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Speaker 1: In the mid nineteen nineties. I was working the second

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patrol shift six pm to six am. It had been

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a slow night, which was the norm in this town.

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I had finished doing my nightly checks, going door to

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door in town, checking locks and handles and windows and alleyways.

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The thrift store sat silent and calm, with their antiques

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and quilts perfectly in place. The barbershop was empty and quiet,

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with just a candy striped glass lighting the doorway. The

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gas station was barely lit. It was calm and clear

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of activity. Everything in our town was asleep. It was

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closing in on midnight. It was the last round I

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would make before taking a break and parking so I

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could finish filling out my paperwork for the evening. That

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had been my nightly routine for some time now, and

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I had no reason to suspect anything would be different.

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I drove around the town for a moment and then

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parked by the Masonic lodge in the church. It was

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a quiet corner, as every corner was at night in

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that town. It was just a touch after midnight when

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I felt the impact. I just knew some drunk a

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hole had violated the peace of this quiet place. And

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t bone my beautiful patrol car. My pin in paperwork

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lay strewn all over the inside of the car. Everything

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was scattered. I looked up in the rear view mirror,

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ready to see the carnage, but I couldn't make out

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the headlights. And that is what I could not comprehend.

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I unbuckled and looked out the window to make sure

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it was safe to exit the vehicle. I didn't see anything.

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The rear end of my car was knocked four feet

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from the curb and into the middle of the road.

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I got out, and I thought about radioing for EMS,

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but I wanted to assess the driver of the other

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vehicle first. What I will never forget. The silence was deafening,

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and there was no other car. There was no driver,

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no accident, there was nothing. I looked at my patrol car.

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There was no damage, not a single scratch or dent,

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not a dust cloud, no tire marks, absolutely nothing. No wonder.

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I didn't see it coming. I didn't even know what

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it was. I walked around my patrol car and stepped

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back in complete shock. Sure enough, my car had been

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shifted almost four feet horizontally and several feet forward. I

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just stood there. I couldn't move, I couldn't radio it in.

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There was nothing to report. Somehow, some way, something had

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violently slammed into my car and moved it in a

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way that was utterly impossible. It's a night I will

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not forget, and I have been very forthcoming about it.

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I have nothing to hide, and in all my years

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as an officer, this is the strangest and craziest experience

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I ever had. If anyone asked me about it, I

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tell them exactly what happened, and I recall every detail

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as if it were yesterday. I don't know if it

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was the town, the intersection, or if my patrol car

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and I had been bothering something by sitting there, but

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whatever it was, it sure showed me that night that

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I didn't need to park there again. And I remembered

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that it honestly felt like someone had picked up my

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cruiser and slung it straight into the middle of the street.

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I'll never be able to explain it. One of my

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coworkers has his own story, and it's crazier than mine.

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Two officers were working one night in town, one younger

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and the other more seasoned. This would have been around

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the late nineteen nineties on a weekend. Since there was

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more than one officer on patrol, both officers were at

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the police station in the center of town, reviewing the

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day's calls and completing last minute paperwork. It was just

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a bit before midnight when a stereotypical hippie looking van

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pulled up in front of the station. Both officers could

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see the van clearly through the front window, and they

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watched in amazement as a young couple exited, looking as

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if they had stepped out of a nineteen sixties film.

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They were dressed in perfect vintage attire, right down to

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the tie down of peace signs and the fringe and

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the bell bottoms. The two officers looked at each other

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in confusion at the sight of everything. The first officer

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opened the door for the young couple and welcomed them inside.

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He and the other officer asked if they were okay,

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and the couple explained that they were lost and try

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to find an address in the next town over. These

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officers said that the couple spoke just as if they

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were from that time period as well. They thought that

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maybe they were on their way to a seventies themed

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event of some sort, and they were taking the rolls

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pretty seriously. The officer decided to draw a crude map

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for the couple to follow so that they could find

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their way. The couple smiled the whole time and were

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pleasant as could be, and then they thanked the officers

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and headed out the door. As they left, the younger

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officer noticed that they had forgotten the paper with the directions.

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He quickly snatched it up and grabbed the door before

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it was even halfway closed behind the couple, and he

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reached out to hand it to them. But there at

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the door, he froze and his jaw dropped. The older

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officer said that he saw his face literally turn white,

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his mouth gaped open and awe He rushed over to

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see what was wrong and saw that the van and

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the couple had vanished. He looked at his partner and

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asked where they were. The young officer replied, shakily in

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a whisper, I think we just saw a ghost. The

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older officer looked at him, confused. He was unable to understand,

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what do you mean? Where did they go? He said?

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It slowly downed on the older officer that his colleague

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was right. There was no possible way that the couple

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could have walked the twenty feet to the van, started

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it up, and driven off in the two seconds that

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it took for the young officer to snatch the paper

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up and hand it out to them. The door hadn't

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even finished closing behind them by the time he made

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it there with the directions. Both officers felt a chill

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run up their spines, and they just stood there, dumbfounded.

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They looked all around and even ran up to the

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area where the van had been parked had just begun

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to settle on the pavement and the surrounding grass, but

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there was no evidence of any vehicle having been parked there.

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Nothing had been disturbed. There were no tire prints, no footprints,

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not even one lonely drop of condensation from a tailpipe

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or anything. Both officers admit that it was the strangest

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and most unexplainable thing they had ever witnessed, and it

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is etched into their brains and mine to this day.

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The younger officer stated, I still wonder to this day

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if they made it to their destination. I have heard

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you mentioned that people accuse you of writing all these stories.

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Yes they do. I would like to. I would like

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these people to consider that it has taken me days

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to write this one. I had to sit down and

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to think about every little aspect, remember every word in

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every event, not to mention that when I discussed my

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own experiences, it takes a toll on me to relive

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those moments all over again. To have some stranger accuse

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my story of being made up is discrediting. Is discrediting

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and disrespectful to me and those of us brave enough

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to share what we went through. Now, I share these

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memories with you because I have been listening to you

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for some time now, and I trust you more than

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anyone to tell my true stories, as I've held them

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inside for far too long. I need more than anything

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to share them with someone, and I'm thankful that it

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is you and your community. My wife's cousin now follows

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you as well, and we love you, Cam and we

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thank you for allowing us to share these memories with you.

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Thank you for taking the time to read them. You

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help more than you will ever know. I will write

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more about our little community as soon as I am able,

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and I'll tell you about a ten foot caped figure

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that haunts the town and it SLINKs from tree to tree.

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God bless you. Oh, thank you to the writer for that. Yes,

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that's true. I've been accused that I write all these stories,

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and I've written a couple, but not good grief. I've

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done thousands of stories on here, and you're right, writing

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takes a long time. I mean, there's no way. I

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don't think there's any way one person could write enough

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to keep enough content going at least as much as

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I do. It would be more than a full time

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job to write all these but these ghost stories that

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he just described or oh, it's like a Halloween story

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and we're getting close to Halloween. Today is October eleven.

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So I appreciate the writer for sending this. It was wonderful.

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It was titled police Officer ghost Stories, and it was

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just perfect, perfect for this channel, and it's old. I've

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had it for a long time and I'm just now

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getting to it, so thank you very much for sending

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it in Then, from Joe will Das