By Brett Daniel Shehadey
Special Contributor for In Homeland Security
Catching criminals is not the only thing some police officers are good at. At what could be a perfect X-Files episode, if the show was still running, is what looked like a full bodied human apparition passing straight through a locked gate from the parking lot and through a sally port on surveillance footage of the Espanola Police Department in the state of New Mexico.
Officer Karl Romero spotted the strange video capture, thinking at first that it was a moth until he saw what he believed to be a body with legs. Parts of the figure are brighter than others, but the whole thing is a whitish blur from a night watch feed. It almost looks like variants of some man wearing active camouflage until the object caught on surveillance appears to pass right through a secure fenced gate.
Being that this is New Mexico, the topic of aliens has already come as a possible explanation by the believers. Nevertheless, when you see the footage, at first glance it certainly does appear oddly supernatural. The spooks have taken place on a regular basis there foe the Espanola officers. Detective Solomon Romero said that “a lot” of officers have seen “certain things” or felt someone “breathing down their necks” on the job. And he noted in an interview with local station KOAT 7 Action News that there were still unsolved murders in the area.
It is not uncommon to have witnessed seeing supernatural events in the military, intelligence or in law enforcement functions. Criminals are, however, a lot easier to catch than ghosts or supernatural moments. Rarely can such events or moments be captured on video but are well documented later through testimony. There are the most obvious skeptical questions: Was it just a reflection of someone walking away from the gate at a distance in front where the camera recorded the light through mist and dust particles of some kind? Was there a prankster in the precinct capable of hoaxing the lot? Halloween is almost a month away and superstitions are not far around the corner.
In any case, Detective Romero is a believer: “I do believe in ghosts. It’s hard to say but I do believe it was a ghost.”
Almost half of Americans in various polls conducted say they believe in ghosts.
Like the X-Files catch phrase, “I want to believe.”
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