Battlefield or war site
Students re-enact a Civil War battle in a campus auditorium said to be haunted
A caller who gives the pseudonym “John” and says they are in Tennessee describes a night in a campus auditorium during their college days, with a fellow student the caller does not name. The caller had been told the auditorium was once a Civil War fort and the site of battles. They report a hostile atmosphere, dark figures in the balcony, and a battlefield trench that gave them dark feelings. The two then staged a North-versus-South re-enactment on the auditorium stage to help the spirits. The caller says that during the acting they believed they were a dying soldier. Afterward their friend denied making a shout that the caller had clearly heard.
A Confederate figure in a log hospital on the Pleasant Hill battleground
[name withheld] in Shreveport, Louisiana, a Civil War relic collector, tells what the caller says the reenactment commander told them about staying overnight in an old log house used as a hospital at Pleasant Hill. According to [name withheld], a ragged Confederate figure came in and gave the commander a guard-duty order. Then the figure lay on a cot and dissolved. The host responds that battlefields have long been haunted.
Airman reports a translucent figure at the foot of his bed at Kunsan Air Force Base
The host reads a letter he introduces as a brief bio and story from a man who describes himself as a former US Air Force airman and later a police officer. The writer says that in the fall of 1977 he was stationed at Kunsan (transcribed “Kusan”) Air Force Base in Korea. He was woken at exactly 0100 on three nights in a row. On the third night he saw a small, stocky Korean male figure in shades of gray in his barracks room. He swung a knife through its throat without effect and watched it touch the blanket over his feet before rising into the air and vanishing. The letter ends with the writer saying he is withholding further detail for privacy and asking the host what he thinks the man saw.
Presences and voices reported at World War II monuments in southern Okinawa
A caller who gives their name as [quote withheld] tells Art Bell that while serving in the Marines in Okinawa, Japan, the caller and a Japanese girlfriend visited the southern area with its World War II monuments at sunset. There they felt presences around them, and the caller heard voices they could not understand. The caller says their girlfriend ran back to the car in tears and never told them what she had heard, seen, or felt. Bell responds by saying he had lived on Okinawa himself and calls it “a haunted island.”
Footsteps and a felt presence on a gravel path at Custer Battlefield
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], listening on KOMO from the Seattle area, says that about five years earlier they walked alone at the Custer Battlefield after their family had gone on ahead. The caller reports hearing distinct footsteps on a gravel path behind them, twice, with no one in sight. They later say aloud that they felt a definite presence. The host responds with his own assertions that battlefields and sites of violent death are haunted.
Horses, war cries, and an arrowhead in a tree near Pipestone, Minnesota
A caller from Janesville, Wisconsin, tells Art Bell that at 15 they lived in southwestern Minnesota near Pipestone. The caller and friends were camping by a small lake when they heard horses and war cries at night but saw nothing. The caller says they heard something strike next to them and later pulled an arrowhead from the tree beside which they had heard it. The caller says the group found tomahawk heads and arrowheads, and that a Dakota tribal man told them a battle in which many Native Americans were killed had happened there. Bell calls it a time flash. The caller says it frightened them all and that the only explanation they can think of is what the shaman said as well.
Relic hunter’s companion feels something pass over him in a Civil War ditch
A caller who says they hunt Civil War battlefields with a metal detector describes taking a New York man named [name withheld] to a ditch where the caller says the 173rd New York was wiped out. Lying in the ditch on a hot day, [name withheld] reportedly jumped up saying something had passed over him and insisted on leaving. The caller teased him about his kinfolk being killed there. The story ends with [name withheld] running to the car after a hunter’s horn sounded, saying something had been in the ditch with him.
Armored figures lacking feet reported near a Japanese women’s college
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], calling from Fukuoka City in Kyushu, Japan, describes a women’s college where they teach. The caller says it is built on a battlefield from 1300. The caller reports that villagers and campus security guards have seen armored warrior figures there, and that the town holds a yearly group exorcism of the ground. At the end they ask to mention a folklore book they have written, and the host asks them to send a copy.
Wounded Marine sniper reports ancestor in Civil War uniform freezing his wound
A first-time caller from Alaska, who says he served as a sniper in the United States Marine Corps, describes being shot in the knee during the Grenada operation. He reports that a figure he recognized from family photographs as his great-great-grandfather, in a Civil War uniform, sat down and froze the wound, then said everything would be okay. He says this is the first time he has spoken of it, apart from with a military psychologist. The host thanks him and calls the story incredible.
Wounded Marine credits his deceased father for bringing him back across no man’s land
A caller tells a story they say their husband told them. He served in the Pacific during World War II. According to the story, a young Marine crossed no man’s land under Japanese fire, severely wounded, and told a chaplain that his father had brought him back. The chaplain later learned the father had died in battle. The caller believes Yank Magazine reported it.