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...

Most of them came from the state hospital that had closed and the staff was really their only family. There were several of them that I would see a lot doing just as they had done in life looking and acting in the same manner. Was it just energy or were we the only ones that were there for them in life so they stayed in death. :o

As a long time worker in a forensic hospital I have often had similar thoughts....

Originally Posted by TreeHawk

I have a lot of reiki stories like that..but don't want to ramble on.

On another note I am interested in working in hospice possibly when I graduate. I'm sure I will encounter some of the stories you all have described, but hope I am just there to provide comfort to those passing. I personally am not afraid of the life/death transition, but I commend nurses that are there for their patients that are fearful, and I hope to be one of those nurses someday!

I would like to hear more of your Reiki stories like this.

Thanks

Me too! I enjoy reading all of the posts in this thread! Thanks!

Specializes in LTC, Subacute Rehab.
this is more of a nurse-ghost story rather than one with patient experiences.

a sanatorium named Fort San was built in 1917 to house people with tuberculosis. one night, a nurse wrapped a bedsheet around her neck and hung herself.

The place was closed down in 1972, and is now a hotspot for school trips and such. Since it was reopened to the public as sort of a museum, there have been stories about "sightings", with a nurse walking the halls of the old sanitorium.

I've included a picture to try and 'up the creep factor' :chuckle

There's a similar story about the old Waverly Hills TB Sanatorium near Louisville, Kentucky.

When I worked in a LTC facility, we had the same reports of little children. Several of the residents would start asking us about who the children were. None of us ever saw any kids, but the residents would swear they were there. Some of them would report that they had kept them up half the night. One woman told us that they were sitting on the bed across the hall looking at her. Sure enough, within a day or two, one of the residents would die. I thought perhaps that it was just something about the facility. I later went to work at an area hospital. One of my patients asked who the children were that were in the hall. There had been no children on the floor that day. That night, the patient died. Now, if anyone asks me who the children are and I can't find any kids around, you can bet that I keep an extra watch on everyone.

That seems to be a common thread. Our LTC has "children" on the one hall. There has never been children there at least not that lived there. The home was built on farm land that had never been anything else. Although a lot of the residents in the past were moved from the old home that used to be the county "poor house" that was built in 1850. :gandalf:

This is something that I witnessed during the time my mother in law was in palliative care. The wall clock worked just fine up until the day my mother in law passed on, Bless her Soul. Very sweet and kind woman.

The clock on her wall stopped at 10:10 that day and exactly at 10:10 pm that night she died. Before she passed she would talk about seeing her mother and others who we knew had passed on.

I find this very interesting and comforting to know that when we pass on to the next stage of our souls journey that we aren't alone.

Specializes in med/surg/tele/neuro/rehab/corrections.

That's a nice story ashiker. (I'm so glad this didn't scare me! LOL) Care to share with us any specifics of nursing ghost stories from your wife? :)

One home I worked in had a cat. We always knew when someone was going to die because that cat would lay either on the bed or in the doorway. Always wondered if the residents realized this. None did that I know of but would sure make me "nervous" if the cat came near me lol

:eek:

Specializes in CHPN Hospice & Palliative Nurse.

BUMP! I love this thread! Keep them coming please :)

I'd have to say nurse managers. I've heard they exist, but I very rarely see one.

Hah!!! Now that is funny!

For anyone interested. There is a short documentary about possible proof of ghosts. Some of it looks fake, but some of it looks authentic.

http://www.wimp.com/proof/

Then click on ghost proof

Specializes in Operating room.

Interesting thread, and right up my alley! My other "job" is paranormal investigator and I also run a small ghost tours operation locally. As I've been doing it for over 16 years, I could most likely tell you a few stories that would keep you awake tonight but most have nothing to do with nursing so I'll keep them for another time. Great read though.

High fives all around to everyone who contributed to this thread so far and scared the bejesus out of me. I live alone and it's about bedtime! Eek!

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