Spooky Saturday

Greetings and Salutations!!!
Fell out early again last night (2030) and man. I slept like the dead. So in order to make up for that, here’s a re-run of a sort. My true-story (minus Mark’s ‘Heavy Metal’ add-in for fun) of some spooky shit that went down in Arifjan when I was working there:

So there ya go…
True story… lots of glowing blue orbs ‘hovering’ around the vehciles that had confirmed KIA… One in particular was a Marine AAV-P7/A1

170606-N-PF515-491 – VENTSPILS, Latvia (June 6, 2017) U.S. Marines, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Convoy, conduct a simulated amphibious assault during exercise BALTOPS 2017, June 6..BALTOPS is an annual U.S.-led, Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO-executed, multinational maritime exercise in the Baltic Sea region designed to enhance flexibility and interoperability among its participants. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist America A. Henry/Released).

that got NUKED by an IED on camera… 13 guys died in in, and the wreckage is still on Arifjan to this day…

Lot 50….
A haunted location…
Truly

It got so bad we ended up having a multidenominational church service for the dead out there… a couple of times… had to let the guys know it was ok to cross over…

So hope you enjoyed the story.
The hardback copy can be bought here: https://amzn.to/46YFkkQ

So More Later (probably tonight)
Big Country

22 thoughts on “Spooky Saturday”

  5. Marine Barracks, Cubi Point, P.I. had it’s White Lady, seen by decades of marine guards while walking their posts in the jungle ammo bunkers.
    I went thru jungle survival school (JEST) there 1973 for a week, that triple canopy jungle was spooky in itself at night, didn’t need any ghost to spook you.

    1. You’d be sitting in the total darkness in the jungle and hear the leaves around you crackling. If you turned on your red light to look you’d see that it was leeches crawling through the leaf litter toward you,
      attracted to your body heat and the smell of your sweat.

  6. Someone mentioned REO not long ago, so many great bands in the past. Part of a goody from Styx.

    Is it any wonder I’ve got
    Too much time on my hands
    It’s ticking away with my sanity
    I’ve got too much time on my hands
    It’s hard to believe such a calamity
    I got too much time on my hands
    And it’s ticking away, ticking away from me

    And yeah, I was reminded of the B17 from Heavy Metal too.

    Shooter

  8. BC, I know we’re using the word “nuked” figuratively, but was there even an incident of nuclear contamination (ala “dirty bomb”) that turned up in the sandbox? I ask because certain radioactive isotopes (like cesium 137) will glow an eerie blue to the naked eye. Not to discount the “presence” of the poor bastards who got wasted in those rigs, certainly.

    1. Nah bro… I even thought of that meself back then.
      Nope… these (as far as I can tell) were the spirits of the poor fuckers that died. Tonight’s poast will assist in that interpretation.

      1. Ok. Like I said, I’m not dismissing the spirit theory, but have wondered if shithead combatants building IED’s ever got their hands on radiological material that they included in a device, just to fuck things up even worse. Seems like the sort of thing they’d do out of spite. I hadn’t considered the DU angle, but the (literal) fallout from that was yet another shitty aspect to the job you had to do there.

    2. Somewhere I read, a looooong time ago, that a lot of the Iraqi vehicles that we hit were actually radioactive because of the depleted uranium used in the armor-piercing shells that hit them. Maybe a two way street? Don’t know if that glows though.

      Great story, BC. Would love more.

      1. Personally I think it was my stupid ass crawling inside a blown out T-72 on Slayer ( I wanted to SEE the inside of a T-72 despite it being roastie-post-toasties… fucking dumbass I was..) is when I sucked up the piece of DU that embedded in my lung and gave be the cancer that cost me over 1/2 of said-aforementioned airbag… Make of it what you will

  9. Came down from Basrah to see Drowning Pool at Arifjan in 2006.
    Also got pulled over by the contractor police for driving a Land Cruiser with no plates. What a faggot that guy was.

    1. At first glance, she looks tasty. But then my paranoia about online thirst traps kicks in, and I start wondering if it’s an exceptionally well styled tranny. I’d hope not, but I’m just saying proceed with caution. Strikes me as somehow unlikely for a genuinely hot girl to be caught up in this particular style of cosplay.

      1. Ha ha — excellent!

        But hey — a guy can still fantasize. Good God – the boots, the belt it makes me dizzy.

  11. I always laugh at people who say “ghosts are BS”.
    Have them experience something like BCE did and their tune WILL change.

    If you want to experience ghostly stuff, go to the Gettysburg Battlefield after dark.
    That place is haunted as Hell. Walk Picketts Charge near the wall at night and take pictures, orb city.
    The Devils Den you may get the hair on the back of your neck and feel cold.

    My opinion is that in places where people died suddenly and especially violently, some people don’t realize they’re dead and their souls linger. I also think those places create a negative energy that lingers.

    I remember when I toured the Tower of London where so many people were tortured and killed, the bad juju feeling was so bad that I couldn’t wait to gtfo of there.

    1. I’ve only gotten that undefinable, uneasy feeling a few times in my life. All such instances were in very old homes or buildings with a history I had no foreknowledge of. Later came to find out some really dark shit (either murders or horrible industrial accidents) took place at those locations. Can’t say I’m a hardcore believer in hauntings, but there does seem to be some merit to the concept.

    2. Got that feeling at Dachau in the area where they did the experiments and such. I had to turn around and walk out. Experienced it again in Amboy, California in the ’90’s. Weird place. I know what happened at Dachau, but could never find any history about Amboy.

      When I was stationed in Germany, I did a lot of what the kids today call, “Urban exploring”, going into old buildings and such – some were still half blown up from WW2. Got into some sketchy places, including long abandoned tunnels where I and my buddies found some WW2 German war stocks that we never went back and recovered because none of us had the know how or connections to get them back to the States without questions being asked, and we didn’t want to involve anyone else. For all I know, those things could still be there.

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