Haunted Military Bases

[NH Civil War Gal]

I thought this would be just a bit different to throw into the Forum

Haunted Military bases: Ghostly Legends

Explore the most haunted military bases. Discover ghostly legends, spooky sightings, and chilling history this Halloween.

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[Stryker65]

Doing a @TallTallMan type thing here, but this is what the post reminded me of...

 

[Sheltowee]

Always hear about alleged hauntings of prisons and hospitals- but haven't heard much regarding active military installations.

It's interesting- and I'm going to search for some additional accounts. Must be some stories out there. Perhaps some of our own members can provide.

If such a thing as ghosts, it would make sense that a base would be a prime habitat.

 

[Gary Morgan]

Always hear about alleged hauntings of prisons and hospitals- but haven't heard much regarding active military installations.

It's interesting- and I'm going to search for some additional accounts. Must be some stories out there. Perhaps some of our own members can provide.

If such a thing as ghosts, it would make sense that a base would be a prime habitat.

I usually hear about haunted prisons for criminals, but almost never haunted POW camps. That said, I do have a few stories of my own personal experiences, but as I want to be taken seriously as a scholar, I generally don't tell them. When asked, I usually just tell people they'll have to get me drunk to loosen my lips, but as there's currently a bunch of cancer in my liver, my drinking days are probably behind me.

 

[Gary Morgan]

It occurred to me that I can tell a ghost story that is not mine. Every Easter, a local church from Americus or Macon has a sunrise service out on the stockade site at Andersonville (I happened to be there for Easter one morning before the site was open to the public and could hear them singing through the fog).

One of the rangers needs to get there early to open the cemetery gate for them to pass through in order to get to the stockade. This particular ranger got there early, and, as it was both early and still dark, the ranger nodded off and fell asleep. Suddenly, a tapping on the car window woke them up, just as the first set of headlights came into view before turning into the cemetery entrance and stopping at the gate. The ranger muttered, "Thank you," and got out of the car to go enter the punch code to open the gate. Told me that they weren't scared at all and that it was definitely a tapping on the window that woke them up, and they had the sense that it was one of the prisoners who was still there, just being helpful.

 

[J. D. Stevens]

Camp Wallace was a training facility for military personnel during World War II. The U. S. government acquired more than 3,300 acres near Hitchcock, Texas. The site contained 17 miles of paved access roads and contained almost 400 structures. It was also used to house German POWs. The camp was abandoned after the war. By 1960 most of the buildings had fallen in and trees and brush had taken over except for the roads.
A cute girl asked me to attend a church youth group Holloween hay ride at Camp Wallace. They had a large flatbed trailer piled with hay and pulled by a tractor around the camp roads among what was left of the old buildings. I figured, a cute girl, dark spooky night, and lots of hay, what could go wrong? Little did I know until we were on the ride that it was going to be haunted. The chaparones haunted us with flashlights. When they thought we were a little too close they turned on their flashlight and shined it in our faces. By the time the hay ride was over, I was almost blind.