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Apr 25, 2026•55 min•Ep. 94
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Apr 17, 2026•40 min•Ep. 93
Camp Horno is a familiar training ground for many West Coast Marines — a place defined by steep terrain, coastal fog, and long nights in the field. But for some who’ve trained there, the experience left behind more than just physical exhaustion. Across multiple accounts from different units and years, Marines have described encounters in the hills, fog, and barracks that defy easy explanation — moments that suggest something may be lingering just beyond the limits of what they can see. Learn mor...
Apr 10, 2026•37 min•Ep. 92
Guam is often seen as a tropical paradise — a strategic stronghold in the Pacific with a long and violent history beneath its surface. But for those who have lived and served there, the island has a reputation for something harder to explain. From military bases to abandoned bunkers and jungle-covered hills, servicemen and civilians alike have reported encounters that seem tied to the island’s past — moments that continue to raise questions long after they’ve ended. Learn more about your ad choi...
Apr 03, 2026•47 min•Ep. 91
In remote training areas, far from anything resembling civilization, service members occasionally report encounters they struggle to explain. Most can be written off — stress, exhaustion, or misidentified wildlife. But some accounts are harder to dismiss. Across multiple locations and separate incidents, soldiers and Marines have described seeing the same pale, human-like figure moving just beyond the treeline — watching, tracking, and vanishing without a trace. Learn more about your ad choices....
Mar 27, 2026•43 min•Ep. 90
Some stories aren’t told until years later — passed quietly between friends, or remembered only after something brings them back to the surface. Within the Wartime Stories team, a handful of these experiences have stayed with us, each one difficult to explain. From abandoned buildings to historic battlefields and training grounds, these firsthand accounts reflect moments that didn’t make sense at the time — and still don’t now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Mar 21, 2026•50 min•Ep. 89
During a field exercise in the jungles of the Philippines, a unit of artillerymen responded to a nearby village reporting livestock thefts and the disappearance of a newborn child. What they encountered in the forest that evening would become one of the strangest stories ever shared between soldiers. Drawing on accounts passed between servicemen and long-standing regional folklore, the incident raises unsettling questions about what may exist deep within some of the world’s most remote jungles. ...
Mar 06, 2026•30 min•Ep. 88
Across every branch of the military, crews depend on their machines for survival — aircraft, ships, and vehicles that become lifelines in combat. But sometimes, certain machines develop reputations that go far beyond normal mechanical trouble. From a Marine Corps helicopter with a deadly past… to a British jump jet plagued by accidents… to a World War I submarine surrounded by tragedy and ghostly sightings, servicemen have long shared stories of war machines that seemed marked by something darke...
Feb 20, 2026•45 min•Ep. 87
During combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, some soldiers reported encounters that didn’t fit any known threat, animal, or enemy tactic. Small humanoid figures seen at night. Unexplained movement around guard posts. Local interpreters refusing to enter certain villages without explanation. Often dismissed as stress, exhaustion, or superstition, these accounts share striking similarities with regional folklore that long predates modern warfare. From remote outposts to abandoned settlements...
Feb 06, 2026•39 min•Ep. 86
In the skies over wartime Europe and the Pacific, Allied pilots began encountering something they couldn’t identify — glowing objects that followed their aircraft, evaded radar, and vanished without explanation. Was it a Nazi weapon? Or something from another world? Recorded in combat reports and wartime newspapers, the Foo Fighter sightings would haunt aircrews long after the war ended, raising questions that were never fully answered. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor...
Feb 02, 2026•55 min•Ep. 85
Before the Civil War, Champ Ferguson was a quiet mountain farmer, a loving husband and father living a simple life in the hills of Kentucky. But when the conflict came to his doorstep, something broke, unleashing a savage brutality that would make his name whispered in terror across the border states as one of the Confederacy's most infamous and bloodthirsty guerrilla fighters. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-...
Jan 26, 2026•33 min•Ep. 84
On the island of Oahu, the US military stands as a symbol of modern power, a high-tech fortress in a tropical paradise. But when the sun sets over the volcanic peaks, an older power awakens, and today’s soldiers come face to face with the ghostly armies of Hawaii's ancient warrior kings. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jan 19, 2026•48 min•Ep. 83
This is Part Two of the story of the Depraved Doctors of the Third Reich. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 12, 2026•56 min•Ep. 82
The Nazi obsession with creating a pure Aryan race was not just a political ideology; it became a twisted scientific mission. Entrusted with this dark purpose, German physicians abandoned their ethics to perform monstrous experiments on children, the disabled, and prisoners of war, all in a depraved attempt to engineer their vision of humanity. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad...
Jan 05, 2026•25 min•Ep. 81
In 1938, with the world on the brink of war, Americans anxiously tuned their radios, fearing an attack from a foreign power. But on the night before Halloween, the most terrifying broadcast reported an invasion not from across the ocean, but from across the stars, as a chillingly realistic drama sent a nation into panic. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...
