DES MOINES, Iowa - A judge ruled that a former security guard who was fired for seeing ghosts cannot be denied unemployment benefits.

According to a court ruling released this week, the former guard's allegation of apparitions does not constitute misconduct.

The issue started on Sept. 11, when Wade Gallegos alerted his supervisor at Neighborhood Patrol of Urbandale that ghosts were haunting a neighborhood he was guarding.

The supervisor arrived at the scene, where Gallegos showed him where the ghosts were still apparently standing.

The supervisor claimed he saw nothing and fired Gallegos five hours later.

The company found no signs of drug use or alcohol.

Neighborhood Patrol challenged Gallegos' application for unemployment benefits, arguing he was guilty of misconduct.

"Such beliefs do render the claimant unfit to act as a security guard," Judge G. Ken Renegar ruled. "The employer cannot have security guards who see ghosts and apparitions and inform the employer, and then the employer sends out the patrol cars."

However, the judge ruled, seeing ghosts is not the type of misconduct that can disqualify Gallegos from receiving benefits.

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I know of Security Guards who have seen Ghosts where I work. There is even video surveillance to back up their claims of seeing Ghosts. I've also heard of Security Guards from another company having strange sightings while out on patrol. This is the first time I've heard of someone being fired for seeing apparitions.

I've seen ghosts at the prison and heard people walking around when the inmates are locked down for the night. I think most of the people who work there have. We just take it as part of the job.

i think its stupid to fire the guy, i mean if the evidence says he didn't take drugs then theres really no reason to fire him

^True, yet there are just some real *$&#@ out there who sadly we can never avoid entirely!

Thankfully he was fired..... it's worse that he wasn't taking drugs. The guy is obviously a nut job if he was seeing people standing there. He still saw them while other people were in the room and didn't see them!

Then why isn't he receiving psychiatric treatment and invalidity benefit instead of being allowed to claim unemployment?

I assume he was fired because it was assumed he was insane, eh?

I would have only fired him if he refused to work. I would have told him "great, just leave out the ghosts in your nightly reports". besides what do you expect from an employer? It's not as if he said he saw people who weren't there.

At the jail where I used to work the lights would cut themselves off and on in this one cel where a 21 year old guy hung himself, even if the power was cut off from the control room. I never reported it because it was standard knowledge among the other officers.

I still can't see firing the guard for seeing ghosts, pink elephants, yes, ghosts, no.

Because ghosts are generally not believed in.. I believe in ghosts, to some extent, but who is going to prove that he saw ghosts? No one. It could actually cause problems if he sees people who aren't there.