Nov. 10, 2025

Semper Strangis: From Tun Tavern to the Twilight Zone!

Semper Strangis: From Tun Tavern to the Twilight Zone!
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In this special episode of Broadcasting Seeds, hosts Bennett and Joel Matanos celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States Marine Corps by exploring the intersection of military history and the unexplained. They delve into ghost stories, paranormal experiences, and the psychological effects of war, highlighting the unique relationship Marines have with their environments and the unseen forces that may inhabit them. From the haunted barracks of Okinawa to the eerie silence of Vietnam, the conversation reveals how the experiences of Marines are shaped by both the physical and spiritual realms they navigate.

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Yif jo straight from the broadcast studio, and then the stating,

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this ain't no bet sime story, so as prophetic and

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did where the trop got secret snow parton likerophone alchemist

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scriptures with a twist peak the frequency seeds in the

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midst we drop fas like plagues, revelations in the catus,

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broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveillans wisdom with a

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watchman's blade, forth what sound while your whole system.

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Fame, blood, moons, nephal love.

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Echoes in the pond, sasquaarts stopping through the fault lines

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of time.

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We ain't mainstream, we ain't just streams safer with the prophets,

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the code, the dream. So with you tune in better

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Gord to minus Broadcasting Seeds and we break in the.

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Yeah, Jill.

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Steady, all right, everybody, welcome back to another Well. This

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is a special episode of Broadcasting Seeds. Today is the

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two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the United States Marine Corps.

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I am a marine veteran, and my buddy's here with me.

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Jewel Matanos is a marine veteran, as well, if you

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could jewel just you've been on other episodes, but tell people,

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just give give them a quick rundown of who you

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are in your background.

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Yeah, Joel Matanos uh So, I was in the Marine

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Corps from twenty eleven to twenty fifteen. After I got out,

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worked some odd jobs and then I ended up getting

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into mental health. So I work in the mental health

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field now, helping veterans with their mental health stuff. At

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the end of the day, I'm not going to go

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too much into that, obviously, But other than that, since then,

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like long walks on the beach and going hunting for

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bigfoot in right the allegating nation. Yeah, and just overall, man,

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we're just trying to trying to live life and look

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at things with a different lens or at least like

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a sixty thousand foot view, give people some ideas of

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what's going on out there, you know.

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Absolutely. Yeah. So with that being said, today marks the

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two hundred and fifty years since the United States Marine

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Corps was born. On November tenth of seventeen seventy five,

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YEP traced back to the Ton Tavern in Philadelphia, where

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Captain and Samuel Nicholas Yet born in a bar where

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Samuel Nicholas started recruiting the first Continental Marines. Semper I

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Somber five? What did I just say? Somber A fucking buddy, Fuckercember,

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I fucked the other guy, all right, Dember five to

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every double dog listening. If you want the official receipts,

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I'm gonna put some stuff in the You'll have a

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whole bunch of links in the show notes for this.

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So the Court the core zone page lays it out

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in the anniversary hub. I'll put all that in the

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show notes. But quick history fly over before we dive

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into the weird. Okay, the original Continental Marines were disbanded

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after the Revolution and then re established by Congress in

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seventeen ninety eight. So yes, the Court technically has been

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founded twice. But the motto that we all know is

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simper fidels was formally adopted in eighteen eighty three per

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the Marine Corps History Division, which fun Fact and Jewel

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can attest to this. We had to actually pay pass

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a history test to pass to complete boot camp. And

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this is why Marines have such a crazy relationship with

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their histories, because they actually know it.

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Yeah, yeah, you would agree, absolutely.

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They actually know they're taught. This is one of the

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things that's mandatory. I remember like first phase and boot

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camp was almost all Marine Corps knowledge, right is what

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they get use and you had to give an eighty

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percent on this. I can't remember how many questions it was,

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but you know, covered all kinds of stuff and if

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you we actually had people fail out of boot camp

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because they failed the test, they got to retake and

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then they failed again and then they were gone. Many

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failed again because we had some real morons.

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But you know, smart enough to do this, So it's

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you can imagine how hard it is.

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True. I mean, allegedly you have to pass a certain

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point on the ASVAB to even get into the Marines,

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but I don't think I don't think the barrier is

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very high. I think it depends on the era. There's

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waivers for that, yeah, exactly, but you got a pass

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Marine Corps history to continue on to second phase. So

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with that being said, uh, this podcast is broadcasting seeds

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and we're not stopping at cake cuttings and birthday balls

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for this episode tonight, we're stepping into that shadowy overlap

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where Marines meet high strangeness war zones have always been

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fertile ground for the inexplicable inexplicable. Call it stress, call

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it fog of war, or call it something else. Moving

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just beyond the tree line and Vietnam, for example, we're

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gonna go over and talk about what are called the

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rock apes, hairy bipedal figures seen by American gis and

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marines in the central highlands of Vietnam. The evidence is contested, obviously,

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just like Bigfoot or anything else, but the stories are

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stubborn and they stick with us. So if you want again,

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I'll put some. If you want to read about these things,

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I will put some. There's a few links that I'll

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have in the show notes to go over some of

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the historic stuff. So here's the mission profile for this episode.

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We'll honor the core as we're doing right, two hundred

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and fifty years of grit, then roll into the first

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hand marine lore from the jungle to the barracks, and

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finally we'll ask the uncomfortable question when official narratives collide

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with person persistent, well sourced anomalies, what gets filled, under filed, underclassified,

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and what gets dismissed as imagination and what deserves a

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second look? So if you're new here, welcome to broadcasting seeds,

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where we will sift through the signal from noise and

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without losing our sense of humor. If you've been here

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a while, thank you for coming back. And you know

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the drill like share and drop a review. It generally

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helps the show grow and keeps these stories on the

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map for folks who need them. So I guess into

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it right. So where the unseen bleeds in the battlefield.

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So let's talk about the terrain here, because the land

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itself is one of the first places marines start running into. Strange.

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If you've ever deployed, you know this. Not every place

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on Earth feels the same. Some places feel crowded even

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even when they're empty. Some places feel like they remember things,

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and some places they feel like they're watching you back.

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Marines have been sent into the thickest jungles, the oldest mountains,

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the deepest forests, and the most war soiak patches on Earth.

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You take a bunch of eighteen to twenty five year

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olds whose day job is to fight, starve, sweat, freeze,

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and not die, and you put them in the territories

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that have been sacred, contested, or haunted for thousands of

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years and things happen. Yep, you would agree.

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Yeah, we've heard all kinds of story. We've had all

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kinds of experiences as well.

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So I guess we'll start with okin now. Now, ok

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now is part of the island hopping campaign of the

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Marine Corps. It was the wasn't it the last island?

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I think it was the last week.

