8. Quite the Coincidence
I used to help out the HR department at a small town law enforcement agency. We once had a woman call from a payphone, refuse to give her name, and ask if she could come in and fill out a paper application for a secretary position in the investigations department. We standardly only accepted online applications, but she was (allegedly) in the witness protection program and remarked that if she submitted an online application, then an individual who had a hit out for her could track her.
Our HR manager allowed her to come in, and I had the honor of sitting down with the two of them before HR gave her an application. Her story is where things started getting crazy.
She had 25 years of experience working for a very affluent NFL program, where she had been in charge of coordinating player travel. Over the years, she had made a lot of friends with the players…and an enemy, who just so happens to be a quarterback who has won multiple Super Bowls… He’s probably one of the first five quarterbacks that comes to mind if somebody were to ask you “Who’s the greatest quarterback of all time?”
Anyways, we were a bit doubtful that one of the most famous quarterbacks of all time had a hit for her life, but of course, we tried to maintain our composure. After getting paid out by said quarterback, and then “enlisting in witness protection,” she ended up in our small town and wanted to apply for the Investigations division department because….she was psychic.
Apparently, she had used her psychic abilities to uncover some pretty bad dirt on the quarterback, which is why he had it out for her. And she had moved 500 miles away to escape that life, change her name, get witness protection, and start over. When she saw the position in Investigations, she was confident that her psychic abilities would bring a lot of people to justice.
The freakiest thing is that I mentioned something like “so what is the extent of your psychic abilities?” And she responded by saying “Well I know you won’t be here much longer.” At the time, my husband was in the process of applying for a job in a different state, and sure enough, we moved away less than 3 months later. I get a laugh out of this because I still don’t believe in psychics or anything, but that was quite the coincidence!
Anyways. We had her fill out an application and then proceeded to run our own background check on her. We discovered she was not actually in the witness protection program, but she did indeed have 25 years of experience with that NFL team. Makes me wonder if her truth is somewhere in the middle of all that craziness…