I was reading The Anomalist and found a link to a Reddit post titled Police officers of reddit, have you ever been called to a home for a paranormal reason?

The thread consisted of some really eerie and sometimes downright scary encounters with the paranormal that police officers have encountered while on patrol. No one really thinks about it, but cops are usually one of the most credible witnesses to paranormal phenomena. It’s a well known fact that many parapsychologists and researchers know. Police officers are trained observers and usually will make better witnesses than a civilian.

Check out some of the responses from the men and women in blue.

One family in 2007 reported hearing train sounds and screaming in their 140 year old farm house.

No train tracks for miles…. until you realize that the walking path behind the house was an old railroad line that donated the track space to complete the walking path. Never went back there… I saw and heard nothing but why tempt fate.

One young woman in 2009 had just moved into a new house… and when we got there… she opened the door and had a look of terror on her face and the first thing she said was “this house hasn’t been blessed yet… there is something in the basement”

Ok.. I mean… blessed or not… gotta check the basement.

Guns and flashlights out… nothing. Stood there for about ten minutes with the owner yelling at us from upstairs that it wont happen because we are here.

Furnace fires up (admittedly…. it looked old) and it made some kind of noise that sounded like a growl with some banging… she starts screaming “that’s it… can you hear it!?!?!” We explained what it was.. but she still left the house insisting that she would have a priest or something over to bless it before she came back.

Finally… in 2008 I was sent to a call about a neighbor dispute… which is never a good time. Being a ref in the middle of two neighbors that have usually hated each other for eons is a reoccurring nightmare.

I get there and this completely professional woman is pissed off beyond comprehension. I say professional woman because in my occupation, dealing with all types, the first thing I tend to see in people is education and professional level. She seemed normal, well rounded, and there is nothing that would indicate any type of drug abuse or substances.

She informs me that her neighbors are racist assholes and have been threatening her by yelling through the wall when she is inside the house.

This… seems legit to me. She was convincing and when I interrupted and had her retell the story at different points it was always the same with the same details. In short, I could not twist her story and say to myself “seems like bullshit.”

So I start writing things down that she says. She tells me that she has lived at the house with her husband for about a month and loves it. But every time they are inside the house their racist neighbor screams “leave the home”… and they are tired of it.

She goes on and tells me that before she called this time she was bringing groceries into the house… and she likes to pile all the groceries by the back door at one time and then bring inn the bags to the kitchen. She told me that while she was in the kitchen… the neighbor shot a 24 case of pop with a pellet gun.

I go outside and look at this case… and there are several cans inside the case that look to be leaking into empty but I don’t see where a projectile hit the case. It was also about 70 degrees and beautiful. So I open the case… which was sealed and there are four cans that just look smashed to hell…. but the rest are fine… and I see no pellet holes or whatever else. Also in my mind I have no idea how these cans could have been this deformed in the pattern they were found in without damaging cans near them… or the case they were in.

I might be college educated and have some cop exp… but I shrug it off because how the hell do I know they werent damaged in packing, or some other explanation. But the spider sense started tingling.

But hey… I get paid for this stuff… so I went next door and did the cop thing… and two of the sweetest old women ever live in the house… and they are of the same race as the neighbor in distress. No males live there or have been there.

So I go back to my complainant and ask where does the voice come from… and she points right at the old lady house next door. I ask is it a male voice or female… and she without hesitation says male… and “he sounds so pissed off all the time”.

So in an effort to put this to rest, because obviously there was some kind of disconnect, and any time you can get neighbors to be happy they tend not to call anymore…

I marched the complainant over to her neighbors house to introduce everyone.

She like so many people now had no idea who is living next to her. We all got invited inside and if you could picture two grandmothers that were roommates… you can picture inside this house. They even had a candy tray and pastries to offer.

So finally I explain to the grandmothers what is going on.

I shit you not… one looks right at me and goes… “::name omitted:: said that happened to him before he passed”

they then tell us that the previous homeowner before the current one apparently told his neighbors that a voice was yelling at him to “leave the home” a few months before taking a handful of sleeping pills.

Now… I’m a pretty rational person.

But the more I thought about it… crazy racist neighbors don’t yell things like “leave the home” they are usually more explicit and hateful. I kinda think that the only type of entity that would tell you to “leave the home” would be something inside the home.

So I have no idea what to believe.

I know that a short time later i saw a real estate sign in front of the house and the complaintant packing her stuff into a truck. She waved.. I waved back.

But thats all I know and I luckily am not assigned to that area anymore.