The Creepiest Police Call and Unexplained Home Phenomena: An Officer's True Story
I was 21 and 6 months out of the Academy when 20 police officers and myself responded to a major disturbance on a large parking lot in 1971. Unbeknownst to us, a militant sniper armed with a high-powered rifle was stalking us. After we cleared the parking lot and were making our way back to our cars, Officer Edward Belcher's head was suddenly and partially blown away by a bullet fired by the gunman. I never forget seeing Eddie laying on his back in a pool of blood, wondering if I would be the next officer murdered.
Things only got worse from there.
Unexplained Occurrences at Home
Years later, I tactically cleared my own home with the local police because my house used to call 911. At work, at the county sheriff's office, where my wife and I both worked, I received a call regarding a 911 hangup from my home. When I informed them that no one was home, they stood around the house and waited for me to drive there. On arrival, I told them the house was doing weird things, and they laughed until we searched and found no one. People still ask me about that. My house did really weird things at the time. The water in the sinks would turn on and off by themselves, the toilets would flush on their own upstairs and downstairs. Things ended up in strange locations moving around by themselves.
My wife and I got locked out of the house a few times when you could only lock it from the outside with the key. Our snack tables in the living room used to get turned upside down with the things that were on top directly underneath, as if they were carefully placed that way. We could hear the items hitting the floor with a noise that we could hear from our bedroom upstairs. One of my wife's friends brought over her 2-year-old daughter, and while playing on the living room floor, she stopped what she was doing and pointed at the top of the stairs and said, "Look at the funny man!" She then continued playing as if nothing happened. She didn't want to talk much about it—she said the man was an old man and she called him 'funny.' I was frustrated because she didn't want to talk about it more!
Documenting the Unexplained Phenomena
As each thing happened, I wrote down all the details along with the time and date. I have about 30 typed pages in a word document of all these "occurrences." I guess that was all pretty weird. I have mentioned this before, and people really love to argue with me and tell me they know that those things cannot happen and there's no such thing as ghosts or whatever. Okay! Great!
I don't pretend to have an explanation but I know what happened. I know what I experienced, and my ex-wife knows what she experienced. Our physical, tangible, visual, audible, and olfactory senses say that it did happen, along with a few trained observers as witnesses. Please, I don't want to argue with you about 'ghosts' or whatever! Of course, you don't believe it—you are a rational thinking person! I was one of those too before all of that crazy shit happened!
Conclusion
Living in a house with inexplicable phenomena can be both surreal and disconcerting. What I experienced as a police officer and in my home was more than just a series of odd events. It was a heightened awareness of the unknown, a challenge to the rational mind, and a deep personal experience that left an indelible mark. My story might not align with mainstream beliefs, but it does represent a slice of reality that not everyone is willing to accept. If you're interested in more such stories or simply want to explore the unexplained, I encourage you to delve deeper and embrace the mystery that surrounds us all.
Keywords: police call, haunted house, supernatural experiences