Wartime Stories
Every soldier has a story. Some, they try to forget. Others, they can’t stop thinking about – stories that no one else would believe happened. Something that terrified them. Something they cannot explain. Hosted by Marine Corp Reconnaissance veteran, Luke Lamana, this is Wartime Stories. A weekly podcast that is a mix of horror, mystery, and awe inspiring tales. Where the strange, dark & mysterious meets the battlefield and beyond. New episodes every Friday. Share your stories: info@wartimestories.com
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April 17, 2026 • 40 mins
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War museums are built to preserve history — collections of weapons, uniforms, and artifacts that once saw real combat. But in some cases, those who wo...
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April 10, 2026 • 37 mins
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 b...
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April 3, 2026 • 47 mins
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...
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March 27, 2026 • 42 mins
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...
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March 20, 2026 • 49 mins
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.
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March 6, 2026 • 30 mins
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 wh...
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February 20, 2026 • 45 mins
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 sh...
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February 6, 2026 • 38 mins
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 pr...
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February 2, 2026 • 54 mins
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 ans...
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January 26, 2026 • 32 mins
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.
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January 19, 2026 • 47 mins
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.
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January 12, 2026 • 56 mins
This is Part Two of the story of the Depraved Doctors of the Third Reich.
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January 5, 2026 • 24 mins
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.
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December 29, 2025 • 43 mins
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.
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December 22, 2025 • 33 mins
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.
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December 15, 2025 • 26 mins
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.
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December 8, 2025 • 32 mins
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.
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December 1, 2025 • 34 mins
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.
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November 24, 2025 • 31 mins
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.
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November 17, 2025 • 33 mins
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.
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