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...

Your Charge Nurse is an exorcist?

I can handle just about everything except the patient that coded while floating 2 inches over the bed. For that I would go get the charge nurse and walk out.
You guys are freaking me out!! The only thing I've seen is pretty tame. I went in to set up a room for a new patient. I turned off the screensaver on the monitor, and it was showing a resp rate of 6, big, deep breaths, then shallow ones - like cheyne stokes. I thought maybe the leads were swinging on the floor, but they were curled up on the shelf without any electrodes on them, like they always are. It wasn't picking up telemetry, because our tele only transmits cardiac rhythms. The pattern didn't stop until we put the new patient on the monitor. Never saw it again. I've never seen any ghosts or other stuff, though. I'd probably pee myself.

Wow. That's a good one!

Hey there was a post on here earlier about the Danvers Mental hospital in MA- the one the movie Session Nine was filmed at....

There was just a MASSIVE fire that destroyed several buildings there the whole hill was on fire according to witnesses!

http://wbztv.com/local/local_story_097070525.html

Specializes in ICU & ED.

No Joke: I work weekend nights 7p-7a. Last night we terminally weened a Pt. I've taken care of him for several weeks now. I was just awakened from a deep sleep by the pt's voice saying " Cut that out you hurtin' me." It was so vivid I had to call work. Time of death 1238. Same time as my "dream". I can't go back to sleep! :o

Specializes in nursery, L and D.

I love these, but they scare the c##p outta me. I gotta stop reading them:lol2:

Here is one that happened last Thurs at work. A very level headed CNA went to the basement to get something and heard people talking. Mind you she was the only one in the basement at the time. She was a little un-nerved by it. Also that same night the basement bathroom had the sink water on and it was going out into the hallway. It was nice to have her hear the people talking as she works days and doesn't get to see and hear the ghost like we do at night.

Specializes in PACU.
Hey there was a post on here earlier about the Danvers Mental hospital in MA- the one the movie Session Nine was filmed at....

There was just a MASSIVE fire that destroyed several buildings there the whole hill was on fire according to witnesses!

http://wbztv.com/local/local_story_097070525.html

I am sorry about the fire, but I had read that the place was being demolished. I am glad that interesting old building is being used for something. Although, I'm not sure I would want to live there. Most

likely, it is haunted.:lol2:

Specializes in geriatrics,med/surg,vents.

love these stories,wish I could stop reading and actually do something now that I'm home from work!

Specializes in Everything but L&D and OR.

ok, here's my BUMP and my bookmark.

Sometimes I wish I had a story, but really I am thankful I don't!!

Specializes in med/surg/ortho.

My own personal experience....in the room where I found my first pt. dead....This happened about a week after she died..At the time I had braces..and had just eaten a salad. I was checking on my pts (I was an aid at the time) and popped into this room where the week before I had spent a lot of time with a pt who was dying and just really not ready to go. No family, etc. I went into the bathroom to look in the mirror...flipped on the light..smiled to check my braces for junk...and OPEN POPPED THE MEDICINE CHEST/MIRROR. I never touched it....eek.

But the best ones I have heard from other nurses on my floor :

A peds nurse had a 12 year old child who came to the floor for comfort measures while dying. The kid was stable on this night....dying but not immediately. She was talking to the nurse....It was time for her pain meds...so the nurse turned on the tv and said "I'll be back in a minute with your meds" As the nurse turned her back and walked out of the room she said she felt a cold breeze go past her, into the room. She didnt think anything of it until she came back and found the child had died. Looking back she said she feels like it was whoever came to take her. Spooky.

Another night we went into a room with a pt who was in for 23 hr observation(gastro related). No pain meds, pt was alert, only in her 40s...no mental history...lol.....We went in to check on her and she's turned away from us,facing the wall. She was awake, but kind of jittery. We asked if she wa ok and she said yes, but the man in her room freaked her out. WHAT??? She said she turned off the tv, clicked off her light and when she turned over, saw a man sitting next to her bed. He spoke to her and was very surprised she could see and hear him. He told her not to be scared, that he just kind of kept an eye on the floor. And he was gone. She never called us, she said we'd think she was crazy.

Specializes in acute care.
Another night we went into a room with a pt who was in for 23 hr observation(gastro related). No pain meds, pt was alert, only in her 40s...no mental history...lol.....We went in to check on her and she's turned away from us,facing the wall. She was awake, but kind of jittery. We asked if she wa ok and she said yes, but the man in her room freaked her out. WHAT??? She said she turned off the tv, clicked off her light and when she turned over, saw a man sitting next to her bed. He spoke to her and was very surprised she could see and hear him. He told her not to be scared, that he just kind of kept an eye on the floor. And he was gone. She never called us, she said we'd think she was crazy.

scary

When things like this happen. Can't you get the hospital minister to bless the room?
Especially when you have ones like the possessed guy who's cries could be heard for hours after he died. Come on the place and all the staff needed an excorsism after that! Yes, some of this is caused by the devil.:devil:
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