Paranormal experiences are not very unusual for hospital workers. In this article, nurses, doctors, emergency medical technicians, and other health workers share paranormal stories they never thought they would experience at work.
1. One last meal
I worked as an ER nurse. I had an old lady come in by ambulance, near death. She was a DNR, so we weren't going to do much for her. She didn't have any family that we could find. The hospital was full, so we had to keep her in the ER for the night.
Again, she was near death. When you've seen enough people die, there's no mistaking it, and she was almost there. Barely responsive; pale, cool, breaths were really irregular. Her heart rate was up and down, too.
We just turned the lights down and kept an eye on her monitor, basically waiting for her to die.
About an hour later, she's standing at the door of her room. She'd gotten up and put on all her clothes. We were all surprised. One of the nurses went to check on her, and she said she was hungry.
Not knowing really what to make of things, we got her a chair, and a bedside table, and went to the cafeteria and got her a tray of food.
The lady sat there, ate all her food, and talked with the staff a little. After about an hour, she told her nurse she was tired and wanted to lie back down. We helped her back into bed, and within 30 minutes she was dead.
In 22 years in busy, inner-city ERs, it's the weirdest thing I've seen.
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2. The visit at night
I used to work in a skilled nursing facility. I was usually assigned to the Alzheimer's ward. One night I was in the linen room stocking my cart, and I heard someone shuffle up behind me, then I felt a hand on my shoulder.
I turned around and there was no one else in the room. The door was still shut too.
Another lady started to complain that a man was coming into her room at night (again, Alzheimer's so I didn't think much of it) so to reassure her, I told her I'd check on her throughout the night.
She complained about this man every night for 2 more weeks. Then I asked her to describe him to me.
"He's real handsome and wears a black suit. Oh. He's right behind you now, honey."
That freaked me out. Of course, there was no one behind me. She died the next night in her sleep.
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3. Loose pipes at the morgue
In the morgue at my hospital, I would always hear knocking coming from inside the freezer. It really creeped me out, especially when the pathologist looked up, grabbed me by the shoulders, stared me straight in the eye, and said something that kept me afraid.
He said to me "You hear that? You never open that door when they're knocking. Never." It turned out to be some loose pipes. He thought it was hilarious but I didn't sleep that night.
eaturliver
4. Hallucinations
Some years ago we treated patients during a fungal meningitis outbreak. Our acute care floor has a census of 20. During this, at least 10-15 were meningitis patients, ages ranging from twenties to nineties.
There were no shared rooms and all the patients were in isolation, with no contact with one another. Many of them had the same hallucinations, children in the corners of their rooms and auditory hallucinations of religious music.
RN_Waitress
5. Memory care
I did my clinical as a CNA in a memory care unit. I helped feed this woman. She never really moved. Never talked. It was like she was in a coma or something.
I would wheel her into the dining room. I can hardly get any real food in her. I'm able to slide in some special ice cream. For days she doesn't move or have any response.
I'm feeding her and talking to myself pretty much. After about ten minutes she slowly turns her head and says "Oh hello." Then she rotates her head back to her blank staring position.
It was super creepy.
SoberHungry
6. The last goodbye
When I was a student, I got called in on a stroke patient. She had coded and they were doing CPR. They worked for 45 minutes, but she died. They cleaned her up and called on the family to say goodbye.
By the time the family left. She had been both brain-dead and without a pulse for more than 45 minutes.
Blood had filled her brain, and she was completely grey and started to smell. Suddenly, She sat up and called for her family.
The nurses rushed to get monitors and equipment back on her. Started working on her again, and she stabilized, said goodbye to her family, and promptly died a second time.
simplesimon6262
7. Alarm on the door
I used to work in a personal care home. A couple of times, a day or so after a resident had passed, their call bell would go off in their room.
No one was in the room when the call bell went off on any of the occasions. We had one resident die pretty traumatically.
The nurses had to perform CPR because he was a full code. That night, the midnight staff said they saw him at the end of the hall just walking down like he always did.
Then, the alarm on the door to the outside (it was a secured unit for Alzheimer's/dementia) went off. It was the door he always tried when he was looking to get out.
samster338
8. Robert Diaz
I had an older patient who kept every piece of paper from every hospital stay. His heart was in bad shape so I was desperately looking for anything to help our cardiologists out. I finally found his records from when he had heart surgery.
It was in Perris, CA in the 1980's. I was just reading a book about nurses who became serial killers, when sure enough I saw records with the name Robert Diaz. I was the nurse for a man whose former nurse was a serial killer.
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9. No one cleans the old ER
My town has two really old hospitals. One no longer functions as overnight, and the stories are unsettling. No one cleans the old ER alone, because all the lights and call bells go off. On other floors, there's a kid with his ball, a lady in a white dress, etc.
