When the U.S. used the Undead to Attack the Vietcong (The Vietnam War)
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Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script Writer: Natasha Martell
Narrator:
Bryan 'Lazlo' Beauregard
Sources
Karlin, Wayne. “Wandering Souls.” Manoa 19, no. 2 (2007): 108-25.
Whittaker, James O. “Psychological Warfare in Vietnam.” Political Psychology, vol. 18, no. 1, [International Society of Political Psychology, Wiley], 1997, pp. 165-79,
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Wooo
Wllies
No
Isn’t incovation 57 also a public version of this?
I don't know
Just to imagine hearing that while doing a patrol in the jungle...and at night. This will make a great horror film
There is a shortfilm on UA-cam about this, would recommend, it’s by a user called “Omeleto”
Should’ve placed random bodys. Maybe it would’ve be more powerful
@@Ttegegg In my opinion, it might not work, since all of them at least have seen a body once in conflict, so they might only think
it was their unlucky comrade.
*O H F U C K N A H!*
Directed by and starring Jane Fonda as the Viet Cong
This takes "spiritual warfare" to a whole new level...
lol
Call of Duty: Spiritual Warfare Vietnam War
666 likes
perfect timing
Pentecostals lol
@@iceuyitzh2336 pentacostals propaganda at its finest. yes.
Classic example of Sun Tzu's "know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles" being put in use. Shame it wasn't always effective, but its interesting how US forces studied the culture of their enemies and use it against them
and then they lost the battle against the hippies and then lost the war because of that
Sun Tzu's phrase may refer to the use of psyops and deception. Incline to his view of Supreme Excellence which to win without fighting
@@caualongshanks that's an oversimplification
@Ted Hubert Pagnanawon Crusio lmao
all good idea but one thing: communist don't believe in god and ghost.
at least those commissars and officers don't
Some points to clarify
In Vietnamese culture, the "malevolent spirits" ("vong hồn" in Vietnamese) isn't exactly that scary compare to relevant western counterpart. They usually don't harm the subject like in horror movie but rather bring misfortune, sickness & miscarriages for those with weaker constitution. This CAN be ward off by offerings and prayers.
IMO if the CIA tried to breed lots of predators, give the the taste of human and release them into the wild it would be more effective. My grandfather who was a sapper at the HoChiMinh trail said that he feared wild predators the most, then US/ARVN rangers & airstrikes. Not once was he concerned about ghosts but rather he is haunted by the sights of his comrades getting dragged into the woods by tigers (they were not allowed to fire since it would reveal their positions + being sapper units mean only a few have firearms on hand)
For the CIA that sounds like the silliest thing they would ever do but in one way it would be devastating to the environment introducing predators into mainland S.E.A. my respect for your grandfather, that war was hard on everyone.
@Grey Donovun
Oh really?
*stares* *in* *agent* *orange*
@@captaindookey thank you
THERE WERE UPPER LEVEL OFFICERS THAT WOULD CONSIDER
GRUNTS AS ANOTHER BOX OF BULLETS!!
“EXPENDABLE, THERE ARE MORE BACK HOME TO REPLACE THEM!!!”
During the school trip to Chiến Khu Đ (War Zone D), the tour guide told us about the legend of the 3 claws tiger. It was pretty cool though.
So wait, a fleet of helicopters blasting "fortunate son" isn't just a movie thing and is actual history?
Didn't they blast Rise of the Valkyries?
@@regalblade8171
it depended on whether an older high ranking officer or one of the younger GIs had called dibs on the record player.
Well I'm pretty sure it was
@@regalblade8171 It is useless to play such songs since the huey would be too loud to hear from the ground.
@@GigaChadlovesandcares well they clearly played the ghost tapes on Hueys
Captain Price: “I have Ghost.”
US in Vietnam: “We have Wandering Souls.”
Tony Stark: " We have a Hulk."
America is the loser in Vietnam
Bravo six Chúc mừng năm mới Mẹ kiếp 😆😆😆
Vietic tribes of mountainous regions in Northern Vietnam and Laos are still practising shamanism and worship the god of Blooi (Heaven) and the dead souls of ancestors.
But both the North Vietnamese army and the South Vietnamese army were always multiethnic (Vietnamese, Tai, Tay, Nung, Khmer, Cham, Chinese, Lolo,...). Some region the army was only 50% Vietnamese. Vietnamese are Vietics. And Vietics are Austroasiatics (Mon-Khmer, Halogroup O1b1). In ancient time they were the Baiyue spread from Yunnan and the Tibetan Plateau to across Southeast Asia, India and the Archipelagos. Fucking ducks that distort the facts and keep saying Vietnam is full of Chinese, "Vietnamese people" or something stupid.
