Nurses tell the best ghost stories because they’re TRUE!

I have been a nurse for a very long time and I have plenty of scary stories of my home but these come from a Facebook group that I am in where people all over the place tell their own stories.

These come from hospitals, nursing homes, assisted-living‘s and anywhere else You might encounter the paranormal. The stories are great because they are true.

When you deal with life and death on an every day basis like most nurses do you inevitably experience somethings that can only be described as paranormal. There is definitely no explanation for them!

So join me as I share these stories with you. They should put you in the spooky season mood and just in time for Halloween. Enjoy!

[miapdx]

Patient here. .I was in the hospital having my second child and second c-section. It was a high risk pregnancy, and they had me come in the night before. In the morning, I became afraid. Very afraid. I began to go into shock. I knew that's what was happening because in my first pregnancy I went into shock from blood loss. I was shivering, and I couldn't move to hit the call button. Bur this nurse came in. She took my hand, like checking my pulse. She said, "you're afraid, aren't you." I could only nod, tears running down my cheeks. She asked if she could pray for me. I thought it strange that she wasn't doing anything medical. I wasn't a Christian at the time, but I would do anything...she prayed, and a warmth came over me. She smiled warmly and told me that I would be alright, that everything would be alright.
After I had my baby, I kept asking for that nurse. One day, two of them and their supervisor came to me. They asked to describe the encounter, and the nurse. When I was done they looked at each other. ..and told me that nurses hadn't worn those uniforms for decades. And there was no Carol on that floor.
I don't know who she was, but she came to me when no one knew I was in trouble and she took away my fear. I don't know if she was a ghost or an angel, but thank you Carol, whoever and wherever you are...

[motherofangels]

I worked as a CNA 25 years ago at a nursing & rehab facility in Oregon. There was a cat that belonged to a resident and it stayed in her room with her. It stayed in that room Unless someone on that wing was going to pass soon. It always managed to mysteriously escape, nobody the wiser until we would be doing rounds and would find mr. Kitty in one of the residents rooms either in their lap or next to them. If the resident was awake they were always pleased to have mr. Kitty for company and would be petting him and/or talking to him. All of the CNAs & Nurses that worked the same wing knew what a visit from Mr. Kitty meant. Sure enough, the resident always passed within the next 2 days.

[Katastrophe]

I spent some time as a CNA during the '90s. I was with an elderly pt preparing her for bed. I saw another pt down at the other end of the hall staring at me. Thinking she needed assistance, I held one finger up signaling I'd be with her in a minute. I hurriedly finished up what I was doing in the first pt's room and headed to the lady in the pink nightie with the long silver hair who'd been watching me from the hallway.

When I entered her room I noticed her empty bed. I went flying to the nurses station to tell the charge nurse the lady in the pink nightie was not in her room. I was informed that the lady with the long silver hair and pink nightie had died 10 minutes before I went to her room. Also, she had been bedridden and wouldn't have been in the hall. All these years later I remember every detail of that encounter.

[stevenbramschreiber]

The first time my wife went to rehab after getting out of the hospital, we had a room all to ourselves(uncommon there!!) I had seen the shadow of a man come up to the curtain we had going across the doorway and both of his shoes.. I went to go see who this person was and there was no one there....One of the RN's heard me talking to my wife about it and she said that's she's seen the same thing more than once in that room...Thanked me for validating what she saw!!

[adambloodsong]

Hi. My name is Jacob. I work for a small coffee kart called java joy. I have a huge respect for nurses. Anyone who is in the medical field have very stressful jobs and I let them know how much they are loved.

[vladvampirelord]

When I was born, my mother was a bit overcome by things and very upset that night. She said a nurse with an English accent spoke and comforted her all night. In the morning when my mother awoke she said she wanted to thank the nurse with the English accent who stayed with her all night. The staff insisted that nobody employed at the hospital had an English accent.

[Norsok]

To all of the caregivers, you play such an important role all round. Be you all blessed for all you do

[barberfamily]

When my mother was dying, she lived with my younger sister. She and I took care of her for a few weeks before. As I walked through the house I would see shadows from the corner of my eye in the rooms. One night I felt like someone was in the room with us as we sat next to my mother hospital bed set up in the living room. So, we put music on and turned off the lights with one candle burning. It was very calm no a/c, no heat, no windows open. I felt like I needed to verify that my feeling of someone in the room with the three of us was real. In my thoughts I said if you are here waiting to take my mother, let me know by putting the candle out. I looked at my sister and said, someone is here “ watch the candle”. Puff, candle went out. She was so scared she almost jumped on my head. From that moment on I was calm and when my Mom’s breathing stopped I felt a relief, No more pain, she looked peaceful.

[viperchic]

I was in the hospital room when my mom passed. She was on life support and I was just stepping back into her room when a mist cloud lifted from her bed and floated right between my husband and I and then out of the room. She was disconnected from machines minutes later and was pronounced dead. My husband didn't see it.

[lisadavis]

I was a hospice nurse. It makes you believe in the hereafter. My most profound experience though was when my brother was on hospice. The nurse gave him Thorazine instead of Ativan for sedation (because he kept getting up to go somewhere), and it completely knocked him out. I knew he was pretty close to the end, and told my sister in law when his breathing changed that he was about to die. My family was sitting or standing around his bed and his eyes suddenly opened up and he looked his wife in the eye, then he looked me in the eye, then my sister and then my other brother. Then he looked over my brother's head and he saw something that shocked him (based on his facial expression) and then he died right at that moment. We feel he was telling us goodbye, and I believe it was my mother who came to get him. I don't know that he believed in an afterlife until that moment, even though we were raised Catholic. He was pretty cynical about it. A year later, we had a party for him. We wrote messages on white balloons and released them. Then, out of a clear blue sky, it began to rain :, warm gentle rain. Not a cloud in the sky.

