I don’t know, if I was a ghost, I would probably not hang around in a hospital. Depressing places. I would go to Hawaii, hang out on a beach. Maybe go haunt some evil asshole that needs hauntin’.
I work at a hospital at night as cleaning staff, and believe me, hospitals definitely are haunted. Automatic doors randomly opening, screens lighting up, sometimes things just fall on the ground without any cause, unexplainable noises…
If ghosts really existed, and they haunted the place of their deaths, then hospitals should indeed be full of them. The fact that they aren’t should undermine belief in haunting and ghosts.
According to Gjost Whisperer, most people just ‘go straight up,’ so to speak. And most ghosts that hang around are there for mundane stuff, like want to make sure their widow is happy or whatever. So they wouldn’t want to haunt anyone anyway. And of the remaining malicious ghosts, only a few are strong enough to actually affect anything.
I don’t believe in ghosts and that is a TV show, but hypothetically it makes sense
With all the extra cameras in everyone’s pocket you’d think ghost sighting would have gone up. All the years before phone cameras everyone had a wild ghost story. And as soon as pics or it didn’t happen became standard then they all dried up
This is a cultural thing. In some countries and languages, their movies portray hospitals as being haunted. While in a hospital in Thailand, a nurse, thinking I was sleeping, went to check my pulse. I immediately sat up and her feet nearly cleared the bed. I was told later by a friend that in Thai movies, hospitals are frequently the site of hauntings, and many hospital workers are generally uneasy in the early hours. I had accidentally played into the cultural trope.
My wife worked in a vent unit at the end of Covid as a nurse. Based on her accounts, they are absolutely infested with spirits. This isn’t the “oh Mrs. Johnson’s call light is on but she just passed” ghosts, but that does happen from time to time. This is you can see shadow people standing around at the corners of your vision. You see shadow people in those convex mirrors at the end of hallways but no one is there in “real life” but you still see them when you look up.
I was surprised when she told me because in our relationship she is Scully and I am Mulder. She is the first person to debunk something. She said everyone knew. It was like one of those open secrets at your workplace that isn’t discussed but everyone knows. At times doctors, pharmacists, CNAs, and EMTs would comment on it but the nurses talked to each other the most.
From what she told me she witnessed these shadow people doing, which was sort of just standing around and watching/looking, they seemed to have been confused. If I had to guess, since covid had such a high fatality rate where she was (vent unit) maybe a lot of people were just confused about what happened to them.
She left that job due to many reasons, the ghosts not being one. She now does home health nursing and has seen a few odd things on occasion. One recent one was a gentleman sitting behind her from the reflection in an off tv.
But once you become a ghost, there are no loose ends to tie up in the hospital. Ghosts only haunt places where they can get what they need — and that wouldn’t be another IV drip.
nah, you got it wrong. the proposed cause of hauntings has never actually been death itself. the most commonly accepted cause (at least in our age) is the lack of closure.
and hospitals are one of the rare places that actually provide the closure on their part to the dying, in the context of the deceased not really having anything to resolve with the hospital after dying.
if anything, the ghosts could very well look to get out of there as soon and as quietly as possible, as the hospital quite possibly holds a rather hefty bill in their name xd
In my country we had one called Irkah hospital, it was famous to be haunted lol, but nothing really was there except an abandoned creepy looking hospital, you can find old videos of it when it was a trend among young folks.
If you ask night shift hospital workers, or people who work in a senior home, they will often have some stories for you. My mother has been a night shift nurse for about 30 years now and she has had some stories. Her creepiest stories come from her old childhood home in a rural town in Ohio however…
They are but not always by patients as in my case the ‘ghosts’ were doctors, two brothers.
During nursing school I lived in a double shotgun with a camelback. It was the first hospital in what was then a very rural town. The shotguns were the wards and a small pharmacy (converted later to two apartments). The camelback was the surgery and post op (converted into an apartment, the kitchen was the OR).
Nights while studying, soft chatter, mostly the doctors, sometimes with voices raised but never any clear words, frequently we heard things hitting the floor in the kitchen, footfalls on the stairs. Good times.
They are, you just don’t notice it because they’ve always got new ghosts joining them. You notice it in places where there are less deaths because they’re lonely without new ghosts hence the haunting stuff.
Have co workers that beleive a room is haunted because a child died there.
Notable though that most people don’t really die in the hospital. The lions share that are pronounced dead there died at home and then were brought to the hospital.
I worked in the old county hospital in la. Late at night I totally saw ghosts. Could’ve been crack heads who escaped their restraints. It can be hard to tell
I don’t logically believe in ghosts but I worked 11p-7a shifts in the memory care unit of a nursing home for years and I have never experienced a more concentrated span of unexplained scary shit in my life than in that building.
