63 True Hospital Horror Stories Shared By Nurses And Doctors Who’ll Never Forget Them

It’s my whole unit. It’s a telemetry unit that was formerly a peds unit. For the months I’ve been here, patients always seeing kids, hitting the call light for “someone to get these kids out of my room.” It’s always the patients that are close to the end that bring it up

When I gave birth to my first son, my husband and I stayed two nights in the hospital. On the first night, both of us were restless and anxious, we assumed it was because we were new parents and had normal anxiety around it. When we finally managed to sleep, we both woke up at the exact same time and I ran to his little bench bed and refused to sleep on the hospital bed anymore. Neither of us said anything but we both were terrified.

In the morning, I explained I dreamt so vividly of this old man peeking around the bathroom corner at me, only his eyes and forehead visible. My husband told me he dreamt of this old lady soaking wet in a red coat, standing at the end of his bed. The next night we both woke up to a code blue. When we finally fell back to sleep I had another vivid dream, and this time it was the same old man but he was standing at the end of my bed and wearing an oxygen mask and wheeling an oxygen tank behind him. His breath was rattling and he let out this horrible scream.

I woke my husband up and he looked terrified too, we both asked to be discharged in the morning as soon as possible and left 5 hours later. Dreading going back to birth my second son in a couple months

I work night shift, and one night I was sitting in our TV room on my break, scrolling on my phone. Out of nowhere, I felt like someone was watching me. I looked up and saw a completely black shadow peeking around the corner. I could only see the top of its head. The second I looked at it, it quickly moved back out of sight. I looked back down at my phone, and a few seconds later the head appeared again. When I looked up, it ducked back once more. At that point, I got up to see who was there, but nobody was around. I checked the halls and all the residents were in bed. To this day, I have no idea what I saw. I have so many other stories of this place. working night shift is NOT for the weak

I used to work in a dementia care unit as a CNA/ Med-Aid, I had this sweet old lady on hospice that would always call me Shannon ( my name is sam) but I went with it cause she was very sweet. She would always ask for me even on nights when I didnt work, she said that she like how I always got her fresh water and good snacks before bed. she sadly passed 6 months after arriving. The night after she passed I was working my hall that had her room on it and I noticed that my pager kept going off for her room. I finally went in there after ignoring it for a while and the room was completely empty. her call light had been taken out so I was a little creeped as to why it kept going off. when I left the room as I started walking down the hall my radio started going off, a bunch of static and beeping, and then all of a sudden I heard the name Shannon called over my radio clear as day before it completely cut off. I haven't worked there in a long time but I think about this every now and then.

my tia is a cna & has been since i was born. i used to spend the night at her house (along with all the cousins) all the time as a kid. this particular night she slept on the couch with my little cousin because they were up late watching tv & i went to sleep in her room which was right next to the living room. that night i woke up for some reason & i sat up & looked in the living room (her bedroom door always stayed open so she could listen out in case me or my cousins called out for her) & saw my little cousin just sitting on a stool next to my tia.

so i got up & walked out & started saying his name & asking him what he was doing, because he was just sitting there watching her sleep. he didn’t answer me or even turn to look at me & it wasn’t until i got closer did i realize i could see the wall right through him. i just remember my blood running cold & i looked over at the couch & saw my little cousin sleeping at the other end of the couch that my tia was on. so i slowly looked back at the boy watching her sleep & realized it was someone i didn’t know. he was really pale & wearing what looked like a navy blue sailor suit & a hat that looked like the ones the peaky blinders wear. he never once looked over at me.

i started to back up slowly right back into her room & never took my eyes off of him. i got back in the bed & somehow went back to sleep lol. i told my mom about it & begged her not to tell my tia or any of my family because i knew they would make fun of me. but ofc hispanic moms can’t keep anything a secret lol so everyone found out & my tia told us that it was a little odd because when she was at work, the residents would always ask her who that little boy was behind her. safe to say i never spent the night again.

ooh my aunt had this with one of the CT rooms at the hospital she used to work at. She worked graveyard shift and would have the door open on the hall from the monitor room bc of all the heat the old computers put off and she saw a little boy, blonde hair in a bowl cut, brown eyes, wearing Oshkosh overalls and a striped shirt with buster brown shoes, peak 90s look and she was like "oh hey are you lost?" and he nodded and walked down the hall. when my aunt got to the hall, he was down by the end of the hall near the elevator and desk and he just vanished. she saw him a couple more times and tried to help him cross over but he never deviated from his routine

I work LTC . I was 8 months pregnant went into this ladies room to give her her pills. Shes acting completely normal. As I approached her a terrible smell hit me. It smelled like rotten meat & d***h. I had to leave because I started to gag. I know she was just showered so I asked my coworkers if they can smell it they say no. Two hours after my shift she passed unexpectedly.

the f**king hat man haunted one of the facilities i worked at, i was a little skeptical my coworkers were lying until a resident asked me who the man was that walked up and down the hall in a top hat and long jacket, she said it was weird she only saw him at night. And thennn a family member came to the nurses station, asked us who was standing over their parent. sure enough a man in a hat and cloak. he would also stare at my coworkers and residents through their windows

