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growing up playing video games and watching war movies I didn't think twice about joining the Marines so I could be in the infantry I went through all of the training and unwelcome hardship that makes you really reconsider your decision too anyway I got stationed to a desert base known as 29 palms with the largest piece of military control land in the US it covers approximately 932 square miles in total I think it's fucking huge no matter how you look at it in Southern California and a few hours from Mexico but when you're out there you start to see some shit so now fast forward to my first field up with me losing my shit to put things into perspective as to how far away we are from civilization the closest man-made object is a three-hour ride away this day was particularly hot too because it broke a hundred and thirty as if the Sun said I told you I could so we just spent all day hiding under camouflage netting getting classes about various military tactics well once the Sun set we set off into the night to get some hard realistic training down at night we practice using our night-vision optics to do some simple shit like reloading and reading maps and whatnot it produces an image off of an ambient infrared light so you can actually see a lot more shit than the naked eye but the sky is absolutely cluttered with stars and I can see a shooting star every few seconds in fact but the Milky Way it's pretty darn cool but finally after roaming around aimlessly for what felt like forever we head back and we're granted a few hours for sleep I lay down and I start to drift off I'm suddenly working up after what felt like ten minutes and I get up instantly get up bitch you're a watch shit I get dressed in my stand my post dutifully like I'm told to a checkpoint I'm given a radio and told suddenly lifts the barbed wire after it gets approved over the radio it's maybe your aunt's who I am and everyone else in my company is dead asleep except for myself and an officer in the contract well I can hear the Coyotes and I decide to start looking at the stars of my night vision when I hear a coyote Yelp off in the distance and think nothing of it a few minutes later another marine comes over a small hill in front of me but nothing crazy I mean he's probably just taking a dump or something yeah he walks toward me but his eyes don't really reflect light but rationally one of us is probably dehydrated so I don't think too much of it he approaches me and after a few seconds of staring at me he simply says can I come in his voice that didn't sound right but there was no inflection or questioning tone weird I asked him what his name was and why it was out so far just taking a dump he tells me his name is sergeant writes and he ignores my dump question I'm saying weird voice granted I'm new to the unit so I don't know anyone named sergeant white but I still had to verify it main this is Road guard one there's a sergeant right requesting entry over Road guard one this is main there is no sergeant right in this company when the closest unit is 25 miles away that makes sure shit just get the fuck back here right now ok but don't let him or don't even look at him ok it just run that's the weird dude started to hear this his face changed to severely angry like he wanted to rip my throat in and drink my blood by the time I got back everyone is awake all of the vehicle lights are turned on and everyone is packing up everyone was just scrambling into the truck we have a lot of shit left behind to like the tents water and food and we drive the entire three hours back I never got an explanation from anyone about this but my squad leader who was a simple backwoods kind of guy who just said bluntly that's whenever I saw wasn't asking to get through the gate I never really understood what he meant until I came to this place so after my most recent creepy experience with we had looking people scaring the shit out of me we went somewhere much more terrifying a remote little Marine Corps Base called Bridgeport it's in a national forest just north of Yosemite it was built to Train Marines in the art of mountain warfare there's a lot of mountains and it's cold basically it's windy and if you ever go there you'll hate your life too anyway when we first get there we stay in these creepy concrete huts with bunk beds in them there's a bathroom and some showers and that's about it you fight over the outlets to charge your electronics and there's not really any heat besides a bunch of Marines crammed into one area the first few days are miserable your body has to adjust to the new altitude the air has less oxygen so physical work and exercise plays out in slow motion Wow and you're constantly tired and all you want to do is sleep there isn't much in terms of fresh food too and things can get pretty bleak if you have the wrong mindset you wouldn't believe me if I told you that these were the better times huh eventually we match up into the mountains carrying a ridiculously heavy packs stuffed to the brim with warming layers food water and nicotine the first few days were pretty easy in fact we would hike all day and stop to rest and learn a few things on survival and such there was some snow on the lower parts but and not a ton thankfully around the fourth night there's someone had the awesome idea of making us practice our night time never Gatien skills no I'm a pretty decent navigator myself so I was up for the challenge but no big deal they hand out the compasses maps and protractors and set out an elaborate system of how to get to the finish line it was staggered so that people weren't walking all over each other and this is where things get interesting so I'm in the woods it's dark and cold and I hate my life so I'm stumbling through the trees and the bush ladders held without a care in the world I just want to finish this dumb thing so that I can finally get some sleep I get to my first point easily because there's a moon light shining through the trees the second one though was placed in a fucking river and I still remember how livid I was standing in the river copying down the word donkey matched into an emotion on the top of a rock in a freezing fucking cold river wet boots man I swear they drive a man insane I stopped the squeeze out the moisture from my socks and I get this primal feel that I'm being watched all of a sudden I stand completely still and all I can hear is my heart beating no wind or wildlife just me my first thought is that it's a marine trying to piggyback off of my success so I put my soggy boots back on and do what anyone would do I crest the hill and stop so that I could listen there's nothing though maybe I'm just freaking the fuck out screw this I keep walking ten minutes later and I get that same feeling though any rookie stalker knows that you have to match the person's step so that they don't heat so I start to randomly stop or change my step after a few wholehearted tries I don't hear any steps but I do hear breathe if it's a mountain lion or something crazy like that I have no choice but to keep walking and just hope that I can pull my dull Gerber knife out in time about this time I get to my third point and plot my final point it's near a road so I cut straight east and literally book it up the road I still felt like I was being followed the entire time mind you but I felt safer because I could hear the low roar of a Humvee engine up the road looking back I lead whatever it was right to the rest of us and that was actually a pretty big mistake but nothing else happens that night and everyone else just gives up and just uses the roads to make it to camp those who don't make it back told to walk towards the sound of a beeping halt when I finally get to sleep in the safety of numbers and we use the next day to remediate our nighttime land nav skills and refuel our bodies with food but once the Sun sets we march often to the mountains in a fire unfortunately though since I carry a rocket launcher my natural position is in the back but not the very last so that's positive at least we spend the early night hiking and we were moving very fast and now probably 20 meters paced apart at times it was coming to lose sight of each other in fact and