As a submariner I can’t tell you how much I love this video. I’m a nuclear mechanic and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stood the mid watch as the roving watch and had unnerving moments. I’d say it’s my own paranoia mostly but sometimes there’s noises and movements I can’t explain so who knows. I always start singing gospel music whenever I feel scared for no reason. But the shadow people are something we talk about a lot on my submarine from the engine room to the missile compartment there’s stories. Thanks again for such an amazing video
you: i sing when i feel uneasy someone who was on the boat the same night later telling in a bar: "then i heard extremely unnerving noises from somewhere on the boat. almost like singing, but not human, it sounded terrible, like a monster failing to lure ppl into their deaths or the wailing of the drowned stuck in their moment of death" XD
I was taught to scuba dive when I was 15 by my grandfather - a former Commander in the Royal Navy. After one particularly long, cold, and deep, dive, I asked him what his longest, coldest, and deepest dive was. "about 3 months at 50 metres under the arctic ice sheet .... of course I was wearing a nuclear submarine at the time"
I've been anchored above an old wreck before. They are seriously noisy. You can hear clangs and bangs all night long while you're trying to sleep, espescially if it's fairly calm and quiet. If it's a fairly new wreck, the currents will push around all sorts of stuff on a sunken boat and you'll hear metal on metal and all sorts of clangs throughout the night. Apparently old ship bells were notorious for clanging for long after their original sinking. That would have been a damn haunting sound to hear when you're below decks or in a submarine.
On the USS Maine I saw what looked like someone in khakis head in between the missile tube in MCLL while underway. The weird things are 1) we don't wear khakis underway (chiefs & officers of course) and 2) the particular space between tubes that the thing went into has a toolbox occupying it, a person cannot get in that space fully and would be at least partially visible. I walked over to where I saw it and there was nothing. I was told later, that years before this happened, a chief died due to a heart attack in that space on a weekend and had fallen beneath the deck plates. Supposedly he wasn't discovered until the start of the following workday.
@@MetalGear005 i worked on her a fair bit after you saw her, probably a decade after. Some of the guys i worked with always said they felt “unwanted” or sick near the MCLL.
I've dropped this story on one of your previous videos but that last one made me want to tell it again. This isn't the first or last strange/paranormal experience I had in the military, but was definitely one of my most memorable and unexplainable. Back in 2015 I was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. I was in the HHBN's signal company doing overnight shift work in Division Headquarters. Division was one of the oldest (may have been the oldest) buildings on base. From right around WWI. It was a big version of one of these old 3 story buildings you see on bases. I was working on floor 3 at the far south end of the building with one other guy. Nothing really happening so me and this guy would always trade off to go sleep in our cars for a couple of hours on nights like this. It was my turn to go in about 30 mins, but I had to piss and wasn't going to be able to hold it. So I walked out into the Lanai and across to where the bathrooms were. Im standing at the urinal where I could see directly out into the lanai/hall. I hear footsteps coming down the hall from where the stairs were. Thinking it was either my buddy or some insomniac NCO coming to hang out with us, I looked out in the hall to see. What walked by was a man, early-mid 20s, 5 10 or so. He was wearing the late 1930's early 1940s khaki duty uniform and walking briskly/with a purpose towards somewhere. The guy was fully there. No translucence or anything like that. I heard him walk to the door to my office and then heard it close but not open. I stopped pissing immediately and ran out into the hallway, went back into my office and searched for the man. Nothing. It was at that point that I noped out and went to get my buddy. We searched high and low for this guy but never found him. For the rest of our time working in that building, anytime we were on night shift, we doubled up. I later found out that Schofield/Wheeler Army Airfield was the first place that was hit as Japanese planes flew in through the mountain pass at the back of the base. They flew down the center of the island towards Pearl Harbor. They were caught off guard and as a result many soldiers died. To accommodate the sudden attack makeshift infirmaries were set up and one of the main ones was in the Division HQ building at Schofield Barracks.
Mahalo for that. Near the airport, there's a small strip mall off Paiea Street where Big Kahuna's and Jamba Juice is. The building that used to stand on the site was reportedly used as an impromptu morgue after the December 7 attacks, not sure if for civ or military casualties (it is kinda close to Hickam). A guy who worked there said the cleaners would grumble that the 2nd floor windows and computer screens would get handprints popping up all over them after they've been wiped down. Another guy told me about the service corridor having bad vibes, and one time he walked back there & froze, catching a pair of feet dangling off to his right at eye level in his peripheral. He did an about & noped outta there. The whole island is full of spooky stuff.
@@AmbuBadger Dude. So much spooky shit on Oahu. Kasha House in Kaimuki, the old sugar plantation in Waipahu, Barbers point. A good friend/ex of mine's step-dad was a retired HPD detective and told us one pa'ina about how all of the HPD buildings are insanely haunted. Basically everyone in HPD has some weird story from one of the precincts.
I was stationed at Wheeler Army Airfield. I first lived in housing on Wheeler (the old part off Wili Wili Circle), then moved to an apartment in Mililani, and finally back into housing on HMR (Helemano Military Reservation). I'd barely experienced anything paranormal (besides two things that happened when I was young: hearing my name being called when I was young & being helped by a woman in white). I'd lived in housing at other duty stations, even barracks in the Middle East, but this nothing had ever happened before. However, base housing in Hawaii, at least where I'd lived, was on a whole different level. I wasn't a believer before, but I certainly was by the time I left. Especially my now ex-husband, who was choked in the middle of the night in the Wheeler housing.
Prior USS West Virginia Sailor MT here, and I can confirm The "Eternal Rover." is real. He shot himself with his service weapon in the portside fan room. The bullet hole is still visible in the door to this day, I even saw it myself. One day during Field day, my SWSMC walks up to my LPO, and I while we're standing watch and asks if he put anyone in the fan room in lower level. LPO Says no. The focus was Upper Level and Second Level. Our SWSMC continued saying that he shined his light through the small window in the fan room and saw a sailor sitting down with his head in his hands inside. He started to unlatch the door and only looked away for a moment, and when he shined his light again, he was gone. He walked to the other side of the compartment to see if he could catch him in Machinery Two or the other fan room, but he never found him. Dude straight up vanished in the wind. I asked what fan room he was sitting in, and he said "Portside". It was a little unsettling, but not for long, Field day meant burgers for lunch.
Plank owner on USS West Virginia. I’ve stood mid watch MCRP. I saw and heard some strange things on that boat. I know that a tired mind can play some tricks on you, but what about after you have had a nice 12 hour equalizer? Scary.
I worked 3 seasons on crab boats in Alaska. One of the ship served on was a retired navy supply vessel. I seen a person in blue utilities go into engineering but was gone when I walked in. I still think it was the crew having fun with the new guy but they swear they don't pull a prank.
The only time I’ve ever experienced anything unexplainable was late at night off the Oregon coast over the Stonewall banks. That was my last trip commercial fishing.
“Is that you Squid?!” LMAO that was my buddy Squitiro at Camp and I was a young MT3 at the time. I got a text today with a link to this video from a friend and former sailor of the West V, asking if it was me. Remembered posting the USS West Virginia story on r/Paranormal a couple years ago. Super thankful for bringing it to life in such good detail!
if any of these stories happened to me I would instantly be back on the mainland as a cashier at costco or something. no way im staying in a metal tube full of ghosts LOL
Submariner in the Royal Navy and I can confirm there are few things creepier than watch keeping down an empty submarine. Its nice to see us Submariners being represented on wartime stories! 😁
@@-xirx- Nah, when it's in dry dock most of the duty watch sleep in a nearby building, so overnight you have 2 or 3 people on board split between forward and aft
You "Mates" really impressed me when I heard about The HMS Warspite breaking the dive record ...longest military submarine drive without surfacing at 111 days! '82 to "83, covering 35,471 miles (57,085 km), A regular deployment for a SSBN is an average of 77 days before maintenance.....But 3 months and 21 days without breaking surface?....that garners a lot of respect.... U.S.N. Salute.
Well engine rooms are cursed. I was part of a longtime fishing trip in Norway and when i was 16 and i often went down there since i was fascinated with the engine. So basicly on evening i forgot to put a wrench back after helping out. So in the middle of the nigth i went down. I put it down on the table and in german my native tounge i heared a Danke sehr. Only when i was back in my bed i realized of the norwegian crew none spole german except thier old engenier who died in a electrical short in the engine room recently.
on the "right through the Bulkhead" Story. One Hypothosis by Paranormal investigators on why ghosts can go through Walls is this idea that they still perceive the area as it was when they died (ie, a ghost can walk through a wall because at the time they died there wasn't a wall there and instead it was an entrance to a room). the guy mentioned that the dude was wearing a WW2 era uniform and that they were anchored in Pearl Harbour. While they didn't give an exact spot, It is possible that the sub was unwittingly sitting in the exact spot as one of the vessels that got attacked during the Japanese surprise attack Pearl Harbour, and that unfortunate sailor was someone who died bellow decks and is now wandering that spot and giving the impression that the sub is haunted, when in reality the ghost inhabits that general vicinity and the sub just happened to be moored in the right(or wrong depending upon how you look at it) place.
@@littleredwitch I would have assumed the same, had the ghost not responded to the witness's hails and looked directly at them. some Paranormal evidence indicates that at least some spirits still see their surroundings the way they were when they died (such as EVPs alleging ghosts complaining about heat in the middle of a cool night)
There are stories of homes being torn down and another building built on the same site. Ghosts of people from the original building are still seen on the site.
@@themanformerlyknownascomme777 My wife saw the ghost of a former female owner of our previous house (I was gone on a work assignment to another state). She had been a nurse. My wife could see her in an older style nurse's outfit right down to the white shoes. My wife said that she didn't have a visible head. The thing that struck me was my wife said that she was wearing a nurse's jacket, but this was in the middle of July. A funny side note: Some years later we got a letter addressed to her from the Navy. It said that they wanted her to join as the Navy needed nurses. The thing was that if she was still alive, she would have been in her late 90s. I said that the Navy must really be desperate if they are looking for 95 year old nurses.
@@kenbattor6350 yeah, here in Brazil we had the most massive population of slaves in the American continent. Many farms that are still standing from way back during the slavery days are haunted as fuck by the spirits of dead slaves.
As a veteran, I can absolutely assure anyone who reads this that important information gets passed along in "the smoke pit". For whatever reason, people have a greater tendency to talk stuff out in those places versus just some "break area". I was a Senior NCO before I "retired" from active duty, and I often picked up valuable info while BSing with the guys and gals in "the pit". So, anyone can say what they want about smoke pits not being important, but I sure know better than that.
If you were a tech or mechanic of ANY sort, especially in the Navy, you've quite often found answers to the occational techinal issue that may have caused lengthy issues. Even if one doesn't smoke, per se, spending time on the 'smoking sponson/smoke deck' can be even more eventful than spending time with your face buried in a 'tech manual'.
In the USMC, the smoke pit is where the Lance Corporal mafia holds court. All important information is passed and all beef is squashed there. I didn’t even smoke, but you better believe I was there as often as I could be.
Our smoke pit was just outside a door from the Junior Ranks Mess, and in our unit the senior leadership tended to invite Master Corporals that were slated to be promoted to Sergeant to start hanging out in the Sgt's mess...so it wasn't as good for sorting stuff out as it could have been Small unit though, which was a lucky first unit to be in for me
I was on the U.S.S. Carl Vison in the early 90's. I had several experiences from locked doors being knocked on and being opened in front of me after each time it was knocked on. The door knob was the kind that would be locked on the outside, but could be opened from the inside. The store room office was on the inside of this door.Three times, this door slammed open after each time it was knocked on, I could see the knocking because of the black shiny paint. I watch the door knob turn each time it opened with force. The space outside the door was only about 10 x 15 square area. Metal ladders and metal decks make noise when walked on, I say this because the first time the door opened, I thought it was someone playing tricks on us. I didn't realize until years later whatever was opening the door was inside the storeroom with us. This one of a couple of events I've had experience with on this ship. I believe most naval vessels have ghosts on them.
