US and Canadian Sailors' Report Terrifying Ghost Encounters at Sea
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
- It is an unspoken secret among Navy personnel that “every ship is haunted”.
These stories certainly do nothing to dispel that statement.
0:00 - Introduction
2:07 - USS Winston Churchill (DDG-81)
13:17 - Tales from the Gridsquare
14:57 - Sea Stories
18:53 - Canadian Naval Air Controller
20:19 - HMCS Athabaskan (DD-282)
21:25 - Credits & Personal Message
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I remembered being told by old Navy guys that all ships are haunted and that some it's because the material they use to patch up ships or build ships comes from other ships that have energy attached to them. Also, we Coasties believe in them too!
Same goes for Jet airlines they use salvage parts from planes that crashed.
Your cum-stew is burning, sailor.
As someone who builds destroyers I can tell you that the material we build them out of doesn’t come from other ships, as for the patching material I couldn’t tell you.
@@cyankirkpatrick5194 I remember the everglades story, and the ghosts thst appeared on olanes subsequently fitted with surving parts of that crashed plane
@@schnaufer5181 thats today, the old world wasnt so plentiful with fresh materials
That GET OUT was the legit most terrifying interpretation of such a paranormal experience I've ever seen. Made me enter a primal moment of fear haha
Right! This channel is better than most horror movies!!!
why would the refugee ghost speak english?
@@PeterPablo-fq2ps Maybe ghost communication transcends spoken language and it's just that the guy interpreted its message thus so
turn the lights on after that one ngl
It didn't help that I'm listening in the dark and right at that moment the tea on my shelf flew off
"As you pass through....the scary door." I will never be able to take that seriously.
isn't that from Futurama or Malcom in the middle?
Futurama
Lmfao
LMFAO!
I know it's supposed to be the twilight zone, but that's all I hear
I'm a sailor, saw the title. ...TRUTH
I was on the BHR and the chains that some kid hung himself with started swaying on its own. We were in port, no seas, all other chains holding fast. But this one length was just rocking away.
Oooookay. Write this story up and email it to me, will you? I did two floats on the BHR. I actually wanted to dedicate a short episode to the tragedy.
I knew the Peleliu was haunted. And they swapped her out that one patrol because the BHR was going back to Sasebo to resurface the flight deck. But the BHR is haunted? You’re the first to tell me.
@@WartimeStories Will do.
Same man. I was on the BHR from ‘18 when she first came to SD till the horrific fire that caused her eventual decommissioning. I was an MM on there too and had plenty of experiences and stories on board. Even after the fire the paranormal activity escalated too!
@Wartime Stories if you want a story too I’m more than happy to tell it
@@nmorrison117 i want those stories too.
BHR 14-17, just submitted two stories. One overboard story and one constant ghost the CSs swore they had seen/heard.
What i love about military ghost stories is that there are (most of the time) multiple eye witnesses because you are not allowed to just wander off alone even to use the bathroom,this makes the stories more credible to me seeing how most serving seem to be no nonsense type of people.Still not sure if the paranormal is real but i like to think i have a open mind.Would love to hear more of these stories please.
Battle buddy system always works more times than not, definitely helps with sightings like these
A word of advise, in any case if you get yourself into an "haunted" space, always believe they were real at any time and always pay respect, as long as you don't have any bad intentions towards their territory, you should be safe. Also I'm apologizing if there's any mistake on my word, English isn't my first language and I'm still learning, thank you and goodbye
@@FormerlyBadStuff k mate
@@FormerlyBadStuff no, I always assert my dominance when something weird happens.
We definitely were allowed to use the head unaccompanied
I'm a sailor. My theory is: it isn't the lost lives that haunt the vessel, it's all the strong negative emotion that gives it power. The worse things are, the worse the apparitions are. They're a reflection of our worst emotions.
I agree we are "on the bottom of the barrel" when it comes to energy, it takes a lot of strength to get out of this wretched reality.
Yes such a great point. So much negative energy in one place, from so many people. Even if something doesn't manifest from it, it would surely draw it in.
That was what I was thinking as well. The reason the Churchill so violently rejected that sailor was because she didn't want to have someone probing her insides like that.
Way I noticed from how the reports were told, while Male Sailors probing Auxiliary Room 2 are treated with hostility, there is still a sense of distrust when female sailors do the same, so it is just a general distrust in sailors poking around her insides.
Emotion; E-motion. The literal definition is "energy in motion".
All energy is characterized by it's vibrational frequency. High vibration is positive, low is negative.
Or it's actions of ungodly entities doing bad things... with the absence of good aka God what is left?... its definitely not of this physical world
One of my coworkers was in the Navy. She said her ship was haunted. Two guys were crushed by a large piece of metal that fell onto them when they were working. There were dents in the metal from their bodies, but the piece was still used on the ship. She and the crew, felt those 2 gentlemen were haunting the ship.
I think one of the gentlemen haunting the ship is Thomas Bean. I was in A school with him in 1990. I learned later he died from a large piece of metal shifting, falling on him crushing him to death.
...aaaand that is why _this_ particular Pastafarian MacGillicuddy is a landlubber.
The End.
USS North Carolina is supposedly haunted, by sailors who died on her during ww2.
Do you know what ship?
Thomas was only 20 years old when the accident happened. I remember him he was a good person well mannered. He talked about his Grandfather and how his family was proud of him going into the Navy
The USS Forrestal was known to be haunted. Most sailors who witnessed things believed that the majority of ghosts were from the famous fire that killed 134 sailors. The ship was decommissioned in September 1993.
The vessel was named after the first us secretary of defense. He allegedly committed suicide by jumping out of a 7th floor window of a high security military hospital window.
I remember chatting to some guys who had served on her when I was in Diego Garcia. They aren't my stories to tell, so I'll not, but they had some pretty vivid tales to tell of their time on her. One main machine space in particular seemed to be pretty damn lively.
