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 just quit being an airline pilot to purse my dreams of being a nurse. Anyway, my crew and I were walking down a jet bridge to the airplane, and we walked past a family that had just gotten off the plane. The mother was putting a baby in a stroller, the father was standing behind her, and their young son (about 6 years old) was standing right behind the father, doing a little dance. As we start to walk by this family, the son jumped across the jet bridge right in front of me and the other pilot. Then, in an instant, the son disappeared. I stopped dead in my tracks, and watched the family as the mother finished strapping the baby in, and the walked up the jet bridge to the terminal. I looked carefully, but there was absolutely no boy with them. I looked around inside of the airplane to see if the boy was in there, but he wasn't. I asked the other pilot if he had seen the boy, but he hadn't. I was the only one who saw him, but he was plain as day to me. I could tell exactly what he looked like, what he was wearing, and in an instant, he was gone. I truly believe that this was a son that had passed away, but continued to hang out with the family. This happened to me about 2 years ago.

The poor wee guy!:scrying:

Specializes in neuro, med/surg/, cardiac care.

More of a grim reaper story than ghost, but we were doing rounds one night and in a four bed room one of the fellows was awake and he said who's the guy with you tonight in the black coat? Being a neuro floor we thought maybe a little cuckoo but he was a with it patient and supposed to go home the following day . We all laughed and went on with the rounds. The next round we found him arrested. Hmm.... man in black, sudden death? Definately a twilight zone moment. He did not make it.

ok, here goes my exprience.

about 10 years ago, i worked in surgery. we had a gentleman for a procedure that would have required general anesthesia, but the surgeon and anesthelogist decided -due to the patients poor health condition, the minor surgery would be perform under local with xylocaine. the procedure was underway when the patient started yelling and fighting due to pain. i put my hand on the patients shoulder and said a silent prayer for god to send his angels to watch over the patient and help him tolerate the procedure. at that point the surgeon decided to give the patient ketamine (dissociative anesthetic). the patient rapidly calmed down and took a nap for the rest of the procedure (about 30 more minutes). after the procedure, when the patient was waking, he looked around in the room (not at the staff) and stated "i see angels" i will never forget the the strange feeling i had at that time. i didn't see angels but the patient did!

I still do not understand why God, does not send someone for these people.

There are all ages, that stick around.

I pray to God, I do not stay in limbo.

:uhoh21:

I still do not understand why God, does not send someone for these people.

There are all ages, that stick around.

I pray to God, I do not stay in limbo.

:uhoh21:

I think God has an "open door policy" and some people just aren't ready to go through that door. I think some people wish to remain here a little longer, and then go through that "open door" when they are ready. Just my opinion though.

Specializes in icu, er, transplant, case management, ps.

I am not sure this is a ghost story. I had a 12 year old young lady as a patient. She was suffering from pernicious amemia.After her parents decided no more treatment was need, sheslipped into a coma. For the four days prior to her death, when I was sitting in a rocking chair, the hair on the back of my neck would stand straight up and I would get a cold chill across my shoulders. When she die, she die at the time I had my experience. And shortly before she die, she came out of her coma, said good bye to her love ones and die.

Woody:balloons:

When I worked in LTC in a local nursing home, there were a few residents that told me they saw a tll man wearing a black coat and a top hat. The next day, one of the residents died.

This happened several times.

None of the stakk ever saw him, only the residents.

Specializes in CMSRN.

I believe the house I currently live in has the original owner wife sticking around. I have not seen her but odd things have occured through out the years.

My husband and I smoke but never inside and usually just when out socializing with friends. Well one night I went into my son's room while he was sleeping (he is only 3) and there was a distinct smell of cigarette smoke in his room. It happened a couple of times in a week and then stopped when I said out loud to "Myrtle" to stop smoking in my son's room.

Up to a year after my children were born I would occasionally hear someone saying "shshshs" coming from the baby's room when they would fuss at night.

I did not bother me to hear it but I would always check on the baby's because I just felt it was her way to tell me to come see.

Lastly for a month a clock on our TV would fall off. Now this clock has been on the TV for 4 years already. But a couple of times a day it would slowly work it's way to the egde (unnoticed) and fall off. My husband blew it off as to work trucks driving by. But there was no new construction and the clock has been in the same spot for a few years. Well one day I noticed it was half off the TV and put it back in it's place. At that point I realized there was a picture of me smoking a tobacco pipe on the back of the clock from over 10 years ago. I then jokingly told my husband that maybe "Myrtle" was trying to tell me to stop smoking. He shrugged it off and nothing was said about it again. But it has never fallen off the TV again since I made that statement.

(I need to check with my neighbor but I want to say that the owner died of something with his lungs. Like COPD or cancer. Not sure, but if he did then I know she is trying to tell us to stop smoking.)

After years of reading this thread I finally have something to add to it. I'm working at a hospital which is one of the oldest if not the oldest hospital here in Phoenix. It's over 100 years old, which for Phoenix is pretty old! I work in OB and the other night I was working in antenatal and a nurse told me about an experience she had had. Apparently the kitchen between triage and LDR is haunted. She was in there one night and heard someone knocking on the window, but couldn't see anyone so she figured she'd imagined it. A couple of days later someone mentioned to her that there's a ghost who knocks on the window in that kitchen!!

We also have a blond 'visitor' who stays around the OB OR's. She's supposedly got long blond hair and several people have seen her. Our OB OR is all the way at the back of the L&D unit and is spooky enough to start with, but now everytime I go back there the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. :sofahider

I haven't experienced anything unusual, other than the elevator not opening at the floor I wanted, and then taking me on a tour of all the other floors of the hospital (with no one there, and me not pushing any of the other buttons). I just chalked it up to an old elevator.

Keep these coming, I love reading them!

I worked nights years ago with a lady on a vent. She was alert and oriented x3 normally. One night she started high pressuring, which for her was unusual. I went to see her and she mouthed "There's a man coming out of the ceiling" so I checked her orientation and she passed with flying colors, something like " January 2001, George Bush, and I SEE A MAN COMING OUT OF THE CEILING" Sats were fine. This gave me chills. One time another vent patient with a sense of humor scared the living daylights out of us by donning a rubber satan mask on Halloween and you should have seen us jump when we did rounds. That was one of my favorite memories.

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
does anyone know about dogs after death? i just lost my beloved golden retriever and need this info.

i suspect your golden will be in heaven waiting for you when you get there. i'm certainly hoping mine will be! i lost them 7 years ago, and there are times when i still miss them!

about two months after clancy died, i was driving down the street near my home, and saw a beautiful golden retriever who looked just exactly like him, and wearing a collar just like his trotting down the street. i stopped the car, and the dog promptly sat. as i walked around the car to get to the dog, he just disappeared. it sounds weird, but i had this lovely feeling of peace -- like clancy was still with me some how.

i'm sorry for your loss.

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
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.

i've had as many "ghostly experiences" during the daytime as i have at night! and i'm not always alone, either. if you don't believe in ghosts, that's fine. but some of us do!

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