A coworker was cleaning an entire floor utterly solo (the norm) and bounced between rooms because the cleaning solution stayed wet for a few min. Upon returning to a freshly wiped bed, handprints were clearly visible.
Sapphire_Starr
10. Well-known patient
This patient passed away during my shift. She was well-known and liked in the ward. At handover that evening. I mentioned the patient had passed away..the door to the handover room (which I had closed) opened and shut just as I mentioned she had passed away.
She was totally saying goodbye.
Later that month on nights we were chatting about the said patient at the nurses' station. Weirdly a card that was pinned on a noticeboard fell just as we started talking about her. Went to pick it up.
It was a card from the patient's family saying thanks for caring for their parent.
Mogwa
11. Lights on
I was pulling a guard shift in the CHS on FOB Speicher one night in Iraq. There hadn't been any action for the whole previous week so the staff was all racked out.
I was walking the halls and everything was supposed to be off or on standby. I walked passed one room that they used for Locals who were victims of trauma.
The lights were on so I toggled the switch down to turn them off. I started walking down the hall again and I saw the lights come back on out of the corner of my eye.
This is when I went into alert mode. [safety off, at low-ready] I cleared the corner and looked into the room. Nothing.
I put the switch back in the down position again and went to call it up on the icom. The radio was on the fritz. So I began walking back to the CQ desk to report it in person. The lights turned back on. At this point, I'm a little on edge.
I can't radio in for help, there is nobody on this side of the compound who would hear me yell, and the light switch position keeps changing when the lights go back on.
I don't know what I was expecting when I went to clear the corner and look into the room again, but I saw nothing but an empty room, a gurney, a heart monitor, and a crash cart.
I couldn't tell you to this day why I said what I did, but I was worried that if I didn't, the lights would keep switching back on. I said, "If you're scared of the dark, I'll leave the light on for you."
I finished my shift and left the light on. I left a note with the desk that one of the surgeons had asked me to always leave that light on just in case they had an emergency come in. For the remainder of my shifts, that light had always remained on.
roh8880
12. Traumatic brain injury
I work as an EMT. There was an elderly male who had fallen and hit his head a few hours before they called for an ambulance. He had all of the signs of a traumatic brain injury. All of his responses to our questions to this point were nonsensical.
We were about four minutes from the hospital when we tried talking to him again, and he seemed to come as clear as day and open his eyes and stare at us to say;
"I'm dead." My partner tries to say "Oh, don't say that" and he stares more intensely at us to reiterate and say "No, I mean it, I'm dead."
He died an hour later.
DicNavis
13. Restless spirit
I am a nurse here. One day, I was working the night shift when a ward patient's relative came running to the nurses' station in a panic.
"Nurse! Come quick!", she cried.
"What happened?"
"You have to see it for yourself!"
I ran to the ward when this little old lady patient was crying and holding on to the bed for dear life. Her bed was shaking.
Now, you're probably thinking that the lady was the one causing all that shaking.
But she was this frail, practically emaciated thing. She couldn't have barely rattled the bed rails.
The ward had only two other patients and their respective watchers. Everyone was huddled in a corner, shaking in fright.
Apparently, that particular ward was seldom used, and the bed that old lady lay in was rarely occupied. People who have laid in it complained of nightmares where they hear screams and laughter of angry children.
I guess some restless spirit called dibs on that particular bed.
joowulz
14. Mimicking the whistling
I worked at a hospital doing transport for a couple of years. The transport home base was in the basement of the hospital, where all the laundry was done and supplies were also sorted there. I hated working late nights after this incident.
On this particular night, I was the only one in the basement when I heard whistling at the end of the hallway by the elevator. I poked my head around the corner expecting to see my only coworker on duty that night, but there was absolutely no one there.
I shrugged it off, I'm not easily spooked.
Nights are slow, so I ate some snacks and hung out in the break room for a bit. The next thing I know, I hear a loud bang. I walked into the hallway and a bed was rolling down the hall bumping into the sides.
At this point, I think that my coworker is bullshitting me. I radio him and he says he's upstairs in the cafeteria.
I still don't believe him and think I'll catch him in the act. I walk past the laundry room and the machines start. Pop my head in there expecting to find him but it's empty.
I was starting to get a little nervous. I walk into the laundry room, and the machines completely stop.
I freeze, then run out and head towards the elevator when I hear whistling again. At this point, I know I am the only worker in the basement. As I am standing there waiting for the elevator, things start falling off of the shelves down the hall. Boxes of gloves, tissues, packages of tubes.
I am standing there watching them fall off one by one at the opposite end of the hallway. My entire body broke out in goosebumps, my hair stood on end and I had this strong gut feeling I was being watched, I was not alone.
