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...

I know there's too many posts here to read all of them, but of the ones I have read there are lots of stories that are not nursing-related but personal experiences outside of work.

More! More! I don't have any, or I'd share.

Specializes in Education, Administration, Magnet.

I used to work in retail and my manager had a niece that was dying. She was in the hospital when they celebrated her 3rd birthday. There were only 3 people in that room, her mom, my manager and the little girl. Couple of days after the b-day she had passed away. The real shocker came after the photos were developed. There were 3 men in the picture that were not there in the room at all. 2 were standing behind the girl and one was leaning on the TV :eek: . My manager showed everyone the picture and to this day people come to her office to look at it.

How can anybody read these and say that it's our imagination????
It is all in your collective heads! what freaks me out the most is the ones wear the dead bodies wake up and move or talk then lay back down again.:uhoh21::idea:
Specializes in acute care.

speaking of ghosts in pictures...has anyone seen the movie "three men and a baby"? and/or heard the story of the ghost (a little boy who died in the location a particular scene was filmed)...I saw the movie and in the scene, you can see a little boy in the background, but I'm not true sure how true the story is, thought (or hoped) maybe it is a cardboard cutout that acidently was captured in the movie...anyone else know what I am talking about?

Editing: decided to do a search and found this online, so I guess I was right (maybe):

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/3menbaby.asp

I used to work in retail and my manager had a niece that was dying. She was in the hospital when they celebrated her 3rd birthday. There were only 3 people in that room, her mom, my manager and the little girl. Couple of days after the b-day she had passed away. The real shocker came after the photos were developed. There were 3 men in the picture that were not there in the room at all. 2 were standing behind the girl and one was leaning on the TV :eek: . My manager showed everyone the picture and to this day people come to her office to look at it.
speaking of ghosts in pictures...has anyone seen the movie "three men and a baby"? and/or heard the story of the ghost (a little boy who died in the location a particular scene was filmed)...I saw the movie and in the scene, you can see a little boy in the background, but I'm not true sure how true the story is, thought (or hoped) maybe it is a cardboard cutout that acidently was captured in the movie...anyone else know what I am talking about?

Editing: decided to do a search and found this online, so I guess I was right (maybe):

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/3menbaby.asp

Yeah, Snopes says nay

Cherokee -- I think most of us agree that the stories don't have to necessarily be in a nursing setting. I personally would enjoy hearing about anyone's encounters no matter where or when they took place. I love hearing about it.

Chime in, everyone -- what are your thoughts?

I'm with you NurseyTee!:D

It's always easy for Skeptics to Poo-Poo the Paranormal accountings that others have had. But some of the more memorable encounters I have had, occurred in the presence of other Staff Members. We all experienced these occurrences. And no we were not sharing in a mass hallucination either.

i am not a 'spirit magnet'but i have had a few unexplainable episodes..maybe some people are more attuned to thre nunance

well, my two experiences arent related to nursing technically, but I'll tell them anyway.

first, my pap had went into a bout of CHF one morning in October 06. He lived alone, in a town about 2 hours away from myself and my parents. He called an ambulance and was taken to the hospital. Over the next few months, things just eventually went down hill, so we transferred him to a hospice facility here in our city. Well, one afternoon I went in to see my pap, and he was pretty morphined - up....he had not been alert/oriented for several days now. So, being that my brother (who had just came in from out of the country to say his goodbyes) had been in to talk to pap a few times already, I told my pap that it was ok to let go if he wanted to. I said my goodbye and got my things to leave the hospice. Later that night my mom called to say he had passed. Not really a ghost story, I know, but i thought it fell into the category sort of.

second, this is a story that still gets my choked up. We live in a ranch style house, with very steep steps leading to the basement/game room. My son was about 6 or 7 months I think...right at that stage where they dont quit crawl but they can sort of inch themselves along. We had a gate at the top of the steps, but apparently i had forgot to shut it, and then we left for the store. We came home, and I sat my son down in living room, on the floor and went into the kitchen to get his bottle....completely forgetting that i had left the gate at the top of those steps open. I was in the kitchen when I heard him sort of whimpering, and i realized that the gate wasnt shut, so i ran over. He was face-first on his stomach on the third step from the top...and it was almost like something or someone was holding him in place there until I got him. I mean, I have no idea how he could just stop in the position he was in without falling the rest of the way down those steps. I grabbed him as fast as i could and just said 'thank you...thank you so much' to whatever held him there until i could get to him. I still am really mad at myself for being so stupid and clumbsy to forget to close that gate that day, but i honestly believe someone held him there and kept him from falling down those stairs.

Trauma, your son definitely had a Guardian Ghost watching over him!

Specializes in L&D, Family Practice, HHA, IM.

This is sort of a "guardian ghost" story. When I was in college the first time, one of my new acquaintances had a friend whose mother was psychic and who had many ghosts come and "visit" her, much in the manner of Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost", channeling them and helping them out.

Anyway, one of the ghosts decided to stick around the family and one day, during a power outage, candles were lit all over the house and my acquaintance told me that shortly thereafter, while she was alone in a room, she leaned over a candle and set herself on fire.

Out of nowhere, an arm came and "brushed" the fire off of her sweater, leaving no singes or burn marks in its place. She said that ever since then, she's always been comfortable with ghosts, save the evil and malevolent ones.

Thought this might make a good addition to our thread!

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