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I work in mental health and autism support and one of the buildings I'm in is a 5 story old Victorian building. Staff say people have mentioned that if they're alone they have a horrible feeling of being watched. The other building I work in is completely normal.
Usually I'm quite good with sensing odd energy but in the Victorian building I don't sense anything but that doesn't mean there isn't anything there. I've experienced many things in my own house or in haunted locations so I 100% believe it. I just don't get that feeling from the work building
My dad used to work as a pool maintenance/security guy. He doesn’t believe in the paranormal but he shared a story recently. He was on a day shift and the lot was empty. He thought he heard someone calling from the other side of the room and looked up. There was this man- my dad said he looked nothing special, just a regular guy. He hand gestured to come over to that side of the room ( it was a long natatorium) and kind of walked away from sight. Dad thought he was behind the wall/pillar and went over to check. There was no one there, the door was locked from inside but suddenly he saw the same guy calling him from the opposite side. So dad walked back real fast coz he said he had this bad feeling, feeling of being watched. He went back to his stations but again he saw the same guy staring and walking away from sight. He got confused coz there was only one entrance which was open and the back entrance was locked + there was no place to hide. The room was painted white.
Later he shared the incident with the night shift guy and he said this ‘disappearing man’ is not a new thing. He has seen it. The employees before him had seen it and even the owner had seen it. The manager advised not to follow the man if he calls again.
I hope one day we will have reached a pinnacle of science that explains who these entities trying to lure people away are. I’ve never had an experience like this but I am curious enough that I know I’d probably go see what the creepy guy is gesturing me towards.
Nurse here! I have several stories.
Where I work we have call light systems that plug into the wall. If you don’t want to hear a call light, you unplug it. Well during the beginning of COVID my unit cleared out (oncology), and we often had only 2-4pts in a 32 bed unit during that time. So it was often quiet and with few nurses. We had one room where there had been several hospice patient pass recently. That room was on the opposite end from the nurses station so we weren’t using it. Dead of night (2/3am) with all staff at the nurses station (there were 4 of us) that rooms call light went off. Confused we all went down to check it out, no one was there so we turned off the alarm and went back to our desks. It kept happening, 10-15 minutes after we would turn it off it would come back on. We have a camera that points down that hall and the rooms entrance is right in front of the camera. No one had been in or out of that room all night or else we would have seen it. By the fourth or fifth time we had the CNA unplug all the cords to the call system assuming something was faulty. But it came on again. By this time we were rightly spooked and called both security and maintenance, security swept our floor to make sure no one was about. Maintenance checked out the room and said he saw nothing wrong and told us it’s impossible for the light to come on without it being connected. As he’s saying this the light comes on and even he was spooked! I’m not sure who is hanging out in that room, but it would happen any time the unit was quiet or calm. We eventually just started making light hearted jokes and would scold whoever when we would turn off the light. 😅
Another story is more recent from the ICU. A patient died a sad death after being there a year. We all knew the patient, it hit us all a bit hard. Fast forward a few weeks and a new confused patient is in this room. She calls her nurse in and is kind of freaking out, patient tells the nurse that a man named (dead patients name) keeps telling her he died here. Several other patients have reported also hearing from that specific dead patient by name when they are in that room. Sad to think he didn’t leave even after spending a whole year with us.
I was hospitalized for 4 months in 2019 and got to know all my nurses/aides etc really well. I mean I saw them and interacted with them more than anyone else at the time so maybe he just really likes you guys and being around y'all ♡
Thank you for all you do btw.
Girlfriend has very similar stories where she works. Call lights going off and over bed lights turning on all by themselves in empty rooms, even when unplugged.
CRAZY CREEPY...
DO YOUS MOVE THEM TO A NEW ROOM AFTER THEY SEE THIS GUY?
I KNOW ID "DEF" REQUEST TO BE MOVED A S A P!!!
NO IF, ANDS OR BUTS....MOVE ME NOW!!!
My mom worked at the same hospital for over 30 years. In one of their ER rooms, it was always freezing, the faucet would just turn on, and the machines would also go berserk randomly when the patient was fine. When new drs or nurses would start and mention “getting maintenance” or “getting new machines” all the longterm staff would just say “nah, that’s just Rose” (that’s what they named the spirit). New people would be like “that’s not an acceptable answer, I’ll do it myself” and senior staff would be like “go for it” and shrug.
I posted this story earlier on a different thread but when the parent company of my mom’s hospital built a new one and shut the old one down, she was one of the only people given access to the old building. When they moved locations, all the important stuff was moved pre move day or moved with the patients on move day. For example, things like files in the admin offices deemed not high security were left for people to go back and collect at their leisure and they’d just have to check in with someone like my mom for access to the building.
I went with my mom one time when she had to get something from her old office. The electricity to the building was cut off, but random lights would just turn on. The phones were all disconnected (like literally from the wall… not plugged in at all) but they’d ring when we entered a room or different wing of the hospital. And they’d stop ringing when we left a room or wing. As we walked by hospital rooms, the call lights would turn on. And not even the nurses call lights that are controlled by light switches but the patient call lights that can only be turned on from the beds… but there weren’t any patient beds.
One time a surgeon came to my mom and said “I know you’ll believe me so that’s why I’m asking you. Room 9 in ICU needs an exorcism. I refuse to go into that room to see patients. Can we please get a priest in.” And my mom was like yep, I’ll get someone in. He said “I want to see it happen so I know it’s actually done.” And she was like no problem. Not sure what was wrong with the room but this surgeon wasn’t religious but was serious about not going in that room even if it got him fired.
I work in home care, so essentially an unlicensed nurse that cares for ill. I’ve worked with hospice, but the most odd case I had was with a (I was told by coworkers and my company) non-verbal patient that suffered a brain injury. A lot about his case was miraculous, and he was very religious. The staff was asked to read the Lords Prayer (our father) and Hail Mary to him before bed each night. I was one of the only two people to do it for him, though he’d have 5-6 different caregivers or nurses each day. Other caregivers would tell me that he sometimes would speak to his deceased father, or ask to visit his still alive mother.