I am not cynical at all about an afterlife. Too many things like that have happened. One patient was telling me she had her ticket and was leaving on the train soon. She wanted to know if I would be coming with her. I told her I couldn't, that I would be taking a train later on. She died that night. I don't believe any of this is paranormal. I believe it is normal but unexplained by science. Other cultures who are closer to death saw these things all the time, that is why they worshipped or venerated their ancestors. It isn't frightening to me, it just is and proves we are very spiritual beings.

[Jess-gczg]

As an ex nurse i have had so many experiences, but the most unsaine one was someone elses story.
One of the nurse practitioners got called to a cardiac arrest. She ran through the hospital and up the stairs, she passed a patient walking down the stairs she said hi and carried on running up. When she got to the arrested patient, it was the lady she passed in the stairs!

[sheliarangel]

I had a patient that was comatose. One night I heard screaming from her room. I ran to see what was happening. She was trashing and fighting. Just minutes later she died. When I informed her daughter she said "Mama saw hell for what she did to us" It chilled me to the bone. That has been forty years ago.

[bethswanson]

I was a neonatal nurse at a hospital where the L&D was down the back hall for us from the nursery. The night nurses heard faucets turn on, flushed toilets, doors & curtains opened or closed without human hand in unoccupied rooms. As I entered the hallway to do my usual emergency cart & warmer checks myself since this night the labor area was empty- only the basic lighting was on. I started to walk down to the hall & saw a shadow move across the nurses station out to the hall & move to one of our L&D rooms. After realizing I really did see this, I walked into that room. The oxygen had been left on from the previous delivery earlier and in the day & was empty, so I connected a full O2 tank & finished my checks. Later that night when it was now busy in the labor area, I attended a premature birth in that room. Needless to say that shadow saved that baby’s life!! I felt different about it our ‘ghost’ after that!

[CGH]

I remember a friend of mine who was working a night shift with me at our hospital and one of her patients died just after midnight. Things got a little crazy afterwards when the woman’s spirit was causing quite a stir in her room after dying. The charge nurse had previous experience with this situation and had to come to my friends rescue. She explained that some folks don’t accept they have died and are desperately trying to re- enter their body in a panic. The charge nurse was able to spend about 40 minutes in the patients room to get it resolved. We could hear her audibly talking to the deceased patient - explaining it was time to leave in peace. I found it so fascinating!!! RN

[LucidityMe]

I worked as a CNA at a nursing home. At one time it was run by the church and kept tuberculosis patients during the 40's. I had several residents who saw children. One lady asked me if my daughter was ok. I told her that I don't have a daughter. She claimed a little girl came into her room during the night. I would have shrugged it off, but several other residents claimed they saw children as well. One said a little girl kept jumping on her bed. We had a lot of creepy things happen while I was there. Call buttons going off in rooms where patients had passed a few days before, footsteps, shadows, doors slamming, and more.

[jacquelinejacobson]

I'm a retired ICU RN. I've had 2 spooky experiences in my career. One time my pt had coded and died. We wrapped him, put a sheet over him while waiting for the gurney to take him to the morgue. The lights were turned off in his room and the curtain pulled. I was alone in the room with his body cataloging his belongings when, from the corner of the ceiling, I heard a male voice call my name. Needless to say I finished cataloging his belongings at the nurses desk!
The other incident happened at 3AM when I was sitting on a chair in the hallway charting . I heard a sudden loud voice right next to my ear yell my name into my ear! It was such a shock that I fell off the chair.

[gerryramirez]

I worked at a hospital in Metro Detroit back in the early nineties, and in fact, worked the night shift. We had many weird and inexplicable things happen at weekends hours of the night. One that I recall vividly, I had just taken vitals of my patients, and was charting them in the patient’s charts on the counter of the nurse’s station. Suddenly, I hear a loud gasp and when I looked up, I saw the phone receiver dangling in mid air by unseen hands, then suddenly fall onto the base of the phone. I immediately walked towards the phone, and when I did, I felt a quick blast of cold air seemingly whoosh past me. Everyone who was tired and sleepy was wide awake! This hospital is notorious for bizarre and unusual paranormal activity!

[kymmoore]

I remember a story of a relief nurse who used to pick up shifts here and there and got rostered to work the night shift in this ward. Whilst there she would distinctly hear someone walking around but would find nobody when she checked. She then saw a dark apparition pass through a door right in front of her.

She later found out that those shifts were always available because nobody at the hospital wanted to work in that ward at night.

[James-xfv]

I worked at a very old psych hospital. In 15yrs I’ve seen, felt, smelled things that I couldn’t explain. I love hearing these stories. Anybody curious about mine I’m happy to share.

[Msfeathers]

I am an ICU nurse and we have a white nun who visits patients. She stands by their bed, When they say something or ask her for something she mean laughs at them and disappears. We get complaints about her. She has been around for years and she seems to visit all parts of the hospital.. A friend works in a hospital and they don't use a certain stair way. There is a woman ghost who lives there.