When I served onboard the T.C. Hart (FF-1092) out of Norfolk, VA back in the late 1980's, I had a friend among the Boiler Techs (who, I found out later, had formerly been stationed onboard the Forrestal). When I was having dinner on the messdecks one night after watch, I saw him and we started talking about paranormal things. Out of curiosity, I asked him if he had seen or experienced anything "strange" while he was onboard the Forrestal.
He got quiet for a few seconds, then said that there were some spaces onboard the Forrestal where he had gotten 'creepy' feelings, and there were also some spaces where other guys wouldn't go into alone.
there's no fucking way that ship wasnt haunted
I think practically everyone in the Navy has seen the movie about the "Forrestall fire" at least once. (I had to watch it every time I went through the aviation/flight deck firefighting course) - that's how the ship got the nickname "Forrest Fire"
It has been a long-held tradition that the ship itself has a soul, created by the devotion and emotions of those who built her, and those which call her home and safety. It is, after all, known that Ghost Ships are often sighted, which is only possible if the vessel herself was to have a spirit of sorts. Such phenomenon extends to other large vehicles, but it is certainly magnified by the sheer scale of the "castles of steel".
From Black Thursday: The Story Of The Schweinfurt Raid:
“I had accepted the fact that I was not going to live through this mission. It was as simple as that. I was calm; it was a strange sort of resignation. I knew for certain that it was only a matter of seconds or minutes. It was impossible for us to survive...”-Post-mission debriefing of a B-17 pilot, October 14, 1943.
There is a terrible feeling when a bomber dies. Not just among the crewmen who, if not dead, are abandoning their machine in frantic haste before it becomes their tomb, but among those men in accompanying bombers who watch, help-less to assist, as a tongue of flame licks hungrily from a tear in a wing, feeds on fuel streaming backward, gathers strength, and throws itself through the rest of the airplane.
“These are the sights that tried our souls the most,” a pilot once explained. “To watch from your own bomber as a sister ship suffers the flame and begins to fall off in her opening death throes, to know that within her blazing heart the men are your friends and buddies, and maybe you know the pilot’s wife well, and know the kids, too.
“It involves more than the men. You don’t fly a Fortress for months and years without coming to know that gallant lady in the most intimate respects. You know her, and you place in her sturdy construction, the manner in which she flies, in everything about her, not only your life, and those of your crew, but all the life to come-if we survive this stinking war, that is.
“But one thing I’ll tell you. A Queen dies hard. She doesn’t want to go, no more than any man inside her. You may not believe this. If you don’t, it’s only because you haven’t been there, and you haven’t watched combat-hardened men cry as a ship goes down; cry as much for the machine as for the men. Because, you see, when 10 men claimed her for their own, she was no longer just a machine. She was their bomber. That made her special, and made her come alive.”
nope, it’s not the ship that is haunted. It’s the region of ocean in which the ship is passing though.
The ocean contained innumerable hosts of “ocean-bound spirits”. when a ship enters their territory, these entities would sometimes board the ship and check the ship’s interior.
@@mcbrians.8508ah thanks defacto guide to the spiritual, I'm so glad I can count on you to have all the answers...
It's called Animism and the Romans are probably the most famous proponents of it.
@@mcbrians.8508 sounds like your hypothesis would be easy to verify then since we know roughly where some major ships went down
@@runswithraptors before the 1st deluge (not Noah’s), the continents of today is the ocean and the ocean of today was the continents which was populated by the Pre-Adamic races. These beings died during that cataclysmic event, becoming sea-bound spirits. The only primordial creatures of that forgotten age that survives even today is the Leviathan and the Behemoth.
Leviathan is hibernating deep in the mediterranean sea and the Behemoth is enclosed in an “invisible desert” close to Eden.
If you’re a dedicated scholar of ancient books, you know that Eden is always depicted in the center of the earth.
As a teenager I signed out a book from my high school library. It was about ship haunting tales and mysteries. One story I remember involved one of those grand British passenger oceanliners built in the same time period as the doomed Titanic.
Throughout its decades long service life, passengers and crew kept reporting sounds of metallic tapping coming from within the inner hull. Ships like that possessed an outer hull and a inner hull. People claimed it sounded like there was someone between the hulls tapping on the hull with something metalliclike a hammer.
Fast forward to the 1950s. The British oceanliner has lived out its lifespan and is now in a srapping yard being dismantled.
When scrappers cut their way down to the lower levels between the inner and outer hulls, they make a frightening discovery. Sitting against the out hull the salvagers discover the skeletons of two men. A close examination would reveal one decedent was older than the other and both were workmen of some kind as there were tools with them, includind, yes, a hammer.
Investigstion would later reveal both deceased were riveters. The younger was an apprentice. Both simply disappeared one day during the oceanliner's busy, hectic construction. There were literally hundreds of workers of all skilled and semi-skilled workers on the oceanliner. Most workers knew few others beyond their own immediate work crew. The disapppearance of the two men was not noticed among the vast horde of workers crawling all over in inside the ship. Employee attendance records were not as detailed back then as today. If one didn't show up for work amidst that huge workforce, it wasn't noticed. Someone else would be called upon to do the tasks. If any one knew them it would be assumed they had quir and left. Everyone else was too pre-occupied trying to eke out a living doing strenuous construction work on the huge oceanliner.
The two men were simply forgotten. Out of sight, out of mind.
Ive heard a story similar to this attached to the SS Great Eastern
@@sirboomsalot4902 I think that was THE ocean liner!
That was a legend and noted to have been unlikely due to nothing of note being found during repairs of the ship
That’s genuinely terrifying
Damn I wonder how that happened, I guess they got trapped?
