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...

A little off topic but true...........When I was 10 years old, I was abused by my stepfather. He was a very evil, mean & cruel man. Full of hatred and always said that he was going to kill me one day. I was so afraid of him that I used to run and try to hide from him whenever he came home and I always prayed and asked God to protect me from him. One day I was sitting on my bed alone in my bedroom coloring in a coloring book. All of the sudden, I looked up from my coloring book and I saw an angel in the doorway to my bedroom. He was very tall and so beautiful with blond curly hair and wore a white robe with a gold belt that looked like rope. He was so tall, I estimate at least 7 or 8 feet, he had to bend down a little under the door frame to look at me. He also had huge white wings. I was very scared but I knew that what I was looking at was an angel. He did not speak to me but just looked at me in a very peaceful and knowing way. I was so scared that I could not speak. I just looked down at my coloring book and when I looked up again, he was gone. I'm 47 now and I have never seen him again but there has never been a day that has passed that I have not thought of him. I always have wondered my whole life why he came to me and the only thing that I can think of is that he was there to reassure and protect me. I never told anyone about this until I became an adult. Shortly after I saw this angel, my mother left this abusive man and we moved away. I never saw my stepfather again. I have also almost died several times. I almost drowned twice at age 11 and again at age 12. I was hit by a car and coded after surgery as an adult. I have many times felt a "presence" with me. I know angels are real and I belive they are here to protect us and they are messengers from God. I have taken care of many dying patients in my 20 years as a nurse. I have had a few patients tell me that they could hear beautiful voices singing just before they died. I believe those are angels.

nursing related or not does anyone just ever just get the feeling that they are not alone, yet there is not another soul around? I do. :stone

I have had some ghostly encounters but more often than not it is just a feeling. Does any get what I am saying?:confused:

I absolutely feel that way at work but only at night if I go to the cafeteria alone. It is closed except for vending machines. There are big glass windows all around. I always feel like someone is watching me through those windows. I never feel that way in any other area of the hospital, windows or not. It is a very strange feeling and just started recently in the past few months.

Specializes in Med/Surg.
A little off topic but true...........When I was 10 years old, I was abused by my stepfather. He was a very evil, mean & cruel man. Full of hatred and always said that he was going to kill me one day. I was so afraid of him that I used to run and try to hide from him whenever he came home and I always prayed and asked God to protect me from him. One day I was sitting on my bed alone in my bedroom coloring in a coloring book. All of the sudden, I looked up from my coloring book and I saw an angel in the doorway to my bedroom. He was very tall and so beautiful with blond curly hair and wore a white robe with a gold belt that looked like rope. He was so tall, I estimate at least 7 or 8 feet, he had to bend down a little under the door frame to look at me. He also had huge white wings. I was very scared but I knew that what I was looking at was an angel. He did not speak to me but just looked at me in a very peaceful and knowing way. I was so scared that I could not speak. I just looked down at my coloring book and when I looked up again, he was gone. I'm 47 now and I have never seen him again but there has never been a day that has passed that I have not thought of him. I always have wondered my whole life why he came to me and the only thing that I can think of is that he was there to reassure and protect me. I never told anyone about this until I became an adult. Shortly after I saw this angel, my mother left this abusive man and we moved away. I never saw my stepfather again. I have also almost died several times. I almost drowned twice at age 11 and again at age 12. I was hit by a car and coded after surgery as an adult. I have many times felt a "presence" with me. I know angels are real and I belive they are here to protect us and they are messengers from God. I have taken care of many dying patients in my 20 years as a nurse. I have had a few patients tell me that they could hear beautiful voices singing just before they died. I believe those are angels.

I saw an angel in my dreams one time. Shortly after I left my abusive husband I was feeling very low and alone. I had a very bad day and I was within a few days of having to see him again to press charges for hurting me. My father and his girlfriend were harping on me to find a job, and do more around the house, even though they didn't seem to understand i couldnt even concentrait long enough to read a piece of paper. All I did all day was cry. That night in my dream, I saw this very tall, very young man standing there. we were outside, and it was summer time, a very bright sunny day. He looked to be about 19 tall, slender, blue eyes, curly blonde hair, and a big smile. He opened his arms to me and I ran into them, and he wrapped me up in them tight, and I didn't want to wake up. I still tear up thinking about it. all while i was in teh court room during both trials, and whenever i am scared i can feel a warm presense next to me.

