13+ Terrifying Two-Sentence Nursing Horror Stories

Nurses carry their own dark stories. Most of us have at least one genuinely creepy thing that happened at the hospital or at home. Here are fifteen two-line horror stories from nurses. Maybe save them for after your graveyard shift.

#1

"For a long time we heard the little voices, screams, and footsteps of the ghost children in our old clinic, and we got used to them. Then one day they went quiet, which should have been our cue to leave." -Lee RN

#2

"The doctors told the amputee he might feel a phantom limb from time to time. Nobody prepared him for the moments he felt cold fingers brush across his phantom hand." -Witty Anne

#3

"A patient of mine died a year ago. I was hanging IVs in her old room, glanced into the bathroom, and saw her standing there." -Anonymous

#4

"She wondered why she was casting two shadows. There was only one lightbulb in the health unit." -A. Galan

#5

"Working the night shift alone tonight. There is a face in the cellar staring at the security camera." -stethgirl_08

#6

"The grinning face stared at me from the darkness beyond the hallway window. I was on the fifth floor." -edward_graveyard

#7

"In the middle of the operation, the surgeon asked why I was breathing so heavily. I wasn't." -Theone Grey

#8

"An empty trauma room, and a call light goes off for one of the beds. No one was inside, but a heart rate showed up on the monitor." -Unknown

#9

"I always liked the picture of the hospital founder in the lobby. Why does she seem closer to the camera than before?" -Tekla_24

#10

"I was about to take his vitals when he said, 'Miss, check for monsters under my bed.' I looked, and saw another him under the bed, staring back, whispering, 'Are you the nurse? There's somebody on my bed.'" -RN_tiny

#11

"A boy and his father are in a car accident and the father dies at the scene. The boy is rushed into surgery, but the surgeon steps out and says, 'I can't operate on this boy, he is my son.'" -Surge911

#12

"A coworker was helping a pediatric patient who was tangled in his sheets. He told her to help the man in the chair first, because he had a sheet wrapped around his neck and was choking." -Marge

#13

"Just before our chief nurse passed, I saw a tall black figure walk toward her office. She died the next morning." -D. Michaels, RN

#14

"I opened my eyes after a nap in the clinic and everything felt wrong, too quiet. I looked into the room and saw everyone standing still, including myself." -Aldreen RN

#15

"I was finishing my charting at the nurse station after my coworkers left for midnight lunch. Someone called my name right behind my ear. No one was there." -A. M.