Marines and Soldiers Stalked by Creatures in the Woods
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2024
- 0:00 - Introduction
2:55 - Marine Corps MWTC Bridgeport, CA
13:53 - Fort McCoy, WI
29:03 - Credits & Personal Story
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Imagine just being out in the woods at night, minding your own business, living your best life. Along comes some strange creature, all covered in camo and body armor, carrying strange weapons and flashing bright lights. What a strange and terrifying encounter that would be.
That could be an April fool's episode
That is pretty funny.
What a twist
Nothing you can do but steal its tent boulders. That'll teach them.
@@DinnerForkTongue It is a good point that if it was close enough to steal the rocks, it was close enough to do real damage if it wanted to. Honestly, the scariest thing about that story was that the men were so deeply asleep that the collapse of the "tent" did not wake them.
“Officers are notoriously bad at land nav” that brought a smile to my face… a pained smile but a smile nonetheless. Thank you
Thank you! Even if you're not a great land nav. I know the feeling...
As a friend of mine said, the term "military intelligence" is a double negative 😊
@@starmnsixty1209 hahaha that's funny!
hey look at the bright side, he's honest
My Vietnam veteran buddies say that the most dangerous thing in the World is a 2nd Lieutenant with a compass....
I’m a 58 year old Cold War era Army Veteran, was stationed in Ft. Sill in Oklahoma. Out in the field, around 03:00, I’d sometimes see or hear strange things or sounds. I remember one time my buddy and I on guard duty, seen 5-6 men in Native American clothing from the 1800’s come out of some woods and charge us, then just fade out before they got to where we were. It was the spookiest yet coolest thing I’ve ever experienced paranormally. We just looked at each other wide eyed and agreed to not mention it to anyone. Few days later heard someone mention that they had seen the same thing, nobody wanted that guard duty shift while bivouacked in that area
Cool story 😊
Very cool story! Thankyou for your service!
Fort McCoy story, “not going to let a battle buddy punk me”, a rake as a battle buddy is hilarious 😂
Ayyy ya gotta admit tho... imagine you're in Afghanistan in a cave, making IEDs with the 105mm howitzer rounds you just stole from a FOB & suddenly a rake wearing a spear point with a sword & Sapper tab rappels down from the top of the mountain and whistles at you to make you look at him...... 😂😂😂😂😂
@@rollin18wheelsI don’t think they whistle, they’re scared of whistling.
@@armandoangel6481 yeah, but for the sake of the comedy of a rake in SF... I know a couple of guys that could have passed for a rake in basic😂
Stealthiest homie you know 😂
I mean, imagine they had pale crawlers fight alongside them in Afghanistan.
This has quickly become my favourite paranornal channel. The military aspect plus the way the stories are acted out is really unique.
I really love the way he tells the stories as if it was a letter or a narration from a first person perspective
You may appreciate Bedtime Stories if you haven't checked them out already
agreed
I was never in the military, yet because the way this guy does his videos, I'm hooked more than any other channel like this.
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Yeah. His storytelling really helps to suspend disbelief and just get hooked by the tales he shares!
As a retired disc jockey I know voice talent when I hear it. Your dignified demeanor and delivery are impeccable. Subject matter is riveting, background music it perfectly timed. I listen to your stories every night . Thanks again for all your hard work on this channel, it's the greatest.
I agree. You would be able to record book's that people would buy.
Imagine the middle story as a short film. The illustrations are amazing in these videos. It seems like the next step
@@KLOUD909 you are so right about that my friend. This guy is fantastic. He puts you right in the middle of the story. Merry Christmas
@@BillFEILHAUER-bu7go Merry Christmas my friend.
i have practiced noise discipline since a very young age (not so perfect living conditions), lol, didn't know it was a skill in the military. makes sense, just funny to hear a proper term for it. i often scare people when walking up and am referred to as a ninja.
these are awesome videos, thank you for posting.
It was you up on that hill ducking behind covet, wasn't it? Just admit it dude we caught you. They foiled your midnight mango dancing under the moonlight by snoring near by and you wanted to show them how much you didn't appreciate it.
Any response you give other than "yes that was me doing the weird stuff you described" will be immediately disregarded and viewed as a defensive attempt to deny what we all know.
Good day 😂
Mango dancing? 🤔
@@galatians-2.20 Mango dancing? lol
I started walking toe-to-heel because I was extremely clumsy and would drag my feet as a kid, and would step on or jab my feet into sharp objects on damn near a weekly basis; the number of pointy things, nails, pins, and such I've had stuck in my feet is almost funny. But putting my toes down first forced me to pay much more attention to where I was stepping, and before long it became automatic and I didn't even think about it. Now after 20+ years, walking heel-to-toe feels very weird and unnatural to me (it's nicer for walking on cold floors at night, too.)
But _now_ it's just damned annoying how every time I walk up to anyone they jump when they notice me out of the corner of their eye and swear they didn't hear me come near, and how often people leave a room I just entered and turn off the lights on me because they say they didn't hear me walk in. I have to intentionally make noise just so I don't make everyone jump. Really, really damn annoying.
@@galatians-2.20 yes. it was me. but i like to be referred to as lady-dude 😂
The Fort McCoy night navigation story. Is one of the top 3 creepiest/scary things ive ever come across .
I’ve done night land nav in fort McCoy. I remember feeling like someone was following me the whole time that I was in the woods. I also saw a UFO there as well.
Also you could hear rustling whenever you stoped it was always one step off.
@@christhummel2751 what was your MOS?