Most service posts are. As a Catholic, there are two explanations for ghosts: souls in purgatory and demons. Someone who dies with a predominance of sin but either nothing mortal or a merciful intervention is slated to purgatory until the end of the world. Another merciful intervention is letting someone appear to ask for prayers, not always in person. Sometimes a suicide is under duress and we understand now that the person may not be in Hell. But suicide with intent is very serious and each mortal sin "frees demons from Hell". It creates a link between the chaos of perdition and the world. If a demon thinks it can ruin lives by dwelling in that portal, it will until exorcised.
I served on the U.S.S. Carl Vinson while on deployment in 2010-2011. I spent plenty of time in dark, humid strore rooms, but fortunately never experienced anything supernatural. It can definitely feel creepy, though.
@ryanstevenson3067 I was a cook, but I did food storage for most of my time on board. That experience happened in the store room where we had our office. There was a freezer in forward most part of the ship, about 5 decks down where an officer hung himself while on deployment in 96'. After that incident, there was a shipmate that was from the air wing that said he could hear chipmunk sounds coming from space. The officer used twine. That makes a similar sound when stretched tight.
Naval Aviator here, my father was the Skipper of the West Virginia and I spent a lot of time on that boat. Never saw anything strange, but the missile compartment can be a strange place late at night. Keep up the great videos, I always love these stories.
My step dad Maurice Baughn was a plank owner in the West Virginia. Maybe served under your father. I remember the commissioning in the 80s. There is bust of a coal miner in that boat modeled after my grandfather, who was a miner in Logan County WV. I have a duplicate of that bust in my house.
I was not in the military or a Leo, but i have one story that still sticks with me nearly 10 years since its happened. When i was 16, i worked in a assisted living facility in my town as a housekeeper/kitchen staff. The building was old and had seen a lot of residents in its time. I had been there for a about a month and one night while i was a setting the dining room for breakfast the next morning, i heard someone screaming for help down one of the near by hallway's, and i knew there wasn't any staff down that hallway at the time. I wasn't going to get in trouble to go and make sure nothing was wrong, so i went down the hall and knocked a few door, asking if anyone was awake and okay (this is around 9 to 10:00 so fairly late and usually all residents were put to bed by now) and either they were sleeping or in bed reading a book and were fine. So after going down the entire hallway and getting to the laste room, which was vacant due to the last resident passing away in the room. The door was open so i just poked my head in to see if i could see anyone in there, It was clear and nothing out of the ordinary. So since everything seemed to be fine. I went back up the hallway, it was like an L so i went to go to a left turn and get to the main facility. As i rounded the corner, i heard the same person screaming for help and could tell it was coming from the last room on the hall. so i walked down the hall towards the room, asking if anyone was okay and if they needed help?, as i got my last word out. The door to the last room that was opened, slammed shut and the helps stopped.. Me being still young and kinda in a know of how my co workers were. I figured it was one of them messing with me and was able to hide good in the room when i looked in it. So i went back to the med station in the middle of the building, where three CNA's are. To ask if they had anyone down that hall to mess with me. They all said they didn't and got on there radios to ask where the other 3 CNA's are, two were on the complete opposite side of the building and one was on the same side but in a different hallway that was a good walk away from where i was. So me and the 3 staff i went to went down that hall, and since they definitely had the ability to do so, they opened and checked on all residents down that hall and everyone was okay and either hadn't asked for help or were asleep. So we then go into the last room, where the door shut earlier and checked everything in there. It was empty and had no sign of anyone being in there recently. While in there a clock the former resident had in a bookshelf, that after this i found out hadn't worked in the 3 years they were living there, started working and started making a chime like it was 12 or something. One of the CNA's went and looked at the clock, the water in the bathroom sink turned on and the toilet flushed. Once that happened we all ran out and didn't go down that hall for awhile. That place was creepy and i had a lot of small things happen. Hear things and see things move. See people walk past you one second and they're gone the next. I worked there for a year and a half and was happy to leave.
@@MrSlopywaffle115Oh I believe you alright. Here's my story. During COVID my uncle who was living in our ancestral home had passed away when he was alone. Our family came from another city to make his funeral arrangements. The house itself is divided into two seperate portions. One portion was given to my uncle and the other was always vacant so that we could stay whenever we came. So it was on one night, about one week after his death,that the incident happened: Me ,My mother, aunt and cousins were asleep in the living room..At 3:13 am (i checked the time)me and my mother woke up to a disturbance. It took us a few seconds to realise what the "disturbance" was. It was coming out from the veranda outside the home. A groaning voice as if someone is on their death bed. We realised it sounded Just like my recently passed uncle! It spooky to say the least. 😅Had other incidents happen here, always experienced my me and mother. Guess we are the sensitive one's.
One of my great uncles was in the navy on a submarine. He told me once of hearing tapping on the hull in Morse code but they were underwater in the Pacific during WW2
Nimitz has a few ghosts, and has a serial killer that went from port to port and carved the names of the women he killed onto the bottom of a pump in one of the shaft alleys. People hear voices and see shadows down there quite often, but I never saw anything directly myself. Biggest weird thing I saw was a ball of smoke shoot out from the escape shaft in the engine room (it's a 50 foot vertical fire escape that has hundreds of rungs that lets operators escape the the engine room to the 2nd deck incase of a bad fire or flooding) and then into the bilge. Of course, someone hung himself in there like a decade ago (at the time, so 20 years ago now), so there's the similar theme for you. As always, there are shadow people that dart behind equipment in the forward portion of the compartment, especially in lower level. In bootcamp, however, I remember the last night I had there, and they ended up giving me the midnight roving watch, So I ended up roaming the compartment. As I was doing my compartment rove, I distinctly heard a voice say "Someone Please Help Me" come from the bathroom in the middle of the compartment. I went to the showers, the stalls, the wash sinks, and no one was there. After that, maybe it was due to paranoia, but it also seemed like there were shadows jumping between bunks in the compartment. 6 hours or so later I got on a bus and got sent off to A School, so never got to talk to anyone about it.
@ANon-ip9jh as someone who's currently serving on board the Nimitz. I was told by another subscriber to WTS about the serial killer. I confirmed to them that we did have a serial killer on board back in the day round 25 yrs ago. And I was curious about the name carving. I know that it's somewhere because from what I was told in previous conversations from my guys that I work with was that the killer did his actions down in one of our main pump rooms on the ship. Of course the name carving more than likely painted over by now to 'keep the ship clean'. And I also wanted to point out that during my time on board the ship I've had 3 encounters whilst on board. One on the flight deck during our deployment last yr. And 2 of em that happened in our main two pump rooms. One prior to deployment and another a couple months after deployment. Which I wanna say late Sept
@@AKPATRIOT The point about ghostly activity will probably become moot in the near-future. USS Nimitz is scheduled for retirement next year. She won't be technically inactivated until 2017, presumably after they defuel her reactors. They say Enterprise/CVN-65 may FINALLY begin the scrapping process next year but I think that depends on the progress with Kitty Hawk. KH looks like it will finish the scrapping process by the end of this year. It's down to just under 40% of the KH left; you can't even ID it as an aircraft carrier anymore. The island, flight and hangar decks of the KH are gone. I presume that whatever they were going to preserve of the KH is already in storage units if they haven't begun selling off pieces of the ship yet... I don't want to name the Nimitz serial killer, either -- that's giving the scum publicity he doesn't deserve -- but his name wasn't hard to find.
@AvengerII actually about the Nimitz being decomm its not happening until 2027 and to begin scrapping or whatever they wish to do with the ship its not going to happen until at least 2029. Big navy extended the life span of the ship and they wish to keep the life of the Nimitz until (I believe) the Enterprise is commissioned
The propulsion plants on CVN 77 are strait up haunted. A good number of MMNs, including my self have seen shadow people down in the plants. It would be the dead of night, and in the corner of my eye I would see a pair of blue coveralls. My first thought was that it was another watch stander, or a watch supervisor doing a rove. The moment I focused on the coveralls, they disappear. I would hear the sound of deck plates being walked on at my station, but there was no one anywhere near my station. This lasted for an entire nine month deployment, we would call it the Shadow Man and they would constantly pop in and out. I swear the plants soak up all of the negativity from those that have to bust their rears to keep it working. It also does not help that the Reactor Department and Nuclear rates as a whole have some of the worst rates of suicide in the Navy. I think everyone leaves something behind in those plants, even after they leave the ship alive or dead.
I was an EM, so I never had to go down into the alleys at odd hours, and so I can't corroborate anything about haunting... but I can corroborate how much negativity there is in engineering, especially the nuke rates. If excess negativity and bitterness can have an effect on a place, well, I'm not surprised those places end up creepy as fuck.
Having served in the Navy and Reserve for 28 years (Destroyers and Frigates), I would say the Navy Equivalent (perhaps excepting Subs) to "SMOKE PIT STORIES" would be FANTAIL STORIES. Its sort of a Navy tradition, after chow, to hang out on the ships Fantail - the very Stern of the ship - around Sunset. IT makes for a nice view, dramatic and beautiful oftentimes. The wake of the ship is right there, the power of the Engines can be felt, and there are Bitts (for tying up) available as Stools to hang out and Shoot the Bull. This was particularly big on a Cadet Ship - which has a lot of people on it (TS Empire State)...
And the fantail look out is trying their hardest to not socialize or eavesdrop on anyone’s especially higher ranks conversations, kind of hard when the smoking lamp is lit, 1 hour rotation couldn’t come fast enough
Im a caretaker on board ex-Little Rock and she still has her “crew” on board. We have at least 6 or so “regulars” that have been seen. A sailor in the old dungarees with a deck jacket that walks the starboard p-way from the galley streamline to the wardroom. A CPO back aft that loves to bumrush you and knock coffee or tools out of your hand. An officer up front in wardroom country that just watches you work, and will even greet you. A man dressed as an Admiral that will give tourists tours of the ship. A corpsman down in sick bay that acknowledges you when you say goodnight while locking up. None of these ghosts are malicious mind you, they are just shipmates helping us, the physical crew, do our jobs. One day in the missile house I needed to move the transfer cart but couldn’t find the hand crank for the mechanism. Inside the tool room just outside of the magazine, I heard tapping. I went inside the tool room to where I heard the tapping and found a hand crank. As soon as I touched it, I heard banging on the steel catwalk next to the missile cart back inside the magazine. I walked back into the mag and to my surprise the hand crank fit the mechanism and allowed me to finish my job. It was Guided Missileman 3 Smith I’m convinced, who had been mortally wounded in the missile magazine after a hydraulic system casualty when the ship was in service during 1962.
I got one for you guys. I was playing red dead 2 when it came out late one night, as one does. Most the lights were off, but the dining room light was the only one on. I look over and on the wall I see a shadow person, imagine someone sitting on the curb holding their knees to their chest, but I saw it stand up and my blood ran cold. It then moved down the hallway toward my grandmothers room (she was in a nursing home and I watched her house) I slept on the couch that night. The next morning there was a dove in the house, came through the cat door. I let It out and went to work where my dad called me and told me Grandma had died in the night. She said goodbye by sending a dove and I saw some freaky shadow thing. For the record I don't feel the shadow was her. I can't imagine she would be scary to me. Could all that be a coincidence? I don't think it was. When my other grandmother died immediately after her vaccine, I drove to the funeral in the rain and sitting in the rain getting dumped on, was another dove 🕊️ staring at me. We are never alone, so be good.
Totally agree with you...... right now I'm in bed and exactly 10 miles in a straight line from where I had my last and after 15 year's I don't like to even think about it, I was beyond shocking
We lived in a haunted house when I was a kid. Part of the house was old with upper and lower levels and when we moved in, we built a section onto it, also with upper and lower levels. But strangely, every single incidence that occurred in the house, happened on the old side. There were six of us kids, and when we were all teenagers, paranormal activities really ramped-up in the home. Like once my sister was in her bedroom and she heard a thump on the floor at the end of the bed, and when she looked, then she saw a hand fall and hit the floor. So, she thot one of us other sisters was on the other side of the bed, and was totally creeped when no one was there. Once we had a rabbit that would attack you in the middle of the night if you got up to use the potty. It would bite your feet and it was terrifying! Then once my brother came home and I think he said he was on acid and he saw satan at the top of the stairs looking down at him and laughing. A few other crazy things. Oh, and then the house burnt down, and if one of our neighbors didn't alert us, my room was the first consumed and it happened around bedtime! The house is no more... But everyone made it out unharmed.
