Book claims 9/11 site haunted by female ghost

A retired police officer has claimed in his book that the 9/11 site was haunted by a female ghost who protected and served workers at the site.

Retired NYPD Lt. Frank Marra, author of "From Landfill to Hallowed Ground," said that a number of workers sifting the rubble from the 9/11 attacks at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island saw a female ghost carrying a tray of sandwiches, reported New York Post.

Marra, who was the supervisor of the World Trade Center vehicle impound section of the landfill and is the son of a high-ranking NYPD chief, noted that the apparition was an African-American, dressed in white, in the style of a Red Cross worker during World War II. He added that he believed that "she was trying to help us, being first responders."

The former cop said that he saw her a few times, always from more than 50 yards away, and tried to make sense of what he was seeing but the ghostly lady vanished.

Marra added that other cops also witnessed this apparition and other strange things, including shadows and "large black masses.