@@KLOUD909 09R/88M
Not gonna lie, when he talked about it twitching and he felt like it was looking toward him? Immediate goosebumps. Good and creepy
When you see something that shouldn't exist you just freeze. Normal things trigger fight or flight but the unexplained triggers a flood of every thought and feeling that short circuits your brain.
good way to put that
Bingo. 😊 My first time seeing an apparition, my body literally froze and I had a bad tunnel vision that took a bit to zoom out of. Crazy
I believe that's called the "Oz factor." That term was coined by ufologist Jenny Randles. It refers to a bizarre state of mind, usually described by people who claim they've had an encounter with the paranormal. A feeling that things are not quite as they should be, with a strange sensation of having entered a dreamlike state of surreality where the rules of normalcy don't apply and anything can happen. It's difficult to describe if you haven't experienced it. Many people who've encountered UFOs, cryptids, ghosts, etc. have reported feeling the Oz factor. As in, "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."
"shouldn't exist"
Eh, the arrogance of human mind...
Because we have been lied to that Cryptids and other Paranormal stuff isn't out there, when it actually is...
First Story: I was also a Marine who went up to Bridgeport for the same training. I even went to the same locations mentioned (via foot & helo). Other than the acclimatization period being over a couple of weeks & not days, there is something disturbingly familiar with that story. BTW, it was the BEST training we ever had!
I live in Wisconsin, and have seen some very strange and unexplainable things.
Also look in the background of the rock formation in the first story I swear I see eyes
I have been to Bridgeport. Very unique place , Did you ever hear the story of the mono lynching ? Omfg if you haven’t please check it out
Bridgeport is beautiful.
I'm always gonna listen to our soldiers when they say something felt wrong, or they saw some shit. I don't care how crazy the story, if more than one is saying it, there's something to it.
Ft. McCoy is so damn eerie. Spent a month there with my units recon/sniper platoon and had a ton of weird incidents. Bears following us, a PFC sitting on a sleeping wolf at night, an all white wolf in an open field by our radio tower, the 101st building a gym in the woods…
What's a pfc?
@@TeamManaaki-zv6eyPrivate First Class, they’re lower enlisted, typically right out of basic training or in more unimportant positions.
@jackie_drummerboy i demand a storytime. you cant just drop that sort of shit and not elaborate.
Private first class @@TeamManaaki-zv6ey
Bears following you is no surprise. Grizzlies have been known to actively track hunters - there's a number of theories why but the big one is nearly any predator in an ecosystem with hunters knows that a gunshot is usually an advertisement for a tasty meal to scavenge (organ meats from a dressed kill, usually).
I love the mix of terrifying stories and the fact that this guy is telling it more like an actual person, an added bonus that you can see drawing of whatever creature the story is about before they mention it, adding a sense of suspense.
Definitely subbing
About the second story, I would have told my sarge there was a mountain lion stalking me in the woods, and to tell the others to keep an eye up on the treetops
Mountain lions aren’t very common in Wisconsins, there’s about 20 sightings per year. So it would be hard for him to believe that
@@cristopherespinoza1791 It's a stretch, yeah but infinitely more believable than telling them "Hey, some creepy Gollum creature was stalking me through the woods, tell the guys to keep their eyes up in the trees and brush so it doesn't strangle them for it's precious."
@cristopherespinoza1791 could've been a bobcat though.
Maybe it’s due to pride and not wanting to be mocked but if I were in the military and one of my colleagues looked as startled and shocked as this guy was. I’d want to know what exactly caused his fear.
The military is very big on comradery. If one of my guys was brave enough to swallow his pride and admit he thought something was stalking him through the woods. I’d be thankful he cared enough about his fellow guys to make sure everyone was safe.
@@St3a1thsniper32 Spot on! Why keep a potential predator a secret from the rest?
I lived in Sparta for 6.5 years and bow hunted/rode my bike on the 60,000 acres that made up Fort McCoy pretty often. Also made friends with a lot of the CSU researchers out there that were doing environmental studies in the day and at night. While I never saw a rake while out hunting or riding trails, between the stories that have come from the CSU guys, and my own sightings, there is a lot of weird stuff that goes on out there.
In 2016 after finishing up an evening hunt on the east side of base, NE of cantonment, that was cut short by several bobcats screaming at each other (super creepy if you’ve never heard it before, especially in the timber with night approaching). I had just got back to my truck that was parked on the road and I happened to look back east, over my shoulder as I’m loading my gear into the bed of the truck, and above the ridge that makes up the east edge of fort, there was a flash of bright amber light. Turning around to get a better look, I see the remaining glow “drifting” north, parallel to the ground. As it goes out a new, bright light illuminates to the north of it and does the same thing, drifts north, perfectly parallel to the ground before fading out of existence. I watch this about 5 times when all of a sudden a rush of noise overhead causes me to duck; 3 helicopters with door gunners are racing towards where the lights were and I was able to make out one guy waving me away from the area. I’ve seen military flares before, and what I saw weren’t those.
Also had a different sighting down on Camp Douglas in the same year, where there were rotating, flashing lights in a fixed point above the airfield that, after several sequences, shot straight up in the air at such speed that they were a blur. Lots of strange stuff going on in that area for sure!
