Voices and a name called at the back gate of a Hawaii Marine base
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Seattle, tells Art Bell that in 1995, as a Marine lance corporal stationed at a Hawaii air station, the caller pulled evening duty at the base’s back gate (“Bravo Gate”). The caller says they heard what they thought were voices, including a voice saying “Hey” two or three times. An MP friend who came out with the caller’s dinner was unsurprised. The friend said they had heard the same thing and had their own name called there, and that an MP had shot themselves at that gate a couple of years earlier. The friend’s reported story of a failed murder-suicide plan comes last. Art closes by noting how many of that morning’s calls involved suicides followed by appearances.
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The story as told
A caller who says they are [quote withheld] reaches Art Bell on the first-time caller line. The caller says that in 1995 they were a Marine lance corporal stationed at what the transcript renders as [quote withheld] in Hawaii, on Oahu. The caller says they pulled a lot of duty at the base’s back gate ([quote withheld]) on a shift running about 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., and that it [quote withheld] when you sit out there alone. The caller says the land the base was built on was supposedly an old meeting place for Hawaiian chiefs, with [quote withheld] [name withheld] reports that late at night they would hear things, including [quote withheld] On one night they heard a voice say “Hey” two or three times, a few minutes apart. They add, [quote withheld] [name withheld] says they called an MP friend to bring them dinner and told the friend about it. The friend was not surprised, saying they had heard the same sort of thing and had heard their own name, [name withheld], called a few times. According to [name withheld], [name withheld] said an MP had killed themselves at that back gate a couple of years earlier, and that [name withheld] had been on the working party assigned to clean the restroom across the street. [name withheld] relays [name withheld]’s story that MPs at the front and back gates had planned to kill their watch commander and then themselves. The plan went wrong, and the back-gate MP killed themselves anyway. Art closes by remarking on how many of that morning’s calls involved suicides followed by appearances.
Reported events, in order
- 0:03
The caller reaches Art Bell on the first-time caller line and gives their first name as [name withheld].
- 0:11
The caller says that in 1995 they were a Marine lance corporal stationed at a Marine Corps air station in Hawaii, on Oahu.
- 0:32
The caller says they pulled a lot of duty at the back gate, which they called Bravo Gate.
- 0:36
The caller says the shift ran roughly 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and that it [quote withheld] sitting out there alone.
- 0:52
The caller says the land the base was built on was supposedly an old meeting place for Hawaiian chiefs, with a lot of burial mounds.
- 1:08
The caller reports hearing things late at night, including what they thought were voices.
- 1:19
The caller says that on one night they heard a voice say “Hey” two or three times, a few minutes apart.
- 1:30
The caller says it might have been their imagination.
- 1:32
The caller says they called an MP friend to come out with dinner and talked to the friend about it.
- 1:41
The caller says the friend was not surprised and said they had heard the same sort of thing themselves, including hearing their own name called a few times.
- 2:03
The caller relays the friend’s statement that an MP had killed themselves at that back gate a couple of years earlier, and that the friend had been on the working party that cleaned the restroom across the street.
- 2:24
The caller relays the friend’s story that the front-gate and back-gate MPs had planned to kill their watch commander and then themselves, that the plan went wrong, and that the back-gate MP killed themselves anyway.
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· 1:08
[name withheld] says that sitting at the back gate late at night they would hear things and hear what they thought were voices.
- observation· 1:19
On one night the caller says they heard a voice say “Hey” two or three times, a few minutes apart.
- hearsay· 1:41
[name withheld] says the MP friend told the caller they had heard the same sort of thing themselves.
- hearsay· 1:55
[name withheld] says the friend, named [name withheld], reported having heard their own name called a few times.
- hearsay· 2:03
[name withheld] relays the friend’s statement that an MP had killed themselves at that back gate a couple of years earlier and that the friend had been on the working party that cleaned the restroom across the street.
- hearsay· 2:24
[name withheld] relays the friend’s story that MPs at the front and back gates had planned to kill their watch commander and then themselves, that the plan went wrong, and that the back-gate MP killed themselves anyway.
- hearsay· 0:52
[name withheld] says the land the base was built on was supposedly an old meeting place for Hawaiian chiefs, with burial mounds.
- interpretation· 1:30
[name withheld] offers imagination as a possible explanation for the voice they heard.
- host statement· 2:52
Art states that an unusually large number of that morning’s calls involved suicides followed by appearances.
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.
Sum of the parts: closeness to the source 17 (firsthand but brief and vague), specificity 13 (base, gate name, shift hours, year, named friend), internal consistency 14 (coherent; the unreliable part is the relayed secondhand material), alternative explanations 6 (wind, surf, wildlife, and imagination fit easily, and the caller half-concedes this), and calibration 8 (the caller frames the voices as “what I thought” and offers imagination, but the story still moves toward a suicide-linked reading through the friend).
Evidence for and against
- Firsthand source for the core experience: the caller says they personally pulled the duty and heard the sounds.
- Concrete details of the setting: base, island, gate name, shift hours, and year ([quote withheld] [quote withheld] “in 1995”).
