What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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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...

I went into a patient's room late one night, he was asleep but when I looked at his feet they resembled the hoof of a horse! I almost passed out.:uhoh3: I was the only nurse on the floor at that time. He died soon after that and when I shared my experience later with my other colleague on duty, she told me that his neighbours claimed that he frequently turns into a donkey at night and roams the street! I can still remember his name and picture him clearly lying on the bed as if it were yesterday. Strange, isn't it! :uhoh3:

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I've never posted before, but I had to respond to this one. Not a ghost or dream story, but still.....

After two heart breaking miscarriages, I finally gave birth to my second son in '95. My grandmother, who I was very close to, was in a nursing home & was very aware that she was now a great-great-great grandmother (meaning she had 3 great-grandchildren). Exactly one week after my son was born, completely out of the blue & before I could get to the nursing home for her to see him, I got the call that she had passed. Fast forward a couple months. Every time I changed my son on his changing table, he would laugh & coo at someone/thing just over my left shoulder that no one else saw. I'm convinced that it was Grandma, having a little fun with her great-grandson.

When this child was 2, I got pregnant again, & my son simply wouldn't put up with anyone saying that the baby was a boy. He'd point to my belly & insist that the baby was a 'sister', although the baby always turned away from the u/s so we had no idea if it was a boy or a girl. Well sure enough, the baby was indeed a little sister.

I have some nursing ghost stories, but I'll save those for another time.

Let's have them now. Love these stories!

Specializes in NA, Stepdown, L&D, Trauma ICU, ER.

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More stories please please please!!!

Graduation MAY 2006 :balloons:

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We once had a patient on our unit who ended up passing away. A few hours later, we got a call for a baby being born who was prenatally diagnosed with a cardiac defect. His last name was the same as the baby who died's middle name. When we admitted him, we asked the father what his first name was, and it turned out that he also had the same first name as the other baby who had passed. When the doctors performed his echo, they found a completely different defect than he was prenatally diagnosed with, the same diagnosis as the other baby. After this, we moved him to another room because we were all so freaked out about it.

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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:

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".

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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:

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