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 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 ortho/neuro/general surgery.

Nursing home cat can sense death?

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2531239020070726?feedType=RSS

CHICAGO (Reuters) - When Oscar the Cat visits residents of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, the staff jumps into action -- Oscar can sense within hours when someone is about to die.

In his two years living in Steere's end-stage dementia unit, Oscar has been at the bedside of more than 25 residents shortly before they died, according to Dr. David Dosa of Brown University in Providence.

He wrote about Oscar in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"It's not that the cat is consistently there first," Dr. Joan Teno, a professor of community health at Brown University, who sees patients in the unit. "But the cat always does manage to make an appearance, and it always seems to be in the last two hours."

Raised at the nursing home since he was a kitten, Oscar often checks in on residents, but when he curls up for a visit, physicians and nursing home staff know it's time to call the family.

"I don't think this is a psychic cat," said Teno. "I think there's probably a biochemical explanation," she said in a telephone interview.

While pets are often used to bring comfort to the elderly in nursing home settings, Oscar's talent is special, though not unexpected.

"That is such a cat thing to do," said Thomas Graves, a feline expert and chief of small animal medicine at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine.

Graves said there is no evidence to suggest cats can sense death, but he doesn't discount it for a minute.

Those things are hard to study. I think probably dogs and cats can sense things we can't," he said.

On a particular day detailed by Dr. Dosa, Oscar settled onto the bed of a patient in room 313.

His presence sent staff off to make calls and set up vigil.

When a grandson asked why the cat was there, his mother explained: "He is here to help Grandma get to heaven," according to Dosa's account.

She died a half an hour later.

We were having a little family gathering in my Mom's living room. While the large floor fan, and air conditioner were running in an attempt to stifle the Iowa heat.

Six of us sat in the living room sharing remembrances of our lives together. At one point more than a couple of people were chatting, when I heard a short clip of a conversation that was blended into the conversation, sort of in the background of the conversation.

It was similar to other voices I've heard that have generated from the large floor fan we were using. Yet different too! Different because they didn't sound like they were coming from the fan, but from the middle of the group of people that were talking.

Immediately the color blue flashed into my thoughts as I heard these other voices. As usual I couldn't make out what the voices were saying. I tried to re-adjust my posture as I lost the connection to the voices. As I shifted positions in my chair, I caught a glimmer of the voices and lost it just as fast.

But the overwhelming impression that I had from these voices was the thought of the color Blue ( kind of an iridescent blue ).

And no I don't think it was an attempt of any Indigo Kids trying to contact me. I'm not an Indigo Person.

I was wondering if anyone else has ever experienced anything similar to this event. Or if anyone knows if there is such a thing as Blue Noise?

Nursing home cat can sense death?

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2531239020070726?feedType=RSS

CHICAGO (Reuters) - When Oscar the Cat visits residents of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island, the staff jumps into action -- Oscar can sense within hours when someone is about to die.

In his two years living in Steere's end-stage dementia unit, Oscar has been at the bedside of more than 25 residents shortly before they died, according to Dr. David Dosa of Brown University in Providence.

He wrote about Oscar in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"It's not that the cat is consistently there first," Dr. Joan Teno, a professor of community health at Brown University, who sees patients in the unit. "But the cat always does manage to make an appearance, and it always seems to be in the last two hours."

Raised at the nursing home since he was a kitten, Oscar often checks in on residents, but when he curls up for a visit, physicians and nursing home staff know it's time to call the family.

"I don't think this is a psychic cat," said Teno. "I think there's probably a biochemical explanation," she said in a telephone interview.

While pets are often used to bring comfort to the elderly in nursing home settings, Oscar's talent is special, though not unexpected.

"That is such a cat thing to do," said Thomas Graves, a feline expert and chief of small animal medicine at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine.

Graves said there is no evidence to suggest cats can sense death, but he doesn't discount it for a minute.

Those things are hard to study. I think probably dogs and cats can sense things we can't," he said.

On a particular day detailed by Dr. Dosa, Oscar settled onto the bed of a patient in room 313.

His presence sent staff off to make calls and set up vigil.

When a grandson asked why the cat was there, his mother explained: "He is here to help Grandma get to heaven," according to Dosa's account.

She died a half an hour later.

I read this the other day on yahoo. It's really interesting. Wonder if my cat would ever do something like that? I doubt it though, he's too crazy.

Thanks and Goodbye!

I'm done being a Ghost Hunter. It's time to retire. It's been fun, and I have always enjoyed posting stories on various websites about my Ghostly Encounters. But it's time for me to embrace a quieter lifestyle.

Best of luck to you all in your Paranormal Quests!

You needn't respond to this Thread, as I will be deleting this site from my favorites list, along with all the other Paranormal sites I contribute to.

No hard feelings.

I'm just a tired old man. Looking for a couch with my name on it. LOL!

AKA Dinky Dave, Table Tipper, TT

Specializes in geriatrics,med/surg,vents.

I found Cherokee's good bye scary.I wonder what happened to make him quit like that,deleting all paranormal sites and all that.

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