What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

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...

[vetnrse]

I'd have to say nurse managers. I've heard they exist, but I very rarely see one.

cute!

[vetnrse]

Wow!!

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

I'm currently living in a hospice care assisted living facility. I have lived her 21 months. During that time I have experienced my call bell being rung. When the help appeared, I would tell them I didn't ring it.

One day the fire alarm bell kept ticking all day long in the next room. Nobody could find out what it was. It disappeared just like it appeared; suddenly.

When these things happen, I say, "The spooks are here again." There's nothing to be afraid of. My grandmother experienced many events in her lifetime.

[eldragon]

Well, a few years ago I was a volunteer at a LTC facility (which is why I decided to pursue nursing) and I went into an residents room to fetch something for her. (Nobody was in the room and I had just came back from an activity to grab something for her). Anyway, I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned to look - nobody was there.

I can't wait to start nursing so I have lots of stories to tell!

[eldragon]

I do think it's funny how a few posters mentioned that the facility they work at is next to a cemetary, and that might be the reason why there are so many spirits there.

A hospital or long term care facility has more spirits than anyplace! Cemetaries don't have spirits!

[grace90, LPN, LVN]

I do think it's funny how a few posters mentioned that the facility they work at is next to a cemetary, and that might be the reason why there are so many spirits there.

A hospital or long term care facility has more spirits than anyplace! Cemetaries don't have spirits!

I agree that hospitals and LTCs have lots of spirits around. But I disagree that cemetaries don't have spirits. I've experienced things in cemetaries that lead me to think otherwise. Several months ago I smelled the distinct smell of cigar smoke when standing near a person's headstone, and there was no one around that had been smoking anything.

[SaraO'Hara]

I do think it's funny how a few posters mentioned that the facility they work at is next to a cemetary, and that might be the reason why there are so many spirits there.

A hospital or long term care facility has more spirits than anyplace! Cemetaries don't have spirits!

Yesss they do. I've had my back patted, and a tight ponytail undone while alone in a cemetery.

[eldragon]

I think spirits are in cemetaries only because people are there. Live people.

The dead bodies have no attraction for the spirits. How lonely would it be to have to stay with your corpse forever?

I've read books written by mediums and and have heard that when a person goes to a cemetary to visit graves, spirits go with them there. When the person leaves, the spirit goes, too.

Think about it. When a person dies, it's soul leaves the body where it's at, which is usually at home, in a hospital or LTC facility. The soul usually goes where it's supposed to go, a place you may call heaven or the afterlife or numerous other names depending on your spiritual beliefs.

And some religions believe that the spirit stays with its body for up to a week, which is why they have traditions of having a person stay with the body, and covering mirrors, etc.

And now you are at the stage that the body goes to a cemetary and is buried in the ground. Why would a spirit stay there?

The spirit, if still around, would just leave with the people he/she cares about, and go back home.

That's a theory, of course, but a well-thought out one. When you go to a cemetary, you are there in memory of a person you once knew. That emotion might summon spirits to be with you, but it's only because you are there, not because they were there when you arrived.

[eldragon]

Having worked in Hospice for awhile, I know how common it is for people to talk to family members who have already passed on, prior to their own death.

I've been reading these many posts where the same thing occurs over and over.

I've never really been afraid of death. But I realized through these posts, that I don't have anyone to meet me on the other side. It has deeply saddened me. I have a daughter who God willing, will go after me. But other than that, I don't have anyone. My mother will go to hell, she is very evil, and I never knew my father. Maybe I'll have pets who will meet me, if they can care for humans. However pets do seem to prefer the company of men, sh**, guess I'm out of luck.

You'll see that you do have lots of help from the other side. We aren't just our immediate family. We go back much further and you'll be fine.

As far as your mother goes, that's a completely different thread.

[frodo]

I work night shift at small hospital, i had a young person who was very ill, while doing 2 a.m. check i saw someone at the foot of the bed, thinking it was the patient i went further into the room and this person? walked around the bed and to the right side and disappeared, my patient was sleeping soundly. that one freaked me out. patient got better and later left hospital.

[doe9181]

I haven't personally experienced anything myslef while at work but 2 of my coworkers have. Last year a few people died in one of the rooms on the south side of our floor within a close time frame and one of my coworkers swears one night she seen a short, dark blob go running out of 62 bed two into the room across the hall from it. Another coworker told me that after a woman had died her and another one of our coworkers were cleaning her up and the nurse that had the deceased patient asked them to close the door and when my coworker went to close the door, she said she felt resistance and the nurse felt it from the other side also, like the door didn't wan to close. Of course it works fine now and always did before that.

Some non-hosptial related stories I have mostly include deceased family and friends coming to let me know that they are okay after they have died. I had three seperate dreams of my grandpa that I remember vividly to this day. We were very close. The one I remember the most and that affected me the most was one where I was at his wake and I was sitting on the couch in front looking at his casket when a phone rang. My grandma told me it was for me so I turned my back to take the call. It was my grandpa on the phone telling me to turn around. I turned around and he was standing in front of me out of his coffin. He hugged me and told me that he was doing fine and missed us. I then said to him, "but grandpa, aren't you supposed to be dead?" And he said, "Yeah, I guess I am." He said it in a really sad voice and then turned around and got back in his coffin. Made me really sad.

Another story I have is one of a friend of mine that died in a drunk driving accident in high school. I was best friends with her sister growing up before they moved away to the suburbs and switched schools. About two weeks after she died she came to me in a dream and told me she was doing alright but that her sister was not. She then asked me if i could please call her sister and have her come stay with me for the weekend to get her out of the house (they shared a room when her sisiter was alive). I felt kind of dumb calling her house but I was compelled to do it. My friend wasn't home but her mom answered and I told her all about it and her mom found such comfort in knowing that Tiffany was alright and was reaching out to her sister. Her sister came over the following weekend and we had a fun, relaxing weekend.

One last thing that freaked me out and then I'm done (sorry this is so long). My boyfriend at the time's sister claimed she could speak in tongues. I didn't believe her and my ex said she should do it to me. They told me how she did it to her other brother's girlfriend and she was crying and really amazed. So I let her "speak in tongues" over me and she told me that my grandpa was in heaven and was doing good. She also told me that he was a police officer when he was alive (she didn't know that before) and how many brothers he had (didn't know that either) and other things she wouldn't of known. She told me that my uncle Solly (one of my grandpa's brothers) was a gruff man when he was alive (he was!) and he wasn't in heaven yet because not enough people prayed for him here on earth. You bet you butt I prayed for that man every night from that night on. I don't know if she was full of it but some of the things she knew, there was no way she would of known without me telling her. Kind of freaky right?:uhoh21::uhoh21::uhoh21:

[student-with-no-life]

We are at a clinical site that was once a TB facility many moons ago. Some of us has decided that since today is Halloween we are going to go down to the old section of the hospital and see if any "activity" is happening. We have heard rumors you can hear the children crying that passed away during their stay there. I guess many years ago people basically were put there to die. Im also going to take my camera to see if any "spots" show up.

I whole heartly believe in the spirit world. Now I have goose bumps:uhoh21: