[MarieJoy]

thats freak me out!!! i hate it everytime that happens

[mountaintex]

I have 2 good stories from nursing, and a few from private life that I will share another time. I worked at the VA in Asheville in 1997, and was first assigned to the beautiful new nursing home that they had built. They had these neat small TVs that would pull out on an arm from the wall and you could position them directly in front of the patients. There was one, however, in a semiprivate room where the patient in the first bed was essentially vegetative. This TV, whether turned on or off, emitted a constant "lub-dub", exactly the sound of a heart beating. I SWEAR it's true. The only way to make it stop was to disconnect the cable from the TV. We all freaked daily when we had to go in there. Maintenance could not answer the question "WHY?".
My other story is in Columbus, NC, where I worked for 5 years in a small OR. We had a great urologist there by the name of Randy Williams, who unfortunately died from carbon monoxide poisoning while at a conference in Jackson Hole, WY. We had stereos in all the ORs, and after Dr. Williams passed away, the radios would come on by themselves at all hours. This could get pretty spooky when you are in a room alone at all hours of the night on call. Some of us thought that the stereos had a timer, but they did not. It was almost always the same song, Rod Stewart's "Some Guys have all the Luck". One day during a cataract surgery I was playing a CD, and this particular doc was very picky that the music always be "soothing", Muzak sounding stuff. Suddenly, the CD quit and the blamed stereo went to AM radio, with a blaring static! No one listens to AM radio! As far as I know, this stereo had NEVER been on AM radio! We all thought that it was just Dr. Williams picking on the eye doc, because he was so anal all the time and Doc W was real laid back! Oh yeah, and the automatic flushing toilet in the PACU would flush frequently by itself with no one in the bathroom. That we thought was another doc, who died long before I went to work there. Just food for thought!

[NEHuskerRN]

Supposedly the OR 13 at St Francis in Tulsa is haunted; guess on of the CV surgeons was in the middle of a case, table started to levitate, scared the crap out of him. He refuses to ever step near the room. Then a few years ago, one of our Pharm Techs was restocking the OR rooms during a REALLY horrible storm (rain, tornado, hail, huge winds--other than the tornados), stepped into OR 13 to hear an ECG rhythm on the screen (she had been a monitor tech also), saw the rhythm go from SR to VF to asystole within 30 seconds. She turned-tail, ran upstairs to her mom on the Cardiac Stepdown (where I worked at the time to hear this story) and freaked out!

[NEHuskerRN]

At my current assingment in OKC, I was told to watch out for the "little girl"; many pts had complained about a little girl with long blond pony-tails, typically right before they died. Now when I have to go to one of our closed ICUs for supplies (low-census), I have to keep my head down so that I don't see reflections in the doors to the ICU rooms. (Kind of a believer of the ghosts)

[Danielsa3]

I have 2 different stories.

This one isnt really a ghost story but it was really weird. While I was working in a nursing home, I was tending to a patient that was unable to move and unable to talk. It took 2 people to move her around in bed because she was really stiff. One day when me and my fellow cna (who happened to be a male) was moving her, she sat straight up and yelled "Dont you put your hands on me you filty animal or I will get my shot gun!"... and then she went right back to her normal state... we told our charge nurse and she didnt have an explanation about what would cause that...

Another story would be the ONE AND ONLY time i worked 3rd shift at a nursing home. In this place we had a resident living room that was home to 2 really big birds in cages. We drape a piece of cloth over the cages so they will go to sleep. We were all sitting at the nurses station when all of a sudden the birds came flying out of the living room, no one was in there to let them out... and when we went back in there... the cloth and door was still like they were suppose to be.

[mountaintex]

I have heard heart sounds in empty ORs, too. This isn't a ghost story, but it is kind of funny.......my friend and coworker were recovering an elderly patient one day after surgery, and this particular woman was an elderly retired nurse who was very alert preop but was somnolent after, and we really wanted her to respond so that we could get her out of PACU and go home! Nothing fazed the old girl! No sternal rubs, no repositioning, nothing....Finally my coworker and I were just shooting the breeze about someday being retired old nurses and being "crotchety", when my friend says in jest and parody "I NEED A NURSE". The old woman sat bolt upright and said "Where?". We laughed until we cried! Someday we too shall be there.......