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So and that's where, uh, there was a lot of

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I mean from what I had heard from the stories

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and every like looking at history, it was some some

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of the most brutal fighting based on the weather, the terrain,

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like just fighting in mud pits, climbing mountain It was

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just a horrible I couldn't imagine I mean, trying to

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walk out back when it's muddy without getting shot at

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It's hard enough. I can't imagine fighting up a mountain

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full of mud for days and days and weeks at

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a time, you know.

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Yeah, and just being undersupplied, not having you know, clean water,

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clean Oh god, iturriz.

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We don't even that's the part that we don't ever

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bring out, you know.

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So the aftermath of all this in World War Two

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is that there's approximately thirty thousand US military personnel stationed

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on Okinawa, which is like seventy percent of the US

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troops in Japan are actually on Okinawa. I mean the

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third Marine Division is in Okinawa, right, So yeah, it's

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it's a presence, and there's the native Okinawan's and the

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Americans haven't always gotten along, and they also a lot

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of the Native Oakan Islands don't even consider themselves Japanese.

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So it's a very different place. But the thing that

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we have to consider is that it's it's been called

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for centuries the keystone of the of the Pacific because

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it's not in Japan. It's it's south right, so you

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can jump. It's what its proximity is China and you

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know the Philippines.

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It's it's a strategic stronghold very much. So yeah, so yeah,

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so there's that.

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But it's not just a military base. It's layered history.

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It's the site of one of the bloodiest battles of

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World War Two, which Jewel alluded to. Tens of thousands

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of Japanese soldiers, ok now and civilians and American marines

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died there, many in caves, many by suicide, many in

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total despair. So you can imagine the energy there.

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Yeah, man, Now.

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Try to imagine what it means to sleep in a

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barracks built directly over tunnels where the entire platoons, where

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entire platoons made their final stands, or to stand a

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lonely firewatch shift. Let me tell you shift next to

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the shuttered building that your sergeant casually tells you to

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never look into the third floor window of blah blah blah. Right,

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so window exactly so. Marines at Camp Hansen and Schwab

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talk about apparitions and dress uniforms from nineteen forty five,

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still marching their night patrols. Guys see figures walking right

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past them, I mean solid clear and step and then

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vanish at the corner of a hallway.

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Dude, that I can't wait, I can't.

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Doors slam when the wind is dead still right, Someone

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whispers your name in Japanese when there's one no one

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behind you? Yeah, could you imagine?

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No?

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I mean, dude, it's allegedly because I've never been there

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to check it out, as it's my body. Allegedly, it's

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so common that it stops, it stops being a ghost

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story and becomes like a normal Tuesday, right, like just yeah, yeah,

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and then, so let's move from there. You move into Vietnam,

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and sure we'll get to the rockets later. Okay, But

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before the cryptid show up, marines were noticing something else,

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the silence. There are patches of jungle in the highlands

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where even insects won't make noise. Anyone who's patrolled knows

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that silence is bad. It's bad.

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One hundred. You know something's wrong.

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Yes, So silence is not peace. It's a threat because

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either something else is out there that's making everything be silent,

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or it's just like that, everything around silent.

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Yeah, stillness, the thickness of the air.

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Yeah, god, I actually got chills. Yeah, man, I actually

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got chills. And I haven't patrolled ship in twenty years.

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I mean, just think about the small little the incident.

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We me and you just standing at the I'm not

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gonna not gonna go oh yeah, yeah, go ahead, tell

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give the short the short. So there's a spot here

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in upstate New York there sleepy hollow. Is that what

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it's called again, the sleeping hollow.

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Something like that, sleepy hollow roads. It's not sleepy hollow,

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whiskey hollow.

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Whiskey hollow.

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There we go.

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Sorry, Whiskey Hollow Road.

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So we went. It's a kind of it's a known

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kind of haunted, the Wacky Ship. Yeah, all kinds of

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weird stuff. You're not allowed to drive through there anymore

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past a certain time. A lot of people out there

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after yeah, after sundown. Why do they do that, folks?

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If there's no issues? So so not for nothing, we

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drive out there, uh, and we want we we just

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stop at this random little pullover site you can walk

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off and go kind of up into the woods a

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little bit.

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Uh.

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And we stopped and we we both got out and

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we both walked. Now, both Ben and I have hearing problems.

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I understand this. I'll tell you what it sounds. It

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sounded like I had ear plugs in like.

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Exactly the latest I describe it.

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I can't even that is exactly what it was.

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And I walked and I looked at Bennett and we

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it's like we noticed at the same time, and I

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was like.

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Dude, do you hear how quiet it is? It's right

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in this one small area.

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As soon as we stepped out of it, it's like

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all the sound started coming back.

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Yeah. So like if you go off the road, that's

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when I would not, but if you're on the road,

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you could hear everything and everything. But it's like you

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walked into the zone.

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Yeah, there was literally no sound. There was no birds,

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nothing was moving, there was no wind. It was not

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freaking really.

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Weird still, just pure stillness.

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And not only that, like the hair is on my

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back of my neck started standing up. You it felt wrong,

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it felt wrong to be there, and that that's that.

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That's kind I think where this and.

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I've and I've had this feeling in other places too,

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absolutely historics and evidence, but yeah, unbelievable. And the bottom

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line is it's a pattern, right, yeah, where war happens.

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Because there's I've had the same thing happen in Gettysburg,

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where war happens, where blood is spilled, where suffering stacks

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and stacks on top of each other. The boundary between

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worlds gets really thin, man. Yeah, it just does. I

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mean even the Bible has language for this, high places, strongholds, gates.

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Anthropology calls it liminality. It's the actual phrase, and Marines

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call it. Yeah, something's off here because your head's on

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a swivel. Yeah, yeah, sudden You're like wait, wait, wait,

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what why is it like this. So before we talk

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about creatures or entities or encounters, we need to understand

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the ground itself. Right. Places bottom line is places remember things,

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and sometimes they don't forget who walks on them. So

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the encounters themselves that we're going to get into a

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few stories, not miss not rumors, the things marines actually

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talk about when the barracks lights are low and no

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one's trying to look tough and we have these conversations

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over and over again.

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Right, should have called mister ballin.

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Yeah, no shit, Yeah. So let's start where most of

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these tales get their first breath among marines, and that's Vietnam.

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I remember hearing about the rock apes from old like folks.

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I knew some Vietnam vets. I still know some. And

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if you ever talk to people about rock apes, it's

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starting to get better, just like Bigfoot. Like people that

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have had, you know, paranormal experiences or or supernatural experiences

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are like UFOs or whatever. Right, people are coming out

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more about this stuff, but they would if you said

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the word rock ape, A lot of people would just

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be like, you know, oh, I know about that, and

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then they're like, no, I ain't telling you that story.