I live in Southeastern Wisconsin in a rural area north of I-94 between Milwaukee and Madison. I've seen aircraft pass over my house all the time but there was this one incident on my summer vacation between 1st and 2nd grade ( mid 1990's) where my aunt, my brother, and I were in our side yard looking west one night. I looked at the stars and noticed one that stood out, most stars shine blue or white in color but this object ( about 20 degrees above the horizon) shined an amber or gold color. I pointed it out to my family who acknowledged it but didn't react much more to it. I kept observing it and realized it was moving and leaving a glowing gold trail behind it eventually making a figure 9 in the sky. It creeped me out and asked if we could go inside after that. To this day I can't explain it.
I live in Milwaukee. Me and my pops would drive up to Fort McCoy to hunt small game. And I’ve seen and heard some freaky stuff in the valleys of large hills/cliffs.
@@doccholo905 yes, Fort McCoy is in the vicinity of both Sparta and Tomah.
Hmm you described something similar to a friend of mines story, but this one took place in washington state in the north cascades. East on highway 2 if i remember correctly. Him an his wife saw a bright light zoom around a low mountain as they left a trailhead while a storm made landing in the area, he claims 30 seconds later a group of helicopters an even a demn jet followed its path. The look in his eyes and the way him an his wife spoke was enough to know he was true to what they saw. As wild as it sounds.
I've seen something similar while driving north on I69 near gas city Indiana, except it was very pale and moved in an arced motion and it moved along north for a bit and then went west.
People out here finding Gollum from LOTR!! Great stories and perfect storytelling! Enjoying the channel!
Me and my dad having a rough year . Ty for your videos and kind words .
I'm sorry to hear that. Ever since the Biden, Obama, regime came in alot of folks having a bad year or years.
@@robertkubicki126 red wave baby
@@robertkubicki126My life and my bank account are doing great under Biden. Not sure what your meth head MAGA family are doing wrong. But it’s not due to Biden or Trump. Presidents have very literal direct impact on our lives.
Yall not alone keep pushing. Its just us
I find it interesting how soldiers see weird shit no matter where they are. The jungle, the desert, on the actual base itself. I wonder if these entities feed off the suffering that many soldiers have.
More like the inhuman beings trying their desperate best that us, hmm, "expansionist and increasingly more dangerous" humans aren't as alone and advanced as we think we are, especially on encroaching their special territory.
Or yall all have mild food allergies that you've never been tested for and all those MREs cause allergy-induced hallucinations that take the form of the figures you've already heard about
Sleep loss can make you see some crazy stuff, especailly paired with the stress of tasks
Soldiers are more likely to see "weird shit" simply because they are training at night whereas civilian campers have their suppers and fall asleep as soon as it turns dark. They are not out moving about as would soldiers training in the field such as land navigation at night.
Military also plays in some of the last remaining frontiers above the ocean.
the amount of chills I got when I first noticed the entity in the illustration at 7:53! I'm used to listening to your videos while working, occasionally glancing at the screen to look at the illustrations, but now I'm gonna be making an active effort to make time and observe the art! Your attention to detail is awesome!
Ｈｏｌｙ！ I just noticed! 😮 7:36 on the hill top vaguely seen just eyes
I must be blind can't see it
There's nothing there.
@@lisazinn866there's a pair of eyes at the top of the rock
lmao, the airforce joke is so spot on. If the airforce saw a scorpion inside their tent, they'd call the front desk and ask for the tent to be removed
This art work really puts you there.
"Did it come with a Camaro and 29% financing?" the comedy is perfect
These rake encounters legitimately scare me. These guys are very clearly intelligent, and intelligence makes an animal, including us, unpredictable. Plus, if the crawlers did really putz around with the tarps without waking up the soldiers, they were - as a fellow commenter noted - close enough to attack by surprise and clearly skilled enough at noise discipline to reach that distance more than once.
If one of those things attacked, I doubt it would be out of animalistic instinct. Panicked defensive animosity is a VERY hard hostility to dissuade.
_"If one of those things attacked..."_
It might be to eat you!
They are probably so fake but they are the only cryptid that scares the shit out of me….mostly bc the stories are so unsettling & their appearance is as well.,.but like, on a visceral level lol i *LOVE* stories about these things!!
@@hurricanekitty6736 The rake isn't fake. It's probably a Nephilim.
@@AverageAmericanI think it’s a genetic mutation caused by them or their demon father
@@AverageAmerican did you ever see the video where the guy is inside his house and is allegedly getting a rake on video that’s in his backyard so he calls his pastor to pray with him?? That vid, again could be totally fake, but it REALLY scared me…& im 41 lol nothing should be scaring me at this point of my life but that one creature really spooks me lol if you haven’t seen that vid you should check it out! It’s so creepy!!
Appreciate the countless stories that keep me awake while at work or out in the field. I’ve grown up in the mountains of South Carolina right on the borders of North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee for all of my life. The Blue Ridge mountains are notorious for stories of “Pale Walkers”, Bigfoot, skin walkers and shit like that, an they all sound fake until you start talking to the old hillbilly guys that have lived alone up in the mountains for years who share stories of weird things like Bigfoot or skinwalkers or hell even the rake, makes you really wonder what actually is out there.
shits very very real, lived on a wood line my childhood. seen some crazy things
My father was an officer in the Army. He only served a couple of years. He got out an an 02 LT and then got the tap to 03 Captain in the reserves.
I am Navy enlisted. I went in as an E1, got out an an E4 after 4 years.
I noticed that after I spent my 4 years serving as an enlisted man, my Father started LISTENING to me like he never had before. Years later, he let loose the secret on it: "As a junior Army Officer, I learned quickly that my life went better when I listened to my enlisted men. When you came home, you were an experienced enlisted man. I am no dummy. Of COURSE I started listening to you, once you became that."
