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...

Specializes in critical care transport.

This thread is one of my FAVORITES!!!!

Specializes in med surg.

NrseJudy, you simply must tell!

Specializes in Operating room.

I have a website with some of our investigations and a few photos posted. I just am not sure if I should post the address as I don't want to "advertise" it. If you would like to have a look, pm me and I'll give you the address.

NrseJudy

Send me your link!

Thanks

Specializes in Med Surg, Post partum, peds, newborn nur.

I used to work as a EMT on 24 hour shifts. Our station was in the old hospital that had been closed down and everything relocated to the new one. We had one floor that we had set up our rooms and the rest of the building was just used for storing of old equipment.

One night while I was sleeping in my room I heard what sounded like dress shoes walking down the hallway. Our doors had the frosted windows where you could sort see a fuzzy outline if someone was outside of the room door. I saw what looked like a person walk by, it sounded like they went around the hall and paused by all the rooms.

I mentioned this to my co workers and they said it was the old doc that founded the hospital still doing his round.

I didn't work there alone anymore. lol

Specializes in CNA, PTA.

I was working as a PCT when 1 of the RN's wanted to show me how to draw blood. We went into the room to draw the blood and she had told the patient that I was a little new to this so she is just going to explain it step by step to me. The patient was happy to be my guinea pig. Anyways as soon as I proceeded to draw blood.. the bed raised all the way up, I asked him if he was laying on the remote but he didnt even have one. We all were spooked! Then I lowered his bed to then try again, and the bed went up then down by itself, I told the nurse somebody must think Im not ready to do this, she agreed and I left the room with chills! Of course she didnt have the same problem.

Thanks for sharing your stories!

Hope this isn't too far OT but I've taken a look at Nrse Judy's ghosthunting website. Although I haven't had the chance to look through the whole site the way that I'd like to, what I've read is really interesting. PM Nrse Judy for the website.

Thanks Nrse Judy for the link! When I have a bit more time I'll read even more. There's a potential for me to get hooked onto Nrse Judy's site as I am on this thread!

For all non-believers out there: Boo! :lol2:

For all the believers out there: here's another box of Depends. :D

This happened when i was still a student nurse doing my first ever night duty. I was in a male orthopedic unit and I started taking bed rounds to check on the patients. It so happened that at that very moment there was this patient who was dreaming about a thief trying to break into his house. All of a sudden he clutched my hand tightly and screamed at the top of his voice....thief, thief, thief..... I was so shocked and scared that i too started screaming along..... Both our voices were enough to awaken t he entire unit and also the neighbouring unit. If there had been a heart patient there, i am sure he would have a immediate cardiac arrest that day.

Specializes in pure and simple psych.
This happened when i was still a student nurse doing my first ever night duty. I was in a male orthopedic unit and I started taking bed rounds to check on the patients. It so happened that at that very moment there was this patient who was dreaming about a thief trying to break into his house. All of a sudden he clutched my hand tightly and screamed at the top of his voice....thief, thief, thief..... I was so shocked and scared that i too started screaming along..... Both our voices were enough to awaken t he entire unit and also the neighbouring unit. If there had been a heart patient there, i am sure he would have a immediate cardiac arrest that day.

OH, my, this made me laugh out loud, really. Thanks.:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

years ago the emergency department was staffed by only 1 RN as it was a small rural hospital.If we needed the DR we had to wake him up.Sometimes we had a student nurse on with us if there was a "spare".Anyway there I was with this young student when we could hear someone in the waiting room calling out for help.How they had gotten in we weren't sure but decided when he left later that the wardsman on that night had left the back door open.The patient was a smallIrishman of slim build and I asked him his name.He told us and the student went off to get his casualty card out of the filing system.I asked him what was wrong with him and he said"I need to see a doctor"."Help me".I was sitting beside him on the bench and the funny thing is I never touched him to calm him down as usually I'm a very touchy touchy person.Student came back and said there was no record of his in the filing system.Told her to look in the pile waiting to be filed but no success even though the gentleman was now insisting that he had been to casualty a night or 2 ago.He refused to have any obs taken and started saying that if we wouldn't help him he may as well go home and die.Told him to wait there and we would ring the doctor to come over as he was quite distressed and we were feeling a bit unnerved by his behavior.Off we both go to the office and ring the doctor and go out to tell him the Dr will be along soon.The gentlemans gone and the doors were still locked after we went through the area looking for him.Even the back door.By this time we were feeling quite a bit freaked out by it all and started commenting on how the waiting area was cold despite it being summer.Even the doc commented on the room temp when he arrived.Anyway we entered his name in the book where we recorded patients being seen in the dept. and checked back and saw that he had been there 2 nights previously and was recorded that night as a dnw..did not wait. Thought no more about it till a few nights later I'm at home in bed asleep when the other RN who did my relief nights in Casualty rang me at home hysterical.Wanted to know what the man looked like what he was wearing when we saw him.Then she hung up and rang back later still upset to say that she and the Dr who were on that night had seen the man in question 2 nights previously and had the same experience with him.He had left without being assessed fully and gone off saying he may as well go home and die.An ambulance had turned up with himm a few hours later and he was dead on arrival.After speaking with me the first time they had gone down to the morgue to make sure he was still there.The poor student nurse who was with me that night was working again and they made her go with them to make sure it was the same guy.Student Nurse refused to work in casualty at night again.And I made sure that I had all lights on.Used to run through that old department if I had to go through there when the new hospital was being builtSince then I've believed.

Nrse Judy...please send me the web address for your site....sounds interesting!

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