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 RN CRRN.
Ok, so here's our story; My Dad passed on within this last year.whenever he would visit at my sisters house (while alive) somehow, he would always block up the toilet somehow,after he used it, without fail. She always got nervous about that when he visited. She never had trouble with it unless he used it.

Well , the night he passed(we were all with him in the ICU, going through all this emotional stuff), she went home after it was all over and came home to ..guess what..a blocked toilet. Well after all that crying we could use a good laugh, and we are all sure that it was my Dads way of telling her that hes alive and well , with his sense of humor. He wasnt going to leave without doing that one last time.

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Oh and I also wanted to say, my car had died that week and the week after my dad died I ended up going to look at used ones. I went with my mom (in her car) and the first place we went to I ended up considering a Stratus. (Found out later when my parents got their last car, HE had considered a Stratus due to the safety factor. While sitting there thinking about whether I should travel to see this $2000 used car or this one, at 300$ per month, it came to my mind -"what would dad want me in?" That is when my mom told me he had liked the Stratus for safety. Especially since I drive home late and travel a ways...and in the winter it is very scary some nights to think the car may stall in 20 below temps. I am now paying a 300$ car payment. Thanks dad for steering me into the right car. Sorry for the digression.:uhoh21:

Specializes in Med/Surg, Psych..
Forgive me, but I believe what you have written is pure nonsense. IMO only. If you aren't a nurse, why are you on a nurse's website???:o

I am also thinking the same....I dont want to be rude or anything and its not my intention to label anyone but after reading the post by CVT6702, it just reminded me of the charecteristics of schizophrenia....the experiences are some what delusionals to me....please forgive me I am not trying to insult any one here, just trying to understand.

I am also thinking the same....I dont want to be rude or anything and its not my intention to label anyone but after reading the post by CVT6702, it just reminded me of the charecteristics of schizophrenia....the experiences are some what delusionals to me....please forgive me I am not trying to insult any one here, just trying to understand.

Amen. Amen.:o

Specializes in ortho/neuro/general surgery.

This is my favorite thread, and I hate to see it twisted up by an argument. I like this thread because I can post the possibly ghostly things I see at work or home or a graveyard etc, and read other nurses'/students'/CNAs' true experiences.

We 'healthcare workers' come to this website to post about our frustrations, tough shifts, dumb bosses, funny experiences, etc. We also may come to this website to learn information about nursing. Just nursing. Not anything else.

Again, this is my favorite thread and I don't want anything to happen to it. It's my week off right now so I don't have anything to post about my occasionally creepy nightshifts, but maybe I will next week.

PS... Does anyone know if the show Ghosthunters is still on? Haven't been able to catch it in a while.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Psych..

I also like to read about the ghost stories and I do beleive in spirits. Its really cool to read these posts before you go to sleep....you get so scared you are afraid to go to the bathroom....lol

But at the same time I find it hard to beleive when some one claims that they met Einestain or some other famous ppl....I am sorry its just too hard to comprehand:(

Specializes in RN CRRN.

Ok I should be going to bed--and I am, but I was sorting through a box in the kitchen when the two overhead lights went off. The porch light and driveway light stayed on--used same switch plate. I just froze. I thought A) their is a critter in the walls chewing on something (OMG) or B) my dad is saying hello---no I don't usually believe that---in the past I have had things happen which I feel were 'signs' telling me things, but this was WEIRD. I flicked the switch off then back on and the light just came on again. I sat and thought about it. Stood froze more like it. I thought wouldn't that be nice? Him saying hello? See, I am staying with my mom for a while and working eves I always stayed up late and left most lights on downstairs, well in the past he would go the the BR and then I would hear him shuffle over to the kitchen lights and shut them off....he was notorious for that-- (that and c/o no one putting tpaste caps back on-oh the day they invented flip tops!). So a few minutes ago it dawned on me---maybe if it is possible he was saying quit cleaning, turn off the lights and go to bed.....wouldn't that be nice? Not a nursing story--no but since he died last month, and TODAY is his birthday it is a nice thought to think he is still looking out for us....who knows? Won't hurt to think that....right?

Specializes in Psychiatric, Geriatric.

One night this nurse friend called and told me she would never sleep in her bedroom again because she had awakened to see this black cloud like mist hanging over her bed that scared her half to death. her family laughed. The next night she called to tell me her husband had been killed in an auto crash less than 1000 feet from there home. Of course he had been in the bed with her when she saw the black mist.

PS... Does anyone know if the show Ghosthunters is still on? Haven't been able to catch it in a while.

Grace,

I LOVE GhostHunters, too! I have it to record on the DVR every week. Just wanted to let you know that it was on last week (11-28-07).

I've thought of this thread especially when they've gone to visit old sanitoriums where the apparitions of nurses have been reported.

I haven't kept up with this thread like I should, but I *love* it, too! Wouldn't want it to turn into something it's not. :(

Grace,

I LOVE GhostHunters, too! I have it to record on the DVR every week. Just wanted to let you know that it was on last week (11-28-07).

I've thought of this thread especially when they've gone to visit old sanitoriums where the apparitions of nurses have been reported.

I haven't kept up with this thread like I should, but I *love* it, too! Wouldn't want it to turn into something it's not. :(

I think the GH season has ended, hasn't it? Have you seen the advertisements for "Paranormal State"? It premiers on December 10th on AETV. I'm hoping that will satisfy my GH craving until their new season starts.

Specializes in Home Health Care.

I will be off orientation and starting night shift in a couple of weeks. Today, I was told by my DON & fellow staff members to not be alarmed of hearing noises or seeing things that might make me think I'm going crazy. They confirmed they have seen ghosts, esp on the 3rd & 4th floor of our hosp. (built in 1907). My DON stated the doorbell of our locked unit will ocassionally buzz throughout the night with nobody there, as well as the elevator bell. One nurse said she actually seen a short little man appear that was wearing a brimmed hat sitting on the window sill. Just as she got up to look closer, he was gone. I guess I might have some company on the night shift!:uhoh3:

Specializes in med/surg/tele/neuro/rehab/corrections.

Ok here is something.... I keep clicking on 118 and it won't go. It just keeps bringing me back here! LOL!:lol2:

Specializes in geriatrics.

The LTC facility I work at now used to be what they called the "state hospital", which was a facility for mental patients that families would drop their loved one off and never come back. This was during the time when the patients were given frontal lobe-ectomies to calm them, and they would basically walk around emotionless. Well there was a doctor there (his name was gordon) that used to perform these and other surgeries that (the rumor is) he often times performed drunk, and slept w/ many of his nurses.. just stuff like that. About 20 years ago it was rebuilt into a LTC facility, and all of the aides and older nurses that were there when this facility first opened, claim to have seen doc. gordon roaming the facility. Creeps me out.

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