“Smoke pits are an important mechanism for the dissemination of information” - dang right they are! Best thing for morale and stress reduction, too! This channel is proof of that. Thanks!
I've mentioned on a few other videos: A good friend of mine retired from the Royal Navy at a respectable rank. He's never once joked or lightly spoke about the his time before, during and after the Cold War. The stories he's shared, I've no doubt, are 100% true.
@@Axemantitan I'll ask my mate first - out of respect to him and the men that he served with. There's a couple that are sensitive, given his rank, role and what the aftermath was.
I love these paranormal stories. My younger brother was on the Casimir Pulaski SSBN 633 for 3 years. He never talks about his time on the nuclear sub. I'm glad you got help. It's definitely not week to ask for help. We all have some kind of issue.
@@EphemeralProductions I figure they been busy with the audio side they are working with MrBallen studios on. I don't follow anybody off youtube though so I don't know for sure.
When I was staying in Ford Island which is in the middle of Pearl Harbor. I had sailor cross in front of me out by the parking area on this like little gravel road. And the just disappeared. I also had my golf clubs start clanging together one day when I was in my room. So I asked the made service if this place was haunted and she said yes but they won’t bother you. They are just lost sailors from the attack on the Harbor. And she was right
I was a Sonar Technician on board two different subs: USS Tusk an ex-WWII sub, and then on the Casimir Pulaski that carried balletic missiles. On the Pulaski, we patrolled in the North Atlantic. There were days when the shipping lanes were quiet and had no contacts. But, imagine a nice quiet day with headphones on and a whale lets out a big roar. When that would happen I swear I left my seat jumping straight up and almost out of my chair. On my first boat, the Tusk; I walked into the sonar room for the first time and someone had put a message on one of the overhead lights. It said: "If you can read this without looking up, kiss your ass goodbye." You can't let that stuff bother you, but it has always sat in the back of my mind.
I served on LST1188 USS Saginaw during Operation Desert Storm carrying brother Jarheads in the Persian Gulf. My first incident in the gulf was the shower knocker. Coming off a Midwatch around 4am. I always headed to take a Navy shower before hitting the rack. Getting off watch every stateroom has doors closed since everyone is sleeping and all passageways are darkened ship with red lights. Anyways 10 seconds into my shower the door is pounded like a sledge hammer hit it and I rush to the head entrance and peek out and the passageway is completely dark and empty. 2nd incident, going thru the Bermuda triangle between Florida and Cuba, I am coming off mid watch walking outside the skin of the ship heading to the compartment door and I see another sailor in dungarees behind me. I paid him no attention, but when I turned around to hold the door open for him, he had vanished. Later, I found out a sailor had hung himself from the Bow ramp one night about 10 years prior because of marital problems. The first people to see him swinging was the midwatch on the bridge.
I served on the USS Halsey CG-23 in the late 80's. We had a couple of ghosts on that ship. One was of a enlisted man who was killed during helo ops on the fantail when deployed off the coast of Vietnam, and another was a crew member who hanged himself in the forward fire room located off of the mess decks. I knew a boatswain mate. He was standing the mid watch at the end of the fantail. He said it was a very dark that night. All of a sudden a enlisted man who was not there before said "Hey do you see that light over there". He turned to look and saw a light from another ship. When he turned back the guy was gone and he did not hear any footsteps. It was like the guy appeared, then disappeared. I was the night baker and I worked from 10pm till after breakfast was secured. One night I was on the mess deck taking a break and talking with one of my friends who was on sounding watch. All of a sudden this guy comes out of the forward fire room and walks to where the coffee machine was located on the mess decks. He was wearing khaki pants and shirt, but he was not a officer or chief. He also had a old coffee mug in his hand. He was older and had a scruffy beard. Anyway this guy scratches his chin as if he was thinking coffee sounds good right now, and the coffee machine was full. He then turned and went down the starboard passageway. Neither me or my friend did not recognize the guy. We had no civilian contractors on board at the time. The odd part was when he walked. You could not hear his footsteps. Anyone who has served on a US navy ship will tell you when someone walks on a ship, even barefoot. You can hear their footsteps. Me and my friend saw the ghost of the man who hanged himself, and we were not the only ones.
This is my favorite channel. You are an elegant storyteller of an extremely interesting subject matter that I never knew I could fall in love with. I appreciate your honest, open look inside yourself and talking about the way we may speak to ourselves in a negative way. I think for once I'm not only going to take a suggestion from a RUclips video on a purchase but I'm going to use their link to try (cost is really the only issue) to sign up for some therapy. I would love to have what you have and I can tell by your eyes that you're telling the truth. Thank you for loving yourself man and for loving us enough to share your compassionate energy, soothingly spooky true wartime tales and most importantly, your time. I love you, bro. God bless.
Fellow crayon eater here, I love your content and your stories. I find it unbelievably cathartic talking and telling others about your videos. I've noticed as well that your vidoes provoke alot of thought into our humanity. Not sure if its intentional having it tie in with your personal stories and ads with for mental health but its incredible. I dabbled in history before it was cool back in school and I appreciate everything you've done to pay homage to the people you represent in these videos. I hope one day to meet you in person if not till Valhalla. Semper Gumby
I love these maritime paranormal stories. These are my favourite, and I actually have one of my own. I'm a Maritime Historian and took a trip this past September to visit the USS Cobia; a WW2-era Gato-class Submarine which earned its fame from being the first Submarine upon which a burial at sea was photographed aboard. The sailor who buried, Ralph Clark Huston, was killed in a firefight with a Japanese in which the sub was using its deck guns. His ghost still haunts the ship, and I believe I had an experience with it. Nothing happened to me while I was aboard the ship, but something strange did happen to me when I got back to the resort that evening. I was relaxing in one of the bedrooms and then I went to go use the bathroom, but I did not touch anything in my room before having gone to the bathroom. While I was in the bathroom, I began to hear a static noise emanating down the hall from the bedroom. I thought it was my dad switching through TV channels at first, but then, I finished up in the bathroom and walked down the hall to the bedroom. The static got louder, and then I saw the source. The radio on the room's alarm clock was switched on and playing static, and the lamp next to it was also switched on, despite having been off before. There was no one else in our suite who could've done it. My dad had been in the shower on the other side of the suite and was still in the shower by the time I finished up in the bathroom, and my mom was not in our suite, as she was in the laundry room on the other side of the building. I like paranormal stuff though so I was more amazed than freaked out, and I still slept in my room that night lmao.
I went there a few years ago. I was behind the group in the tour and took a peek into a roped off area. I peeked my head just being curious and something back slapped my head. There was no one else there and if I bumped into metal or something I’d of injured myself. It felt like someone slapped the back of my head. I felt something felt I was being disrespectful and made it known to me.
@@RANDY64612 woah, that sounds like quite the experience. People told me they got touched in some way or another in there, and one of the curators told me that whenever he accidentally dropped the keys through the metal grates on the floor, the keys would miraculously end up hanging by the entrance ladder despite no one going below the grates to get the keys.
That sounds to me like they want their stories known, they want to be remembered, and made contact with you because you might be able to do that for them. As a historian you may have this happen again and again. It may be of interest to learn about automatic writing and see if anything comes through. It would be a very unique opportunity to document history straight from the source. I'd also recommend praying for them in whatever belief system you have (though if you're Christian or Catholic prayers for St. Michael to guide them to heaven are especially powerful and emotionally moving). It doesn't matter what their belief system might have been, if they had one. It helps regardless and you'll feel it! I've seen "Thank you" signs afterwards like single white doves flying past. Once literally a balloon with the words Thank You on it coming into my room lol. They never lose their sense of humor!
You forget you’re on board, I’m on a boat right now and can attest to the fact that people forget you are on a submarine several hundred feet underwater. More often then not it’s studying, working on work qualifications, sleeping, or maintenance. There’s really not much else too it. Plus it’s kinda roomy on my boat.
Wow, the story of the USS Pampanito just keeps getting more and more interesting. I first learned of the WWII Balao Class submarine while watching a "behind the scenes" documentary about the 1996 film, "Down Periscope," which showcased the USS Pampanito as being the submarine used for (mostly) exterior shots of the boat as it sub-stituted as the film's fictional "USS Stingray." I have been fascinated, interested, and have researched the history of the WWII era submarine ever since and hope to, someday, visit the now-museum-boat anchored in San Francisco Bay, CA. Now to find out it's likely haunted?! I'm even more intrigued. Thanks to the viewer who shared that bit of experience and thanks to Wartime Stories for featuring the shared story.
If you do make it down there, it's worth also checking out USS Hornet just across the Bay from the Pampanito. Not only a fantastic museum, but supposedly the Hornet is one of the most haunted ships out there. Personally I've only ever felt peaceful and nice aboard, but I also never toured her alone or at night.
Great idea using The Thirty-Fathom Grave as an intro. The ending was chilling. After the diver managed to enter the sub he found the remains of the crew and a sheared section of periscope swinging back and forth that apparently caused the knocking. Logical explanation, right? But what about the disquieting fact that one of the dead men had a hammer in his hand?
I absolutely LOVE how you end each episode with “ May God be with each and every one of you, no matter what you’re dealing with. “ I so appreciate that ! And I send it right back to you ❤
Love Navy ghost stories, first got exposed to them through the USS Arizona ghost face. There's just something extra creepy about spirits beneath the waves.
My brother served aboard the USS Indianapolis (SSN 697 Los Angeles/688 Class fast attack sub) back in the mid 80s, and told me he had many instances of strange noises for no reason, but that he paid them no mind b/c subs are full of complex machinery, men and various hydraulics, tubes and ballasts, etc. However, he also told me of disembodied voices coming from sealed compartments while there was no one else in the compartment. He thought it odd because he knew of no deaths on the sub, but confessed that there were a few times that it creeped him out to stand watch or even pass through those compartments alone. Having grown up in a Navy family, I always had the impression that Sailors are generally a superstitious lot anyway. And from what Ive read, that's a tradition that goes back hundreds of years through most navies. I served in Special Ops and I'm happy to report that I never slept in a haunted tent. 😅
Good evening from the Philippines, The animation from the first story (The Man Wearing Utilities) nearly made me drop my drink. Amazing work as always. God bless you Luke and Team. Your videos are the highlight of my month.
I was born in subic inside the base. I am half Filipino half American German. Left 1 year before mt Pinatubo eruption. What a beautiful place , however the base has many haunted locations up until now including the very infamous abandoned hospital shown in several documentaries. Now in Dallas Texas
I had a friend whose father served on a Cold War era sub. He said weird shit happened down there so often that the old-timers didn't even really worry about it. He also said that there are big--like really big--things moving around down there, and no one knows what they are. But whatever it was didn't seem to bother submarines, so again, no one on board got too worked up when some unidentified thing triple the size of the boat went lazily floating by.
Many spiritual practices of old by old I mean Pre-Christian.. like old old. They say water carries information many rituals to invoke Ancestors and nature spirits use rituals of water.
Great vid. I worked on the Constellation for@ 2 yrs , doing tours, restorations were going on after it came back from dry dock. This was1980-83. Yes its extremely haunted. Heard and felt stuff, but never a visual. Same as The Flag House and Fort McHenry. Worked them all and loved it!❤🇺🇸. God Bless. Ty
I was a Plane Captain on board the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN for work-ups and eventual deployment. We had many UNREPS(underway replenishments), many of which involved fuel transfer. Jet fuel. Anyone who knows, you can't light jet fuel with just a lighter. It's practically non- combustible. While transferring fuel we're not allowed to smoke. We'll, CAG Masterchief was a smoker. He made it so that we had a separate smoking sponson opened for us on 03 level, just to the port of CAT 4. Small and very loud during OPS. Especially with TOMCATS on board. 1998.
