Every nurse has a ghost story

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That’s according to my guilty pleasure - Haunted Hospitals! Love watching this on a Saturday evening with my cat and way too much chocolate. So, come on nurses, is their opening statement true?

And if so, what happened…👀

I’m a retired nurse , did mainly nights for 30 yrs in a variety of different hospital settings , some old , some new, saw numerous deaths and have never seen a ghost . Sorry OP , I think it’s twaddle .

Nope.

I used to date a nurse, the only spirits they talked about was the type you drink on a big staff night out! Their particular work group loved to party when they could!

My mum is a retired nurse, started nursing 1970s retired 2016, no spooky stories! (But plenty of interesting medical ones!)

My MIL was a nurse and she said the nurses opened windows when someone died in hospital so that the spirit would not be trapped in hospital.

My parents were nurses and did the same.

My mum told me that on one of her night shifts at hospital , she was super tired.

In the middle of night, as she sat doing paperwork at the nurse's station, she began to gaze down the darkened corridor, and 'saw' a disembodied forearm, with a clenched fist, slooow-ly coming towards her down the hall.

She was terrified, tried to call out for help, but couldn't move a muscle to 'save' herself from this apparition coming at her.

The Sister came along, and 'snapped her out ' of her sleep.

She told my mum that she was suffering from a condition called, appropriately, "Night Nurses Paralysis".

I used to do night shifts in an old psychiatric hospital that only had 4 wards used (it was a big old hospital in the process of being shut down). There were so many bangs and noises over night. One job I used to do was be 'night supervisor' which meant going between the wards at night and it was super spooky. There were loads of stories but I didn't see anything.

I'm not a nurse, I'm a care assistant in a nursing home. Have worked in a few nursing homes over the last 14 years. Not sure I believe in ghosts, but I have had a couple of experiences where I think "well now....".

The first was years ago when I worked in a residential home which was basically a repurposed naval house in the South West. It's got three floors; basement floor, ground floor, first floor and then a flat above it for the owners. Anyway a call bell went off on the first floor while I was on the ground floor and closest to the stairs. This particular stair case has a door to go through to climb it, it is very narrow and only used by care staff really because it's really steep and not very nice. So I go through the door and as I look up, I see a little boy poking his head around the corner and then run away laughing. I heard his feet run away as well. But when I reach the top, there's nobody there. There's only 3 bedrooms with residents up there and only one other door to get back down to the first floor, apart from the one I've just come through. No little boy went downstairs. No visitors as that time either so it wasn't a relative. Who knows....

Second was in a different nursing home (this one used to be a house where young mothers were sent to have their babies years ago), about 5:30am after a nightshift, when I was in the sluice room getting the clinical waste bin to put outside. I had put the laundry roller basket in front of the open sluice door so I could put the yellow bag on top and roll it most of the way and also drop off laundry. So I bent down to do up the bag and I heard clear as day, right in my ear "excuse me love" in a man's voice. Immediately look up and of course there's nobody there. No men on that floor. Husband thinks I was just tired, I'm not so sure.

Third was just this week actually and far less interesting. My current place of work has been a cottage hospital/hospital for wounded soldiers and also had a morgue. I was on a corridor helping on the morning tea trolley and was making a cup of tea when I see in my peripheral vision, some one come out of a bathroom on one side of the corridor and walk straight into a bedroom opposite. The thing is, the bedroom is unoccupied and the door is closed tight. I did check the room, nobody there. What's that about?!

I know people will always say it's a trick of the mind, or you're tired etc but you can never be completely sure in my opinion. I do enjoy hearing experiences from fellow healthcare workers.

I've seen all sorts on night shifts in hospitals, nothing bothered me or scared me. Other nurses were very jumpy and used to send me to sort stuff out that was moved/moving/ bumps in the night /and who just went past? type situations

My dad died earlier this year and the paramedics did the same - every window in the room was wide open. I found it comforting but I can't say why really.

I did nights for many years and saw a few odd things. One night I was sitting at the nurses station and someone came out of the toilets at the end of the bay on my left and went intoo the office there by mistake. I jumped up to tell them they had gone the wrong way and when I got to the office there was no one there.

My Mum had died while I was preganat on the ward I went to work on after maternity leave, which was very hard. One night when the bed was empty the call bell kept going off on its own. I found it quite calming as I knew she was there with me. It happened a few times and always gave me a giggle.

