Hospital Workers Admit The Spookiest Things They've Ever Witnessed While On The Job
Have you ever had an unexplainable experience? Something that gnaws on the side of your vision, but is unable to be seen? Have you ever felt someone’s eyes on you only to turn to find nothing?
That absolute terror that shocked your system in response to a feeling? Perhaps a premonition. The paranormal is something that fascinates us, it’s the answer to the ultimate question.
And where better to explore that than at the one place that hinges on the plane of reality and the beyond. Where spirits pass daily.
Hospitals are perfect for having devastating, weird, uncomfortable and strange experiences.
The creepiest stuff happens in hospitals. Some believe the veil between the living and the dead is thinnest there. Doctors and nurses are on that front line.
From the paranormal to the supremely uncomfortable, these are 25 stories that’ll keep you up at night.
25. Hallucinating Religious Music is One of My Greatest Fears
About 2 years ago we treated patients during a fungal meningitis outbreak. Our acute care floor has a census of 20. During this, at least 10 to 15 were meningitis patients, age ranging from people in their 20s to their 90s.
There are no shared rooms and all the patients were in isolation, no contact with one another. Many of them had the same hallucinations of children in the corners of their rooms and auditory hallucinations of religious music.
24. Awww He Came Back for His Wife
For the last 4 years, I've worked summers and weekends at a nursing home in my hometown. Two years ago, we had a married couple in their 90s (He was 95, she was 96). I always found them adorable.
They spent their entire days together, and it was clear to me from the first day I met them just how much they cared for and depended on one another.
She always waited for him at the table so they could have breakfast together, and made sure the staff made his coffee the way he liked it.
They slept in separate rooms because he was suffering from (relatively mild) dementia and would occasionally get up during the night, confused, which disturbed her sleep.
Yet they would always end the day sitting in her room, drinking tea and talking before we helped him to his room to go to sleep.
A few months after celebrating their iron anniversary (70 years!), the husband died. It wasn't really unexpected, as he had been sick for a few weeks, and the nurses knew he wouldn't recover.
Two weeks later, his wife got weaker and mostly stayed in her bed. Now, she was not demented at all.
At times, she seemed brighter than me—she kicked my ass at crosswords—which is why something that happened while she was on her deathbed creeped me out.
I was in her room helping her adjust her blankets, near the end of my shift, around 10 pm. She had been sleeping before I came in to check on her, so the room was dark. She had complained about being cold, so I closed and locked the window.
As usual, we were making small talk, when suddenly, she went silent, looked towards the door and said "John?" (her husband's name). "John, is that you? No, John, wait." Then the door to her room slammed shut at tremendous force.
I honestly do not believe in ghosts or anything similar. I'm not a very spiritual person. Yet that terrified the crap out of me. I had just closed her window, and all doors in the nursing home automatically closes and locks at 8 pm.
There's no way it was the wind. I only worked with four other people that night, all of whom were in the staff room at the time. All other patients who might be able to walk around on their own were sleeping. There was literally no one nearby.
She barely seemed to notice, not even jumping from the loud noise the door made and told me "It's ok, you can leave now. Good night!" She died two days later, in her sleep.
I barely ever tell anyone about this, ‘cause I never thought anyone would believe me. And because to this day, I don't understand what happened, and it creeps me out.
23. Totally Normal, Someone’s Just Touching Your Feet
I was looking after a patient who needed one on one care when I still worked at one of the public hospitals, who had vivid hallucinations of people crawling on the floor and touching the feet/legs of anyone not in bed.
She went on to describe in great horror-story type detail the person she saw touching my feet, while I sat in a chair next to her for part of my shift.
It was actually made worse by the fact that she was a moderately good storyteller and the fact that I knew she was mentally ill/actually hallucinating and not just pulling my leg for something to pass the time...
22. Phantom Bell Rings and an Apparition Appears
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—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.