all of us was slowly getting exhausted and suddenly shit just gets dark like the ambient light is just being absorbed but I get that same primal fear again extreme silence yeah I keep walking without a word until I hear someone probably the guy behind me call my name and I turn around and he looks at me like I'm an idiot what the fuck man keep going dude they're gonna lose us okay weird who called my name I spin back around and try to see my way through the brush for the guy in front of me I get a glimpse of him and discreetly yell at him to slow down but he doesn't even he at the same time I hear from behind me dude what the fuck is I heard a light rustling of leaves and some tweaks but that's it but I run back maybe 15 meters which isn't far that's at night that's quite a long distance and there's nothing but he's back on the ground and his rifle I call there his name but there's nothing I reach from my radio and it's dead I turned on both of my flashlights and they're both dead fuck I blow my whistle that they had made me pack but there was nothing from that to I don't know how long it took them to realize that I was missing and how they backtracked their way to me but it felt like Alice I could feel whatever it was just out there waiting to just fucking tween with me I told them everything and they were convinced that the guy was just lost but they all spread out and looked for him for a few hours but ultimately they just came up with nothing sometime the next morning no one of the hippie Park volunteers found him about 30 kilometers away across multiple mountains he was bleeding from his ears and didn't even know his name of course he was in extreme hypothermia and he had a ton of bruises on him but no severe bleeding mind you but they ended up getting a helicopter to take him to the closest hospital and that was about it following the mysterious incidents I was told that I was going to be sent down the mountain to answer a few questions but to be honest I was relieved it was cold and I didn't want to hike anymore everyone else in my company just sort of believed what they were told to he came down with mountain sickness and just walked 30 kilometers over the course of a few hours I tried to tell a few people about all the creepy shit that I'd been noticing just to make sure I'm not going crazy but before anyone could respond though my squad leader pulled me aside and told me don't talk about these things okay maybe he knew something that I didn't but yeah cool they sent us up here and knowing that something was fucking off a typical military bullshit just stick our heads in the sand and pretend everything is great I was glad that I was leaving for a few days but there was nothing but complete dread whenever the idea of coming back entered my mind the Humvee to take me back down finally showed up and the ride was uneventful but they took me to a small concrete office like building the military police class would just like me and had a job to do they got a statement and asked if I noticed anything about the guy that was unusual before he disappeared and no he seemed normal to me but then the NCIS guys came in and I've dealt with them before I was something else and they're usually good-natured guys but not these ones they were brisk to the point and methodical they read all of the facts about the case like that they were reading the nutrition info on a cereal box or something they were just completely unsurprised and monotone if that's the right word they definitely seen this before they asked the same questions too and when I had told them about all the creepy things I'd noticed they told me that I was probably suffering from Mountain sickness - but to be honest I was beyond pissed at this point but I knew better than to argue with them another thing - they asked me if I had taken any pictures that day I told them I didn't but I thought that that was strange and next they asked if they could swap my boots to this day I'm honestly confused as to why the hell they did that I don't know if they were fucking with me or if it was a part of something else but my only assumption is that this thing alters the surrounding area on a microscopic level or something maybe there was a an isotope it produces that may have stayed on my boots or something I have no clue but if anyone has similar stories or information on why they did that please let me know hey at the conclusion of my interview they made me sign a document stating that I wouldn't talk about anything in that they would contact me when I was free to disclose any information this was a few years ago mind you and they just never got back to me so it may not be legal to talk in the albert's I have a few cards up my sleeve that's I'm going to talk about anyway so I walked back to our fabulous five-star concrete Hut's to get some sleep thankfully I wasn't alone there are a few guys that stayed back because they had sickle-cell anemia and that could actually die if they went above a certain altitude I took one of the best hot showers that I've ever had in my life and I just had it to my bunk I was exhausted but I still couldn't sleep no I really smoked but I still carry a pack on me just to make a lucrative trades or to sell to desperate nicotine friends in the field and whatnot I felt like now was a good time to smoke so I went outside but maybe it would calm me down is what I was thinking and all was going well until that dreadful feeling came back again shit the tree line was maybe 40 meters away I don't know how the hell it followed me or why could there be more than one whatever the case I stomped out my cigarettes and just went back inside I managed to calm myself down and eventually fall asleep but I would always wake up suddenly after about 10 minutes no dreams just the overwhelming feeling you being observed if you get my drift the next day I packed all my gear into the Humvee and help the driver load some stuff into the back the drive was uneventful again and I managed to catch some sleep a veneer finally to be working out by rough terrain here and there when we finally arrived it was almost afternoon and the company was preparing to cover some serious terrain that day Just My Luck right before I knew it we were trotting up a steep mountainside I didn't think it could get any worse until it began to sleet heavily and it was bad but the wind picked up and it felt like we were being cut by glass I couldn't see and people were getting lost and the rocks were slippery too we hiked for just hours upon hours and I swear these mountains were just trying to kill us the Sun began to set and our clothes began to freeze on us too and if that wasn't bad enough I had noticed that our compass it was acting weird no matter how hard you tried you would eventually end up walking to what's the base of a a particular mountain that was nicknamed Devil's incline on her meth this was a military map that someone had made in the 1980s mind you I don't know if I'll be able to find it again but there coincidentally I also got that same feeling of being stalked again anyway our gods get us to the right destination a place called sardine Rock as soon as we stop people start shaking violently because they're no longer hiking and producing zero body heat but someone was smart enough to predict this and had to man tents driven up to a rendezvous point on massive trucks but we rarely use tents but this was literally a life-or-death situation and to make things worse the wind picked up and it started to downpour violently you couldn't even hear yourself talk it was that chaotic and if you've ever set up a tent in the wind he'll know just how impossible it is by the time that we had everything stacked in the tent had a few inches of water at the bottom our sleeping systems are waterproof by our entire bodies were soaked to the bone so they eventually became wet from the outside and then the temperature dropped and things got a whole lot worse being in the military you always have to have someone on watch and since there was still sunlight out I volunteered to stand it well everyone else hid in their tents my gore-tex rain jacket has completely soaked through minds you and honestly it was the worst day of my life but finally I go back inside of my tent