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…👀

But black eyes take about 6-8 hours to appear

Please, it's all bollocks. These are nursey stories passed down to scare nurses on night duty.
As well as the tradition of covering the picture, outlined in my previous posts, our hospital, as did most in the country apparently, had a nurse who gave a child the wrong meds accidentally on a night shift because she was tired, and now taps the shoulfer of any nurse about to make a drug error at night...
Bloody amazing how they only come out in the dark.. wonder how those ghosts in hospitals in the artic circle manage when it's permanantly light for 6 months...

An open one at that!

Alsp, don't take white lillies to anyone ill, they bring forward death apparently!

Verified numerous deaths, no ghost stories though.

Problbly a wiring issue in one of the plug sockets

Yes just recently, maternity ward at night (colleague explained what happened to her). Colleague nurse went into a room, mum was fast asleep in bed, but baby's cot was rocking side to side. When she went to stop the cot, she felt as if there was a force and struggled to stop it. She was well spooked by it! Nobody was too surprised as there are many stories about (friendly) ghosts on the ward 😅👻

It was the morphine. My mother saw children walking out of the wall and a various people with amputated limbs when on morphine

No one yet understands fully how the mind works, particularly after stress, trauma, drugs. It-s an amazing organ, but full of nasty tricks

@NQOCDarling I hope someone brings me white lilies when I'm on my deathbed! I don't want to linger in that state for too long!

There is a story I see posted often on these types of threads. About a nurse who was walking with a patient and they came to some doors on a ward, they saw in the reflection of the doors a woman with a drip tray and the nurse and patient went to let her through first but she wasn't there when they both actually looked. The nurse confirmed with the patient if they saw the woman too and both did.

They set off my hayfever, so I don't want to be bunged up and itchy-eyed during my death throes!

What nonsense ( nurse of 42 years).

Only one I have was a new patient entered a room, looked around and then politely asked for another room as “someone has just died in here”. With no other rooms available, she said “ that’s okay, I will pray for them.”

Im laying in the dark and getting creeped out
Will come back to this when its light 🫣🤪😂

Surely you can’t be that picky in a hospital. Everywhere will have had someone die.

I wonder whether it's because a little superstition is, in fact, a little kindness?
So sorry to hear about your father. Xx

Aww come on. I’m not intending for some to pursued me that ghosts are real - just to share their experiences and I am reading every post and thanking each poster. Pinkstars wrote a really long post which took some time so I made an effort to respond last night. I’m just catching up with posts this morning. I am equally moved by the poster who hasn’t seen a spooky sausage 😁

I wonder how many experiences of creaks and bumps can be attributed to old underfunded hospital buildings. And then couple this with tired nurses working through the night. Still, how can a toilet flush itself? 😳

Must have been terrifying! 😱

Yes, I think this is the explanation. My lovely mother in law was a nurse and had many stories, but as a woman of powerful Christian faith she always experienced them as benign.

Personally I found the stories and superstitions that pps said were passed through generations of nursing and each hospital had their own version fascinating and would love to hear more of that.

I did once have to escort someone in a very old hospital, he needed to get to ward C but ward A&B were shut due to illness. So I had to take client upstairs in the lift, along the upper corridor, down the lift again at the far end, and then down to A&B. Upstairs hadn’t been used for 40+ years but was still there. Dark, raining, winter. Porter came up with initially as I wasn’t familiar with the route, and turned on the lights for me and kept us company. When we got downstairs, dropped off patient, turned around and porter had buggered off leaving me to do return journey.

Hospital was built as a workhouse, used during the war for army etc and now just an extra hospital for very elderly. Upstairs was a very long corridor with lots of single rooms that were empty, and a few offices. Lifts were the horrible old clanky kind with iron gates.

Picture me all but running down that corridor, using phone as a torch. Got to the lift and thought no, I’m not getting in that alone, I’ll take the stairs. Got to stairwell and I’m not kidding, dozens of eyes looking back at me.

It was a f**g massive mural someone had painted to celebrate 100 years of this hospital. Christ alive I was almost in tears, mural was beautifully done but it was Victorian nurses, soldiers, etc etc.

Got back to my own workplace eventually and they were crying laughing.

Yes, probably, or the nurses just liked winding student nurses up. It was all just a bit of fun.

I wonder if folks that don’t experience anything are kind of closed off to the spirit world? That their scepticism prevents them experiencing anything?

😂🤣 This is something which would happen to me.

And then something ‘really’ spooky happens and no one believes me 😬

Not a nurse but I worked at a dentist which was in a 16th century former coaching inn. There was one room that nobody ever lingered in. It was incredibly cold all year round, like walking into a freezer. We used to race in, grab our packed lunches & leg it!