title: Hidden Files: Law Enforcement's True Case Stories of the Unexplained and Paranormal
author:  Sue Kovach 
description: Ghosts, UFOs, and other reports of paranormal phenomena often test the bounds of credibility, but can such reports be easily dismissed when the witness is an officer of the law trained to make calm, detailed observations under the most stressful situations? In <i>Hidden Files</i> Sue Kovach presents some of law enforcement's most intriguing (and often repressed) files from around the United States. For example, while looking for a woman and her son, Deputy Rich Strasser believes he was guided by the spirit of the deceased mother to find the wreckage of her car and her young son still alive inside it. Officer Ron Chancey recounts being chased by a boomerang-shaped flying object in Florida. And Brian Gosselin shares his encounter with a Sasquatch-type creature in Washington county, New York. These strange reports by respected police officers rival anything on television's <i>X-Files</i>, because they're not works of fiction, but events that actually occurred on the streets of America.
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Alexander McCall Smith
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a
  division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in
  hardcover in Great Britain by Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book
  Group, a Hachette U.K. company, London, in 2019.
  
  
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