and just tried to get some rest I don't remember falling asleep but I was suddenly woken up to someone outside asking for help and it was the same voice of the guy who ended up walking thirty kilometres except that guy is still in hospital he would call out someone's name and say it a few times and then trying to get them outside I think it was my squad leader who just yelled at everyone to stay the fuck in our tents and not go outside for the next few minutes - he practically begged us it it kind of sounded like he was in the tree line maybe 20 meters away somehow he was guessing our names - and here it was trying to break us down when we're at our lowest point it could have gotten right through our tents - but it seemed to just want to fuck with us or something but finally it stopped and just as I thought it was gone I heard it say my name twice though in a a taunting kind of tone and then a huge tree just came tumbling down and that was pretty much it traumatized now everyone stayed in their tents until we heard trucks coming over the radio we were told to pack our tents in less than 30 seconds and get on the trucks we have no more than five minutes I wasn't going to be the first one to step outside - so I waited until a good number of people got out I've never seen a group of people move faster than that - the tents were stuffed into their bags the poles bent the bags were halfway on their bodies people practically stumbled into the trucks in fact we were told that we were being evacuated due to terrible conditions and that we were heading back to base but we all knew the real reason I was relieved to be out of the cold but we were still on this damn Mountain and that thing would still be able to find us when we got back we'll shout and just go into dry clothes no one talked and they just went to sleep and tried to understand what had gone down that day each and every single one of them realizing too that we would likely go back up there in a few days the next morning after being evacuated everyone was obviously exhausted and a few guys were sick with pneumonia - they're being wet cold and nearly scared to death just really took a top I don't think the incident with the thing outside our tents was talked about in large groups but it was definitely talked about off on the side a few guys maintained the fact that it was just a great big prank and kind of laughed it off but but whenever they laughed it was like they were asking for some form of validation or something even in the rear we were kept busy cleaning weapons and gear and getting ready for whatever is next a unit has a an unexplainable obsession with training and it really cut into a morale but it made time go fast life seemed pretty normal despite the weather - and I stayed indoors at all times unless we're exercising or whatnot I just didn't have the heart to tell anyone though that it was probably watching us from the trees even if I didn't feel it the father sigh adventured was maybe a week after coming down the mountain though the base was a small store with an inventory identical to a gas station I'd gotten tired of what they were feeding us and my mind it started to rationalize all of my fear away so I went nothing crazy happens but I did however notice that there were people there who were definitely not Marines these guys were big burly and sported full beards - I pretend to look at the selection of the Doritos and hold a glimpse of a very particular Trident tattoo this meant that whoever this person was they were Navy SEAL but currently or at some point at least and I wonder about the other guys - I approached the betta guy and simply asked him if he was a co but when he turned around to look at me he simply looked at me and said yeah sure how do you know I said the tattoo is a dead giveaway I used to see my college roommate hang all that motivational shit up in his room oh really was all he said I didn't know what to say that's why I wanted to impress him yeah he's actually a seal now his demeanor got a little friendlier at this point ah shit what's his name the kertzer he's an officer is his first name Walter yeah it is do you know him do I know him his head side smoking a cigarette a little info on my friend we worked a lot together as we both had a sick fascination with pain by the running hiking or swimming we would torture ourselves nearly every day until he left I kept up with him as he went through all the training cycles and then he just disappeared and I'm talking gone on every fucking form of social media that you can name I talked to his parents too and all they got from him was the occasional letter it always bothered the hell out of me too that he just straight up disappeared from the world without saying a damn thing I thought about it nearly every day for a long time and there he was just outside and all I wanted to do was get one good punchy Navy SEAL or not he's still a dick for doing that when we stepped outside and I saw him I still hated his guts but I had a feeling that made us a bunch of seals probably wasn't going to work despite having the power of God and even anime on my side but he didn't even notice me until I'd said his name in any other setting I probably should have saluted him since he was an officer and I was enlisted scum but I didn't give a shit at this point but he seemed genuinely happy to see me and wouldn't let go of my hand look we did some catching up and mostly questions from him about my boring life and all that whenever I'd ask him about stuff he would deflect and make a joke or give me a word answer or some shit like that the man just would not elaborate about what he's being up to after about 10 minutes of talking the group of them decided that there were just about done stocking up on mountain gym and gummy worms and all that type of trash but before they headed back Kurtz pulled me aside though and threw a cigarette to the ground and with a look of complete concern and worry he said listen I don't normally say this but you shouldn't go back up there okay this ain't a place you want to be you understand I wasn't really sure what to say I just nodded solemnly before he shook my hand and left and that was the last time that I've been able to talk to him since but one thing to note is that the group of guys they didn't all have beards or tattoos don't get me wrong here but Navy guys have a certain look if that makes sense I can't explain it unless you've been around them long enough but and not everyone in that group was a seal I mean I even saw a guy wearing an army related shirts I'm assuming that there was some sort of cross branch team or something anyway I headed back to the concrete hotels and spent some time reading and just trying to get my mind off of what he had said some thoughts crossed my mind like I'm sure I break my ankle or pretend to be sick or something I mean they don't have to be here and the highway is quite some distance away ultimately I decided that my pride was more important than my life and I ended up going back into the mountains anyway and the whole time I was there I just felt nothing but dread here I was being stalked and harassed by something and on top of that the Marine Corps is destroying my body every day I mean the human body is not designed to hike a hundred and seventy five K's in a week with 200 pounds of gear on your back let alone up mountains however sometimes you do get a break ends I guess the hikes were relatively short and all we did was practice our rock climbing skills at night anyway after about three weeks in these mountains my body - had started to get used to the altitude and the amount of physical activity that we were doing I was counting down the days in my head every few minutes to making quick calculations and crunching the numbers on each activity and how much closer I am to safety but things they weren't going to be that easy of course I had a pretty decent amount of anxiety and dread this entire time but I rationalized that it was just my mind and I didn't notice until the third day when we peaked one of the larger mountains that we were headed for Devil's incline again it had to be a mistake again because the compasses were just acting weird again right well I talked to a few higher-ups and sure enough