Paranormal Happenings

Military paranormal stories that may just be too wierd to believe

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Yes, you're hearing orson Wells Ghost. Today we have Patty

(00:29):
Patrick McAllister. Hello everybody. We're going to share with you
wacky experiences.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
And you know what, Ralph, You're listening to Evergreen Media Network.
I'm Cindy Schwartz and this is our veteran source radio showing.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Ralph change the dial.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Hi, Patty Hello. Oh m hmm, it's not Patty, it
doesn't sound like Paddick. Well, that's because today we will
traverse dimensions of space, time and mystery and enter spheres

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where all that you know will come to not. Your
brain will desperately grasp at hopeless straws of irrational explanations
as you sink deeper into the unfamiliar, the unknown, the unexplained.

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You see, many of the best attested paranormal stories have
come from military men and women who'd walked on wars ground.
I'm sure some people would say the constant stress of

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life and death hanging in the balance plays tricks on
the mind and people see what's not there. But does
that really dismiss all the similar things seen by millennia
of soldiers, sailors, and more recently, airmen could walking the

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fragile line of mortality. Instead, heighten the senses, awaken the mind,
and open our awareness to things we normally ignore. Military
men and women have long gone to desolate eschew places

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few others could or would. They live on different clocks.
They're alert and stealthy in night's stillness while most of
us slumber. I want to tell everybody about a mother's

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dream about sexy sue. An aching mother falling asleep clutching
an old photo of her presumed dead son would surprise
no one. Staff Sergeant Alan Hibbert's mom had a dream

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about her presumed dead son, a dream best left unspoken
lest men in white coats come to her door. But
she couldn't ignore the dream, so she wrote a letter
to a lieutenant her son served under, saying her Allan

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was alive. What's more, she knew where he was. The
lieutenant could have just felt sorry for the mother, told
her he'd check and gone on with his day. Instead,
he decided to pass the letter up the chain of

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command to see about renewing search efforts to find Sergeant
Hibbert and his fellow crewman. It be a military mission
based on only one source of intelligence, a mother's dream

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months earlier The Sexy Sioux four was a B twenty
four Liberator assigned to the Army Air Forces ninety eighth
Heavy Bomb Squadron in the South Pacific. In January of
nineteen forty four, a group of B twenty fours flew

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a sortie to bomb Japanese off yet another island. The
Sexy Siu was in that formation. The Japanese on the
target island sent anti aircraft fire into the night sky,
but it was, as both the Americans and Japanese knew,

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an insipid defense. The Japanese had long since fallen behind
the Americans in war tech and supplies. Still, there was
apparently a lucky shot that scraped the Sexy Siu. Comrades

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and other planes helplessly watched the Sioux race away, descending
into the inky night. There was a search, of course,
but the ocean is vast and the Japanese were still nearby.
The Sexy Sue was lost. All that remained was to

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inform families. The months went by, the Americans advanced and
the Japanese lost islands. Major Alan H. Wood was probably
sweat soaked in the heat and humidity of the Marshall

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Islands when he called officers together in late May or
early June of nineteen forty four. He had the mother's
incredible letter in his hand. He read it to the
group to get opinions. The letter mentioned Sergeant Hibbert being

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alive on an island his mother called Lay. None in
that room had heard of this Lay. After all, the
Marshall Islands is a collection of twelve hundred islands, many

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with multiple names. They looked at new and old, civilian
at military maps, but couldn't find this lay. An intel
officer John Garland checked with other units Navy and Marines included.

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Someone finally found a map showing a small island call Lay,
but it was desolate and seemed uninhabitable. Someone it's not
clear who authorized a photographic recon overlay under the guise

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of perimeter security. The aircrew saw nothing out of the
ordinary n lay, but when they got back to base,
their photos showed irrefutable signs that the small, seemingly deserted
island had indeed human habitation. The Navy sent a ship

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to investigate. After all, it could have been an American
aircrew or a stealthy Japanese infiltration team out there. In
a clearing, they found they mean to, and a grave
marked with driftwood forming a cross with the name F.

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Washburne scratched on it. That was Frank Washburne, the sexy
sus Bamadier. The sailors found nobody else alive or dead
on the island, but it was now a near certainty
Sergeant Hibbert or at least other sexy sue crewman spent

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time there, time enough to bury a fallen comrade. Now
I'm sorry. The story didn't end with a happy reunion
between a loving mother and grateful son, but the discovery

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gave a mother closure she needed to know she wasn't crazy.
Her son or she, or maybe both, had somehow mentally
reached across an ocean for a final conversation. That is,

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if we apply Aukham's raisor the simplest explanation for how
a civilian with no classified military maps could name the
right little island among hundreds that would yield evidence all
or some of her son's air crew had been there.

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A mother could now let her son pass into eternity,
and perhaps millions more mothers, fathers, spouses and children can
take heart that their dreams weren't just wishful thinking. Their
loved ones might really have appeared to them to say goodbye.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Haven't we all experience about every one of you out
there all over the world thanks to iHeart Radio has
experienced a telepathy of one person to another, of that
crazy little nutty feeling. I know it, I feel it,

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and it turns out to be true. We'll take a break.
We want you to think about this, and when we
get back, let's ask you a few questions and give
you examples. Will be right back our Veterans Voice Radio.
And if you think Halloween is over, it isn't. Will

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Speaker 4 (13:35):
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Speaker 1 (13:38):
Post Halloween, or or maybe the White Coats are going
to come visit Ralph? Yeah? One of the door both.
Haven't you all experienced You know, you wake up in
the middle of the night and you know something happened,
or you selected a number and it was pulled in
a lottery or whatever. I'll give you amples. Let me

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ask you a question. If you ever heard a story.
I man late to work, he's driving, he left his house,
gets to a stop signed a few blocks away. Darn,
I forgot my wallet, drives, makes a U turn, goes
back home, picks up his wallet, start driving. Right there
at the intersection the stop sign, there's a hideous car

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accident with victims. He would have been in that accident.
Why did that happen or not happen? Have you ever
like in my case, I'm in the driveway in my house. Now,
this is Ralph, you're host telling you, and I know
that there's a Jimmy Carter autographed book at a particular store.

