Loren W. Christensen - Cops’ True Stories of the Paranormal: Ghost, UFOs, and Other Shivers

OTHER BOOKS BY LOREN W. CHRISTENSEN

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Fighters Fact Book

Fighters Fact Book 2

Solo Training

Solo Training 2

Solo Training 3

Speed Training

The Fighters Body

Total Defense

The Mental Edge

The Way Alone

Far Beyond Defensive Tactics

Fighting Power

Crouching Tiger

Anything Goes

Winning With American Kata

Total Defense

Riot

Warriors

On Combat

Warrior Mindset

Deadly Force Encounters

Surviving Workplace Violence

Surviving A School Shooting

Gangbangers

Skinhead Street Gangs

Hookers, Tricks And Cops

Way Of The Warrior

Skid Row Beat

Defensive Tactics

Missing Children

Fight Back: Self-Defense For Women

Extreme Joint Locking

Timing In The Martial Arts

Fighters Guide to Hard-Core Heavy Bag Training

The Brutal Art Of Ripping, Poking And Pressing Vital Targets

How To Live Safely In A Dangerous World

Fighting The Pain Resistant Attacker

Evolution Of Weaponry

Meditation For Warriors

Mental Rehearsal For Warriors

Prostate Cancer

Cops' True Stories Of The Paranormal

Fiction

Dukkha: The Suffering

Dukkha: Reverb

Dukkha: Unloaded

Dukkha: Hungry Ghosts

DVDs

Solo Training

Fighting Dirty

Speed Training

Masters And Styles

Vital Targets

The Brutal Art of Ripping, And Pressing Vital Targets

Restraint and Control Strategies

COPS' TRUE STORIES OF THE PARANORMAL
GHOSTS, UFOS, AND OTHER SHIVERS

LOREN W. CHRISTENSEN

Copyright 2016 Loren W. Christensen

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form

without written permission from the author.

All rights reserved

To those men and women who dont call 911

They are 911

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A big hug to my wonderful wife, Lisa, for her encouragement and for taking the photos sprinkled throughout this book.

A manly hug to my friend Kevin Faulk for eyeballing the manuscript for typos and other errors.

A huge thanks to the men and women that contributed their experiences to this text. Stay safe out there.

Table of Contents

At first cock-crow

The ghosts must go

Back to their quiet graves below

~Theodosia Garrison, "The Neighbors"

INTRODUCTION

Cops, corrections officers, military police, and security people see life differently than those outside of law enforcement. Depending on the job and location, some see more madness, tragedy, bloody violence, and mans inhumanity to man in a month than most people experience in a lifetime. People on the job have been there, done that, seen it all, heard it all, and experienced it all.

Because they are lied to on a daily basis, people in law enforcement have a fine tuned b.s. detector. Even rookies quickly understand the two primary rules in law enforcement.

Rule 1: Everyone lies.

Rule 2: See Rule 1.

I don't trust people, they tend to lie. Evidence never lies. Gil Grissom, CSI .

Law enforcement people trust the evidence. Experienced officers know how crooks think and they know how bad guys operate when committing certain crimes. They recognize the pattern of street drug sales, residential burglaries, armed robberies, sexual assaults, gang graffiti, mass shootings, and so on. Yes, there are variations in all of these areas, but there are certain basics that help officers know immediately or very soon thereafter what they are looking at.

That said, ever so often something happens that doesnt fall neatly into a category in which cops typically function, nor does it fall into any of the unusual situations that occur from time to time in law enforcement. No, these are events that go beyond the unusual. These are aberrations, oddities, and the eerie that cannot be put into any logical box.

As a result, it confuses, it causes anxiety, stress, and often leaves the officer feeling alone. To tell others about the aberration is to invite teasing, ridicule, and an even greater sense of feeling isolated from peers. People in law enforcement are no different than the general population in that they have their doubters, disbelievers, and scorners. That is, until something happens to the disbelievers. As paranormal investigator Jim Pace of Sooner Paranormal of Oklahoma says, I love to take skeptics along [on an investigation]. The difference between a believer and a skeptic is personal experience.

The men and women who tell their stories in this book did so for whatever personal reasons they had. Although I never asked, I got the impression from some that they were happy to have an outletno doubt after living in silence for so longwhere they could tell their strange tale(s).

I have included incidents that happened to me. In one story, titled Close Encounters of the Second Kind, I tell of how dozens of Army missile specialists, and my military police buddies and I worked around UFOs for several weeks. While Ive told friends and family about it over the decades, Ive never before written about it. Will I get ridiculed? Probably. But I felt telling it was more important than worrying about what others think, especially those who havent experience anything.

Perhaps that is why some of the other writers came forward.

My role in this book

Im not an investigator of the paranormal and supernatural. I consider myself an interested party, a reporter. I have had experiences as I relate in these pages but I wasnt investigating such things when they happened. I was simply going through the motions of my job when caught flatfooted.

Such was the case with other cops, deputies, MPs, security officers, and correction officers who tell their stories within.

My minor investigative experience

I did have a brief investigative foray into things that go bump in the night, but not as a cop.

A few years ago, my agent talked to me about writing a book on Ghost Hunters, the long running TV program. The deal eventually went away, but not before my wife and I read a ton of books, watched DVDs, videos, attended a meeting with ghost hunters, and made a few excursionsarmed with digital cameras and an audio recording deviceinto cemeteries, mausoleums, and old houses.

When notorious bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he continued robbing banks after he had been caught so many times, he answered with a shrug, Because thats where the money is. We thought we would begin our investigation in the most logical places: cemeteries and mausoleums because, well, thats where the dead people are. The argument against this idea is that spirits wouldnt hang out where they are buried; they would seek out their loved ones or remain in places they enjoyed. My wife and I knew this theory but we wanted to start out slowly and get some experience at using our limited equipment.

We began in a mausoleum so large it had its own weather pattern. Maybe not, but it seemed like it, anyway. It was a sprawling complex built on the side of a large hill, with three stories above ground and three or four below. There were thousands of deceased in the place, most resting in marble covered drawers and the others in glass-encased urns. The place was dead quiet, to use an obvious descriptor, except for a mysterious sound of water trickling from somewhere and the occasional echoing footsteps of visitors, living, and perhaps, otherwise.

We spent an afternoon walking about snapping pics in hopes of capturing orbs, and sitting for long periods with a listening device while asking the room questions like, Is there anyone here that would like to talk with us? We didnt capture an image of an orb, nor did we get an EVP, electronic voice phenomenon (see Terminology page). We even enhanced our recordings on a laptop.