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...

Ok... it's like, 2hours later that I have started reading these stories!!! I have never posted here before, just really like to hear what's going on around the rest of the country with nursing. I sincerely don't have time for this!! lol

Keep them coming....... and yes... after 15+ years in health care and nursing, I have quite a few of my own.. will post them after the holidays.

Will look forward to them :)

Have a wonderful Christmas, everyone!!! :Ball:

Specializes in Brain injury,vent,peds ,geriatrics,home.
One night I was caring for a dying male patient. He was scared and I spent quite some time with him, trying to calm and reassure him. Eventually he calmed and I left the bedside and went over to the nurses station which was about 15 feet away. As I sat down I glanced over to him and there was a black shape standing over the bed, looking down at the patient. I was terrified, and am sure it was something evil.

Thats really scary!:uhoh3:

Specializes in disability.

These are sooooooooooo scary but Gee I cant stop reading them.

Specializes in ER.

One night I was taking care of a patient who was dying from bone cancer, after he passed...did the morgue pack and took him to the morgue we had called housekeeping to come and clean the room. Well, sitting at the desk his call light started to go off for no reason. I went into the room (which was empty) and no one was there and then left went to sit back down at the front desk and again it went off. It did this several times throughout the night...then stopped. That wasn't the creapiest story, here's a good one:

My first week as a nursing assistant and was learning all the basics, blood pressure, resp., heart rates, temp.. etc... I had a patient who was passing away from Liver Cirrhosis, she also had a stroke when she was 15. Towards the end of my week, she started to go...and she was DNR. All the nurses surrounded her and was trying to comfort her to go ahead and pass over. They told me, Take her blood pressure....I did...no b/p...but she was still breathing and talking to someone in the room and it wasn't the staff. They said, get a doppler blood pressure on her...so I did it was 30/doppler. She was speaking and saying "Take me, take me now....please." Over and over again she would say this...and then all of a sudden she was talking to someone in the room...we were all looking at each other and asked her if she could here us...she didn't respond to us....then she passed. Every little hair stood up in the back of my neck all the way down my spine....I was nervous...but had a strange warm calm feeling. That was it.

Specializes in ER.

Here's another little creepy note. Last semester at the dining table during my clinicals one of the lady's I was talking to looked up and out the window and said, there's a man out there and I looked over and there was no one there. She didn't die like I read with these other stories but it was just kind of creepy.

Also, several times there was a door to the building that would open on its own for no reason. I thought that was a little weird, but the staff there was used to it.

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Have a Happy New Year too!!!:Santa3:

Specializes in SDU, Tele, Hospice, Radiology, Education.

Bump, Bump, Bump:Santa3: :Holly2:

(want to make sure this doesn't get lost---it's a great thread!!)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

One night I was caring for a dying male patient. He was scared and I spent quite some time with him, trying to calm and reassure him. Eventually he calmed and I left the bedside and went over to the nurses station which was about 15 feet away. As I sat down I glanced over to him and there was a black shape standing over the bed, looking down at the patient. I was terrified, and am sure it was something evil.

Oh my God! What did you do next? It might sound like a stupid question considering what could you do, but did you pray for his soul or the protection for others surrounding the hospital. Did the the patient suddenly die afterwards? Did he realize the figure was standing over him after you had made it back to the nurses' station? Were you to afraid to check back on him? Although your story is short&simple, I find yours to be the most striking...

Not so much a ghost story, but a story about when my mom died a year ago. She was at my sisters house for two weeks and started going down hill. Hospice was called on a Saturday and she lapsed into a coma on Tuesday. Me and my other sister got to her house on Wednesday. On Thursday, my mom woke up for 3 hours and was talkling to "other" people in the room. My dad died in 2000, and she kept saying "Frank, would you leave me alone, I am not ready to go with you yet!" Then she would get pissed and yell at him in German, (she was from germany). Then she saw her mother who passed away in 1964. The said "Mama" and started to cry and then spoke german to her for about an hour. She was reliving her childhood with her and talking about things they did when she was small and she was laughing and having a good time with her. My mom lost twin boys in her 5th month in 1966 and she was talking with them and said "I am so glad your Oma was there for you. I was so affraid you were alone." All of us in the room, and there was about 15 of us were in wonder the entire time. This went on for 3 hours. She would talk to them and then us. At one time she turned to me and said "oh Suzie, I didn't know you were here too, do you see all the people waiting for me?' She was affraid to die because of the unkwown I guess. The next day, Thursday she didn't wake up at all and she woke up again on Friday morning for an hour while I was in the room with her. She said she wasn't affraid anymore and that she had seen heaven. She just wanted my dad to stop bugging her becasue she hadn't finished her job yet. She told me that my dog that had passed away 6 months before that was with my dad. She died the next day.

When we got back into town the following day to get ready for the funeral, we were staying at my mom's house and it was hot outside, but we all smelled wood burning from her fire place. I snapped some pictures and there are orbs all over those pictures. The only picuters in the set that has them.

I would so love to see those pictures.

Now I don't even know why I'm sitting here reading these stories because I am like the scariest person. I have to admit this is the scariest thing I have ever heard. Okay next story :chuckle

I have to agree. This is--by far--the scariest one I have read so far, and I am on page 13.

Maybe she could throw some my way too. :chuckle

Hey! Tell her not to forget about me when she starts handing out those numbers!

How in the world did he hit them twice?

Yes, I am curious about this, too.

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