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I don't even turn my engine. I get really right
out of my back driveway, go to that store, Go
through the door, make a left, go forward, make a right,
make a left, go to the first shelf, go to
the two thirds of the shelf in the right, and
guess what I got in my hand? Assigned Jimmy Carter book.

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Am I nuts? Probably? But hasn't that happened to you?
You can't find something at public so when Dixie, well
when Dixie, because they're not there anymore. But at publics
you can't find it. So now you go to another island. Bingo,
here's what you're looking for. How many times have we
all lost things? We don't know where they are? And
when do we find them when we least expect, not

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looking for them?

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Patty, and you know Raoul talking about finding things you
don't expect. The Navy just going about navying unintentionally proved
a cryptid that exists and found evidence for another we

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hope doesn't.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
What is crypted?

Speaker 3 (16:02):
A cryptid is a creature that has not been scientifically
proven to exist.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Is that now's mother in law?

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Now? No one would think the US Naval Institute, a
respected organization of serving and retired Naval and Marine Corps
officers dedicated to level headed national defense, is prone to superstition.
These are seasoned sailors and marines, seasoned military men and women,

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experienced warriors who know getting facts and avoiding speculation are
often the difference between mission success or catastrophic failure. But
in twenty twenty two, the Institute published an article by

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Scott's Christiansen headlined usos, not UFOs, have been the greatest
threat to the Navy. You've probably already guessed that usos
are unidentified submerged objects, the sorts of things sailors have

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for millennia seen that the erudite dismiss as ce madness
rantings about krakens and rogue waves. Oh my, sorry, I forgot.
Science proved that giant and colossal squids that so easily

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match the description of the kraken. They also discovered proof
the dreaded rogue waves, a still flexing and dangerous mystery exists.
Christiansen wrote in the April that in the April nineteen

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fifty five issue of Proceedings magazine, Commander bining A. Sherman
was called to the bridge of the USS Hail VD
six forty two to look at something caught on the
destroyer's ramming stem. There he saw quote a monster of

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such gigantic size. Sherman said that forty feet of the
creature's body was being dragged down the port side of
the ship, while another twelve feet was hanging from the
starboard side. It appeared to be a shark, but a

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sh shark some fifty two feet in length. Sherman orchard
the ship to back clear of the creature, and then
Sherman took a closer look after that, besides being so
large that Sherman could have easily sat in its mouth,

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the beast had features different from any shark he'd heard of.
Upon returning to court, Sherman conducted research and concluded that
it was the storied whale shark. Sightings of whale sharks

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were exceedingly rare and reliably dismissed as misidentifications, hallucinations, tricks
of the eye, signs of lunacy, or the dementia of
aging uneducated fishermen. After the hail inadvertently found a well shark,

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none could say it was a mythical creature a cryptid anymore.
But the well shark is a gentle giant we could
identify and even befriend. Christensen also wrote it. Wrote reported

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that in nineteen seventy eight, a destroyer escort, the USS Stein,
was experiencing sonar noise which was interfering with operations. Inspectors
found that the protective rubber like coating on the sonar

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dome had several cuts and scratches. Within the cuts were
fragments of claws, the type of claw found in the
section cups of the squid. Alarmingly, the fragments of squid

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claws recovered from the Stein dwarfed any found anywhere. If
it was a squid that attacked the destroyer, it was
substantially larger than any cephalopod that has ever been documented.

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There seems to be a frighteningly gigantic species of squid
in our oceans that we've yet to see, and we
pray we never do.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
So does everybody believe all that? Do you believe? And
I do? There is and there are some gigantic one
ever way down in the depth of the ocean, whether
it's the Antarcica, Iceland, or the Atlantic Pacific or wherever,

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and they still exist. But do you believe in dinosaurs?
We have the skeletons to prove that. Do you believe?
I would love to hear from any of you. I
know Patty would love to hear from you because he
wants to prove it even more so, would that be correct,
mister Patty?

Speaker 3 (22:28):
I do enjoy a good paranormal story. Now, the thing
about paranormal stories is sometimes they are bunk. And there
is one supposed paranormal mystery that sensationalistic writers adore that's
never actually been a mystery. Those writers, irresponsible hype created

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a legend where there was only important last. I am
talking about Training Flight nineteen, which took off from Naval
air Station Fort Lauderdale on December five, nineteen forty five.
The disappearance of those pilots and the coincidental loss of

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the search and rescue plane which took off from Naval
air Station Banana River now Patrick Spaceport Space to find them,
became the morbid lunch pin for creating the Bermuda triangle myth.
In both cases, the Navy was well aware of the

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likely causes of the training flight getting lost and running
out of fuel over the ocean. It was also aware
of the likely cause of the rescue plane's destruction. After
thorough investigation of both incidents, the Navy made changes to

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training flight protocols and to the Martin PBM Mariner search
and rescue planes still in service. The changes arguably reduced
the chances of more accidental deaths, but Sensationalistic writers ignore
the Navy's reason to findings and changes to protocols to

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create mystery where none ever existed. They overlook the real story.
Serving in the military, even in peace time, is dangerous.
Training exercises must to be effective, be dangerous sometimes, and
we should honor the men of late nineteen and there

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would be rescuers as airmen fallen in the line of duty,
not turn them into evidence for a long defunct myth.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
O our veterans voice would be right back all its

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