Hospitals…where the supernatural becomes super natural.
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1.
I saw the lights of heaven shine down on a patient’s bed; she gasped and smiled.
I told her to go.
She smiled at me and extended her hand, then the light went out.
I’ve seen men down the halls that shouldn’t be there.
I’ve had a woman tell me my Mom, Pat, was standing in the corner.
She didn’t know me, much less my Mom and her name."
LeeAnn G., Quora
2.
It scared the hell out of me the first time.
After that, I just accepted that the patient had been released from their suffering.
We didn’t tell him because we didn’t want to make his last hours grief-stricken.
Two other nurses, besides me, saw the mists rise and seem to pass through the window together.
I didn’t use names, but I’ll never forget them."
Mena M., Quora
3.
“I had several ghostly encounters while I worked as a charge nurse in a nursing home.
I welcomed her back and asked the CNA (certified nursing assistant) about her return.
I was told she was still in the hospital.
No one was in the bed, and it was perfectly made.
Several hours later, the hospital called to inform us that our resident died.
The time of death was around the same time that I saw her.
I can only guess that she came back to say goodbye.”
Lynn G., Quora
4.
“I worked in a nursery/postpartum unit, which was previously an intensive care unit.
It was a small unit, so I was usually alone with the babies in the nursery.
We had a baby swing for fussy babies.
We kept it turned off.
About once per eight-hour shift, the swing would gradually start swinging all by itself.
It was always swinging all by itself without being turned on.”
Janice W.L., Quora
5.
After he died, nurses still heard the change jingling in the halls."
Sherry B., Quora
6.
“I had a gentleman on a ventilator.
And could we c’mon find one, and that she would be coming as soon as possible.
A priest arrived and gave him the last rites.
“He had liver cancer, and when he died, he bled out through every orifice.
Unfortunately, it was an ugly death because of all the bleeding.
It was so eerie the way it happened.
I shall never forget it.”
Tippy C., Quora
7.
“This story is a true experience.
I am not a mystical person, but some things I just cannot explain.
I worked with a nurse who we will call Mary.
I sort of laughed it off; after all, Susie was dead!
How could she have heard?
But Mary made me go into the room with her.
She told me to go into the bathroom and wash my hands.
I did, looking at Mary through the open door like she was ridiculous.
‘Now,’ she said, ‘I will come wash MY hands.’
She entered the bathroom and barely cleared the doorway before the door slammed shut.
She turned the faucet on, and water sprayed everywhere.”
“We did this on and off for days, and it never failed.
I could go in and wash my hands, no problem, but not Mary.
After a good week of apologies, Mary was forgiven and it all stopped.”
Brenda R., Quora
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“Somebody walked past me while I was at the nurses' station about six months ago.
It was nighttime, and I saw the distinct outline of a tall, thin man.
In fact, I thought it was a particular resident.
Her father had died the previous year.
Whatever I saw came from the direction of her room.
I’ve always wondered if it was her dad coming back to take his little girl home.”
Rebekah, Quora
9.
One night, while assisting a patient, she suddenly heard a man screaming.
She dropped what she was doing and dashed into the hallway, but no one was there.
David R., Quora
10.
We’d always give him sandwiches that we’d set aside for him from tea time.
One night, I came into work to find out he’d passed earlier that morning.
I wasn’t the only one who saw it but was the only one willing to accept it.”
Rebekah T., Quora
11.
“I have sat with many patients who were in the process of dying eminently.
I sat with one older man who was unconscious and watched him breathe.
It was real, and I could only describe it as an energy field.
Thats how it looked.
It covered his head, arms, and trunk and hovered about six inches over the body.
When I looked at his face, I could see and feel that he was no longer there.”
Linda C., Quora
12.
“I was sitting by the side of my closest friend in ICU.
She was on a ventilator and in grave condition.
They allowed me to sit by her bed all night.
The sound of the ventilator whooshed, and the bed slowly tilted from side to side.
I was reading a book.
I was NOT asleep.
I looked up and saw ten to twelve people standing across the room.
They were dressed in loose clothing.
A man sat in a chair, and a child stood next to him.
They were talking to one another but made no sound.
They looked as if an old antique filter was over them, no color.
I look down and up again.
They were still there.
I figured they were her family waiting for her to cross.”
It was shortly after that the people faded away.
My friend survived that night.
I have never seen or felt anything like that before.
The episode probably lasted four or five minutes."
“I have been present for maybe 150 deaths.
During five of them, the patient fought it for hours, even days.
They were scared and afraid to ‘let go.’
That seemed a little supernatural to me.
But strangely, after the first time not scary.”
Cathy R., Quora
14.
“If you are skeptical about ghosts, I urge you to work in a hospital.
I used to think ghosts were nonsense, but no, they are 110% real.
It’s an incredible thing to witness.
There was a woman who used to walk up and down one of the wards.
She was elderly and wearing an old hospital gown.
Working in the morgue, I saw a beautiful woman who apparently was a mortician years ago.
She would suddenly appear, smile, and then walk through the morgue.
I saw her during an actual autopsy once, which scared the life out of me.
I heard her chuckle after I shrieked.
I also often saw a man walking hand in hand with what people believe to be his wife.
They would walk by, nod, and then vanish.
Lastly, an encounter I remember best was when two girls were giggling in a corridor.
I never saw them, but they could be heard giggling nearly every night.