11:15 My room started to vibrate and humm at the same time he was narrating this, I kid you not. Freaked me for a sec. Turns out, a police helicopter flew low past my house.
Not a submariner story, but I was USAF, stationed at Inçirlik AB, Turkey from June 2002 to September 2003. I was a 1-man shop under the maintenance squadron, so I had no actual coworkers (an office to myself and a lot of augmentee duty in down times). When I arrived, there was no room available in the maintenance dorms, so for the first few weeks I was in the security forces dorm, then moved to the ammo/maintenance dorm when a room became available. I was grateful to be in a quieter area and closer to my shop, right across from the hospital, and just a couple blocks from the gym and BX. My first night, I had already worked about 12 hours and then moved into my new room. It was late, so I was just quietly cleaning and unpacking more than arranging. I was too tired and didn't want to make much noise past 2300 hrs, so I showered and got into bed. The room furniture was arranged with the wall locker along the longest wall to the left of the entrance and window side, with the bed directly under the window, immediately to the left of the entrance. I was on the 2nd story, about in the middle of the row of rooms. I have never slept without checking locks on doors and windows and saying a prayer for good measure. I was wide awake from being overtired (or maybe from really just wanting to move that furniture was bothering me), so I reached under the bed (I hadn't stocked the bookshelf yet because I wanted family and friends' photos up first). I grabbed the first book, and as I rolled over to lay on my back, a Turkish-looking civilian man was leaning THROUGH my window, bent at a right angle, RIGHT above my chest. I froze. He hovered as if inspecting me. He had on a short sleeve button-down nice shirt with a collar just a little large to be modern (think 60s-70s style) and it was pale yellow against his tan skin, and his thick, dark hair was the mop-top style of the 60s also. He looked to be in his late 30s, and we seemed to be inspecting each other, but it was in all a split-second. I was sure my heart would beat right out of my throat when he suddenly looked at me, face-to-face, with a look of complete disgust mixed with disappointment, as if I didn't belong because not only was I an American, but an American Female. Suddenly, without ever moving his arms from the attention-like position they remained in the entire time, he stood back straight up and so he went backwards, again swiftly, right through the closed blinds and the closed, locked window, without moving them or making a sound. I just laid there breathing for a few seconds before I got up, went to midnight chow, the gym, and then went back to my new room and rearranged it with the bed as far from the window as possible and then I placed both of the wall lockers in front of the window, completely blocking it. I'll never forget that man, it was so vivid and intense. Nor much else happened there, at least not in my room. My stereo would sometimes just start playing randomly (and it was my father's from the 70s: So that I could play my vinyl in the best way to remind me of home and joyful times growing up, and it had NO timer whatsoever on it.) I have a lot of paranormal stories, but never really told most of them. This one wasn't really frightening to me, besides being startled by the suddenness of the experience and the look on his face. I saw my first spirit at just 6 years old (never scared me), but I've also seen some that still make me pray harder.
I'm a West Virginian, and I want to tip my cap to the crew of the "boomer" that carries our name. We're all incredibly proud and thankful to you all (as we are towards everyone who serves this great country). You allow all of us to sleep better at night and enjoy the freedoms we're afforded.
Wow what a funny coincidence you uploaded this just now, I just got my rate from the Navy! Submarine Electrical and Computer Field. I ship out May 23rd.
@@Justicesdad Seconding this. Lots of young servicemen make poor financial decisions because it's their first solid job, and there are a lot of people seeking to take advantage. Hold on to your money, and be skeptical.
OMG!!!! I HAVE TO TELL YOU!!! I W-A-I-T FOR YOUR CHANNEL TO LOAD THE Material all month long !!!!!!!!! IT'S SOOO FANTASTIC!!!!! I want to THANK YOU & ALL the rest of our Armed forces from the bottom of my Heart.. I LOVE hearing these stories from all of you !!! These stories help me understand just some of what you all go thru. God Bless You all!!!!
Bell bottom jeans, 2000s modern utilities were much more professional looking than the goofy mom jeans, coveralls underway and utilities in port If you are my age..40s now in pre 9/11 the utilities had a certain smell when issued in boot camp, I think they soaked them in a flame retardant chemical or something, that smell was very unpleasant
You know. I’m not surprised that ghost stories run rampant on a sub. There are a lot of unnatural things going on in a sub. You are deep under water, pressurized, nuclear power, breathing air that came from the water around you. Plus the stress of basically being at work 24/7 can stress the mind to the max.
Awesome work man! I’m so glad it seems you are hitting your stride - I’m getting to watch your stuff regularly these days! Keep up the great work - love this channel!
I used to conduct ghost tours at Ft Reno in Oklahoma. I was in Army in the 80s. However, at Fort Reno I experienced apparitions there more than most. I believe it was those from the past can sense who we are, or were.
I may be a couple months late to this, but thank you Wartime Stories for sharing my account. Pampanito’s history may be a tragic one, but it’s always good to recount these stories so that those who gave up their lives will never be forgotten. Keep up the great work
Submariners are truely built different...The fact that it's a huge object underwater with a giant propeller on the back, on top of spooky Shenanigans...why I stay on land unless im fishing😅
that might just be the government secret agent who disguised as the cook trying to detonate one of the missles to prevent the submarine falling into american hands XD
Absolutely love Wartime Stories! I must say though, when I was a kid and I’m in my 50’s now, anytime I was ill, I would have nightmares about being confined in a submarine with red lights on and would wake up in tizzy. I believe I got the red lights in a submarine thing from a movie at some point but it was the feeling of suffocation and confinement that stays with me until this day. Love the channel Luke. You do great work!
I almost got detailed to the USS San Fran, and I am gonna tell you now, ain't hell, high water, horses, or anything get me in Shaft Ally on the Fran. Then, I got detailed to USS Connecticut (SSN-22) and that thing went and ran into a mtn, just after I left. I ain't gettin' back on no boat. Nope. I got my fish, and they can stay where they is. Boats be haunted.
Dude I love these videos. Can you do a video on ghost/creepy stories of the flightline. Being maintenance, we get some gruesome and sad deaths that lead to the spirits of the lost maintainers and aircrew making sure we don't forget them.
No matter how many episodes I watch, I continue to be absolutely stunned by the quality of your videos.. every aspect of them.. you truly have an amazing gift!
I agree. If you need mental health get it. A friend of mine was very depressed. Tried to get him to go to a doctor. I had to move away and found out a month later that he blew his brains out. I feel partly guilty but what could I do. Get help if you need it.
Everybody needs mental health help these days! The amount of abuse & bullying going on is out of control now, and learning CBT techniques is always an asset for anyone. its almost like learning First Aid. even if you dont need it now, you wanna have it before you need it, and in the mean time you can use it to help others!
May the fourth be with you....
⭐️ May the Fourth be with you. ⭐️
Thank you Luke.
Already went to theaters lol
And also with you.
May the 4th be with you. 🇦🇺
As a submariner I can’t tell you how much I love this video. I’m a nuclear mechanic and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stood the mid watch as the roving watch and had unnerving moments. I’d say it’s my own paranoia mostly but sometimes there’s noises and movements I can’t explain so who knows. I always start singing gospel music whenever I feel scared for no reason. But the shadow people are something we talk about a lot on my submarine from the engine room to the missile compartment there’s stories. Thanks again for such an amazing video
you: i sing when i feel uneasy
someone who was on the boat the same night later telling in a bar: "then i heard extremely unnerving noises from somewhere on the boat. almost like singing, but not human, it sounded terrible, like a monster failing to lure ppl into their deaths or the wailing of the drowned stuck in their moment of death" XD
My dad was a submariner, USS Hyman G Rickover in the 1980s.
My hat's off to you sir, you guys are a different breed.
Really?
Imo being on a submarine would be unnerving in general, being in a confined space undergoing paranormal activity is pure nightmare fuel
Yeah they can have it. I'd rather serve on a surface ship if I joined Navy. Scorpion and Thresher always come to mind.
I was taught to scuba dive when I was 15 by my grandfather - a former Commander in the Royal Navy.
After one particularly long, cold, and deep, dive, I asked him what his longest, coldest, and deepest dive was.
"about 3 months at 50 metres under the arctic ice sheet .... of course I was wearing a nuclear submarine at the time"
It does help out a bit to wear one of those, I've always wanted one myself. 😂
British humor. Dry enough you can make a martini with it.
*humour. Sorry.
He should've said, "your grandma!"
The 757 mentioned raaahhh
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I've been anchored above an old wreck before. They are seriously noisy. You can hear clangs and bangs all night long while you're trying to sleep, espescially if it's fairly calm and quiet. If it's a fairly new wreck, the currents will push around all sorts of stuff on a sunken boat and you'll hear metal on metal and all sorts of clangs throughout the night.
Apparently old ship bells were notorious for clanging for long after their original sinking. That would have been a damn haunting sound to hear when you're below decks or in a submarine.
Oh god that sounds horrific. Bells in the deep.
wow
interesting and reasonable explanation for boise phenomenoms
@@liukang85Until someone dives and brings up the bell and discovers there’s no clapper… and the ringing doesn’t stop.
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On the USS Maine I saw what looked like someone in khakis head in between the missile tube in MCLL while underway. The weird things are 1) we don't wear khakis underway (chiefs & officers of course) and 2) the particular space between tubes that the thing went into has a toolbox occupying it, a person cannot get in that space fully and would be at least partially visible. I walked over to where I saw it and there was nothing. I was told later, that years before this happened, a chief died due to a heart attack in that space on a weekend and had fallen beneath the deck plates. Supposedly he wasn't discovered until the start of the following workday.
What year was that, i saw some weird shit on the Maine when She needed an overhaul
@@dspstaxcollector6183 It was around 2006 when I saw it.
@@MetalGear005 i worked on her a fair bit after you saw her, probably a decade after. Some of the guys i worked with always said they felt “unwanted” or sick near the MCLL.
Poor khaki guy. Guess he just couldn't simply accept his unfortunate end.
@@michaelandreipalon359or it was 😈 impersonating. That’s kinda like their thing bruh…
I've dropped this story on one of your previous videos but that last one made me want to tell it again. This isn't the first or last strange/paranormal experience I had in the military, but was definitely one of my most memorable and unexplainable.
Back in 2015 I was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. I was in the HHBN's signal company doing overnight shift work in Division Headquarters. Division was one of the oldest (may have been the oldest) buildings on base. From right around WWI. It was a big version of one of these old 3 story buildings you see on bases. I was working on floor 3 at the far south end of the building with one other guy. Nothing really happening so me and this guy would always trade off to go sleep in our cars for a couple of hours on nights like this.
It was my turn to go in about 30 mins, but I had to piss and wasn't going to be able to hold it. So I walked out into the Lanai and across to where the bathrooms were. Im standing at the urinal where I could see directly out into the lanai/hall. I hear footsteps coming down the hall from where the stairs were. Thinking it was either my buddy or some insomniac NCO coming to hang out with us, I looked out in the hall to see. What walked by was a man, early-mid 20s, 5 10 or so. He was wearing the late 1930's early 1940s khaki duty uniform and walking briskly/with a purpose towards somewhere. The guy was fully there. No translucence or anything like that. I heard him walk to the door to my office and then heard it close but not open. I stopped pissing immediately and ran out into the hallway, went back into my office and searched for the man. Nothing. It was at that point that I noped out and went to get my buddy. We searched high and low for this guy but never found him. For the rest of our time working in that building, anytime we were on night shift, we doubled up.
I later found out that Schofield/Wheeler Army Airfield was the first place that was hit as Japanese planes flew in through the mountain pass at the back of the base. They flew down the center of the island towards Pearl Harbor. They were caught off guard and as a result many soldiers died. To accommodate the sudden attack makeshift infirmaries were set up and one of the main ones was in the Division HQ building at Schofield Barracks.
