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 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.

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.

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.

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:

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:

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:

Please post what happens!

Ok well something did happen. I was in my patients room talking with him, the facility has those tv's that are on those arms that stretch out by the bed. tv was off and we were chatting - next thing the tv started bouncing up and down-not slightly-Im talking no doubt in the world it was bouncing up and down. we both looked at each other and looked at the tv as soon as we did that it stopped.:idea:

I got chills all over-freaked me out!!!! of course everybody thought I was nuts-but at least I have one other person who saw it.

just wanted to let you in on what happened this halloween night for me. my first nursing ghost story. you know these would make a great book. the have that chicken soup for the nurses soul. how about a book about ghost stories told by nurses?????Id buy it

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I have another non nursing story and since everyone seems interested in all things involving ghosts and spooky occurences, I will go ahead and post it. I was babysitting one night when I was about 13 for one of my neighbor's friends. The little girl was 5 years old and had beenplaying outside earlier in the day. The family never used the front dooe and it was always kept locked. When the little girl came in for the night, I locked the back door and gave her a bath. I put her to bed and then went and sat at the kitchen table to do my nails. I had my headphones on very softly in case she called out for me. All of a sudden I heard a loud slamming sound so I took off my head phones and called for the little girl. She was alseep in bed so I looked out the back door thinknig maybe her mom came home early and I heard the garage. The way the house was set up they had a back porch area and the back door was on the side of the room (sorry it's kind of hard for me to explain how it's set up). When you looked out the kitchen window you could see the back door and when I looked out the window I could see the back door was open a crack. That freaked me out because I distinctly remember locking that door. I couldn;t see anything on the back porch because it was pitch black. I ran in the living room and the front door was wide open!!!:uhoh21: Mind you, they never use that door! At that point I really freaked out. I called a friend's mom because mine wasn't home (this was before cell phones) and she called a neighbor for me who came over and checked out the house. No one was there and the little girl was fine, she was fast asleep. To make matters worse, after the neighbor left I sat there watching tv and the girl's mom had the lights on a timer so they went off and stayed off after a certain time. That was the last time that I babysat ever.

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
I used to work in and old labor and delivery unit. It was a small hospital, so often times I was back there by myself. I liked to keep the lights low and things quite back there, so naturally I heard a lot of creeps and groans. There was a whole back hall unused, there was also no access to it accept by passing me. I could hears metal objects clanging, and doors shutting. Sounded like somebody was getting ready for a c section.I could always sense something there with me it seemed. There was also a back room on the med surg floor that was never used. It was a patient room converted to a storage room. That room was strange... Call light always going off, and nobody near it...Whole hospital had a creepy aura...Maybe it was the cemetary next door..If that in itself is not strange.... :p
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We have a white figure that has been seen in the medicine room, sometimes the carts are moved down the hall while you are in a room giving meds, etc. One of the male CNAs reported seeing a very tall black figure going from room to room several times. We have all seen balls of light floating around. From what we have been able to gather from old pictures of the property that the nursing home is on there was a mobile home park at one end and a cemetary at the other end of the building. Everyone has seen a little boy walking around but the freakiest part was when they saw wet childrens foot prints coming down the hall and followed them to the wall and there were footprints in the snow outside that came right to that place in the wall.
This is why I like and watch the TV show Ghost Whisperer so much.
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