As I'm getting into the elevator, I feel what feels like someone brushing my arm.
I went upstairs and found my coworker in the cafeteria. I freaked out to him. I got out of there and transferred soon after that.
The creepy thing to add to it is that I usually whistle mindlessly to myself at work, it was almost as if the spirit was mimicking me.
Creepiest feeling ever.
AirportFriendlyShoes
15. Scare the patient back to life
A patient comes in coding and we are working on him and we are getting nothing. So we bring in his wife to say goodbye and she starts yelling at him at the top of her lungs and he comes back.
We then arranged transfer to a tertiary hospital and he codes again so she came back and yelled at him again and came back again, cut to they were loading him into the helicopter and he codes again.
So they brought him back into our ER after working on him for a bit on the helipad and his wife yells at him again and once again he immediately comes back.
Eventually, they decide to have his wife ride in the helicopter with him to make sure she can scare him back to life if he were to code again.
The guy ended up living and received a heart transplant and is still alive to this day all thanks to his wife scaring the life back into him.
feng_gui
16. Opened doors
I worked overnight security in one of the largest, best, and oldest hospitals in the US. My fellow security officers and I all have stories about one building in particular, but the one that I'll tell is the one that happened to me.
The building was built in the late 1800s, it was the original psychiatric building for this hospital. Now being the late 1800s, not much was truly known about psychiatric disorders. On top of that, this hospital was known for its medical research.
With both of those facts combined, you can infer that some terrible thing was done to one of these misunderstood psych patients in this building.
A couple of years before I started working security there, this building had been converted into offices after the newly built part of the hospital dedicated a section for an updated psych ward.
My rounds for that night happened to include said building. At night this building was empty, due to recently being converted into offices and the drones who worked there wanting to leave promptly at 1700, if not earlier.
In some of their haste, they left their office doors unlocked, which is a big no-no due to medical information being located in their offices. It was our duty to go to each floor, and make sure every door was locked, and if it wasn't, to secure it ourselves.
I did my initial sweep of the building to make sure it was clear (nobody was in the building), and proceeded to do my door checks. The hallways were pretty narrow, so I could check both sides of the hallway's doors at once.
At the end of this hallway, there were two sets of doors you had to go through to reach the final office, which was a dead end.
Everything was secure. Awesome. Time for the next floor. I exited the two sets of doors from the dead-end office and stood absolution frozen from what I saw.
Every door ajar. Set perfectly so their own weight wouldn't cause them to shut again. And one wheelchair, at the end of said hallway, facing towards the steps.
I had heard other security officers outright reject that set of rounds due to strange stuff happening there, but I laughed it off until that night happened. Never took those rounds again.
Where_is_my_Whiskey
17. The white man in a hospital gown
I am a psychiatric nurse. I worked in an acute care adult unit but was sent to work with the kids one evening shift. It was after 10 p.m., all patients were in their rooms and in bed.
I heard a child screaming and a psych tech trying to calm him. I ran to the room, the 7-year-old boy was hysterical. He was crying, sweating, and shaking.
He said he saw 'something'. After he settled down, he told me that he saw a white man with gray hair in a hospital gown in his room.
While we discussed what he saw, the child froze in fear, tears rolling down his face and he said "Ms, be still. Oh my God, he's right behind you."
We decided to address 'the man' and tell him that the little boy was scared. The boy said the man turned around and left after that.
The only thing anyone in the unit would have heard was the boy screaming at the beginning...all other discussion was in his room and quiet.
Not even 3 minutes later, a 17-year-old male at the end of the hall started screaming. I ran to his room...he was standing on his bed trying to get away from a white man in a hospital gown.
whoawhoawhoathere
18. Mannequin
I saw a mannequin blink.
This was when I was still training to be a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) at our local community college. Now, we had these regular non-horrifying mannequins we used for all the dressing, bathing, and bed-making practices.
They even had attachments for catheters.
But we didn't store all the equipment in the classroom, there was a small backroom that was locked off that we had to get some stuff out of one day.
I volunteered to go grab it (some clothes for the mannequins I think), and when I unlocked the door it was pitch black inside. It was like the room sucked out some of the light coming in the room.
When I flicked on the ceiling light, before me on a ragged old stretcher, lay the most inhuman, terrifying-looking mannequin I have ever seen.
I don't know what these manufacturers use for a reference when they're making the face, but they can't be human. It was so twisted and looked like it was in agony.
This thing looked like it was in pain. Very creepy. Anyway, I grabbed the stuff our teacher wanted, and when I took a look back, I could see one of its plastic eyelids close, and open. It freaked me out and didn't go in that room again for the rest of the course.