I've always been a firm believer that ships are a hot bed for both hauntings and poltergeists. Ships are places where people experience some of the most intense and concentrated emotions, sometimes together as a crew. Those emotions have to stick and pile onto the ship itself, creating something else.
Very true, especially on a Naval ship where negative emotions run rampant.
@@RuminatingWizard And you're trolling for shit on the internet. 🤣 Goodluck with that.
@@RuminatingWizard Gotta be there to notice it, instead of wasting away in a chair judging others, talk about a loser.
@@dustinwashburn1283 OOH yeah, especially on aircraft carriers, that negativity will often feel asphyxiating in certain parts of the ship over others
I do believe that some hauntings are embedded in the surroundings
One thing I never understood about hauntings: if any spirit attempts to harm you and it results in your death, whats stopping you from tearing them a new one in the afterlife?
On the other hand, if they are incapable of harming you, just tell them to bog off and go bother someone who cares.
huh, good point. would be quite funny to just beat the shit out of it for scaring you
in some cultures it is believed that the some of these stranded dead cannot be reincarnated until they 'sacrifice' someone else to take their place as ghosts. messed up yea
That's an interesting thought. I would suspect that if you were to pass from a haunting, that the apparition which caused it, would torment you after you've passed aswell - assuming you stick around like they do & don't travel to another reality altogether. If you do stick around, you'll likely be a small fish in a big pond. New to your surroundings, possibly frightened and again they could take advantage of you in some way. Perhaps the apparition is not a human who has passed at all and something different altogether! There are so many variables to this and things we don't know it's very difficult to answer. Just wanted to add that maybe they're suffering so much, they want to inflict that same suffering on someone else. Misery loves company I guess? Thanks for your comment. Really made me think 🤔
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What if that ghost that shouts "Get out" is actually another human who sees you as a ghost appearance and is telling you to bog off?
Didn't want to put this tale in a more serious comment. I came across a fictional story, written soon after the Great War, in which a hostilities only officer came across his old destroyer, lying abandoned in a corner of the yards and took an illicit walk around her. It were as if the ship was talking to him, reliving their shared experiences and, at the end he found a brass paperweight he'd lost during the war. Leaving the ship, he found the night watchman and asked if he could keep the weight. The watchman replied that there hadn't been a ship in that corner of the yard since they cut up an old destroyer......
Besides the ghost screaming get out, the ghost staring motionless through the porthole part was pretty creepy.
Perhaps the ghost was warning Eric in order to not suffer a fate they did. I wonder what sort of action did the Winston Churchill face in its time. If there was some sort of tragic accident then perhaps the spirit acting as a warning.
@@mirandagoldstine8548Winston Churchill, despite being on the older side as far as Arleigh Burkes go, has had a pretty quiet career. With the exception of September 26th, 2010, when a skiff she was towing off the coast of Somalia capsized and drowned some 24 people
@@sirboomsalot4902 That could be it. Maybe the ghost is one of the victims.
My uncle has a picture of the destroyer he served on. He doesnt talk about it much, he has shrapnel in him. The buzzers go off everytime we go in and out of stores.
your uncle is a thief Lol...
Damn, that’s rough.
Ooh. 😣
@@PeterPablo-fq2pslmao
ofc we want to hear more of Eric's stories; I don't think anyone here would say "nah, I'll pass on some excellent creepy naval tales"
Hopefully we can get Nick (and Luke for that matter) the support they deserve
Yea I would like to know more, he’ll have lots of interesting stories.
nah i think i will pass on them, not really interested
I've noticed in quite a lot of supposed cases of hauntings that when someone is in a haunted area the ghost screams and yells at them or throw things at them. The dead seem to most definitely not want the living anywhere near them and want to be left to their own devices
You would think they would want to make every effort to want to talk to us, yet it seems quite the opposite
I'm so fascinated to know why that is
I'd say, it's ~50/50 - "leave me alone"/"I like your presence". It does vary from location to location though.
Ships are build from new steel fresh from the mill - old, used steel would significantly weaken the hulls' strength. Old ship steel is melted down and blended with all sorts of other scrap.
Therefore, I don't think entities attach this way.
@@stanislavczebinski994 There's also the Stone Tape theory
@@SamuelBlack84 There are a million theories. The hard part is to sort them into plausible and implausible. The more are ruled out implausible - the lesser plausible ones remain. Ockham's razor.
Luckily, there are some handy professions like, in this case, ship building and metal production I know a bit about. That's why I was able to rule out this theory.
Much of that goes for other theories, too.
@Stanislav Czebinski If only I could know the secrets of the entire universe from one corner of creation to the other
That's what I want. Omniscience
@@SamuelBlack84 Believe me - no you don't.
I was there too - 20 years ago. I didn't get a thing - so I thought my life would be better if I knew everything. Bit by bit I learned to piece information together - and I understood more and more how this world works.
But here's the catch: The things you want to know come paired with things you don't want to know - because it's just too painful. Too dark, too sinister. You can't choose - it's a duality.
Nevertheless: If you want an answer to a few of the big questions - maybe I can help.
The sound effects really make this channel stand head and shoulders above all other You Tube channels. They really enhance the listening experience. Yes please to more stories from Eric xx
The Navy never put the USS Franklin and USS Bunker Hill back into service after their horrific kamikaze damage during WW2. The Bunker Hill lost over 500 men in an attack and the Franklin over 700. Both of these ships were completely rebuilt after receiving battle damage but both were the only Essex class carriers not to be modernized. Many say both of these ships had a serious amount of haunting aboard. Both were scrapped after sitting in the reserve fleet for decades.
I’m glad they decommissioned those particular ships. One of the worst tragedies in American history
I'd be EXTREMELY interested in more of Eric's stories. (Even though the jump scare in the original almost made me chuck my phone across the room. 😂)
i needed a quick change of underwear
Seconded
What vid was that with the jumpscare?