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Because I'm it's like I'm crazy.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So during Vietnam, go ahead, stigma stigma around absolutely, and

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there's you know, that's I think that's breaking down culture

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wide in the United States. So during the Vietnam War,

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marines in the Central Highlands reported large, upright, muscular, hair

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covered creatures that moved in coordinated groups and through rocks

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with force and intention. And these weren't orangutans because it's

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the wrong region, right, wrong behavior. They weren't macaqus because

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they're too big, too upright, and frankly, they were tactical,

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which uh, which is crazy to me. Multiple patrols report

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to them, some fired warning shots, some returned fire after

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they got rocks thrown at them. There are after action notes,

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and I've got to find some, but I think I've

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found a I've got some reports, but I'd love to

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find some actual after action with and notes that have

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this stuff. But who knows. But it's you know, notes

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buried in long unit logs, and plenty of marines have

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gone to their graves saying I know what I saw, right.

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So there is a balanced summary of reports that I found.

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I will put them in the show notes there's just

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too much information to go over in one episode. But

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it's literally on stripes dot com and it's the mystery

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of the wood apes or apes in Vietnam. It's freaking

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cool if you look.

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I mean it's all over like there's military history all

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over about this, all over the place.

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Is and not just the Marines, it's army too, yeah,

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I mean all over Vietnam and and Frankly and Laos

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and some of the other places that are, you know,

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well adjacent to Vietnam.

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They also had the like, uh a nickname if you're

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looking them up, but but.

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Two two's it's b A t U t U t s.

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Yeah. Is there any of those over the top of

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them too?

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Yeah?

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Yeah, yeah.

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I don't know how the local be a easy way

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to say it.

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Right, of course, there's no body, you know, but there

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is decades of consistent marine eyewitness testimony period army as well.

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And then I'm sure that there's plenty of folklore in

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Vietnam from the indigenous folks that consistently report the same

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type of thing, right, yeah. And the bottom line is

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the VA did right, and so did you know, all civilians.

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So the bottom line is is that what I've learned

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through the years with stuff like this is consistency means something.

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So if you consistently get these from different places that

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have nothing, there's no congruency between Vietnam and and Oregon, right,

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but they're still seeing the same thing that that should

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peak your interest. Sure, so kind of cool for another

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area of the world where you can think of, you know,

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Sasquatch type creatures being so Sasquatch fans.

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For for anyone even looking into it like.

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There is actual There were actual expeditions, documented expeditions by

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not us. I'm talking like the NVA, the and professors

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of the Vietnam National University that went out to do

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these things and tried to find the rock abes. But

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again there was no and they never find a body.

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They just elude them the whole time. And enough for

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they are not going to think about it this way.

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An organization is not going to put that much money

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into an effort when they don't believe in it. I know, well,

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I know that dumb things have happened in the past,

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let's not say always, but.

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You know it was enough.

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It was enough of a scare where they kept pushing

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expeditions out to find this thing, and they couldn't.

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And this is the NBA, right that, yeah, not the Americans.

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General h Wangman Ta so h o A n g

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m I n h Thha. He organized the mission in

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nineteen seventy four. They found nothing. It was unsuccessful and well,

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they didn't find nothing, but they found no hard evidence.

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Professor and then professor Vou Kui it's v a Quy

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of the Vietnam National University. I sent an expedition as well.

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They said they had strange human like footprints.

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But that was about it.

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And that was done in nineteen seventy by Professor Tran

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Hong Viette of Hanoi's Pedagogic University.

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Okay, that's crazy. So you've got you have both sides,

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yes saying the same thing.

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Yes, yeah for crazy mm hm.

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That's amazing. All right. So now I guess we'll transitionally.

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I just say, if you know, the sasquatch researchers and stuff,

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just look into this. It's kind of cool for me

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to like peel out from someplace that I don't normally

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look into. Yeah, for sasquatch activity. Right, So and then

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we move let's move back to Okinawa and the ghost barracks. Now,

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if you've been stationed at Okinawa, you probably already know.

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I never was, but I've heard story. Yeah, So basically

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what you get though, is a combination or some you know,

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marines describe footsteps and empty stairwells, doors unlocking themselves, voices

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in Japanese whispering at night, full body apparitions in World

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War Two uniforms still marching patrol routes, and so. One

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of the most famous stories comes from Camp Hansen, or

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a marine on gate guard reported a fully dressed World

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War Two marine with helmet gear even blood on his uniform,

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walking up and asking to be let in, to be

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let back in. The guard turned to call his sergeant,

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turned back, and the dude was gone, Yeah man, that's

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and that's not a one time story. That story that's

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been told over multiple decades by different marines at that

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same gate.

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That's a tortured soul man.

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Isn't that crazy?

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Yeah?

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Yeah, again, I report on Okinawa hauntings. I've got stuff

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that's in the show notes. It's gonna you know, because

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again it's so much to cover, and as we know,

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marines don't really scare easy, Like I don't have a

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lot of fear. I mean, I'm sure they're just like

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every other person, but I just don't have a lot

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of fear. Like we we go out in the woods

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and it's.

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The middle of the night, no lights, nothing, bene myself whatever,

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you know, Yeah, and just accept it.

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But as people will say that have been there, it's

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Okinawa is one of those few places where they admit

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when they go out in the woods, sometimes they get

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they've been shaken, you know, and that's people say it

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over and over again. Yeah, where are we anyway? Yeah?

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All right, Uh, we're gonna move to camp? All right?

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How do we want to say this? I'm saying La

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June because that's what I am, a guy. The family,

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the family or whoever. Somebody complains that it's Camp Lagerne.

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But which makes sense too, And I've debated this on

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a podcast before. It makes sense because he's from Louisiana,

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so you get some weird pronunciations with things, and it's

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a French name, so Lagerne. But I bet it's got

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the French accent too, like line.

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You know, well that's the draw man.

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I mean, yeah, you know what I mean, Like, we

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don't I'm not going to say, Uh, I'm trying to

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think of words from the Bayou. That I mean, most

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words from the Bayou sound different from most words I'm

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saying from up here.

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We're like they're spelled totally weird too, Like like the

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last name.

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Rova show Yeah, yeah, you know, come on.

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Look at the name.

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It does not look like how it sounds at all anyway.

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So camp was June where I was stationed for four years.

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Same here, uh, marines on firewatch and in some barracks,

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not all barracks, but some barracks. And I can tell

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you that where I lived, which the barracks where I

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live don't exist anymore, but there's I'll tell stories in

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the second and on rifle range, so out of Stone Bay, yeah,

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rifle range reports. Shadow figures right, human shaped, solid, intelligent

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and watching. They move differently than normal shadows. It's like

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they have weight, yea. And some will stop and when

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you look, and some will keep coming. And there's and

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here's the part nobody likes to say out loud. They

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only go away when you speak scripture or say the

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name of Jesus. How about and in the core, that's

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not superstition, that's experience, right, there, uh there are. There

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may not be clean government link or academic study here,

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but one comes from the lived testimonies across dozens of platoons,

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across decades and patterns and strong and consistent you know,

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fashion again consistency. So I've lived out on Onslow Beach

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and those those barracks don't they don't exist anymore. But

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when you would come across the bridge on the Onslow Beach,

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which is Onslo Beach, is the beach on you know

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Marine Corps based Campbell Joom and people go out there

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and swim and spend the day at the beach and

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it's actually pretty damn nice.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a nice beach.