It could have been sleep deprivation but on multiple occasions I was absolutely positive that I could hear the piano in the community room playing through the wall and then nobody would be there when I walked a room over. I have a video of myself doing yoyo tricks alone in the kitchen with just the overhead night lights on, and on-camera suddenly every light in the building flashed on and then back. I could see the only switches to those lights from where I was standing and nobody had touched them. The scariest one was when I walked into a hallway, saw a resident I didn’t recognize (I just assumed she was new and from a different hallway) with a walker and a hospital gown turn the corner at the end of the hall into the laundry room. I followed after her, thinking I’d help her get to bed, but when I got to the laundry room and no one was in there the most visceral chills shot down my spine. I don’t believe in ghosts but i don’t know what I saw.
Some people who work there swear they are. I work in a hospital, even on a palliative care ward built over a super old hospital and I ain’t never seen any paranormal activity. Too busy.
And why do ghosts always wear clothes? It begs the question whether clothes also have souls and therefore also go to the afterlife or that the afterlife has a functioning garment industry.
Say “it’s quiet” on any nursing floor and you’ve just summoned mayhem.
IV pumps literally start behaving normally when a second person is looking at it, even if that second person is not allowed to do anything with the pump.
If a patient dies on a floor, you’re guaranteed to have 2 more within a week. They always go in threes.
My grandmother was an RN most of her life, worked at an ER for a short period, and saw some grisly deaths. She said during this time she’d hear deceased patients voices echo through the halls well after they had been declared dead.
I know this will just attract the “ghosts don’t exist” crowd which is fine and all but my girlfriend is a nurse and has had several weird experiences in the ER. Many of her friends in the profession have as well. There’s plenty of logical reasons to deny ghosts, I’m not sure about this one though.
these comments is obvious a lot of people have not been on a hospital at night and relatively alone like in the bathroom or a hallway. The atmosphere is so eerie
Haunting likely requires agony. Agony that results from a death that causes haunting, such as a prolonged death filled with pain and suffering. In hospitals, a death is likely either during sleep (including cardiac arrest) or the patient has already made peace with their death due to prior knowledge, so they’re less likely to have such agony.
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They have to form an orderly queue and wait for their punched ticket to be called.
Who says they aren’t? How do you know if that person you saw in the hall or room is even really there?
I don’t know, if I was a ghost, I would probably not hang around in a hospital. Depressing places. I would go to Hawaii, hang out on a beach. Maybe go haunt some evil asshole that needs hauntin’.
They 100% are, ask the night shift icu staff
Sounds like someone who hasn’t been in a hospital at night.
I work at a hospital at night as cleaning staff, and believe me, hospitals definitely are haunted. Automatic doors randomly opening, screens lighting up, sometimes things just fall on the ground without any cause, unexplainable noises…
If ghosts really existed, and they haunted the place of their deaths, then hospitals should indeed be full of them. The fact that they aren’t should undermine belief in haunting and ghosts.
Well, there’s no such things as ghosts, so…
One quickly forgets the hospital in the PS2 game Silent Hill
Nobody wants to be in a hospital even ghosts
I think the nurses who take your blood at 4am are really ghosts
I mean, ghosts tend to stick around for unresolved stuff. People in hospitals kind of know what they’re in for. Maybe I made that up but who can say?
Definitely heard stories from nurses about haunted sections of old hospitals where they had worked. Creepiest being an old children’s hospital.
According to Gjost Whisperer, most people just ‘go straight up,’ so to speak. And most ghosts that hang around are there for mundane stuff, like want to make sure their widow is happy or whatever. So they wouldn’t want to haunt anyone anyway. And of the remaining malicious ghosts, only a few are strong enough to actually affect anything.
I don’t believe in ghosts and that is a TV show, but hypothetically it makes sense
Wasn’t there some big comic or maybe movie that did this? Constantine comes to mind but I’m not sure.
Maybe a woman that could see ghosts but had to fake not being able because they could tell and would harass you to solve their issue
Haha, well quite. I mean, you’ve sort of answered your own question there. Why aren’t there ghosts everywhere, all the time?
A ghost generally haunts either their place of comfort, or the place where they were traumatized the most.
People generally recognize that a hospital is meant to help people live, so they wouldn’t “take offense” enough to stay and haunt the hospital. Haha.
I am of the belief that ghost are an illusion made by the brain stemming from mild CO poisoning
Here’s my thing, where’s the dinosaur ghosts?
Only if you subscribe to the notion of the supernatural.
Anyhow I watched a documentary (beetlejuice) that said that ghosts were unable to leave their houses.
Hospitals should really have a loyalty program by now with all the times people check in and don’t check out.
If ghosts were real they would be EVERYWHERE just statistically. Even if they were rare.