Mahalo for that.
Near the airport, there's a small strip mall off Paiea Street where Big Kahuna's and Jamba Juice is. The building that used to stand on the site was reportedly used as an impromptu morgue after the December 7 attacks, not sure if for civ or military casualties (it is kinda close to Hickam). A guy who worked there said the cleaners would grumble that the 2nd floor windows and computer screens would get handprints popping up all over them after they've been wiped down.
Another guy told me about the service corridor having bad vibes, and one time he walked back there & froze, catching a pair of feet dangling off to his right at eye level in his peripheral. He did an about & noped outta there.
The whole island is full of spooky stuff.
@@AmbuBadger Dude. So much spooky shit on Oahu. Kasha House in Kaimuki, the old sugar plantation in Waipahu, Barbers point. A good friend/ex of mine's step-dad was a retired HPD detective and told us one pa'ina about how all of the HPD buildings are insanely haunted. Basically everyone in HPD has some weird story from one of the precincts.
@@AmbuBadgerDid U know Izzy Mahalo ? 🧐
@@SeamusMcGillicuddy0 Braddah Iz? Haha, just joking. Did you mean the other singer, the girl?
I was stationed at Wheeler Army Airfield. I first lived in housing on Wheeler (the old part off Wili Wili Circle), then moved to an apartment in Mililani, and finally back into housing on HMR (Helemano Military Reservation). I'd barely experienced anything paranormal (besides two things that happened when I was young: hearing my name being called when I was young & being helped by a woman in white). I'd lived in housing at other duty stations, even barracks in the Middle East, but this nothing had ever happened before. However, base housing in Hawaii, at least where I'd lived, was on a whole different level. I wasn't a believer before, but I certainly was by the time I left. Especially my now ex-husband, who was choked in the middle of the night in the Wheeler housing.
Prior USS West Virginia Sailor MT here, and I can confirm The "Eternal Rover." is real. He shot himself with his service weapon in the portside fan room. The bullet hole is still visible in the door to this day, I even saw it myself. One day during Field day, my SWSMC walks up to my LPO, and I while we're standing watch and asks if he put anyone in the fan room in lower level. LPO Says no. The focus was Upper Level and Second Level. Our SWSMC continued saying that he shined his light through the small window in the fan room and saw a sailor sitting down with his head in his hands inside. He started to unlatch the door and only looked away for a moment, and when he shined his light again, he was gone. He walked to the other side of the compartment to see if he could catch him in Machinery Two or the other fan room, but he never found him. Dude straight up vanished in the wind. I asked what fan room he was sitting in, and he said "Portside". It was a little unsettling, but not for long, Field day meant burgers for lunch.
West by god 🫡 TM 17-22
Plank owner on USS West Virginia. I’ve stood mid watch MCRP. I saw and heard some strange things on that boat. I know that a tired mind can play some tricks on you, but what about after you have had a nice 12 hour equalizer? Scary.
I was onboard when that happened. There were a lot of conspiracies about the shooting.
@@stevesanders5515want to share those conspiracies??
I worked 3 seasons on crab boats in Alaska. One of the ship served on was a retired navy supply vessel. I seen a person in blue utilities go into engineering but was gone when I walked in. I still think it was the crew having fun with the new guy but they swear they don't pull a prank.
If someone claims with a straight face old ones aint pulling pranks on new guys, that is a whole new dimension of paranormal 😃
The only time I’ve ever experienced anything unexplainable was late at night off the Oregon coast over the Stonewall banks. That was my last trip commercial fishing.
Was this Captain Keith’s f/v?
“Is that you Squid?!” LMAO that was my buddy Squitiro at Camp and I was a young MT3 at the time. I got a text today with a link to this video from a friend and former sailor of the West V, asking if it was me. Remembered posting the USS West Virginia story on r/Paranormal a couple years ago. Super thankful for bringing it to life in such good detail!
if any of these stories happened to me I would instantly be back on the mainland as a cashier at costco or something. no way im staying in a metal tube full of ghosts LOL
Submariner in the Royal Navy and I can confirm there are few things creepier than watch keeping down an empty submarine.
Its nice to see us Submariners being represented on wartime stories! 😁
When you say empty, do you mean everyone is asleep?
@@-xirx- Nah, when it's in dry dock most of the duty watch sleep in a nearby building, so overnight you have 2 or 3 people on board split between forward and aft
@@aceca5147 ah, thanks for reply. That sounds particularly scary tome!
Have you ever played a game called barotrauma? If you play video games, you should give it a try.
You "Mates" really impressed me when I heard about The HMS Warspite breaking the dive record ...longest military submarine drive without surfacing at 111 days! '82 to "83, covering 35,471 miles (57,085 km), A regular deployment for a SSBN is an average of 77 days before maintenance.....But 3 months and 21 days without breaking surface?....that garners a lot of respect.... U.S.N. Salute.
Well engine rooms are cursed. I was part of a longtime fishing trip in Norway and when i was 16 and i often went down there since i was fascinated with the engine. So basicly on evening i forgot to put a wrench back after helping out. So in the middle of the nigth i went down. I put it down on the table and in german my native tounge i heared a Danke sehr. Only when i was back in my bed i realized of the norwegian crew none spole german except thier old engenier who died in a electrical short in the engine room recently.
Dankesehr
Dankesher is a common phrase though most people know it.
The heart of the ship. It has symbolic power.
on the "right through the Bulkhead" Story.
One Hypothosis by Paranormal investigators on why ghosts can go through Walls is this idea that they still perceive the area as it was when they died (ie, a ghost can walk through a wall because at the time they died there wasn't a wall there and instead it was an entrance to a room).
the guy mentioned that the dude was wearing a WW2 era uniform and that they were anchored in Pearl Harbour.
While they didn't give an exact spot, It is possible that the sub was unwittingly sitting in the exact spot as one of the vessels that got attacked during the Japanese surprise attack Pearl Harbour, and that unfortunate sailor was someone who died bellow decks and is now wandering that spot and giving the impression that the sub is haunted, when in reality the ghost inhabits that general vicinity and the sub just happened to be moored in the right(or wrong depending upon how you look at it) place.
Then it’s not a ghost per se but what is called a residual. It’s like an imprint of a situation instead of an actual soul.
@@littleredwitch I would have assumed the same, had the ghost not responded to the witness's hails and looked directly at them.
some Paranormal evidence indicates that at least some spirits still see their surroundings the way they were when they died (such as EVPs alleging ghosts complaining about heat in the middle of a cool night)
There are stories of homes being torn down and another building built on the same site. Ghosts of people from the original building are still seen on the site.
@@themanformerlyknownascomme777 My wife saw the ghost of a former female owner of our previous house (I was gone on a work assignment to another state). She had been a nurse. My wife could see her in an older style nurse's outfit right down to the white shoes. My wife said that she didn't have a visible head. The thing that struck me was my wife said that she was wearing a nurse's jacket, but this was in the middle of July. A funny side note: Some years later we got a letter addressed to her from the Navy. It said that they wanted her to join as the Navy needed nurses. The thing was that if she was still alive, she would have been in her late 90s. I said that the Navy must really be desperate if they are looking for 95 year old nurses.
@@kenbattor6350 yeah, here in Brazil we had the most massive population of slaves in the American continent. Many farms that are still standing from way back during the slavery days are haunted as fuck by the spirits of dead slaves.
As a veteran, I can absolutely assure anyone who reads this that important information gets passed along in "the smoke pit". For whatever reason, people have a greater tendency to talk stuff out in those places versus just some "break area". I was a Senior NCO before I "retired" from active duty, and I often picked up valuable info while BSing with the guys and gals in "the pit". So, anyone can say what they want about smoke pits not being important, but I sure know better than that.
Smoke pits usually separated the kiss asses from the others who did the actual work imo but anyone can turn skater I guess
If you were a tech or mechanic of ANY sort, especially in the Navy, you've quite often found answers to the occational techinal issue that may have caused lengthy issues. Even if one doesn't smoke, per se, spending time on the 'smoking sponson/smoke deck' can be even more eventful than spending time with your face buried in a 'tech manual'.
In the USMC, the smoke pit is where the Lance Corporal mafia holds court. All important information is passed and all beef is squashed there. I didn’t even smoke, but you better believe I was there as often as I could be.
Our smoke pit was just outside a door from the Junior Ranks Mess, and in our unit the senior leadership tended to invite Master Corporals that were slated to be promoted to Sergeant to start hanging out in the Sgt's mess...so it wasn't as good for sorting stuff out as it could have been
Small unit though, which was a lucky first unit to be in for me
If grown adults want to smoke, I don't see an issue with it. As long as non-smokers don't have to breathe it.
I was on the U.S.S. Carl Vison in the early 90's. I had several experiences from locked doors being knocked on and being opened in front of me after each time it was knocked on. The door knob was the kind that would be locked on the outside, but could be opened from the inside. The store room office was on the inside of this door.Three times, this door slammed open after each time it was knocked on, I could see the knocking because of the black shiny paint. I watch the door knob turn each time it opened with force. The space outside the door was only about 10 x 15 square area. Metal ladders and metal decks make noise when walked on, I say this because the first time the door opened, I thought it was someone playing tricks on us. I didn't realize until years later whatever was opening the door was inside the storeroom with us. This one of a couple of events I've had experience with on this ship. I believe most naval vessels have ghosts on them.
Most service posts are. As a Catholic, there are two explanations for ghosts: souls in purgatory and demons. Someone who dies with a predominance of sin but either nothing mortal or a merciful intervention is slated to purgatory until the end of the world. Another merciful intervention is letting someone appear to ask for prayers, not always in person. Sometimes a suicide is under duress and we understand now that the person may not be in Hell.
But suicide with intent is very serious and each mortal sin "frees demons from Hell". It creates a link between the chaos of perdition and the world. If a demon thinks it can ruin lives by dwelling in that portal, it will until exorcised.
I served on the U.S.S. Carl Vinson while on deployment in 2010-2011. I spent plenty of time in dark, humid strore rooms, but fortunately never experienced anything supernatural. It can definitely feel creepy, though.
As someone who is still on the Carl Vinson I’m glad I haven’t seen anything strange…. Yet
@ryanstevenson3067 I was a cook, but I did food storage for most of my time on board. That experience happened in the store room where we had our office. There was a freezer in forward most part of the ship, about 5 decks down where an officer hung himself while on deployment in 96'. After that incident, there was a shipmate that was from the air wing that said he could hear chipmunk sounds coming from space. The officer used twine. That makes a similar sound when stretched tight.
@@PatrickKniesler Oh come now. Your comments are certainly not covered in the Baltimore Catechism.
Naval Aviator here, my father was the Skipper of the West Virginia and I spent a lot of time on that boat. Never saw anything strange, but the missile compartment can be a strange place late at night. Keep up the great videos, I always love these stories.
My step dad Maurice Baughn was a plank owner in the West Virginia. Maybe served under your father. I remember the commissioning in the 80s. There is bust of a coal miner in that boat modeled after my grandfather, who was a miner in Logan County WV. I have a duplicate of that bust in my house.
I was not in the military or a Leo, but i have one story that still sticks with me nearly 10 years since its happened.
When i was 16, i worked in a assisted living facility in my town as a housekeeper/kitchen staff. The building was old and had seen a lot of residents in its time. I had been there for a about a month and one night while i was a setting the dining room for breakfast the next morning, i heard someone screaming for help down one of the near by hallway's, and i knew there wasn't any staff down that hallway at the time. I wasn't going to get in trouble to go and make sure nothing was wrong, so i went down the hall and knocked a few door, asking if anyone was awake and okay (this is around 9 to 10:00 so fairly late and usually all residents were put to bed by now) and either they were sleeping or in bed reading a book and were fine. So after going down the entire hallway and getting to the laste room, which was vacant due to the last resident passing away in the room. The door was open so i just poked my head in to see if i could see anyone in there, It was clear and nothing out of the ordinary. So since everything seemed to be fine. I went back up the hallway, it was like an L so i went to go to a left turn and get to the main facility. As i rounded the corner, i heard the same person screaming for help and could tell it was coming from the last room on the hall. so i walked down the hall towards the room, asking if anyone was okay and if they needed help?, as i got my last word out. The door to the last room that was opened, slammed shut and the helps stopped..
