He’s Pretty Sure He Saw A Ghost When He Was In A Patient’s Home And He Asked Them Who The Lady In The Living Room Was
Luke has been a nurse for nearly 20 years. He currently works in the UK as a district nurse. In this position, he doesn’t work in hospitals, only seeing patients in their homes or in care homes.
Throughout his career, he’d already worked in numerous hospitals, and he enjoys not working in a hospital setting anymore.
For most of his life, he’s been intrigued by the unexplained. Once he entered the nursing field, he started to truly believe in ghosts and the paranormal, but he didn’t have all the answers to his questions about these spooky entities. In his free time, Luke listens to paranormal and true crime podcasts to feed his curiosity.
Luke’s paranormal experiences make him feel validated in his belief in ghosts because of the fact that he’s a professional person, not just someone with preconceived notions whose mind could be playing tricks on him.
He believes that he’s a rational person who has always been curious but wants to gather information and do research before coming to a conclusion on his views.
Two years ago, he was mentoring a third-year nursing student on an average July day. The student, M, was what they referred to as a “mature student,” which meant that they were slightly older, usually because they’d taken time off to have kids before returning to college.
“M was naturally good with people. She was honest and caring. She and I went to see a patient. The patient, P, had complex needs. She lived in an old, semi-detached house on the outskirts of a small town. Due to the complexity of the visit, I needed to collect items from my car boot (trunk). I advised M to go in and introduce herself and start her assessment on P,” he said.
At this point in their training, students in their third year are given more independence as they’re working in the field with patients.
While M went inside the house, Luke looked through his trunk to get the supplies he needed, which included a blood pressure monitor, heart rate monitor, blood oxygen monitor, and bottles.
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Once he’d gathered everything he needed, he locked his car, walked through the small garden at the front of the house, and knocked on the door before entering.
Luke walked into the house, and there was a narrow hallway leading to another door. Through that door, there was a flight of stairs leading to the second floor on the left.
To the right was a door leading into the living room, where there was a bay window that overlooked the front of the house.
Once inside, Luke walked through the hallway to the living room. He looked into the living room and saw an older woman. He greeted her and then heard M call his name from the door at the other end of the hallway.
“I walked down said hallway and opened the door, where I saw M speaking to P in her kitchen area. Without concern, we carried out the care for P (M doing most of the work with little input),” he explained.
“The whole visit took approximately 30 minutes. As things were wrapping up, I asked P who the lady was in her living room. She said something along the lines of, ‘Lady? What lady? The TV’s on.’ I said, “No, the lady in your living room.’ P again said, ‘I’m the only one in my house.'”
At this, Luke glanced at M, and he saw that she was visibly terrified, her eyes huge and her skin pale.
Wondering if an older woman was suffering from memory issues and had entered P’s home by mistake, he told M and P that he would be right back.
He left the kitchen and walked back down the hallway to the living room. However, no one was in the living room, and the TV wasn’t on.
Even if it had been on like P claimed, the TV was tiny and wouldn’t have been loud enough for the sound to carry very far throughout the house.
Then, Luke looked upstairs, and he didn’t see anyone there, either. And with the way the house was laid out, he would have been able to hear the woman leaving through the front door.
After his search, he returned to the kitchen and joked that maybe he needed to take a vacation. P chuckled and was appreciative of Luke and M’s help.
“Here’s what I saw: I saw an old lady, approximately 5’3”, with short, white, permed hair. She was wearing a brownish, pleated skirt, small, flat, dark shoes, and a light blouse; I think white. She had her back to me and was walking away. She was only approximately four feet away from me. She was solid–solid as if I was looking at M or anyone else I interact with. I saw no part of her face,” he shared.
Luke partially felt grateful that he didn’t see this mysterious woman’s face because it could have made the experience even scarier.
Once Luke and M had completed their visit with P, they walked out of the house, and he asked M if she’d seen the woman, too.
She had, and she gave the exact same description of the woman he’d seen. However, M had seen the woman walking toward a chair as if she were about to sit down. M also didn’t see the woman’s face.
Now, Luke wonders if he and M both saw a ghost.
Have you ever seen a ghost?
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