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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Far From Gnome | 06 Feb 2026 | 00:38:55 | |
During combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, some soldiers reported encounters that didn’t fit any known threat, animal, or enemy tactic. Small humanoid figures seen at night. Unexplained movement around guard posts. Local interpreters refusing to enter certain villages without explanation.
Often dismissed as stress, exhaustion, or superstition, these accounts share striking similarities with regional folklore that long predates modern warfare. From remote outposts to abandoned settlements, servicemen describe experiences they still struggle to explain.
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| The Foo Fighter Mystery | 02 Feb 2026 | 00:54:59 | |
In the skies over wartime Europe and the Pacific, Allied pilots began encountering something they couldn’t identify — glowing objects that followed their aircraft, evaded radar, and vanished without explanation. Was it a Nazi weapon? Or something from another world?
Recorded in combat reports and wartime newspapers, the Foo Fighter sightings would haunt aircrews long after the war ended, raising questions that were never fully answered.
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| It's Not Easy Being a Military Police Officer | 01 Dec 2025 | 00:34:20 | |
In the desolate Mojave Desert, Edwards Air Force Base is home to America's most advanced and secretive aircraft, a place where the boundaries of technology are pushed daily. But according to chilling eyewitness accounts from service members, the greatest secrets aren't in the sky, but on the ground... where a massive, hairy, ape-like creature has been seen stalking the restricted military installation.
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| A Sergeant Goes Missing at a Nuclear Testing Range | 24 Nov 2025 | 00:31:14 | |
The vast, empty deserts of New Mexico became the proving grounds for America's nuclear arsenal, a landscape of secrets and strange phenomena. It was here that a routine missile recovery mission turned into a gruesome mystery, leaving one Air Force Sergeant surgically mutilated and drained of blood, apparently at the hands of something not of this world.
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| Documented Military Reports of Vampires | 17 Nov 2025 | 00:33:59 | |
In the age of enlightenment, the disciplined Austrian army brought order and science to its newly acquired territories. Yet in the rugged mountains of Serbia, they stumbled upon a darkness that defied all logic – a plague of undeath that forced hardened soldiers to take up wooden stakes against the walking dead.
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| They Shouldn't Have Invaded Finland | 10 Nov 2025 | 00:28:19 | |
The Winter War was a brutal struggle against a determined human enemy and the unforgiving cold, dangers the Red Army knew and understood. Yet on a desolate mountain plateau, where strange stone idols stand guard and the trees twist in agony, a Soviet company learned that some places are battlegrounds for forces far older and more monstrous than man.
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| Something In My Room | 03 Nov 2025 | 00:20:34 | |
In the haze of combat fatigue, soldiers often battle waking nightmares, where the mind plays tricks in the dead of night. But for some, these visions become terrifyingly real, forcing them to question where their dreams end and a paranormal reality begins.
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| The Devil's Food | 27 Oct 2025 | 00:35:31 | |
The rules of engagement are clear when facing another army, but they are useless against a more primal foe. From the African plains to the mangrove swamps of Burma, soldiers discovered that the greatest danger wasn't the enemy in the opposite trench, but the man-eaters that saw both sides as nothing more than prey.
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| Project Blue Book | 20 Oct 2025 | 00:33:38 | |
On the frozen battlefields of the Korean War, American soldiers faced down the overwhelming force of the Chinese army. But for one company of infantrymen, the true enemy was not human; it was a silent, glowing orb that toyed with their artillery before unleashing a terrifying weapon of its own.
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| Celestial Battle | 13 Oct 2025 | 00:33:40 | |
For the people of 16th-century Europe, the sky was a place of divine mystery, not a battlefield for mortal men. But in 1566, the heavens over Basel, Switzerland, became just that, as hundreds of dark spheres waged a mysterious war before the eyes of the citizens below.
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| The Ghost of Meaford Mary | 06 Oct 2025 | 00:34:14 | |
Long before it was a military training area, the land of CFB Meaford was home to sprawling farmsteads and the quiet lives of pioneer families. But while the families are long gone, one tragic soul remains, a young girl whose ghostly blue eyes now watch over the soldiers training for wars in other lands.
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| Something These Men Could Not Explain | 29 Sep 2025 | 00:26:49 | |
In the brutal calculus of war, survival is often credited to skill, luck, or the simple whim of fate. But for some soldiers, the difference between life and death came as a warning from the most unlikely of sources: a messenger who was already dead.
