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Haunted honeymoon: Lesli and Lt. Harry Zamora have spent their married life dealing with paranormal phenomena. Photo by John Perry.

By John Perry

The past isn’t dead; it isn’t even the past.
– William Faulkner

Lt. Harry Zamora, 24-year HPD veteran, insists his home is haunted. A documentary filmmaker, who spent nights videotaping unexplained light orbs darting about, agrees. So does a high-profile paranormal investigator.

The haunting of the two-story brick home began June 17, 2003, the day the Zamoras moved in.

“It started with the lights coming on,” Zamora said. “We’d turn them off, but they’d come right back on. An electrician couldn’t find anything wrong. We started taping the light switches down.”

The Zamoras told of leaving a room, then finding the furniture rearranged. One Sunday morning, they went downstairs for coffee. When they went back up, the bed was made.

The creeping unknown affected their children. Daughters, ages 11, 8 and 4, sleep there only if huddled with their parents, while daughter Melissa, 22, won’t stay after dark.

The uninvited
Zamora said an overnight guest, a part-time motorcycle stunt rider, was sleeping on a downstairs couch. He told about feeling a presence and seeing a shadow stirring through the room.

When the guest left the next day, he suffered a motorcycle accident before going two miles, Zamora said. He said he felt something push him off his bike.

Late one night, Lesli, Zamora’s wife, said she was awakened by a formless shape stroking her hair.

“Oh, it was dark and awful,” she said with a shudder.

There was the night all the battery-powered toys animated at the same time. Zamora got rid of them the next morning.

“As a cop, you’re not trained to deal with the supernatural,” said Zamora who is assigned to the northwest patrol division. “You deal in solid facts.”

Clearly out of his element, Zamora sought psychic help.

Spiritual habitat
He contacted Cathi Bunn, the globetrotting Houston paranormal investigator. Bunn, subject of newspaper articles, magazine features and an upcoming SCI FI Channel special, brought her digital camcorder with infrared night vision and electromagnetic-field meter to Zamora’s home the night of Feb. 20.

“Almost immediately,” Bunn said, “I knew it was a spiritual habitat.”

Her EMF meter spiked.

“The spirits were all around as soon as I walked in,” Bunn said. “They were like little puppies that had never met you. They came up to sniff and see what I was all about.”

She located a vertical column of energy – a vortex – swirling from roof to floor. Consistent, Bunn said, of a lightning strike leaving an electrical legacy.

“The spirits seemed attracted to the vortex and stayed near it,” Bunn said.

Cathi Bunn, high-profile paranormal investigator, said she could tell the house was a "spiritual habitat" from the moment she walked through the door. Photo by John Perry.

Insurance reports indicate the house was struck twice by lightning within an 18-month period prior to the Zamoras moving in. Given the topographical information, Tim Heller, chief meteorologist for ABC Channel-13, said it was a 1-in-600,000 chance the house would be hit by lightning.

“But the odds of being hit twice,” Heller said, “Well … I just couldn’t even tell you.”

Upstairs, Bunn believes she found the epicenter of spiritual activity. Using her night vision camera, she captured 22 encounters of a “tri-spirit.”

“They traveled together, with two lower spirits wrapping themselves around the stronger to create one higher spiritual form,” Bunn said.

Bunn didn’t think anything there would harm the Zamoras.

“What I found didn’t register negativity,” Bunn said. “My advice, however, would be for them to sell the house … and get away.”

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