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Arlington Ghosts....
Submitted by
"Robert W."
Hailing from: Daegu, Korea
Where it happened: Fort
Myer, VA
Posted on: 6/12/06
The two
incidents I'm writing about both happened at Ft. Myer, VA, which is
adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery, while I was stationed there on
active duty as an MP. Military Police get all the fun jobs like midnight
security checks of the various unattended buildings on post.
Included
in the checks is the Old Post Chapel, which has been handling funerals for
veterans, retirees, and KIA's to be buried in the cemetery since around
1900 or so. The Chaplain or one of the assistants are supposed to lock up
at the end of the day, and I never had any reason to believe they didn't.
Okay, maybe once or twice they missed a door, but not as often as we would
find it open after the previous shift had reported it secure.
Procedure dictates that a K-9 unit must search a building before
anyone else could go in during the nightshift or on weekends. The problem
that we kept having was that these fiercely disciplined dogs often (3 out
of 5 times) refused to go into the basement. The basement had some offices
and really no creepy quality about it at all, but the dogs would not budge
past the first step. Having gone down there myself several times, I 'felt'
something else there, but was never really scared. My hair would stand up
on the back of my neck, but having a loaded gun and a comrade with you
takes a lot of the edge off of that. Why would any dead soldier want to
freak a fellow soldier out anyway? Apparently only if you don't get the
hint.
The
second story was told to me secondhand, so I cant' guarantee it's validity
with 100% certainty. But the source had no reason to BS me, and other
credible sources (my NCOIC) backed it up as if 'yeah, you didn't know?'.
The
story of Arlington National Cemetery is the land was owned by Robert E.
Lee, until he sided with the Confederates in the Civil War. The Union took
possession of his land, and immediately began burying their dead there to
really do him wrong. A Union soldier was stationed at a guard post, close
to where the gate by the Old Post Chapel is now located, and fell asleep
at his post. His throat was slit by a rebel in the middle of the night.
One of
my fellow MP's was on the night shift and had parked by the chapel to rest
his eyes for a bit. Now, any smart MP who is going to sleep on duty, will
lock the car doors to prevent the patrol supervisor from catching you and
snatching your keys and other things. I assume that to be the case here as
well.
Our
Spec-4 was awakened shortly after nodding off by a knocking on his window.
Looking straight ahead, he saw written on his windshield in the mist "Wake
up, or I'm going to kill you". Passing this off as one of the other
patrols playing games with him, he clicked on the wipers and washed away
the words, and went back to his catnap. Again within five minutes, he was
awakened by the knocking on his window, to find written on the windshield
"Wake up or I'm going to kill you".
Seriously irritated, he got out to look around and saw nobody near.
He called on the radio to find the other patrols either at the station, or
the gate. Undeterred, he again cleared the windshield, and resumed his
nap. A half hour later, he was woken by the patrol supervisor knocking on
his window, looking slightly worried, asking if he was alright. The latest
writing on his windshield was "I warned you!" His throat felt sore, but he
didn't see the red slash mark across his throat until he was turning in
his paperwork at the station and was in a brighter light.
Needless
to say, he was hastily reassigned to Ft. Belvoir for the rest of his time
in the DC area. I would have taken the first hint and moved to a new
location that was well lit with other people around, but some people just
don't want to believe.
Thanks for the submission! I love military related ghost Stories!
I'm sure there are probably tons of experiences and encounters in a place
like Arlington.
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Haunted Air Force Dorm....
Submitted by
"Chris Kelley."
Hailing from: Dayton OH
Where it happened:
Sheppard AFB, TX
Posted on: 5/6/05
I was
out looking for ghost information on the web and came across Kathy
Christian's story (posted Sept 01) at Sheppard AFB. I was stationed there
and experienced some weird activity myself.
I was there for
Medical Lab Technician tech school and was living in the medical dorms.
When I first got there, people would tell us stories of ghostly activity
(handprints in freshly waxed floors, little kids appearing then
disappearing, etc). I just took the stories to be just stories.
However,
after about a month there, I started hearing something calling my name in
my dorm room. It sounded like it was coming from one corner of the room
where I had a stereo speaker placed. I thought it may have been cross
signal that was coming through the wires or maybe just my imagination.
Over the
next couple of weeks, the voice would come through every few days and, by
that time, I'd just figured it was my imagination...until one night things got
really weird. I
woke up out of dead sleep one night to see a black guy in BDU pants and a
black t-shirt at the foot of my bed.
Thinking
it was a friend of mine from down the hall playing a trick on me, I
shouted "Will, what are you doing in here?!". An angry look came over his
face and he pointed his finger at me. I fell back down and he disappeared.
Not a second after he disappeared, my roommate sat straight up in bed and
said "Chris, did you see that?!" then went right back to sleep. I sat
there stunned for a minute then went back to sleep myself.
That's
not where it ends. A bunch of us were watching a movie in my room on a
Saturday night when a couple of the people there just happened to look out
the window at the same time and saw a big, rotating, orange orb.
It
lasted a few seconds then went away. The girls screamed and the guys
yelled "What the hell was that?". We never saw anything like that again,
but after that the weird activities pretty much ended.
There were a
couple of other events, but they're not really significant. I'd like
to find out some of the darker history of the base, see if there's a
connection to the haunting and any related actual events.
Wow! We love a good military haunting story! Well, you never
know we may yet hear more about this situation from others who read these
stories! Stay tuned dear reader...
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Chief Boots....
Submitted by "J.
F."
Hailing from: not stated
Where it happened: not
stated
Posted on: 12/5/05
When I
was in the service working C-130 aircraft, we had a few birds still in
service from the Viet Nam era. Two of those birds (according to the guy
who trained me) had been body carriers, ferrying the fallen back from
Asia. All sorts of creepy things would happen on those
aircraft.
That same guy who trained me said he was out there on
third shift one night, head and shoulders into a junction panel in the
electronics bay. He was bent over, wormed between black boxes in an
awkward position and needed the screwdriver still laying on the deck
behind him. He heard footsteps and saw military boots behind him, and
assumed it was the bird's crew chief. He asked for the screw driver and it
was handed to him.
A minute later, he got himself out of the
panel, stood up and looked around. There was nobody on the aircraft. You
can see for quite a ways on that flightline, and there was nobody walking
away. No trucks had pulled up - - nothing. The owner of those boots had
just
disappeared.
