To this day, I’m convinced that I interacted with another dimension of life that day.
The caller reported hearing footsteps on her second floor when she was in the kitchen.
She lived alone, middle aged, divorced, no kids, and had no expected company.
Ryan Loughlin
She is outside across the street when we arrive, obviously unnerved and being calmed by her neighbor.
Other units showed up almost as I did and set up a perimeter at the corners of the property.
She was in the midst of making a really late dinner so the house smells really good.
I remember how good it smelled.
Anyway, we scrub the ground level and make our way to the stairs when we hear it.
Obviously footsteps on the wood floors above us.
We announce ourselves again and no response, except the pacing just starts to sorta fade away.
I stop a few stairs shy of the corner, breathe, and proceed up.
Not even a critter.
Not that any critter would ever make what I describe as human footsteps on hardwood.
Nothing was out of order.
Nobody was hiding anywhere.
The house had no indications that anybody tried to force open a window or door.
I went over basic security measures with her and double checked all her windows and doors were not compromised.
I was talking to her in her bedroom about the children who come through the walls.
I was like what children?
She pointed next to me and said, Theres one right there.
Gave me a massive hit of the willies.
3.Military policeman in the marine corps.
The woman is obviously shaken still with puffy eyes.
My partner and I decide to do a little walking patrol of that housing area.
They look over at us and just stare.
I responded to take the report in case FD needed to force entry.
I arrived first and immediately noticed a burning candle and some jesusy statues in the upstairs window.
The light in this room was also on.
I cant explain it, but it seemed a bit odd to me.
Anyways, I approached Lucy who appeared to be about 65 years old, and asked what happened.
I asked if her mother was home and Lucy replied in the affirmative.
I then walked the perimeter of the home and found an unlocked window into the kitchen.
As my boot touched the kitchen floor, I heard an audible click.
At the same time, the lights in the stairway and upstairs hallway to my left turned off.
I quickly walked to the rear sliding door to my right and advised Lucy what had happened.
Lucy laughed and said that was just her mom saying hello.
I radioed for a back and within minutes my buddy arrived.
The first thing he asked about was the lit candle in the window.
There were no open windows, fans, vents, or other obvious source that couldve extinguished the flame.
There was very clearly a light on in 6th or 7th floor with a figure standing motionless watching outside.
it was already pretty late at night so I wasnt worried about it.
I would go to the hospital and it was still completely locked all around.
I checked to check that that no windows were ajar but the hospital didnt have any that opened.
By this time the figure was gone but the light remained on.
But it was one of the creepiest things I remember from being there.
Come quick Im at [address of where she was at]!
Both he and I thought we saw a body on it at first glance, there was nothing there.
But before we all stepped out, we all agreed we didnt see what just happened.
Before being taken on the spot to a psychiatrist/psychologist, for a full comprehensive evaluation.
Something to be said about integrity.
Something about it, its like you could actually feel there was something off about it.
Luckily I wont be going in alone.
7.There is this abandoned day care that we have to patrol…
Temperature is different in each room.
Sounds can be heard.
Toys found in the roof panels…
Sometimes those toys are seen moved from the roof to the floor in the rooms.
Some rooms have more pressure than others like being at the bottom of a swimming pool.
When you step inside all you want to do is leave…
The morning of Id found my dog passed away in her sleep and had buried her.
Not the chips out of the bag, mind you, but the bag of chips.
After finishing my cigarette I went back to my patrol and turned my flashlight on, and froze.
Alarm bells started to go off in my head but I wasnt sure why.
I hadnt heard or seen anything, but I just had this strong feeling that something was off.
9.Three years ago, I was called in to an investigation of a burglary in a cemetery.
Apparently they felt much safer with us overweight non-sworn employees around, so we went inside together.
It hadnt been accessed since 2004, so almost twelve years prior.
The people in the grave site had a single living relative.
I stood there in awe for a good 30 seconds and the swing did not lose any momentum.
What a weird night.
12.I am a police officer working on an emergency response team on a busy London borough.
We took a call to a suspected domestic incident in a block of flats.
The informant said that she could hear screaming and sounds of disturbance coming from the flat above her own.
I had heard nothing on my way up and certainly couldnt hear any disturbance coming from the address.
To be honest I heard nothing at all.
After knocking twice we had no response.
My colleague left me to go downstairs and speak directly to the informant.
I stayed by the door.
I knocked again and after some time it was answered by an elderly woman.
She had clearly been asleep and was alarmed to see me standing outside.
I told her that someone had called saying that they could hear a disturbance coming from within her address.
I asked her if there was anyone else inside with her.
She looked bemused and told me that she lived alone and had been sleeping.
I asked her if I could come in to satisfy myself that no one else was there.
She invited me in and I walked into what was a small 2 bedroom flat.
The flat was in darkness apart from her hall light and her bedside lamp.
I began searching through the flat.
As I approached the final door (the living room) my colleague called me up on the radio.
He told me that he was on his way and asked if I was okay.
I told him everything was fine wondering why he sounded so flustered.
I have to admit a feeling of unease as I opened the final door.
Like all the other rooms it was in darkness but was freezing cold.
My breath misted immediately.
There was no one in the room and no signs of disturbance.
No window was open.
I called my colleague and asked him to listen out for my footfall.
He said he could hear my feet as I stamped them but said that the screaming had stopped.
This coincided with me opening the door.
I left shortly after apologising to the elderly woman for waking her.
I have no rational explanation for this at all.
My colleague and I left feeling very creeped out.