that was indeed our final destination because the CEO thought that it would be a good challenge or some shit great they're leading us straight to our deaths so we got there to the worse I felt about this whole thing I could sleep for no more than 10 minutes because I swear that I could feel it watching me not wanting to go crazy I can find it with my squad leader and all he said was yeah I felt it too but I don't want to talk about it the next day we were briefed on our final training exercise that job was to assault the peak of the Devils incline the vast majority of it would be climbed using carabiners and rope and just traditional techniques but the final 500 metres is mostly gravel and can be traversed on foot but we would be provided with overwatch by special forces operating in the area - it was nothing new I mean the military is imaginative and all that and we were told if we see them ignore them so we begin the assault at sunset and get to the middle of the mountain around midnight everything is going smooth well we're climbing the cliff slowly and methodically in a one particular large cliff I set up one of the anchor points so the Marines can rappel from another side of the cliff I turn around and head for the next cliff and before I start climbing someone angrily asks me why the hell I cut the line in that I could have gotten someone killed I respond this I didn't cut the line and head back to see what the hell happened the robe was sliced perfectly like surgically almost in fact if you've ever cut a climbing rope before you'll know that it's almost impossible to get such a clean cut you'll always have a tiny bit of fraying even with the sharpest of knife this rope though it had no fraying whatsoever well I could assume was that it was that same thing that had been harassing us all month trying its best to kill us unfortunately there weren't many cliffs after that and the 500-meter slope of gravel turned out to be way too steep to hike straight up also out of nowhere a blizzard decided to make our lives hell to this day I've never seen such terrible weather in fact we're talking 70 mile-per-hour winds whiteout conditions everything it was insane and on the way up I swore I was going to freeze to death and the slope just seemed like it never ended and after about three hours someone had mentioned that's multiple Marines were missing our first reaction was to stop and sit there for an hour and then send half of us back in an attempt to find these Marines and that was the coldest that I'd ever been in my life at least hiking provided some warmth but sitting there being buried alive in snow and wind man it was bad I don't know who the hell made the calls I just keep pushing forward to the top but it was the only way anyone was going to survive there was a road on the other side of the mountain with vehicles most likely waiting for us and there was no use kicking around anymore four Marines and the snow because things were just getting way worse I mean pretty much everyone had some sort of frostbite but we just didn't have the right gear to protect ourselves but finally we get to the top and thankfully heritance waiting for us the tent that I got was broken so I ended up piling him with a bunch of other guys like a bunch of sardines to keep warm what a shit show that was to sitting up in the wind anyway now they gave us maybe 20 minutes while they figured out what to do about the missing guys I'm assuming they called the proper authorities way before that and it was way too windy for helicopters and nearly impossible for even us to search the area the wrong gust of wind could literally blow down the mountain tumbling face-first their solution was to first use our thermal optics from the top and search for the guys but there was nothing then we all got on a big line and held hands as we walked down the mountain and there was nothing the grant is we didn't bring our 200 pounds of crap with us so it was a lot easier walking back up but by now it was four I am and it just seemed to be getting worse they told us to go back to our tents and warm up for 20 minutes but those guys were literally turning into zombies at this point now this is quite possibly the weirdest part because for the next 12 hours no one remembers what the hell happened everyone just woke up in their tents and have zero recollection it was daytime now though and everyone was just covered in snow a few of the special forces guy including Kurtz were talking to all of my higher-ups about something I didn't find out until later that the SF dudes found all of our missing guys at various locations not 30 kilometers far this time it's much shorter distances like five or ten kilometers he is bleeding too and while that's not impossible to hike in a few hours it's kind of damn hard to get lost on a mountain where your only objective is to go up but we weren't going to the side or around or down or anything just up dammit we radioed that in tho and the base camp sent special vehicles designed for the snow to get there they kind of resembled half-tracks the same day they load us us up on the special snow trucks and told us that we're going back to the barracks too when we got there we got debriefed on how successful our mission was and some bullshit about accountability of guys and whatnots in any other situation they would have lost their jobs if they lost a marine but just not in Bridgeport yes we packed up our bags at night and got woken up around 3:00 a.m. to get on a bus back to the desert to be honest I was extremely relieved to go back no one ever really talked about our time there again - and the glass who disappeared always came back from the hospital saying that they don't remember anything or I just don't want to talk about it at least anyway I guess that the lesson here is just never go to Bridgeport laughter bridgeport we were given a pretty decent amount of time off due to various public and military holidays I spent most of it just sleeping and drinking as well as indulging myself in the countless luxuries that I'd gone without while I was way up in the mountains it was nice to finally relax and recover a bit I must admit however now good things just don't last long do they pretty soon we packed our bags scrapped heavy things and just headed off into the desert again we went through a few short but boring field ops that you guys probably wouldn't want to hear about anyway but this one in particular was in December and the things had drastically changed weather-wise it was now winter and the temperature hover just above freezing and the wind was the worst part again you could wear 5 billion layers and some hell the wind would just cut through all of them and slowly drain the heat out of your body aka it was miserable the first few days we did some live-fire training exercises the funnest part was probably when they had me blow up a piece of plywood riddled with nails labeled or to stimulate a breach except someone who cut the time for use on the charge a little to shorten it went off just as I had gotten behind cover the rifleman flooded in through the smoke and the dust blindly include the objective of those evil paper targets it was actually pretty fun our next destination after that was a a giant ghost town in the middle of the desert now get this it is extremely detailed and built to simulate a real city in the middle east and when we got there it was pretty dark and the street lights were Ottomans we quickly grabbed our packs and found a vacant building to set up it was pretty creepy because there were paintings on the wall and furniture in every room and there was even detailed things like an old computer or treadmill with power outlets and all it was as if they quite literally copy and pasted a an entire town out into the desert hundreds upon hundreds of buildings and complexes bazaars churches everything the being out in the wind and given a few hours to sleep I figured I could get some solid rest in before the training scenario started the next day but nope all throughout the night I was working up the entire night bar constant banging noise I figured that the winner picked up and there was a loose shutter or door something nearby great I thought I finally had enough though and put in the foam