Ghosts

[Cidp24]

I posted this in a Verifed LEO only section back in February. A member suggested I post it in a public area so here it is.

An LEO wrote this. Thought I'd share it.

GHOSTS

Someone asked me the other day if I believed in ghosts. I said I wasn’t sure but then I started thinking about it and I realized that I see ghosts every day in my job. They all seem to hang around in the same places and I see them every time I pass those places.

There’s the 16-year-old girl lying just off the roadway of a National Parkway next to a crumpled car that is resting against a huge pine tree. This ghost is covered by an old bedspread that someone got out of a car. When the sheet is pulled away from her face, there’s not a mark on it. She is beautiful and she looks like she is asleep, as if a gentle shake of her shoulder will bring her back to life but it won’t. That ghost appears every time I hear the Kenny Chesney song “Who You’d be Today”.

When I pass a certain oak tree on a residential street, I see the ghost of a man in his early 20’s lying at the base of the tree. He has eight bullet wounds and he is gasping for breath. I’ve heard that sound before and I know that he will not live. His daughters, who are pre-teen, are standing nearby crying. They were walking with him when he was shot.

Then there is a certain curve in a road where I see many ghosts. The man who hit another car head on and burned to death as I watched because his body was pinned and no one could get him out, the young kid who’s truck struck a guardrail and overturned, ejecting him into another guardrail. I can still smell the smell of an alcoholic drink in the air around that one when I pass.

When I pass a certain retirement home, I see the ghost of an old man who is in a wheelchair in a bathroom. There is an unbelievable amount of congealed blood on the floor from his slit wrists. I keep thinking how he died alone and so sad on the first year anniversary of his wife’s death. I can’t get the picture out of my head of him rolling into the bathroom in the middle of the night and getting the razor blade.

When I go down one street, I see two ghosts. One is a woman lying in the street with gunshot wounds to the head and chest. One of the wounds is to her left eye but her glasses are still on, undamaged. I think how strange that seems. Her dad, who was with her asks me if she is going to be OK and I have to tell him that she isn’t ever going to be OK again. Her estranged husband is in a nearby yard with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. His shirt is pulled up a bit and I see something on his chest just under the shirt. I lift the shirt and see that he has a picture of their four-year-old child taped to his chest.

You ask if I believe in ghosts. Yes, these are just a few of them that I see everyday. I’m a police officer.

[ninjamom]

Thanks for sharing this with us non-LEOs. It's very touching.

How about the rest of you? Have you seen or felt ghosts?

[rob84]

I posted this in a Verifed LEO only section back in February. A member suggested I post it in a public area so here it is.

An LEO wrote this. Thought I'd share it.

GHOSTS

Someone asked me the other day if I believed in ghosts. I said I wasn’t sure but then I started thinking about it and I realized that I see ghosts every day in my job. They all seem to hang around in the same places and I see them every time I pass those places.

There’s the 16-year-old girl lying just off the roadway of a National Parkway next to a crumpled car that is resting against a huge pine tree. This ghost is covered by an old bedspread that someone got out of a car. When the sheet is pulled away from her face, there’s not a mark on it. She is beautiful and she looks like she is asleep, as if a gentle shake of her shoulder will bring her back to life but it won’t. That ghost appears every time I hear the Kenny Chesney song “Who You’d be Today”.

When I pass a certain oak tree on a residential street, I see the ghost of a man in his early 20’s lying at the base of the tree. He has eight bullet wounds and he is gasping for breath. I’ve heard that sound before and I know that he will not live. His daughters, who are pre-teen, are standing nearby crying. They were walking with him when he was shot.

Then there is a certain curve in a road where I see many ghosts. The man who hit another car head on and burned to death as I watched because his body was pinned and no one could get him out, the young kid who’s truck struck a guardrail and overturned, ejecting him into another guardrail. I can still smell the smell of an alcoholic drink in the air around that one when I pass.

When I pass a certain retirement home, I see the ghost of an old man who is in a wheelchair in a bathroom. There is an unbelievable amount of congealed blood on the floor from his slit wrists. I keep thinking how he died alone and so sad on the first year anniversary of his wife’s death. I can’t get the picture out of my head of him rolling into the bathroom in the middle of the night and getting the razor blade.When I go down one street, I see two ghosts. One is a woman lying in the street with gunshot wounds to the head and chest. One of the wounds is to her left eye but her glasses are still on, undamaged. I think how strange that seems. Her dad, who was with her asks me if she is going to be OK and I have to tell him that she isn’t ever going to be OK again. Her estranged husband is in a nearby yard with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. His shirt is pulled up a bit and I see something on his chest just under the shirt. I lift the shirt and see that he has a picture of their four-year-old child taped to his chest.

You ask if I believe in ghosts. Yes, these are just a few of them that I see everyday. I’m a police officer.

All of these stories are very upsetting, but this one REALLY got to me.

[lewisipso]

Thanks for sharing this with us non-LEOs. It's very touching.

How about the rest of you? Have you seen or felt ghosts?

Yeah.

[EvilPit]

I haven’t worn the shield that long, but I just realized that I have seen some of the same ghosts. It puts things into perspective!! GOOD ONE Cid!!

[smokey703]

Not trying to be funny but I see one everyday when I look in the mirror and put this uniform on.

[Cidp24]

Not trying to be funny but I see one everyday when I look in the mirror and put this uniform on.

You mean the ghost of who you were before the job?
Never thought about that if thats what you mean but even if not, it still triggers some thought.

[smokey703]

Not just that, but I was recently involved in an incident in which I had to take a life to keep my own.

[lewisipso]

Rule #1 buddy. You're still here with us.

[Ducky]

Rule #1 buddy. You're still here with us.

+1 - Always go home at the end of shift. If it's you or him, make sure it's him.

Glad you found us.

[jmur5074]

Not just that, but I was recently involved in an incident in which I had to take a life to keep my own.

I'm glad your ok.