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19. The loud voice
I had a patient one time who was essentially a vegetable. I like to talk to my patients like this because I was always taught that hearing was the last to go. Anyway, I was leaving the room and said, "Okay, Ms. X, I'll be back in a few minutes to start your tube feed."
I was about to open the door and walk out when I heard distinctively, "Oh thank you, Dear." I froze.
After a few seconds, I whipped around to look at her. It was so clear and loud that I searched the room for a visitor.
There was no one there and the door was closed. I have no idea where the voice came from but it was there. Never heard it again. She was eventually transferred.
hollyrey0
20. Hot water bidet from the old nurse
I worked as an Emergency Room Porter/Attendant before med school and one night one of the security guards came bolting down the hallway telling everyone not to use the taps.
Of course, a nurse was right in the middle of washing her hands so she freaks out, flinging her hands in the air thinking the taps were poisoned or something.
I'm not sure what her reasoning was but I digress. The security guard asked her if the water was really hot but she replied that it was only lukewarm at best.
What had happened was he was taking a dump up on the 3rd floor and was splashed in the buttocks with boiling hot water. His first assumption was a boiler malfunction followed closely by a fire in the walls boiling the water in the pipes.
The security team brought in the fire department just in case and they did all kinds of systems checks with the water shut off. Nothing. No fire. No other hot water except in his one magical ghost-infested throne on the 3rd floor.
The older staff always claimed that the Ambulatory Care unit was haunted by a ghost named Winnie, an old nurse who died while at work and the toilet the guard was on happened to be directly above the unit, albeit 2 floors up.
I'll never forget how freaked out he looked thinking he was splashed on the butt by an old nurse lady ghost.
Panencephalitis
21. Are hospital ghosts real?
CNA here, have been working night shift at hospitals for 7 years now and I have quite a few stories. I came into work one night and Jen, one of the nurses, told me and my other coworker Jay the creepiest thing happened a few hours earlier.
A patient had passed in one of the rooms abruptly.
The room was cleaned and was quickly occupied by another patient who had coded and was pronounced dead but was resuscitated.
Soon after being admitted to his room he complained to the nurse, "I can't be in here. This man won't stop looking at me. He's really worried about his dog. His dog doesn't know that he's dead." She had assumed he was just seeing things and said, "Oh yeah? What does he look like?" He described the deceased patient perfectly.
I could see the chills running down her spine as she was telling us her story. Turns out the man did have a dog as well. The new admit was moved to another room.
Jay said, "I don't believe in ghosts. Those aren't real. I wanna see it. Tonight I'm gonna provoke it so it can show itself." 3 AM rolls around and all 3 of us are at the nursing station.
Jay starts playing YouTube videos of various puppy sounds. Soon after two lift team guys come up, we forget what we're doing and start another conversation.
Suddenly, we all hear it, except for Jay. A dog barked. In the same room. Loudly, clear as ever. The lift team guys say, "Does someone have a dog in here?" Jen and I simultaneously shit ourselves.
mamabrains
22. Is he really talking to himself?
I work on a pediatric bone marrow transplant unit, and sadly we have a lot of kids that pass. Our kids stay here for longer periods of time (usually 1-6 months just inpatient) so we have to rotate them to different rooms to make sure everything is clean.
One particular 3-year-old boy doesn't have family come visit. He never really communicates with staff and would only occasionally chatter to himself.
We moved him to a room where a little girl had recently passed and we started noticing him talking to different places in the room and staring/nodding when alone.
Then he started saying new English words though he hadn't had an increase in visitors.
My coworkers are convinced he's talking to the little girl who died there, and though I'm a pretty skeptical person, I still get the creeps when I walk by and see him talking to himself.
ladybirdc
23. The guy I couldn’t find
I work in a level 1 trauma center receiving for 11 counties (implying a fair amount of carnage routinely). One morning between 3 and 4 a.m. I was alone in the bay (we have 4 trauma bays and 2 restrooms in a rectangle surrounding a nursing station) catching up on documentation.
I became aware of a man walking from behind me on my right, outside the nursing station and into one of the trauma rooms. Except I hadn't heard any doors open (big noisy motion motion-activated doors).
He looked at me over his shoulder as he walked through the room doors, but didn't answer when I called out, "Hello?"
I walked around (losing sight of the bay door as I rounded a big column) to make sure it wasn't a lost visitor and there was no one there. There's no way out other than the door, and it was out of my sight line for maybe a second max.
I later related the story and the heebie-jeebies I felt while I was looking for the strange dude to another nurse. She said she'd had an identical experience that same week.
People bring it up from time to time, same story. A guy walks into the room, and then is gone by the time you go look for him.
We've decided to just leave him alone. I hope he finds what he's looking for though.
cheska_fringer
24. Spooky Cat
I worked in a hospital as a CNA for over two years. Every time a patient would mention having a dream about a cat, they would code within 24 hours. And this was not a hospital where people coded particularly often.