My vietnamese Grandfather fought during the Vietnam War, and he recalled hearing these voices, he told me that he had never heard the voices he heard before, though, it felt familiar.
Meanwhile, my American Grandfather, who ironically, also fought in the Vietnam War, was appart of the troopers who set these tapes up, and while they heard the Vietnamese get scared shitless, he and his friends couldn’t help, but chuckle a bit, he almost laughed out loud before his friends had to shut him up.
As you can guess, family reunions were very akward.
How do you have two grandfathers?
@@astro_mapping1by having two parents
@@astro_mapping1is that a serious question lmfao…
Vietnamese American here and I just love the awesome Vietnam war videos, my grandfather on both sides severed on opposite sides of the military and it always amazes me how tough the Vietnamese population were when the war occurred
Age-restricted (set by UA-cam) and demonitised!
"This video is age-restricted. Viewers must be signed in and at least 18 years old to watch it." confirmed by manual review? !?
Ok
bro that's idiotic why would someone report a learning war video when it littery has no blood i know the audios are chilling but srsly
I remember listening to one of the videos. Being vietnamese and understanding what was being said I could see how people could be scared by it
Me too
Same man
That is vietcong's and nva's worst nightmare
I mean, ngl, south east asia is pretty off limits at night. In singapore, a lot of buildings have activities, which is probably why Ill never urban explore
@@kagenlim5271 yeah u should'nt
YES this is one of my favorite things to learn about the Vietnam war
I’ve started learning about the Wandering soul tapes since I was little when I listen to audio tapes on another UA-cam channel.
These tapes got to me to learn about the Vietnam war
I would always get creeped out by the audio
@@smileyshark123 Tbh It didn't freak me out as a kid i was more confused on the audio
I saw scary war sounds on the infographics show and the soul tapes was one of them.
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@@XSc177 paan lagi
6:00 imagine at one point hearing the cries of the dead and the next hearing “Stars and Stripes Forever” blasting full volume
*A M E R I C A*
"Now let's go get those Viet Congs."
- A U.S. Soldier
Its viet Cong. You dont say chineses
@@julioflorescertifiedtherap1425 it’s a joke, he’s poking fun at Americans and stuff like how we say ‘Nam or Murica.
@@thecast9175 r/ woosh. Go watch tropic thunder
You can’t just whoosh someone when you didn’t get the joke
@@evosioa2944 he was quoting the movie too…
That’s why u.s allies were using classic 1960’s speakers to scared the enemy troops of the Wandering Soul during The Vietnam war
For a minute there, I thought the US Military dispatch their necromancers to the front lines.
It's the cold war anything goes
You saying we didn't?
As silly as this sounds it would probably work at first but after awhile you'll probably just piss people off waking them up at night with noise
either way, the object has been achieved, the enemy is denied a good night rest
AKA The Ghost Tape from the CIA.
Imagine the audio still playing even after they turned it off or the battery ran out…
my grandparents said those sounds only make VC angrier as it's somehow disrespecting the fallen, make the VC and many South Vietnamese hate the US and RVN even more and want to end that war asap
and then aliens invaded and we all died but then Tom Cruise destroys the aliens
@@GlitchedBlox i thought it will be Chuck Norris..
Yeah, I Agree with that
My grandfather who was a south vietnamese soldier told me about this
How it go?
Americans: We blast ghost sounds to defeat you!
Vietnamese: Uno reverse card! **shoots at sound**
Americans that left: No u **shoots at gunfire**
Somewhere in Vietnam 1970:
American Commander: Ok turn that off it creeps me out (Sound continues playing) Hey I said turn that off!
American Soldier with Recorder and plug taken out: I DID! (Sound still continues)
2:18 That's so interesting. A complete reverse of a Viking's, Crusader's, and Jihadist's "good death" in battle that guarantees salvation in the afterlife.
One could almost assume this belief should've made the Vietnamese the most pacifist people on Earth.
And the souix had the good day to die
They kinda were, but war was the only option if they want their nation to see the light of day
Tell that to the Rhades and Montagnards...
@@BeingFireRetardant And the Amish
@@smorrow
Well I can't speak much about our poultry farming, barn raising, horse driving, High German speaking pacifists brethren scattered throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania lands...
