"All The Other Nurses Turn White": 39 Unexplainable Things These Night Shift Workers Experienced

I worked grave in a casino alone in the back of the house. I heard crazy laughter around 3 am in the hallway. I had to lower the radio because I was like wtf was that? Then heard it again. I called down to security to have someone come check if someone was in the bathroom/hallway, they sent multiple guys and they couldn’t find anyone or anything. Whenever I had to use the restroom after that I’d call security to escort me and wait outside the door.

I remember a vivid dream in which I got off the city bus at one of our malls and going up the stairs in the middle of the night. There was a gentleman there and though I am vision impaired. I knew he was standing to my right and the parking lot was dimly lit. I heard two cars drag racing as fast as they could around the parking lot area which made a loop. The gentleman said someone’s going to get killed if they don’t stop. The racing continued until a fiery crash. I can see enough that I saw the flames. I didn’t know two cars hitting could go up in flames like that. The incident was on the news the next day. Talk about being freaked out. we lost four teenagers tragically that night. Three in one car and one in the other.

I used to be a Deputy Sheriff, and the first two years of service were spent working in the Adult Detention Center (jail) The ADC in question is a large facility that houses over a thousand inmates in a very heavily populated Mid Atlantic county.

The ADC has an in-house medical facility generally for inmates with chronic issues, for those who are detoxing, or those who have something contagious. It could be a busy place to work, as someone housed in medical would end up going to the hospital for one reason, or another. The deputy’s post saw a lot of traffic, relative to other posts in the jail, as it had a refrigerator that other deputies would use, and was also the repository for keys used by floating deputies.

One inmate was a long term resident (months) of the medical post, which was unusual. Inmate X was a fat, jolly looking guy who was already sentenced and awaiting space in a state prison that could handle his medical needs. Inmate X was terminally ill, and his crimes were so heinous that his request for compassionate release was denied. Inmate X really laid it on thick being folksy and trying to befriend the nurses and whichever deputy was working. The nurses and my fellow deputies were professional with him, but he wasn’t someone with whom we engaged in banter.

Inmate X finally goes to prison, and life goes on. Several months later, I get assigned to spend the second half of one shift in the medical area. We had a very late rotation, so I didn’t get on post until nearly 2 AM. After checking up on everyone, I went out to where the nurses office to get some coffee. the nurse on duty was one I was friendly with. She says to me “Did they tell you in your roll call that Inmate X finally passed away?” We were not told. Generally, the average deputy isn‘t keeping tabs on inmates once they go off to state prison.

i returned to my post, and go inside the little secure room where I watch over the inmates in medical. I sit down and the room suddenly gets freezing cold. My hair stood up on my neck and arms, like there’s an electric charge in the air. Behind me, one of the two sets of keys for the floating deputies is on a hook on the cinder block wall. There were a bunch of large, heavy jail keys on this key set. The keys started swinging around on their own and made a bunch of noise. My instincts told me to leave, but….you can’t! Relief was still a few hours away. The feeling in the room turned back to normal within a couple of minutes, and the keys stopped swinging on their own. By far, the spookiest experience I had working there.

The toilet in a children’s dollhouse we have kept flushing by itself. It wouldn’t start until after midnight. It would make this giant WOOSH sound. At first I searched all the toys and couldn’t figure out what it was, because nothing would activate while I was looking. Then one night, it happened while I was sitting on the chair in the same room. I said out loud “STOP” because at this point I was over it lol. Then it happened twice back to back, immediately after me saying that. Since it went on longer I was able to follow the sound and figure out what it was and turn off the dollhouse.

Creeped me out.

At the one hospital I worked at had a pt pass prior to our shift… was on hospice.. we came on shift pt was still in the room … bag and tag nurse wheeled pt downstairs… couple hours later room is empty we are sitting in nurses station.. call bell goes off for the room the hospice pt was in .. we all looked at each other like no way.

Another night I was sitting at the same nurses station talking to a girl about paranormal stuff I said I found it to be interesting… I told her about this guy I knew when I was younger said his moms house was haunted and had videos of stuff moving on its own he asked if I wanted to see I said no I’m good lol … I also said how it feels like that guy and his brother were cursed because they both lost people they were close to in accidents they were in with them… she then told
Me a story about a girl she knew who died at a festival and weird stuff was happening at her parents house since … I said wait did she die in an accident trapped inside a vehicle? She said YES… turns out the girl she was talking about was actually the person who died in the accident with the friends younger brother I had mentioned…

Other than that the sinks would randomly go off by that station too…

would also get a spooky feeling if I had to use a certain elevator it would make random stops often with no one there ..

I used to work at a hotel and on a night shift I was flicking through cameras and basically on one of the second floor cameras all I could see was a shadow sort of thing (bare in mind the lights are on) running back and forth but it wasn't a human figure and the shadow was inhumane speed so I went to one of my coworkers and as soon as I went on cameras to show them it disappeared.... Idk what this was but ngl it scared the fck outta me.