I saw an angel in my dreams one time. Shortly after I left my abusive husband I was feeling very low and alone. I had a very bad day and I was within a few days of having to see him again to press charges for hurting me. My father and his girlfriend were harping on me to find a job, and do more around the house, even though they didn't seem to understand i couldnt even concentrait long enough to read a piece of paper. All I did all day was cry. That night in my dream, I saw this very tall, very young man standing there. we were outside, and it was summer time, a very bright sunny day. He looked to be about 19 tall, slender, blue eyes, curly blonde hair, and a big smile. He opened his arms to me and I ran into them, and he wrapped me up in them tight, and I didn't want to wake up. I still tear up thinking about it. all while i was in teh court room during both trials, and whenever i am scared i can feel a warm presense next to me.

Dear Jess1983,

Thank you for sharing that. It was very beautiful and touching. It is amazing how similar our stories and angels are!

:-)

When I was in 7th grade a girl in my class had a seizure right after we had out yearbook pictures taken. She was transported to the hospital by EMS and was diagnosed with some sort of cancer in her brain and was given six months to live. Her parents decided not to do chemo, radiation, etc...they weren't big on modern medicine and they didn't want to make her suffer through the treatments since her prognosis was so poor...they told everyone they were putting it in God's hands. When the pictures came back from the photographer, there was a profile of Jesus (or at least the image that a lot of people have of Jesus) in the light reflecting in her hair...and there was a cross reflecting off her glasses. Now, she is a doctor...last I knew she was practicing with a missonary group in Africa.

Specializes in NICU, PICU, MNICU.
I saw the unit clock and the hands of the clock were running counterclockwise, i.e., backward, and at a rapid rate. The hospital had the main clock somewhere in the basement, and the other clocks in the house were running correctly, clockwise, so this was the only clock that was running so oddly. Well, the older RN tells me "...to wait and see what happens". Sure enough, within about 15 minutes there is a code 99 called on another floor. It seemed that, only during the night shift, if and when that particular clock ran backwards, someone would arrest and die! Gulp!

That reminded me of a sad situation from my first year of nursing. I was working in the NICU on a 3-11 shift as an extra (usually had a 7a-7p shift). I chatted with the woman next to me, as she had my previous day's assignment. Near the end of her shift we noticed that the clocks were going backwards. This was within a day of daylight savings time, so we just attributed it to that. The clocks would get reset, and then within about 15 minutes they would start to go backwards and reset again.

I said goodbye to her and the rest of my friends at the end of my shift. I later left at 2300 and was off for a few days. The next day on the news, there was a missing person's bulletin for her. Years later, they found a part of a bone in a riverbed near her route home and theorized that her car had run off the road and she had been swept away. Yes, it really doesn't make sense, but that's all that we ever heard about it.

I'd never thought of the backwards clocks as having any special significance - just a moment to joke with her. Creepy!

Specializes in Med/Surg.
Dear Jess1983,

Thank you for sharing that. It was very beautiful and touching. It is amazing how similar our stories and angels are!

:-)

I guess God watches over his own. maybe he knew that we were destined to help people.

I guess God watches over his own. maybe he knew that we were destined to help people.

Dear Jess1983,

I think you are absolutely right! ;)

Specializes in Forensics.
:chair: :behindpc: :sofahider ohhh that must be very scary just living by that horror house!! Danielle RN, Is someone living in that house right now for real??!!

hahaha. At least it's not next door or anything. :)

Yes, someone lives there right now. :eek:

Specializes in Med/Surg.
Yes, someone lives there right now. :eek:

:sofahider They sure are brave!!!!!!

nursing related or not does anyone just ever just get the feeling that they are not alone, yet there is not another soul around? I do. :stone

I have had some ghostly encounters but more often than not it is just a feeling. Does any get what I am saying?:confused:

Yes, I've had that feeling before and I still swear that someone WAS looking at me. We were traveling to FL to see relatives and we stayed in an empty mobile home across from my uncle. The last person to live there had died of lung CA in the home.

One night I'm reading a book, and all the of the sudden, everything became very quiet around me and I got this feeling that I wasn't alone. I didn't have the guts to look up from my book, but I know that someone else was in the room with me... someone who had passed on checking out his former residence.

We had moved to a new unit and a particlar room was said to be haunted. A patietn I had cared for had passed away ( another nurse was taking care of him when he passed on nights ). I went in to the room and saw that she had left him naked on the bed , with the O2 still on, arms hanging off the bed. I thought this was very very disrespectful.:devil:

I covered him up, took his O2 off and made him look comfortable. I came back to the desk and sat down. Next thing, she came running out of the room wanting to knwo if anyone had been in the patients room. We all denied it. I never told her what I did. I bet she will never leave a deceased patient like that again.

Wow, that would have struck a chord of fear in me... I betcha she never did that again!!! Good job.

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