Woah - now THIS is why I watch haunted hospitals! Thank you Pinkstars 👻

I've heard a ton of stories and walked around some very old hospitals at night but I've never heard or experienced anything.

I also open the window to let the souls out (and despite not really believing in anything I definitely think you can see if it has left!)

I used to work in a residential home. The building always had an odd feeling on the late shift and one wing felt off and cold. A few carers repeated the same story about washing up at the sink and hearing children playing on the floor behind them.

A new carer started and came back to the staff room in a state of panic after she too had heard the children and was beside herself when she found out that lots of other people had heard the same thing. It wasn't as if the noises were coming from the other room either one carer said that she turned around to tell the children to be quiet as they were playing too loudly. There were definitely NO children in the building! We always went into that room in twos afterwards.

Night shift in hospice. We used to bring a table out into the lobby area so we could see all the bays. Four of us sat around, very quiet. I heard a swishing noise like someone striding, you could hear the pyjamas rubbing as someone walked briskly. I sensed the direction it was coming from and looked up and then felt something brush by the left side of me. There was no-one there. I said to the others I could have sworn someone just walked past. Colleague who was quite tuned into spiritual things calmly said ' oh yes he's a regular he just walked from over there' and pointed to the direction where I had heard the swishing/ walking noise come from. Three out of four felt the presence. Loads of other stuff happened but that was the only time I've ever felt anything.

I work lots of night shifts in a Victorian prison... where hangings were commonplace

Patrolling the landings in my own in the dark I expect to see things but never do

I'm a nurse and have LOADS. I used to work in an old psychiatric hospital and by night it was scary as hell. I have a few that stand out. One Night myself and the nurses I worked with all had a feeling of dread. The ward phone in the nurses office starts ringing bringing us to our senses. We go to answer and pick it up. It continues to ring. Another night we get a patient up who is restless and she tells us the "children"have been upsetting her in her bed. We bring her into the lounge and hear a noise from her room. We all go to investigate and nothing to see. We go back to her and she's got a black eye and is still sat in her chair. We are all baffled and ask what's happened and she says the children did it for telling on them.

I'm getting a bit spooked reading these replies. Gona say a prayer and stop reading.

My mum was a nurse back in the 1970's.

She was working at an older psychiatric hospital.

She had a recurrent nightmare that one of the psychiatric patients had come down the back stairs into the kitchen, grabbed a knife and stabbed her in the chest.

But there were no back stairs, not in the kitchen.

Then one shift, workmen had been called to a leak and had to move a huge dresser in the kitchen. Behind it was the back stairs in her dream.

She handed in her notice and moved to a different hospital shortly after.

Not quite a ghost story but unnerving nonetheless.

Well I will be quite disappointed when my time comes to find I can’t go through walls and need to use the window.

been a nurse for 13 years working in the oldest hospital in Scotland and nope no ghost stories! I’m sure every nurse has a patient that has haunted them but not in the way you mean! Sorry OP

When I was a young student nurse we had a brand new hospital built on the site of an old asylum. There had been graves of the asylum patients that had been relocated during the build. There were so many spooky incidents in the new hospital that patients and staff complained about, including patients saying they had woken up feeling that they were being strangled! In the end a Catholic priest came in and performed what was basically an exorcism. No more issues after that.

Not a nurse but I work in a care home. The original building is from the 1960s and then in 2015 an extension was built. We have cctv cameras in all the communal corridors that have exits to the outside. The cctv monitor is in our staff room. We often see what looks like the lights sort of dimming and then going brighter again, but only in the old section. Exact same cctv system in both sections.

A few of us have seen a figure of a hooded man at the end of one of the corridors.

Often hear footsteps without there being anybody there.

There is one corridor that I get a weird feeling from. It's the only corridor that I hate going down when on a night shift. There are 2 residents rooms on that corridor and both rooms have had unexpected deaths in them. One was a lady who was reasonably fit and healthy, she was wheelchair bound due to having had a stroke a few years before. She was put to bed, perfectly healthy, and was found on the floor a few feet from her bed the next morning sadly deceased. Nobody knows how she got out or bed as she had bed rails up to stop her from falling out.

I could go on with stories!

I have always opened the window when someone passes away, to let their spirt go was taught to do so by the ward sister 30 plus years ago.

I worked in an old psychiatric hospital and have heard unexplained noises and bangs - found taps running in locked kitchens. Heard toilets flushing (no one was up or in the toilets) - has curtains move (no windows open), doors shut (heard not seen), lights flicker…. Not saying they are ghosts but they were unexplained.