Lighthouse caretaker. Charlie fell down the stairs in the late 1800s and died .He used to stamp up the hall way every other night. I used yell at him to go to f*****g bed. He also turned on the radio in the dead of night.

Had someone abruptly run up on me and say another persons name, i.e., "Tim?". In the middle of a field in a locked landfill in the middle of nowhere.

At my old job, I worked with photographic film. A large portion of my time at the job was in a 99% dark room. The 99% was from extremely dim floor strip lighting that you had to sit in the darkness for about 10 minutes before being able to see at all.

It was a large room and usually had 5 people in it doing work. One night, it was only me and one other coworker. I wont explain the entire room layout, but there was a thin elevator to bring large rolls of film up and down from the floor above us. This elevator has a sensor that triggers an alarm and stops the elevator from moving if you put something into the elevator when the lift wasn't down.

Behind the elevator, on the other side of the opening, there is a chair. Across the room, against the wall is a machine for exposing film strips. The distance between it and the elevator is about 20 feet I'd say.

I was sitting in the chair, waiting for an issue with production to finish so we could continue with our work. My coworker was doing work at the machine against the wall. It was dead silent and then the alarm just started going off. It made both myself and my coworker jump out of our skins.

She asked me if I messed with it and I said no. I turned the alarm off. Its a clean room environment, so no bugs and no dust to trigger the alarm. I worked there for 5 years and it only happened that once. I never really felt comfortable in that room on PM shift on my own. Always felt like something was watching, but I think working 8+ hours in complete dark for years will do that to you.

Not me, but a ex-coworker before me.

Context: We worked in a power plant, but the terrain is massive and it covers many acres. For that reason, we weren't at the generators, but in a separated Central area, with its proper kitchen and dining building, a football(soccer) 7-a-side field, and a Control Building. To get to the kitchen from control building, you NEED to cross the field.

Let's call him Leon. Leon was a very good electrician which sometimes doubled as a handyman who did more jobs. In this case, he was assistant for control room operator (which for night shift, made them and the boss (sometimes) the only 3 people awake in the whole terrain). For his break, he had to go to the kitchen to heat up his food, but all the way there crossing the football field he felt unease from the very beginning. Once in the building, he said he felt a very cold and uncomfortable breeze behind him, as he could hear someone calling for his name, most importantly, not screaming, but almost as if they were in the same building. The first time he called out for who was talking to him but when he heard his name a second time, this time claiming he heard like it was coming closer, he froze because no one could be calling out for him at that time. From his words, he could feel his skin crawling and goosebumps forming, and extremely unease, which is why he bolted out of there back to the control room, telling the operator his experience. The operstor insisted no one could have called out and he was imagining things, but he stiñl would refuse to go back tot he kitchen after that for the rest of the night, opting to rather eat cold food. After the fact he didnt dare go to the kitchen on his own for the next week or 2

That experience was way before I was working there, and he has kept the story so consistent througout the years that at this point none of my coworkers believed it was fake, and since it felt so grounded without like uber extra paranormal "and then all the painting fell down" we didnt have a reason to not believe him either, and even talking to the operator at the time, he not only verified the events but also claimed he also felt like he was watched very regularly.

As the overnight bellman at a 5star hotel in SF, A guest asked to go up to the "Haunted room" and retrieve some flower arrangements. It's like 2 am and I walk down the corridor to the archway leading into the room. As I entered I noticed that the air was suddenly ice cold. I checked that all the windows were closed,grabbed the flowers and got the h**l out of there. Many other workers refused to even go in there.

I’ve worked at a handful of bars in downtown/uptown/Temescal in Oakland. Several of them are connected to a kind of underground tunnel system thru the basements, most of them have had walls built between them through the years but all of them have pretty complex floor plans, lots of corners, some have chain link fences, big time dank musty dungeon vibes. I’ve had my fair share of shoulder taps, someone calling my name from a corner, movement in the corners of my vision, etc, but the worst was at the Tribune building. The basement there is actually relatively recently renovated, there’s an elevator that goes down to it, the hallway looks a lot like the hallway in an office building. But the liquor room where we stored our product that I’d have to visit a couple times a shift was definitely spooky. Lots of loud bumps, crashes, the light switch turning itself off. The room itself was a standard concrete basement with a walk-in cooler for chilled wine/beer kegs, one time I was in there taking inventory and someone knocked on the door. I thought that was odd, especially since it was c*****d open, and when I opened the door there was no one there. The ownership and management knew that it was haunted, apparently in 2004 a lady jumped off the building to commit s*****e citing eviction as her reason in her note. No restaurant has been able to survive in that location financially, so I think it’s cursed.

