I had one single event that couldn’t be explained and was probably “ghost” activity, when I was twelve years old. Traveled the world with the military and federal government and never had anything else happen, despite many stories about places I’ve been.
A couple years ago I retired from federal law enforcement and picked up a campus cop job as my retirement gig. The campus has buildings dating back almost 200 years. Since I’ve started working there, the unexplainable events are at least weekly, if not more frequent. It’s so common that new employees stop mentioning it to co-workers after the first few weeks they are with us. Everything from loud voices when nobody is around, to shapeless black things moving around, objects and doors moving, and more. We are all just so comfortable with it at this point that it takes a lot to rattle someone.
The most remarkable story during my time is from a gentleman who was in the oldest building on campus to lock some doors. There’s a hallway with a row of old metal filing cabinets along it. My co-worker walked down the hall as he had many times before, locked a door at the end of the hall, turned around and all of the top drawers of the cabinets were open. He was so frightened we could hardly understand what he was saying on the radio. There was no explanation of how the drawers could have silently opened, all of them, within a matter of seconds. At the very least they made lots of noise when opening and it would have taken a person a few minutes to do that. After that it became an unspoken rule that it’s acceptable for an officer to request a partner for any call in that building— nobody has laughed about it since that incident. The guy who witnessed that has refused to set foot in that building again and the union allegedly backs him on that.
A couple years ago I retired from federal law enforcement and picked up a campus cop job as my retirement gig. The campus has buildings dating back almost 200 years. Since I’ve started working there, the unexplainable events are at least weekly, if not more frequent. It’s so common that new employees stop mentioning it to co-workers after the first few weeks they are with us. Everything from loud voices when nobody is around, to shapeless black things moving around, objects and doors moving, and more. We are all just so comfortable with it at this point that it takes a lot to rattle someone.
The most remarkable story during my time is from a gentleman who was in the oldest building on campus to lock some doors. There’s a hallway with a row of old metal filing cabinets along it. My co-worker walked down the hall as he had many times before, locked a door at the end of the hall, turned around and all of the top drawers of the cabinets were open. He was so frightened we could hardly understand what he was saying on the radio. There was no explanation of how the drawers could have silently opened, all of them, within a matter of seconds. At the very least they made lots of noise when opening and it would have taken a person a few minutes to do that. After that it became an unspoken rule that it’s acceptable for an officer to request a partner for any call in that building— nobody has laughed about it since that incident. The guy who witnessed that has refused to set foot in that building again and the union allegedly backs him on that.
