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. From Ballen Studios, and 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 Monday. Share your stories: info@wartimestories.com
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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This is Part Two of the story of the Depraved Doctors of the Third Reich.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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The Winter War was a brutal struggle against a determined human enemy and the unforgiving cold, dangers the Red Army knew and understood. Yet on a desolate mountain plateau, where strange stone idols stand guard and the trees twist in agony, a Soviet company learned that some places are battlegrounds for forces far older and more monstrous than man.
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In the haze of combat fatigue, soldiers often battle waking nightmares, where the mind plays tricks in the dead of night. But for some, these visions become terrifyingly real, forcing them to question where their dreams end and a paranormal reality begins.
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The rules of engagement are clear when facing another army, but they are useless against a more primal foe. From the African plains to the mangrove swamps of Burma, soldiers discovered that the greatest danger wasn't the enemy in the opposite trench, but the man-eaters that saw both sides as nothing more than prey.
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On the frozen battlefields of the Korean War, American soldiers faced down the overwhelming force of the Chinese army. But for one company of infantrymen, the true enemy was not human; it was a silent, glowing orb that toyed with their artillery before unleashing a terrifying weapon of its own.
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...For the people of 16th-century Europe, the sky was a place of divine mystery, not a battlefield for mortal men. But in 1566, the heavens over Basel, Switzerland, became just that, as hundreds of dark spheres waged a mysterious war before the eyes of the citizens below.
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Long before it was a military training area, the land of CFB Meaford was home to sprawling farmsteads and the quiet lives of pioneer families. But while the families are long gone, one tragic soul remains, a young girl whose ghostly blue eyes now watch over the soldiers training for wars in other lands.
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In the brutal calculus of war, survival is often credited to skill, luck, or the simple whim of fate. But for some soldiers, the difference between life and death came as a warning from the most unlikely of sources: a messenger who was already dead.
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In the late 1980s, the skies over Gulf Breeze, Florida, became a theater for some of history's most famous UFO sightings. But as the town looked up in wonder, a far more sinister mission was unfolding on the ground, as six AWOL soldiers arrived with a Ouija board and a divine mandate to kill the Antichrist.
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For as long as humans have sailed the seas, they have feared the deadly predators lurking just beneath the waves. But what if the most terrifying monster wasn’t a known species, but an ancient ghost of impossible size, a creature science says has been extinct for millions of years?
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On the Eastern Front of World War I, German and Russian soldiers were locked in a desperate stalemate against each other and one of the most brutal winters in a century. But as the conflict decimated their enemies, ravenous wolf packs began to stalk the battlefield, seeing the trapped armies as their only source of food.
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