The number of humans who have died is such a huge number, if they were real, they would be everywhere.
With all the extra cameras in everyone’s pocket you’d think ghost sighting would have gone up. All the years before phone cameras everyone had a wild ghost story. And as soon as pics or it didn’t happen became standard then they all dried up
Do you guys not feel like every hospital you’ve been to is haunted? I get that feeling every time.
This is a cultural thing. In some countries and languages, their movies portray hospitals as being haunted. While in a hospital in Thailand, a nurse, thinking I was sleeping, went to check my pulse. I immediately sat up and her feet nearly cleared the bed. I was told later by a friend that in Thai movies, hospitals are frequently the site of hauntings, and many hospital workers are generally uneasy in the early hours. I had accidentally played into the cultural trope.
Would you want to try to live in an airport?
People constantly coming and going in your space? Sure a lot of ghosts pass thru there but none want to stay.
Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital would like a word…
Unfortunately, no ghosts exist.
Otherwise 50 million ghosts from II world war would be pretty scary to handle….
My wife worked in a vent unit at the end of Covid as a nurse. Based on her accounts, they are absolutely infested with spirits. This isn’t the “oh Mrs. Johnson’s call light is on but she just passed” ghosts, but that does happen from time to time. This is you can see shadow people standing around at the corners of your vision. You see shadow people in those convex mirrors at the end of hallways but no one is there in “real life” but you still see them when you look up.
I was surprised when she told me because in our relationship she is Scully and I am Mulder. She is the first person to debunk something. She said everyone knew. It was like one of those open secrets at your workplace that isn’t discussed but everyone knows. At times doctors, pharmacists, CNAs, and EMTs would comment on it but the nurses talked to each other the most.
From what she told me she witnessed these shadow people doing, which was sort of just standing around and watching/looking, they seemed to have been confused. If I had to guess, since covid had such a high fatality rate where she was (vent unit) maybe a lot of people were just confused about what happened to them.
She left that job due to many reasons, the ghosts not being one. She now does home health nursing and has seen a few odd things on occasion. One recent one was a gentleman sitting behind her from the reflection in an off tv.
They have a priest on site. He roams the halls to put any restless spirits to rest.
This is exactly one of the reasons I don’t believe in some mystical shit.
But once you become a ghost, there are no loose ends to tie up in the hospital. Ghosts only haunt places where they can get what they need — and that wouldn’t be another IV drip.
If ghosts were real, there would be a ton of pissed off African slaves, European Jews, Chinese, etc all out for revenge.
Ghosts are either an off balance in energy that makes our own electrical system misfire and then see/hear things.
Or it’s broken space time that observes windows to the past or future.
They absolutely are haunted, speak to friends/relatives who work there and have to stay overnight
What do you think the hospital basements are used for? (Ghost parties)
The morgue has an industrial sized ghostbusters ghost trap.
I’m not particularly superstitious, but I imagine that if such things existed, hospitals would be pretty damned haunted.
I can imagine a whole fantasy story where some would-be exorcist has to handle a hospital just crawling with ghosts unrelated to their initial mission
Every hospital I’ve ever worked in has been haunted af.
Hospitals are spirit airports. Arrivals and departures.
1 death is haunted , 10000 deaths are environmental anomalies .
Not even the dead wish to stay in the hospital they have better places to haunt.
I was going to say, maybe Ghosts hate hospitals, too.
yeah, not even ghosts want to hang out in a damned hospital…
nah, you got it wrong. the proposed cause of hauntings has never actually been death itself. the most commonly accepted cause (at least in our age) is the lack of closure.
and hospitals are one of the rare places that actually provide the closure on their part to the dying, in the context of the deceased not really having anything to resolve with the hospital after dying.
if anything, the ghosts could very well look to get out of there as soon and as quietly as possible, as the hospital quite possibly holds a rather hefty bill in their name xd
With how many total people have died throughout history you’d think the entire damn planet would be haunted.
True, and if you die in the queue you definetly have unfinished business
Hospitals with multiple Operating Rooms designate them by numbers. I’ve never been in a hospital with operating room number 13.
In my country we had one called Irkah hospital, it was famous to be haunted lol, but nothing really was there except an abandoned creepy looking hospital, you can find old videos of it when it was a trend among young folks.
https://youtu.be/aQuRvZlCm0g?si=4Kb4CW72uZGIIbZx
If “haunting” was real they probably would be.
if you were a ghost, would you stay at a hospital?
Nope. With all the deaths, you’d think the mortuaries would be more haunted.
Apparently surgery rooms have them, the staff notice it, they move stuff around.
If you ask night shift hospital workers, or people who work in a senior home, they will often have some stories for you. My mother has been a night shift nurse for about 30 years now and she has had some stories. Her creepiest stories come from her old childhood home in a rural town in Ohio however…
Here is a fun side thought.
