughout the house, so my parents and vet made the joint decision to put her down. After camp was out, our parents took us to our boat on the lake, and out to dinner and told us the news, which we were both devesated over. A few months later, as my mother and I were pulling up the driveway, we saw Holly's head poke around the corner of the house (she was on a lead that ran the whole length of the house with lots of yard to play in) and my mom told me she saw it too. One night also when getting out of bed to go to the bathroom, I got up and looked down the hallway, she always slept in the hallways between the bedrooms, our great protector and saw her and said "Hi Holly" and she got up and sat upright. I went to the bathroom and at that point I realized "oh my god, Holly is dead". And went right to bed and covered my head. I think Holly was always watching over my mother and I, life wasn't always so easy but she would always protect us.

Specializes in Everything but L&D and OR.

OK, I am only on page 17 of 61, but I want to bump it to the top so it is easier to find. I have had goosebumps about a dozen times already tonight!!

Christine

Just spent 4 hours reading these....Have to share. My ex husband and I had just bought our first house right before our third child was born. It was an old farmhouse that was a mile away from General Brown's (War of 1812) home during the War. It was built on the land that his soldiers camped on. When we asked about previous owners we were told that there had been "many" since it was built in 1875. No one had lived there for more than five years before selling. Thought it was odd, but no one elaborated, so we moved in. Strange things happened all the time. Lights flickering, dryer starting for no reason, toilet paper unraveling itself, kids "jolly jumper" jumping by itself, kids talking to those men who have boo boos. If I told them to stop it, they did. (the ghosts, not the kids) Night before my scheduled c-section my parents came to stay with me. The slept in the woodstove room by the stairs leading to our bedrooms. My mother asked me the next day about the soldiers. She said they looked wartorn and had marched through the wall of the woodstove room up the stairs. General Brown's soldiers coming back to camp after a battle??? I finally got the nerve to ask the farmer who lived in Gen Brown's old house why no one stayed there long before moving. He said that bad luck always happened to those who lived there. Loss of jobs, divorce, etc...After living there my ex started to become a complete jerk, lost a few jobs, started cheating, treating me very badly--physically and emotionally. One night I heard a man's voice telling me to leave--it was best. I decided it was time to leave my ex and I moved 2 weeks later. The night after I moved my stuff out of the house and unplugged all appliances in house (ex moved out one week before I did) the house caught on fire--deemed an electrical shortage--and burned to the ground. Maybe my soldiers were stopping the damage to any other families. BTW ex has returned to normal self, doing well at job, he is the man I once married. Was it the house??? I guess I'll never know. :confused:

has anyone seen the amityville horror?

Specializes in Forensics.
has anyone seen the amityville horror?

Yes, and I live minutes away from that house! It's very creepy to see in person. :uhoh21:

As a student nurse ive heard alot of these creepy stories about being anurse and having on a night shift/grave yard.Ive heard about a certain hospital here in cebu, philippines(private) who is not having admissions at floor 9(the hospital is up to 12th floor),one time a friend of mine had a relative admitted to the hospital and they were on the 7th floor....then suddenly there was this young child who pushed all the buttons in the elevator and got out of the elevator at floor 4.There was a nurse from 5th floor then who needed to carry some meds at the 10th floor..she asked them(the ones inside the elevator up the building)angrily who pushed all the buttons in the elevator and they replied that it was the young boy.She didnt say anything but, evrybody is afraid of being at the 9th floor.....someone died there and the floor is very cold even if the airconditioner at that floor is turned off.

There is this incident in the Nurse's Station where one of my clinical instructors were staying....he told us that at a certain room someone who's gonna be admitted in there would lierally die within the week after the admission.That they sensed that its like a place with goosebumps....

The second story is also a personal experience of my clinical instructor before he got in into the academe.There was once a time he had a night shift 11pm to 7am.There were 3 of them staying at the station and suddenly he smelled a scent of flower its locally called here in the philippines as sampaguita.He asked his conurse on duty if they were using a perfume whis is made out of sampaguita and both the two nurses said they arent using any perfume at that time.....then suddenly all of them got quite.........by the end of the shift they talked about it and theyve got creeps of smeeling something like that......creepy isnt it?

Heres by pin up......all of us nurses(including me eventhough im still a student nurse) would see, feel strange things in the hospital because its the ploace where alot of souls would leave their body......we can feel....but we most of the time neglect them coz we might be thinking of other things......

happy reading.......plz share......some

Specializes in certified med tech and Lpn.

After reading all these threads, I almost expect to see something at work so I psych myself out when I go to work and tell myself that it's just part of the job.

Last night, though, I was making rounds and changing my residents before I went home and I would say about 3 of my little ladies kept staring at the ceiling above them and just watching "something" or "someone". There is a lady who was the head ER nurse at the hospital down the street in her day. Last night she was yelling at the ceiling, " I don't need all those boxes! Go put them back in storage!" It was a little creepy. I didn't even want to look up in that room. I go in these rooms and I completely respect the room and the resident and I figure if I don't tick anyone or anything off, that I should be okay. They may just leave me alone at this facility. I seem way too much at the last place I worked. I was there 10 years.:uhoh3: :pumpiron:

I would like to suggest this topic be a sticky topic.

It is so popular. Why not? :)

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