@@rollensyko13 i'm assuming the first vid / section / chapter with the "get out" part
100%!
As a sailor on an aircraft carrier.. I can confirm that “all ships are haunted” we had a sailor unalive himself by jumping down a shaft alley (a 10 story ladder leading straight down to the bowels of the ship) my rate (job) has me working in EVERY compartment in my ship and I went down the same shaft alley where this sailor unalived himself. I felt like something was tugging on my shoulders as I was going down the ladder.
Was this carrier CVN 72 I commented on one of the videos when I saw a comment about CVN 72. If it’s that’s crazy because i heard also about it when I was in dry dock with the ship.
You can just write killed himself or took his own life
Still can't get over how epic that intro is. Gives me Alan Wake vibes. Also, this was the first episode in a while where I had to turn on the lights in my basement while I watched. Haven't had to do that for half a dozen episodes.
Let Eric know that he now has a secondary mission along with his normal duties. Get all the ghost stories he can find. I'll also definitely buy a copy of Tales From the Grid Square when I get paid this Friday. Military paranormal incidents fascinate me in a way that civilian stories don't. I put a lot of value in the word of military service members. I'll generally accept any stories they tell that feel plausible at face value unless it can be proven with reasonable doubt that they are false or the person telling them is unreliable.
I also now know that if I ever find myself in the Navy on a ship, I'll know exactly how to scare the shit out of people. Faces staring through door windows? Fuck that shit.
I mean, some stories I'd believe from servicemen. Others not so much. You need a good bullshit radar to determine what is a campfire story and what's legit. Also, faces in the door are, at least from my time, pretty common occurances. It's usually an IT, STG, or an IC fucking around. We're all kinda known for our weird senses of humor and knack for practical jokes. I still get a kick out of making people jump.
Intro gives me Chris Angel mindfreak vibes. Which in turn gives me CoC vibes
Former US Marine here. 1983-1987. I spent 2 years Sea Duty on the USS Iowa BB61, 1984-1986. We would have Guard duty while the ship was tied up in port. Late night guard duty while most of the crew was ashore could be very creepy sometimes.
Come on bro, no such thing as a former Marine..!
I know man. Just didn’t want anybody to think I was claiming to be an active duty Marine after all this time. Can’t believe it’s been over 30 years ago. Still think about the Corps a lot. All the characters we met. The crazy stuff we did back in the day. I refuse to accept that my old unit has been deactivated. Echo 2/8. Is anything still at Camp Geiger?
Were you on during the turret 2 accident? I bet there are many stories on that ship
@@idontcare9797 I was off the ship back in an infantry unit when that happened.
Happy to see my state getting recognition, even if it’s the name of a ship
My grandad was in the navy during Korea. Served onboard CV-47, the USS Philippine Sea. He's told me countless stories, sure none were paranormal in nature, but stories nonetheless. Stories that led me to having a fascination with all things maritime and naval.
Care to share? I don't care how long your comment is. If you care to tell it I will listen
I just love sea stories, old & new, spooky or unspooky.. and I second that request put forth by @Galatians.
USS, huh? Judging by your avatar and name, most would assume that your grandad was in the Kriegsmarine.
@@SevenSixTwo2012 actually, my cousins are blood related to a rather prolific Nazi. And my grandmother's family did migrate to America from Germany around the time of WW2. As well as (supposedly) changing...well shortening their name to "Messer"
@@NMdesertrat It's funny what things like World Wars can do to family lineages, isn't it? I guess the lesson in all this is that people should learn to live with one another, instead of trying to destroy one another. A lot of misery could be spared that way.
I'm just a civilian, but I love exploring old ships turned into museums and memorials. One time, a friend and I were at battleship cove in Fall River, we were walking through one of the decks i forget which, but we could swear we heard footsteps behind us. We did the quick glance back to see if there were people trying to pass us, but we saw nothing. Once we both stopped to look, the footsteps stopped. It was a weird experience. The ship we were on was the USS Massachusetts.
I love battleship cove! As a cub scout, we would stay the night on the ships and sleep in the bunks
My good friend and another scout went exploring at night while we were staying over on USS Massachusetts with our scout troop. He came back worried he was going to get into trouble. They had walked by a room and heard talking and laughing came across a Red lit room with a group of what he said were "Gambling Sailors" who were shocked and angry these two young scouts were in the ship "What are you kids doing here your not supposed to be here" or somethingto that effect is what they said these men in sailor dress had said when they walked into the room. No Sailors ever came to get them in trouble with our scout masters like they were sure was going to happen the next morning when they told us what happened.
There were probably 100 kids on the ship so I would assume if live workers they would have walked my 2 troop members back to our bunk area and alerted one of our Scout Masters.
I’ve only ever been on vertical takeoff carriers, but in the late night and early morning hours, a Navy boat can be a creepy place while you explore out of sheer boredom.
What most people don’t realize is that sometimes the best way to keep bored and exhausted military personnel on high alert all night is a really good ghost story. Not only am I guilty of telling them, I’ve also experienced some things that I can’t explain.
Love this episode. Really wish my dad was still around to share his stories. He was stationed on the USS Calvert, and left the Navy about a month before it was sent to Vietnam.
Will you share some of them in his place then? I'd love to hear as many of them as you are willing to tell. And I don't care how long your comments are I'll read it all lol
@@galatians-2.20 ✋ I second this
@@mcfrisko834 I third the suggestion 👍
I’ll have to dig through his files, or pull the ones he posted on the Calvert’s crew website.
@@SpiralMoss
I fourth it! I LOVE ghost stories! 👻
There is more to this earth than we can see but sometimes we do get to see and hear it and it scares us to death.
one day ago already?
@@bearcatben4762 Probably Patreon.
