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...

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i heard this story from a friend of mine, who is also a fellow nursing student but from another university. one night, while they were on a night shift, a 9-year-old female child unfortunately died in the pedia ward. my friend was the one assigned to perform post-mortem care to the said patient. so there he was, cleaning the patient's body and all. he placed a red bracelet in the patient's right hand, as it was the policy of the hospital to place a red tag on the right hand of all patients who are pronounced dead. after performing his tasks, he was on his way to the elevator when suddenly, the little girl came running after him! terrified, he quickly pushed the close button so that the elevator would close right away and bring him to safety down to the lower floor.

while inside the elevator, an old woman in hospital gown asked him why he closed the elevator door right away when a child wanted to board in. still overwhelmed with fear, he explained to the old lady "that was the child that i just performed post-mortem care a while ago. she is already dead. did you saw the red tag on her right arm? that is the mark for all dead patients here in this hospital..." the old woman raised her right arm and replied... "similar to this?"

my friend was found unconcious inside the elevator a few moments later. he never stepped inside the said hospital again. ever.

no honking way!!!!!!!!

now that's a good one..... you'll make quite an author some day

jeez lighten up:lol2:

you all have nothing to worry about, ghosts are entirely made up in the mind. think about it, it almost always happens at night or when you are by yourself, and it goes against every physics law we know. all the people who have seen ghosts, yet there is absolutley no proof, It makes for good entertainment though and i'm not trying to spoil that.... i love ghost stories myself, but some people are mentioning they are frightened while reading these posts, and there just isn't anything to worry about.

That may be your belief. Please allow us ours.

Now that's a GOOD one..... you'll make quite an author some day

Was that necessary?

My former FIL died a few weeks ago, on 3-12. One of the nicest men I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. He died at home with his wife by his side. The next morning she and her daughter, who stayed overnight, woke up and found the entire house smelling of roses, even though there were no flowers in the house until later that day. The aroma was particularly strong in the living room, where he had died in a hospital bed. We all believe he was sending his love.

Patients who are dying and hear children's voices or laughing is not oncommen. In fact, I have heard this many times from other nurses too, that a pt is in the last days of life and will hear children laughing. Noboday else hears it but the pt usually dies shortly after.

From my own experiences, we have a large concentration of Italian Americans in our community. They often claim to see all their deceased pets prior to passing on. Years ago my own grandmother, who was half Italian, went to the hospital but was expected to make a full recovery. About 3 days before she was supposed to come home she claimed (she was always lucid- never lost conc.) all her former dogs had been with her the night before. When we relayed this story to an Italian friend she told us in broken english "oh your agrandamotha- she a no live much longer" We laughed at this because Gram was fine and ready to go home. Next day she unexpectedly died. Now when I hear people who see there pets, I know what is coming. BUT the interesting thing is they are ALWAYS of Italian decent! My catholic friend tells me it may have something to do with Saint Francis being both a patron saint of animals and of Italy.

Wait... youy don't need a crash cart for v-tach, a carotid sinus massage would have snapped him outr of it, and if he was floating, shouldn't you have called an exorcist?

The rose petals just started floating down from the ceiling. It was like someone was just showering the room with them. This has happened several times over the years.

My creepiest and scariest ghost story for me happened about a year ago. It really was more of a posession than a ghost story. I was helping another nurse with a patient that had lived a very hard life. It had numerous things going on with him from cardiac to renal failure. You name it, he had it going on. This man was very much afraid to die. Every time his heart monitor beeped, he would just go into a rage screaming, "Don't let me die! Don't let me die!" The other nurse and I found out why he didn't want to die. About 0200 his cardiac monitor starts alarming V-Tach. We both rush into the room. I am pulling the crash cart behing me. When I get to the room, the other nurse is completely white. This man was sitting about 2 inches above the bed and was laughing. His whole look completely changed. His eyes just had a look of pure evil on them and he had this evil smile on his face. He laughed at us and said, " You stupid b****es aren't going to let me die will you?" and he laughed again. We were kinda frozen. I did reach up and hit the Code Blue button and when I did the man went into V-fib. He crashed back onto the bed. We started coding him, but after 20 minutes it was called. 5 minutes after the code was called several of the code team is in the room cleaning up when this man sits straight up in the bed and says, " You let him die. Too bad." and then begins laughing. The man collapsed back to the bed. We heard a horrible, agonizing scream ( actually every patient in the unit that night commented on the scream), and then you could hear "don't let me die" being whispered throughout the unit. Everyone of the nurses that night was pale and scared. No body went anywhere by themselves. By morning the whispers of "don't let me die" were gone. The night shift nurses had a prayer service in the break room before we left for home and then we all had nightmares for weeks.

Okay here is one of mine. While at work a couple of weeks ago, a group of us were sitting at the nurse's station. And the room right across from the station has a patient that is totally dependant for everything. She has a trach and feeding tube. We were sitting there talking and suddenly her tape player came on and it sounded like the tape was being eaten. There was no one else in the room. And the tape player was the kind that takes some strength to turn on. (We have a few ghosts at my work that roam the halls.) We went in her room and her eyes were wide open and she was scared.

I'm not sure about that. I have a doctor friend who casually debated whether you could use the carotid sinus massage to knock someone out in self defense since the procedure seems to be the body's equivalent of a reset button. Why would a nurse not be allowed to do this?;)

Uh.....yeah, you do. V-tach is an unstable rhythm, which calls for the crash cart. And nurses cannot perform a carotid massage.

Okay, I'll rephrase: I've never worked anywhere where nurses were permitted to perform carotid massage. MD procedure only.

Okay, I'll rephrase: I've never worked anywhere where nurses were permitted to perform carotid massage. MD procedure only.

Nor have I, I was just making a joke

Specializes in CHPN Hospice & Palliative Nurse.

Keep the stories coming! I adore this thread :)

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.
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