I actually got into an argument with a doctor about it once, the SWAT nurse had mentioned that a patient had dreamed about a cat so he was going to keep a closer eye on him.
The doctor (we weren't even talking to him!) dismissed it, then told us that he was the doctor and he said it was completely impossible, so don't even talk about it anymore.
I told him I hadn't known that his MD had come with a degree in paranormal psychology. He didn't take too kindly to that.
Anyway, I don't know if it's paranormal, or if maybe we just have a social/cultural awareness of cats as omens, so our subconscious brings them to the forefront when something is going wrong.
And if you were wondering, the patient mentioned above coded and died later that evening. Spooky.
catiefsm
25. Hallucinations or reality
I was working a night shift, looking after one patient who needed supervision due to his hallucinations.
This patient had a routine where he would like to go out for a cigarette every hour, I took him out on a wheelchair for a cigarette which seemed to increase his hallucinations. I had been taking this patient out multiple times during the night.
At around midnight, I took him outside, for his last cigarette before going to sleep.
Once we were outside, He asked me if I could see a small ginger boy trying to get out of the locked cafe in front of us.
I said no as I did with all of his hallucinations, this seemed to help reduce the length of time they appeared.
He then informed me he could see a man and a dog running towards us, this was the dead of night with no one around in the hospital, there was no man or dog.
However, when the automatic doors 50m behind us opened with no one in sight, I was no longer sure if they were just hallucinations. I moved us back to the ward very quickly after that.
DeeepPeanut
26. Purple scrubs
I worked for a short time as an EMT who spent most of my time with transfers. I had a regular who was an older woman that I took to a dialysis center across town frequently.
One day she was being moved and I was in the back with her. She looked under the weather so I asked what was wrong and she said a man in purple had been visiting her.
I asked if he was a relative or a technician and she shook her head. She said the man would sit next to her during dialysis and stroke her hair.
Thinking this was strange I asked the center techs about such a person and no one had seen or remembered such a person. Visitors weren't really a thing at this center anyway so I assumed the patient was imagining it.
Well, one day we're actually heading to pick her up and on the way into the parking lot I see through the window something that chills my heart to think about. It sent shivers up my spine at the time too like I immediately recognized it.
I saw a man in purple scrubs standing in one of the big windows watching us drive in, and when we pulled out of sight to go to the pickup door we walked into a bunch of techs rushing to my transfer patient.
The woman had just suffered a heart attack, and we were unable to revive her even at the hospital she was rushed to.
None of the techs in that place wore purple scrubs.
Come_In_Me_Bro
27. Hallucination after nose surgery
This one was a few years ago, I was new at the job and I had this patient that had a nose surgery a few hours prior. He had a hematoma around his eyes and a huge dressing under his nose that wrapped all the way around his head.
My coworkers had told me that he hallucinated sometimes.
Now, the hospital I work at is pretty old and the hallways look like some horror movie. I walk down the dark hallway at 2 a.m. and suddenly feel like I'm being watched.
I turn around and there he is, staring at me, head slightly tilted to the side, wearing nothing but that creepy hospital gown.
I ask him if he's okay and he just goes "..no..." I ask him what's wrong and he says "My room is full of people and they won't let me sleep." He had a room to himself. Needless to say, I turned on every light in the nurse's room that night.
Therealyoungnurse
28. Geriatric unit
The hospital I used to work at had a geriatric unit. One night I floated to help out and was told that all patients placed in a certain room at the end of the hall would have the same "hallucinations" of a tall man in a suit, and another of a baby in a baby carriage sitting outside the room.
On my unit, a general med/surg unit, a patient had passed in a room the previous evening and was now empty.
The call light for that room kept going off all night, even after unplugging it from the wall until finally we went in the room and said "Can I help you?".
My unit was shaped like a plus sign (+), with the nurse station at the center. One of the wings was blocked off by double doors because it had been redone as a GI clinic where you would go to get a colonoscopy done and such.
On that same med/surg unit on the night shift, we heard a loud knocking coming from those double doors as if someone were locked out and trying to get to the nurses' station.
One of my coworkers walked over and saw nobody on the other side of that door, all the lights were turned off. It kept happening, bang bang bang. We even called the security guard up to investigate because we were so spooked, but there was nobody there.
Sometimes I'd have to go through the empty GI clinic as a quick way to get to another elevator or area of the hospital, and occasionally I would walk into strong "clouds" of perfume in the empty vacant hallway, which nobody would have walked through for some time.
Spooked me every time it happened.
Calethe
29. I should have been touched
I worked as an ER tech and one patient came in for an MI. I was only a tech so I did the basic thing, like attach her to an EKG machine and be on standby for chest compressions in case it was a long code and I needed to rotate in.