The smart ones do, and then there are the others that don't.
Love this! You EARNED your fathers unquestioning respect -
That’s an awesome feat! Congrats!
I watch a lot of these “scary story” channels, but this narrator is by far the absolute best. As great as the stories are, this guy just seems to give them all some gravitas. I really appreciate the hard work that clearly goes into this channel.
Yup. I feel like I’m there and also, unlike other stories, he just makes them sound like what would happen in real life.
The rake was a story from 4chan, a few images of these "pale crawlers" or similar creatures got attached to it later and are noticeably different in appearance from the original description of the rake
This is one of my stories during land nav, but it's the scariest encounter with the unknown I've ever had. During land nav they had us doing night time navigation in pairs, we both had red lights to help us see. As we made our way to the designated LZ I spotted something so I raised my hand for the other guy and me to stop. It's eyes glowed in the dark, it was pale and stretched out. Eventually after a hot staring contest it left us alone, but as we walked and made our way through the forest I could swear it was following us. As we approached a clearing. I saw it in treeline next to us. At this point I was sure it wasn't something I wanted to get to know, so as we walked into the clearing we started to run because at that point we were about half a mile to the designated LZ. As we reached the clearing we could hear it running. UT managed to get in front of us, it knocked my buddy down but he got up and booked it to the clearing. We managed to get put, but it was clear the other guys were in a hurry to get out so I'm pretty sure this happened to them too.
I never went back to California for land nav again.
Wow! Thankyou for sharing!
Amazing channel! Your voice is calming and it really feels like being around the smoke pit.
Big things are absolutely headed your way.
For real?
21:10 this might be the best sequence in any of your videos yet. Props to the artist and editor for the stellar work. Really creepy and dynamic.
He's the artist. :)
That whole story is probably one of the creepiest, most detailed stories i've heard on this channel, shit ran chills down my spine.
29:24 It says he’s the narrator “Luke Lamana” and right after that the artist is named “Pykotta” as in the person who does the actual illustrations in the video.
Guam had a problem with Spiders because all the Brown Snakes eat all the birds that would be eating the spiders.
Oh, are the brown snakes invasive?
So you need a snake eater?
I’m not scared, I’m just turning on all the lights because I read an article it’s good for mental health.
Army Vet here!! Brother, you sound like the guy that narrated "The Sandlot"... 😂 pretty cool! Awesome stories/channel 👌🏽
Absolutely enthralled with your stories and narrations. Exceptional work! You mentioned German soldiers seeing things while in the field. Would love seeing it if it is made. Stationed in Deutchland for 6 years and know the country well. Thanks!
I love Germany!
Some German forest are really creepy.
@@IchbinEinfrosch-ww5yx Absolut! Vor allem, wenn man von Wildschweinen umgeben ist.
@@AverageAmerican Ich auch!❤
Love your stories, man. Worst I ever encountered “in the field” was a couple of wild boar in Germany and one rattle snake at Fort Irwin NTC. Never ran into ANYTHING like what you talk about here. If I did, I probably would have 💩 my BDUs. Keep up the great work, bro.
Scariest encounter I’ve had was hearing something scream in the middle of the night in Ft Wainwright Alaska while sleeping in a 10 man tent. It was -40 outside and all training was basically halted due to the weather which was the scariest thing.
i was stationed at fort irwin for a little bit, do not miss it
@@aletron4750 The Sasquatch in Alaska are supposed to be massive in size, 12' + , and less than friendly. Most of the Bigfoots in the lower 48 are known to hate dogs and it's the same with the Alaskan kind. In one account, a man was traveling in the bush on a four-wheeler with his dog which weighed about 200 pounds and they set up a tent for the night. A couple hours after he went to sleep, he was awakened by his dog that was now under his cot, which he thought was strange, and the dog had a low, quiet growl. He thought it might be a bear or something so he got up, grabbed his powerful handgun, and went outside to look. His dog followed. Where they were met by a gigantic Sasquatch that was anything but happy! The first thing it did was let out a horrible roar that made the man's whole chest vibrate and sent his dog to squeeze under the ATV in fear. So, he pulled his gun up and shot 3 or 4 quick shots right above the Bigfoot's head. Then this thing went ballistic! But it moved away and as it did, it screamed and cussed and ripped up trees, as it went. So, I'm glad you didn't get to see that creature at Ft. Wainwright!
Good work, here ... and to you for the service. Boars a personal fear since Old Yeller decades ago! None in Montana, though. However a lot of drama living outside Glacier Park with bears/wolves ... all positive, thank God. Trigger here was your rattler comment. Now on remote farm in SE Montana. Flanks Custer National Forest so zip other residences x one other cattle ranch so bear, lions, elk ... way beyond assumption BUT the rattlers are the #1 most populous and common hazard. A 10 foot pole w/sharpened hoe mounted outside as standard equipment (plus a gun) turned out a SUPER SERIOUS instruction, not a punk.
Except for mowed compound, tall grass became the new Jaws water. Holy hell, 14 encounters in first months, 99% w/o me being aware until on 'em. Yet only had to dispatch one right next to cabin, refusing to leave and engaged me. More a fair fight than thought as its cammo was so good even KNOWING where it was. Passing a grizzly is less frightening than seeing an arm-thick rattlesnake slithering away into the grass you were almost on. But must admit there is little "courage facing constant deadly danger" because those 99% would have gotten me first had they not clearly warned ... with most fleeing. So no Shoot On Sight.