"Every ship is haunted." That's definitely true or at least, its true that every ship gets perceived as haunted. I literally was on the commissioning crew of a ship and not 5 months after commissioning, the engineers were all swearing there was some "entity" they saw in one of the fwd engineering spaces. I can't say I ever saw such a thing and I was in said space routinely on duty days as part of security roves, but it was certainly compelling. Other than bad juju (which that particular ship had plenty of), there was no possibility of a "tragic incident" having taken place to create such a specter.
On the other hand, my first ship was haunted and we all knew why. We lost a sailor on deployment to suicide and no one had any doubts that this individual remained on board afterward we returned home. Lots of sightings in their former workspace and assigned repair locker to the point that some refused to even enter those spaces. I personally saw something weird during a rev watch on the bridge.
Anyways, keep up the great work, love the Navy ship focus. I finally feel represented!
When my son was in 6th grade his Boy Scout troop spent the night on a WWII ship. He has always been a magnet for the paranormal, and he had a run-in with a ghost that was dressed in WWII clothing. No one else saw this thing.
Do you recall which ship it was, because if it was the USS Yorktown, CV-10, I had experiences from when I was in Cub Scouts and we spent the weekend on the Yorktown, where in our bunk room, we heard loud banging, banging in the pattern of S-O-S as well as voices in empty P-ways and knocking behind a locked area of an adjacent bunk room.
@@A_RANDOM_KRIEGER it was the USS Yorktown.
@susanpage8315 Yeah, CV-10 is most certainly on the haunted side of things. Its an old ship with lots of history after all.
@A_RANDOM_KRIEGER My great grandpa was a cook on the USS Yorktown. Wish he was still around to tell me stories now that I'm in the Navy. I carry an old Swiss Army Knife that originally belonged to him
I enjoy visiting the USS Yorktown. But, there is one part of the ship I cannot step foot in... the sickbay. Ever since the first time I ever visited the Yorktown, I think I was about twelve years old at the time. If I step foot in the sickbay. I will get hit with a strong nausea. Right in the gut. And it will not leave until I step out of the sickbay. The moment I step out, it is like turning off a switch, and the nausea is gone.
I went for over a decade and a half without visiting the Yorktown and totally and completely forgot about the nausea. Then soon as I hit the doorway, Bam! Strong nausea, right in the gut again! I stay out of the area.
I spent time on the Piedmont AD17. This ship is old. I was a MM on this derelict. My time was 78 and 79. Now My job was an electrical mechanical equipment repairman. Two engine rooms fore and aft supporting two 1200 lb boilers. Now the older bt's 'boiler techs' would tell stories about the aft engine room and a chief petty officer named Smitty. Smitty was apparently a ghost. I was like Cool! You have too understand my childhood. I had an imaginary friend. She was real to me but not my parents. Basically ghost don't scare me. Anyway the few years on that ship I've run into Smitty and he would be on the far side of the boiler room look at me turn and walk behind the turbines and of course dissappear out of sight. The first few times that I saw him I would walk over to talk to him but as I got to where he walked to... nothing, nowhere. He walked through the bulkead which is several feet below the water line. I got used too seeing him. Most guys not so much. They would ask for transfers. This is Not the scary part. The place that Always send a chill up my spine was the port shaft alley. Something evil was in that cramped tunnel. Sometimes I would have to take bearing watch when we were under way in that hold. I'm not going to go into much detail but more than once I have seen the old far spaced lights flicker and when it was pitch black the far stern of the shaft I have seen red glowing eyes just staring right through my soul. Lights would come back on and nothing there. It was the deep guttering growl right behind me that would make me jump and always I would hit my head. I hated that watch.
Was this Smitty character an old crewman who lost his life on the ship? Also, there is no paranormal evil that can hurt you. My grandmother (RIP) always said that "true evil lives in the hearts of people, and that's the evil you need to be concerned about, not ghosts." Mind you she survived WWII in occupied territories and saw true evil. That evil was no ghost, but was very much alive and wore a Nazi insignia and later a USSR red star.
I've never been in a shaft alley, but I've seen videos of them. Going by what I've seen, I have a hard time imagining that anything supernatural could be scarier than the space itself: gland seals that are holding the seawater out (and often leaking), thrust bearings that are imparting the thrust of the propellers to the ship, the huge, rotating shaft itself... that machinery wants to kill you!
@@SevenSixTwo2012 I never researched the old chief. His uniform was of vintage WWII dress. I myself most heartily believe in a higher power. Yes I have faith. I am simply telling you what I experienced. No I do not believe the Chief was associated with the red eyes. Two totally different entities by far. I believe the Piedmont was built in the late 30's I cannot attest to that.
@@ernestweaver9720 As per Wikipedia, the USS Piedmont was commissioned on January 5th 1944. It was leased / sold in 1982 to Turkey and scrapped in 1994 by the Turkish Navy. So, whatever ghosts or evil spirits once lived on it are now smelted into Turkish soda cans and Ford Transit Connects, lol.
How old are you now you spent time on it in 78 so your at least 62 and still working?
I was stationed on USSJFK CV-67 for 7 years. It was haunted. 40 years of energy and pain.
CVN-68 Nimitz myself. Same story. Certain P-ways were definitely haunted. New folks would mention the uneasy feelings they got when going through them before anyone told them anything.
Now, that was on your ship. Now imagine what the crew of Enterprise had to deal with, especially since there were artifacts from CV-6 on her. And now CVN-80 is gonna have that as well.
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@@dustinwashburn1283 I know that this is 3 months late but is it okay if you could share it here in the replies section?
@@Joshtow167 CVN-69, too. I've had fun going around and talking to people about the various paranormal things they've experienced and even seen a few things myself
OH yeah! Haunted Navy ships. Never get tired of these stories. Be interesting if we had any stories about some of the museum ships. And I can tell you without a doubt that the Naval Aviation Museum in pcola definitely has its share of strange tales.