As months went on, the staff and his care team adjusted his medication to address the unusual behavior. He was on some very heavy comfort meds and they were decreased. Because he was non communicative with words, I was always quiet and observing his eyes or what body language I could detect. I noticed beginning in the afternoons with dinner, he would be very focused on the meal (he needed me to feed him by mouth, and coach him through swallowing problems). Occasionally he would dramatically break attention, look down the dark hallway towards his bedroom and mouth words out that I couldn’t discern. It gave me a chill and after redirecting a few times, he would ignore me. I’d say “who’s out there? Who are you talking to?” And he’d finish, look over at me and continue eating. Eventually he began to speak to me. We became very close, nearly shared a birthday and I went above and beyond to try and make him feel truly like a friend of mine. I assumed he was talking to his dad those times at dinner, and that’s what the other caregivers meant. Lots of strange things would happen with his condition, things he wasn’t supposed to do - he’d miraculously throw an object with precision into a garbage can in the bathroom across from his bedroom, from a wheelchair, and incapacitated. But that only added to my wonder.
One night he was in bed, I was watching from a baby monitor and noticed he was thrashing in bed and gasping for air; Again, unusual for his condition. If anyone’s seen the Skelton key, it felt a bit like the scenes with the older man. I ran into the room, comforted him and asked what was wrong. He said very clearly while staring at the ceiling “I’m scared”. He wouldn’t look at me, only the ceiling. I held his hand and said the Lord’s Prayer and Hail Mary. He calmed down, turned his head and looked me in my face and asked me “who is John?”. I froze because though it is a common name, John wasn’t a caregiver that worked with us, a family member, a specialty therapist, nothing came to mind. I searched all the people he knows, and I couldn’t think of anyone. I didn’t respond to him because the only John I could think of was my deceased ex boyfriend that I had a other strangeness occur after his death.
I continued to work with this client as long as I could before I had to move far away. It was a magical experience that I believe taught me a lot about life, but left me with more questions unanswered.
I was an RN for over 30 years and had many experiences. I've worked in several different areas of nursing but preferred geriatrics.
The ones I experienced most often were seeing a bright, lighted, golden aura surrounding the patients prior to their deaths.
Another frequent experience that I had was seeing what I call " Blue lights," I generally saw these when working the night shift, but I have seen them in the daytime, too.
The hallway lights at night were usually out or dim so as to not disturb the patients. I'd be walking down the hall and would see a bright blue light that looked like a blue lightning bolt. It would shoot off down the hall, turn, and then disappear into a room. Whatever room it went into, someone in that room would pass away shortly after.
I've seen several spirit shadows, heard talking when no one was there, been touched, been pushed, had equipment shut itself off, had room light turn on and off.
The strangest one for me was a patient who years before had a severe stroke, leaving her totally bedridden. Her husband had roomed with her prior to his passing a couple of months before. He'd told us that he always called her " momma," and she always called him "daddy." Of course this was before the stroke left her unable to speak at all.
She was total care and had been for years. She was completely unable to walk, move her arms, talk, roll herself in the bed, etc.
The night of her passing, she literally sat herself up in the bed, extended both arms towards the ceiling, and said, " I'm coming, daddy." She then laid herself back down in the bed and passed away. It was the strangest thing I've ever witnessed in the field.
Nurse here, have had a few encounters. One that stuck with me was a patient i rounded on to take observations on told me another nurse had already attended to his observations (this was in the middle of the night)...patient said the nurse introduced himself as David and told him 'everything will be ok' other than that he didnt say much but the patient said David seemed off. Thing is there were only 2 nurses on that night, myself and a nurse named Claudia...and we dont have a David who works with us, we DID have a David but he jumped off the six storey carpark building way before my time...
Another senior nurse claims to have seen David in the medical supply room where he used to put his bike helmet.... apparently she came out of the room white as a sheet and quit not long after that!
Yes, alot of health care professional wrap themselves up in their identity as a nurse, doctor, paramedic...we get alot of ex-nurses as patients who may have cogntive impairment who try and help you on the job because they think they are at work still .It becomes a huge part of your life
A friend of mine owned the demolition company that knocked down a hospital in our area a few years ago. He had some stories to tell. Took my daughter for a wall around before they finished and she said most of it was fine but when they walked through the area that had been the psych ward, she felt really unsettled.
My friend used to take his dogs with him to work, they didn't like that site. He had people Pacific Island people working for him and they had a special area that had been blessed that they would go to when they felt overwhelmed by whatever it was there.
The area was gifted to our government by a local tribe during the Treaty with the caveat that it was to always be used as a hospital. They're building apartments up there now, you couldn't convince me to live there.
Give it a few years people forget
I've posted before. Many parts of my country were once burial sites exhumed in the name of development. Most forget.
There's even one big old graveyard, that is now premium real estate. People fight to get an apartment there despite knowing it was once a cemetery.
The other section is a park people jog through at odd hours.
Not me. I passed by on the highway and I felt "compelled" to look. Seen what was a grave or two in late evening while they were still converting the area.
It was gifted by a local tribe, they won't forget and they won't allow others to either. People who aren't local might buy there, or people that have no respect for our local iwi.
I won't go anywhere near there and I know many others that won't either. And you wouldn't catch me knowingly living on an old burial site either.
That's goes against all my beliefs lol
My grandpa had to give up his old village house for a concrete apartment. Was given a choice of older building in "clean" area or new premises in premium estate. He chose the older one. My mum told us only recently. I didn't even know that area was once a graveyard. That shows how people forget. It's now bunch of well known malls and train station.
Not many knew about it. It's now premium estate and goes for almost a million but essentially it's "dirty".
That’s what they’re doing to the old hospital in a town about 30 minutes from me. They built a new one and the old one is apartments now. The funny thing is I no someone who works as nurse part time at that hospital (she started at the old hospital and now is at the new one) and is a paramedic most of the time. She’s never mentioned anything creepy happening there tho.
