This cropped up in a police report a week ago. but with little extra information and so, as it sounded too much like The Entity (although it may be based on a true case, similar claims emerged from the Smurl Haunting), I stored it away for future reference. Well now is the future (when compared to back then) and we have got a slightly more detailed report:

Two Washington State women claim they've been sexually attacked by ghosts.

The Federal Way Mirror newspaper reports the two have filed police reports.

According to the police report, the women came to the Federal Way Police Department and told officers a paranormal person has been placing sensors on their bodies and having intercourse with them.

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It's an odd case for cops and reporters.

But it's right up Ross Allison's alley. He's a ghost hunter.

He went to the apartment building where the women say a spirit has haunted them for two years.

With the sci-fi channel hit 'ghost hunters', paranormal popularity is soaring.

And Allison says as the number of ghost shows grows, so do spirit sightings.

He says candid questions help ghost hunters sort the eerie from the unstable.

The maintenance man in charge of all the units told me the women keep calling him, saying the ghosts are raping them on weekend nights. He says he told them to call police.

Police say they don't have any investigative leads.

Ross Allison says he'd need a psychic to check.

The women were nowhere to be found.

And, there was no sign of the ghost, either.

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So what to make of it? Well it could be put down to a hoax but it seems to have some backstory to it. It could be folie à deux, however, could there be something behind this?

I'm not suggesting an actual spectral sex attacker (although you can't rule it out, I suppose) but I am reminded of Popo Bawa, the sodomising demon of Zanzibar. In that previous look at the phenomena I wondered about contagious sleep paralysis (as studies have shown it can be induced and you can actually defend yourself against them) and this report has the hallmarks of an incubus attack, a legend which seems to have its roots in parasomnias.

It'll be interesting to see if the researcher tracks the women down and gets a more detailed report from them. If it seems to confirm my speculation, I'd recommend taking them to a sleep lab and seeing what they can find.