Experience tells us there are certain professions in which people are far more likely to encounter the unexplained than others.

As the many accounts featured on our sister podcast, wartime stories clearly demonstrate,

one such group is military personnel. But another, just as frequently, is the world of law enforcement, where officers across the globe

have reported experiences that defy logic, reason and training alike.

In this episode, we'll be exploring some of those accounts.

Cases where those sworn to uphold the law found themselves policing the paranormal. Thank you. Law enforcement has always occupied a strange position in society, one that sits somewhere between order and chaos, the living and the dead hours of the night.

Police officers are, by the nature of their duty, often required to step into situations and spaces

that most people would instinctively avoid. Abandoned buildings, remote country roads, empty industrial

estates and silent residential streets.

These are their workplaces. And whilst most of the population sleeps, officers patrol through

darkness, quiet and isolation, chasing calls into the forgotten corners of the world.

Their role demands that they enter without hesitation, the very

environments that heighten human vulnerability. When a light flickers in an empty factory,

when a noise is reported in a derelict home, when a figure is seen lingering by the roadside

at 3 in the morning, it is the police who go to investigate.

They do so not because they want to, but because duty dictates they must.

And in those quiet, unguarded hours, the normal rules of reality can seem to fray.

Anyone who has worked a night shift will tell you that the world feels different

after midnight. Familiar places take on an eerie stillness. Streets that are bustling by day

become hollow and unreal. Sound carries differently. Shapes at the edge of vision seem to move. For police officers, that atmosphere

is not an occasional experience, it is routine. They live their professional lives in the

threshold between safety and danger, light and dark, the scene and the unseen.

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