Supernatural activity
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003557/L
Version Date: 20/08/2025
The Performance Analysis (PA) Department have provided the following information.
PA have searched the Storm Incident Universe for each of the keywords listed below.
Data Limitations
Please note, data only dates back to when Storm was implemented (21/10/2020)
These results purely show the presence of the keyword.
please note the date should be 1st January 2019 - 31st December 2024 (calendar years).
Q1) Please advise the number of reports your force has received that have any of the following terms in their description or classification. Please give the individual number for each term rather than grouping them together:
Ghosts 32
Demons 42
Monsters 22
Paranormal phenomena 0
Supernatural entities 0
Poltergeists 0
Apparitions 0
UFOs 3
Aliens 33
2) For the above data, please advise which post code areas the most reports came from. Break this down by month/year, too.
| GHOSTS | |
| Month / Year | BH10 7HY |
| 2020 | |
| 2021 | 5 |
| June | 2 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 2 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| January | 2 |
| April | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| April | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| 2024 | |
| Grand Total | 11 |
| DEMONS | |
| Month / Year | DT4 9XW |
| 2020 | 1 |
| December | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| January | 2 |
| June | 1 |
| 2022 | |
| 2023 | |
| Grand Total | 4 |
| MONSTERS | |
| Month / Year | DT11 8ST |
| 2021 | |
| 2022 | |
| 2023 | 4 |
| February | 1 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| Grand Total | 5 |
| UFO | |
| Month / Year | BH2 5NR |
| 2023 | 2 |
| March | 1 |
| May | 1 |
| Grand Total | 2 |
| ALIENS | |
| Month / Year | DT5 1BD |
| 2021 | 3 |
| December | 3 |
| 2022 | |
| 2023 | |
| 2024 | |
| Grand Total | 3 |
3) How many reports did you receive from Police Officers for each of the terms in Q1.
Information Not Held – the occupation of the person reporting is not recorded.