ear protection that we wear when we shoot and then that worked like a dream and I slept like a log for the rest of the night the next morning we started the day just as the Sun was coming up and it was still cold and windy and I really wasn't excited to eat an MRE so I drink some water and bust in the early morning Sun in a desperate attempt to warm up but pretty soon our next task was explained to us for the next few days we would build a small base in one of the houses and send patrols out into the city to look for insurgent fighters played by Marines there would be civilian actors playing out roles like the mayor the local religious leader police chief and so forth then we were given some annoying laser tag system for our body and our rifle our rifles would fire a laser every time we fired a blank round and if we got shot by another laser - the laser tag system would start beeping loudly and repeat our status injured or dead it all sounded pretty cool actually and we picked a pretty large three-story building next to a road and began fortifying our defenses first we surrounded the entire perimeter with tons of barbed wire then we blocked off all the exits with sandbags and furniture except for one there was only one way to get in and it was right in front of a machine gun that we had set up on the floor above we blocked all the windows on the third floor in the stairs - just in case they decided to climb in somehow even though they weren't allowed so anyway and it was a well built defense and we were proud I mean there was no way that anyone would be able to sneak in during the night my squad went out to patrol and look for bad guys while one squad slept and one squad defended our compound and all I can say is that it was super creepy and exhausting too we must have walked for two hours and it may be halfway through the town or something but when we finally got back from an uneventful patrol we were told to sleep for a few hours and sure enough I started to hear that same damn banging and this time it was louder it was like a dull fart in a an old iron door or something slow and methodical and it never missed a beat a few of us agreed that we would find out what the hell was making the noise and put an end to it on our next Patrol I put my foam earbuds back in and slept for maybe an hour or two before I was woken up by what sounded like a training grenade going off outside of the building great we were being attacked it's 2:00 a.m. and people are shooting at us and throwing fake grenades and a few people's laser systems are beeping loudly and Athiya nationally bleeding out the rest of us are shooting out of windows and calling our targets the machine gun above is raining hot brass down the stairs and it was just honestly great fun the insurgents eventually disappear into the darkened my squad ascent of a shooter we checked the surrounding area but all we found were unarmed civilians there were pretty great actors too I'll give it to them I felt extremely immersed in the situation when they told us that there would only give us information if we gave them guns to protect themselves and that was not going to happen on the way back to our base I made sure we did a quick check for whatever the banging noise that was keeping us up on that was - we tracked the noise to a building that was a very far away from our little base and maybe two houses over but blocked from our view I think and here's the weed all the windows and doors were covered with sheet metal and bolted shards when we got close the banging had stopped but we all knew that it was coming from that building specifically unable to do anything and we went back and posted up on various positions to pull security so that the other squad could rest I got the short end of the stick and ended up on a window facing the direction of the building but before I relieve the glass standing there I asked him if he'd heard the noise from the building and he nodded and said that's he's heard it all night - I felt like Edgar Allan Poe listening to the Raven just slowly going mad by myself - somewhere in my dreamy stupor I postulated that somehow one of the insurgents had snuck their way into the building and we're pulling some kind of psyops on us by banging away all night just as I passed this up the banging stopped and I look like an idiot just as I had pass this up the banging stopped - and I had looked like an idiot pretty soon the Sun came up and the rest of the day was pretty uneventful we set up a few checkpoints and interacted with the locals and gave them water asked them about the insurgents etc a typical roleplay fun once the Sun had set we were again harassed by the insurgents but this time it was less fun because I'd slept maybe three or four hours in the last few days it was over in 10 minutes and another squad went out looking for them and I sat down to try and get a quick nap in and the banging started right back up again I was getting pretty damn irritated at this point so I insisted to head out with a few guys to check the surrounding buildings the building with the banging had no way of getting in so I got creative and thought maybe there was a tunnel or something we went around to each house and kicked all the rugs around like some terrible guests and boom we found a hatch now well we were told not to enter any of the tunnels because the fans they use for ventilation but there were no longer functional they told us that we could suffocate but I didn't really think we would use up all of the oxygen I mean it was just a few minutes so we made the decision to go down we dropped down and it was absolutely pitch black so that we turned in our flashlights and proceeded forward to the end of the tunnel as we get closer to the ladder we heard something similar to the sound you hear when you turn on a really old television kind of like a mix between Nats and when your ears start ringing and all of the hair on my body stood up on end there was a slight tinge of fear creeping up on me but I decided to ignore it and started climbing the ladder I open the hatch and immediately began clearing the pitch-black room and nothing I moved towards the stairs while the rest of the guys float in and at first I thought it was something there breathing hard from the exertion but now I I was sure of it I could hear the faintest whisper of someone saying we're in here coming from upstairs somewhere we moved tactically up the stairs and began clearing the rooms out and when we got to the end of the hallway there was what looks like a kid's room and I went in and there was nothing there and then the batteries of my flashlights started to fade out which was impossible because I just replaced them today and they don't drain that fast I think it was either the the corner or the closet but I heard what sounded like a little girl's laugh more like a giggle and I ran straight the hell out of that room and was met with several what the fuck's someone nervously asked if that was me and I said no it wasn't and I made the executive decision that we were all getting the fuck out of there now all of us were nearly panicking at this point but we tried keeping it together long enough to get the hell out of the house we started to make our way back down the stairs when we heard the laugh again as we approached the hatch we noticed that now of all times there was tons of furniture stacked on top of it the desks wardrobes couches even a microwave but pretty soon our flashlights all faded slowly out and will scramble towards the pile of shit the rest of the flashlights they eventually died out and everyone panicked and started blindly throwing and shoving things out of the way the Laughing grew louder and more sinister - like it was coming down the stairs after what seemed like years and we cleared everything and opened the hatch and we jumped straight down and scrambled back to the other hatch and through the tunnel we made it out and pretty much just ran back to our little fort 25 meters away and all of us were just scared shitless and nearly woke everyone up with they're stumbling around and cursing our lieutenant asked us what the hell had happened and we told him and he wasn't really sure whether to believe or someone's his only response was yeah I've