But I can assure you the Vietnamese, especially the urban ones, absolutely detested and committed atrocities against the mountain tribespeople living primarily in the middle of Vietnam. The Montagnards were our closest ally, and we ultimately abandoned them, along with every other tribe we did CDIG with.
So no, regardless of whatever anyone says in this thread or comments section as a whole, the Vietnamese are most definitely not pacifists. Whole exterminated villages speak otherwise. But hey, it's not genocide if nobody cares enough to stop it right? Just ask the Chinese.
I heard that the tapes more encouraged the Vietcong to fight harder and that some Americans who didn't know about them had the affect that they were hoping to do to the VC
Possibly to avenge their fallen comrades
@@willstealyourboats true man
My grandpa told that
I don’t know what scarier
Hearing ghost noises or hearing fortune sun play
3:31 it spooked me
Please do the Philippine-American war please.
Would love to ever hear a veitnamese opinion on the effectiveness of such methods. Their side of the conflict lacks presentation so badly
Agreed
As a Vietnamese that operation was a complete failure,not only it didn’t decrease Vietnamese force’s morale,it make the American position very clear to detect and you’d expect them to open fire,which is exactly what they did.
I heard it did the opposite of what the American Soldiers wanted. Theres a youtube video of a Ex Vietcong soldier saying the tapes only made them angrier and wanted them to fight the American troops more.
It's just a ton of jerks. There is no evidence for either its efective or the success of that operation. In the other hand, the America had to run and the Vietcong won. That's the strongest statement to prove that nothing can scare a person when he fights for family and homeland
It worked on the first day of the broadcast, some soldiers were bewildered, but then they followed the sound and discovered the truth.
As a result, every time American soldiers broadcast the loudspeaker, they will be attacked and suffer heavy damage.
The Wandering Souls Plan is bankrupt.
If I heard the bush start telling me to leave, you're damn right I'm gonna void my bowels and go home
US :uses some stupid tactics
Vietnam:uses trees
US :(
7:13 Ultra nerd mode activate. That exact (stock?) sound is used in Might and Magic VII for the ghosts in the Barrow Downs. Always fun to hear such old sound effects still in use today.
"Fear is the most effective instrument of destruction of the human soul and the souls of all people"
-Anwar Sadat
@@thotslayer9914 Im filipino, I love to look into Quotes
Some people think how did the americans have vietnamese language in the paper notes its because They got help from South Vietnam which speaks The same language as North Vietnam.
I could see this being a viable tactic today, but back then it literally sounds like an audio recording
the efficacity was debated. At first maybe but soon they just knew it was a trick and "aim where the sound comes from"
“They blasted other popular American music”
*Fortunate son continues*
if nobody knows what it was it was Operation Wandering Soul which was an helicopter that played Tape number 10 of dying vietcong soldier sounds but sometimes backfired because the helicopter was visible to the vietcong
"Give me back my board Lance! It's a good board, and you know how hard it is to find a board you like! Give me back my board Lance..."
"We threw everything we had at the VC... machine guns, grenades, mortars, napalm, and only one thing worked....scary voices."
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I froze. I knew of this operation from before. But the full context. Thank you so much for this!
So this is how your spectre friend tell where the enemy is after he dead
Imagine if this strategy was unsuccessful and the USA was forced to withdraw from Vietnam
“Alright turn off the radio”
“But sir I turned it off a minute ago”
" New Objective:Survive "
No joke, I've been really looking forward to this being covered on the channel
I remember hearing this before on UA-cam, kept me awake, spooky.
“He will die nameless” “you will too if you don’t give up” -The US Navy
“All warfare is based on deception”
-Sun Tzu
- _"Go home friends, go home!!!!"_
* *Shoots in General Direction* *
-* Ride of the Valkyries begins to play *
"Prank 'em John"
"You already know"
Turns out the strategy affect to south vietnamese soldier more, and they were so afraid to fight Vietcong after that
2:36 ghost of the soldier: turns around and sees he`s dead body
also ghost of the soldier: spooked by his own dead body and walks away silently
hey! my homies aren't dead but they also discourage me
That just add that dramatic surelist touch to an already lost war
I don't understand the words or what it represents to life and death but the tape just chills me to my bones. Just the way the guy speaks and the way the tape is played gives me nightmares.
