We have received our fair share of crazy people calling us over the years. I am not talking about annoying clients that think they are entitled to the world I am talking about full fledged, out of touch with reality, thinks aliens have invaded their bodies FREAKS!Part of me considers these calls as sad but the other part of me thinks these calls are down right hilarious!
I always know 15 seconds in when one of these paranoid schizophrenia are on the line. Let me debrief you on a phone call I received yesterday and you tell me when you notice things start to get "wacky".
Phone rings: 2:45pm
Me: Legendary Investigations, can I help you?
Caller: Hi, how are you doing?
Me: I am doing fine, thank you for asking. How are you this afternoon?
Caller: Well, ummm I have a situation and I thought maybe you could help me.
Me: OK, what do you have going on?
Caller: Well geeze where do I start? I, ummm... I well. God this is hard for me to talk about.
Me: It's OK, take your time.
Caller: Ya see about 3 months ago I started noticing some things going on in my house.
Me: OK, what types of things?
Caller: I went away for a few days and when I came back I saw some things in my house that were different and I wanted to know well ummmm you see these Mexicans just moved in next door and I think they have done some things to me.
Me: Ok, what do you suspect they have done?
Caller: Well when I came home I went to sleep and the next morning I felt as if I was being recorded.
Me: Like someone was watching you from a window or something?
Caller: No, no no, I am serious when I say that these Mexicans came in my room when I was sound asleep and implanted something inside of me that records my every move!! I am being watched and recorded and they are controlling my every move now because of this device.
Me: OK, were there any signs of breaking into the home?
Caller: No but they left a cigarette butt in my ashtray.
Me: OK, so have you called the police?
Caller: Yes I did and they told me to call you guys.
*In my mind I am thinking great, thanks guys*
Me: Mam do you smoke?
Caller: Yes, I smoke
Me: OK, what brand do you smoke? And what type of cigarette was in the ashtray?
Caller: I smoke Newport Kings and there was a Newport King butt in the ashtray.
Me: OK, so what exactly do you need me to do for you?
It was at this point the caller asked if we had equipment that detected camera and bugging equipment. Of course we do have that equipment but I knew where this was going.
And I was correct in my assumptions. She wanted an investigator to come to her home and not only debug her home but also debug HER.
Yea, you read that right. Man I need a nap!!
7 comments:
maybe you should have gone to her. who knows she might be really bugged?
I would have considered this until she began to tell me that the only way to detect the bugs that were "inside" of her, was to fly up in an airplane where the frequencies couldn't be detected.
I would have sold her an anti bugging sweep.
My speciality is computer investigations and cyber stalking cases. The nuts I get are all being hacked by NSA...
Thats funny EmailRevealer, we have sold nut cases anti bugging sweeps in the past. Makes me feel guilty sometimes, but I figure if we dont do it they will find someone else who will, so why not? If it gives them some piece of mind then I suppose we arent all that bad.
Do people that crazy really ever get peace of mind though??
Keely, sometimes they do. We had a woman come to us several years ago who we later found out was off of her medication. After 3 months of helping her with bug sweeps and countless hours of surveillance on her home she finally came clean to us. We were the only ones that she trusted and confided in us that she was off her medication. She stopped taking it several months prior because she hated feeling controlled by it. We somehow talked her into getting back on her medication and we haven't heard back from her since.
I am sure one day we might hear from her again but for the time being I like to think that she has some peace.
Bless you for putting up with these people. I'm sure you get a lot of calls from them. And having been through two divorces myself I can say it is a really crazy time.
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