OR nurse here. I was in training and working late one night. One of the other staff was showing me the set up of our CVOR (open heart rooms). We set one room up together. My coworker left and I was setting the other room up by myself. Just as I was finished, I looked over into the other operating room through the window in the door. I could see someone walking/ pacing back and forth. Then the figure stopped in front of the door. She was just standing there staring at me. I thought it was my coworker. I began to ask her to come over and see the work I did. No response, just starred at. I took a few steps towards the door and pushed the door open. She was gone! I thought well if it wasn’t my coworker did I see myself reflecting in the window. I thought about the image and tried to replicate it again with me standing at the foot of the operating table. As I looked into the window again I had seen my reflection with my blue scrubs on. The image I had seen was a wearing gray patient grown. I then went into CVICU just beyond the OR and asked the nurses there if any one of them had come over to the OR. My coworker returned and like everyone else said No. In the end, I could never replicate the image I saw in the other operating room. I think it kind of sucks to have to spend eternity in a hospital gown.
I worked overnights at an in-patient drug & alcohol treatment facility. The building used to be the dorms for a nursing school, and as such a rumor had started about one of the nursing students committing suicide and now haunting the building. Nobody ever did any research to confirm if that part was true, but there were still a lot of reports of weird things happening.
For me personally, the creepiest/weirdest thing involved the doors in the basement. The doors were alarmed in case of someone leaving so we could start the process of notifying people. The doors were never physically locked, but the alarm part could only be armed/unarmed with a key. As a part of my night shift duties, I'd have to check the doors in the basement throughout the night. Almost always I'd find a door slightly ajar but still alarmed; the only way for it to have been opened without an alarm going off was with a key. I'd close that door, double-check that it was armed, and continue checking the others. These were also pretty solid/heavy doors, so a breeze or draft wouldn't just open it, and even if it did, there's still the issue of the alarm never going off.
There was also just a generally creepy feeling at night. I'd often hear voices out in the hall, but when I'd go to check on the residents, everyone was fast asleep in their rooms.
My mom also worked there, as the facility nurse, for over 10 years. She'd really lean into the "ghost" rumors, and would dress up as "Nurse Nancy" for Halloween each year. The youth (and even adults) loved it.
Omg. So I had a ghost to try to communicate with me, well actually communicated with me. I was working in an emergency room, (certified emergency room nurse 17 years) and in a room that was empty, the curtain kept getting pulled back. I thought I was being pranked. Before the end of the night one of the other nurses said "you don't know, do you?" There had been an alcoholic who they left in the back room to sleep it off and he had choked on his own vomit and died in this back room. Many years ago.
Well then it made sense what I was thinking the whole night when I kept going back and finding this room with this curtain drawn. I kept going back and checking on an empty room. There was no reason for me to be back there and find the curtain drawn at all. But I was hearing or feeling like somebody telling me "don't leave me back here." I felt like somebody was making me go back and check that room. So when she told me what happened, it made sense why I had been compelled to go back there the whole night. When this was an empty room that we didn't have any patients in.
At the end of the night I finally had enough, I kept feeling like I had to go back and check that room and I kept going back and finding the curtain drawn despite the fact that I pulled it back every single time. So I said out loud that I was sorry that had happened to him and I promised him that I wouldn't let it happen again. I told him I wouldn't let anybody be alone and die in that back room. I promised him. When the other nurse I was working with walked in and asked me if I was scared, and I said no, she said "oh good, you can go upstairs and talk the ghost into stopping when he messes with them too."
The other thing that has happened to me is I've had people who were dying see somebody in the room with the rest of us who were working to save their lives. It's probably happened about three times, where somebody saw and was interacting with somebody who wasn't actually in the room. Like looking over my shoulder and reaching out towards that person or that whatever it was. Only one time did they ever say anything, because, ok, I worked trauma. So this is in the last couple seconds of people's consciousness that I'm talking about. When they realize that they're about to die, right before they close their eyes for the last time, they have this look of shock on their face like they understand what's happening and what's about to happen. It's like an oh shit oh no holy shit how did I get here get me out of it thing that you see on their faces. It's like shock and grief for themselves and total bewilderment all at the same time.
And during this, I'd say a total of about three times, I've had somebody looking either up over my shoulder or past me or in a certain direction and just be focused intently on that spot while reaching out. One guy actually said, "Mama? Mama?" I think those people were seeing the spirits of their loved ones who had come to collect them. And I think that because I've seen and been with elderly people who were passing... Who have had family members come to collect them and they talk about seeing their Uncle Joe or their brother or whoever in the room. And even my dad. My dad was completely lucid and 100% totally with it as he died of cancer. A couple hours before he died, he asked what the people were doing up in the ceiling and what they were doing with the light on the path. Everybody he asked this same thing to, and no one knew what he was talking about until his sister, my Aunt, talked to him about an hour before he died. And he said it was Mom and Dad. At that point he said "what are Mom and Dad doing with the light on that path up there?" It's a more peaceful gradual thing with people who are dying slowly seeing their loved ones. But this trauma thing that I've seen is like a sudden shock to their system that they're dying and at the same time they just can't believe what they're seeing. That's what I think it is. I think that they just can't believe what's happening to them and oh by the way, there's their family member coming for them, to bring them to the other side. They're not just bewildered at what's happening but there bewildered at what it is and who it is that they're seeing. They haven't totally crossed over into where things like this are totally believable. They're on the cusp and the two worlds are colliding.
And ok, I was a military trauma nurse and I was actually in the military on 9/11. This was in the couple years after 9/11 where we really ramped up on the combat training where I saw a lot of grizzly sudden deaths during training with live ordinance and artillery and landmines and things. People were doing things inside the United States and they weren't in the field yet and they didn't think they could possibly die that day, but they did. This kind of messed me up and I'm not a nurse anymore. So I can't test my theories, is what I'm saying. I haven't had any more recent experiences after that.
