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 community health, LTC, SNF, Tele-Health.

The 3 AM thing has something to do with it being half of 6 and 666 is the devil's mark. I'll do some poking around and find the exact answer. I'm with you on the black spirit Auntie...I freaked my sister out with the schroders_piano story too...but she's a nurse too.

this is in response about the cat that senses death post (somewhere farther back in the thread). when i was growing up my housekeeper told us superstitious tales and one was that you never let your cat sleep in the same room as you because they suck your soul up. its a mexican urban legend. anyways haha i just remembered that after reading a post about it. just thought i would share!:cheers:

Specializes in Obs & gynae theatres.

I'm a sceptic but have spent ages reading all these stories and think they're great.

However, given your nursing backgrounds I'm surprised that so many of you fervently believe given that you know the effects that stress, medication, illness, extreme tiredness, nightshifts etc can have on the mind.

Look up Occams Razor.

Specializes in Geriatrics.

I was working as an aide years ago in MN, at a dual care facility. the side i worked on used to be a real old tuberculosis hospital from back in the day. they tore down the old building and replaced in with the one i was working in. it was less than 5 years old i believe. anyhow,...

I would be the ONLY one that stayed until about 11p.m on that side of the building. think MILES of hallways. it was independent living with "services" so i was doing my 100mph med-pass and i noticed the radio was on. i looked around (NO-ONE in sight) and flipped it off.....i entered and exited a residents room within 1 minute and there it was, on again.....no kidding.

this happened several times, ALWAYS the radio.....

then everyday all the residents complaining someone walking up and down the halls, knocking on their doors at all hours of the night. 3 and 4 am.....many residents complained of this for years....

i remember coming in one day for shift and they were installing security cameras. this is how often the knocking happened....not sure if anything came of it.....moved back to CA.

MN itself is creepy....

Specializes in Geriatrics and Quality Improvement,.

Working the nih shift always puts one in the range of seeing ghosts...or feeling them.

I just finished reading a book by Chris Moore titled A Dirty Job. Well, the jist of the story you will have to read, but there is a charachter called Minty, and he is a 6 foot tall black man, who is a death merchant, helping souls of those who die.

Well, I am at work 2 days after finishing the book, and one of my patients says... who is that tall black man at the desk? I look. Nobody. I say, where is he? and ask all the appropriate questions about what else he sees behind the desk. That is all normal. When he is insistant, I say, his name is Minty! He is a good guy, you can talk to him. But if he actually comes in the room, you gotta let me know.

I tell the rest of the staff, and they are cracking up(and now want to read the book)

Well, I have off for a few days, cant wait to get back and see... if Minty helped this man. :specs:

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
Fran, What village? I didnt see the show can you tell me what you mean- this stuff fascinates me.

Ghost Whisperer. It's on CBS at 8 PM every Friday night.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
this is in response about the cat that senses death post (somewhere farther back in the thread). when i was growing up my housekeeper told us superstitious tales and one was that you never let your cat sleep in the same room as you because they suck your soul up. its a mexican urban legend. anyways haha i just remembered that after reading a post about it. just thought i would share!:cheers:
Every time I got really sick my kitty always laid on top of me. He seemed to know. I miss him a lot.

12 o'clock midnight is a manmade hour...the 2a to 3a is the body's timeclock..that is why certain mes should be given at hs or am because different organs of the body have their own peaks and vallys

"I work in a LTC facility, and the strange things always happen on the night shift (around 3 a.m.)!

This was posted 10-3-05 (!) but I have to respond. I have been told that 3AM is the "witching hour", the most powerful time of the night for spells and the time that spirits are most active. Why 3 and not midnight I have no idea. I am very interested in paranormal activities and most of these posts are very interesting, except for schroders_piano post about the possession...that has freaked me out for 2 days...and will probably continue to. I copied and pasted it and sent it to my sister (not a nurse) as I am sure it will freak her out too. Misery loves company!!!

Curiousauntie,

I believe that 3am may be considered the "witching hour" because 3pm, to many people, is considered to be the time of death for Jesus.

KarenRN

Specializes in Picu, ICU, Burn.

I posted on here over 2 years ago thought I would renew my story.....

I hate to believe that children are ever left behind as ghosts. That said we have a room in the PICU I used to work at that is reserved to accomodate families with a dying child. Older patients who have died in the room have reported seeing other children in the room with them. Younger children have been known to point and track unseen things. Even the most hardened skeptic on the unit will tell you there is a strange static feel to the room.

On my third day of orientation at this hospital my preceptor took me for a walk through the 'old hospital' Its all boardrooms and resident's sleeping quarters now. But it was the night shift and all the sleeping rooms were empty. When I asked her why she grinned from ear to ear. She told me stories of nuns floating and kids giggling and running down the halls, lights flickering, and shadows darting. We didn't see anything that night but you couldn't get me out of there fast enough. I could have killed her! Then I understood why our residents and fellows will find an empty room anywhere in the hospital before sleeping up there.

Specializes in LTC, Sub-Acute, Hopsice.
I found the most amazing and scary ghost video EVER! iam always looking for evidence of ghosts and paranormal well anyway i found this.
happy halloween!

I had a coworker who got me with this a couple of years ago. We got every one on the unit and then I sent it to my sister who had a blast getting her coworkers. I just re-sent it to her...she has a bunch of new people in her office and I just know she will be having a blast with it.

THANK YOU SO MUCH TRENDYNURSINGSTUNDENT!!!!! I had been looking for this video for a while.

Joy

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Our floor is shaped like an H, with 2 private rooms each at the top of the H's. The 2 private rooms in one of the legs of the H are rumored to be haunted. I just laughed when the older staff first told me... then, I had a patient in one of the rooms start freaking out one night. (The patient was very demanding, very rude, wanted her pain meds every hour on the hour. They'd amputated her toe and she kept picking at the incision with a fork :barf01:. ) Anyway, as I went into the room, I felt cold air. The patient said "you are too late! She left!". She went on to describe in detail the little girl with long dark hair, white dress, and a hair ribbon. Then, the patient across the hall in the other private room started. He saw the same thing, but his little girl was accompanied by an old man in a bolwer hat.

Apparently our ghosts only show themselves to difficult or hard to like patients. Both of these 2 fit the bill.The descriptions are just what the nuns and older nurses say the ghosts looks like. Whenever I have this assignment, I now always sit at the main nurses' station instead of the little module right outside the rooms.

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