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Cops' True Stories of the Paranormal: Ghost, UFOs, and Other Shivers

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by Loren W. Christensen


  The vet didn’t find a cause of death and the sheriff’s office couldn’t find a motive for the killing.

  Source: KWCH TV

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  Colorado

  “You don’t see any predator markings at all—bite marks, claw marks—and if you did it would be a clear giveaway,” said Chuck Zukowski, a former volunteer sheriff’s deputy in Pueblo, Colorado.

  Beginning in 1999, rancher Tom Miller has lost several cows and calves to mutilation. Early on, he thought the missing ears, organs, and eyes were the product of a cruel joke. But then he began to think differently. How could pranksters remove body parts and remove sections of hide without leaving tracks or blood?

  Zukowski also investigates UFO sightings and has studied 24 similar cases in Trinidad and Southern Colorado. He said the area around the cow was completely devoid of blood. He asked rhetorically how and why an animal, or any type of scavenger, would cut a round circle on one side of a cow’s head? Not only that, how could an animal do it and not make a bloody mess? If a human did it, he asked, where are the footprints and tire marks?

  “In other cases I investigate,” he said, “there’s no sign the animal struggled. In some cases, it looks like the animal was dropped there.” Above one cow, he found broken branches in a tree, as if the animal had been dropped and crashed through them.

  On one occasion, he found high radiation readings around the animal and, in another, changed soil nutrients.

  Source: The Pueblo Chieftain

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  Colorado

  Two police agencies investigated reports of objects seemingly floating and moving about in the sky.

  Witnesses said the three objects would sometimes form a triangle and then move into a straight line.

  Even the media weighed in and said the objects were not drones or balloons because they would remain motionless for as long as 15 minutes in their camera view screens.

  Many people witnessed them and called the police who called the FAA. NORAD, North American Aerospace Defense Command said they were investigating, as well.

  Source: 13 WMAZ News

  CONCLUSION

  Paranormal experiences are those beyond our normal grasp of the way things are supposed to be. They are even beyond scientific explanation. Paranormal events happen everyday and every night to people from every walk of life around the globe. They are usually mysterious, strange, and sometimes frightening to those who witness them.

  As I said in the beginning, many law enforcement officers see and experience in a month more than some people see and experience in a lifetime. It’s the nature of the job: They go toward trouble while others flee from it. As a result, they are assailed with violence, horror, grief, loss, rage, and a host of other sights, sounds, and emotions. They have seen it all and few things surprise them anymore.

  But on one call, perhaps more than one, they experienced something they have never seen, heard, or felt before, on the job or off. It doesn’t fit. It doesn’t compute.

  There is no explanation except one.

  I have always had an interest in ghosts, spirits, UFOs, ESP, and so on. But when I first thought of the idea of compiling stories from law enforcement on the subject, I was convinced I would be mocked and ran out of town. But just the opposite happened. The first day I announced the project on a Facebook law enforcement site, I got an overwhelmingly positive response. In fact, I got a story sent to me the first day. Then in the days that followed, I received more and more.

  A few officers said that by writing their story, and then seeing it after I edited and formatted it for the book, they were finally able to come to a place in their mind where they felt better about their experience. What did they feel before? I don’t know and I didn’t intrude by asking. I know I felt better after telling my experiences.

  I know personally three of the officers that contributed pieces to this book. The others I got to know just a little while working on their stories with them. All are highly professional—some are past and present military, SWAT officers, and command personnel—and all wanted their stories told.

  I hope you enjoyed them.

  “Unpleasant dreams!” ~ Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

  Are you in law enforcement and have a paranormal story you want to tell? Please contact me through my website: www.lwcbooks.com

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Loren W. Christensen has been involved in law enforcement since 1967. He began as a 21-year-old military policeman in the US Army, serving stateside and as patrolman in Saigon, Vietnam during the war, which at that time was said to be the most dangerous city in the world. At 26, he joined the Portland, Oregon Police Bureau working a variety of jobs to include street patrol, gang enforcement, intelligence, body guarding, and academy trainer, retiring after 25 years. He has trained various security agencies in arrest and control tactics, and officer survival.

  The very next day after leaving the PD, Loren began a fulltime career as a writer, now with over 50 books in print with five publishers, as well as magazine articles, and blog pieces. He edited a police newspaper for nearly seven years. His nonfiction include books on the martial arts, police work, PTSD, mental preparation for violence, meditation, nutrition, exercise, and various subcultures, to include prostitution, street gangs, skid row, and riots.

  His fiction series Dukkha was a finalist in the prestigious USA Best Book Awards.

  As a martial arts student and teacher since 1965, Loren has earned a total of 11 black belts in three arts and was inducted into the Masters Hall of Fame in 2011.

  Loren W. Christensen

  Table of Contents

  INTRODUCTION

  TERMINOLOGY

  SECTION ONE: ON PATROL

  VANISHED

  TRAPPED

  EYES

  DEAD MAN WALKING

  DEAD MAN’S CANE

  A TOUCH OF THANKS

  THE SNITCH

  THE COUPLE

  THE WARNING

  THE LIGHT

  WRONG NUMBER

  ON PATROL IN THE NEWS

  SECTION TWO: HAUNTED PLACES

  JAILS AND PRISONS

  GHOST PRISONER

  TOWER 7

  THE ETERNALLY CARING NURSE

  SOME STAYED BEHIND

  THE DRAWING

  HOSPITALS

  NURSE BETTY, THE “HAINT”

  HOSPITAL MORGUE

  OTHER HAUNTED PLACES

  COFFEE AND CUPS

  THE STABBER

  THE FACELESS MANNEQUIN

  WHITE EAGLE

  THE MAN IN THE WINDOW

  STRANGE PLACE

  FOREST LAWN CEMETERY

  HAUNTED PLACES IN THE NEWS

  SECTION THREE: DIVINE INTERVENION AND DEMONS

  SCRATCHES

  A SIGN IN TWISTED METAL

  THE VOICE

  HE PULLED THE TRIGGER FOUR TIMES

  DIVINE INTERVENTION IN THE NEWS

  SECTION FOUR: UFOS

  CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE SECOND KIND

  UFOS AND COW MUTILATIONS IN THE NEWS

  CONCLUSION

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

 

 


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