Soldier or uniformed figure
Civil War figures reenact a bayonet killing in an aunt's basement
A caller who gives their name as [name withheld], from Virginia, describes a childhood night spent in their aunt's furnished basement, in an area they say was a Civil War battlefield. They report seeing a woman in a gown and a man in a blue uniform embrace. Then a man in gray ran up and bayoneted the man in blue again and again, with faint crying and groans audible. They say the figures vanished instantly, and the call ends.
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.
Email: Sister reports Confederate soldiers in a Gettysburg basement
Art Bell reads an email from a listener about the listener’s sister, who is described as having inherited family psychic abilities. She was asked to smudge a house in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. According to the email, while blessing the house the sister went into a dirt basement and reported seeing a rifle in her face and then two frightened young Confederate soldiers huddled together. The residents asked her to return for more smudging, but she declined. The owners abandoned the house months later. The reading ends with the line [quote withheld]
A barefoot footprint at an Arctic creek and a legend of an immortal shaman
A caller from Anchorage tells Art Bell they found a single large barefoot human footprint in fresh sand at an abandoned gold-mine creek near Teller, Alaska, in 1961. The caller says their Eskimo companions, [name withheld] and a cousin, walked away in apparent fear. [name withheld] later told the caller a legend of a huge shaman from the turn of the century who was said to be immortal and “still here.” The caller finishes the legend, and Art thanks the caller and comments that sailors would not put to sea under such conditions.
Air Force captain's ghost at a gate shack after a B-52 crash
A caller named [name withheld], from Chico, California, says that in 1973, while on gate-shack duty for a SAC detachment out of Mississippi, they saw a man in an Air Force captain's uniform who asked, [quote withheld] The figure disappeared when the caller closed and reopened their eyes. The next morning, they report, they found a record of a B-52 that left the base at 3.05 a.m. and crashed seven minutes later, flown by a [name withheld].
Soldier ghost at a child’s bed and a later Air Force echo
Art Bell reads an emailed letter signed “Ryan from Indiana,” in which the writer describes waking around 3 a.m. at age eight in a small home in Terre Haute, Indiana. They saw what they describe as a ghost, a soldier in full military gear standing in front of their bed. According to the letter, the figure asked what they were doing by its bed. They saw a military-style bunk on their bedroom floor, and the figure vanished when they looked back. The letter then reports that twelve years later, at a training mission at Fort Dix, New Jersey, they saw a young airman going through their things near their bunk and asked him the same question. It ends with the writer wondering whether the ghost could have been themselves at a future time. The host calls it a case of haunting oneself.
Host describes a listener's photograph of a uniformed figure in a hospital mirror
In this part of the broadcast, the host (Art Bell) describes a photograph he says a listener named [name withheld] sent him and that he has posted on the show's website. According to the host, the picture was taken in an ICU room in a Colorado hospital by a nurse testing a new camera's flash, with nobody else in the room. A mirror in the frame appears to show a figure in what he takes to be an old uniform, [quote withheld] He says he found nothing bogus in the image and thanks [name withheld]. No caller speaks about the photograph in this part of the broadcast.
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.