Paranormal Cases


It had all started with a simple case. Peter was to go undercover and investigate the financials of an organization. Then he'd disappeared.

Teams had flooded through the building, surveillance had been run, and no trace had been discovered.

Everything came to a dead end. And still, Peter hadn't been found.


Walking through the office, everything continued to run at a subdued frantic. There was extreme concern that Agent Burke wouldn't be found alive, but there was no trail to follow that hadn't already been explored. Everyone was desperate to act, but at a loss of what to do that would actually be productive. So, they did what they could and hoped that something would turn up.

Finding his eyes glancing sideways into the vacant office of the boss, he didn't think anything of it at first. Then his mind caught up to what had drawn his attention. There was movement!

Pausing, he knew that he was only a probie in the White Collar team, but shouldn't an empty office be… you know, empty?

Instead, there was the soft glow of the computer screen and pages were turning in a file of their own volition.

Now, if it had just been the computer screen on, he would have assumed that IT was doing a remote update or that someone was hacking into the agent's computer.

But that wasn't the case. It couldn't be. Not when a file was laid open on the desk with pages shifting, and one that even remained standing upright as though it was held by an unseen force.

Frozen, he wasn't sure what to do. Who should he tell, what should he say?

"Hey, Remmie. Do you have that file I asked for?" Agent Berigan was looking for him as he'd taken too long.

Hesitant to turn towards her, he worried that if he looked away, then whatever was happening in the room would stop. He didn't want to think what that would be like. Was he losing his mind and that would be proof, or was there something else going on?

"What are you looking at?" Her voice got a little terse as she expressed frustration at him, but he still didn't react.

Forcibly turning him, she gasped slightly. "What's wrong?"

"Look in Burke's office…" He cleared his throat and tried to stop the quiver, but it was useless. "What do you see?"

Puzzled, she looked at him a moment longer before turning and looking for herself.

He could tell that it took her a moment as she didn't initially react while her eyes roved over the familiar space. But, then she caught it too.

"The computer is on… and the file… how… how are those pages moving like that?" She turned to look at him and he wondered if she was a reflection of him. Her eyes had gotten large while her face had paled a shade or two.

"I don't know… I just noticed it a moment ago."

"Hughes, Jones, you guys got to come see this!" She called for reinforcements. Despite the volume of her voice, there wasn't the usual confidence, and perhaps there'd been the slight undertone of a waiver.

Still struggling to manage his shock, he stood by as the two agents in question along with anyone else in hearing range rushed to see what the cause of the excitement was.

"What's wrong?"

"Agent Berrigan?"

Fluttering her hand towards the office, Berrigan instructed everyone, "Look, look at Peter's office and see if you see what we saw."

As the ranking agents Hughes and Jones had the primary positions, but everyone else attempted to find a position where they could see what was happening. Things were quiet for a few moments as if everyone was waiting on baited breath. Then the noise hit as everyone seemed to give startled exhales alone or in groups as eyes found the source of the disturbance.

"What in the…?"

"I don't believe it…"

Feeling a little relieved that he was neither the only witness nor the only one who didn't know what to do with the situation, he was curious to see what would happen now. How would they handle this apparent paranormal activity?

Taking the lead, Hughes opened the door and walked into the office slowly, nervously, with Jones and Diana shifting to follow at his heels.

He managed to get his head in around the door, but that was about as close as he wanted to get to the situation. Perhaps closer than he already felt comfortable being.

Leaning over the chair, Hughes looked at the computer and then at the pages as they were turning. "The case… it's being worked. Everything running through the computer here pertains to the pages on the file."

He jumped back when a pen floated up and began to write in the folder.

Everyone stepped away and he pulled his head back. At least the glass gave him a sense of a barrier between him and… whatever was in the office.

"Uh, let's pull security and see if there are any glimpses into the office here and see when this started; if there is any evidence to help us go off of." Even Hughes' voice didn't sound normal but he hid just how affected he was well.

With a place to start, everyone went to work on this new task of pulling and viewing their office surveillance footage. By having so many eyes running things through, they were able to divide the days up and quickly found what they were looking for.

Setting it up on the big screen in the conference room, everyone settled in to watch and see if they could figure out what was going on.

It had been an evening a few days prior when the elevator doors had opened with no one stepping out. Then the door to the office had opened. There was a gap of time, likely for something to navigate the office before Burke's door opened and the movement in his office began.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say that Peter was invisible and working up there on a case while he waits for us to figure out that he's here and how to help him get out of this mess," Diana muttered.

In the silence, everyone could hear her, and there were several involuntary shivers around the table as people reacted to that idea.

"I'd say don't be ridiculous, but obviously we have something strange going on here." Hughes contributed.

Although he didn't say it, didn't want to in a room full of the agent's friends, his theory was that Agent Burke was haunting them. Perhaps he'd been killed in whatever happened and was waiting for them to find his killer so that he could rest in peace.

Sure, it seemed a little corny, the plot of most ghost stories, but at least it gave his mind an answer and helped his nervous system calm down a little.

Regardless of the theories that were thrown around the office, they couldn't confirm any of them, and they couldn't stop an invisible and untouchable force from doing as it pleased. So, the matter was ultimately dropped.

It became accepted knowledge that their office appeared to be haunted. No one spoke of it outside of the office, who would believe them anyway? Most of them tried to ignore it thinking that if they didn't look at it, acknowledge it, or speak of it, maybe whatever had moved in would move out.

Whether it was because they tended to ignore it, it got bored, or what happened, it did eventually stop.

One day he was walking by and noticed that nothing was moving. The computer was off, the files were still, and it appeared as though Peter had gone home.

There weren't any more appearances and things got quiet again.


Thank you, everyone, for reading, reviewing/commenting, and leaving kudos :D

I'm curious what theories you all have as to what is going on :D