So basically I stood to the side as the doctors and nurses were working their magic, and then all of a sudden she woke up. But the look on her face was a horror...she looked around at all of them and just shrieked.
Shrieked like there were monsters gathered around her. One of the nurses tried to explain who they were and where she was.
It's understandable to be confused after such a traumatizing event but I'm telling you she tried to jump from that stretcher like her life depended on it. Then out of nowhere, she was gone again.
The doctors and nurses went at it again, and a few minutes later she came to. This was the freakiest part to me...she looked over to me, looked me straight in the eye, and pointed.
She says, "It was you! There was a light and I saw you. Thank you so much, thank you thank you."
I know I should've been touched, but I had chills it freaked me out so much. It was like she had died and gone to hell, saw us as some kind of devil (when she first got revived), died again, was about to head into the light, saw my face out of everyone else's, and then was revived again.
Thinking about her shriek still gets me to this day. And I still don't know how or why it was me she saw.
Lologee
30. Change of condition
I worked in an SNF for a little over 2 years as an LVN, some strange things that were too odd to be just coincidence were that the residents that were close to passing or not in good shape or recovery would always, and I mean always, would complain about children in their room making too much noise.
As soon as a patient started complaining it was always expected nurses keep a close eye on them because like clockwork a few days later or even a couple of weeks, those patients would pass.
There are instances where some CNAs would see children in the facility late at night, next morning a resident expires.
In another instance, I had to write up a change of condition because late at night a patient who's usually alert and oriented x 3 became extremely hysterical.
I asked the patient what was wrong and she said there was an older woman crawling on the floor towards her bed.
Because this is an unlikely occurrence, we have to let the doctor know that the resident might need some tests done such as U/A to rule out UTIs and other infections that can cause confusion.
It was eerie charting "Resident states women crawling on the floor towards her..."
footie1111
31. Ghost of a former nurse
I now work for a hospital in the Twin Cities Metro area. On the third floor, there is a room that is haunted by the ghost of a former nurse. She appears in a white skirt and cap. As far as I have been told, she sometimes does not have a face.
She appears most often when there is a male patient who mistreats the nursing staff, usually in a misogynistic way. She has also been known to appear when the patient is a woman who is undergoing a mastectomy.
She is only seen at night, and as of now, I have yet to see her.
But I think I have felt her, and seen her handiwork as I have been in the room and it has gotten in usually cold or has ambulated that room's patient in the middle of the night and come back to find the bed pristenely made up and, when asked, no one has taken credit for making the bed, nor even ventured down that hall.
Patients have been woken up and startled by her. The TV has been turned on and off, the call light will go off sometimes when the room is empty, promptly at 0317. Just lots of weird things about that room.
mwolf805
32. Request for extra chairs
As a former 3rd shift nursing home CNA (mostly hospice) we would get strange requests from the residents. One of the more common requests would be for extra chairs in the room so their guests could sit. (they would be alone with me in the room)
One lady wanted me to tell her husband to stop sitting on her legs because it hurt. He had already passed. My thoughts on it were the departed loved ones knew they were close, so they were there to guide them to where they needed to go when they crossed over.
JR004
33. The son was 2 minutes away
I'm an ICU nurse. A patient's son rang the hospital at 11 p.m. on a Saturday night saying he was sure his dad was dying. His dad had had a severe stroke and was doing okay, recovery would be difficult but he wasn't expected to die and was pretty stable at the time.
I was looking after him and he was a lot of work because he would try to get up but couldn't walk so he'd fallen a lot. The son really wanted to come in, even though it's way past visiting hours, but you know I'll bend the rules for a good cause.
I figured what the heck it's his Saturday night, come on in and sit with your dad.
The patient died about 2 minutes before the son walked in the door. It was like a switch was turned off, he just died. The last thing he said to me was "Am I bothering anyone?"
I told him of course not, even though he had some very frustrating behavior because of the stroke. The son just started crying and screaming "I knew it!". How the heck did he know, we were all a bit freaked out.
penguintummy
34. Maybe it wasn’t her time
I am a nurse in a hospital and my patient was a well-known card reader in town (not too unheard of in Louisiana). I had actually gone to her about 10 years prior and she was eerily accurate.
While caring for her for a few days I walk into her room and she is unresponsive. She had been very lethargic all day but now she was out.
Her daughter is at the bedside and is trying to wake her up.
I sternal rub her and inflict pain with no response and a very thready pulse. I call a rapid response.
This woman then wakes up randomly and is full of energy within a 30-second span. She told me she was dead and watching me in the room the whole time.
She knew exactly what happened. She said God told her it wasn't her time and sent her back. She went home a couple of days later and she is still doing card readings. She was in her late 80s.