Dec 29, 2025•44 min•Ep. 80
The war in Ukraine has turned vast swaths of the country into a modern-day wasteland, where the constant threat of death hangs in the air. For soldiers enduring this brutal reality, the line between the living and the dead has begun to blur, as they share chilling stories of spectral figures and inexplicable whispers haunting the battlefield. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad c...
Dec 22, 2025•33 min•Ep. 79
In the brutal chaos of war, the line between the living and the dead is often dangerously thin. These are the accounts of survivors who cheated death, not through training or luck... but by heeding the warnings of spirits from beyond the grave. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Dec 15, 2025•27 min•Ep. 78
The sounds of the forest are a language any seasoned outdoorsman can understand, a familiar rhythm of life and survival. But for two veterans on opposite sides of the country, that language became a weapon turned against them, as they were stalked by a massive creature that could perfectly mimic the calls of lesser animals to draw its human prey into the dark. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn mo...
Dec 08, 2025•33 min•Ep. 77
In the desolate Mojave Desert, Edwards Air Force Base is home to America's most advanced and secretive aircraft, a place where the boundaries of technology are pushed daily. But according to chilling eyewitness accounts from service members, the greatest secrets aren't in the sky, but on the ground... where a massive, hairy, ape-like creature has been seen stalking the restricted military installation. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19...
Dec 01, 2025•34 min•Ep. 76
The vast, empty deserts of New Mexico became the proving grounds for America's nuclear arsenal, a landscape of secrets and strange phenomena. It was here that a routine missile recovery mission turned into a gruesome mystery, leaving one Air Force Sergeant surgically mutilated and drained of blood, apparently at the hands of something not of this world. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more abou...
Nov 24, 2025•31 min•Ep. 75
In the age of enlightenment, the disciplined Austrian army brought order and science to its newly acquired territories. Yet in the rugged mountains of Serbia, they stumbled upon a darkness that defied all logic – a plague of undeath that forced hardened soldiers to take up wooden stakes against the walking dead. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...
Nov 17, 2025•34 min•Ep. 74
The Winter War was a brutal struggle against a determined human enemy and the unforgiving cold, dangers the Red Army knew and understood. Yet on a desolate mountain plateau, where strange stone idols stand guard and the trees twist in agony, a Soviet company learned that some places are battlegrounds for forces far older and more monstrous than man. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about yo...
Nov 10, 2025•28 min•Ep. 73
In the haze of combat fatigue, soldiers often battle waking nightmares, where the mind plays tricks in the dead of night. But for some, these visions become terrifyingly real, forcing them to question where their dreams end and a paranormal reality begins. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Nov 03, 2025•21 min•Ep. 72
The rules of engagement are clear when facing another army, but they are useless against a more primal foe. From the African plains to the mangrove swamps of Burma, soldiers discovered that the greatest danger wasn't the enemy in the opposite trench, but the man-eaters that saw both sides as nothing more than prey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
Oct 27, 2025•36 min•Ep. 71
On the frozen battlefields of the Korean War, American soldiers faced down the overwhelming force of the Chinese army. But for one company of infantrymen, the true enemy was not human; it was a silent, glowing orb that toyed with their artillery before unleashing a terrifying weapon of its own. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 20, 2025•34 min•Ep. 70
For the people of 16th-century Europe, the sky was a place of divine mystery, not a battlefield for mortal men. But in 1566, the heavens over Basel, Switzerland, became just that, as hundreds of dark spheres waged a mysterious war before the eyes of the citizens below. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 13, 2025•34 min•Ep. 69
Long before it was a military training area, the land of CFB Meaford was home to sprawling farmsteads and the quiet lives of pioneer families. But while the families are long gone, one tragic soul remains, a young girl whose ghostly blue eyes now watch over the soldiers training for wars in other lands. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 06, 2025•34 min•Ep. 68
In the brutal calculus of war, survival is often credited to skill, luck, or the simple whim of fate. But for some soldiers, the difference between life and death came as a warning from the most unlikely of sources: a messenger who was already dead. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 29, 2025•27 min•Ep. 67
In the late 1980s, the skies over Gulf Breeze, Florida, became a theater for some of history's most famous UFO sightings. But as the town looked up in wonder, a far more sinister mission was unfolding on the ground, as six AWOL soldiers arrived with a Ouija board and a divine mandate to kill the Antichrist. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 22, 2025•51 min•Ep. 66
For as long as humans have sailed the seas, they have feared the deadly predators lurking just beneath the waves. But what if the most terrifying monster wasn’t a known species, but an ancient ghost of impossible size, a creature science says has been extinct for millions of years? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Sep 15, 2025•28 min•Ep. 65