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Yeah. They've got a little uh p X there called

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the show Shop and you know, so that used to be.

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But when you come over the bridge, you would come

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to that main road and you would take a right

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and the whole battalion used to sit right across from

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the staff and c O Beach and that staph n

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Ceo Beach. There there's a there's a building on top

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of the dune and that was our the tian Aid

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station was in the was in that building. That's awesome,

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but across from there you had these I don't know

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what you would call them. They were squad based. They

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were like white elephants or whatever you like, kind of like,

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and they were all situated in h and I want

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to say there was one, two, three, four of them,

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maybe three or four of them. Yeah, And then you

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had like a boat locker farther out towards Risley Pier.

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I don't think Riseley Peer. I think they got swept away,

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but maybe they reboat part of it. I don't know,

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but Riseley Pier used to be a fishing pier farther

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down the beach. But anyway, they had a boat locker

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out there too, and a motor pool. So that's where

468
00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:27.119
second recombation was, and now it's all gone. I think

469
00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:31.559
they replaced maybe some of the stuff with like like

470
00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:36.119
rental like trailers and stuff that you could rent or

471
00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:39.279
something like that. I don't know, but either way, I

472
00:31:39.559 --> 00:31:44.079
had more than one, on more than one occasion, some spooky, spooky,

473
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:47.519
spooky stuff, like especially late nights on because we still

474
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:50.680
had a firewatch, yeah, and we had duty, you know,

475
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:54.960
and a couple times on when you're awake on firewatch,

476
00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:58.160
and weird shit would just start happening, like like you'd

477
00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:02.720
hear doors opening or things like that, especially in the

478
00:32:02.839 --> 00:32:08.000
cross the breezeway between squad bays Man and you would

479
00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:11.079
go check and there'd be nothing there, and you're just like, dude,

480
00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:14.160
what the hell, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

481
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:17.000
I got a I Actually it's not my own story,

482
00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:19.160
but it's a story I can speak on behalf of

483
00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:24.559
someone else's similar on on Base on Lejune, not not

484
00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:28.640
in that, not in Stone Bay area, but in condemned

485
00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:31.559
barracks that eventually got shut down. So when we first

486
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:34.119
got there, we were in barracks that were known to

487
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:36.160
be condemned. They were getting ready to shut them down.

488
00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:39.000
And then they moved this into another set of barracks

489
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:39.720
on F Street.

490
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:43.119
When they moved to H yeah, F Street.

491
00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:46.559
And when they moved this over, a bunch of we

492
00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:50.200
had some guys like, as you do after doing two

493
00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.559
years and security forces, you come over to the infantry.

494
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:55.119
So we were already there. I was a new guy

495
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:55.400
in the.

496
00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:58.079
Infantry at the time, with three two kilo company h

497
00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.519
and we got a group of security for worse guys

498
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:02.920
who come in, they're there, they've already been in for

499
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:05.720
a couple of years. So they they're not new guys anymore.

500
00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:07.960
They're kind of just they get a little treated like

501
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:11.039
new guys. But regardless, they show up. One of my

502
00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:15.720
best friends, God rest his soul, was there with another

503
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:18.279
buddy of mine as well. I'll keep his name out

504
00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:20.160
of it because he's still around and I don't want

505
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:22.480
I don't want things to kind of jump in him

506
00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:23.400
if he doesn't want to.

507
00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:28.119
But I'll call the other buddy G and so.

508
00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:31.559
G and the other guy were at in the suicide

509
00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:34.799
barracks as we knew them. So, suicide barracks is a

510
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:38.839
barracks where they put all the guys that were suicidal

511
00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:43.119
or they thought they were suicidal or mental health issues. Absolutely,

512
00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:47.359
and we just as marines called them obviously the suicide barricks.

513
00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:52.160
It's because we're not the most sentimental and yeah, no,

514
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:54.279
not at all, just a little broken all of us,

515
00:33:54.319 --> 00:34:01.079
you know. So at the time, so and in those barracks, unfortunately,

516
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:06.160
a lot of suicides happened, so hence the name. Yeah,

517
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:09.199
we call it what it is, I guess. So, my

518
00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:13.840
buddy and his buddy were there. So they're sleeping in

519
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:16.800
the middle of the night, the other guy in the

520
00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:20.920
other bed wakes G up and goes, hey, dude, or

521
00:34:21.519 --> 00:34:24.280
may have been the other way around. Regardless, they wake

522
00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:27.239
up to this figure at the end of the bed.

523
00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:30.679
And in the barracks rooms it's literally one bed one side,

524
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:32.280
one bed on the other side.

525
00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:34.760
And then a bathroom in the sink. That's it.

526
00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:37.400
There's no more there's no space more than that. Really,

527
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:41.400
it's smaller than like a college dorm. So these two,

528
00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:44.920
I mean, they see a figure standing there what looked like,

529
00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:48.679
from what he said, long hair and a like a

530
00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:53.239
trench coat looking thing. They said, he resembled like a

531
00:34:53.320 --> 00:35:00.719
eighteen hundreds era like Civil War era troop, but and

532
00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:03.360
as if he had been like away from the fight

533
00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:06.599
for a while, if that makes sense, like just beaten

534
00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:10.639
and done, brutal looking, and it just stood there, and

535
00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:14.159
he said, as my buddy G was getting up to

536
00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:17.960
go jump, they both like went to tackle this thing

537
00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:22.360
and it just disappeared into thin air. They dove through

538
00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:25.079
it and both looked at each other and were like,

539
00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:30.239
what the hell just happened. So and that these two

540
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:33.559
the next day were literally came there and my buddy G.

541
00:35:33.679 --> 00:35:34.360
Came right up to me.

542
00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:37.320
He's like, dude, udere never gonna believe what happened, Manuh,

543
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:42.840
And it's uh. And that's one of like fifty stories

544
00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.519
we'd hear about the barracks, especially guys on duty that

545
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:49.400
would see again doors opening and closing by themselves, lights

546
00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:52.440
turning on and off by themselves, and it was just

547
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:55.760
common practice to look at it and just go all

548
00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:59.280
right and just keep moving because again, it's just another Tuesday,

549
00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:03.840
you know, Like these things were happening so frequently that again,

550
00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:06.480
people die on base all the time, whether it's training

551
00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:09.719
accidents or you know, unfortunately mental health stuff, things of

552
00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:10.280
that nature.

553
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:13.039
But it's gonna happen.

554
00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:17.440
And like you said, the place remembers when it remembers,

555
00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:23.239
those things stick around. Yeah, energy's got to go somewhere, man.

