A Randolph County man recently made repeated 911 calls reporting zombies, ghosts and a UFO at his home in West Virginia, according to police.
Randolph County Sheriff’s Office (RCSO) deputies responded to the man’s home in the Kerens area after receiving multiple emergency calls this week. When the officers arrived, the RCSO reported that the man claimed he was a Louisiana police officer and was being harassed by multiple people. He also claimed there were zombies, ghosts and a UFO at his home.
After further investigation, it was determined that the man “knowingly misused the local emergency telephone system by reporting incidents that did not occur and falsely represented himself as a law enforcement officer.”
Authorities arrested him on charges of misuse of a local emergency telephone system and impersonating a law enforcement officer, and they transported him to the Tygart Valley Regional Jail, where they held him on a cash-only $2,500 bond.
Some less-than-likely explanations for his wild claims
Perhaps he became confused while playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which features a well-known zombie map called Liberty Falls, based on the West Virginia town of Harpers Ferry, that is overrun by a zombie outbreak.
Then again, West Virginia has been in the news the past few years for zombie deer and zombie cicadas. There have also been reports of people abusing the drug xylazine, AKA the zombie drug, in the state. Maybe there is a new “zombie” event taking place that he is just the first to notice.
That, or maybe the Mothman of Point Pleasant has reappeared in Kerens and was just clouding the man’s mind.