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...

My brother Bill passed away in 2005. His Grandson awoke one night and came rushing out of his room. Frightened because there was a man in his room who wanted to hug him.

We all felt this was Bill reaching out to his Grandson. But the boy didn't understand, and was frightened by the experience.

Bill never believed in Ghosts and such stuff, however at his "Wake" he verbally tried to communicate with at least 4 of us by calling out our names to us. No one else heard his voice, and we all looked around when it happened to us, and no one was there.

It happened again 2 days later at my Mom's house. I asked her how it felt to have Bill calling out for her. But she poo-pooed the idea.

But sadly she is wrong!

We have 2 nurses at my facility that are starting to do a research project on the paranormal in nursing... They would love to hear your your stories.....

I worked in a rural hospital several years ago. The top floor had a psychiatric ward on one end. I got called up there for a blood draw on a new patient. Once I was finished, I left the security desk and started back down the hall toward the elevator. This end of the hall only had a few lights on as it was office space. In front of me, this little boy walked across the hall from on office to the other. I froze! Then he walks out and starts down the hall and disappears! I ran back to the security desk and told them what I had saw and that we had a child on the floor. The nurse at the desk laughed (she had been there ever since the hospital opened). According to her, that floor in the early days was a pediatric floor and the story goes this little boy was brought in without family and died there. The nurses just figured they were the closest thing to family he had, so he stayed!

The night of June 16 th, 2007 was the first Ghost Hunters' Pow-Wow that I have ever attended.

Kalie, M. & Quinn, W. (each other's BFF ), their husbands,and a handful of their relatives and friends joined me for a rolling Ghost Hunt across Cherokee County. Which finally ended up on Aurelia, Iowa's Football Field around 11 pm..

We were engaged in a session of Table Tipping with our Guest of Honor being an Urban Legend in Aurelia. We had made contact with the resident Native American Spirit alleged to be haunting Aurelia's High School and Football Field.

The last question asked of the Native American Spirit while we were Table Tipping was, for the Spirit to tap out a lively Indian Drum Beat. ( Had we been on a hard floor I'm sure we would've been able to hear the beat's rhythm. But in the grass we could not ).

Our Indian Guest seemed to take a great attraction to Kalie, and gave her quite a big scare when the Ghost shook her chair. Kalie jumped up from the Table and raced past me crying and trembling.

In between gasps for air she confronted me and asked if I had been the one who shook her chair. I denied the accusation. Granted I was the closest standing person, near Kalie. But I was holding a flashlight trained on the front legs of the Table, so the group circled around the Table could see the legs as they tapped out their answers to our questions. As the football field was not lit up.

All in all we had a lively outing, that lasted about 5 hrs.. Even during the last hour of the activities at the Football Field the Local Police Officer on duty, came and watched the activity. He admitted he had, had his own run-ins with the Indian Spirit in years past when he would check the School at night.

Kalie and her group has had access to the School in the past, but a break-in at the School prompted the School to install Motion Cameras. And now access is denied.

Also in attendance briefly was a member of the faculty who stopped by their office briefly, and they too admitted having encountered the resident Ghost a time or too!

The girls caught several Orb photos during our outing, and other members felt cold spots, and general uneasy feelings in other locations we visited during the night.

Lastly I realize I am getting too old for these activities. My knees and ankle were quite sore after walking across the uneven lawn at a cemetery we visited. Though my desire to attend such outings, remains. I know I will soon have to retire from such activities.

It's hell to grow old!

Specializes in nursery, L and D.

Again I call for a sticky on this thread!! Love it!

Ok I have one I work 1900-0700 there is apart when the floors are full we move patients from the ER back there until their rooms become available. We very rarely use this area. Well one night we had to open it and I was stuck back there. I had 4 patients and placed them in rooms with doors and in the back so they would not be disturbed. The room right across from the nursing station the code blue button went off. Now the alarm doesn't sound really loud in the area but in the ER there are flashing lights in the ceiling and sirens. Out of nowhere I have 20 people busting in to help me with this code, and I am reading a book. MY point is there was NO ONE in that room, NO ONE near that bed. A few hours later it happened again to me. The siren never goes off if there is nobody back there but if there are patients its crazy.

Does anyone know about dogs after death? I just lost my beloved golden retriever and need this info.

brigily2000,

There is a reason why we are connected to the animals we love.

Check out this site:

http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm303042.html

It might help you.

Specializes in ED, Hospice, ICU, Trach and vent.

About a year and a half ago I was working the 11p-7a shift in a nursing home. We had a patient that could not ring her call light d/t paralysis. About 2am the call light in her room went off. Me and the CNA's just looked at each other for a second then went to the room. The call light was in the trash can beside her bed so we just figured it had fallen and somehow the button was pushed. Well, about 5 minutes later the light wen off again. When we went into the room it was on the bedrail right where we left it, but no way the pt had pushed it. (she was in a private room). We went back to the nsg station and sure enough the light went off again (3rd time...:eek:) a few minutes later and again the cord was where we left it. We had no idea what was going on.

A few minutes passed while we were talking about this one of the CNA's got up to answer a light across the hall from that pt. When she got to the room, the pt who rang the light told her something was wrong with her roommate. Sure enough, her roommate had passed away. As soon as she said this the light from the pts room who could not ring it went off again. We went and turned it off and as far as we know it has never went off again. We were really spooked to say the least.

I love reading this thread!

Specializes in Administration.

Last year we lost a long-time (30 years!) surgical nurse to breast cancer. The OR was her home, and she was always the first one there in the morning. About a week after she died, I went into the corridor by the OR suite and I heard her say "Good morning" in her low, southern drawl, just like she always did. I turned, and there was nobody there. This happened again several times over the next week or so, but I didn't think much of it, I figured it was just my mind playing tricks on me. One day we were having a potluck and talking about our good old friend and I said "you know, I sometimes hear her say "good morning" when I walk into the corridor. Everyone fell silent. One by one, several of the other nurses said "so do I". None of us had said anything because it seemed so silly. After comparing notes, the voice was coming from the same corner of the corridor.

Specializes in pure and simple psych.

SO cool. Wonderful that she has let you know that she is still there. Now that she has, it might be time for her to follow the light. But what a gift!!

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