heard some weird stuff about this town and then he just walked away we tried to sleep for the next few hours and I went up to the second floor because I figured that that was the safest I knew that I wasn't going to go to sleep with some creepy stuff going down next door but it was nice to sit down to relax I must admit around 3:00 a.m. I heard what sounded like someone running upstairs loudly now this is impossible because we had blocked off the stairs to the third floor with desks and couches so that no one would be able to get in from the roof a few of the guys were woken up too and were sent to go upstairs to clear it out and there was just absolutely nothing up but none of the furniture had moved or anything and well I didn't sleep at all that in the morning the townspeople began rioting outside of our compound it was peaceful at first but it was peaceful at first but then someone with a backpack detonated an imaginary AED despite our best efforts as soon as the IAD went off we took fire from pretty much everywhere and a lot of us were killed but we were told to go to an aid station all the way across the city to get revived and I felt like a zombie from the lack of sleep and countless patrols that we'd been on but once we were revived we were told that our mission had changed - well we were no longer on the defensive but we would be clearing out a sector of the town as a part of a larger force this would be our final event and then we would be able to go home we got maybe an hour of sleep before the Sun went down and the offensive start it was pretty easy at first until we started to take contact from various buildings we cleared most of them and I didn't find anyone except for a few open hatches we sat around and held security while they figured out what to do logically the people in charge of us concluded that the insurgents must have escaped through the tunnels even though everyone was told not to use them the cursing underneath my breath mind you now squads birkoff and my followed my fearless leaders into one of the tunnels it was pretty simple but much longer this time when we got to the very end we climbed the ladder and tried opening the hatch but it wouldn't budge awesome but we headed back the direction we came and just as my cynical self predicted the hatch we had entered with was now stuck to a few of the stronger guys attempted to muscle it open but it was like someone had put a huge boulder on top of it we tried our radios too but they weren't working so we resorted to banging on the hatch and there was nothing a few of the guys started panicking but all I wanted to do was to fucking go sleep so I sat down and accepted my fate as I reconsidered if I made the right decision in life I was never cross truffaut big but man I was starting to feel like I was the guys were still banging loudly and I started to try and filter them out and maybe five minutes later we heard someone banging on the hatch and we knocked back when they banged again and someone yelled we're in here but we waited for a few seconds for a response but what we got back still haunts me to this day it was that same damn little girl after that we heard the other night we all froze because whatever was on the other side started to bang again slowly and methodically I felt like I was in a torture cell and I tried my best to drown the sound out and think about anything else no one dared to knock again and it must have been two or three hours I don't remember but it felt like an eternity before we heard footsteps from above everyone held their breath and listened and we heard some furniture being shifted and a few curse words that quickly gave away their identity other Marines finally soon the hatch was opened and before we're all even out of the tunnel we're all getting absolutely chewed out to shreds multiple higher-ups were yelling and cursing and the guys in charge of us were threatened with some punishments but I personally was pretty relieved to not get yelled at from what I heard and they noticed that we weren't part of the assault and assumed that we were put out of the game they didn't realize until after that they had regrouped and that we were still missing they got our last known location from one of the other squads who had entered the other tunnels near us and backtracked their way to us I'm really glad that someone remembered where we were because a lot of the buildings they actually had the same damn paint job but following that incident it was nearly morning time and we hung out until trucks came to pick us up and took us back to the base but that was easily one of the more terrifying experiences that I've ever had because being buried alive scares the hell out of me to this day also just on a side note for the explosive time fuses can be kind of tricky to work with we do a test burn to get an accurate burn rate but sometimes it uh it doesn't always match I've gotten a lot of non-creepy related questions about military stuff over the years and in life in general and I'm still considering whether I should start some kind of blog about all of my experiences the creepy unknowns feel free to leave a comment guys if if you've got any interest at all so uh I'm gonna take a break from a chronological order to briefly talk about something more recent so I happened to be going to another ghost town also known as a NM o UT town and this one was much smaller and not that far from the base but there were maybe eight buildings in total I think and they varied from single storey to three-story buildings we spend all day hiking to this town and it was just about late afternoon when we had finally sat our packs down in the buildings the bone-chilling wind decided to pick up and the temperatures hovered around freezing as the Sun slowly disappeared we spent the next five hours practicing various skills in an urban environment clearing rooms detainee handling throwing a frag or grenade all that type of stuff it got old pretty fast though we're considering that I've been doing this for years now around 10:00 p.m. we were given the go-ahead to go indoors away from the wind and get some damn sleep in our warm sleeping bags I took the first watch because I like to get a good block of sleep in and after an hour I woke up the next guy I went to sleep I was asleep for maybe thirty minutes I think before I was woken up with a nudge I groggily emerged from my bag and noticed that there was one of the newer guys who had just woken up for watch he had been here for maybe a month or two I think and my first words understandably were what the fuck do you want man well spit it out whoa for the last 10 minutes I keep saying these two yellow dots across the street in the window okay yeah well I was staring at them for a while until I heard what sounded like you it's a call me over except you were in your sleeping bag absolutely pissed beyond belief at this point I put my boots on grab my rifle and stormed across the street I went to the open door and it was locked and these doors don't have locks for safety reasons they must have barricaded the door tied it I went around the back and tried the other door locked got it whoever was in there was a fucking dick for staring the new guys and waking me up and man was I pissed as I walked back across the street I heard a where are you going but it definitely wasn't another marine and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I stopped dead in my tracks the voice was kind of a mix between a whisper and it carried a an icy mocking tone with it yeah fuck that shit I'm going back indoors I said I loved eyes with the guy who worked me up and we both understood what the hell just went down I told him to wake up the next one a few minutes and I'm going back to sleep I got back into my sleeping bag and drifted off to sleep as I tried to burn all the details into my memory but for you guys of course I didn't get woken up until the Sun rose and the wind seemed too even fiercer and there was still ungodly cold but we were indoors luckily and the Sun was rising it wasn't too bad I suppose and there pretty soon we got word that we would have to move all of our packs and go about 100 metres from town a few guys complained and drives but we did as we were told and I was equally