Me being still young and kinda in a know of how my co workers were. I figured it was one of them messing with me and was able to hide good in the room when i looked in it. So i went back to the med station in the middle of the building, where three CNA's are. To ask if they had anyone down that hall to mess with me. They all said they didn't and got on there radios to ask where the other 3 CNA's are, two were on the complete opposite side of the building and one was on the same side but in a different hallway that was a good walk away from where i was. So me and the 3 staff i went to went down that hall, and since they definitely had the ability to do so, they opened and checked on all residents down that hall and everyone was okay and either hadn't asked for help or were asleep. So we then go into the last room, where the door shut earlier and checked everything in there. It was empty and had no sign of anyone being in there recently. While in there a clock the former resident had in a bookshelf, that after this i found out hadn't worked in the 3 years they were living there, started working and started making a chime like it was 12 or something. One of the CNA's went and looked at the clock, the water in the bathroom sink turned on and the toilet flushed. Once that happened we all ran out and didn't go down that hall for awhile.
That place was creepy and i had a lot of small things happen. Hear things and see things move. See people walk past you one second and they're gone the next. I worked there for a year and a half and was happy to leave.
Thats really spooky! Perhaps that 'former' resident hadnt completely vacated?
@@inconnu4961 it was a high probability. It was definitely something I couldn't make up if I tried, it's a night I think of a lot
@@MrSlopywaffle115Oh I believe you alright. Here's my story. During COVID my uncle who was living in our ancestral home had passed away when he was alone. Our family came from another city to make his funeral arrangements. The house itself is divided into two seperate portions. One portion was given to my uncle and the other was always vacant so that we could stay whenever we came.
So it was on one night, about one week after his death,that the incident happened: Me ,My mother, aunt and cousins were asleep in the living room..At 3:13 am (i checked the time)me and my mother woke up to a disturbance. It took us a few seconds to realise what the "disturbance" was. It was coming out from the veranda outside the home. A groaning voice as if someone is on their death bed. We realised it sounded Just like my recently passed uncle! It spooky to say the least. 😅Had other incidents happen here, always experienced my me and mother. Guess we are the sensitive one's.
One of my great uncles was in the navy on a submarine. He told me once of hearing tapping on the hull in Morse code but they were underwater in the Pacific during WW2
Well that’s super creepy
Ningen
Nimitz has a few ghosts, and has a serial killer that went from port to port and carved the names of the women he killed onto the bottom of a pump in one of the shaft alleys. People hear voices and see shadows down there quite often, but I never saw anything directly myself. Biggest weird thing I saw was a ball of smoke shoot out from the escape shaft in the engine room (it's a 50 foot vertical fire escape that has hundreds of rungs that lets operators escape the the engine room to the 2nd deck incase of a bad fire or flooding) and then into the bilge. Of course, someone hung himself in there like a decade ago (at the time, so 20 years ago now), so there's the similar theme for you. As always, there are shadow people that dart behind equipment in the forward portion of the compartment, especially in lower level.
In bootcamp, however, I remember the last night I had there, and they ended up giving me the midnight roving watch, So I ended up roaming the compartment. As I was doing my compartment rove, I distinctly heard a voice say "Someone Please Help Me" come from the bathroom in the middle of the compartment. I went to the showers, the stalls, the wash sinks, and no one was there. After that, maybe it was due to paranoia, but it also seemed like there were shadows jumping between bunks in the compartment. 6 hours or so later I got on a bus and got sent off to A School, so never got to talk to anyone about it.
@ANon-ip9jh as someone who's currently serving on board the Nimitz. I was told by another subscriber to WTS about the serial killer. I confirmed to them that we did have a serial killer on board back in the day round 25 yrs ago. And I was curious about the name carving. I know that it's somewhere because from what I was told in previous conversations from my guys that I work with was that the killer did his actions down in one of our main pump rooms on the ship. Of course the name carving more than likely painted over by now to 'keep the ship clean'. And I also wanted to point out that during my time on board the ship I've had 3 encounters whilst on board. One on the flight deck during our deployment last yr. And 2 of em that happened in our main two pump rooms. One prior to deployment and another a couple months after deployment. Which I wanna say late Sept
@@AKPATRIOT The point about ghostly activity will probably become moot in the near-future.
USS Nimitz is scheduled for retirement next year. She won't be technically inactivated until 2017, presumably after they defuel her reactors.
They say Enterprise/CVN-65 may FINALLY begin the scrapping process next year but I think that depends on the progress with Kitty Hawk. KH looks like it will finish the scrapping process by the end of this year. It's down to just under 40% of the KH left; you can't even ID it as an aircraft carrier anymore. The island, flight and hangar decks of the KH are gone. I presume that whatever they were going to preserve of the KH is already in storage units if they haven't begun selling off pieces of the ship yet...
I don't want to name the Nimitz serial killer, either -- that's giving the scum publicity he doesn't deserve -- but his name wasn't hard to find.
@AvengerII actually about the Nimitz being decomm its not happening until 2027 and to begin scrapping or whatever they wish to do with the ship its not going to happen until at least 2029. Big navy extended the life span of the ship and they wish to keep the life of the Nimitz until (I believe) the Enterprise is commissioned
Really? My high school sweetheart has been on it for a good decade last I knew. Interesting.
You sir have one of the best paranormal-themed channels in all of RUclips. The way you introduce stories, animations, voice - 10/10.
Yet, he does not know what Ghosts really are.
The propulsion plants on CVN 77 are strait up haunted. A good number of MMNs, including my self have seen shadow people down in the plants. It would be the dead of night, and in the corner of my eye I would see a pair of blue coveralls. My first thought was that it was another watch stander, or a watch supervisor doing a rove. The moment I focused on the coveralls, they disappear. I would hear the sound of deck plates being walked on at my station, but there was no one anywhere near my station. This lasted for an entire nine month deployment, we would call it the Shadow Man and they would constantly pop in and out. I swear the plants soak up all of the negativity from those that have to bust their rears to keep it working. It also does not help that the Reactor Department and Nuclear rates as a whole have some of the worst rates of suicide in the Navy. I think everyone leaves something behind in those plants, even after they leave the ship alive or dead.
CVN 77? damn, less then 2 decades under her belt and she's already got ghosts? I can only imagine how many her big sis CVN 68 has!
74 has shit too
I was an EM, so I never had to go down into the alleys at odd hours, and so I can't corroborate anything about haunting... but I can corroborate how much negativity there is in engineering, especially the nuke rates. If excess negativity and bitterness can have an effect on a place, well, I'm not surprised those places end up creepy as fuck.
Skimmer sailor spotted
@@woods2305 "Skimmer sailor", what dose that even mean?
Having served in the Navy and Reserve for 28 years (Destroyers and Frigates), I would say the Navy Equivalent (perhaps excepting Subs) to "SMOKE PIT STORIES" would be FANTAIL STORIES. Its sort of a Navy tradition, after chow, to hang out on the ships Fantail - the very Stern of the ship - around Sunset. IT makes for a nice view, dramatic and beautiful oftentimes. The wake of the ship is right there, the power of the Engines can be felt, and there are Bitts (for tying up) available as Stools to hang out and Shoot the Bull. This was particularly big on a Cadet Ship - which has a lot of people on it (TS Empire State)...
And the fantail look out is trying their hardest to not socialize or eavesdrop on anyone’s especially higher ranks conversations, kind of hard when the smoking lamp is lit, 1 hour rotation couldn’t come fast enough
My CPOs in the 80s used to tell me the fantail is where they used to smoke pot during the Vietnam era
On subs we called it the smoke pit (or at least we did while I was in, up to ‘09)
Im a caretaker on board ex-Little Rock and she still has her “crew” on board. We have at least 6 or so “regulars” that have been seen. A sailor in the old dungarees with a deck jacket that walks the starboard p-way from the galley streamline to the wardroom. A CPO back aft that loves to bumrush you and knock coffee or tools out of your hand. An officer up front in wardroom country that just watches you work, and will even greet you. A man dressed as an Admiral that will give tourists tours of the ship. A corpsman down in sick bay that acknowledges you when you say goodnight while locking up. None of these ghosts are malicious mind you, they are just shipmates helping us, the physical crew, do our jobs. One day in the missile house I needed to move the transfer cart but couldn’t find the hand crank for the mechanism. Inside the tool room just outside of the magazine, I heard tapping. I went inside the tool room to where I heard the tapping and found a hand crank. As soon as I touched it, I heard banging on the steel catwalk next to the missile cart back inside the magazine. I walked back into the mag and to my surprise the hand crank fit the mechanism and allowed me to finish my job. It was Guided Missileman 3 Smith I’m convinced, who had been mortally wounded in the missile magazine after a hydraulic system casualty when the ship was in service during 1962.
I’m sure those gentlemen really appreciate your treating them with respect as an eternal part of the crew.
Respect to ANYONE who works on the ocean
I’ve had 4 paranormal encounters in my life. I’m 70. They are freaky! Nobody can tell me that ghosts don’t exist.
Which one was most frightening?
I got one for you guys.
I was playing red dead 2 when it came out late one night, as one does.
Most the lights were off, but the dining room light was the only one on.
I look over and on the wall I see a shadow person, imagine someone sitting on the curb holding their knees to their chest, but I saw it stand up and my blood ran cold. It then moved down the hallway toward my grandmothers room (she was in a nursing home and I watched her house) I slept on the couch that night. The next morning there was a dove in the house, came through the cat door. I let It out and went to work where my dad called me and told me Grandma had died in the night.
She said goodbye by sending a dove and I saw some freaky shadow thing.
For the record I don't feel the shadow was her. I can't imagine she would be scary to me.
Could all that be a coincidence? I don't think it was.
When my other grandmother died immediately after her vaccine, I drove to the funeral in the rain and sitting in the rain getting dumped on, was another dove 🕊️ staring at me.
We are never alone, so be good.
Only four?
I had two at my grandparents place as a toddler, more since.
Totally agree with you...... right now I'm in bed and exactly 10 miles in a straight line from where I had my last and after 15 year's I don't like to even think about it, I was beyond shocking
We lived in a haunted house when I was a kid. Part of the house was old with upper and lower levels and when we moved in, we built a section onto it, also with upper and lower levels. But strangely, every single incidence that occurred in the house, happened on the old side. There were six of us kids, and when we were all teenagers, paranormal activities really ramped-up in the home. Like once my sister was in her bedroom and she heard a thump on the floor at the end of the bed, and when she looked, then she saw a hand fall and hit the floor. So, she thot one of us other sisters was on the other side of the bed, and was totally creeped when no one was there. Once we had a rabbit that would attack you in the middle of the night if you got up to use the potty. It would bite your feet and it was terrifying! Then once my brother came home and I think he said he was on acid and he saw satan at the top of the stairs looking down at him and laughing. A few other crazy things. Oh, and then the house burnt down, and if one of our neighbors didn't alert us, my room was the first consumed and it happened around bedtime! The house is no more... But everyone made it out unharmed.
“Smoke pits are an important mechanism for the dissemination of information” - dang right they are! Best thing for morale and stress reduction, too! This channel is proof of that. Thanks!
Completely agree!
Even for the folks who don't smoke.
I've mentioned on a few other videos: A good friend of mine retired from the Royal Navy at a respectable rank. He's never once joked or lightly spoke about the his time before, during and after the Cold War. The stories he's shared, I've no doubt, are 100% true.
Can you share them either here or by emailing the channel?
@@Axemantitan I'll ask my mate first - out of respect to him and the men that he served with. There's a couple that are sensitive, given his rank, role and what the aftermath was.
Was he by any chance the captain at faslane who got popped for bringing only fans girls onto the ship?😂
@@Johno1992 haha no. He was involved with 'the bridge + Jupiter incident' though.