Coffee rant, too. You COULD fire in self-defense, right? Unless live rounds aren't carried in training? Rhetorical I guess as a lot varies from place-to-place. Last week at a pioneer dump about a quarter mile away, I was snooping through and found an expanded cave; perfect shelter for a den. Bear was kneejerk thought but put down a flour patch and got a very large mountain lion print. VERY dense, isolated game area; no real worries but reported to warden who noted it and stressed I had every reason to kill it in self-defense but guess jail if I went out to hunt it! And messing around its den is provoking, not defending. Oh. final blab ... strikes me too of the sh@tstorm if it ends up some kid messing around getting shot out of a tree because a guy got spooked. Manifesto ends. Carry on.
Saw the cover of this video and was immediately brought back to an experience I also had during a spring package training in Bridgeport attached to 1/7 in 2019. During the entirety of the training there was intense rain, winds and it was extremely cold, towards the very end there was an event where we had to “assault through” on the “enemy”. We were all already extremely drenched, cold, water in all of our gear, everyone was just in the black and wanted to get it all over with. As we came to the end we lost communication with the platoon that was staged in the rear so we took a pause under a tree-line, during this time the rain picked up heavily and so did the winds, it felt as if we stood under that tree-line waiting to regain comms for such a long time, however it may have only been 45 mins. We all were just sitting there taking on the weather, waiting for hypothermia to hit us, as i was sat next to one of my buddies leaned up against a tree, i began to get so cold i gained tunnel vision and stared into the woods. In the very center of my vision coming out of the woods, i then saw what i can only describe as a skinny, bony, pale-ish, nude creature slowly crawling and making its way towards us in a curious manner. I was filled with fear however i couldn’t move. It wasn’t until another Marine finally hyped out and began seizing due to the weather, that one of the Staff Sgt’s began to run around and yell and wake everyone up so we could take the Marine to the nearest road and try and regain comms to get an evac with 7tons.
I would just like to say what a brilliant channel this is.
Your narration is superb and attention to detail from the drawings to the audio sounds is first class.
A lot of hard work goes into this.
From one brother to another thank you for what you do and for your service.
Kind regards
Craig from the UK
Great video as always but the bonus personal story was great too! Love hearing stuff like that.
I am from northern California born and raised. My step father is a doomsday prepper and well we spent a lot of time out in the wilderness in the region. Where i lived, north of the redwoods, south of the mountains we never went to the northeast..... north, south, west, but never east but twice, one time for the snow and another for fishing, yet we never stayed the night in those areas. This step-father also spent my years until about i was about 12 homeless with my mother, the ateas that are now well known were remote at the time, but i recently asked her if she had stayed in those area's....... she never went deep into the woods up there called the siskious but I recall warnings of the area and to this day ive wondered why so many disappear up there....
“Well…maybe the Air Force” 🤣🤣🤣
Happy New Year! 🎊❤️
Instantly fell in love with your narration. The little chuckle after the navy joke at the 1 minute mark adds so much nuance and personality, I instantly subbed, hit the bell, liked, favorited, etc.
In an ocean of half-assed AI content farm garbage, you are a diamond in the rough. Killer stuff man, keep it up.
"As I've said, these are not the only stories I've received so far. And quite possibly these two are not the most terrifying."
Now I definitely want to hear those!
Yes please. Lmk when u do .
Soldiers die during training every year some of them are explainable accidents and there's 1% that can't be explained when a soldier is lost during the training.
The sound ambiance was phenomenal!!!! Listened to this in the dark while waiting for my babies to sleep and boy did my skin crawl especially with the second story. I'm so addicted to this channel. ❤
I saw your videos in my recommended. Slept on them. God that was a mistake. Not only is your audio editing fucking immaculate, your visuals for the stories are also fucking amazing, and I really appreciate your analysis at the end of every story
When I went out to Bridgeport back in 2020, we also were told about Native American arrowheads during that brief about the cold and hypothermia. It was really odd hearing some type of superstition during a brief like that. All they said was “ if you see an arrow head don’t pick it up. Bad things happen when you do”. My quick story was we were on our way back from our last field op up in the mountains nothing really crazy ever happened. Until I was on watch on the 240 in one of our defensive positions. It was early in the morning maybe 1-4am at the time. It’s dead quiet just the wind blowing and me complaining about being cold when I hear things moving off into the pitch blackness of the area infront of me. I saw something move into a bush and heard noises of foliage being moved, so I just figured it is an animal I didn’t put any thought into it. Until I heard this guttural growl like something big. I completely froze up I have never heard anything like that so I said “if you want me to leave I’ll leave” and I heard it again so I left with about 2 minutes left before my shift ended ran back to the tent and told the next person on watch about what happened.
I am superstitious and I whole heartedly believe it was something I don’t know what but, it felt aggressive and did not want me there.
I am a Nez Perce Indian and actually picked up a piece of carved obsidian when I saw it on a mountain trail. This was at MWTC in 1986. I was there also in 1988 and saw nothing paranormal the entire time I was there.
I was stationed at MWTC Bridgeport and it’s absolute beautiful wilderness for miles. It’s perfect for all sorts of unsightly creatures to hide. The rake is actually based on real folklore and some Native Americans will tell you their Wendigos.
There is some video of the Rake and they sound like swine squealing! It's terrifying...
@@AverageAmericangood thing the rake isn’t real
@@michaelg8841 The rake isn't real smart but I don't think it's really stupid, either!
Just as I am heading to bed, and BOOM! Thank you folks for ending my day perfectly!