556
00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:32.360
Absolutely, dude. Yeah. So next we'll move on from le

557
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:37.920
June to Afghanistan. And what I guess can only be

558
00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:39.360
called the wolf headed thing.

559
00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:41.400
Is that crazy star.

560
00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:44.639
Yeah. This Soune's harder though, it's like because because it

561
00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:48.480
moves into the realms of the ancient stuff and or

562
00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:51.840
you know, some of the cross religious stuff where people

563
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:55.440
will say it's a it's a type of gin, you know.

564
00:36:57.320 --> 00:36:59.320
So but either way, we're not going to get too

565
00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:01.840
deep into it at the end of the day, right,

566
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:05.440
we're just gonna we're just gonna kind of gloss through

567
00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:10.719
it real quick. And because it moves into the realm

568
00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:14.079
of the ancient, uh, you know, it gets a little

569
00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:19.440
biblical to So marine and army units operating near abandoned

570
00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:25.440
the abandoned villages of uh Nuristan and Kunar. Now, I

571
00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:28.599
don't know where those are and I didn't look too detail,

572
00:37:29.199 --> 00:37:35.039
but you know, some people might so reported a tall, muscular,

573
00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:38.960
upright creature with the head of a wolf or a

574
00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:43.320
dog sounds like dog man, right, or were wolves. There's

575
00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:49.800
slightly Locals called the entity cha Tan of the past

576
00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:52.559
or the demon of the mountains. And I don't even

577
00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:58.719
know if that's a good uh what would you call

578
00:37:58.760 --> 00:37:59.599
that translation?

579
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:04.159
Yeah? No, can I give a location real quick? Of years?

580
00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:09.480
So Kunar is to the east, it's the mountains to

581
00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:13.599
the east of Kabul, and it's north of Jalalabad. So okay,

582
00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:16.400
it's it's a little farther nor so it's northeast of

583
00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:22.280
Kabul and pretty much north of Jalalabad. It's actually directly

584
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:28.039
north of Aside a bad So if you're thinking like

585
00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:31.440
near the Kaiber Pass. You just keep going north, follow

586
00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:33.920
that up you'll see the mountains and that's where Kunar is.

587
00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:38.280
Just to give people more of an idea.

588
00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:44.400
Yeah, close, kind of closer to the the border of

589
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:48.079
Pakistan and Afghanistan, so probably a lot of move like

590
00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:50.320
trade routes probably moving through there and whatnot.

591
00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:58.239
Okay, so some descriptions matched the American dog man phenomena,

592
00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:03.559
but but some also match like ancient Mesopotamian depictions of

593
00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:09.360
like an Anubis, like Guardian, right, which is the jackal

594
00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:15.119
head the jackal headed god. Yeah, a marine account similar

595
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:18.760
to this is spoken about. Uh and I'm going to

596
00:39:18.840 --> 00:39:24.639
actually put the show. I'll put it in the show notes.

597
00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:30.599
But it's the Confessionals podcast, episode three thirty five. So

598
00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:34.639
Tony Merkles had somebody, I don't talk to somebody about it.

599
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:40.000
So not everyone saw it, but the ones who did,

600
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:42.760
their voices changed when they talk about it.

601
00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:44.079
I'm sure.

602
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:49.119
So you've got then you if you look a touch

603
00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:55.159
just a little deeper into like Arabian folklore, it's a

604
00:39:55.239 --> 00:39:57.880
type that people will say it's a type of gin

605
00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:04.920
or demon likened to an Arabian werewolf. But then it

606
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:09.559
twists a little bit, and it says similar to a ghoul, right,

607
00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:14.360
but what the heck because it is said to haunt

608
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:20.360
graveyards and eat corpses. Now, with that being said, there's

609
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:23.239
there's a lot of reports in the US of dog

610
00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:28.840
men around graveyards. So I don't know, man, I'm just

611
00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:31.679
saying that's that kind of gave me. This is the

612
00:40:31.719 --> 00:40:34.159
only reason I brought that up is because I was like, what,

613
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:35.360
there's a.

614
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:36.519
Little similaruency there.

615
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:44.719
Yeah, so, yeah, that's kind of wild. So these encounters

616
00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:51.519
aren't random, they follow patterns. Again, remote areas, war soaked ground.

617
00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:54.400
I mean, wars in Afghanistan have been fight fought for

618
00:40:54.559 --> 00:41:02.400
thousands of years, so high psychological intensity, ancient territory, and

619
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:06.639
longstanding local legends, which leads us to the real questions

620
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:12.320
why marines? Right, So there's this and I don't know why,

621
00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:14.679
I've got to I've got to find where I read

622
00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:19.039
this statistic because for some reason I didn't put it down.

623
00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:23.119
But there's a statistic out there that says that Marines

624
00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:28.199
are more likely to encounter things in places like this

625
00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:35.360
than any other branch and a cult. So maybe, but

626
00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:40.079
why these encounters? Why the Marines and that's actually what

627
00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:41.320
we're going to talk about next.

628
00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:44.760
I don't know any of this, all right, Yeah, so

629
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:46.559
the question is.

630
00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:52.920
Why marines, why many Marines see these things? And you

631
00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:58.719
know what, I don't know if it's an over the

632
00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:02.199
marines course, small guys. Yeah, I don't think you have

633
00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:05.239
to understand, Like, so when you hear like it's it's

634
00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:11.840
crazy that in certain sex that's not the right word either.

635
00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:19.079
Certain I can't think straight. No segments, certain segments of society,

636
00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:24.039
the Marines are way overrepresented, Like entrepreneurship is one of

637
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:28.960
those places. Right, I've actually got more Marines doing stuff

638
00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:32.440
like I'm doing than I have anyone else either as well.

639
00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:36.800
So it's it's kind of weird, like there's congruency there.

640
00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:39.639
I don't know if it's just because it's like the

641
00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:43.719
the the theory of when something becomes you know, I

642
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:46.280
see all the Marines because I am a marine, or

643
00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:48.559
it's like because I own a because I own a

644
00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:52.519
brand new Forerunner. I see Forerunners everywhere, right, you know

645
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:54.519
what I mean? It could be a case of that.

646
00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:59.400
But either why does this branch out of all the

647
00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:03.400
branches keep showing up in the stories about shadow figures?

648
00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:07.760
Haunted barracks, ancient spirits, and creatures in the jungle that

649
00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:13.159
just shouldn't exist. There's a few reasons, none of them

650
00:43:13.239 --> 00:43:18.320
mystical on their own, but when you stack them together,

651
00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:22.519
the picture kind of comes together. Yeah. So you've got

652
00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:27.760
first marines go where the map fades out. The core

653
00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:32.519
gets spent into the edges, the forgotten corners, the territories

654
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:39.159
nobody else wants to step into. First bottom line. They

655
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:42.360
land on beaches that have no names, yet they patrol

656
00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:46.880
valleys where even local tribes say, we don't go there.