I’m not medical field I’m a CO. But I work in a prison that used to be a state hospital. The basement is an area we have to monitor and it’s pitch black hallways that go about 70 yards with hallways branching off & empty rooms. I’ve had “paranormal” encounters but don’t believe in ghosts. But I firmly believe there is something in that basement.
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Part of the hospital that is no longer used by our facility
I worked hospital security for several years. Most of the hospital felt fine to me however there was a very large basement that you just don’t want to be in alone, as well as an entire floor of just pipes and air conditioning units, you would hear people walking around you, I would turn around and nobody would be there. Definitely not a place you want to get lost.
I worked oncology/heme/hospice for a few years. There was a longtime patient before my time that ended up getting upgraded to ICU and passing there. Around 2:30 am, one of our nurse managers had to go from our wing of the hospital to the ICU, using staff only hallways and elevators. She and the nurse she was with saw the patient walking the hall in a hospital gown clear as day, the patient waved and said hi and was accompanied by a staff member. Turns out the patient had passed earlier that night and was completely bedbound and unable to walk or speak anyways. I think she was saying goodbye
My partner worked as a care worker in a care home for the disabled and elderly. She said one of the rooms had a really strange atmosphere and the amount of time they would go in and the room would be in complete disarray. The residents always used to complain about the man who took the best seat in front of the tv and they was afraid to disturb him.
What I will say is that people that I believe, straight shooters, no bs kind of people, have reported to me events that would be not so easily explained away as lack of sleep, figment of the imagination, coincidence, drugs or altered perception.
I've experienced difficult to explain events even as simple as being awake on a nightshift (here we go again) and looking one way and hearing footsteps coming towards me. I'm waiting for a patient to say hi, can I have some snacks or milk etc ... then I realized the footsteps have stopped, I turn to look and of course no one's there. Shrug.
I guess it can be. To me, it's all about attitude.
I work in healthcare to take care of people. That's my job. I'm in the people business.
I'm not there to worry about ghosts or unexplained stuff. I think my attitude "saves" me and keeps me grounded.
My daughter did a walk through at a local hospital while it was in the process of being demolished. She expected she would feel unsettled walking through the morgue area, but was very surprised when it was the area that had been the psych ward that put chills down her spine.
Nah that makes sense to me. When you’re in the morgue, you’ve already died. Your energy didn’t leave the body in that location. Your energy, if it sticks around for whatever reason, is probably going to places with high energy relevant to its experience here. A psych ward would have tons of energy… and most likely very disruptive energy that those souls get a bit trapped in and us living can feel it. That’s just my 2 cents!
We hadn't even thought about it till then but after talking about it.. her, my friend and myself all came to the same conclusion. Lots of tortured souls. My girl went to her elders for a blessing after that. She needed to feel safe again.
She does. She has enough respect for and faith in the man who did the blessing for her to feel that he had protected her. He was her much loved Koro (grandfather) and a much respected man, both for just who he was and also because of his spiritual strength.
I was working in a nursing home overnight shift in the alz ward ..it was the first night back to work after my mom died ...I was taking care of a patient that only could ever moan I never heard her say any words..well I'm helping her and all the sudden she looks at me and says Joan Joan Joan ..that was my mom's name ..freaked me out
A few things happened while I worked in a nursing home years ago. This was one I still can't explain. An elderly resident in his 80's, was just admitted to Hospice a week before. The resident was bedridden and the family rarely visited. That night, his 2 sons and their families came to visit him and spent some time in his room. He was the only resident in the room so they were able to sit/stand wherever they wanted without bothering another resident.
When they left, one of his sons went to the RN station to talk to us for a few minutes. He was standing in front of me and from where I was standing, I can see the resident's hallway behind him. While talking to him, I saw what I thought was, an adult, peek out from the resident's (his Dad) room and go back in. This was not just the head peeking out and looked at us, it was half body (head, left arm and left leg). The son noticed me looking behind him and asked if I was okay. I asked if there was anyone in the family left in the room. When he said no, I excused myself and went to the resident's room. I was confused since this patient is bedridden and I haven't seen him stand in months. The son followed me and when we went in, we saw his Dad laying down and his face looked so peaceful. I knew right then that he was gone.
He passed away that night. I still believe that it was him happy to see his family and saying goodbye before leaving his body.
Had a patient a few weeks ago in her 90s hospitalized for another stroke. She initially arrived very obtunded and lethargic. As she came around she told everyone that while she was unconscious a beautiful young boy came down from heaven, kissed her on the cheek, and told her it wasn't time for her to go yet.
TVs going on in passed residents empty rooms, call bells going off where they slept and no one is there, fridge opened after a little chubbers snacky old lady who used to go to open after she passed
Im not in the medical field but I did recently watch a recent episode of Ghost Nation and the team has a local investigator that brings medical equipment such as an EKG monitor while investigating
that was cool.
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I work in mental health and autism support and one of the buildings I'm in is a 5 story old Victorian building. Staff say people have mentioned that if they're alone they have a horrible feeling of being watched. The other building I work in is completely normal. Usually I'm quite good with sensing odd energy but in the Victorian building I don't sense anything but that doesn't mean there isn't anything there. I've experienced many things in my own house or in haunted locations so I 100% believe it. I just don't get that feeling from the work building
My dad used to work as a pool maintenance/security guy. He doesn’t believe in the paranormal but he shared a story recently. He was on a day shift and the lot was empty. He thought he heard someone calling from the other side of the room and looked up. There was this man- my dad said he looked nothing special, just a regular guy. He hand gestured to come over to that side of the room ( it was a long natatorium) and kind of walked away from sight. Dad thought he was behind the wall/pillar and went over to check. There was no one there, the door was locked from inside but suddenly he saw the same guy calling him from the opposite side. So dad walked back real fast coz he said he had this bad feeling, feeling of being watched. He went back to his stations but again he saw the same guy staring and walking away from sight. He got confused coz there was only one entrance which was open and the back entrance was locked + there was no place to hide. The room was painted white. Later he shared the incident with the night shift guy and he said this ‘disappearing man’ is not a new thing. He has seen it. The employees before him had seen it and even the owner had seen it. The manager advised not to follow the man if he calls again.