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| A Man Who Just Liked Killing... | 26 Jan 2026 | 00:32:56 | |
Before the Civil War, Champ Ferguson was a quiet mountain farmer, a loving husband and father living a simple life in the hills of Kentucky. But when the conflict came to his doorstep, something broke, unleashing a savage brutality that would make his name whispered in terror across the border states as one of the Confederacy's most infamous and bloodthirsty guerrilla fighters.
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| Gulf Breeze Six | 22 Sep 2025 | 00:50:33 | |
In the late 1980s, the skies over Gulf Breeze, Florida, became a theater for some of history's most famous UFO sightings. But as the town looked up in wonder, a far more sinister mission was unfolding on the ground, as six AWOL soldiers arrived with a Ouija board and a divine mandate to kill the Antichrist.
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| The Megalodon | 15 Sep 2025 | 00:27:52 | |
For as long as humans have sailed the seas, they have feared the deadly predators lurking just beneath the waves. But what if the most terrifying monster wasn’t a known species, but an ancient ghost of impossible size, a creature science says has been extinct for millions of years?
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| War During Winter is a Horrible Thing... | 08 Sep 2025 | 00:32:37 | |
On the Eastern Front of World War I, German and Russian soldiers were locked in a desperate stalemate against each other and one of the most brutal winters in a century. But as the conflict decimated their enemies, ravenous wolf packs began to stalk the battlefield, seeing the trapped armies as their only source of food.
This is Part 2 of the story of Man Against Wolf.
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| The Battle of Alcatraz | 01 Sep 2025 | 00:35:25 | |
Alcatraz was designed to be an inescapable prison for America’s most dangerous criminals. But in 1946, a desperate breakout attempt by its prisoners forced battle-hardened U.S. Marines – fresh from the islands of the Pacific – to lay siege to the fortress on their own shores.
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| When Men Fight Wars with Wolves | 25 Aug 2025 | 00:26:34 | |
For as long as humans have existed, they’ve engaged in warfare with one another. But those battlefields often put soldiers at odds with nature’s deadliest combatants. These are stories of the conflict between humankind and one of the animal kingdom’s most effective units.
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| The Worst Job in Vietnam | 18 Aug 2025 | 00:35:50 | |
The Vietnam War was defined by brutal heat, punishing rain, and impenetrable jungles full of hidden danger at every step. And that was just on the surface. Underneath it all there was an even more fearsome battleground, in the dark, claustrophobic and deadly labyrinth of Vietcong tunnels.
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| The Chilean Army and the Chupacabra | 11 Aug 2025 | 00:45:36 | |
When Chupacabra attacks swept across Chile in 2000, the military stepped in. But what they discovered was so shocking, it drew the attention of NASA.
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| Haunted Military Aircrafts | 04 Aug 2025 | 00:34:25 | |
Veterans share chilling encounters with haunted aircrafts, ghostly pilots, and red-eyed figures lurking in cargo bays.
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| What Are These Things? | 28 Jul 2025 | 00:27:06 | |
Strange things seen by members of the military and others.
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| The Wailing Woman | 21 Jul 2025 | 00:38:50 | |
The tragic tale and eerie encounters of La Llorona, the legendary wailing woman.
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| Hawaii is Haunted | 19 Jan 2026 | 00:47:47 | |
On the island of Oahu, the US military stands as a symbol of modern power, a high-tech fortress in a tropical paradise. But when the sun sets over the volcanic peaks, an older power awakens, and today’s soldiers come face to face with the ghostly armies of Hawaii's ancient warrior kings.
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| Demonic Night Vision Goggles | 14 Jul 2025 | 00:43:09 | |
Were the strange visions simply a trick of the night vision goggles, or did they truly reveal paranormal entities?
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| The Butcher of Paris | 07 Jul 2025 | 00:38:52 | |
Paris fell silent under German occupation in 1940, and desperate civilians turned to Dr. Marcel Petiot for help, unaware that the true horror awaited inside his home.
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| The Legend of Old Green Eyes | 23 Jun 2025 | 00:33:05 | |
While there are plenty of Civil War stories, it’s the ghostly encounters that should truly be feared.
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| The Object Returns | 16 Jun 2025 | 00:24:43 | |
Military police report object destroying a radio tower.