657
00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:50.320
Yeah yeah, I mean, dude, how many times I've heard

658
00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:54.480
story after story of that in Afghanistan where they're or

659
00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:58.599
even in like Iraq, and then places where oh man,

660
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:02.840
like yeah that I dealt with in South America and

661
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:05.760
stuff like that, you did, Locals are like, we don't

662
00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:06.280
go there.

663
00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:10.599
Yeah, yeah, why would? What do you got? You're going there?

664
00:44:10.679 --> 00:44:15.719
Okay, right, okay, Well you can have fun on your own. Yeah. Yeah.

665
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:18.639
So the Corps has always been the tip of the spear,

666
00:44:18.880 --> 00:44:22.519
and people complain and people whine, and they and they'll

667
00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:26.440
be like, oh no they're not, but just by the shear,

668
00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:34.039
but just by the sheer. Uh, nature of their job,

669
00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:38.559
they're usually the first in so many situations, they are

670
00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:43.000
the first ones there, period. And no, I don't look

671
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:46.480
at the Marine Corps as a special operations unit even

672
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:49.360
you know, some people think, oh, well we can you know,

673
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:52.880
and that's whatever, dude. The Marines are the Marines, and

674
00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:59.320
as an entire force. What I've seen and what I've

675
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:02.280
done in myri search alone too, if you put a

676
00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:06.639
Marine Corps and I'm just going to say this, it doesn't.

677
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:14.880
So when whenever you set a you take a marine

678
00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:19.360
extraditionary unit, right, or it would it be AMU. Yeah,

679
00:45:19.400 --> 00:45:22.760
a MEW a Marine extraditionary unit, which is about a

680
00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:27.280
regimental size large. Yeah it's a it's a big, but

681
00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:32.320
it's a regimental size force. And stand it up against

682
00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:37.480
a the army uses the brigade system, not the regiment system, right,

683
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:42.760
So you've set it up against a army combat brigade

684
00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:48.920
or what do they call them now, combrat basically an

685
00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:53.239
infantry brigade or a combat team, a brigade combat team.

686
00:45:53.320 --> 00:45:55.840
When you put them head to head, Marine Corps wins

687
00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:58.280
nine out of ten times. Period.

688
00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:02.920
Wait every before we keep going, you were also in

689
00:46:03.039 --> 00:46:04.360
the Army infantry.

690
00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:06.920
I was a Marine Marine infantry.

691
00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:11.280
Yeah, so he has both sides, ladies and gentlemen. I

692
00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:12.519
did not coming from nothing.

693
00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:15.960
So but you know, when you do that in a

694
00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:21.079
simulated system, the Marines win every single time. And I

695
00:46:21.119 --> 00:46:23.039
say nine out of ten, but I actually mean ten

696
00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:27.480
out of ten. Yeah, And it's just because of the

697
00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:30.199
way they're trained to fight, period. And that's what I've

698
00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:32.400
said to people. It's like, yes, the Army. I like

699
00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:34.639
the Army too. It was it was cool, it was good,

700
00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:37.280
we went to cool places, we did great people I

701
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:40.679
met there. But the Marines just trained to fight differently

702
00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:44.519
with our only purpose and in the Marines trained to

703
00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:48.760
fight at a disadvantage. Period. The Army always trains to

704
00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:51.000
fight at an advantage. They just do.

705
00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:55.039
Sorry, it's doctorate, god, it was. It was a different

706
00:46:55.199 --> 00:46:56.199
like a ratio of.

707
00:46:56.920 --> 00:46:59.880
Three to one were we were. The Marine Corps was

708
00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:03.559
taught to fight at a three to one disadvantage. Yes,

709
00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:07.079
so that's why you have violence of action and the

710
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:14.440
whole nickname of Twofolhundon and des that's where that came from. Period. Right.

711
00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:20.840
So anyway, anyway, people don't go there. So the core

712
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:24.119
has always been tip of the spear, and when you

713
00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:27.400
stand at the tip, you hit things before anyone else

714
00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:33.760
even knows they exist. Second, sleep deprivation and adrenaline sharpened

715
00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:40.599
perception instead of dulling it period. And many of us

716
00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:44.800
have been so sleep deprived that we see all kinds

717
00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:49.320
of entities walking in the woods, period, whether they're there

718
00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:53.559
or not. It doesn't mean yeah, shadow people and ghost soldiers.

719
00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:56.239
Anyone that's been a ranger, score people that have been

720
00:47:56.239 --> 00:48:01.159
to these they see these things constantly. Right, maybe they're

721
00:48:01.199 --> 00:48:05.599
not just some figment of their imagination. Maybe maybe when

722
00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:09.360
you get so sleep deprived, the veil drops a little

723
00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:12.599
bit because because you are more like a child at

724
00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:16.519
that point, because your brain's not working correctly. So maybe

725
00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:19.079
the part of your brain, the reasoning part that like

726
00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:23.159
fills in gaps for you, is so twisted at that

727
00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:27.639
point that it actually could see the beyond the veil.

728
00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:29.400
You know, I've always thought about that.

729
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:30.800
That's a theory I've always had.

730
00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:34.280
Yeah, Yeah, I mean, dude, I totally understand like when

731
00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:37.480
look after if you're not sleeping for four or five days,

732
00:48:38.440 --> 00:48:40.880
you're you're going to actually start You're going to lose

733
00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:42.239
your mind, and you're going.

734
00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:44.119
To see some you're going to see some people say

735
00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:47.960
it's a hallucination, and sometimes I say maybe, but maybe

736
00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:48.320
it's not.

737
00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:52.199
Yeah, maybe it's just a change of perception. And now

738
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:55.400
because of that we can see different things.

739
00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:57.360
It's not just exhaustion.

740
00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:01.079
I know that for sure, right, because I know what's different,

741
00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:04.719
you know, yeah, yeah.

742
00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:07.480
And this is exactly what I've been saying. In combat environments,

743
00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:09.519
your brain stops filtering.

744
00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:10.960
Yeah, it just doesn't.

745
00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:16.440
You're not training, You're you are trained to notice movement, shapes, silence,

746
00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:22.559
breathing pattern, change period. You are trained to notice movement,

747
00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:29.760
changing shapes, changing silence, breathing pattern, change period.

748
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:32.320
Right, stop your man.

749
00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:38.719
Your awareness spreads out like a radar dish. This is

750
00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:46.159
the opposite of hallucination. It is hyper perception. So when

751
00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:49.320
when something's watching you from the tree line, a marine

752
00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:51.960
can feel it before they can see it. And I'm

753
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:58.280
I go to my grave saying that, and I'm not

754
00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:01.840
saying that doesn't happen to army guys. It's either today's

755
00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:04.039
the Marine Corps athist. So give me, give me some

756
00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:10.800
grindea exactly, yep. And how often have you and I

757
00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:12.400
have been out there and you're like, man, I just

758
00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:13.519
feel something is off.