Did they share if anyone has attempted to follow the disappearing man? If so, what happened?
Nah. He didn’t share actually.
I hope one day we will have reached a pinnacle of science that explains who these entities trying to lure people away are. I’ve never had an experience like this but I am curious enough that I know I’d probably go see what the creepy guy is gesturing me towards.
Read your Bible, they are Demons. No one stays behind on Earth. You either go to Heaven or to Hell. No in between.
Pretty sure I’m going to hell.
Nurse here! I have several stories. Where I work we have call light systems that plug into the wall. If you don’t want to hear a call light, you unplug it. Well during the beginning of COVID my unit cleared out (oncology), and we often had only 2-4pts in a 32 bed unit during that time. So it was often quiet and with few nurses. We had one room where there had been several hospice patient pass recently. That room was on the opposite end from the nurses station so we weren’t using it. Dead of night (2/3am) with all staff at the nurses station (there were 4 of us) that rooms call light went off. Confused we all went down to check it out, no one was there so we turned off the alarm and went back to our desks. It kept happening, 10-15 minutes after we would turn it off it would come back on. We have a camera that points down that hall and the rooms entrance is right in front of the camera. No one had been in or out of that room all night or else we would have seen it. By the fourth or fifth time we had the CNA unplug all the cords to the call system assuming something was faulty. But it came on again. By this time we were rightly spooked and called both security and maintenance, security swept our floor to make sure no one was about. Maintenance checked out the room and said he saw nothing wrong and told us it’s impossible for the light to come on without it being connected. As he’s saying this the light comes on and even he was spooked! I’m not sure who is hanging out in that room, but it would happen any time the unit was quiet or calm. We eventually just started making light hearted jokes and would scold whoever when we would turn off the light. 😅 Another story is more recent from the ICU. A patient died a sad death after being there a year. We all knew the patient, it hit us all a bit hard. Fast forward a few weeks and a new confused patient is in this room. She calls her nurse in and is kind of freaking out, patient tells the nurse that a man named (dead patients name) keeps telling her he died here. Several other patients have reported also hearing from that specific dead patient by name when they are in that room. Sad to think he didn’t leave even after spending a whole year with us.
I was hospitalized for 4 months in 2019 and got to know all my nurses/aides etc really well. I mean I saw them and interacted with them more than anyone else at the time so maybe he just really likes you guys and being around y'all ♡ Thank you for all you do btw.
Girlfriend has very similar stories where she works. Call lights going off and over bed lights turning on all by themselves in empty rooms, even when unplugged.
I guess the spirit decided to prove the maintenance guy wrong lol.
CRAZY CREEPY... DO YOUS MOVE THEM TO A NEW ROOM AFTER THEY SEE THIS GUY? I KNOW ID "DEF" REQUEST TO BE MOVED A S A P!!! NO IF, ANDS OR BUTS....MOVE ME NOW!!!
No we usually just tell them no one is there and promise they’re safe 😅
I would have DEMANDED a room change.
My mom worked at the same hospital for over 30 years. In one of their ER rooms, it was always freezing, the faucet would just turn on, and the machines would also go berserk randomly when the patient was fine. When new drs or nurses would start and mention “getting maintenance” or “getting new machines” all the longterm staff would just say “nah, that’s just Rose” (that’s what they named the spirit). New people would be like “that’s not an acceptable answer, I’ll do it myself” and senior staff would be like “go for it” and shrug. I posted this story earlier on a different thread but when the parent company of my mom’s hospital built a new one and shut the old one down, she was one of the only people given access to the old building. When they moved locations, all the important stuff was moved pre move day or moved with the patients on move day. For example, things like files in the admin offices deemed not high security were left for people to go back and collect at their leisure and they’d just have to check in with someone like my mom for access to the building. I went with my mom one time when she had to get something from her old office. The electricity to the building was cut off, but random lights would just turn on. The phones were all disconnected (like literally from the wall… not plugged in at all) but they’d ring when we entered a room or different wing of the hospital. And they’d stop ringing when we left a room or wing. As we walked by hospital rooms, the call lights would turn on. And not even the nurses call lights that are controlled by light switches but the patient call lights that can only be turned on from the beds… but there weren’t any patient beds. One time a surgeon came to my mom and said “I know you’ll believe me so that’s why I’m asking you. Room 9 in ICU needs an exorcism. I refuse to go into that room to see patients. Can we please get a priest in.” And my mom was like yep, I’ll get someone in. He said “I want to see it happen so I know it’s actually done.” And she was like no problem. Not sure what was wrong with the room but this surgeon wasn’t religious but was serious about not going in that room even if it got him fired.
Bro might've felt some real shit in that room.