That's funny, he he, my thoughts exactly, before I even looked at the comments 👍🏻
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I never had proof of this happening to me. 7 years ago when I was 12 years old. To give context, I was a very rebellious child, Very depressed, and was having a lot of self harm issues. Before all that, I had the weirdest 'dreams." These dreams consisted of seeing a pale skeleton figure, long and skinny, I would wake up in the middle of the night, but every night, something in the present would always show up. Objects from earlier the day. I always woke up to looking out my window, while my niece was sleeping in the bed next to me. I would then look out the window, and just have eye contact, that lasted for such a long time, thinking about it always gives me the exact physical sensation I had in those dreams... but that's the thing, I was in the dream. At first I just brushed it off as lucid dreaming, but it's not like I had this dream everyday, I had others dreams that never felt as real as those dreams. I know this sounds like a weird made up story, but what if this is my brains way of processing it? what if it does visit me everynight. In only one sequence in those dreams, I remember when it broke out of its position and sprinted right towards my porch, and that point it would go black. It looked exactly like what the soldiers were describing it to look, keep in mind I was a fan of creepy pasta, but there were so many restorations of it. Mostly depicted as what those Russian soldiers looked like in the, " Russian Seeping Experiment, " I mostly remember the old Minecraft creepy pasta mods, This is a genuine experience, once I turned 13, and in my 7th grade year I stopped having those dreams since.
This channel makes me wish I was older when my great-uncle was alive. He was a WWll veteran who fought in the Brazilian Expeditionary Forces, even being japanese he fought in the allied side! I wish I could hear his stories as iF we were in a smok pit chatting.
"Not perfect for everyone..." You have that right brother. Been out of work for year. Got sick and then came back to the worst economy since Jimmy Carter. Final interview in five hours. Woke up at 0300 because I could not sleep. Really need this job. Can't work fast food, retail or manufacturing due to handicaps. And I am really only qualified for one other industry- and it is dead right now. This is the first real solid interview I have had in over a dozen. I know nobody will see this by the time of the interview, but please pray. I know your friends submitting these stories were afraid, but there is another kind of fear. Fear of being evicted. Fear of sitting in a very cold, very dark house because the power was turned off, fear of living on the streets because you got nowhere else to go.
Not sure which is worse.
Death don't look too bad to me right now...
I hope you got the job!! ❤
Hope ya made it through ok
Tru been homeless with no way out it’s ass
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I hope things work out for you, I'm in a similar spot at the moment also. We just gotta keep moving forward best we can.
Lol at your first duty station and only seeing centipedes. I'm from Hawaii and when I served in the national guard there, we would go to the range to qualify with our weapons and whatnot which lasted all day into the night. One time when we were getting ready to set up for night firing with the tracers and our night vision scopes, the full moon was out and me and a couple people in my unit were sitting in the back of an LMTV getting ready for our turn on the range, and this huge boar comes running through our camp at lighting speed going into the woods behind the range. One of the sergeants yelled "ho look at da bacon brah!"
No, we never caught and killed it and ate it. But trust me, as someone native to Hawaii, and given it's history and culture and geography, you'll see way more than just centipedes out there.
Great content though WS! I hope you see this and I hope you enjoyed your time being stationed in Hawaii!
i knew this story was going to be about pigs as soon as i hit "hawaii". no one told these guys in the video about the pigs? theyll fuck you up
Camping at Hilton 😂😂😂
Great timing! I just found you channel recently and I'm obsessed with it. The storytelling is amazing and so is the artwork, I hope that getting a team together like you've talked about helps you get content out faster! Keep up the good work.
I agree 👍
Me too! I love stumbling on a great channel that has a decent sized back catalog. I've been binging the hell out of these and the Bedtime Stories channel.
Becareful you'll watch the videos to fast lol
You want a great pair of stories? Find the two “The Night Shift at Fort Campbell”. One will scare the bejesus out of you and the other is some serious blacks ops material. They were posted about two years ago. I go back and watch them a lot.
@@timburns4880 Yeah, I already binged all his videos!
God that last story from you was just the most hilarous thing ive heard in a week, please do this more because I know you have alot of funny and amazing personal stories
Hearing your story at the end about Guam was great, I'm from Guam so I can attest to the jungles being absolute hell.
Hi Luke - I am embarrassed to admit I have been watching your stories for a very long time without subscribing. I absolutely love them . My tv is not registered to You tube and watch them there. It did not occur to me until I recently watched one about the corrections on the sinking of a ship and you stated some personal things . I just want you to know although my whole family has a history of service in all branches of the military, I do not , I still hang on every word and watch many over and over. The pale crawlers was awesome and gave me the creeps. Love your voice and style . Thank you for all your hard work !!!❤❤❤
This video was completely terrifying!! That second story had me shivering 😮. Just amazing work Luke, this is the best yet 👍. I'm so happy more people are getting turned on to the best paranormal channel. Thank you for your hard work 😊
That second storie took place in the town I'm from...there is a lot of weird things that take place around here!!
@@AdamBakalars brother can you tell ne some please
Seriously Luke, this channel gets better and better, happy holidays my friend!! Hope you have a great time with friends and family! Thanks for the awesome stories. Keep it up you are doing great!!
God bless you! Your videos have suddenly appeared in my feed and they are amazing! Can’t get enough of them! Thank you sir, and have a blessed Christmas.
This and the Skinwalker video are by far the most chilling for me! Would love to hear more cryptid reports!
Wartime Stories dropping a 35+ minute video on Pale Crawler encounters is so freaking awesome. Thank you Wartime for the stories and content you provide for they are top notch man. God Bless my friend! Merry Christmas as well!!
