“We had a woman complaining of ghosts in her attic, and after checking for animals and other unwanted guests, she still was adamant about there being ghosts up there. To solve this, another officer went to his patrol car and got a Lidar gun (Radar gun that’s more accurate due to using lasers), spun around while making it beep constantly, then confidently told the old lady “You should be fine ma’am, I’m not picking up the presence of any spirits.” She fully accepted that we carry paranormal activity equipment and was completely put at ease. It was a fun time.”
“Not me but my dad used to be a policeman in the UK (retired now)
He told me a story when I was a kid and still remember it
He was out on the beat way back when, early 90’s or so, and him and his partner hear a call from dispatch on the radio (not sure if ‘dispatch’ is correct but hey) that a girl who lived alone in a small house converted into two flats was hearing noises from upstairs – which was not occupied and had not been for some years.
At the time he was close by, as was a canine unit, who got there before they did, the canine unit had this dog called Floyd who was ‘famous’ for being completely fearless to the point of madness, so they go up the stairs to the door with Floyd and kick the door down and send Floyd in, but as soon as he stepped over the threshold he stopped dead, hackles raised and started whimpering, he tried to go back downstairs but the dog handler ‘threw’ him into the room where he was just terrified and would not move
The flat was empty apart from a few boxes and a children’s cot, which had a mobile hanging above it (not phone kind, toy kind)
The mobile was turned on and moving making musical sounds.”
“Most of the “paranormal” calls are mental illness.
Had a lady claiming she was followed from another state by a man. And the man dug a tunnel into her house and was writing words all over her apartment and body. Even alleged that while we were talking to her outside, her blinds moved upstairs. Of course, nothing was written anywhere and there was no secret tunnel.
Sister came over and told us that she recently started arthritis medicine and ever since she has been hallucinating.”
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“I worked for a guy on shift who had a legit story. When he was a younger patrol officer he got the urge to check this old cemetery where people were buried over 100 years ago and it’s mostly abandoned and hidden. Well, he was driving down the dirt road and found a man who hung himself from a tree. Well he radioed it in and long story short they cut the guy down and took him away and that was the end of the scene.
Next night he comes back and the tree is gone. There was no stump. No sign of a tree. Never figured out where it went.”
“Worked mental health assignment for a few years. Had a call from a family of a man running around naked all around the neighborhood screaming that he had been abducted and had the knowledge of the ages or some such nonsense.
We get there and get the guy contained and clothed and start trying to get some type of story out of him besides him being just out of his mind. He mentions that he had received a large court settlement the week before from a work-related injury and that’s why the aliens took him. For his money. It’s not super uncommon for there to be some truth to these stories so we go to the guy’s wife to talk to her.
She confirms that he had, in fact, received a very large settlement a week prior. No history of drug use. No history of mental illness. He just “lost it”. She then proceeds to ask us how she can go about accessing the money legally since he obviously had gone off the deep end. That’s a little strange.
We take the guy to the hospital and they do their normal panel of tests. Turns out the guy had a near fatal dose of some type of poison (I can’t remember what it was) which generally will kill you.
Detectives get involved, wife ends up getting arrested for attempted murder. Guy made a full recovery too.”
“This was three weeks ago. I was responding to a call around 3 am made by a woman who said there was a “thing” in her house. she apparently sounded terrified and was hiding in her closet.
when we got to the house, we found the door cracked open. we heard clattering noises as we walked up, but as soon as we creaked open the door, it went silent. all the lights were off, so we turned on our flashlights. my partner went upstairs to find the woman. I walked into the kitchen to find a whimpering dog with his intestines spilling out into a pool of blood. It was smeared all over the kitchen, and there were handprints everywhere. I heard a crash coming from the other room. The guy had broken a window and climbed out. I had to chase him through 6 or 7 blocks before he collapsed and started seizing. By the time paramedics arrived, he was gone. An autopsy revealed a massive overdose of PCP, meth, and bath salts. But that.. that was a zombie.”