- The sequence is coherent and follows the host’s questions without contradiction.
- The caller separates their own perception ([quote withheld]) from conclusion, and explicitly allows an ordinary explanation.
- The strange element itself is described only in general terms. The caller says they [quote withheld] and heard [quote withheld] That is thin detail about what they sensed.
- The matching experience and the suicide at that gate come from an absent friend and are pure hearsay ([quote withheld]).
- Simple ordinary explanations (background sound at an exposed night post, imagination) fit easily, and the caller raises imagination ([quote withheld]).
- No verifiable detail with a date is offered about the alleged death, only [quote withheld]
- The labels showing who is speaking are garbled in this stretch. Lines that are plainly the caller’s are tagged as the host, so who said each statement is uncertain.
- The place name is rendered inconsistently by the automatic transcript (“Kanawee”), so the installation cannot be confirmed from the transcript.
- Several short fragments of the caller’s speech overlap the host’s lines and may be incomplete.
- 0:34
- 1:08
- 1:30
- 2:03
What the model inferred (not said on air): The weights for the parts, and the decision to treat the secondhand suicide backstory as lowering rather than raising credibility, are my own judgments. The transcript supplies only the quoted details.
Falls in the score range of 11 to 25: specifics that sound checkable and a claimed second witness, but nothing actually checked and no material evidence. No outside check is recorded, so the cap of 50 applies trivially.
Evidence for and against
- The caller is a firsthand witness to the sounds they describe.
- A second person is claimed to have had the same experience at the same gate, and the caller gives that person’s first name ([quote withheld]).
- Details that could in principle be checked are named: the installation, the gate (“Bravo Gate”), the year 1995, and the shift hours.
- No physical evidence, recording, document, or photograph is offered or examined on air.
- The backing witness is claimed, not present ([quote withheld]). No second voice speaks on air.
- The alleged death is described without a name, date, or record and is beyond the caller’s own knowledge.
- Whether the claimed friend’s story was independent of local base rumor cannot be determined from the transcript.
- 1:41
- 0:34
What the model inferred (not said on air): The placement follows the scoring guide. Nothing in the transcript rises above assertion and a claimed witness.
Mild to moderate unease from isolation, night, a name called, and an unresolved death at the same post, without any direct threat, harm, or vivid imagery.
Evidence for and against
- The setting is made to unsettle: a lone guard on an isolated back gate at night, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., where [quote withheld]
- A voice calling a name is a classic intrusive element, and the friend reportedly had their own name called there.
- The story is tied to a suicide at that exact post, and Art’s closing remarks about suicide and continuing appearances reinforce the ominous frame.
- The events are heard only and are mild: voices and a single “Hey,” with no figure, no physical contact, and no threat.
- The caller explicitly allows that it was imagination, which softens the story.
- The ending is a factual relay of a past death rather than a confrontation.
- Whether the “Hey” was heard once or repeatedly is stated loosely ([quote withheld]) and was likely transcribed imperfectly.
- 0:42
- 2:03
What the model inferred (not said on air): The creepiness score is an entertainment judgment about the story, not a claim about events. The isolation and night framing is read from the transcript’s staging details.
A provisional model score of 52: a familiar [quote withheld] frame carrying a distinctive murder-suicide-plan backstory and a specific named military gate.
Evidence for and against
- The specific setting is distinctive: a military back gate on a Hawaii air station, named in the story (“Bravo Gate”).
- The backstory detail is unusual: two MPs allegedly planning to kill their watch commander and then themselves, with the plan failing and only the back-gate MP dying.
- The claim that the base land was an old meeting place for Hawaiian chiefs with burial mounds gives the story a local-history layer.
- The core motifs are common: unexplained voices at night, a name being called, a place tied to a past death.
- A lonely night-shift post is a familiar ghost-story frame.
- Some of the distinctive backstory is heard through garbled, overlapping lines, so its exact shape is uncertain.
- 2:24
- 0:52
What the model inferred (not said on air): The originality score compared with the rest of the archive is calculated separately. This number is my estimate based on content and is labeled provisional.
Scoring confidence 0.55 · analysis confidence 0.60 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: The caller’s firsthand story about their own duty shifts and what they say they heard; Secondhand claims relayed from an MP friend who is not on air and does not speak; No documentation, recording, photograph, or third-party record is offered or examined. The originality score blends the model's score (52) 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.
- Background noise on an exposed peninsula at night being heard as voices. · [name withheld] says they would “hear things” and describes them as [quote withheld] and openly raises imagination: [quote withheld] Ambiguous ambient sound at a coastal base at night (wind, surf, distant personnel, wildlife) could be mistaken for speech.
- The match between the two stories rests on a single absent source and may not be independent of the site’s local reputation. · The caller’s own experience is brief and vague, while the matching detail (a name called, a suicide at the same gate) comes only from a friend whose story the caller relays secondhand ([quote withheld]).
What stands out
The caller’s own experience is deliberately hedged ([quote withheld] and [quote withheld]). The link to a death at the same post comes entirely through an absent colleague who is said to have been on the cleanup detail. So the story’s most distinctive material is quoted speech from someone who never speaks on air.
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