Hi there, Former hospital employee at a County hospital! I have a few but this one especially spooked me! The hospital I work at has a McDonald's in it. Ok beginning of shift id get to work early maybe 20 min before punching I usually go and grab a coffee from McDonald's. my shift started at 6. McDonald's opens at 5am. I was there around 535. Mind you I walk in and there's no customers just me. I place my order and sit close to the counter and wait for my number. Boom number is called I get up and start walking towards to grab my coffee when something flies and lands right in front of me. A Straw! I look around thinking maybe someone was behind me messing with me. Theres NO One!! I grab my coffee and ask the employee if she seen what I saw. she said no bt a lot of weird things happen there because McDonald's is right above the morgue!! The Straws are in a metal cup on top of the counter. Someone or something literally picked it up and threw it my way..... Make things a little weirder it happened on my brother's bday who is deceased!

I used to work at a retirement home. one of the residents was a gentle spoken person it took a lot for him to speak to you. one day during my shift he was screaming his lungs off and all the other coworkers of mine would just go on with their day and I would ask why is everyone behaving like this? is he okay? they told me whenever he screamed and meant somebody was going to die I didn't believe it at first but sure enough every time he screamed someone died.

I work in peds, had a patients mom call me in to tell me someone must be missing their child because a little girl in a hospital gown came in through her bathroom and looked around like she was lost, then left. We had no girls on the unit at the time (very small unit). She described her for me, and it was exactly like a girl who had passed on the unit a few years prior, and turns out after talking to my coworkers many patients saw this girl.

My dad died at the hospital I work at, I've had to ask respectively to my higher ups that I don't work that specific unit. I feel his presence all over the hospital. Ever since his passing weird things have happened like doors closing, lights turning off with no one in the room, and things being knocked over. He's definitely watching over me

I’m a night shift ER nurse and was taking a nap in an office/sleep room that used to be a patient room decades ago. I kept feeling this pressure on my chest and I thought it was just anxiety. I tried to ignore it but then it started pounding hard on my chest and was painful. I had to leave the room and as soon as I stepped out that feeling was gone. I was telling my coworkers about it right after and they all looked terrified. I asked what was wrong and they said my chest was red. I looked in the mirror and I had this huge red hand imprinted right on my chest. I think something was trying to perform CPR on me. Later that night one of our docs who sleeps in that same office said he could feel someone sitting at the edge of the bed.

I work night shift, and there was one hall that always felt off to me. I was always creeped out walking down it by myself. I had a patient who stayed on that hall, and she would constantly talk to someone even though nobody else was in the room. She always said a man was speaking to her and would cry out for him to leave her alone. Sometimes she’d point at the chair or the ceiling and say, “He’s here again.” She later passed away. After her body was picked up, I went into her room and looked up to see a man sitting in the chair. I immediately ran out of the room. When I came back with my coworker, the lights were off and the door closed by itself right in front of us (safe to say I haven’t went back in that room since)

we have a ghost who we’ve named biscuit in our er who likes to randomly print paper off the monitor on the crash cart, will randomly give us a rhythm and spo2 in one specific room but we love her she’s sweet just want attention sometimes especially when it’s busy she gets made when there’s chaos this one poor pt had to listen to the asystole alarm go off for 10 min straight after i disconnected him even though i silenced the alarm and my coworker kept remotely silencing it. do you know how awkward it is to go “thank you biscuit i appreciate the help but i don’t need it anymore please leave” in front of a pt to get her to stop

First time I sat with a patient she started slow laughing while looking in the dark corner behind me at 2am, I moved to the door

I thought it was just my minor psychosis when I saw a patient in my l&d. when I came out of the shower and my nurse was waiting on me I saw it standing at the corner. I said "you're probably going to have to get the doctor here because I think my psychosis is kinda getting out of control" she said yes and asked me why so I sighed and told her ive been seeing the same gown lady just stalking me and she was like "oh yeah she sometimes hangs on with the ones that gave birth to boys" I just said "what?"

I work in a nursing home I work from 2-10 pm. I work in the 100 hall (rehab) and there’s this room 102 we call that room the “show room” well at nights while I’m about to leave or throw trash, in my corner of my eye I always see someone sitting down in the bed but like a body figure , no lights on like lights off you see it. The other time I was walking pass trough again I was going to leave or throw trash when i heard someone in that room say “ hey come here “ I ran to the nurses station and I was there with the nurse all freaked out. btw no one was in that room

me checking on a patient, the patient looks up and says "the face is looking at me" I say HUH & she points at the curtain and says "the man in the curtain"

Just recently started working at a nursing home as a night shift CNA. I had a certain resident constantly hit his call light. When I went in there this last time he said “ I need to pack now they are here. They are mad at me.” When I told him he couldn’t go anywhere since it was 3 am, he said “I’ll go to sleep but just know he’s mad” He d**d hours later.