I was thinking about this video in my head last night and today it's in my recommendations
“Is this a grave?” (Đây có phải là nấm mồ không?) that is what the picture said at the end. Its a dead PAVN force body and it used to scared vietcong soldier
You actually did a good job pronouncing the ghost pig, dog, and cat assuming you're not Vietnamese.
Vietnam kid: *hears these scary sounds*
Simple history: Write that down! Write that down!
That should have slowed the speech with the echo, maybe that would have been more effective
As somebody that speaks Vietnam that recording was extremely disturbing.
this is one of the great strategies in the Vietnam War in my opinion
Soldier 1: I hear ghosts!
Soldier 2: THERE ARE GHOSTS IN THESE WOODS!
Soldier 1: We gotta run!
Soldier 2: No we gotta call for backup
Soldier 1: Who are you gonna call?
Soldier 2: GHOSTBUSTERS!
That's horrifying that these events happened. I hope it won't happen again.
'Tis a mix of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, George Orwell's 1984, & Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
I like how the souls still have their guns with them.
Pois é, incrível como os norte-vietnamitas conseguiram ganhar a guerra. Pena que não tem nenhum filme que mostre o lado deles para sabermos o que faziam durante a guerra, como se locomoviam, que táticas usavam, etc...
i heard on the last part of the recording in a ghostly voice 'go home now...' in english i think.
Vietnam soldier:dies
Also him:ah great I get to keep my ak well time to play reload the gun for eternity
Considering a lot of Vietcong were from rural towns with little technology, when even having a tv was probably an extreme rarity, in a time before movies like the Exorcist even existed...yeah I can totally see this working
Couldn’t understand some of the words but caught “ you gotta go home”
It's simple, because the Viet Cong have patriotic hearts, but the Americans invaded, so even if they die, they still have to protect the country.
2:43 it's crazy how not just Vietnamese believe this common sense is truly religious
Reminds me of Snake, wading through the river of souls deep in the jungle, confronted by the ghosts of every man he's killed
I use a comparable tactic to prevent the cat of my neighbour to take a dump in my garden. To prevent him from doing so, I empaled the previous cat on a pale in the center of my garden to scare him.
It won't let me cast this on my tv because it may be inappropriate. WTF?
US: we have ghost
Vietcong: we have trees
Psychological effects is to demoralizing your enemy. Know what your enemy weaknesses and use it against him. Wandering Souls sounds the worst using ghosts.
Loved this channel for years
The U.S: Hehe you gonna scare the freak out with our fake wandering soul sound
Meanwhile
Some real wandering soul :What the man doin
It all fun and game until you turn off the speaker and still hears the ghost talking
6:01 "blasting popular american music"
Starts playings Wagner Walkürenritt
Similar tactics like these were also used in the Afghan war, though they used sounds of military machinery (or heavy metal music) to goad insurgents into surrendering
0:57 is when the sponser ends
"GO HOME, FRIEND. GO HOME"
US Army: Lol very funny, but why is it in English...? WAIT
I never knew this. Thanks for educating me. I can tell my History teacher about this now.
did you tell your history teacher yet
Awesome channel I love this
The thick 1970s delay effect on the tape is REALLY pouring it on thick lol. That HAS to have ruined the immersion for the VC lmao
The ghost tape number 10 sounds kind of modern ima way Because of the creepy glitchy echoe sounds after the speeking
That tatic was actually good for fending of the vietcong
Nah,i'm vietnamese and my uncle used to be a soildier in Vietnam war and he said that the only thing he scared is the forgotten his sacrifice and many Vietnamese soildier for Vietnamese Independence of the next generation,forget how many people have died for the justice,for the peace of Vietnam when Nixon and Kenedy bring war to our motherland,a country which be won over the French invasion
How to scare people in Vietnam during Halloween
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Screw the History Channel, this is the best
Putting the fear of God into the enemy is probably one of those oldest tricks in warfare.
I thought the video was going to say they used projectors to make ghostly holograms like a group of ghost soldiers marching forward lol
My grandfather was fought in the jungle with the Vietcongs and I asked him about this. He told me that he once faced this soul sound but he knew it was played by the US. So, my grandfather and his comrades shoot in the direction of the sound, destroy 2 radios and 1 US soldier. My grnadfather said he did not blelives in ghost like ma chó, ma mèo, ma heo... In my opinion, Vietnamese people do not believe in these things
i know vietnamese so the recording was actually chilling
Really cool video. Kind of eerie watching it in the dark alone...
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