{"id":9137,"date":"2015-10-30T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T21:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9137"},"modified":"2015-10-30T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T21:00:29","slug":"psychological-warfare-files-ghost-tape-10-and-operation-wandering-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/30\/psychological-warfare-files-ghost-tape-10-and-operation-wandering-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychological Warfare Files: Ghost Tape #10 and Operation Wandering Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/viet_cong002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9138\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/viet_cong002.jpg\" alt=\"Viet_Cong002\" width=\"560\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>\u201cVietnamese legends held that on the anniversary of a person\u2019s\u00a0death, a spiritual channel between our world and the afterlife can open making communication possible.\u00a0Was this just such a phenomenon?\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>JUST AFTER\u00a0<\/strong>dusk on the night of Feb. 10, 1970, the jungles near the U.S. Army\u2019s Fire Support Base Chamberlain in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H%E1%BA%ADu_Ngh%C4%A9a_Province\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hau Niga Province<\/a>, South Vietnam came to life with a cacophony of spine chilling sounds. Mournful wailing, sobbing, and baleful shrieks filled the air \u2014 unearthly sounds that seemed to be coming from everywhere, but nowhere in particular.<\/p>\n<p>And amid the blood curdling chorus was a clearly audible warning:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy friends,\u201d pleaded a disembodied voice from across the darkness, \u201cI have come back to let you know that I am dead\u2026 I am dead!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hell\u2026 I\u2019m in hell!\u201d it continued in Vietnamese. \u201cDon\u2019t end up like me. Go home, friends, before it\u2019s too late!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The eerie warning was followed by a chorus of other strange sounds: banging gongs sobbing women and a shrieking child\u2019s voice calling for her father.<\/p>\n<p>To the Viet Cong soldiers hiding in blackness beyond the American perimeter, these otherworldly could have been\u00a0the wandering souls of departed comrades. According to local folklore, the sprits of the dead that were not\u00a0returned home for proper burial were cursed to walk the earth in torment until their remains were found and properly interned. Vietnamese legends held that on the anniversary of the death of one of these wayward phantoms, a spiritual channel between our world and the afterlife can open making communication possible.<\/p>\n<p>Were these chilling sounds just such a phenomenon? Were they\u00a0spirits of the dead of some past battle reaching out to the living? Perhaps to the communist guerrillas listening it seemed that way.<\/p>\n<p>The reality was something much less fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/militaryhistorynow.com\/2013\/10\/30\/trick-or-treat-the-strange-tale-of-ghost-tape-no-10\/\"> Military History Now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVietnamese legends held that on the anniversary of a person\u2019s\u00a0death, a spiritual channel between our world and the afterlife can open making communication possible.\u00a0Was this just such a phenomenon?\u201d &nbsp; JUST AFTER\u00a0dusk on the night of Feb. 10, 1970, the jungles near the U.S. Army\u2019s Fire Support Base Chamberlain in Hau Niga Province, South Vietnam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1583,2004,2098,1489,1898],"tags":[763,2739,597,2740,2741,2742],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}