You tell the stories perfect! Thank you for your service as well.
Great episode, and your navigation story at the end was excellent.
Thanks for posting.
I’ve seen a creature like this around my house. As well when I was walking my dog at night I’ve seen it looking into my windows at night as well. Haven’t seen it in a couple years, but I live in the sticks.
Did it frighten you?
@@fresh0678 yeah it scared the shit outa me and my dog but I ignored it and paid it. No mind.
I've had them almost walk up on me as I slept , I let out a shout and it ran off, it was speaking a language with a animal voice. I never saw it , it had no foul smell either. Idk wtf it was . Three encounters in the same area.
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@@MikeD-xj7gc how do you people manage to sleep properly after things like that
Been on a few land nav courses - as enlisted and officer. While some of them were harder than others there was always an expectation of safety. Just so long as you stayed hydrated, wore the right gear, didn’t fall into a ravine or mess with the wildlife. The idea of running into something freaky in the middle of the night while out there alone creeps me out.
When I was stationed at Fort Lewis, I fell into a giant ant hill that I swear wasn’t there before. Land nav sucks already but being covered in ants and losing my compass was my worst experience doing it. I’ve had a lot of strange experiences over my 25 years in the army and that one was a mild one and we all had a good laugh at my expense.
I was in Hawaii, doing night land nav at East range, right outside of Schofield Barracks. Dark night, lots of canopy, ran into a family of hogs. That scared me, I said F my point and took the long way to my destination 🤣
While many channels are sus, and not so believable, there's something about this channel that is just genuine. The sources, your delivery, the added backgrounds and your humble honesty all bring such believableness to a contentious subject. I can only hope you find healing in your efforts & that others see that they're not crazy for what they've seen or heard.
Ive been to Fort McCoy its very hilly and its all forest its super scary I dont think ill be camping around there anymore
When a wartime stories video drops, It's a great day.
I'm glad I caught this after an hour of it being uploaded! Thank you for bringing these fascinating stories to life! From an Air Force vet, you earned a sub!
I really like the way you tell the stories especially when you do the first person parts! Great job!
The second story sent chills down my spine. I'? Glad this was recommended. Great work! Subscribed.
Your videos and your style of storytelling always make me feel like I'm actually there. Keep it up!
I’ve never been the military, but I’m interested in things like this and I just want to say the smoke pit is my favorite series that you do appreciate everything you do.
Awesome quality content brother, thank you for your service and welcome home.
Wow! Amazing stories! The fact it's cryptid encounters by the military makes it so much more intense and believable. What's also great is the combat information which gives a real perspective on how military works. Keep up the great work...
Thank you for collecting and narrating these events/stories
Would love to see something like this with werewolves and dogman
I remember hearing about the Rake a couple years ago on the Creepypasta channel, absolutely loved the lore behind it.
Great video. Love your story telling. Served in the army 97-04. I definitely saw some weird shit oit in the field but i was also usually running on 4hrs of sleep for weeks
A thousand likes per hour 2 hours in. Man, you're (and your team) killing it! I look forward to your videos and recommend your channel to family and friends, and for those that are prior service like myself, we can relate!
Hope you have a Merry Christmas with your family and here's hoping for a good 2024!
In my 5 years in the military (CVN72 A-Division), I experienced several occasions where I'd be with other people, and we'd start talking about weird things we'd witnessed onboard, out of boredom.
It was never about telling the scariest campfire story or even hazing booters. They always felt like warnings or someone trying to validate their experiences by finding other witnesses.
While that ship was in dry dock, I experienced
1. Always feeling watched in certain spaces and later learning those spaces were already notorious (1A/C, Pump Room 2)
2. Hearing someone whisper in my ear while being all alone, in a huge empty space, in the middle of the night (forward mess deck that didn't even have furniture because of dry dock).
3. Seeing a silhouette of a sailor (late night/red lights) disappear down a dead end passage way ( 2nd deck, port side, between Engineering and Reactor berthings).
I heard other squared away sailors describe even worse experiences:
1. While shadowing a 2nd class petty officer to qualify for Aux Rover watch, she took me to the 1A/C, 5 story, vertical ladder well and shown a flashlight straight down. Then, she said to always look before climbing down because of multiple people (including her) having seen something "not human" looking back up at them, seemingly waiting. You don't haze new recruits like this because if they get caught skipping that part of their patrol out of fear, they'll probably mention your name when they're interrogated. She was honestly scared.
2. One of my fellow Aux Rovers told me that she saw a hooded figure watching her take readings in Pump Room 2, through the control room viewing port, in the middle of the night. As she was leaving the space, she stopped by the control room door to say hello and no one was there. That morning, after duty section turnover, her AND her boyfriend saw the figure standing in the road, watching them as they left the Newport News parking lot. The boyfriend (also an Aux Rover) thought it was a homeless person until she told him that "it" had followed her off of the ship.
Whenever I meet a vet now and the conversation starts getting stale, I ask them if they've ever experienced anything "weird" while serving. Everyone I've ever asked so far generally pauses for a second, maybe looks over their shoulder to see who's listening and then tells me things that should not be true. The saltiest Chief I ever asked just laughed and said that he'd seen more weird shit than he'd care to remember.
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@@bestieswithtesties Before the safety netting was installed on each floor of the 1A/C vertical ladder well, a depressed sailor committed suicide by jumping (banging the steel edges of every floor on the way down.)
