I am contemplating a formal investigation into some instances involving peoples personal experiences where they see spirits either holding wood or where wood plays a part in their experience. Here is one instance to give you the idea of what is going on.

As you all know my group is made up of primarily police officers and a few other professionals.

Recently one member while on duty got a call of a break in at an elderly lady's home. She had just turned 95. (yes, I know what you are thinking) Anyway, she stated that she saw 6 people, a whole family, parents and children walk into her living room carrying a bundle of sticks and sit on her couch. They did not acknowledge her or respond to her or even seem to know she was there. She ran to call police and they were gone when she returned and no one else in the neighborhood had heard or seen anything. The woman told them that she knew they thought she was crazy but that she did see it.

There is a lot more to this and not the only report involving people carrying wood. There is one other similarity to all the sightings that I will reveal later.

My question is, has anyone ever heard of any stories of people seeing spirits, ghosts, etc, where wood played an obvious role in the sighting?

Here is what I have as fact so far.

All complaints were made to the police by the elderly. Some of which were from a retirement home. The last lady lives alone in her own home. At least one incident from an adjoining town. Most were made by women. All but the last one died within 30 days. It has only been a few days since the last report.

Even this last incident might have gone by without notice but the member met up with an officer from the adjoining town and were exchanging the evenings stories and information. Just for S&G he told the other officer about the old ladies story and that is when he found out about the similar stories from the other town. An official report was made on this case (as a reported break-in) and he is looking to see if the others he had heard of were officially reported.

He then contacted me to see what I thought. In my career as with most officers I would assume. I have heard all kind of stories from the elderly and many are similar. Some reports are for recognition or just out of plain loneliness and to have someone to talk to for a short period. However, this one bit of information struck me as odd, especially coming from several people from different places who didn't know each other.

Yes, I understand that they are all old and their lives may just have been at a close anyway. I am not suggesting any outside forces caused their deaths but was looking more for any stories that may shed some light on the possibility of the significance of wood being an omen or warning of death.

Update:

I talked to my son who was the first responding officer to the call. Now that we had a little time to talk over the phone a lot more interesting things came to light.

This I found very interesting and odd. The call came in at 2 am from this lady. She was not telling what had happened but what was happening at that moment. She stated to the dispatcher the following information and he was relaying it to the patrols. My son was there within minutes.

Remember she was relating this in real time.

She said; “There are several people outside my house walking around and doing something.” She then went out the door and said she still saw them. She came back in the house and said, “Now they are doing something to my front door.””They don’t seem to be trying to break in but they are doing something to the door.” Then she said, ”They are coming in the house and sitting on my couch.”

The police arrived with lights and sirens which caught her attention and distracted her and then they were gone.

She told the police that they were carrying a bundle of sticks. They did not talk to her or even act like they saw her. She could hear them whispering to each other but couldn’t make out what they were saying. Then they were gone and she didn’t see them leave. The police checked the home, talked to neighbors and checked the area and found nothing.

So that’s where it stands now until we can talk to the lady again.