I work in an independent living scheme where us carers are based and deliver domiciliary care in their own apartments. Loads of people have passed away there and before that place was built because an old care home was there before. Apparently a person committed s*****e there also. It’s not just the night shifts we get activity - it’s in the day too. I’ve had the staff room hand dryer go off twice when I wasn’t even in the room. We have had the restaurant alarms going off when no one was in there. Once in the restaurant a radio that was switched on playing old music yet the day staff said they never left it on and it had been shut since they left. We have had pendant calls from apartments that are empty. We have heard footsteps and people walking into the residents lounge in the middle of the night for no one to turn up. I have seen figures too. I have experienced the same flat with two different residents who lived there say something keeps knocking on their front door and leaving it open and yet both of these residents were chair/bed bound. And I know it was happening because when I would visit the door would be open a jar. We checked the fob history and it was only carers that would open the doors and lock after themselves at each care call. No log or activity on the door opening by itself. Loads of strange stuff happens there.

This an early morning paranormal experience at work. I was working at a grocery store 20 years ago. I was in the bakery/deli department. My shift started at 6am. I was into my shift, getting set up. I dropping fried chicken into the fryers. To the right of the fryers, there is a storage room. In the back of the storage room was the office. Through the corner of my eye, I saw a person shorter than me wearing a hoodie walk behind me into the office. When I was done dropping chicken, I walked back into the office thinking my boss had walked in there. There was nobody there. I thought I had lost my mind. A week or two later I finally got brave enough to say something. Turns out there is a hoodie wearing ghost that everyone has seen. He just hangs out in that department.

I used to work in an office type building alone at night and this incident happened back in 2016. I usually worked in the back of the building but my boss wanted me to help out up front where the offices were one night. I was up there working in an office when I heard a female cough right outside the door. I came out the door and didn’t see anyone. I said “Hello?” several times but no reply. I ended up walking through the entire building and I was the only one there. 😳.

Used to work the night shift at an adult novelty store. It was in an old house that had been renovated. When I got there, I was warned it was haunted by a spirit called “James.” After a really confusing and traumatic experience with the paranormal as a child, I’ve just tried to ignore/avoid anything that invites it to do anything with me. So I wasn’t out to see if this “James” was real or what his intentions were. For the most part, I didn’t experience anything, other than feeling creeped out sometimes when I was alone. One of my coworkers had a drink knocked out of her hand one night, but I didn’t see it.

But one night, I was straightening and vacuuming the store and a different coworker freaked out and took over those duties. We had cameras, but they were a bit janky and would cut out sometimes - but it was like camera 8 would be out one night but be up another, and same with a few others. But they stayed that way if they cut out. This night was weird, because my coworker said that every room I went into, the camera that should’ve seen me would cut out. After noticing this pattern, she had me switch with her. The cameras didn’t cut out with her while I watched. It freaked me out a little tho.

Nothing else happened that I remember. I don’t like messing with any of that stuff lol.

Okay I've got a few stories about one place I worked at. However I am skeptical because they could possibly be explained. I used to work at a big chain auto parts store. The location I worked at got shut down because the company isnt doing to good right now. However I used to work a lot of closing shifts with one other coworker. There would be nights where you would hear heavy loud prominent foot steps on top of the roof. heavier then any bird that's for sure. However the roof assess was locked and you would need to bring your own latter to get onto of the roof. There have been times when something really big or heavy sounding would crash/fall in the store. Also if I may add. the store was a small location I could walk from one side to the other in under a minute. that's the whole store. the actual shopping area was 1 quarter of the whole place. When things that sound heavy and loud fall. You'd be able to easily find it... However we've heard a ton of things get 'thrown' in a way or just fall. But you can walk the whole store over and over again and not find a single thing misplaced or on the ground. One night my manager heard someone trying to get into the store via the emergency exits on the side of the building. However he couldn't find anyone when opening the door. The more closer we got to closing day, the building became more and more 'restless' in a sense. More things would fall, more unexplained footsteps on the roof or somewhere in the building. I believe that the ground the building sat on was some Indian burial ground as I live in Texas. However the location was feeding off of the negative energy as we become more stressed and more irate customers came in trying to get cheaper parts. My manager (huge believer in the paranormal) claimed that one night he saw a black figure turn the corner as he was walking through the store. Again nothing crazy happened but given the fact that we had no radio. Hearing things at night gave you the creeps. Was it Paranormal? probably not. But who knows.

I used to work at a hotel and on a night shift I was flicking through cameras and basically on one of the second floor cameras all I could see was a shadow sort of thing (bare in mind the lights are on) running back and forth but it wasn't a human figure and the shadow was inhumane speed so I went to one of my coworkers and as soon as I went on cameras to show them it disappeared.... Idk what this was but ngl it scared the fck outta me.

Left for work early once because I was bored and couldn't sleep (it was about 2am) and just sort of just drove aimlessly around my town (it's a middle of nowhere midwest place). Drove past the local cemetery and saw what I thought was just a deer moving, but rolling the window down and looking closer, I saw a human shaped figure out aways. I was looking out my driver's side window and turned around for a split sec to grab my flashlight from the center counsel, when I turned back around the thing was SPRINTING at me. F*****g floored it out of there, said f**k the flashlight and bailed. It was still a ways out and there weren't any lights in the cemetery where it was at, but I didn't want to stick around and find out because the thing looked f*****g pissed based on how aggressive it was running at me. Honestly might have just been a homeless guy but g*****n... was a bit jumpy later at work lol.