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Posted: 22-12-2006 13:29 Post subject: Supernatural Hospital Happenings

I thought I'd share some stories that my wife has told me over the years regarding her experiences working on one of the wards at the local midwifery hospital.

I'll give a little background about the ward first to put things in perspective. This particular ward is were terminations are carried out for both personal and medical reasons, there are also two bereavement suites were parents who have lost their children whilst in the hospital can spend time with them.

My wife has always said that the ward has a very oppressive atmosphere especially when empty of clients, which is not surprising when you consider all the traumatic experiences that have occured there.

The first experience happened to one of my wifes colleagues. The person in question had gone outside onto a small roof garden attached to the ward for a cigarette, whilst out there this person saw a baby crawling towards them, they then ran terrified back onto the ward and refused to go anywhere else that day by herself.

On another occasion the day shift were handing over to the night shift and everyone was in the ward office when a buzzer in one of the rooms sounded, which can only be turned off in the room that they were activated. The room in question was one of the bereavement suites were a family had recently finished spending time with their recently deceased child whose body was in a basket in the room. When the staff got to the room they found it bereft of anyone living and were at a loss to explain who had activated the buzzer.

Other events include sightings of a toddler running around, the sounds of chanting coming from the bathroom of a room someone was resting in as well as a pair of old ladies sat in the day room.

My wife trained as a psychologist before turning to her current career and is not prone to making up fanciful stories and she assures me that the people who reported the stories to her are of impecable character and seemed genuinly terrified by their experiences.

Posted: 22-12-2006 13:49 Post subject:

We love haunted hospital stories. Cool

There are threads on here about them. Scary stuff. Shocked

Posted: 22-12-2006 13:53 Post subject:

Yep. Keep 'em coming

Posted: 22-12-2006 16:09 Post subject:

My sister's a nurse & she's seen more than her fare share of the ghosties..

Posted: 22-12-2006 16:34 Post subject:

Well, spit 'em out then! Very Happy

My granddad was a senior charge nurse in a psychiatric hospital, on the more violent patients' wards. The hospital was a former manor house, approached (at that time) up a large drive, surrounded by trees. The manor house had its own grounds, orchards, lake etc.

They 'say' that every so often, the former Lady of the Manor, Lady Margaret, would drive up the pathway to the manor house, in a carriage drawn by headless horses (no - I don't know how they saw where they were going either!) and anyone who saw her died within 4 days.

Well, Granddad never saw her, but he did say there were nights when you heard wheels coming up the drive and what sounded like horses champing at the gravel, and you never risked looking out of the window to check! Shocked

My Nan was a staff nurse. She would tell the story of how they had an elderly couple in the hospital, on separate wards (them were the days!). The old lady called my Nan over and told her her husband had just died. Nan tried to reassure the old lady, but she insisted that a bird had just flown through the ward and out the windows - which were closed. At that point, the 'phone rang, and Nan answered it - it was the sister from the Men's ward to tell her that the old man had died and to tell his widow.

Rather peculiar. But she said that kind of thing happened more than once.

My best friends is a surgical and intensive care nurse here in the US. She's told me that she's witnessed souls leaving the dearly departed.

One particular instance was witnessed by multiple nurses, doctors, and family members: the death of a popular local church pastor.

According to my friend, the pastor knew he was dying, and was at peace with it. His family, friends and parishioners came to visit, and he was surrounded by love. He lost consciousness, and was in deep coma. Per his wishes, his family asked that he be disconnected from life support. He smiled a radiant smile and passed; within seconds everyone in the room witnessed a white cloudy mist leave his chest and wind it's way up towards the ceiling and seemingly disappear.

Everyone in the room looked at each other in amazement; there was a lot of "Did you see that?" and "Did I see what I thought I saw?" Being that this was her patient, my friend documented his passing in the medical records, as well as what happened afterwards. The attending physician signed it.

Posted: 23-12-2006 22:13 Post subject:

Be nice to actually SEE that medical record, wouldn't it?

Posted: 23-12-2006 23:29 Post subject:

On one of the other haunted hospital threads one may find the stories of the phantom bottom, the invisible fly and the procession of ghostly heads. Cool

Posted: 24-12-2006 00:12 Post subject:

Posted: 24-12-2006 00:22 Post subject:

That's what I thought (requesting links), especially for the Phantom Bottom! Shocked

Posted: 24-12-2006 00:26 Post subject:

Posted: 24-12-2006 01:07 Post subject:

This is a classic foaf urban legend - no dates are given, no names, no places outside of somewhere in the USA. If your friend exists, she could post the account herself, using her own name, which would at least tell us whether there is an RN in that state with that name. Oh wait, she's on vacation.... or working undercover for the CIA.... or was abducted by aliens......

Posted: 24-12-2006 01:35 Post subject:

Posted: 24-12-2006 01:59 Post subject: And on another hospital topic...

Considering what an A-wipe markbellis is being, I'm not going to bother posting the other fortean hospital stories my friend shared with me.

HOWEVER, if anyone is interested in a hilarious story my nurse friend shared with me about her first Christmas Eve rotation in the ER, which involved a Christmas ham and a patient in stirrups denying it's existence, message me.

Every Christmas Eve, for the rest of my life, I will giggle and remember.

JandZmom

Posted: 24-12-2006 03:14 Post subject:

What really bothers me about stories like this is that nobody considers what kind of emotional impact they have on people who've had loved who've died - they've seen people they've cared about all their lives slip away slowly in pain, and no miracle happened - no puffs of smokes, angelic voices or things like that - they just stopped breathing. What are they supposed to think when they hear stuff like that? Because their father wasn't religious enough, he hasn't gone to heaven?