“This, to me, is the scariest thing at work.
They see something you don’t.”
88th_coward
Sweet justice
Did a rotation in a burn unit.
samanthavaughan
There are tons of stories that go around, but Ill share my favorite.
They both were being treated in the same icu but on opposite ends.
Get the god damn bitch out of my room!
We had a very robust, confused old lady on our floor.
She was always fighting, kicking, trying to get out of bed.
Very restless and agitated, as some patients Ive had before can get before death.
It was 30…20…then flat lined.
We checked for a pulse and did not find any.
She was a DNR so we did not attempt resuscitation.
Less than 10 minuets later she calls us back in.
The old lady is at it again, hitting, kicking, trying to get out of the bed.
She came back to life!
I think she made it out of the hospital too.
When residents get close to death they always see a little girl .
One of my patients a very alert gentleman he knew all our names and was very alert and oriented .
He died that night .
Shes come up over the years its always the same thing they see her and then they die .
Other coworkers have had the same experience.
We went to check and sure enough found that the gentleman had died.
I think that I have never cried that much in my life.
I worked three twelves normally but would pick up overtime and picked up a night shift.
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 just exhaustion and didnt really think about it much after that.
But you are damn sure I didnt use that hallway at night ever again.
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.
She has been seen by both staff and patients.
Haunts may not be the correct term, but she has been witnessed by several.
BigJRitch
They linger
I worked as a Medtech at an assisted living facility.
We brushed the resident off knowing that Margarets room was empty.
About an hour later Margarets pendant started going off from her empty apartment.
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 just thought it was some sort of delirium.
Multiple others have seen him too.
One night no one was even in the same room as the button and the lullaby started playing.
It did that twice then we unplugged the entire thing.
It still went off once more that night, and again a few days later despite being entirely disconnected.
That was a few years ago and no one ever heard it do that before or since.
DrunkOnSushi
Malevolence
This was an odd experience.
Im a nurse in the PACU and was on call during a big ass snow storm.
It was super dark and I just felt…anger from it.
Like this unbridled hatred and rage.
It was so heavy it was palpable.
It almost felt like it was jealous I was alive?
Then, it was gone and I was fully awake.
Ive had sleep paralysis from time to time, but this felt different.
And I have NEVER felt such hatred from anything Ive come across in my life, real or conjured.
The cliche part here is this happened around 3 am.
lucidzealot
Hey
This is probably going to get buried.
I turn around and there is no one else in the room.
Mind you, my patient was intubated and sedated so theres no possible way it was them.
It was a womans voice as well so I thought it was my preceptor.
She told me no and and Ive never seen someones eyes get so big.
HELLAclogged
Bloody ghost
This story is more about my mom shes a nurse.
She was walking through her nursing home and acting like it was a normal day.
But it wasnt, people were looking at her really weirdly.
After a couple hours someone asked her what happened to her child?
She asked what they were talking about.
They said that everyone has been seeing a bloody boy walking beside her all day.
Then she looked behind her and no one was there.
Then all day after that people kept asking what happened to her child.
When she got home she looked up every incident at her nursing home.
She found something about a murder but I dont remember the whole story.
Marshmallow88888
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 conciousness.
We had to do a rapid intubation and he ended up passing away a few days later.
Before Mom & Dad made it to 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.
Approximately two years later, family comes in with sick infant.
They remembered me (I did once I recalled their story) and I was their provider again.
Their daughters name was Hanna.
Nope, she wasnt even conceived yet.
There was an old lady who insisted on being strapped down at night in her bed.
My aunt is then off and whoever is this ladies nurse does not strap her down at night.
eternalrefuge86
Death predictions
Im an ICU nurse.
I figured what the heck its his Saturday night, come on in and sit with your dad.
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 behaviour because of the stroke.
The son just started crying and screaming I knew it!.
How the heck he knew, we were all a bit freaked out.
The husband said he wanted her to be buried with her ring as she never took it off.
My coworker was in the morgue and was washing the body.
She removed the ring to mark it down on the paperwork.
As soon as she did, a styrofoam head they used for wigs went flying across the room.
She just said out loud, alright, alright.
Ill put your ring back on.
Wackydetective
They see someone I dont
Im a nurse.
Ive witnessed quite a lot with alzheimer people.
They often develop their own scenarios in their own head, often accompanied by vivid hallucinations.
Once during nightshift, I heard a woman scream in fear.
Asking what was wrong, she thought the building was on fire.
But this is not the case.
People with hallucinations have been found to actually see, hear, smell, etc.
That woman actually saw fire.
She actually smelled fire.
She didnt just make that up to be crazy.
Its what her brain told her was happening.
And she was in real panic for her life.
And the same applies to when those people see someone else in their room.
And it makes no sense to discuss with them that no ones there.
To them, someone IS there.
Play along, and theyll be fine.
This, to me, is the scariest thing at work.
They see something you dont.