If ghosts could affect the living world, white people probably wouldnt exist.
They are but not always by patients as in my case the ‘ghosts’ were doctors, two brothers.
During nursing school I lived in a double shotgun with a camelback. It was the first hospital in what was then a very rural town. The shotguns were the wards and a small pharmacy (converted later to two apartments). The camelback was the surgery and post op (converted into an apartment, the kitchen was the OR).
Nights while studying, soft chatter, mostly the doctors, sometimes with voices raised but never any clear words, frequently we heard things hitting the floor in the kitchen, footfalls on the stairs. Good times.
They are, you just don’t notice it because they’ve always got new ghosts joining them. You notice it in places where there are less deaths because they’re lonely without new ghosts hence the haunting stuff.
Yeah if ghosts were real that would make sense, wouldn’t it?
The children born In em evens out the ghosties.
Would you wanna stick around a hospital for eternity after you die? Yeah, neither would I.
Have co workers that beleive a room is haunted because a child died there.
Notable though that most people don’t really die in the hospital. The lions share that are pronounced dead there died at home and then were brought to the hospital.
It’s because the doctors/nurses and likely vampires
That’s assuming that ghosts actually exist.
Say something about it being quiet or a slow day near a nurse’s station. The ghost of Murphy’s Law will make itself known.
I worked in the old county hospital in la. Late at night I totally saw ghosts. Could’ve been crack heads who escaped their restraints. It can be hard to tell
Hospitals are pretty haunted. They’re also always-bustling, so activity isn’t as apparent.
The ghosts are leaving the hospital to escape from their medical bills.
I get this feeling of dread when going to a hospital.
Maybe they are, maybe the smell in a hospital is an anti-ghost spray.
I don’t logically believe in ghosts but I worked 11p-7a shifts in the memory care unit of a nursing home for years and I have never experienced a more concentrated span of unexplained scary shit in my life than in that building.
It could have been sleep deprivation but on multiple occasions I was absolutely positive that I could hear the piano in the community room playing through the wall and then nobody would be there when I walked a room over. I have a video of myself doing yoyo tricks alone in the kitchen with just the overhead night lights on, and on-camera suddenly every light in the building flashed on and then back. I could see the only switches to those lights from where I was standing and nobody had touched them. The scariest one was when I walked into a hallway, saw a resident I didn’t recognize (I just assumed she was new and from a different hallway) with a walker and a hospital gown turn the corner at the end of the hall into the laundry room. I followed after her, thinking I’d help her get to bed, but when I got to the laundry room and no one was in there the most visceral chills shot down my spine. I don’t believe in ghosts but i don’t know what I saw.
Most health insurance plans don’t cover haunting so they’re held in limbo until they can pay. It’s hard to get a job when you’re dead, so… ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Do any of these fuckers ever blast out of the wall and have, like, a huge cumshot?
Some people who work there swear they are. I work in a hospital, even on a palliative care ward built over a super old hospital and I ain’t never seen any paranormal activity. Too busy.
And why do ghosts always wear clothes? It begs the question whether clothes also have souls and therefore also go to the afterlife or that the afterlife has a functioning garment industry.
Hospitals, similar to nursing homes, are haunted by the living.
they’re only allowed to haunt once the hospital is abandoned, I thought this was common knowledge /s
It’s almost as if ghosts don’t exist or something. Weird.
The ghosts haven’t been pre-authorized by insurance to show up yet
Yeah because I’m sure even when I’m dead I wana hangout at the hospital.
Oh, they are. They definitely are.
Say “it’s quiet” on any nursing floor and you’ve just summoned mayhem.
IV pumps literally start behaving normally when a second person is looking at it, even if that second person is not allowed to do anything with the pump.
If a patient dies on a floor, you’re guaranteed to have 2 more within a week. They always go in threes.
My grandmother was an RN most of her life, worked at an ER for a short period, and saw some grisly deaths. She said during this time she’d hear deceased patients voices echo through the halls well after they had been declared dead.
I know this will just attract the “ghosts don’t exist” crowd which is fine and all but my girlfriend is a nurse and has had several weird experiences in the ER. Many of her friends in the profession have as well. There’s plenty of logical reasons to deny ghosts, I’m not sure about this one though.
“I don’t want to go to the hospital. People die there.”
— my father
these comments is obvious a lot of people have not been on a hospital at night and relatively alone like in the bathroom or a hallway. The atmosphere is so eerie
Haunting likely requires agony. Agony that results from a death that causes haunting, such as a prolonged death filled with pain and suffering. In hospitals, a death is likely either during sleep (including cardiac arrest) or the patient has already made peace with their death due to prior knowledge, so they’re less likely to have such agony.