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10 Paranormal Events

Witnessed By Police

by Estelle Thurtle

Police officers mostly have a tough time of
things. They witness gruesome crime scenes,
have to deal with delivering bad news, and often
don’t get the credit or thanks they may deserve
after working long, tiring hours to solve cases.
However, in some instances, police officers
responding to an emergency call come across
something totally different from what they
usually do. Sometimes they don’t even have to
leave the station to experience strange things.

10: Surveillance Camera Figure

Officer Karl Romero was spending a relatively
quiet Saturday evening on duty at the Espanola
police station in New Mexico in 2014, keeping
disappeared every time he strained to get a 7: Capitol Theatre Haunting
an eye on the several surveillance cameras
better look at her.
installed around the place. Things were going Several police officers who were also stationed
well until he spotted something strange on one at the site after the attacks claimed to have seen Sheriff’s deputy Dave Murphy was a complete
of the cameras pointed at the entryway to the skeptic when it came to the paranormal. That is,
large shadows and “black masses” among the until he worked security in the Capitol Theatre
station.
debris. After seeing a medium about his in Salt Lake City in 2012. Murphy was a guest
Scrutinizing the visuals on the camera,
experience and hearing that he may have on the Syfy TV show Paranormal Witness in
Romero initially thought that the bright white
witnessed a soul collector guiding spirits to the which he detailed exactly what he and other
“blob” he was looking at must be an insect until
hereafter, Marra truly believes that this is what officers had experienced during their time at the
he spied the legs below it. He realized then that
he saw. theater.
he was looking at what he could only describe
Murphy rubbished all claims of the
as a ghostly figure. Since the entryway to the 8: Enfield Poltergeist
police station is blocked off with a gate and paranormal until he himself saw dark shadows
moving through walls one night. Then doors
secured with an alarm system, Romero knew it
In 1977, an unassuming house in Enfield made started to slam shut on their own while no one
could not be a human figure that was showing
the news in a big way. It wasn’t because of a else was in the theater. Next, Murphy heard
up on the footage.
crime or missing child. Instead, Peggy Hodgson spectral voices and music, and eventually the
When he reported what he saw to his
claimed that her house had been infiltrated by specter itself appeared in the middle of the
superiors the next day, most of them believed
an evil entity. Hodgson claimed that her stage. On one occasion, Murphy even saw a
him. Some even came forward with their own
daughter, Janet, told her that her brothers’ beds woman dressed in clothing dating back to the
scary experiences, saying that they often heard
were shaking and vibrating. The next evening, early 1900s. He claimed to have seen her walk
strange, unexplained noises in the building and
had experienced weird sightings in the lobby as Hodgson heard a loud noise coming from the right past him in the control room where he
children’s bedroom. Upon investigating, she worked. Murphy also went on to say that
well. Romero relayed his story to KOAT TV,
saw a chest of drawers moving by itself. She eventually the shadows he saw the first time
saying that he believes in ghosts and thinks that
and the children were unable to move it back to around wanted him out of the building and
the ghostly figure he saw may have something
its original place. physically attacked him.
to do with the unsolved murders that have taken
In addition to all of this, there was a Blair Fuller, the administrative manager
place in the area over the years.
strange knocking throughout the house and of the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts, also
Here is the link:
Janet seemed to be able to levitate above her experienced the paranormal goings-on in the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw6iPBb5
bed. The case eventually drew the attention of building for himself in the form of an elevator
cqo
famed paranormal investigators Ed and opening by itself and file doors opening and
Lorraine Warren. There was a lot of talk and closing. Fuller believes that the main culprit
9: Soul Collector
accusations at the time, with many people haunting the theater is the ghost of a 17-year-old
believing that Hodgson and her children made usher who died in a fire at the theater in 1947.
Lt. Frank Marra, now retired, was one of the
the whole story up. However, at the same time
police officers tasked with sifting through the
that these arguments and conversations about (Continued on Page 59)
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