{"id":8201,"date":"2025-10-18T13:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:40:44","slug":"spooky-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/spooky-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Spooky Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greetings and Salutations!!!
Fell out early again<\/strong> 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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/span> to cross over…

So hope you enjoyed the story.
The hardback copy can be bought here: https:\/\/amzn.to\/46YFkkQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So More Later (probably tonight)
Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 … Continue reading “Spooky Saturday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8213,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions\/8213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}