curious as to why we had to move our packs outdoors the scuttlebutt was that a few guys including the commanding officer had some weird experiences and one of the buildings during the night all of them refused to sleep in the buildings ever again and I drifted around while everyone was shaving and eating breakfast to see if I could shed some more light on this sudden exodus from the town I found one of the guys that were in the building pretty quickly and mastered what he had seen basically the night started out with all the guys huddled around just listening to my stories on YouTube so that they could scare the newer guys a few hours later a few of them started having crazy nightmares about being in the town and some creature with cat-like eyes tearing them apart except they were the kind of dreams that just never ended you woke up from one and then you're in another in other words they just never knew when they were in the real world I knocked the guy and watch tried waking them up but they just continued to breathe heavily and sob and whimper and fidget but when they actually did wake up they were terrified and the message was clear get the fuck out of there I didn't really know what to make of it all but I told them to quit listening to my damn stories and not here at least I'm assuming that this thing was in the building across from mine but made a mess with the other building for god knows what reason we continued on with that day and it was packed to the brim with train during one of our few breaks I decided to venture to the building that they were all staying in that I had a few guys come with me just in case and it was pretty basic a few chairs a desk and a filing cabinets I saw that there was a rug on the ground too and kicked it on pure whim and I laughed when I saw the trapdoor I opened it and looked down at it but didn't see anything unusual the rest of the day was pretty uneventful too we continued on into the night with our classes and training and it was all just mostly a blur I'd gotten back into my sleeping bag and around 3 a.m. I was woken up for watch and put on just have had every warming layer I own because of the wind it was a pretty dark night due to all the clouds hiding the moon but I could still see the outline of various bushes and shrubs on the skyline I'll walk around a bit to keep warm ins I'd send my back towards the empty desert away from the wind and thought of how nice it would be to get back into my sleeping bag after about 15 minutes I'd turn around out of habit and I saw a large dark figure on the horizon but maybe a hundred meters away but just as soon as I saw it - it vanished and I made a mental note of the location so that I could check it out the next day I woke up the next guy and got a few hours of sleep before the Sun came back up unfortunately I didn't get time to wander off into the desert until around lunch and I grabbed a buddy of mine and we walked to where I was standing when I'd saw the thing from there we walked about a hundred meters and we were just about ready to head back when we spotted some wood just sticking out a little further away but we kicked a good portion of the sand away and realized that it was another trap door what the hell was a trap door doing this far out of town our packs were 150 meters from the town and the trap door was another hundred meters and it just didn't make any sense to have a tunnel entrance 250 meters away I wasn't ballsy enough to open the thing that's my friend the mortar man is a half honey badger and decided to open it just as I was taking a picture we didn't go down but he couldn't see the bottom from where we were and it just looked like an endless ladder the rest of the day was uneventful and I didn't have watched that night and to be clear but we still trained in the houses during the day and early night but we didn't sleep in the menu I did hear from another close friend that he would get weird vibes from a few of the buildings when we were still in them during the night the next day we messed around with simulation rounds which are basically nine millimeter bullets with a wax projectile filled with paint I didn't get shot fortunately but there are about 10 times worse than a paintball from past experiences instead of going to sleep that night - we'd gone back into town to set up a patrol base where some guys would stand post with some wood Patrol and some wood rest I swear Marines and they have amnesia anyway the night started out uneventful they're just a few patrols and we didn't have any enemy so it was purely just for practice I slept for maybe an hour and a half I'd say and then we stopped off onto another patrol around here it felt like a waste of my time but at least we're out of the building's right when we came back we were approached by a bunch of morning men who asked if we would help them find their mortar system if you don't know what a mortar is a it fires explosive shells out of a cannon into the air it's not very heavy and can be effective at decent ranges too apparently the guys on the mortar system they're all asleep with the guy on watch and he was dutifully standing in the wind and then he just wasn't he woke up inside of the house and the entire mortar system had just vanished he doesn't remember anything and swears that he didn't just go to sleep to get away from the wind but this was one of my friends who went and checked out the trapdoor with me - so I trust what he says keep in mind we didn't have any enemy that night and no one would fuck around and steal shit like that these things are extremely expensive and no one would dare mess around with stuff like this people still doubt him obviously but it's strange to say the least the entire company was woken up at 4 a.m. and we searched everywhere inside of the town and it was all in vain then we expand outwards and after about 30 minutes of checking the same areas multiple times I had an idea I went over to my morning man friend and told him that we should go back to the trap door in the desert that he opened we grabbed a few of the other morning men and told some people that we were going when we got there the trap door it was open despite how bad the wind was - man well my I sure as hell was not going down there but the morning men were angry and decided to go down just to make sure I didn't really like the idea at all but three guys went down and it's tended to be about 10 feet it was pitch black and the flashlights didn't really seem to do much they were talking amongst themselves for a few seconds as they walked further into the tunnel and then there were matter of earshot thirty seconds passed and I started to get a little worried I told myself to wait another 30 seconds before I did anything and just as I was counting down I heard what sounded like a little girl laughs again and then the sound of running footsteps pretty soon I heard the glass climbing up the ladder and I heard the same laugh again and this time closer the first two guys had various components of the mortar system and the last guy had the actual mortar tube or whatever it is now it looked like someone had bent it over their knee and I slammed the door and practically sprinted back to town but once we got there we communicated that we got in the damn water system back and the guys that went down had some explaining to do to the officers I'm sure that they understood and I went back to sleep for a few more hours until the Sun came up and we were working out for a safety break now last and final day there we were going to be using blank rounds of smoke grenades and flares and that was a very busy day as soon as the Sun went down we all went to sleep and there was no more training at night at that town and we've got the message I didn't have to watch again but I did hear that a few guys heard this laughs during the night and one of the guys supposedly got a recording of the laughs on his phone so I've spent a lot of time in the field without creepy things happening so don't think a marines life is filled with creepiness just recently I was out there for a few weeks and nothing remotely spooky happened anyway it's April now spring and the desert is slowly transitioning from a cold and windy purgatory to a scorching sandbox luckily for us