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...

These are so creepy, but I can't stop reading this thread! Keep 'em coming!

The nurses on my floor who have been there a few years say that just before a patient dies (sometimes, but not in every case) a little girl is seen walking down the hall -- same little girl every time. She never changes or gets older with the years. She just looks like she's there visiting somebody. So, maybe these nurses are seeing an angel. Or . . . maybe they're all hallucinating. I suspect it's a common occurrence with the overworked, underpaid and sometimes unappreciated. We just might be going around the bend. :bugeyes:

I just got through all 59 pages and I am spooked!!!

I have a couple stories of my own but just hang on a few....

Specializes in certified med tech and Lpn.

I just started a new job in a LTC and It's the old Carmelite home in St. Charles ( in case anyone is familiar w/ the area). Anyway it has 4 floors and I always work on the top floor. You have to take your laundry down to the basement. It is well lit but deserted. Lots of doors, empty rooms, and stairwells. You never know what might be around the next doorway. It is very spooky. A portion of the basement is the medicare section with the social hall and PT and beauty shop so we call that the ground floor because you can't have people living in the basement ( it's all in the wording). When you come up the hall from the laundry, you can see your reflection in the beauty shop windows...I'm just waiting to see "something or someone" behind me in that reflection. :uhoh3:

Specializes in certified med tech and Lpn.

I have been reading these stories for a while now and it's in the middle of the day and everything is quiet ( even my children ) and all of a sudden I keep hearing things behind me, drawers opening, closets...now my kids are playing quietly downstairs so I know it's not them. How freaky. I also keep seeing things out of the corner of my eye. I'm sitting right by the back door and I swear I keep seeing something in the garage. Weird!!! I need to sign off for awhile. Keep them coming. I love these stories. I have never cried so much reading in my life. Everyone have a wonderful day!!!

Specializes in oncology.

No personal ghost stories as of yet, but intrigued and hypnotized by all of these scaaary tales.:uhoh3:

Specializes in pure and simple psych.

Had a patient who had a long, difficult death from CA of the everything. Moaned, whimpered, uncomfortable no matter how much morphine we gave her. As the greenest member of the nursing team, I was assigned to spend as much time with her as possible, as we knew she was dying, and felt that she shouldn't be alone. She stopped whimpering suddenly, looked toward the bottom of the bed, lifted both arms up, smiled, sat halfway up, said "Mother" and collapsed back dead. I had glanced in the direction that she was looking when she smiled, and did not see anything, so this is a second party ghost story.:eek:

Specializes in Med-Surg.

These stories are great!! They're giving me goosebumps!! Keep 'em coming!!

nursing related or not does anyone just ever just get the feeling that they are not alone, yet there is not another soul around? I do. :stone

I have had some ghostly encounters but more often than not it is just a feeling. Does any get what I am saying?:confused:

Specializes in Acute Med, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology.
nursing related or not does anyone just ever just get the feeling that they are not alone, yet there is not another soul around? I do. :stone

I have had some ghostly encounters but more often than not it is just a feeling. Does any get what I am saying?:confused:

i get that feeling sometimes. but usually its after reading this thread or watching a ghost movie ;)

i get that feeling sometimes. but usually its after reading this thread or watching a ghost movie ;)

odd thing i never get that feeling any where except my house.

one thing that i hate is the seeing things out of the corner of your eye. everynight at least 10 times i am seeing something or hearing something very un-natural. :sofahider

Specializes in Med/Surg.

:sofahider i had an encouter the other day after reading this thread. i looked at the floor by my door and happened to notice someone walking in front of it. I was the only one awake in my house.

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