What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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...

[Spritenurse1210, BSN, RN]

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

I about wet my pants when i clicked on that link!!!!

[bebe on the road]

My first med surg job was in an old hospitl where the new addition and the old wing didn't quite fit together.Doors would slam, creaks and bangs could be heard. We always said it was the ghost of Sister So and So from the early days of the hospital.

[NurseyTee]

How do I subscribe to this thread?

[NrseJudy]

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

[URO-RN]

Whenever we have a death in our unit, we have call lights going off in rooms that are empty. This happens for about 2 or 3 days. We thought it was due to a short circuit or electrical work on other floors, but no...

[dustydog]

nrse judy

Would love to see your ghost site. Please pm link to me. Thanks so much!!

[Pepper The Cat, BSN, RN]

Nrse Judy

I would like to see your website too please!

[newtelenurse]

Creepy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[newtelenurse]

I used to work in a state inst for developmentally disabled. We were temp relocated to another building for remodeling of our bldg. Anyways...I was working one nite, 2nd shift. We had a locked pica unit. I saw one of the residents walking down the hall. Very distinct gait and very distinct yellow t-shirt w/ a happy face on it. I went into the ward to let staff know that they had an escapee. This was a serious situation because this particular resident, Larry, would ingest absolutely anything (from clothing to pens to belts to *ugh* a bird's head)...literally anything. He was also very reluctant to go back to his home ward (hence why I didn't bring him back myself...he needed two escorts). When we got back into the hall, less than 15 secs later, Larry was gone!! We searched the entire building! Outside, downstairs, all wards...he was NO WHERE to be found!!! This whole search lasted last than 10 mins because I had all extra staff looking for him. I was just about to call the house supervisor to let her know that we "lost" someone when out from the bathroom walks Larry w/ one of the staff. He had been getting his bath in the bathroom for the last 30 mins or so. Kind of freaky! I absolutely, without a doubt, saw Larry in the hallway. I never would've short-staffed the wards like I did if I hadn't seen him! Like I said, very distinctive gait, look, clothing. I took a lot of razzing that nite! They all thought that I was crazy. Anyways, come to find out the next day, after the story goes around that I am crazy (haha, gigglegiggle, funnyfunny)..............Larry had an identical twin brother who died in that building 10 yrs previously.

CREEPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[2stush4u]

Ohhhhh Wow....now That Is Creepy!!!!!

[gymrat33, LPN]

I was at a LTC facility for 10 years and we sure did see a lot. The linen closets would open and close by themselves. Dirty and wet linen would be thrown out of the rooms into the hall when no staff were in there to do it. Pts. were total care and couldn't get out of bed. Trash would be thrown out too. Our ghosts like to keep our place clean.

There was a married couple at the end of the hall and the man had died. He bled out in the hallway in his chair. In the evenings when we would take care of his wife he would be in the room, you could never see him but you could feel him. He would tap you on the shoulder or pat your back ~ like saying thanks for taking care of my wife. He would pull the blankets up if you didn't get it up far enough. We would see him crossing the hallway. He would be dressed up like he was going to church and he would walk across the hall like he was on a mission. Never hurt or freaked anyone out. You always felt at peace when he was there like he was meant to be there. when his wife died, we never saw him again.

I have a friendly ghost in my house. Not sure of gender. If I make a typo on the computer, it corrects it most of the time. It will also pick up little objects that I may have dropped. It is very cool.

[RNNPICU, BSN, RN]

I actually have two quick stories,,,

One was - we had a pt who had been on our floor for about a year - she was a 9 year old with end-stage AIDS and we finally were able to discharge her home. While she was in this room - the lights were never on, the curtain was never open. It was always very dismal. I was wokring that night and with another nurse we emptied out the remaing things the family left behind. After the room was empty I walked into the room the lights blinked on and off, the TV turned on by itself. I was really freaked out and felt and uneasy feeling when I entered the room - I refused to go back in the room for the rest of the shift. There were no storms or anything that could have explained the tv or the lights.

Second story - one of our end stage AIDS patients had died on the floor. He was ten and always a fighter. A many months later I was opening up the patient closet in the room and one of his patient labels was stuck to the back of the closet. Interestingly enough a patient who was in that room was also dying and talked about seeing the same objects that the patient had seen