It\u2019s NYPD-boo!<\/p>\n
Cop-turned-demonologist Chris DeFlorio<\/a> is dishing for the first time about how he rid his former haunt \u2013 the 32nd Precinct in Harlem \u2013 of a malevolent spirit that had been tormenting officers for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n DeFlorio, 54, has been slaying the supernatural full-time with his wife, Harmony, since leaving the force in 2021. But one of his final missions in uniform resembled something out of \u201cGhostbusters\u201d after a rookie cop reported a terrifying encounter inside the precinct\u2019s fourth-floor bunk room.\u00a0<\/p>\n One of ex-NYPD officer Chris DeFlorio\u2019s final missions in uniform was slaying an \u201cevil\u201d spirit at the NYPD 32nd Precinct station house in Harlem. J.C. Rice<\/p>\n \u201cThe officer in question was working a midnight shift. He\u2019d just finished his shift and instead of going home, he wanted to go upstairs and take a break. He was sleeping in the bunkroom \u2026 and at that time, he felt there was something walking behind him,\u201d recalled DeFlorio, who spent 20 years with the boys in blue.<\/p>\n \u201cHe jumped up, he looked around, but there was no one in the room. He tried to forget it, went back to sleep, and not too long after, he felt gripping on his legs. Something was holding him down, and it was bouncing on the couch that he was laying on.\u201d<\/p>\n After escaping the alleged spirit\u2019s grasp, the cop hit the lights and \u201cdidn\u2019t see anybody in the room,\u201d DeFlorio said. \u201cBut when he looked towards the door, he saw a shadow of a person walking out.\u201d<\/p>\n Word of the hair-raising, May 8, 2020, encounter spread fast through the station house, according to DeFlorio and Byron Pena, another retired officer who\u2019d had his own eerie run-in years earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n The May 10, 2020, exorcism came two days after a rookie cop had a terrifying encounter with the alleged spirit while sleeping in the precinct\u2019s fourth-floor bunk room. Courtesy of Chris DeFlorio<\/p>\n Byron Pena, another retired cop, told The Post he\u2019d had his own eerie run-in with the ghost almost two decades before DeFlorio\u2019s exorcism. J.C. Rice<\/p>\n Pena, 58, said he felt \u201crelieved\u201d to hear about the spooky, alleged incident \u2013 and that something would finally be done about the malicious spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAfter that officer had his experience, I stopped him in the stairwell and I asked him about what happened, and he told me the story,\u201d Pena told The Post. \u201cBack in the last blackout we had in the early 2000s, I slept in the dorm room upstairs, and I tossed and turned all night \u2013 I couldn\u2019t sleep.<\/p>\n \u201cI just had an eerie feeling. I kept looking at the door, I kept looking at the window \u2013 it was just so uncomfortable. It was just a weird feeling that I couldn\u2019t explain, and I never mentioned it to anybody. \u2026 But there was a presence there.\u201d<\/p>\n DeFlorio didn\u2019t know if he would make it out of the exorcism alive \u2014 but one hour later, \u201cyou could walk directly into that room and it felt like a different room. There was a light feeling to it,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0 Courtesy of Chris DeFlorio<\/p>\n Petrified from that night, Pena never stepped foot in the bunk room again during his 28 years at the precinct<\/a> \u2013 even after DeFlorio was called on by administrators to perform an exorcism in the wee hours of May 10, 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n