FOIA Request Finds 39 Calls Involving "Paranormal Activity" Made to Police in Scotland Since 2019

A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed earlier this year with Scottish police for calls involving “paranormal activity” has returned dozens of results, according to a report issued by Police Scotland.

The request asked for a “summary of calls to police where the logs include the word 'paranormal activity' from January 2019 to date," and specified that the information be "broken down on a month-by-month basis with a brief summary of the incident, and if possible, any action taken."

However, the requester added, “If the scope of this request is too broad, please just provide a brief summary.”

This resulted in the disclosure of 39 such incidents from between January 2019 and February 2022.

While a handful of the calls were determined to be hoaxes, and significantly more were due to the activities of paranormal groups rather than anything ghostly, some of the descriptions included were genuinely unusual.

A few simply stated that “paranormal activity” had been reported, while others stated that the callers had claimed to experience strange lights or noises.

Even more bizarrely, one person reported “black creatures coming out of wall," and another was reportedly “haunted by ghost of child.”

No details of any subsequent investigation by Scottish authorities into these incidents have so far been released.

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