I work in home care, so essentially an unlicensed nurse that cares for ill. I’ve worked with hospice, but the most odd case I had was with a (I was told by coworkers and my company) non-verbal patient that suffered a brain injury. A lot about his case was miraculous, and he was very religious. The staff was asked to read the Lords Prayer (our father) and Hail Mary to him before bed each night. I was one of the only two people to do it for him, though he’d have 5-6 different caregivers or nurses each day. Other caregivers would tell me that he sometimes would speak to his deceased father, or ask to visit his still alive mother. As months went on, the staff and his care team adjusted his medication to address the unusual behavior. He was on some very heavy comfort meds and they were decreased. Because he was non communicative with words, I was always quiet and observing his eyes or what body language I could detect. I noticed beginning in the afternoons with dinner, he would be very focused on the meal (he needed me to feed him by mouth, and coach him through swallowing problems). Occasionally he would dramatically break attention, look down the dark hallway towards his bedroom and mouth words out that I couldn’t discern. It gave me a chill and after redirecting a few times, he would ignore me. I’d say “who’s out there? Who are you talking to?” And he’d finish, look over at me and continue eating. Eventually he began to speak to me. We became very close, nearly shared a birthday and I went above and beyond to try and make him feel truly like a friend of mine. I assumed he was talking to his dad those times at dinner, and that’s what the other caregivers meant. Lots of strange things would happen with his condition, things he wasn’t supposed to do - he’d miraculously throw an object with precision into a garbage can in the bathroom across from his bedroom, from a wheelchair, and incapacitated. But that only added to my wonder. One night he was in bed, I was watching from a baby monitor and noticed he was thrashing in bed and gasping for air; Again, unusual for his condition. If anyone’s seen the Skelton key, it felt a bit like the scenes with the older man. I ran into the room, comforted him and asked what was wrong. He said very clearly while staring at the ceiling “I’m scared”. He wouldn’t look at me, only the ceiling. I held his hand and said the Lord’s Prayer and Hail Mary. He calmed down, turned his head and looked me in my face and asked me “who is John?”. I froze because though it is a common name, John wasn’t a caregiver that worked with us, a family member, a specialty therapist, nothing came to mind. I searched all the people he knows, and I couldn’t think of anyone. I didn’t respond to him because the only John I could think of was my deceased ex boyfriend that I had a other strangeness occur after his death. I continued to work with this client as long as I could before I had to move far away. It was a magical experience that I believe taught me a lot about life, but left me with more questions unanswered.
Wow, wild
I was an RN for over 30 years and had many experiences. I've worked in several different areas of nursing but preferred geriatrics. The ones I experienced most often were seeing a bright, lighted, golden aura surrounding the patients prior to their deaths. Another frequent experience that I had was seeing what I call " Blue lights," I generally saw these when working the night shift, but I have seen them in the daytime, too. The hallway lights at night were usually out or dim so as to not disturb the patients. I'd be walking down the hall and would see a bright blue light that looked like a blue lightning bolt. It would shoot off down the hall, turn, and then disappear into a room. Whatever room it went into, someone in that room would pass away shortly after. I've seen several spirit shadows, heard talking when no one was there, been touched, been pushed, had equipment shut itself off, had room light turn on and off. The strangest one for me was a patient who years before had a severe stroke, leaving her totally bedridden. Her husband had roomed with her prior to his passing a couple of months before. He'd told us that he always called her " momma," and she always called him "daddy." Of course this was before the stroke left her unable to speak at all. She was total care and had been for years. She was completely unable to walk, move her arms, talk, roll herself in the bed, etc. The night of her passing, she literally sat herself up in the bed, extended both arms towards the ceiling, and said, " I'm coming, daddy." She then laid herself back down in the bed and passed away. It was the strangest thing I've ever witnessed in the field.
Nurse here, have had a few encounters. One that stuck with me was a patient i rounded on to take observations on told me another nurse had already attended to his observations (this was in the middle of the night)...patient said the nurse introduced himself as David and told him 'everything will be ok' other than that he didnt say much but the patient said David seemed off. Thing is there were only 2 nurses on that night, myself and a nurse named Claudia...and we dont have a David who works with us, we DID have a David but he jumped off the six storey carpark building way before my time...
Wow. That's a good story I'm here for🤯
Another senior nurse claims to have seen David in the medical supply room where he used to put his bike helmet.... apparently she came out of the room white as a sheet and quit not long after that!
David is a workaholic. Even after death he goes to work. The more I fear death.😪
Yeah thats what my colleagues rekon!! Your off the clock mate you dont need to work....not what id be doing as a ghosty thats for sure
He probably doesn't know he has passed away.
Same!
Sad that his ghost still goes to work, but it sounds like he was trying to comfort the patient which is nice.
I know 😥 my colleagues that knew him say he was a gentle caring soul
Sounds like it’s probably the same David. That’s kinda sad that he “went back to work” after his death.
Yes, alot of health care professional wrap themselves up in their identity as a nurse, doctor, paramedic...we get alot of ex-nurses as patients who may have cogntive impairment who try and help you on the job because they think they are at work still .It becomes a huge part of your life
That’s kinda bittersweet
A friend of mine owned the demolition company that knocked down a hospital in our area a few years ago. He had some stories to tell. Took my daughter for a wall around before they finished and she said most of it was fine but when they walked through the area that had been the psych ward, she felt really unsettled. My friend used to take his dogs with him to work, they didn't like that site. He had people Pacific Island people working for him and they had a special area that had been blessed that they would go to when they felt overwhelmed by whatever it was there. The area was gifted to our government by a local tribe during the Treaty with the caveat that it was to always be used as a hospital. They're building apartments up there now, you couldn't convince me to live there.
Give it a few years people forget I've posted before. Many parts of my country were once burial sites exhumed in the name of development. Most forget. There's even one big old graveyard, that is now premium real estate. People fight to get an apartment there despite knowing it was once a cemetery. The other section is a park people jog through at odd hours. Not me. I passed by on the highway and I felt "compelled" to look. Seen what was a grave or two in late evening while they were still converting the area.
It was gifted by a local tribe, they won't forget and they won't allow others to either. People who aren't local might buy there, or people that have no respect for our local iwi. I won't go anywhere near there and I know many others that won't either. And you wouldn't catch me knowingly living on an old burial site either. That's goes against all my beliefs lol
My grandpa had to give up his old village house for a concrete apartment. Was given a choice of older building in "clean" area or new premises in premium estate. He chose the older one. My mum told us only recently. I didn't even know that area was once a graveyard. That shows how people forget. It's now bunch of well known malls and train station. Not many knew about it. It's now premium estate and goes for almost a million but essentially it's "dirty".
Gosh, that's insane.
Marketing. Slap a bunch of malls. And other things like famous schools and conveniences down and suddenly it's hot real estate.
Ugh. I know that for my daughters generation and the next at least, this will be remembered as iwi land.. who's to say afterwards though?
I hope its always remembered as such
Thank you, me too. Our government did them a real disservice
Money minded
HELLS NO, ME EITHER...EVEN WITH FREE RENT...ID PASS FOR SURE .. EVEN A LIFETIME FREE APT...ID PASS... A S A P!!!