Easy-Growth
35. The hallway I never used again
I worked in a pediatric hospital and had always heard that the fourth floor right outside our oncology unit was haunted.
I worked three twelves normally but would pick up overtime and picked up a night shift. I was working in the NICU which happened to also be on the fourth floor but on the opposite side.
The oncology unit had a staircase that was a shortcut down to the cafeteria which was on the second floor. At about 3 am I was ready to take a short break and wanted a cup of coffee from the cafeteria so I decided to take that staircase.
I walked through the automatic double doors and saw a kid skipping down the hall.
I called out to him as I was afraid a little kid had snuck out of a patient room. As soon as I called out to him he turned and in the blink of an eye totally vanished.
A lot of other nurses and docs had seen the same little kid skipping in that same hallway. Of course, I chalked it up to exhaustion and didn’t think about it much after that.
But you are damn sure I didn’t use that hallway at night ever again.
agf0605
36. Seeing the previous patient in the room
I worked in Geriatrics (nursing homes) for years, so most of our patients died within a few years of being with us. Anyway, I had a new patient move into one of the rooms in my hall that my previous patient had just passed in.
My new patient kept calling at night saying that there was this woman who kept coming into her room and trying to talk to her.
At first, I just passed it off on her being in her 90s and struggling with dementia, so I assured her that I would lock her door at night to make sure no one could come in.
After about a week of this continuing to happen, I sat down with her and asked what this woman looked like (thinking she may just be hallucinating her daughter or sister or something).
She proceeded to tell me that this woman had a pink robe on with blue fuzzy slippers and her hair up in curlers, and the woman would come in sit at the foot of her bed, pat the new patient’s feet, and try to talk to her but she couldn't understand what she was saying.
I almost pissed myself.
The patient that I had had in that room before my new one, went to bed, every night, in her pink house robe, blue slippers, and her hair in curlers. It stopped after about two weeks.
difficultlemon_
37. Psychic visuals
A ward I worked on once had a patient who was a psychic/medium as a patient. We had a bit of a laugh with her as she was on the ward for a while (she'd had a stroke which affected her mobility) and she would do 'readings' for the staff etc from time to time.
I took it all as just a bit of fun until one evening when she pressed her nurse call buzzer and told us to go check on a patient in a side room as he was dead. We went to check and sure enough, we found that the gentleman had died.
Later on, we asked our psychic patient how she had known and she told us she had seen him coming out of his room distressed.
She realized he had died and had to explain to him what had happened and help him to pass over/go to the light. I am not a believer but that gave me the creeps.
smackmacks
38. Lulu was not with him
Back when I was a paramedic in Oakland I was taking care of an elderly gentleman in the back of my ambulance he looked up into the upper corner of the ambulance and said it's okay Lulu I'll be with you soon.
His daughter was with him and told me that Lulu was his wife who died 20 years earlier. A few minutes later he went into cardiac arrest and passed on.
HenryRN
39. The pendant
I worked as a Medtech at an assisted living facility. One day a resident (I’ll call her Margaret) suddenly passed away and her family left all her belongings in the room that night including her pendant to call the staff for help.
The next night Margaret’s neighbor called the staff because someone was talking in the room next door and keeping them awake. We brushed the resident off knowing that Margaret’s room was empty. About an hour later Margaret’s pendant started going off from her empty apartment.
I was the only one willing to turn it off so I walked into the room, it was cold in the middle of summer (the air conditioning was off.) Suddenly the bathroom door slammed as I was turning off the pendant light. I locked the door and ran back to the nurses' station.
We forced one of the older male staff members to go check out the entire room and he claims the door was still locked when he got down there and no one was in there.
KaylaC-J
40. A baby’s cry
I am a psychiatrist and during my training years, I worked for 6 months at a ward treating patients with depressive and anxiety disorders.
It was an old building that had been housing psychiatric patients since the mid-1920s. On our floor, we had 13 beds, a nursing station, a living room, and a few conference rooms.
One day a few weeks in I was interviewing a patient who when asked about sleeping patterns told me, she had heard a baby crying at night waking her up.
There were no babies in that hospital as the place is situated far away from housing areas and there were restricted visiting hours.
Afterward, the nurse pulled me aside and told me, that the baby crying thing was not a psychotic symptom. She is very serious about this, but won’t elaborate.
I kind of shrug it off, as either way it does not change the diagnosis or treatment, and forget about the experience.
Around 3 months into my stay, I sat in the nurse's station and three nurses behind me were talking. One of them says “She is very active today” and the other says “Really? Oh, hadn’t noticed”.
I turn around and ask them who they are talking about. They look at each other, and then one of them hesitantly says “Well. There is a baby here. She cries sometimes”.
