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The Veterans Affair Hospital in East Orange, that a former police officer says is haunted. (Star-Ledger file photo)

(Star-Ledger file photo)

EAST ORANGE — A Department of Veterans Affairs police officer who says that the East Orange facility is haunted is fighting the federal government's attempt to fire him, according to a report on NYPost.com.

Valdo Vaher, a 48-year-old Rockland County, N.Y. resident, was put on modified duty and had his gun stripped earlier this year after allegedly "making bizarre statements and displaying unusual behaviors," according to a letter from VA Deputy Police Chief Bernais McNeil obtained by the Post.

Vaher told the website ghosts are real and "more likely to show themselves around hospitals."

He is a a retired Army sergeant and former lieutenant in the New York National Guard who is a citizen of both the United States and Estonia.

Vaher was fired, but in 2013 a judge ordered him re-hired. That's when he was assigned to the East Orange VA facility. He has since been moved to another site in New Jersey, according to the Post.

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