759
00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:17.519
I can't even tell you. Man, Yep, exactly. You know

760
00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:23.119
you've noticed it. It's help palpable for sure.

761
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:27.280
And that's and it's gotten to the point where people

762
00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:29.360
that we go do research with look at us and go,

763
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:30.079
what are you feeling?

764
00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:31.000
Yeah?

765
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:35.280
Yeah, yeah, so because we've been right so many times. Yeah.

766
00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:40.199
The battlefield, this is third battlefield is a spiritual place

767
00:50:41.239 --> 00:50:46.960
where you believe. Whether you believe in religion, energy, psychology,

768
00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:52.960
or anthropology, the conclusion is all the same places where

769
00:50:53.000 --> 00:51:00.320
suffering has pooled. Right, holds in prints. Human beings sense

770
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:03.679
things that are not visible because trauma and death and

771
00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:10.000
death do not simply just vanish, because the ground remembers.

772
00:51:11.239 --> 00:51:16.199
Structures also remember, and those memories don't always stay quiet

773
00:51:17.679 --> 00:51:24.360
period right yep. Fourth, Marines spend long periods in stillness.

774
00:51:26.599 --> 00:51:30.360
People imagine marines as constantly running and firing and yelling,

775
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:39.519
but deployment is mostly waiting. But you track, observe, stay quiet, listen.

776
00:51:40.039 --> 00:51:44.320
Silence changes you. It just does. Silence makes you hear

777
00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:49.360
the things most people have never been still enough to notice,

778
00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:52.119
because when you're out in the freaking shit and you're

779
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:59.440
sitting in a patrol base. You're not you're not you're

780
00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:03.599
not sitting, are you know? Listening to on your ears? Now,

781
00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:09.039
we have such an active, you know, culture where there's

782
00:52:09.079 --> 00:52:13.039
always something going on, but you better get fucking comfortable

783
00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:13.719
with the quiet.

784
00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:16.760
Yeah. Yeah, I'll learn a lot about yourself.

785
00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:20.000
Man. Yeah. So and you hear, you get to a

786
00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:22.599
point where you hear everything, so.

787
00:52:23.159 --> 00:52:27.639
Here see any anomaly. And that's I think that's the point.

788
00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:31.440
It's to you're out there for so long that it

789
00:52:31.519 --> 00:52:34.719
creates this baseline of what you're seeing every single even

790
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:37.679
and it's a new baseline every day obviously, but once

791
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:40.880
a little shift in that baseline happens, you will notice

792
00:52:40.880 --> 00:52:44.239
it before anybody else. And I think a lot of

793
00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:48.199
that is we we just we have to observe and

794
00:52:48.239 --> 00:52:52.039
we become so observant over It's like solitary confinement.

795
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:52.239
Man.

796
00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:55.360
You're up there alone with your thoughts and you can't

797
00:52:55.400 --> 00:52:57.440
You also have to push those thoughts out so you

798
00:52:57.440 --> 00:53:00.880
can stay focused on, uh, analy the environment.

799
00:53:01.239 --> 00:53:04.719
Yeah, and that kind of comes into this party. The

800
00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:09.519
court teaches you to trust your senses. It absolutely did

801
00:53:10.679 --> 00:53:13.280
more than an army could have ever taught me. I

802
00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:16.000
didn't I didn't go through Army boot Camp. I didn't

803
00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:18.320
do any of that. I remember sitting in Blue Camp

804
00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:22.360
boot camp and literally doing exercises where you would sit

805
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:27.639
overnight in an l pope and you had to stay awake,

806
00:53:28.119 --> 00:53:30.480
and that's what it was. It was for you to

807
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:34.639
trust your senses. And at that time too, the Marines

808
00:53:34.679 --> 00:53:39.119
didn't have night vision, so you know, we had to

809
00:53:39.159 --> 00:53:42.000
do everything in the dark. And we still did night operations,

810
00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:46.159
but we didn't do them with nods. So do you

811
00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:48.480
do that because I have to do it. You have

812
00:53:48.599 --> 00:53:50.559
to get used to that. And I feel like we

813
00:53:50.679 --> 00:53:53.039
kind of I don't know about the Marines anymore, but

814
00:53:55.400 --> 00:53:58.800
I think as a force total, we rely way too.

815
00:53:58.760 --> 00:54:03.199
Much on night visionality. Yeah yeah, but either way, so.

816
00:54:04.679 --> 00:54:08.000
When you hear a twig snap behind you, that is

817
00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:12.159
not something to rationalize away. That is something to act on.

818
00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:16.000
And civilians talk themselves out of what they perceive all

819
00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:21.199
the time. Marines they lock in. You are trained that

820
00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:26.800
your instincts are not random, they're sharpened. This is why

821
00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:30.519
Marines always feel like they're better than other people. That's

822
00:54:30.559 --> 00:54:35.719
all part of it. But I am Finally, there's an old

823
00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:42.039
idea that warriors are doorkeepers. Every culture that has ever

824
00:54:42.119 --> 00:54:46.840
existed believe that the ones who walk into danger are

825
00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:51.280
the ones who stand closest to the invisible world. Samurai

826
00:54:51.360 --> 00:54:56.320
wrote about this. Vikings wrote about this. Native American warriors

827
00:54:56.360 --> 00:55:01.000
spoke about spirits who walk with fighters into battle. This

828
00:55:01.039 --> 00:55:05.519
is culture. It crosses all cultures and aral things. Warriors

829
00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:11.039
have different experiences, and the Bible even talks about angels

830
00:55:11.039 --> 00:55:15.599
and watchers on the walls. Right, the presence of conflict

831
00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:19.039
has always been tied to the presence of the unseen.

832
00:55:19.800 --> 00:55:23.840
It's this lighter actually you can see it. It's from Vietnam.

833
00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:27.159
It was a marine that carried this in Vietnam. My

834
00:55:27.239 --> 00:55:29.800
brother got me for my birthday and on the back

835
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:34.719
has this print that says when this marine dies, he

836
00:55:34.760 --> 00:55:36.960
will go to heaven because he has spent his time

837
00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:39.199
in hell. And that was like a comment of like

838
00:55:39.239 --> 00:55:42.519
the we are the gatekeepers to have it, like we

839
00:55:42.519 --> 00:55:45.920
were the and it was it was just talked about

840
00:55:46.079 --> 00:55:48.599
all the time, even within like the.

841
00:55:48.079 --> 00:55:51.320
The lore the marine lorst.

842
00:55:50.559 --> 00:55:53.039
It was like, yeah, you you don't go to heaven

843
00:55:53.119 --> 00:55:55.679
until you get permission basically type of thing. But that's

844
00:55:55.760 --> 00:55:58.079
very much like the marine that means thick of the

845
00:55:58.199 --> 00:55:59.239
songs we sing.