I love these paranormal stories. My younger brother was on the Casimir Pulaski SSBN 633 for 3 years. He never talks about his time on the nuclear sub. I'm glad you got help. It's definitely not week to ask for help. We all have some kind of issue.
I was on the 633 as well, 88-92
This channel is my Go-To now that Bed Time Stories is MIA.
sasquatch got them
Only temporarily. :) they’ll post again soon I’m sure.
@@EphemeralProductions I figure they been busy with the audio side they are working with MrBallen studios on. I don't follow anybody off youtube though so I don't know for sure.
I was wondering where Bedtime has gone, it’s been ages since the last video
@@EphemeralProductions Until they return, may their souls lurk...in peace.
When I was staying in Ford Island which is in the middle of Pearl Harbor. I had sailor cross in front of me out by the parking area on this like little gravel road. And the just disappeared. I also had my golf clubs start clanging together one day when I was in my room. So I asked the made service if this place was haunted and she said yes but they won’t bother you. They are just lost sailors from the attack on the Harbor. And she was right
I was a Sonar Technician on board two different subs: USS Tusk an ex-WWII sub, and then on the Casimir Pulaski that carried balletic missiles. On the Pulaski, we patrolled in the North Atlantic. There were days when the shipping lanes were quiet and had no contacts. But, imagine a nice quiet day with headphones on and a whale lets out a big roar. When that would happen I swear I left my seat jumping straight up and almost out of my chair. On my first boat, the Tusk; I walked into the sonar room for the first time and someone had put a message on one of the overhead lights. It said: "If you can read this without looking up, kiss your ass goodbye." You can't let that stuff bother you, but it has always sat in the back of my mind.
I served on LST1188 USS Saginaw during Operation Desert Storm carrying brother Jarheads in the Persian Gulf. My first incident in the gulf was the shower knocker. Coming off a Midwatch around 4am. I always headed to take a Navy shower before hitting the rack. Getting off watch every stateroom has doors closed since everyone is sleeping and all passageways are darkened ship with red lights. Anyways 10 seconds into my shower the door is pounded like a sledge hammer hit it and I rush to the head entrance and peek out and the passageway is completely dark and empty. 2nd incident, going thru the Bermuda triangle between Florida and Cuba, I am coming off mid watch walking outside the skin of the ship heading to the compartment door and I see another sailor in dungarees behind me. I paid him no attention, but when I turned around to hold the door open for him, he had vanished. Later, I found out a sailor had hung himself from the Bow ramp one night about 10 years prior because of marital problems. The first people to see him swinging was the midwatch on the bridge.
Whistling Yellow Submarine. 😂 That song will be stuck in my head for weeks.
If you don't whistle Yellow Submarine whilst on a submarine at least once in your life, have you really lived?
@@neniaemm6127 The ghosts are the spirits of sailors who NEVER whistled nor sang Yellow Submarine on a sub! This checks out!
I served on the USS Halsey CG-23 in the late 80's. We had a couple of ghosts on that ship. One was of a enlisted man who was killed during helo ops on the fantail when deployed off the coast of Vietnam, and another was a crew member who hanged himself in the forward fire room located off of the mess decks. I knew a boatswain mate. He was standing the mid watch at the end of the fantail. He said it was a very dark that night. All of a sudden a enlisted man who was not there before said "Hey do you see that light over there". He turned to look and saw a light from another ship. When he turned back the guy was gone and he did not hear any footsteps. It was like the guy appeared, then disappeared. I was the night baker and I worked from 10pm till after breakfast was secured. One night I was on the mess deck taking a break and talking with one of my friends who was on sounding watch. All of a sudden this guy comes out of the forward fire room and walks to where the coffee machine was located on the mess decks. He was wearing khaki pants and shirt, but he was not a officer or chief. He also had a old coffee mug in his hand. He was older and had a scruffy beard. Anyway this guy scratches his chin as if he was thinking coffee sounds good right now, and the coffee machine was full. He then turned and went down the starboard passageway. Neither me or my friend did not recognize the guy. We had no civilian contractors on board at the time. The odd part was when he walked. You could not hear his footsteps. Anyone who has served on a US navy ship will tell you when someone walks on a ship, even barefoot. You can hear their footsteps. Me and my friend saw the ghost of the man who hanged himself, and we were not the only ones.
This is my favorite channel. You are an elegant storyteller of an extremely interesting subject matter that I never knew I could fall in love with.
I appreciate your honest, open look inside yourself and talking about the way we may speak to ourselves in a negative way. I think for once I'm not only going to take a suggestion from a RUclips video on a purchase but I'm going to use their link to try (cost is really the only issue) to sign up for some therapy. I would love to have what you have and I can tell by your eyes that you're telling the truth. Thank you for loving yourself man and for loving us enough to share your compassionate energy, soothingly spooky true wartime tales and most importantly, your time. I love you, bro. God bless.
Fellow crayon eater here,
I love your content and your stories. I find it unbelievably cathartic talking and telling others about your videos. I've noticed as well that your vidoes provoke alot of thought into our humanity. Not sure if its intentional having it tie in with your personal stories and ads with for mental health but its incredible. I dabbled in history before it was cool back in school and I appreciate everything you've done to pay homage to the people you represent in these videos. I hope one day to meet you in person if not till Valhalla.
Semper Gumby
Did you know the white ones help with headaches when used as a suppository
I love these maritime paranormal stories. These are my favourite, and I actually have one of my own.
I'm a Maritime Historian and took a trip this past September to visit the USS Cobia; a WW2-era Gato-class Submarine which earned its fame from being the first Submarine upon which a burial at sea was photographed aboard. The sailor who buried, Ralph Clark Huston, was killed in a firefight with a Japanese in which the sub was using its deck guns. His ghost still haunts the ship, and I believe I had an experience with it.
Nothing happened to me while I was aboard the ship, but something strange did happen to me when I got back to the resort that evening. I was relaxing in one of the bedrooms and then I went to go use the bathroom, but I did not touch anything in my room before having gone to the bathroom. While I was in the bathroom, I began to hear a static noise emanating down the hall from the bedroom. I thought it was my dad switching through TV channels at first, but then, I finished up in the bathroom and walked down the hall to the bedroom. The static got louder, and then I saw the source. The radio on the room's alarm clock was switched on and playing static, and the lamp next to it was also switched on, despite having been off before.
There was no one else in our suite who could've done it. My dad had been in the shower on the other side of the suite and was still in the shower by the time I finished up in the bathroom, and my mom was not in our suite, as she was in the laundry room on the other side of the building. I like paranormal stuff though so I was more amazed than freaked out, and I still slept in my room that night lmao.
I went there a few years ago. I was behind the group in the tour and took a peek into a roped off area. I peeked my head just being curious and something back slapped my head. There was no one else there and if I bumped into metal or something I’d of injured myself. It felt like someone slapped the back of my head. I felt something felt I was being disrespectful and made it known to me.
@@RANDY64612 woah, that sounds like quite the experience. People told me they got touched in some way or another in there, and one of the curators told me that whenever he accidentally dropped the keys through the metal grates on the floor, the keys would miraculously end up hanging by the entrance ladder despite no one going below the grates to get the keys.
That sounds to me like they want their stories known, they want to be remembered, and made contact with you because you might be able to do that for them. As a historian you may have this happen again and again. It may be of interest to learn about automatic writing and see if anything comes through. It would be a very unique opportunity to document history straight from the source. I'd also recommend praying for them in whatever belief system you have (though if you're Christian or Catholic prayers for St. Michael to guide them to heaven are especially powerful and emotionally moving). It doesn't matter what their belief system might have been, if they had one. It helps regardless and you'll feel it! I've seen "Thank you" signs afterwards like single white doves flying past. Once literally a balloon with the words Thank You on it coming into my room lol. They never lose their sense of humor!
Bad connection on the socket outlet !
@@lesliehayton2929a slap on the head?
To be trapped inside a sub for months is a nightmare on its own.. if something started banging the walls of it down there.... Yeah... 😬
Haha you have no idea.
@@chairzombie8378 Probably not. I have a phobia of closed spaces, so You'll never find me in a sub.. 😬
You forget you’re on board, I’m on a boat right now and can attest to the fact that people forget you are on a submarine several hundred feet underwater.
More often then not it’s studying, working on work qualifications, sleeping, or maintenance. There’s really not much else too it. Plus it’s kinda roomy on my boat.
Wow, the story of the USS Pampanito just keeps getting more and more interesting. I first learned of the WWII Balao Class submarine while watching a "behind the scenes" documentary about the 1996 film, "Down Periscope," which showcased the USS Pampanito as being the submarine used for (mostly) exterior shots of the boat as it sub-stituted as the film's fictional "USS Stingray." I have been fascinated, interested, and have researched the history of the WWII era submarine ever since and hope to, someday, visit the now-museum-boat anchored in San Francisco Bay, CA. Now to find out it's likely haunted?! I'm even more intrigued. Thanks to the viewer who shared that bit of experience and thanks to Wartime Stories for featuring the shared story.
If you do make it down there, it's worth also checking out USS Hornet just across the Bay from the Pampanito. Not only a fantastic museum, but supposedly the Hornet is one of the most haunted ships out there. Personally I've only ever felt peaceful and nice aboard, but I also never toured her alone or at night.
@@legogenius1667 thanks for the tip. Would love to check out the Hornet.
I remember that episode of the twilight zone, that was a good one... The entire series was way ahead of its time.
Called "The Thirty Fathom Grave". Originally aired in January of 1963.
I love the audio stings you add when there’s creepy stuff happening
Great idea using The Thirty-Fathom Grave as an intro. The ending was chilling. After the diver managed to enter the sub he found the remains of the crew and a sheared section of periscope swinging back and forth that apparently caused the knocking. Logical explanation, right? But what about the disquieting fact that one of the dead men had a hammer in his hand?
Isn't the dog tag hanging off yhe petisvope as well?
I absolutely LOVE how you end each episode with “ May God be with each and every one of you, no matter what you’re dealing with. “ I so appreciate that ! And I send it right back to you ❤
Love Navy ghost stories, first got exposed to them through the USS Arizona ghost face. There's just something extra creepy about spirits beneath the waves.
Right before bed?! Hell yea!
You in Australia?
Yep. 🇦🇺
And i'm just after the work.. Drinking beer, enjoying sun and new episode 🙂 (Czechia 15:18pm right now)
@michalpatorek5498 bro I just woke up
Same for me XD@@michalpatorek5498
My brother served aboard the USS Indianapolis (SSN 697 Los Angeles/688 Class fast attack sub) back in the mid 80s, and told me he had many instances of strange noises for no reason, but that he paid them no mind b/c subs are full of complex machinery, men and various hydraulics, tubes and ballasts, etc. However, he also told me of disembodied voices coming from sealed compartments while there was no one else in the compartment. He thought it odd because he knew of no deaths on the sub, but confessed that there were a few times that it creeped him out to stand watch or even pass through those compartments alone.
Having grown up in a Navy family, I always had the impression that Sailors are generally a superstitious lot anyway. And from what Ive read, that's a tradition that goes back hundreds of years through most navies. I served in Special Ops and I'm happy to report that I never slept in a haunted tent. 😅
It's the name. That ship was named after the WWII USS Indianapolis, that was the crew of the original USS Indianapolis on Eternal Patrol.
Those poor ghosts that had to put up with you in your tent were too scared to make a sound! LOL
The stairway to hevan out on K-bay bit is 100% how that conversation starts
Just driving past them, No thank you. Never in a million years would I have climbed them.
Timely too. Heard they're gonna be dismantled since April of 2024.
Good evening from the Philippines, The animation from the first story (The Man Wearing Utilities) nearly made me drop my drink. Amazing work as always. God bless you Luke and Team. Your videos are the highlight of my month.
Yellow Submarine lol😂 I noticed the sailor whistling that.
I was born in subic inside the base. I am half Filipino half American German. Left 1 year before mt Pinatubo eruption. What a beautiful place , however the base has many haunted locations up until now including the very infamous abandoned hospital shown in several documentaries. Now in Dallas Texas
It's always a good night when wartime stories uploads.
