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

I used to work at a nursing home, and there was an elderly Spanish woman who would follow me around and talk to me in her language. I didn't mind it at all.

When I fell pregnant with my son, they moved me to another section. After giving birth, and a few months later, I was placed back in the section where I used to look after this woman. Sadly, she had passed away. I always wondered what had happened to her.

After my shift ended one night at 11:00 p.m., I had to go down into the basement where my car was parked. The gate wouldn't open. Usually, it sensed when a car was near it. I had to call a staff member via the intercom to let me out. They swiped the access card at the top, near the entry point and waved bye, the gate opened. As I was driving out, I looked in my rear-view mirror and saw that old Spanish woman holding her neck with both arms, staring right at me...

The nursing home I worked at there was this one woman who would always scream in the middle of the night there’s a man watching her I came in one morning at 5am to her screaming about the man pointed at her clsoet I watched the door creep open and all of her hangers were moved very quickly all at once I never got a patient dressed so quickly and we bolted out the room

our NICU has a ghost who turns on the water just like every other visitor that walks in and washes their hands, even our ghost knows hand hygiene before entering the NICU!!

I work in ER. We had a trauma room that for whatever reason, whoever went in that room never made it out (biggest sign was a elderly pt came in for a paper cut, died that day due to a tumor on his lung, no record of it being on there previously). Over that 1 summer, at least 20 people died. You could feel the heaviness in that room. Had the hospital clergy come in to cleanse that room.

I work security at a resort hotel with a waterpark, arcade, and ballrooms. Around 2:30 AM after a wedding, I was doing my final rounds when I noticed one of the decorative wolf statues near the ballroom entrance was facing directly down the hallway. About 20 minutes later I came back and it was facing the opposite direction. I checked the cameras thinking someone was messing with me. The hallway was empty. While reviewing the footage, I noticed something that made my stomach drop. At 2:34 AM, a person walked out of one of the locked ballrooms and stood in the hallway for almost three minutes. They never looked at the camera. They just stood there. I pulled the access logs to see who had opened the ballroom. Nobody had. Then I zoomed in on the footage. The person was wearing my security uniform.

I’m a nurse and work overnights at a hospital for ADULTS. It was change on shift and I was coming on, I went into my pts room to greet him and tell him I’d be his nurse. It was an older gentleman (he was one of my favorite patients, and I had him as a pt every time I came on shift). Well after I greeted him he goes “is that your son?”. I’m like “what?” He goes “the little boy hanging on to your sweater, is that your son?”. I was like “you see a boy hanging on to me right now?” He responded “yes”. I ran out the room soooo fast

I’m not medical professional. However, when my aunt d**d, she used to live I the back house . While my uncle was washing dishes he saw this person walking by and going into the back house. He was as wondering who this person was. He went to check, and when he walked in, my aunt was in bed (she had cancer) and she said to him “please don’t let them take me!” He said “there’s no one here, where is the person that walked in” she said “he’s here, and others! Please don’t let them take me! I don’t want to d*e” then she passed. However, she was in distress. Until this day I think about this, and wonder why she was so afraid. She used to be nice. As far as I know.

I used to have a resident who would come out of her room almost dancing, following something. When I stopped her before going into another residents room she said she was following the beautiful children. I convinced her to sit with me instead of going in the room and she told me what these children looked like, how they died, that this was their home and they loved to dance. Then she said “look! they’re right there! the girl with red hair and the blonde boy”. There was nothing. I somehow got her back to sleep and looked up the history of the property and she was absolutely right. Two children, a boy and girl, died in a house fire and remains couldn’t be found on the very same ground the nursing home was on.

my mom did hospice care for years when I was little. the care home she worked at had this one room that the light and the call button would just turn on. my mom was telling me about this a few years ago cause I asked if she had any stories. well that room, they never let any patients into. they didnt let people in there in general because of the "electrical" my mom would work nightshift and she would see shadows in the room moving.

I had my grandma, my mom was with her in her last moments, she said she can see all these people wearing white and they are so beautiful and they are praying for her and spraying her water. She said she feels the water so calm. And it makes her feels so ease. She also said even if I’m gone don’t worry I can always come see you guys. You will not be alone. My grand ma was the most sweetest soul you can ever come across. She’s very innocent and believed in god every single day. Her beliefs brought me to where I am today. And that’s when I started believing that our maker is actually real !!!