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| Strange Lights Over Fort Campbell | 09 Jun 2025 | 00:29:32 | |
A diamond-shaped UFO was chased by helicopters over Fort Campbell, KY.
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| A War With Aliens | 02 Jun 2025 | 00:23:31 | |
Bank manager has a terrifying vision before a UFO encounter.
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| Mutiny on the HMS Hermione | 26 May 2025 | 00:39:17 | |
The Captain’s cruelty drives crew to murder and surrender their ship to the enemy.
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| Time Keeps on Slipping | 19 May 2025 | 00:42:26 | |
A coast guardsman saw something unbelievable.
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| Birds Don't Call At Night | 12 May 2025 | 00:34:37 | |
These things can mimic other animals.
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| The Disappearance of Lt. Whipkey | 05 May 2025 | 00:28:38 | |
Why would a lieutenant remove all of his own teeth...?
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| Depraved Doctors of the Third Reich, Pt. 2 | 12 Jan 2026 | 00:56:24 | |
This is Part Two of the story of the Depraved Doctors of the Third Reich.
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| Vietnam Vets and Skinwalkers | 28 Apr 2025 | 00:27:22 | |
Two US Army veterans are forever haunted after witnessing a strange desert ritual involving a possible skinwalker and the subsequent mysterious death of their friend.
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| The Stuff of Nightmares | 21 Apr 2025 | 00:39:28 | |
If these soldiers' stories are true... burn the jungles.
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| Tales of Wartime Cannibalism | 14 Apr 2025 | 00:33:53 | |
Hunger drove these men to the unthinkable.
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| Pilots Who Slipped Through Time | 07 Apr 2025 | 00:37:49 | |
Men who everyone thought were dead... come back.
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| A Fate Worse Than Death... Pt. 2 | 31 Mar 2025 | 00:34:24 | |
USS Indianapolis sank after delivering bomb parts, leaving sailors to five days of shark attacks and survival before rescue.
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| A Fate Worse Than Death... Pt. 1 | 24 Mar 2025 | 00:23:24 | |
The USS Indianapolis, after delivering a key component of the atomic bomb, was sunk by a Japanese submarine, leaving hundreds of sailors stranded in shark-infested waters for five days.
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| The Little Girl on the Ramp | 17 Mar 2025 | 00:31:31 | |
Strange happenings plague Marines stationed at Camp Schwab in Okinawa.
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| REDACTED - "Charles Manson and the CIA (Part 1)" | 10 Mar 2025 | 00:42:49 | |
This story is a fan favorite from Redacted: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana.
When journalist Tom O’Neill set out to write a simple story on the anniversary of the Manson Family murders in 1999, he was pulled into an investigation that lasted 20 years. In the first part of this two part episode, we explore O’Neill’s findings about Charles Manson's relationship to the CIA, drug studies at a CIA funded medical facility that the cult leader frequented, and the alleged role CIA assets might have played the night of the Manson Family murders.
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| Death Has An Echo | 03 Mar 2025 | 00:32:46 | |
Locations with massive bloodshed have eerie stories.
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| The Apache | 24 Feb 2025 | 00:25:34 | |
A soldier recounts a strange encounter during his time at Fort Campbell.
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| Depraved Doctors of the Third Reich, Pt. 1 | 05 Jan 2026 | 00:24:53 | |
The Nazi obsession with creating a pure Aryan race was not just a political ideology; it became a twisted scientific mission. Entrusted with this dark purpose, German physicians abandoned their ethics to perform monstrous experiments on children, the disabled, and prisoners of war, all in a depraved attempt to engineer their vision of humanity.
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| A Man Who Saw Hell | 17 Feb 2025 | 00:41:16 | |
After being wounded, Sergeant Roy Benavidez returned to a dangerous battlefield to rescue his comrades and classified material.
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| Stealing Trucks From Vietcong | 10 Feb 2025 | 00:34:37 | |
A special forces recon team sent to hijack a North Vietnamese supply truck must fight for their survival after their mission is compromised.
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| The Man Who Never Quit | 03 Feb 2025 | 00:31:51 | |
Roy Benavidez becomes a Green Beret and saves the lives of eight fellow soldiers.
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| The Kitsune | 27 Jan 2025 | 00:47:24 | |
A brothel in Okinawa has fox murals on the walls and a missing Marine.
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