I have no experience with being in the military, but I enjoy these videos. Thanks, Luke!
YES!!!!
Another episode of wartime stories!
Always a pleasure listening to these!
I'm honored to have had my experience narrated here. Thank you!
GOOOOOOOOD MORNING WARTIME STORIES!!!!!
I had a friend whose father served on a Cold War era sub. He said weird shit happened down there so often that the old-timers didn't even really worry about it. He also said that there are big--like really big--things moving around down there, and no one knows what they are. But whatever it was didn't seem to bother submarines, so again, no one on board got too worked up when some unidentified thing triple the size of the boat went lazily floating by.
Maybe usos? Or giant fish? Creepy either way
Couldn't they have been some of the larger whale species? Or is there a way for them to rule that out?
Many spiritual practices of old by old I mean Pre-Christian.. like old old.
They say water carries information many rituals to invoke Ancestors and nature spirits use rituals of water.
Great vid. I worked on the Constellation for@ 2 yrs , doing tours, restorations were going on after it came back from dry dock. This was1980-83. Yes its extremely haunted. Heard and felt stuff, but never a visual.
Same as The Flag House and Fort McHenry. Worked them all and loved it!❤🇺🇸. God Bless. Ty
I hit "like" even before I've watched it, because I am a man of faith.
🤔 How…wise.😑
Same
And you’re all allowed to vote. 🤦♂️
That was unkind and uncalled for.
@@littleredwitch I know, right?
People these days.
I was a Plane Captain on board the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN for work-ups and eventual deployment. We had many UNREPS(underway replenishments), many of which involved fuel transfer. Jet fuel. Anyone who knows, you can't light jet fuel with just a lighter. It's practically non- combustible. While transferring fuel we're not allowed to smoke. We'll, CAG Masterchief was a smoker. He made it so that we had a separate smoking sponson opened for us on 03 level, just to the port of CAT 4. Small and very loud during OPS. Especially with TOMCATS on board. 1998.
11:15 My room started to vibrate and humm at the same time he was narrating this, I kid you not. Freaked me for a sec. Turns out, a police helicopter flew low past my house.
spooky!
@WartimeStories : Big fan and best wishes from the UK as always brothers. 🇬🇧 🙏 🇺🇸
Best wishes to the UK, as you blokes are going through a LOT at the moment!
Theres never enough wartime stories. Good episode.
Not a submariner story, but I was USAF, stationed at Inçirlik AB, Turkey from June 2002 to September 2003. I was a 1-man shop under the maintenance squadron, so I had no actual coworkers (an office to myself and a lot of augmentee duty in down times). When I arrived, there was no room available in the maintenance dorms, so for the first few weeks I was in the security forces dorm, then moved to the ammo/maintenance dorm when a room became available. I was grateful to be in a quieter area and closer to my shop, right across from the hospital, and just a couple blocks from the gym and BX. My first night, I had already worked about 12 hours and then moved into my new room. It was late, so I was just quietly cleaning and unpacking more than arranging. I was too tired and didn't want to make much noise past 2300 hrs, so I showered and got into bed. The room furniture was arranged with the wall locker along the longest wall to the left of the entrance and window side, with the bed directly under the window, immediately to the left of the entrance. I was on the 2nd story, about in the middle of the row of rooms.
I have never slept without checking locks on doors and windows and saying a prayer for good measure. I was wide awake from being overtired (or maybe from really just wanting to move that furniture was bothering me), so I reached under the bed (I hadn't stocked the bookshelf yet because I wanted family and friends' photos up first). I grabbed the first book, and as I rolled over to lay on my back, a Turkish-looking civilian man was leaning THROUGH my window, bent at a right angle, RIGHT above my chest. I froze. He hovered as if inspecting me. He had on a short sleeve button-down nice shirt with a collar just a little large to be modern (think 60s-70s style) and it was pale yellow against his tan skin, and his thick, dark hair was the mop-top style of the 60s also. He looked to be in his late 30s, and we seemed to be inspecting each other, but it was in all a split-second. I was sure my heart would beat right out of my throat when he suddenly looked at me, face-to-face, with a look of complete disgust mixed with disappointment, as if I didn't belong because not only was I an American, but an American Female.
Suddenly, without ever moving his arms from the attention-like position they remained in the entire time, he stood back straight up and so he went backwards, again swiftly, right through the closed blinds and the closed, locked window, without moving them or making a sound. I just laid there breathing for a few seconds before I got up, went to midnight chow, the gym, and then went back to my new room and rearranged it with the bed as far from the window as possible and then I placed both of the wall lockers in front of the window, completely blocking it. I'll never forget that man, it was so vivid and intense. Nor much else happened there, at least not in my room. My stereo would sometimes just start playing randomly (and it was my father's from the 70s: So that I could play my vinyl in the best way to remind me of home and joyful times growing up, and it had NO timer whatsoever on it.)
I have a lot of paranormal stories, but never really told most of them. This one wasn't really frightening to me, besides being startled by the suddenness of the experience and the look on his face. I saw my first spirit at just 6 years old (never scared me), but I've also seen some that still make me pray harder.
Won? What? The stare-down? 💀🤣
I was just wondering when War time stories will post somethin, and it was right on queue!
I'm a West Virginian, and I want to tip my cap to the crew of the "boomer" that carries our name. We're all incredibly proud and thankful to you all (as we are towards everyone who serves this great country). You allow all of us to sleep better at night and enjoy the freedoms we're afforded.
Wow what a funny coincidence you uploaded this just now, I just got my rate from the Navy! Submarine Electrical and Computer Field.
I ship out May 23rd.
Congrats! Hope you have a great career 👍
Open a bank account before you go and have your pay go into a home town bank, SYM save your money
Congratulations! 🥳🎉
Well done!
@@Justicesdad Seconding this. Lots of young servicemen make poor financial decisions because it's their first solid job, and there are a lot of people seeking to take advantage.
Hold on to your money, and be skeptical.
So glad to get notified of a new release ! I love wartime stories and bedtime stories. I only wish for more and with a higher frequency.
OMG!!!! I HAVE TO TELL YOU!!! I W-A-I-T FOR YOUR CHANNEL TO LOAD THE Material all month long !!!!!!!!! IT'S SOOO FANTASTIC!!!!!
I want to THANK YOU & ALL the rest of our Armed forces from the bottom of my Heart.. I LOVE hearing these stories from all of you !!! These stories help me understand just some of what you all go thru.
God Bless You all!!!!
Driving out to the range this morning. Got this playing on the way up there. Semper Fi brother.
10pm in Tokyo Japan. Perfect timing for a nice ghost video, bud. Thanks for the great content every time 😎
May you get lots of chromosomes and DNA.
Yokota?
are there still sakuras around?
Oh boy. Nastiness happens in tin cans, deep under the sea. Kinda knew this episode was coming. 😮
Weird stuff happens when you break apart the fabric of matter and let things in from behind the veil.
Father was a submariner. USS Hyman G Rickover in the 80's.
I'm really gonna enjoy this.
I had dozed off on the mess table and suddenly i felt my mouth being licked by a dog, when i wake up i saw theres nothing or person near me
Could’ve been A-gang.
Just new here from Mr. Ballens channel. I absolutely love your channel as well!! So happy to find out about you...❤
The ghost in Shaft Alley was wearing dungarees. They were phased out in 1999. Probably one of the BEST uniforms the Navy ever had.
looked it up and its just jeans and a button-up 😭
Bell bottom jeans, 2000s modern utilities were much more professional looking than the goofy mom jeans, coveralls underway and utilities in port
If you are my age..40s now in pre 9/11 the utilities had a certain smell when issued in boot camp, I think they soaked them in a flame retardant chemical or something, that smell was very unpleasant
Yeah, the utility uniform they had during the 2000s was a joke. Absolutely horrible to actually do any work in.
@@Justicesdadyes! I can smell it now 😂
25:00 That shimmer in vision can be caused by EMF from equipment on the craft, especially a radar mast. Just my 2 cents worth of science.
You know. I’m not surprised that ghost stories run rampant on a sub. There are a lot of unnatural things going on in a sub. You are deep under water, pressurized, nuclear power, breathing air that came from the water around you. Plus the stress of basically being at work 24/7 can stress the mind to the max.
There you go, thats what it is! Its ALL just a figment of imagination. Just. like. you. are! Now spook off!
Awesome work man! I’m so glad it seems you are hitting your stride - I’m getting to watch your stuff regularly these days! Keep up the great work - love this channel!
Whoever does your animation deserves an award ❤
I love these videos. Thanks for all the prep you put into these Luke!. First class as usual! I really enjoyed listening to it!
I used to conduct ghost tours at Ft Reno in Oklahoma. I was in Army in the 80s. However, at Fort Reno I experienced apparitions there more than most. I believe it was those from the past can sense who we are, or were.
I may be a couple months late to this, but thank you Wartime Stories for sharing my account. Pampanito’s history may be a tragic one, but it’s always good to recount these stories so that those who gave up their lives will never be forgotten. Keep up the great work
Last week's video on Austrian vampires was very engaging and terrifying. I hope this episode will be equally good to watch.
This is absolutely my favorite channel. I always get excited when a notification comes up. Thanks for the stories Devil Dawg! Semper Fi!!
I've been onboard USS Florida before, definitely had an unsettling sensation at night.
You're stuck on a sub. Underwater. And someone...or something not from the crew is on it. Yeah...fun times. D:
Submariners are truely built different...The fact that it's a huge object underwater with a giant propeller on the back, on top of spooky Shenanigans...why I stay on land unless im fishing😅
that might just be the government secret agent who disguised as the cook trying to detonate one of the missles to prevent the submarine falling into american hands XD
Woohoo! A new Wartime Stories vid! Thank you!
I never had any paranormal experiences while serving in the Army. (not that I know of) and I'm cool with that.
It is considered ill to whistle onboard any ship.
Many Native American tell to never whistle in forest or at night, worse if its at night IN a forest lol.
Absolutely love Wartime Stories! I must say though, when I was a kid and I’m in my 50’s now, anytime I was ill, I would have nightmares about being confined in a submarine with red lights on and would wake up in tizzy. I believe I got the red lights in a submarine thing from a movie at some point but it was the feeling of suffocation and confinement that stays with me until this day. Love the channel Luke. You do great work!
Perfect timing. Its dark and rainy, just in time.
Thank you Luke. Excellent content as usual. I always look forward to your stories.
I almost got detailed to the USS San Fran, and I am gonna tell you now, ain't hell, high water, horses, or anything get me in Shaft Ally on the Fran. Then, I got detailed to USS Connecticut (SSN-22) and that thing went and ran into a mtn, just after I left. I ain't gettin' back on no boat. Nope. I got my fish, and they can stay where they is. Boats be haunted.
RIP MM2 Ashley.
Dude I love these videos. Can you do a video on ghost/creepy stories of the flightline. Being maintenance, we get some gruesome and sad deaths that lead to the spirits of the lost maintainers and aircrew making sure we don't forget them.
Excellent Luke!!! Great as always!!!
No matter how many episodes I watch, I continue to be absolutely stunned by the quality of your videos.. every aspect of them.. you truly have an amazing gift!
I served in subs 10 yrs. Never had any experience. Thank God.
Great episode as usual Luke. I found your story at the end about your research into smoke pits on submarines particularly interesting.
Anyone else hear the sailor whistling the song Yellow Submarine? 7:29
I love the pronunciation of Missile Compartment Upper Level (MCUL) we say all the words in most accronyms like that, love the video.
I agree. If you need mental health get it. A friend of mine was very depressed. Tried to get him to go to a doctor. I had to move away and found out a month later that he blew his brains out. I feel partly guilty but what could I do. Get help if you need it.
Everybody needs mental health help these days! The amount of abuse & bullying going on is out of control now, and learning CBT techniques is always an asset for anyone. its almost like learning First Aid. even if you dont need it now, you wanna have it before you need it, and in the mean time you can use it to help others!