Dark cloud and a black face seen in an F.E. Warren AFB dormitory
A caller from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, who says he was once stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, describes seeing a dark, gas-like cloud above his bed and down the hall of his dormitory. He also describes a black face with navy-blue eyes, and hands, peeking around a corner. Both were gone when he looked straight at them. He also repeats claims that the base is haunted, including ghosts of dogs in the dormitory. This part of the broadcast ends while he is still telling the story. His next story, about an attempted astral projection, falls outside it.
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The story as told
The caller, identified only as a man on a cordless phone in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, listening on KZIM, tells Art Bell he used to be in the Air Force. He was stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which he calls [quote withheld] When the host asks how it is haunted, he says it was an old cavalry base where there were [quote withheld] and that [quote withheld]
He then describes his own experience. After going through [quote withheld] he moved back into the dormitory. Every once in a while, he would see a “dark cloud,” like a gas cloud, above his bed or down the hall. He says that whenever he looked at it directly, it was no longer there. He reports that while getting dressed and taking care of his uniform, looking in the mirror, he saw out of the corner of his eye a face and hands peeking at him around a corner. When he looked, nothing was there. He describes the face as all black with blue, “kind of bluish” eyes, [quote withheld] and says it was “just really scary.” This part of the broadcast ends there. In the lines that follow, he moves on to a separate story about trying astral projection to go home.
Reported events, in order
- 0:26
The caller says he was once in the Air Force and stationed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which he calls a haunted base.
- 0:41
When the host asks how it is haunted, he says it was an old cavalry base with murders, Indian murders, and suicides in the dormitories.
- 0:55
He says there are ghosts of dogs in the dormitory he lived in.
- 1:01
After a rough period, he moved back into the dormitory and repeatedly saw a dark, gas-like cloud above his bed or down the hall.
- 1:13
The cloud was not there whenever he looked at it directly.
- 1:29
While getting dressed and looking in the mirror, he saw, out of the corner of his eye, a face and hands peeking around a corner.
- 1:35
When he looked, nothing was there.
- 1:38
He describes the face as all black, with bluish, dark navy-blue eyes.
Claims
Each claim is labeled as something the person telling the story noticed (observation), what they made of it (interpretation), something others told them (hearsay), or something the host said (host statement).
- observation· 1:13
He repeatedly saw a dark cloud, like a gas cloud, above his bed or down the hall in the dormitory.
- observation· 1:13
The cloud was gone whenever he looked at it directly.
- observation· 1:29
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a face and hands peeking around a corner in the dormitory.
- observation· 1:38
The face was all black, with bluish, dark navy-blue eyes.
- interpretation· 0:34
F.E. Warren Air Force Base is a haunted base.
- hearsay· 0:41
The base was an old cavalry base where there were murders, Indian murders, and suicides in the dormitories.
- hearsay· 0:55
There are ghosts of dogs in the dormitory he lived in.
- host statement· 0:40
The host asks in what way the base is haunted.
Scores, with reasons
An AI model gave these scores using a fixed set of scoring rules (scoring-v1). They are editorial judgments and rough guides, not the odds that anything paranormal happened. How scoring works.
A firsthand but brief story with a named base and town and a clear pattern in what he saw. Against that, side vision offers an easy ordinary explanation, and some claims about the base are ones the caller only repeats from others.
Evidence for and against
- Firsthand story: [quote withheld]
- Concrete setting and sequence: F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming; the dormitory; the bed, hall, and mirror
- Consistent detail across two sightings (both vanish when he looks straight at them)
- The [quote withheld] pattern is typical of side vision, an easy ordinary fit
- The haunting of the base, the murders, and the ghost dogs are repeated secondhand, not witnessed: [quote withheld]
- No dates, unit, dormitory name, or any checkable record given
- The story is cut off mid-telling. No follow-up from the host or further detail is included
- The labels showing who is speaking switch in the transcript, so who said each line is not fully certain
- 1:01
- 1:29
- 0:41
What the model inferred (not said on air): The scores by part (closeness to the source 18, specificity 10, consistency 14, other explanations 5, calibration 9) are my judgment from the content. The transcript itself contains no dates, no records, and no second witness on air.
The caller's word is the only evidence. He gives details that could be checked (base, town, state), but none is checked, and there is no physical evidence or second witness on air.
Evidence for and against
- Checkable details given: [quote withheld]
- Named listening area: [quote withheld]
- No photographs, recordings, documents, or marks are claimed to exist
- No other witness speaks on air about these events
- The other events he cites (murders, ghost dogs) are hearsay, not examined
- No outside check was done. Without one, the scoring rules cap this score at 50
- The dormitory is not named, so even the detail about the base is partial
- 0:32
- 0:03
What the model inferred (not said on air): A score of 11 to 25 is chosen because named places that could in principle be checked are given, but nothing was verified and no objects are even claimed.
An unexplained dark cloud over the bed and a black face with navy-blue eyes glimpsed at a corner make a genuinely unsettling bedroom or dormitory image. But the story is brief, has no threat, contact, or harm, and is told as a remembered curiosity.
Evidence for and against
- Something reported over the bed: [quote withheld]
- A face watching from around a corner: [quote withheld]
- Dark facial coloring with unnatural eye color: [quote withheld]
- No physical contact, injury, chasing, or escalation is described
- The sightings are unclear glimpses from the corner of the eye that end as soon as he looks
- The caller tells it partly as an anecdote within an ongoing call
- No time of day is stated in the story, so the listener partly has to imagine the atmosphere
- 1:13
- 1:42
What the model inferred (not said on air): It sits between the “mildly eerie” (30) and “genuinely unsettling” (50) marks in the scoring guide. I placed it just below 50 because nothing in the story threatens or builds.
A figure that vanishes from the corner of the eye and a shadowy face are stock ghost-story elements. But the gas cloud in the dormitory and the specifically navy-blue eyes on a black face stand out among these patterns.
Evidence for and against
- Unusual color detail: [quote withheld]
- Cloud described as [quote withheld] rather than a person
- A figure that vanishes when looked at directly is a commonly reported pattern
- A haunted military base with a violent history is a familiar setup: [quote withheld]
- Novelty compared with the rest of the archive cannot be estimated in a useful way from one pilot story. The published score is provisional
- 1:01
- 1:38
What the model inferred (not said on air): The model scores it at 45 (a familiar setup plus a distinctive detail). A comparison with the rest of the archive would adjust this once the archive is large enough.
Scoring confidence 0.55 · analysis confidence 0.70 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: the caller's firsthand story (live call); no physical evidence claimed; no second witness on air. The originality score blends the model's score (45) with how rare the story's details are across the archive. This method is still provisional.
Ordinary explanations to consider
These are possibilities only. None is a finding about what happened.
- Tricks of side vision, and the tendency to see shapes and faces in random patterns. Vague shapes are easier to see outside the center of gaze, and they in effect “disappear” when looked at directly. · The caller twice says the thing was gone when he looked straight at it: [quote withheld] and [quote withheld]
- Images seen while falling asleep, or while awake, in a dormitory setting, possibly linked to the period of personal stress the caller mentions. · He places the cloud “above my bed” and says he was [quote withheld]
- Dim or uneven dormitory lighting and mirror reflections briefly producing unclear shapes. · The face is seen while [quote withheld] and is described as a vague dark shape at the corner of the eye.
What stands out
The caller says both things he saw were visible only out of the corner of his eye and vanished when he looked straight at them. He presents this as the defining feature of the encounters. The face has an unusual color detail: black, with dark navy-blue eyes. He places his own sightings inside a broader claim that the base and its dormitory are haunted, including by ghost dogs.
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