846
00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:02.480
Just a warrior culture. Yeah yeah, and that's what they

847
00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:03.880
foment there.

848
00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:07.679
Yeah, absolutely absolutely, because it's a just cause, at least

849
00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:08.880
in our minds at the time.

850
00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:11.119
Right. Yeah.

851
00:56:11.639 --> 00:56:15.320
So when a marine says I saw something or I

852
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:19.400
felt something, or we we were not alone out there,

853
00:56:20.079 --> 00:56:24.599
that does not make them delusional. It makes them a witness.

854
00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:33.519
So they are stationed where history, violence, memory, and spirit

855
00:56:33.679 --> 00:56:37.400
all overlap. They are awake when most of the world

856
00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:41.239
is dreaming and they're they are quiet in the hours

857
00:56:41.280 --> 00:56:44.679
when the boundary between the scene and the unseen gets thin.

858
00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:48.880
The fourth watch Man and talk about this all the time,

859
00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:53.519
right yeah. So uh, and that is when the veil

860
00:56:53.719 --> 00:57:01.800
is thinnest. Period in the world that hides from most

861
00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:05.039
people does not always hide from the warrior. It just

862
00:57:05.119 --> 00:57:06.679
doesn't share it period.

863
00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:10.320
It's almost like it knows you can you can bear it,

864
00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:10.920
you know.

865
00:57:11.519 --> 00:57:19.639
Yeah. Absolutely, So, as we mark the two hundred and fiftieth,

866
00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:23.440
two hundred and fifty years of the United States Marine Corps,

867
00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:27.079
we're not just honoring the battles. We can talk about

868
00:57:27.400 --> 00:57:30.280
the flags that were raised, the hills that were taken,

869
00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:36.000
the missions completed, we're also honoring the battles that live

870
00:57:36.360 --> 00:57:40.599
in the quiet places, the ones marines carry without the metals,

871
00:57:41.199 --> 00:57:47.840
without the citations, without the speeches. There is a visible war,

872
00:57:48.360 --> 00:57:52.960
right yeah, Yeah, absolutely, and then there's an unseen one.

873
00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:54.440
Yeah.

874
00:57:55.039 --> 00:58:02.360
And whether you believe these stories are spirits, cryptids, ancient entities,

875
00:58:02.800 --> 00:58:08.679
psychological echoes, or something else, entirely, what matters is that

876
00:58:08.719 --> 00:58:13.920
the experiences are real to the ones who live them. Right,

877
00:58:14.679 --> 00:58:19.400
Marines do not have the luxury of fantasy. I use

878
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:23.239
that as a big point. We didn't have the time,

879
00:58:23.920 --> 00:58:28.320
nor the nor the inclination to make ship up while

880
00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:34.320
you're on watch. Everything gets filtered through survival. If the

881
00:58:34.559 --> 00:58:37.360
if a marine says something was there in the dark,

882
00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:48.400
then something's probably there in the dark. So everything, that ship, everything.

883
00:58:49.599 --> 00:58:53.000
If you're on some you're out on some fob and

884
00:58:53.480 --> 00:58:56.519
you know you see something like moving behind a rock

885
00:58:57.000 --> 00:58:59.360
or something like that, you're going to tell the guy

886
00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:03.719
that relieves you. Yeah, dude, I think I saw something

887
00:59:03.760 --> 00:59:06.119
over there, and I feel like there's something over there.

888
00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:10.360
How many times did you do that? On freaking turnover?

889
00:59:10.519 --> 00:59:11.559
Almost every other time?

890
00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:15.280
Right, Something's out there, something and I can feel it

891
00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:17.599
or I can see it, or I saw a glimpse

892
00:59:17.639 --> 00:59:21.239
of it. Boom. Just keep an eye out over there, yeah, man,

893
00:59:21.559 --> 00:59:26.440
all the time. So this episode is for every marine

894
00:59:26.480 --> 00:59:30.719
who has ever stood fire watching silence, For every squad

895
00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:34.519
that felt something watching them beyond the tree line, for

896
00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:39.960
every devil dog who saw a shape where they shouldn't

897
00:59:39.960 --> 00:59:42.280
have been one where there should not have been one,

898
00:59:42.920 --> 00:59:47.000
For every warrior who came home with stories he never

899
00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:50.800
told because he didn't want to be laughed at or

900
00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:54.360
didn't have the words for it. The Corps has a

901
00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:58.800
long history of fighting on Earth, but maybe it has

902
00:59:59.119 --> 01:00:02.639
also stood guard on the edge of something deeper. So,

903
01:00:02.800 --> 01:00:08.360
whether you're active reserve veteran or someone who just respects

904
01:00:08.440 --> 01:00:13.960
the Marines, happy birthday in semper fidellas semper fidlas brother,

905
01:00:14.599 --> 01:00:18.639
So in this episode. If this episode meant something to you,

906
01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:24.119
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907
01:00:24.280 --> 01:00:27.000
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908
01:00:28.440 --> 01:00:32.159
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909
01:00:32.199 --> 01:00:35.280
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910
01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:39.920
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911
01:00:40.119 --> 01:00:45.239
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912
01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:51.079
Until next time, stay watchful, stay grounded, and never assume

913
01:00:51.440 --> 01:00:53.079
the world is only what you.

914
01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:58.280
See from the halls of Montazoma, So the shores of

915
01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:03.880
Triple We fight our country's battles in the air, land.

916
01:01:03.719 --> 01:01:07.400
And sea first, to fight for right in freedom and

917
01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:09.280
to keep bar on our clean.

918
01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:10.800
We are proud of.

919
01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:13.840
The clean exile of United States.

920
01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:20.559
Were well.

921
01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:29.119
All fights nfur to every breeze from down de City Son.

922
01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:31.000
We have fought in.

923
01:01:31.119 --> 01:01:35.000
Every climbing place where we could take a gun, in

924
01:01:35.159 --> 01:01:38.320
the snow of far off northern live and in sun

925
01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:42.440
each something seas you will find us awas on the job.

926
01:01:42.519 --> 01:01:44.320
The United States were.

927
01:01:47.679 --> 01:01:47.920
Wow.

928
01:01:49.159 --> 01:01:50.679
United States were.

929
01:01:59.159 --> 01:02:03.840
United free.

930
01:02:05.119 --> 01:02:06.239
Here's helping you.

931
01:02:06.360 --> 01:02:08.159
Went to work hard, which.

932
01:02:08.119 --> 01:02:11.519
We are proud to serve many drife.

933
01:02:11.559 --> 01:02:16.079
We fought for life and never lost on the Army

934
01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:20.559
and the Navy. Never look one haven't seence. They will

935
01:02:20.639 --> 01:02:22.639
find the streets at Garden.

936
01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:28.599
By United States Moround

937
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:40.559
Fou