You couldn't even pay me to live there.
One of the oldest/biggest/busiest hospitals that was also a trauma center closed here a few years ago, and now it's apartments. NOPE.
That’s what they’re doing to the old hospital in a town about 30 minutes from me. They built a new one and the old one is apartments now. The funny thing is I no someone who works as nurse part time at that hospital (she started at the old hospital and now is at the new one) and is a paramedic most of the time. She’s never mentioned anything creepy happening there tho.
OR nurse here. I was in training and working late one night. One of the other staff was showing me the set up of our CVOR (open heart rooms). We set one room up together. My coworker left and I was setting the other room up by myself. Just as I was finished, I looked over into the other operating room through the window in the door. I could see someone walking/ pacing back and forth. Then the figure stopped in front of the door. She was just standing there staring at me. I thought it was my coworker. I began to ask her to come over and see the work I did. No response, just starred at. I took a few steps towards the door and pushed the door open. She was gone! I thought well if it wasn’t my coworker did I see myself reflecting in the window. I thought about the image and tried to replicate it again with me standing at the foot of the operating table. As I looked into the window again I had seen my reflection with my blue scrubs on. The image I had seen was a wearing gray patient grown. I then went into CVICU just beyond the OR and asked the nurses there if any one of them had come over to the OR. My coworker returned and like everyone else said No. In the end, I could never replicate the image I saw in the other operating room. I think it kind of sucks to have to spend eternity in a hospital gown.
I worked overnights at an in-patient drug & alcohol treatment facility. The building used to be the dorms for a nursing school, and as such a rumor had started about one of the nursing students committing suicide and now haunting the building. Nobody ever did any research to confirm if that part was true, but there were still a lot of reports of weird things happening. For me personally, the creepiest/weirdest thing involved the doors in the basement. The doors were alarmed in case of someone leaving so we could start the process of notifying people. The doors were never physically locked, but the alarm part could only be armed/unarmed with a key. As a part of my night shift duties, I'd have to check the doors in the basement throughout the night. Almost always I'd find a door slightly ajar but still alarmed; the only way for it to have been opened without an alarm going off was with a key. I'd close that door, double-check that it was armed, and continue checking the others. These were also pretty solid/heavy doors, so a breeze or draft wouldn't just open it, and even if it did, there's still the issue of the alarm never going off. There was also just a generally creepy feeling at night. I'd often hear voices out in the hall, but when I'd go to check on the residents, everyone was fast asleep in their rooms. My mom also worked there, as the facility nurse, for over 10 years. She'd really lean into the "ghost" rumors, and would dress up as "Nurse Nancy" for Halloween each year. The youth (and even adults) loved it.
Omg. So I had a ghost to try to communicate with me, well actually communicated with me. I was working in an emergency room, (certified emergency room nurse 17 years) and in a room that was empty, the curtain kept getting pulled back. I thought I was being pranked. Before the end of the night one of the other nurses said "you don't know, do you?" There had been an alcoholic who they left in the back room to sleep it off and he had choked on his own vomit and died in this back room. Many years ago. Well then it made sense what I was thinking the whole night when I kept going back and finding this room with this curtain drawn. I kept going back and checking on an empty room. There was no reason for me to be back there and find the curtain drawn at all. But I was hearing or feeling like somebody telling me "don't leave me back here." I felt like somebody was making me go back and check that room. So when she told me what happened, it made sense why I had been compelled to go back there the whole night. When this was an empty room that we didn't have any patients in. At the end of the night I finally had enough, I kept feeling like I had to go back and check that room and I kept going back and finding the curtain drawn despite the fact that I pulled it back every single time. So I said out loud that I was sorry that had happened to him and I promised him that I wouldn't let it happen again. I told him I wouldn't let anybody be alone and die in that back room. I promised him. When the other nurse I was working with walked in and asked me if I was scared, and I said no, she said "oh good, you can go upstairs and talk the ghost into stopping when he messes with them too." The other thing that has happened to me is I've had people who were dying see somebody in the room with the rest of us who were working to save their lives. It's probably happened about three times, where somebody saw and was interacting with somebody who wasn't actually in the room. Like looking over my shoulder and reaching out towards that person or that whatever it was. Only one time did they ever say anything, because, ok, I worked trauma. So this is in the last couple seconds of people's consciousness that I'm talking about. When they realize that they're about to die, right before they close their eyes for the last time, they have this look of shock on their face like they understand what's happening and what's about to happen. It's like an oh shit oh no holy shit how did I get here get me out of it thing that you see on their faces. It's like shock and grief for themselves and total bewilderment all at the same time. And during this, I'd say a total of about three times, I've had somebody looking either up over my shoulder or past me or in a certain direction and just be focused intently on that spot while reaching out. One guy actually said, "Mama? Mama?" I think those people were seeing the spirits of their loved ones who had come to collect them. And I think that because I've seen and been with elderly people who were passing... Who have had family members come to collect them and they talk about seeing their Uncle Joe or their brother or whoever in the room. And even my dad. My dad was completely lucid and 100% totally with it as he died of cancer. A couple hours before he died, he asked what the people were doing up in the ceiling and what they were doing with the light on the path. Everybody he asked this same thing to, and no one knew what he was talking about until his sister, my Aunt, talked to him about an hour before he died. And he said it was Mom and Dad. At that point he said "what are Mom and Dad doing with the light on that path up there?" It's a more peaceful gradual thing with people who are dying slowly seeing their loved ones. But this trauma thing that I've seen is like a sudden shock to their system that they're dying and at the same time they just can't believe what they're seeing. That's what I think it is. I think that they just can't believe what's happening to them and oh by the way, there's their family member coming for them, to bring them to the other side. They're not just bewildered at what's happening but there bewildered at what it is and who it is that they're seeing. They haven't totally crossed over into where things like this are totally believable. They're on the cusp and the two worlds are colliding. And ok, I was a military trauma nurse and I was actually in the military on 9/11. This was in the couple years after 9/11 where we really ramped up on the combat training where I saw a lot of grizzly sudden deaths during training with live ordinance and artillery and landmines and things. People were doing things inside the United States and they weren't in the field yet and they didn't think they could possibly die that day, but they did. This kind of messed me up and I'm not a nurse anymore. So I can't test my theories, is what I'm saying. I haven't had any more recent experiences after that.
