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...

Specializes in midwifery, NICU.
I work in small hospital on ob we have a little boy that walks around he has been seen by patients and staff We also hear crying in back hallway usually before a fetal demise :monkeydance:

:uhoh21: omg..that IS scary!

Specializes in ER, ALF.

I have been reading these stories while in triage most of tonight.(It's unusually slow around here), my phone just rang and it scared the hell outta me! I still love these stories... no new ones from me, yet.. but once I get some time I will share some from the other campus across town where a good friend of mine works!

Having roses appear from nowhere and smelling roses can be contributed to St. Therese of Lisieux, a Catholic nun from France who died very young. I cannot remember exactly what she is the patron saint of but it involves something along the line of hopeless causes or the sick or dying. Having roses appear or smelling roses is a good sign, although a bit unsettling.

She is the Patron Saint of Little children. This may be why she is in delivery. Beautiful story :)

( A "Monsignor" is a member of the Clergy who is higher than a Priest, but lower than a Bishop, or so I understand. I felt the Spirit I met fit into that category. )

It's a special title conferred on some priests but is not a specific office or authority.

I wonder if the facility ever had Catholic priests who came to perform Mass for the patients? Maybe one died there or soon after a mass there.

They never saw or heard anything.. I guess it was poltergeist???

Now I've gotten my self all scared.... sheesh... i sure hope my roommate hurries home!

Not unless there was a teenager in the house.......a girl.

I worked in a LTC that had a strange haunting. The room in which in happened was occupied by a 65 year old comatose male. He had no roommate. The man's TV was often on, per family request. The volume on the TV would go up and down without anyone touching the volume button. I, myself had been in the room when this had happened. Maintaince had checked the TV several times and could find nothing wrong.

Once on night shift a friend and a CNA went in the room to do a tx on the gentleman. The volume on the TV went up, my friend turned the volume down. Out of no where a man's voice said "Leave it alone!". My friend and the CNA got out of there real fast!! She was still in shock the next day when she was telling me about it.:eek:

I think it was the comatose guy. I would really like to look into this more. I think there is something going on in there.

Specializes in Rehab.

why do i always read these late at night when my husband is sleeping?

:sofahider

Specializes in nursery, L and D.

Hey, can we sticky this?? Then I could stop searching for it everytime I want to catch up!

My husband reminds me that they remove the blood now and replace it with embalming fluid, so noone gets buried alive anymore. It creeped me right out.

Uh.................no...................it's the family's choice to have the person embalmed. Most people choose it because it postpones decomp for years, but embalming can be declined.

Please don't shoot the messenger!

Uh.................no...................it's the family's choice to have the person embalmed. Most people choose it because it postpones decomp for years, but embalming can be declined.

Please don't shoot the messenger!

yikes! Well that does it I am getting cremated. Then I will know I am dead. When my mom died, my father in law was at home at my ex's house under hospice care himself for emphesema. He said when he heard that my mom had died he said that he would see her in a week. Well, he died exactly one week after she did, so I guess he did.:uhoh21:

Hi guys, I must have done something wrong because I posted yesterday, and now the post are gone, and my account profile shows that I have no posts...did the ghost of the board take away my postings about ghosts. I didn't put anything offensive in there....

No, it wasn't you. The board went down for a while last night and about 6 hours' worth of posts were lost.

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