“I had a funny one where a woman was making dinner for her husband, getting it ready in the microwave. He wasn’t supposed to be home for another hour or so. She came back down to the kitchen and what she was heating up was gone, same with the cutlery she left out. She called 911 and said there was either a ghost or someone broke in and stole her husband’s reheated leftovers. We went and found the husband out on the deck enjoying his meal thinking his wife had already gone so he didn’t bother looking her. Innocent story that had good timing for it to happen.”
“We once received a report of “either a fox or a werewolf” standing a busy street corner in town.
Tragically, neither was found.”
“I was dispatched to a report of a woman who claimed that there was a flying saucer hovering near her house. I query our database and she had no previous history of delusions or mental health issues.
I head on over, it’s in the affluent part of town. I walk over and talk to the woman. It’s about midnight at this point. She seems totally normal and tells me she must be going crazy but there was a giant flying saucer. She points in the direction and I agree to check it out.
I’m driving towards the area, which is totally remote with a mix of forests and farmland on the outskirts of town. I suddenly see this blinding light in the sky. I look up and guess what I see?
A flying fucking saucer with all its lights on full blast. So there I am in my cruiser thinking what the fuck and then I see it. The UFO is suspended by a crane and they were filming a movie.”
“I work at a university. Got a 3 am call of a haunted dorm room. Girls were in tears. They googled instructions for a home exorcism, made Homebrew holy water, crosses and photos of Jesus plastered all over the walls. They said they would hear things like footsteps, a child’s laughter, a whispering voice saying “hey can you hear me?”. As we interviewed them, we heard it once, they screamed and burst into tears. Their RA, bless his heart, tried to help by offering the advice that at least the ghost wasn’t threatening or malicious and probably meant us no harm. We asked him to leave rather than feed into the whole hysteria. Took us a while to pin down where it was coming from but to make a log story short, someone took one of those novelty motion activated prank things and stuck it to the inside of one of the bed frames. When we were done, we asked the girls if they minded if we disposed of the thing, to which they enthusiastically agreed, and we promptly hid it in our dispatcher’s locker and watched the cycle continue.”
“I took a few criminology courses in college. One of my professors was a retired local cop. He told us about an older woman who would call weekly because aliens were jumping around on her roof. They would send out an officer. The officer who went usually just stood outside in her front yard waving his baton and yelling at the aliens to go away until the old lady was happy.”
“When I was younger, I worked as a police officer for the Tuscon PD. I was sent to a home where the mother claimed shadow people were stalking her in her house. Upon arriving, I searched the house and came to the realization that the “shadow people” was, in fact, an African American male homeless man that was living in her attic. Homeless man was arrested for trespassing.”
“An uncle of mine is a retired Sargent with a large sheriff’s office. In retirement, he took up bodyguard work. Ended up working for a lady who came from BIG money. Anyway, he and my aunt live on her property in a fully furnished home and “protect” her from aliens. I shit you not. She is terrified of being abducted. Makes no claim to have even seen aliens, however, it’s her number one fear. And since she has the resources, she pays for round the clock protection. Apparently, she is a very warm and kind woman who in most aspects of life is fairly balanced. Needless to say, my uncle has so far enjoyed his retirement.”
“Astronomer here- not a cop, obviously, but in a reverse of this question, I did talk about paranormal stuff with one the summer I worked at the SETI Institute (a big science research institute in California devoted to extraterrestrial life). I was with a group from work heading back from the Allen Telescope Array, and we were pulled over as the driver was speeding. The trooper asked us what we were from, and when we said we were doing a summer internship at SETI etc the guy started talking about his cousin in Texas who saw lights in the sky from aliens.
It was awkward as he was so stern until that moment, but someone brazenly said: “sorry, we only look for real aliens!” Which made us all laugh, cop included, so we got off with a warning.”
“Was called in because of a flash of light seen in the sky. Turned out to be swamp gas from a weather balloon that was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.”