I of course say no, but they just kind of shrug and smile. Not 30 seconds later I heard it - it sounded far away but not too far. A cry, clearly a baby's cry, sounding like it is separated from us by maybe 2 or 3 walls. I am perplexed and look at the nurses. They look at me like “Told you so”.
I asked about it, but they couldn’t say anything else. This faint baby cry is there and has been there always. Since then I heard it maybe 2-3 times a week.
I told a new doctor about it who laughed, however, a few weeks into her stay, she came to me, white as a sheet, and told me she heard it in their coffee break.
All the nurses just kind of knew about it, and being in psychiatry, hearing that kind of stuff is not something you brag about. I was transferred and haven’t heard it since. I think about it sometimes, but I don’t know what to make of it.
nicholasdennett
41. Part of a clinic
I’m a licensed veterinary technician but our emergency hospital is haunted by a gentleman we refer to as Gerald.
The clinic was built for us, we didn’t take over another business. We’ve all seen him, usually around 4 a.m., and sometimes we see him at the same time.
Once, I’d taken radiographs of a patient with my coworker and I thought my doctor had been standing outside the door, but just walked away. I saw the figure walk away.
I called out for the doc, since she’d just walked away, and my coworker laughed at me and said she was still in the office - it was just Gerald.
He also meows like a cat from our comfort room sometimes. We have two clinic cats and they’re always with us and accounted for when we hear him. It’s also obviously a person meowing when we hear it.
We have cameras. Nobody is there when these things happen and are seen. He’s just a part of the clinic.
RagdollHarleyJane
42. Hannah
We had a little boy come by ambulance and was a toddler. His parents had put him to bed and he was with a cold. Nothing serious but developed tragically into more and he started coming in and out of consciousness.
We had to do a rapid intubation and he ended up passing away a few days later.
Before Mom & Dad made it to the hospital he kept talking about his baby sister Hannah. Not soon after we had to life-saving measures. I was distraught because I had a son similar in age and a daughter named Hannah.
Fast forward. Approximately two years later, a family comes in with a sick infant. They remembered me and I was their provider again. Their daughter's name was Hanna.
It startled me and I recalled with clarity the boy speaking of his sister, whom I assumed was alive and at home. Nope, she wasn't even conceived yet.
Baby, thankfully, went home with their parents and doing well but I'll never forget that. Little boy and his baby sister, Hanna.
[deleted]
43. No one was there
We were on a night shift, standing/sitting around the nurses' station and talking about 'weird' things that had happened.
One of the HCAs was in a side room once doing last offices, and the lights flicked on and off twice. Call bells went off when there was no one about to press them and hearing a cough when there was no one there, etc.
As we were talking, there was a pause in the conversation and very clearly we heard typing from the keyboard at the doctor's desk which was just around the corner from us.
I stepped round the corner to see who it was as usually the doctors would check in with us before sitting down, just to say hello and to see if any jobs needed to be done.
So I looked around the corner after hearing the keys being tapped as if someone was typing, only to see no one there. Was very freaky and we had to change the convo as we all felt too uncomfortable after that.
BiscuitCrumbsInBed
44. Waiting for the family
I used to work in the hospital and had one patient who was on her deathbed. The family had all gathered around her to say goodbye. Up until the last remaining family member showed up, this patient remained resting in bed.
Before anyone could say something this patient, sat straight up, eyes wide open, looked and pointed to every single family member there like she was counting them.
Immediately after this she fell back into her bed and died.
Her daughter told me that she wasn’t the most pleasant person and wasn’t surprised that the patient would keep tabs on who showed up before she kicked the bucket. Seems kinda weird to keep a grudge into the afterlife.
kasper632
45. The Haunted Seventh Floor
This happened to me when I just started working as a therapist in a nursing home, I live in Argentina and if you don't know, Argentina is a very religious country (Catholic/Christian for the most part) but I was raised in a Umbanda family, Umbanda is a pagan cult for some people.
Anyway, the nursing home was an old house remodeled to be a good place for the elders that lived there, plus a building of 7 stories known as the VIP since the wealthiest elders went there.
The seventh floor is just the deposit and offices I heard from the nurses and security to never go alone to the office on the 7th floor of the VIP since it's haunted.
Because of my beliefs, I do believe in this kind of thing so I tried to never go alone, but one day I had to get some documents from that office and I needed them ASAP, so I went alone.
I was in the elevator and for some reason, it was cold (at the moment it was summer so we had 35-38 Celsius) but I ignored it.
I make my way to the office and when I'm there I hear a clear voice saying to me "You belong in hell you sinner" It was the voice of an old man.
I never told anyone about my beliefs since it's something wrong for almost everyone I know, so I have no idea how he knew about it.
Heilot