That’s where the Ghost Blimp gondola is on display now. Oddly enough.
I actually grew up near Pensacola. Blue angels were my Wednesday morning alarm clock. I think it was on Wednesdays, anyway. Went to the naval aviation museum on field trips. I left Florida before the L-8 gondola was donated by Goodyear though.
My Great Uncle heard some experiences whilst serving aboard the old HMS Belfast, before it was "Stuffed and Mounted" in the Thames. All ships are haunted, Museum ships are definitely haunted. Old planes are creepy as shit too
That place drains me! Didn’t even make it to the back rooms where carrier theory is or the top floor. I touched the tin ford tri-motor and became nauseas. I saw a sailor once on the USS Orleck.
Military paranormal stories just resonate with me so much, something about professional no-nonsense soldiers having to deal with unexplainable things.
Would love to hear paranormal military soldiers from other countries like Japan
Thank you for the amazing content
Funny thing is, Sailors tend to hear every groan on the Hull as a possible catastrophe, since it is taught in Boot Camp that your very Home is going to try and kill you. The idea that something is haunting the space is normally going to be low on your thoughts, but it still rises.
Google 'Kadena air base ghosts'. Apparently there's so much activity in Okinawa, that even soldiers are told to not patrol certain areas because they've seen a fair share of things ranging from bloody japanese samurai, to imperial soldiers charging with katanas, ghostly GIs asking for cigarettes and even those fox demons from japanese myth.
lol no nonsense. You keep telling yourself that; most of the military is nonsense, and in more ways than the literal definition 😂
I've seen a ton of weird stuff. But driving through the fog tonight, listening to that USS Winston Churchill segment was literally spine chilling. Keep it up, awesome channel.
1:12 Eric, _pleeeease_ share some more stories. We love this stuff!
Hell yeah these kinds of stories aren’t widely known and really only ever get around certain circles. Would love to hear any and all stories he could gather. I’m fascinated with this kind of thing and in your format they are fantastic!
I remember an episode from the old Twilight Zone series called The Thirty Fathom Grave which takes place on a naval vessel. Even for a TZ episode that one of the creepiest I've ever seen.
I remember that one well. And honestly, i remember the majority of the episodes. Rod Serling was gifted writer. Scary stuff without too much gore. At the end of EVERY episode it stayed in my mind and made me think. Still does yrs later. Incomparable talent. Never be another like him in my opinion.
That is my favorite episode from "The Twilight Zone". ☺
Let Eric know that we want to hear more stories.
I served on an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate (FFG) from '01 to '05. Anyone that had served on these ships knows that most of the hulls and lower portions of the ships were recycled from much older ships that were decommissioned and re-used. In some spaces, you could even find the old hull numbers in weld beads on sections from the old tin cans these pieces came from. There were multiple stories on our ship about strange occurrences and uneasy feelings.
Like many, you hear about this when you're green and first check on board, but you don't really believe them. Fast forward to a return from deployment and stand down period in January of '02 and in home port. I had a roving watch in the middle of the night. part of this watch was to check some of the lower decks. As you can expect, I was the only guy that was down in the forward spaces. That said, I can say undoubtedly that I heard the footsteps of someone walking in the mooring line locker near the forecastle. I entered the space to see who the hell was up there at that time of night figuring it was probably just another seaman from 1st division goofing off. The space was not big enough for anyone to hide in so once the door was opened, it was eerily apparent that I was alone. That was rather unsettling, to say the least. What was more unsettling was going back up to the quarterdeck and asking if they knew of anyone working down there and getting genuinely confused looks because of the time it was and the fact that we were in stand down. The next day, I checked with the guys in my division and they said it's not the first time they'd heard of that and to not read too much into it.
There are other strange things that happened on the ship, but like all sailors say, those stories are for another time.
New wartime stories. I'm all for this
In the John Weir Foote armoury down here in Hamilton Ontario we have tons of ghost stories. From a ghostly cavalry officer marching in the halls(my buddy saw him one night and he froze unable to explain this for a solid minute) to an former CO that watches the troops sleeping on the parade square at night when a course is going on, it’s full on spooky spectres. The basement is still by far the most eire place for me.
lol I’ve seen the cav guy in JFA as recent as 2022, the fucking fountain water is scarier there though
My spouse was on the Athab. I told him that ship was haunted- everyone laughed and said I imagined things, and that it was just my imagination. I also was petrified the entire time he was there, as I am sure that ship was cursed (there was re-namings and then a removal of the original crew photo, so I reprinted one and stuck it in his hat when he left). No surprise ...that boat, especially near the end, was bad news, and it felt *wrong*. RIP to 282, and cheers to all who served on her.
Your husband died on it?
Cool to see you guys doing a collaboration with Tales from the Gridsquare. Spooky worlds are colliding.
Currently binging these. Very good and I really enjoy them. As a Naval Aviator, I can tell you that HF signals can get caught in the atmosphere and bounce around the world. I've used our HF radios before and ended up talking to someone in another hemisphere because that's where the signal ended up. So that story from the Canadian is absolutely believable.
As a Amateur radio operator I have heard of things called Long Delayed Echos, Where you send out a message and it comes back to you 10 years later on the same HF frequency.
Oceans is full of Jinns and aliens
Always down to hear more ghost stories from soldiers
I was stationed on the USS Florida and one night on watch I felt a presence and later come to find out there had been a crewman who committed S-cide and his ghost ran around the ship. I thought it was nonsense till I found in the torpedo room a small mural dedicated to him and asking around found out others had been visited by him. He was an RM3, radioman, I don’t remember his name but as far as I know the mural is still there in the room.
3 months late but damn a ghost on a ballistic missile submarine?