Years ago I was a med tech for a huge 3 story, 100 room Assisted living facility. I had just started a few weeks prior and I worked the NOC shift, the very last floor always gave me an eery feeling because most rooms were vacant so it just had an unsettling feeling to it. This particular night it was only me and the girl in Memory care. I would stay busy all night running around as I was the only staff on the assisted living side and we would get paged all night for help from the residents. Normally it was always the same residents paging for help but this one time I got paged to a room on the 3rd floor that I had never been to before (We receive a notification to our beeper when the person in that room pushes their pendent or call button in their room) I arrived at that room, knocked and let myself in and to my surprise the room was vacant. My heart sank to my stomach but I tried to think rationally about why that could be happening. I cleared the notification as I went back down to the 1st floor to check and make sure maybe the resident hadn’t been transferred to a different room but the system was still spitting out their old room number and I got paged again from the same person/room. I didn’t see any transfers or notes on our board(our med room kept a yt board where we noted any room transfers, ppl oof, or any important notes) I got paged again. I ran to memory care to ask the caregiver if she by any chance was familiar with the resident in that room and she let me know she had passed away before I started working there. I went back to the med room to search up the resident and surely enough she had in fact passed away weeks prior. I even checked to make sure her old pendent had not yet been reassigned to a new resident but that wasn’t the case. I ruled out all logical explanations for it, my coworker never received the notification on her beeper which convinced me it was probably a malfunctioning beeper so I went back to the office to trade out mine for a different one and surely enough around 3am I received another call to the same room , to my new beeper, and confirmed w my co worker that the page was only coming through to me. I’ll never get over that.

Worked at a funeral home and down a hallway in the corner there’s those circular mirrors at the top corner that allow you to see both ends of the hall, during one round of closing up I saw someone standing at the very end of the hall, I walked to the corner to see and there was absolutely no one there

An amazing but scary thing abt hospitals is u openly welcome anyone and everyone including whatever may be attached to them. Im deeply religious but oh let me tell u there are spirits and demons and more out there lurking

I worked at one of the major hospitals in Cleveland, in the ortho unit (overnight). Our nursing staff warned us that we may hear stuff coming out of room 32. I didn’t believe it until … I just discharged a patient at 10 p.m. and after doing rounds at 11 p.m., I sat back down at the nursing station when the bed alarm started going off! No ONE was in the room! The call light would go off! No one’s there!! Never heard it on day shift

i remember i clocked in as a cna and my patient died 3am the day before i clocked in and i had a mini tablet that notifies me when someone calls and his room was 303. and it called for me at 3:00am. I went to go see him just find out his room was completely empty and cold once i opened the door i felt the most coldest breeze come. i was terrified i kinda ran off ngl

In my first hospital, anytime someone got confused in a specific room, they’d all say the same things about a bank, bankers, or needing to get their bank money fast.

I saw a shadow while I was cleaning a hospice room today I was like nope not today!

not someone who works in the medical field but I’ve seen some people who aren’t share their stories so I’ll share one(of many) mine. I used to live with my bf’s family, the apartment complex used to be senior housing. We got our carpet deep cleaned, I kept coming out my room to see if they finished, I noticed it was a young man & his dad working on the carpet. Eventually they yell they’re done, I go out to the living room to look at the carpet & notice a small handprint. I run out bc I was like “??? there wasn’t any kids(hand is small) so whose hand is that?” I see the young man & his dad, asked if they brought anyone else & they were like “no, why?” I have them come up & they’re like “that’s not your hand print?(no kids lived there, not even the neighbors)” I put my hand next to it to leave a print(the heavier hand print is mine) & they just looked up at me, looking pale, & was like “… whose hand is that then…” bc I was the smallest person there, they knew no kids were around, all they could think would be me but as soon as they even saw it wasn’t mine… we all felt queasy. a couple months later, my man had such bad sleep paralysis. to where he said he heard the deepest yet didn’t sound human, voice calling his name. & this was in the living room where the handprint was left…

I had a resident in a nursing home who lived in a room on what I called “the cursed corner.” Before she moved in everyone (except 2 rooms) passed away right after each other. This resident and her family refused additional help because they didn’t want to pay the money. One night I was headed to see if she was coming to dinner and saw her walker but not her in the room. 2 weeks before the family snuck in and took her out of facility and left her walker without telling the facility so I thought the family had grabbed her, but I felt like I should’ve checked again but didn’t because I was called to another room. During dinner my coworker walked in her room to look for her and didn’t find her but felt The Holy Spirit telling her to look again. She walked to the side of the bed and saw her legs sticking up and found her buried face down in her pillow. She ended up going to cardiac arrest and hit her head on her headboard and passed. I felt extremely guilty for not finding her myself. For months afterwards I would see her sitting in her room or in her chair in the dinning room. I even had a nightmare getting a text from my mom saying the resident took my little sister (saying my sister passed and she took her as revenge for not finding her). One night I was covering Noc shift (I usually work 2pm-10pm) and I saw her walking down her hall to her room. Later that night she was in her chair starring directly at me from the dinning room. I later on quit and still hold so much regret.

80yo pt be like "my moms under the bed" or "there's a kid on the ceiling" Ma'am they are not employed here. Visiting hours are active, so please ignore them until 7pm when it's nightshifts problem.