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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Im So Happy That I Have Never Seen That Kind Of Stuff Before

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Here's mine.

I was working the Night shift in a very small hospital. The RNA (this was years ago, before they became RPNs) and I had just finished our 1:00 rounds and were doing our paperwork at the Nsg Station. We heard a loud scream that cut off short. We looked at each other and ran to the room where we heard the scream come from. A patient we had just turned, repostioned, etc was dead. She wasn't expected to die and was quite medically stable. She was a DNR so we did nothing, but that scream creeped us out for the rest of the shift.

All I can think of is that she didn't like who came for her!

This is not totally nursig related but there was hospice involved and is an amazing story of one's will to live and die.

Wanda is my best since 7th grade (24 years now). Her father had recently passed of lung cancer and shortly after her mother was dx with terminal liver cancer. Given 6 months to live, she should never have made it to Thanksgiving that year. Well, she wanted a granddaughter (wanda only had 2 sons) badly and a few months later on Thanksgiving, she said she was sticking around to see her granddaughter. Wanda had no idea she was even pregnant and on dec 6 of that year lost everything to house fire. Somehow all pics of parents had survived despite all else being lost (it was the only box to survive the fire). That weekend Wanda discovered she was indeed pregnant- HUGE surprise since they were not planning it and took precautions.

Her mom was deterioriating greatly but somehow managed to stay on and fight. Easter came early and we were literally at her mom's home on a death vigil thinking any time it would happen. Poor Wanda, who wanted her daughter to be born so badly KNEW that once she was here, that her mom would go and this tore her up so much! Well April 15 rolls around and Wanda goes into labor. Katrina was born and polaroids were taken and brought to her mom at home with hospice. Once her mom saw the pics she was finally at peace and expired very peacefully.

Wanda tells Kat (new 7) that the same angel that brought her here also brought her grandmother back to heaven.

That was really sad:crying2: but I guess she (grandmother) was happy that she has seen her little angel before she goes to heaven. She has this sense of fulfillment after seeing her granddaughter.:saint:

Ok you are all gonna say that I'm cruel as hell on this one and yea I guess I was. We had this one LPN that was scared of her own shadow but was constantly trying to scare us. The nursing home I worked in on 11-7 I was the nursing supervisor. (I still work there but now Restorative nurse) This home is infamous for being haunted even though it was a new building compared to the old home that a lot of the residents came from. (It had been the county poor house, infirmary, lunatic assylum etc since 1845) Well apparently they brought a few of their "old friends" with them when they came cause believe me there is wierd stuff happening there all the time.

Anyway, as the supervisor you had to go to the basement and check all the doors and make sure they were locked twice a night. Well it was Halloween time and they had an old casket down there for the haunted house they put on for the residents and families. Well I told one of the other nurses about it and she insisted we go down to see it. (I could already see the cogs turning lol) So I took her down and we pulled it down the hall so that it was right in front of the elevator. We got one of the aides to comes down and lay in the coffin and I went up and told this nurse that I had to go to the basement for supplies. (she should have known something was up cause I was the only one that would ever go down there alone). Well it was harder than hell to keep a straight face all the way. When the elevator doors opened, the aide pushed the lid of the coffin open and slowly sat up. I thought that nurse was going to go throught the back of the elevator and they could hear her scream clear upstairs. LOL. Needless to say she never tried to scare anyone else again. But me on the other hand, I'm bad it's just not so easy to do it when I work day shift now. HEHEHE

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Rosie:rotfl: :coollook:

:roll :yelclap: Ha ha ha that was neat, Rosie! We also do a lot of that jokes here. . . you're not cruel, you just wanted to have some fun in the right time!!!!!!. . . .

Im So Happy That I Have Never Seen That Kind Of Stuff Before

:rolleyes: :uhoh3: stay in the field of nursing for more years and I'm sure you'll gonna experience it! Am not a believer of ghost or any scary unseen thing, but when I had my real experience . . . well . . . there goes a different story . . I do put on a brave front infront of my coworkers or sometimes pretend that nothing happends and that I did not hear it . . . but the truth is, i just ignored it. Well, have not encountered ay visual things just more of an audio (I hear it). . .:scrying:

but when we informed her that the patient is already dead when we entered the room, she suddenly jumped out of bed and was actually shaking in one corner of the room.:lol2:

:uhoh21: That is actually pretty sad. I don't find the humor in that. And I like to think I have a good sense of humor.

Ok you are all gonna say that I'm cruel as hell on this one and yea I guess I was. We had this one LPN that was scared of her own shadow but was constantly trying to scare us. The nursing home I worked in on 11-7 I was the nursing supervisor. (I still work there but now Restorative nurse) This home is infamous for being haunted even though it was a new building compared to the old home that a lot of the residents came from. (It had been the county poor house, infirmary, lunatic assylum etc since 1845) Well apparently they brought a few of their "old friends" with them when they came cause believe me there is wierd stuff happening there all the time.