we had hit the jackpot of deployments and headed off to Australia to do some training for six months instead of baking in the desert now I know what you're thinking Australia sounds great right I thought that too until we'd landed in a place called Darwin and stepped off the plane instantly it felt like we're inside of a sauna it was extremely humid and we were sweating through our thick uniforms within our first few steps on the time it was hell to be honest there were flies and mosquitoes just everywhere they would crawl into your mouth and up your nose if you let them and it seemed like they weren't the only ones with a death wish in this tropical prison but for the first few months we did our little dog and pony show to impress the Australian Army we worked out twice a day and told them all how cool we were and the food they fed us was always some kind of stew made from yesterday's leftovers they got old really quick being Americans but we quickly found the nearest fast-food restaurant and supplier of two liters so that we could stock up on calories before the field we really didn't know what to expect for our first field up all we knew was that we would head into the thick brush hundreds of kilometres from civilization and expect to be killed by 20 different animals by the first night if we were lucky and that's not an exaggeration by any memes - there's a plant called the gimpy gimpy aka the suicide plant because the pain from its sting is so intense and long-lasting that most people and animals just kill themselves also there's a virus in the dirt known as the Vietnam time bomb stuff will just kill you from the inside out our first few days out were pretty exhausting - we did a ton of trolling at night or as I like to call it walking blindly into spiderwebs we would try to sleep during the day but if you slept for more than an hour you would wake up dazed and dehydrated from the beating Sun I think it was around day 12 towards the end of the Field Op when things started to get interesting we were completely fucking lost as usual and wandering I ran in one long file during the night there was no moon and all you could hear what various birds and animals repeat the same noises just over no it was all a blur until the guy in front of me stopped and picked something up I didn't really pay any mind to it and so we had halted for a break and he turned around to me amen check this out I found a doll what a fucking doll dude he held it up and sure enough it was a doll its body was completely carved out of wood and it had some sort of fake hair or red hair glued on its eyes were just burn marks and it had a creepy little mark scratched across its face but weird keep in mind we are quite literally in the middle of nowhere most of these lands were still completely unexplored too as I'm sipping water and trying to Rack my brain for answers as to why the fuck there's a random doll in the middle of nowhere we start moving again I completely forget about the creepy little doll for the next few hours while we mindlessly walked around and tried to find our objective it was all the blur and I fell asleep a few times while walking almost I don't remember much eventually we found our way and arrived at the objective though much more clearing in the middle of nowhere it was the early morning now and we were supposed to sit there all day and wait for more orders we were all pretty darn tired at this point so I sat down and just stared off into the distance and drifted off to sleep there suddenly though I hear a few grunts to my left and sure enough the machine gunners are playing with the doll they found they are a simple-minded breed and easy to maintain but they always find a way to screw everyone so I remember the distinct thought of yeah that's probably not a good idea but I fell back asleep and we spent the day napping and planning for our next objective but finally the Sun set and we headed off into the distance to our next objective I remember being kind of excited that we only had one more thing to do and and then we would be back to base as the night went on our long file of Marines began to get more and more spread out the brush became thicker and absolutely zero ambient light was coming through I was struggling to keep up with the guy ahead of me in fact and people kept getting lost in but we were constantly stopping to find we were honestly just trying to get out of the jungle by this point I was already creeped out by the extreme darkness but when our compasses and radios and GPS equipment started going crazy here I began to lose some composure no matter how much we spun our compass or reset our GPS - it would always slowly turn us back the way we came our radios turned on but all we could hear was just some kind of white noise there was nothing really and I knew right away that it had something to do with that doll maybe it was some weird voodoo Aboriginal witchcraft all I mean who knows just bad vibes I told the guy who picked her up to gently just set her down somewhere nice and keep walking and nothing everything was still going haywire now leaders decided to take a break to see if they could figure out how to navigate using the Stars and being in the southern hemisphere the constellations and such are a lot different while I'm doing my best to keep it cool and level heads I hear the guy in front of me start frantically screaming I mean pure fucking terror a few of the guys walk up to him and calm him down and he spits out a stream of expletives followed by doll and the doll somehow made its way back into his backpack we were to spread out for this to be a practical joke and it was just too impossible I mean we both walked past it when we set it down and at this point no one is laughing he grabs the doll and puts it down and he starts talking to it and apologizing to it like it was a real human person I remember making a mental note of just how absurd that boys but by now our fearless leaders seem to have figured out where to go so we just start moving I didn't want to stop because I knew that the doll was probably still with us but we're talking about lieutenants and we're bound to just get lost anyway eventually we stopped and all of us are holding our breath while the guy checks his pack and this time there was nothing we sit down and relax and the air gets a little lighter and easier to breathe there's a bunch of commotion coming from a few guys back one of the lieutenant's found the doll in their bag this time and he's completely lost his mind at this point laughing and crying at the same time and day 12 of the filled up and all the heat and the bugs and the creepy crap just broke his mind we put the doll again against some loga few meters away from us and everyone pauses to assess the situation we're lost in the middle of nowhere we have no idea where we're going and we don't have much water I can only imagine the smirk on the dolls face while we all collectively start to lose my ins to that's at least the Sun is starting to come up so and that's something at least for the next 30 minutes we try to confirm our last-known location and get a general idea of where we are but the doll it isn't done with us just yet suddenly we start to smell smoke and often the distant tree line we see a blazing fire and we pick up someone grabs the infective lieutenant and we head away from the fire into the opposite direction let's are enough it's coming from that way too but we keep trying to find a way out until we realize that's we're just walking in circles at this point fire everywhere and in the face of imminent death we sit down and take cool pictures and hope someone finds them in the aftermath I was never really a believer in any kind of higher being and I still don't but I guess that we just got extremely lucky we heard a helicopter fly overhead and I'm assuming they realized that we were lost after we hadn't checked in for a super long time and the pilot just made an amazing landing between some trees and began ferrying us out into a clearing a few hundred feet away we made a conscious effort to leave that damn doll behind in the flames too however our troubles were not all behind us I guess what we found when we got back

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