@@thefrunze.198 yup the kid who hung himself did so in machinery room one and when I got visited by the radioman I then started asking around and a lot people had encounters. Usually you can tell when people are messing with you and everyone of the guys I asked had serious looks on their faces and described exactly same encounter or very similar. The ghost was never malicious in fact it was quite benign as far as these sorts of things go.
@@matthewcasey5059 wow just wow
@@matthewcasey5059you got visited by that radioman? What was the experience?
@@paulsbunions8441 it wasn’t so much a visit as it was a feeling like you get when you’re somewhere and you can feel someone boring their eyes into your back.
This is one of your best videos ever to date. The animations alone seem to add more realism to this story that makes it stand out
Back in 1978 my father was deployed on the USS Forrestal as a Navy chief in an aviation squadron and after returning from the cruise he told me the story of the tragedy that took place when the Forrestal when it was deployed to fight the war in Viet nam and how the first of the explosions had blown down through the chiefs quarters and most of the off duty chiefs were instantly killed in there racks and this is where my dad spent his deployment trying to sleep trying to ignore the occasional apparitions that would occasionally wander through the berthing area.
Hell yes I want to hear more stories from Eric! Great to have you back BTW.
The military is an immensely small world as I've learned in my ten years. You will meet people you met at the start of your service in the strangest of places and then come to find they know people you only just met. In a few cases other soldiers already knew of me before I actually physically met them. It's a unique micro chasm of society we have going on.
The first story sounds like some sailors pulling off a really good prank. That or it’s legitimately haunted. The only thing that makes me skeptical is that I really can’t see a sailor telling a superior they won’t follow orders because they’re scared of a ghost. I could see them maybe them always getting someone to go with them, but just never going again?
I am so glad I found this channel! My Dad was in the Navy for over 20 years. While he always tells me about his experiences, he never mentioned any paranormal encounters. Looks like I got some digging to do...
I will also make sure to share your channel with him. You make great videos! Keep it up!!
Excellent episode Luke; NEVER experienced a jump scare like that one before!
Submitting formal request on behalf of Canada for additional Eric stories!
Thank you Luke for all you do! I love this channel and every time I see a notification I drop everything. Just know that we in the community are truly grateful for you and the content you created! 🙏🏻 🇺🇸
In my youth I went on a trip to the USS Hornet, from what they said the place is crawling with ghosts. We did spend the night on board and to this day I sware I saw something at one of the hatches down to the engine rooms. Keep the Stories up, I would love to hear more.
love the twilight zone esque intro y'all switched too
I am ordering Nick's book and I would love for Eric to submit some more stories from the USS Winston Churchill! Thank you Luke for yet another outstanding episode. 👏 ❤
Dude. Wow. I was on a DDG and an LHA right down the pier from The Churchill during that time period in Norfolk, VA. I often visited other ships on the waterfront to swap and cannibalize parts. I remember going onboard the Churchill.. Umm yeah..holy s**t. There is definitely a heavy creepiness.
I was ship's crew onboard USS Nassau LHA4. Commissioned in 1979 and ended service in 2011. Deployed with the 24 MEU in 2010. I have a couple stories I could share. One that still creeps me the F out is "Shaft Alley"....
Glad I found your channel. Nice job putting these together. Thanks, man👍
During the mention for Grid Square (which I’m definitely going to buy) I noticed Scraesdon Fort as one of the tales. I never experienced anything there, but the fact that I did some of my navy basic training at the fort has sent a chill down my spine!
Oh my god this is fantastic! So well done, got actual chills. My grandpa was in the Air Force and had some good stories…I hope Eric can come up with more, please! Great job!
This is BY FAR my favorite channel on youtube, it even surpassed Bedtime Stories which is where i found out about this channel…narration is just AMAZING, and the animation 10/10
If Erik wants to send more stories, I say go for it. I'm willing to listen.
I would love to hear what other stories Eric can scrounge up!
I also know this may not have been the original intent of your channel, but I love your paranormal episodes and smoke pits the best.
Bro you brought life to the grid square tales! It makes them even BETTER! Outstanding job! PLEASE keep doing it!
Love the great work Luke, keep it up!
And yeah we'd love to hear more stories from Eric, paranormal or otherwise.
So well done. Seriously blown away at how good this was all put together. I had some intense dreams after this one!
Terrence Popp has some great stories from his time at Abu Grab prison in 04'. Seeing his stories come to life would be awesome.
I fricking love the internet. Two separate creators being brought together by people who enjoy both their works.
What an incredible video. The first story itself was perfect (and I would love to hear more from this same gentleman), but the artwork is amazing. I don't get the willies easily anymore, but man - that moment in the auxiliary room was incredibly effective! Thanks for all of these!!
This is by far my favorite kind of content on YT
You should try to find out about LST 1184 USS Frederick. A marine Amtrac'er was killed in an accident aboard and haunts the ship. As a tracker I served with a few who were still around from the time of the death, ( it happened years before I joined ) and some who had seen the ghost.
Man I love hearing about them Ghost signals over the radio waves..that part about them bouncing back from who knows where,,so creepy.
I used to serve on the USCGC Hamilton WHEC-715. It was built in the 60s. The scuttlebutt was that the engineering space was haunted. It was always dark and gloomy in there, at the aft end of the ship.
I was on the kittyhawk I had a couple spooky happenings so to speak
Well now the cats out, Chris. I shall expect to see those stories in my inbox sooner or later. wartimestories.yt@gmail.com
Glad your back your stories are intriguing and engaging. Glad to hear ya, I hope next one won't take as long. Anyway hood to hear the tale!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard whispering in my headset when manning the sound powered phones. When it’s 0330 and just you and the belowdecks watch are filling potable water from the pier. My boat was almost certainly haunted. (USS Oklahoma City SSN 723)
These videos.... every one I have listened to, are so well done! Your research and efforts are very much appreciated!
