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...

I may not be a nurse or anything, but at my house, I usually sense some things. Sometimes, I would feel, hear, or see something. So many things have happened, so I'm not really going to tell, since there's too many. X_x

Specializes in disability.
Is that like the help that never shows up?

or the file that is always missing

This thread has me completely creeped out, but I can't stop reading! I swear I couldn't sleep last night after reading some of these. I don't have any ghost stories, but something happened when my mom was sick.

She had terminal cancer and one night we were all asleep only to be awakened by the T.V. on, sound full blast! I jumped out of bed and ran to the den, and there's my mom holding the remote and staring at the T.V. As I'm turning it off I'm saying, "Mom, what's going on???" I'm half asleep, disoriented and kind of freaked out. So she starts yelling, "It's OK! It's OK! Everything is going to be OK!!!" She is really happy and excited (like a manic state) and won't stop saying this. She wouldn't explain further, and we all went back to bed.

Well, about a month later a friend of my moms tells me an angel visited her, and that this angel told my mom not to worry, everything was going to be alright. Completely tripped me out! It made me feel good though, knowing she felt some peace about what she was going through.

I work in Pall Care and it was scary to me, but this unconscious man, like totally unconscious, just before he died, opened his eyes and looked me RIGHT in the eye with the BIGGEST smile on his face, and the smile stayed on his face after he died, everyone commented on it, but it was so scary to me when he looked me Right in the eye, I was terrified, everyone said don't be silly as he was smiling but it was stills scary to me as he was unconscious until the end. I still wonder what he saw?

when i was having my 24 hours striaght duty in an old small hospital, a town away from my school. it was 2 in the morning while i'm staying at the nurses' station with my clinical instructor to help me in the charting.. when we looked in the broken window quite far from us, we saw a lady staring at us... i and clinical instructor were so scared... and we walked so fast until we reached the room when the student nurses were staying.... so scary....

Thanks for sharing these....

Is it quiet on the wards, lately?

:sofahider I had to go turn on a light.

The things I have experienced (but have nothing to do with nursing):

I was 14 when my father passed away. The night that he died, I was in bed but unable to go to sleep. I was thinking about him and things we used to do. I suddenly got this feeling like someone was holding my hand. I would like to think that he was there trying to comfort me. He held my hand until I fell asleep.

More recently, my older sister passed away. One night, I could not sleep and was lying on my sofa watching Nick at Nite or something of that nature. I felt as if someone was watching me. I looked up and my sister was standing in the doorway to the dining room. I said hi and she disappeared. I was filled with a peaceful feeling.

This thread contains some beautiful stories.

Specializes in Toxicology/Progressive care.

:welcome: I work on a Pulmonary unit. Michael was 32, mentally challenged and had lived in a group home. Was admitted with sepsis after scalding his scrotal area with hot fluid (an accident) and the wound developed infection. He was trached, septic, developed resp failure. We had him from his initial incident and for 4 years after. He had no family and when he came in we treated him like our child. We brought him food, movies to watch and became his family. His favorite thing was to get admitted for chest pain (he knew that was his ticket in the door) during the holidays to be with us.. He coded and died one day after a dialysis treatment which was a huge suprise to all of the staff. 6 months later our floor was being moved to another floor for renovations.. Michael was always in room 14,, On the day of the move, I was in charge and made one last trip upstairs to make sure everything was taken to the new floor (charts, meds, bedside boards etc). The floor was deserted and eerily quiet. As I stood and looked up and down the hall, room 14's call light went on. A chill went up my spine, I went into the room. Nothing and no one was in there but the room was very cold and had the odor of Michael (we always brought OLD Spice cologne in for him). I am sure that it was Michael's way of saying good bye to us and the floor. :uhoh3:

Specializes in disability.

I to worked in a developmental disabled area so I can relate to to your story stidget99, seems like rich pickings.

Worked in a hospital in texas that had been run by nuns in the old days. While on call for the OR, we often slept in the nurses lounge. The story was that the Sister who ran the OR in those times would wake up the staff is an emergency was in the ER. Even 50 years after she died. Don't know if I was dreaming or it was real, but sure enough, I was awakened one night by a nun in full habit telling me to get the OR ready. A few minutes later the phone rang and ER was sending us a pt. Gave me cold chills for years, brrrrrr

Specializes in Lie detection.

I have several...

1) Room 508 call bell went off, room completely empty and no pt's had been in it for over 24 hrs.

2) One night on break, I went to take a quick 20 min. snooze (worked NOC's) in the old wing they used to use for phys. therapy. i laid down in the dark, after about 10 min, I felt coolness touching my shoulders and gentle pressure and the air just felt really strange. I know it sounds weird but I swear I am not too crazy.

3) Me and another nurse were bathing a 91 yr.old man and he started going out on us,swaying and saying "I see a light" well, my coworker told him "it's ok to go to the light" and darned if thats exactly what he did.

:Santa5: Beez

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