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...

As a student nurse ive heard alot of these creepy stories about being anurse and having on a night shift/grave yard.Ive heard about a certain hospital here in cebu, philippines(private) who is not having admissions at floor 9(the hospital is up to 12th floor),one time a friend of mine had a relative admitted to the hospital and they were on the 7th floor....then suddenly there was this young child who pushed all the buttons in the elevator and got out of the elevator at floor 4.There was a nurse from 5th floor then who needed to carry some meds at the 10th floor..she asked them(the ones inside the elevator up the building)angrily who pushed all the buttons in the elevator and they replied that it was the young boy.She didnt say anything but, evrybody is afraid of being at the 9th floor.....someone died there and the floor is very cold even if the airconditioner at that floor is turned off.

There is this incident in the Nurse's Station where one of my clinical instructors were staying....he told us that at a certain room someone who's gonna be admitted in there would lierally die within the week after the admission.That they sensed that its like a place with goosebumps....

The second story is also a personal experience of my clinical instructor before he got in into the academe.There was once a time he had a night shift 11pm to 7am.There were 3 of them staying at the station and suddenly he smelled a scent of flower its locally called here in the philippines as sampaguita.He asked his conurse on duty if they were using a perfume whis is made out of sampaguita and both the two nurses said they arent using any perfume at that time.....then suddenly all of them got quite.........by the end of the shift they talked about it and theyve got creeps of smeeling something like that......creepy isnt it?

Heres by pin up......all of us nurses(including me eventhough im still a student nurse) would see, feel strange things in the hospital because its the ploace where alot of souls would leave their body......we can feel....but we most of the time neglect them coz we might be thinking of other things......

happy reading.......plz share......some

Specializes in certified med tech and Lpn.

After reading all these threads, I almost expect to see something at work so I psych myself out when I go to work and tell myself that it's just part of the job.

Last night, though, I was making rounds and changing my residents before I went home and I would say about 3 of my little ladies kept staring at the ceiling above them and just watching "something" or "someone". There is a lady who was the head ER nurse at the hospital down the street in her day. Last night she was yelling at the ceiling, " I don't need all those boxes! Go put them back in storage!" It was a little creepy. I didn't even want to look up in that room. I go in these rooms and I completely respect the room and the resident and I figure if I don't tick anyone or anything off, that I should be okay. They may just leave me alone at this facility. I seem way too much at the last place I worked. I was there 10 years.:uhoh3: :pumpiron:

I would like to suggest this topic be a sticky topic.

It is so popular. Why not? :)

Specializes in certified med tech and Lpn.
I would like to suggest this topic be a sticky topic.

It is so popular. Why not? :)

Sounds good to me. I am always on this site.
Specializes in Everything but L&D and OR.

what does a sticky topic mean?

Christine

Specializes in Everything but L&D and OR.

Bump Bump

Specializes in MED/SURG, ONCOLOGY, PEDIATRICS, ER.
Yes, and I live minutes away from that house! It's very creepy to see in person. :uhoh21:

:chair: :behindpc: :sofahider ohhh that must be very scary just living by that horror house!! Danielle RN, Is someone living in that house right now for real??!!

Specializes in PACU, ED.

My wife had a creepy experience a few years ago. She and another nurse were on duty at an inpatient hospice facility. One of their patients was dying and the immediate family was in the room with him. Well, he passed away and the family said their goodbyes. The family stepped out of the room and my wife and the other nurse went in to prep him for other family that was coming. This was about 15 minutes after he drew his last breath and his heart stopped. As they straightened his sheets his right arm rose, bending at the elbow, and he itched the side of his nose with his index finger. Then his arm relaxed in the bent position. Both nurses saw this and my wife turned to her coworker and said, "Don't you dare leave without me." They quickly finished their work and left the room together.

Specializes in Corrections, Cardiac, Hospice.
My wife had a creepy experience a few years ago. She and another nurse were on duty at an inpatient hospice facility. One of their patients was dying and the immediate family was in the room with him. Well, he passed away and the family said their goodbyes. The family stepped out of the room and my wife and the other nurse went in to prep him for other family that was coming. This was about 15 minutes after he drew his last breath and his heart stopped. As they straightened his sheets his right arm rose, bending at the elbow, and he itched the side of his nose with his index finger. Then his arm relaxed in the bent position. Both nurses saw this and my wife turned to her coworker and said, "Don't you dare leave without me." They quickly finished their work and left the room together.

Ohhhh, I got chills from this one:chair:

has anyone seen the amityville horror?

Yes! I read that book in the fifth grade ~ way too young to be reading that stuff ~ and since then I freak when I wake up at that time, which happens quite frequently. I blame that book on my insomnia.

Specializes in Everything but L&D and OR.

Do people live in it now?

Christine

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