That's one of the theories of what the entity that lives down there is. Before the # 1 air conditioning unit came back online, there was only one reading to take down there. I can neither confirm nor deny that the vast majority of night time bilge level readings for that space were gundecked (faked) the whole time we were in dry dock.
What that’s crazy glad never experienced it. I was also in dry dock on CVN 72. Where was the the ladder at port side or starboard. Being in supply we had so many spaces. It kinda feels eerie when you’re guarding a painted space at night because your front and side views were like completely dark.
@@MauiDIVXX All the way forward, port side I think. If you took the closest ladderwell up you'd end up around the AIMD tunnel, I think.
Did you ever meet an MM2 Parentau?
@@similaritiesendhere His name sounds familiar. I started there in 2014 I was in supply so we have a space there I was also in s6. The way you said Aimd tunnel made me have a goosebumps because our s6 is all the way forward and base on how u describe where the ladder and how’s there a net made me remember that it’s probably the reason why I feel so eerie sometimes going by our space forward and net I’ve seen by the ladder always have a question in my mind, like it’s kinda weird or something. Know I know why the net is there for a reason. Like yes we supply has technically have some space where a sailor corpse is stored when the body needs preserve when at sea. But the forward port side always gives me an eerie feeling like something is in there 🥶. As im typing this now it giving me a goosebump damn it shipmate lol .🫡
The Air Force joke got me rolling. Former Army here 15-21 we picked on the Air Force all the time.
Hey friend, just wanted to say I just came across your upload and loved it, totally different than any others I have heard, so I subscribed and so glad I found this, definitely a plus , so thank you!!
As a Wisconsinite, I can tell you that I have heard some weird stories about Fort McCoy. Not all of them paranormal, though.
Funniest one was when we, during a WWII reenactment on the base, confused the shit out of servicemen training prior to deployment to the Middle East, and subsequently got a pissed Army officer yelling at us for getting waaay out of the bounds of the reenactment zone.
whoops hahaha
That second story at Fort McCoy sounds like a really bad dream where you're being chased at night and for some reason you're just irrationally tired, groggy, and clumsy. Also, lieutenants are just privates with college degrees.
Heh the human brain will try and make anything understandable if it is something beyond comprehension The mind will try and find a way to make it understandable tolerable or reasonable
@@holytemplar5621 I can speak from personal experience that when you encounter something your brain can't identify it goes into a period of shock. It's like it rapidly flips through the memory folder of all "known" things that could explain what it's experiencing until it realizes there's nothing in the folder that matches the data it's receiving from it's sensors (eyes, ears, etc). "What in the F am I looking at?!"
That's when the adrenaline really kicks in.
Just found your gem of a channel yesterday and instantly subscribed. Your style of narrating is captivating. And your marine experiences sprinkled in are great. Greetings from a former German Infantryman and GWOT Vet.
Horrido Joho
Loved listening to these stories. Great job! My Marine husband would have loved listening to these, but he passed away 2 years ago. I miss his military ways and jargon. Thanks!❤️
Oh man MWTC. I frequently drive by this place in the summer months and see Marines doing training in the area. Always find it interesting when I see them in their trucks parked along the mountain road, or signs up saying not to go down certain roads due to training. I always 'jokingly' think in the back of my mind that they're fighting something otherworldly in that neck of the woods and its being covered up.
Kind of unrelated but about 8ish years ago a Marine flagged me down on Sonora Pass near the base (still in the mountains) his buddy had a bad allergic reaction to something and needed help. I drove them both to the gate and they waved me off. I wonder what happened to those two.
Most likely run to the hospital. My dad had aomething similar happen to his buddy in germany in 89. Buddy didn't know he was allergic to bees and a bee was in the lip of his soda can.......they jad to drive back into the smaller post we were at then drive him to frankfurt.
Love me some smoke pit stories from Wartime Stories. More, please.
As someone who lives in the middle of the Allegany Nation Forest working midnights this is not the channel I should be watching at 1am. This channel is amazing, and I've seen some strange things in the forest on my way to work. Two of my friends and myself have all seen this humanoid gaunt creature on all fours on my road at the late hours of the night. I saw it on my way to work, hunched down on all fours down by the closest house and i flicked on my highbeams long enough to see it rapidly move around their house faster than anything I've seen. I slammed on my brakes, and called my girlfriend who told me she's seen the same thing when she would walk up the road but never so much in the open. My friend had it follow him up our road at 2Am when he walked for an hour from town to our house and booked it when he got to the bottom of my driveway and inside where he then told us. We locked our doors. There's some crazy things in the forest.
These stories definitely seem more believable than others because of the sheer skepticism and vigilance that vets are trained to harness.
Your narration is great. Always get excited when I see a new collection of tales :)
imagine a game with the premise being different encounters like these. would be sick!
These stories might just be the answer to what I experienced years ago at night on a very wooded base in Washington. The back of my neck started crawling like it did then. Thanks!
I looove this channel! There's something about the narration, music and visuals that enthrall me every time. I could listen to these stories forever!
Decided to become a patreon as I realized this is easily my favorite channel on youtube and I can't wait for the next episode!
I'd love to hear more about these crawlers for sure... thanks. Peace
Thanks for your videos; they make my graveyard shift a lot better!
Thank you and all who served or are serving for your service.
And thank you for the stories 👍
Amazing stories and you tell them well. Your voice is easy to listen to and I really enjoyed this episode. It's my first so subbing for sure and looking forward to more!
Also good timing! I do enjoy hearing horror stories with a more tactical twist, Thanks and wishing you luck!
Dude has THE BEST voice for narration I've ever heard!!