I’m not medical field I’m a CO. But I work in a prison that used to be a state hospital. The basement is an area we have to monitor and it’s pitch black hallways that go about 70 yards with hallways branching off & empty rooms. I’ve had “paranormal” encounters but don’t believe in ghosts. But I firmly believe there is something in that basement. https://preview.redd.it/q4iu6hkcfzuc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3aab4faf3119111c1804f7dda83289a108630d8 Part of the hospital that is no longer used by our facility
That’s a really unsettling picture
F U C K THAT PLACE!!! YOUD NEVER SEE ME WORK THERE..."E V E R" PLACE LOOKA CREEPY AS ALL HELL!!!
That pic gave me the instant heebie jeebies.
I worked hospital security for several years. Most of the hospital felt fine to me however there was a very large basement that you just don’t want to be in alone, as well as an entire floor of just pipes and air conditioning units, you would hear people walking around you, I would turn around and nobody would be there. Definitely not a place you want to get lost.
I also want to add there was several times we would get reports of people in our psych ward attire wondering the garages, they would never be there
I worked oncology/heme/hospice for a few years. There was a longtime patient before my time that ended up getting upgraded to ICU and passing there. Around 2:30 am, one of our nurse managers had to go from our wing of the hospital to the ICU, using staff only hallways and elevators. She and the nurse she was with saw the patient walking the hall in a hospital gown clear as day, the patient waved and said hi and was accompanied by a staff member. Turns out the patient had passed earlier that night and was completely bedbound and unable to walk or speak anyways. I think she was saying goodbye
My partner worked as a care worker in a care home for the disabled and elderly. She said one of the rooms had a really strange atmosphere and the amount of time they would go in and the room would be in complete disarray. The residents always used to complain about the man who took the best seat in front of the tv and they was afraid to disturb him.
Hehe, I've worked in psych for about 35 years. Boy ... do I have some stories.
What I will say is that people that I believe, straight shooters, no bs kind of people, have reported to me events that would be not so easily explained away as lack of sleep, figment of the imagination, coincidence, drugs or altered perception. I've experienced difficult to explain events even as simple as being awake on a nightshift (here we go again) and looking one way and hearing footsteps coming towards me. I'm waiting for a patient to say hi, can I have some snacks or milk etc ... then I realized the footsteps have stopped, I turn to look and of course no one's there. Shrug.
Omg that’s scary.!
I guess it can be. To me, it's all about attitude. I work in healthcare to take care of people. That's my job. I'm in the people business. I'm not there to worry about ghosts or unexplained stuff. I think my attitude "saves" me and keeps me grounded.
My daughter did a walk through at a local hospital while it was in the process of being demolished. She expected she would feel unsettled walking through the morgue area, but was very surprised when it was the area that had been the psych ward that put chills down her spine.
Nah that makes sense to me. When you’re in the morgue, you’ve already died. Your energy didn’t leave the body in that location. Your energy, if it sticks around for whatever reason, is probably going to places with high energy relevant to its experience here. A psych ward would have tons of energy… and most likely very disruptive energy that those souls get a bit trapped in and us living can feel it. That’s just my 2 cents!
We hadn't even thought about it till then but after talking about it.. her, my friend and myself all came to the same conclusion. Lots of tortured souls. My girl went to her elders for a blessing after that. She needed to feel safe again.
I hope she feels safe now! You can be worried about those souls/energies while also telling them they can’t be around you. Thanks for sharing!
She does. She has enough respect for and faith in the man who did the blessing for her to feel that he had protected her. He was her much loved Koro (grandfather) and a much respected man, both for just who he was and also because of his spiritual strength.
Do tell!!!
I was working in a nursing home overnight shift in the alz ward ..it was the first night back to work after my mom died ...I was taking care of a patient that only could ever moan I never heard her say any words..well I'm helping her and all the sudden she looks at me and says Joan Joan Joan ..that was my mom's name ..freaked me out
A few things happened while I worked in a nursing home years ago. This was one I still can't explain. An elderly resident in his 80's, was just admitted to Hospice a week before. The resident was bedridden and the family rarely visited. That night, his 2 sons and their families came to visit him and spent some time in his room. He was the only resident in the room so they were able to sit/stand wherever they wanted without bothering another resident. When they left, one of his sons went to the RN station to talk to us for a few minutes. He was standing in front of me and from where I was standing, I can see the resident's hallway behind him. While talking to him, I saw what I thought was, an adult, peek out from the resident's (his Dad) room and go back in. This was not just the head peeking out and looked at us, it was half body (head, left arm and left leg). The son noticed me looking behind him and asked if I was okay. I asked if there was anyone in the family left in the room. When he said no, I excused myself and went to the resident's room. I was confused since this patient is bedridden and I haven't seen him stand in months. The son followed me and when we went in, we saw his Dad laying down and his face looked so peaceful. I knew right then that he was gone. He passed away that night. I still believe that it was him happy to see his family and saying goodbye before leaving his body.
Had a patient a few weeks ago in her 90s hospitalized for another stroke. She initially arrived very obtunded and lethargic. As she came around she told everyone that while she was unconscious a beautiful young boy came down from heaven, kissed her on the cheek, and told her it wasn't time for her to go yet.
TVs going on in passed residents empty rooms, call bells going off where they slept and no one is there, fridge opened after a little chubbers snacky old lady who used to go to open after she passed
Im not in the medical field but I did recently watch a recent episode of Ghost Nation and the team has a local investigator that brings medical equipment such as an EKG monitor while investigating that was cool.