Incidents of the Paranormal
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003186/E
Version Date: 19/05/2025
The Performance Analysis Department and the Alliance Finance Department have provided the following information.
Searches were completed on Storm using the keywords exactly as provided within the request. Please note that Storm data is only available from October 2020 onwards.
The number of reported incidents received by your police force from members of the public or your own officers that involve the following terms in their descriptions or classifications:
Ghosts
Demons
Monsters
Paranormal phenomena
Supernatural entities
Poltergeists
Apparitions
UFO's
Aliens
Other similar terms associated with paranormal or supernatural activity.
The time period I am requesting covers the past five years, from 1st January 2020 to 1st January 2025, broken down year by year.
The following table shows how many incidents mentioned the keywords provided.
Please note that searches for 01/01/2025 resulted a nil return.
|
Year |
Count |
|
2020 |
3 |
|
2021 |
35 |
|
2022 |
40 |
|
2023 |
32 |
|
2024 |
20 |
|
Total |
130 |
The following table shows which keywords appeared and how many times. Please note that there is one occurrence which contains multiple keywords, hence the variance in the totals:
|
Keywords |
Year |
Total |
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|
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
||
|
Aliens |
9 |
16 |
6 |
2 |
33 |
|
|
Demons |
1 |
12 |
6 |
13 |
10 |
42 |
|
Ghosts |
2 |
9 |
14 |
5 |
2 |
32 |
|
Monsters |
5 |
4 |
7 |
6 |
22 |
|
|
UFO's |
3 |
3 |
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|
Total |
3 |
35 |
40 |
34 |
20 |
132 |
Additionally, if available, please provide any information or estimates regarding the cost to the police force of responding to these incidents broken down year by year, either as individual call-outs or an average cost per type of report.
No information held.