Anyway, as the supervisor you had to go to the basement and check all the doors and make sure they were locked twice a night. Well it was Halloween time and they had an old casket down there for the haunted house they put on for the residents and families. Well I told one of the other nurses about it and she insisted we go down to see it. (I could already see the cogs turning lol) So I took her down and we pulled it down the hall so that it was right in front of the elevator. We got one of the aides to comes down and lay in the coffin and I went up and told this nurse that I had to go to the basement for supplies. (she should have known something was up cause I was the only one that would ever go down there alone). Well it was harder than hell to keep a straight face all the way. When the elevator doors opened, the aide pushed the lid of the coffin open and slowly sat up. I thought that nurse was going to go throught the back of the elevator and they could hear her scream clear upstairs. LOL. Needless to say she never tried to scare anyone else again. But me on the other hand, I'm bad it's just not so easy to do it when I work day shift now. HEHEHE

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Rosie:rotfl: :coollook:

LOL!!!! PRICELESS! I love it. :::making mental note, gotta do something like that someday:::

:uhoh21: That is actually pretty sad. I don't find the humor in that. And I like to think I have a good sense of humor.

:rolleyes: oh! you ought to read the whole story to get the joke. Yeah, I agree, its quite sad. . . but the joke is on the caregiver. . . she was literally sleeping beside a dead body for several hours before she got to know that the patient is dead.!:rolleyes:

:rolleyes: oh! you ought to read the whole story to get the joke. Yeah, I agree, its quite sad. . . but the joke is on the caregiver. . . she was literally sleeping beside a dead body for several hours before she got to know that the patient is dead.!:rolleyes:

I read the entire story and I understood she had been lying beside a dead body for hours. But when the Poster was laughing that the caregiver was in the corner shaking...........I didn't find that funny. And believe me, I have a good sense of humor. But don't find humor in someone else's sadness.

Ok, it's my turn. I've been reading this thread for several days now and am finally to the (current) end. I am a home nurse. Most of my clients are ventilator patients. I have been warned by one family that the house was haunted but nothing ever happened while I was there. The only nursing related ghostly experience I can relay actually happened nearly 17 years ago and I was not the nurse. I'm not even sure she was a nurse, she may have been an aide. So if when you read this story, you recognize it as yours, please let me know. It happened in a hospital in northern Kentucky in April of 1989. Here is the short version:

Postpartum - the room of a young mother and her newborn son - late afternoon. The nurse knocked and opened the door. She could not see the bassinet from the entryway, but could clearly hear the woman talking to the child so she walked into the room. As she got to the corner of the entry, the young mother popped her head out of the bathroom and just about startled the nurse into a heart attack. The nurse appologised and explained that she heard her talking to her child and didn't realize she was in the shower. The mother went on to explain that she was not the one talking to the baby, she thought it was the nurse and was just stepping out of the shower to see who was there. They talked about it for a minute or two and verified that neither one had said a single word until they were face to face and it was definitely another woman who's voice they both heard talking to the baby, who was asleep in the bassinet. The two agreed that the little one had just had a ghostly visitor.

That is all I know of that nurse's experience on the event, so if that was you, let me know.

The rest of the story is just this:

That exact incident was actually the THIRD time I had heard the voice while I was in the shower, but every time I shut off the water and went into the room the voice stopped. So on the third time, I thought I would leave the water running and surprise whomever was talking to my kid. That poor nurse! :eek: She jumped about a foot when I darted around that corner. Well, all of the commotion must have scared the visitor off because after the nurse left I was able to finish my shower and nothing else happened in the hospital.

THEN: The second day we were home from the hospital, I was in the kitchen doing some dishes while the baby slept in his bassinet in the living room. We were alone in the house, and after a while I realized I could hear someone talking to him again, just like in the hospital. So I turned the water off and went into the room only to find my little angel still sleeping, and no voices. Well, on the third time I decided that I needed to leave the water running in order to approach without interrupting. I stood just shy of the doorway and listened to her talking to my son. It was really strange. I could hear her very clearly but couldn't understand anything she was saying (like listening to a grown-up talking in a Peanuts cartoon). I had already decided that it was probably my husband's mother, who died when he was only 10, as all of my relatives were still alive. So after a minute or so I called out her name to get her attention. It worked! :eek: SHE ANSWERED ME! She said "What?".

But that was all. And I never heard her again. :sniff:

liz

p.s. Did anyone else make the running water connection? I thought that was really strange too. A water spirit? Isn't that a sprite?

i agree with you.

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