Scary Ghost Stories

Nurse Story

Here's a genuine ghost folklore story:

My wife in an RN at our local hospital. She works on the Medical Floor (Medical covers all people who don't require surgery but are sick enough to stay in the hospital). Most of her patients are elderly and many pass away there.

There are two rooms on her floor that are "haunted". In one, the equipment will turn itself on. They will be alerted to this because the call button is also activated. One night this happened while she was alone on the floor. The call button for the room went off but there wasn't a patient in it.

When she walked into the room, the TV, the lights, and other equipment standard for a hospital room were on. She thought that another nurse had been assigned and that a patient had been admitted. After several hours and no patient or nurse, she turned off the stuff and went back to her station.

About ten minutes later, the call button sounded again. She went into the room and found it just the way she had before. This room was close to her work station and noone could have entered it without her seeing them.

She turned the equipment in the room off again and that was the end of that night. When the next shift came on, she asked the head nurse about the room. The Charge nurse told her that the room had always been weird and that the electronic equipment didn't work correctly when in there. There had been several deaths in the room but none that were traumatic or anything. Unlike some of the other rooms.

Another room that is "haunted" is called the Rose room by the nurses because every once in a while they will hear someone in the room calling out the name 'Rose'. Patients who are heavily drugged or close to death have reported having been visited by a very pleasant elderly man dressed in a suit and tie. They have conversations, etc. but usually don't remember when he arrived or when he left.

A final story that doesn't end in a haunting but is interesting:

A young man was dying and had developed a serious condition where he was bleeding internally but had used up his clotting factor.

My wife was working that night but did not have him as a patient. When she walked by his room, she heard what sounded like water being poured onto the floor. She went into the room and saw that he was vomiting blood consistenly, and this was flowing onto the floor.

Immediatly she called the doctors and nurses and tried to help the poor guy. He continued to vomit black blood all over. I'm not sure about the exact nature of the events but at some point just before he died, he became concious. He seemed to know he was going to die and was very afraid but there was nothing the doctors could do. He went into convulsions while vomitting and blood covered everyone.

As he died, the hospital bed started to freak out. It began to move up and down and into all the different positions without anyone touching the controls. Finally, when the poor guy died, the bed stopped moving. They tried to opperate the controls but they wouldn't respond. They were never able to fix the bed so that it worked again.

Although there was a creepy feeling in the room when the guy died, there hasn't been any problems with it since then.

Just thought I'd contribute a fun couple of stories for the folklore files.