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This applies to Merchant Marine vessels as well. Almost every sailor with a couple of years under their belt has some traumatic or creepy story to share. My dad has been a merchant mariner since the 80s, he's currently serving as a captain nearing his retirement age. He tells us tons of stories of hauntings on ships, but honestly the most terrifying ones are the ones involving real people. Be that being chased by pirates, or finding a malnourished stowaway in the lower deck of the ship pleading for some food.
Merchant Marine vet in our family survived the Murmansk Run in WWII, then worked in marine salvage after the war. He had more than a few creepy stories from personal experience, but it was the Star of India (now a museum ship in San Diego he regarded as THE haunted ship. Never stepped onboard -- and wouldn't have got out of the car if given a free tour!
i DEFINITELY want to hear more stories from Eric! :) for sure!
always enjoy these stories. good to relax too after a long day.
Absolutely superb, terrifying, brilliantly researched and superbly produced... this channel just gets better and better!
There were 2 suicides on my ship while I was there 2013-2017. No body really remembers suicides, no permanent memorials or anything. So that ship being built in the 90’s, how many suicides am I not aware of, because everyone else moves on, PCS, gets out, etc.
Definitely weird vibes from the ship while I was there.
I love your work, i hope you are able to do it more often, i look forward to the content when I see it!
Truly appreciate your stories and narration. And thank you most of all for your desire for accuracy and willingness to correct. 👍
WTS: I've got 2 words: *_USS LIBERTY._* *
(* Since you're engaging in somewhat of a _theme_ throughout the past few _Months & subsequent Videos,_ & since those aforementioned videos have also had a bit of a *_"Controversial"_*_ angle_ to them: I can think of no better subject to base your _next Video(s) on:
The _-(Attempted-__ ~or~ Mistaken (?)_ sinking of a celebrated, Decorated American Warship during _Peace Time_ ..............by an (perceived) *_ALLIE._*
(* Those are just my thoughts, I'm sure being a learned man of History, you've got some pretty strong feeling on the subject......one way..... *_or another._* We'd love to hear them. Thanks for the continued *_Fantastic Stories & Efforts_* you & your team have put forth: we _all_ appreciate it more than you will ever know. Take care.......& be well;-)
Having gone to the Battleship North Carolina Museum I can say for sure that ship is haunted. Especially when your down in the engine room you can just feel a heavy presence in the air, and some of the staff with offices on board have said they have seen a sailor walk past their open door on board before when they know for sure they're the only ones on board. So yes, I would be extremely interested to hear more stories from Eric.
EXCELLENT, excellent, excellent!!! Love this channel, the history, the chills! Thank you so much!
I’m glad to see an episode about the paranormal/supernatural. I prefer them over the other type of videos you make.
Saliors stories are always fascinating!
More please.
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To whom it may concern, I left one of my stories in the Discord under the Feedback tab. I've got plenty of other, more vanilla, usually pretty funny stories.
Like the time a bunch of us were playing a huge game of Cards Against Humanity on the mess deck one night. Chaps, noticing a large gathering of young sailors seemingly having a lot of fun, poked his head in and genially asked what we were up to. At almost the exact same moment he did that, the card tsar, having not noticed him, belted out possibly the most foul card combination someone had turned into him (sadly don't remember what it was). Instead of the roaring laughter he was expecting at that, he was met with silence and looked up to see Chaps, with a very red and embarrassed face, withdraw his head from the door. After a pregnant moment, someone quietly announced to the room that if we weren't going to hell before, we were now. That broke the tension and everyone laughed as we returned to our game.
Don't get it
@@RT-bt5qlhe's an israeli. They have bad humor.
DUDE! Please Do more stories like this ghost stories like this! It gives me goosebumps
Love these stories, definitely need more! I served on the USS George Washington and Ronald Reagan between 2014 and 2017. I didn't see any ghosts luckily, but the boat at night is definitely creepy. It's easy to get lost and the red lights or completely dark spaces can get your anxiety up, no doubt.
Please tell Eric I would LOVE to hear more stories if he's up to supplying them. The first story on this video was incredible! So please, Eric, more stories please!
I really appreciate this one. Haunted ship's stories are my favorite.
Always nice to get the notification of another upload. I've enjoyed your content from the very start and hope you are doing very well. Keep up the great work!
I need all the stories from all the crews!!! Yes, more stories please.
When I was in high school I went to the battleship New Jersey in Camden, NJ for their guided tour. As I was going through my feelings went all over the board. In the mess hall I felt like I was in a hurry, in the bunks I felt very cramped in even though I had plenty of room and the creepiest was when we got to the engine room I had an uneasy feeling I still can’t really explain it but I felt someone breathing on me so I turned around expecting someone to be behind me but no I turned back around and felt it again and the whole time of the guided tour I felt very anxious and that I had to flee over board. The feeling left me once I got off of the ship not even minutes but mere seconds later after stepping onto the catwalk to get off I felt perfectly fine to this day I can’t explain it. Maybe someone can in here
I’m in the USCG. My ship is only 8 years old and it is definitely haunted. Not too long ago I was doing a security round. It was the 4-8 watch. I started opening a scuttle to check a void for flooding. I heard an odd noise as I turned the wheel on the scuttle. I stopped for a second, knowing that the noise was abnormal, but still assuming it was just the scuttle. Hearing no noise I continued. I then heard the noise again. I stopped turning the wheel, but the noise didn’t stop. It was obviously the sound of a laugh. A sinister, laugh. As though someone had just successfully pulled a practical joke on me.
Definitely sounds like that spirit might have been a practical joker in life judging by the laughter. Maybe you should ask around about any people who served on the ship who were known to be practical jokers and/or had a harsh personality based on the laugh. That’s what I would do at least.