Before The Series There Was The Original Paranormal Police
Segmented By AARON LEO/ James Myers
Staff writer Ct. Post
Updated: 02/10/09
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Before the new series Paranormal Police, that is plotted for release sometime during the next year. There was the original Paranormal Police, They Call themselves Connecticut, Officers, Paranormal , Society. The Idea of the Paranormal Police Stemmed from a recent article that was released in the Connecticut Post Newspaper about a Bridgeport Police Officer James Myers. After patrolling Bridgeport for 11 years, Police Officer James Myers has found another calling: the spiritual realm. Break-ins at the downtown complex of the shuttered Savoy Hotel and the Poli Palace/Majestic theaters got him inside the rundown buildings, where he took photos, an old hobby for the 38-year-old father of three. But these photos were different from other abandoned buildings he’s shot.”Things started to show up on my camera,” he said. Not just anything: orbs, which indicate the presence of spiritual energy. And lots of psychic energy. Then a chance meeting in Saint Vincent’s Hospital with famed psychic and Monroe resident Lorraine Warren set him on the path to becoming a paranormal researcher. While watching a suspect with his partner, he heard Warren’s, 81, name called. He knew he had to meet her, so he approached the security guard , who brought him to her room. Myers entered her room and she knew his name before he introduced himself. As Myers recalled: “She said, ‘Jimmy, how are you?’” Myers learned a couple weeks later from his mother that Warren was his great grand mother’s neighbor. Warren stated that she believes that he was sent in my direction for a reason. Ed and his great grand mother arrainged this from up above. This is a synchronicity event, Warren stated. Since then, the New England Society For Psychic Research welcomed Myers as the lead investigator, and psychic photographer for Warren and her son-in-law, Tony Spera, with investigations for the A&E network’s show “Paranormal State.” Myers interviews the parties effected by the supernatural and collect data with recording equipment.”They are pretty much calling me their psychic photographer,” Myers said. “[Warren] says I draw the energy.” Myers stated the supernatural energy seems to like his camera. While taking Warren and Tony and Judy Spera on a tour of the theater complex on Sept. 7, he took photos covered with orbs and spiritual energy. They also appeared in photos he took of the Colonial Theater on Boston Avenue, where the Warrens had dates. Sept. 7 is the birthday of Warren’s late husband, Ed Warren, the famed demonologist. He died on Aug. 29, 2006, and worked at the Poli as a teenager where they sometimes saw movies, Warren said. Myers assembled his photos into a slide show dedicated to the Warrens, and Lorraine Warren is showing it during her lectures all over the United States. He goes by the handle 826 Paranormal and says he is “looking at the unknown through a cop’s eyes.”
He said considers himself “open-minded but skeptical.”"I go in with the same attitude as at work. It’s just doing another form of investigation,” Myers said. It’s also a hobby and stress reliever that has proven a little creepy sometimes. Myers definitely feels things of the supernatural. Before he met Warren, he took photos at the former Norwich Psychiatric Hospital, along with approx.100 other locations. He states that the Norwich Psychiatric Hospital was where he experienced the most disturbing thing to date.”It felt like ice water being poured down the back of my shirt,” he said.”I’ve been disappointed on many cases that I have investigated.”Warren, who said she can see auras and can learn about a person from them, felt something special for Myers immediately upon their meeting.
“I was very impressed by him. He seemed very sincere. I could see a man who had a really deep interest,” she said. His job as a police officer makes him disciplined, a requirement for any paranormal researcher, according to Warren. Myers is also wary, but not scared, in paranormal situations.”He’s a guy that isn’t afraid,” she said, adding, “You’ve got to be leery. It’s stupid not to be leery” in haunted areas. Warren said. Still, Myers’ big test came Mischief Night, Oct. 30, when he and a Stamford police officer, who has been helping investigate the paranormal with the Warrens for over twenty years, stayed overnight in the Occult Museum in the ghost hunters’ Monroe home. People who try to stay there overnight have fled in fear, Warren said. It contains artifacts from their investigations, some famous for reportedly leading to the death of anyone who touched them. Myers didn’t touch, but looking through a video camera, he saw a moving orb. “It looked like there was a ping-pong ball bouncing around my camera,” Myers said.
Working with Lorraine and the Speras, visions like that could become a regular sight for the officer. But he maintains a professional attitude in his work”He’s taking photos, he’s taking recordings, he’s gaining knowledge,” Warren said. “He’s a good listener. He doesn’t go foolhardy into anything. He’s not in everybody’s face.”"All in all, he’s really proven himself to us,” she said. Myers is currently working on his first book release “826 Paranormal, Looking At The Unknown Through A Cop’s Eyes .” Warren states that she is looking forward on working on these projects with him and forming the East Coast Paranormal Police . This project will take the knowledge and skills of the true investigators and apply it to the paranormal. Warren stated that she thinks the idea is a great one , and can grow with the talent that is applied to the supernatural.Warren added, that between the three original team members , they have over 100 years of investigative experience in the paranormal ,and law enforcement field.
The New England Society For Psychic Research is Sponsoring the creation of the (C.O.P.S.) TEAM. They are currently looking to add to the Team with five investigators,five alternates, 3 Techs,and a pool of psychics,mediums,andsensitives. All parties involved will have to have some connection to the law enforcement field. The team is running a trial investigation at a location that they previously researched The Poli Palace, Savoy Hotel, and the Majestic Theater. All three establishments have been abandoned for approx. 40 years. At the trial investigation the Team will be determined by the N.E.S.P.R. The team will be looking towards the marketing the East Coast Paranormal Police to the major networks.The Team is looking forward to working with the Chicago Paranormal Police, to enhance their location ,and experience availability on the East coast.
buildings at the site have been closed for years, and they have become a popular hangout for the area’s homeless, said James Myers, a Bridgeport police officer and paranormal investigator. It’s also been a hot spot for reports of odd activities, such as moving shadows and disembodied voices. Schwartz said the stories of the unexplained, combined with the site’s tragic history, made Remington a perfect “Ghost Adventures” locale. ”It kind of has the stench of an unhappy place,” he said. During the hourlong episode, Bagans and company interview local historical and paranormal experts, including Myers. They then spend the night at Remington, with some unsettling results. We won’t spoil it here, but suffice it to say that there are plenty of things going bump in the night at Remington. Myers, who investigates the unknown under the name 826 Paranormal, said it’s unclear whether the strange happenings at Remington are the result of ghostly visits or human intruders. But even if Remington isn’t haunted, it is spooky. ”It’s an old building,” Myers said. “It’s a creepy building, and there are stories to go along with it.” The Remington Arms episode of “Ghost Adventures” airs Friday at 9 p.m. on the Travel Channel. 
