1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,380 This video is not made for the fun of its own. 2 00:00:07,300 --> 00:00:10,200 A computer specialist encounters a haunting presence 3 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:12,840 at a secure Air Force base. 4 00:00:12,940 --> 00:00:15,200 What in the world is going on here? 5 00:00:15,300 --> 00:00:19,420 Did I just witness some form of shadow ghost? 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,980 A UN peacekeeper develops a mysterious power 7 00:00:23,080 --> 00:00:26,080 to ward off a deadly foe. 8 00:00:26,180 --> 00:00:28,860 I just felt a sixth sense. 9 00:00:28,860 --> 00:00:31,360 My whole body's tingling. 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,860 As I'm walking through this minefield, 11 00:00:33,860 --> 00:00:36,860 I knew something had to be guiding me. 12 00:00:36,860 --> 00:00:39,860 A military police officer is confronted 13 00:00:39,860 --> 00:00:43,860 by a mythical creature from native folklore. 14 00:00:43,860 --> 00:00:45,860 I felt like something higher on the food chain 15 00:00:45,860 --> 00:00:47,860 was tracking me down. 16 00:00:47,860 --> 00:00:50,860 Our training doesn't prepare you for anything supernatural 17 00:00:50,860 --> 00:00:51,860 like that. 18 00:00:58,860 --> 00:01:11,860 One of these shadows starts to move toward me. 19 00:01:11,860 --> 00:01:13,860 I don't know what it wants. 20 00:01:13,860 --> 00:01:16,860 This is not something I'm prepared for. 21 00:01:16,860 --> 00:01:21,860 Located between Ukjavik, Anchorage, and Juno, 22 00:01:21,860 --> 00:01:24,860 the Alaska Triangle contains some of the most rugged 23 00:01:24,860 --> 00:01:27,860 and vast arctic terrain in North America. 24 00:01:27,860 --> 00:01:33,860 But within this remote wilderness lies a dark secret. 25 00:01:33,860 --> 00:01:36,860 Outside the city of Anchorage, Elmendorf Air Force Base 26 00:01:36,860 --> 00:01:42,860 is the largest air force installation in Alaska. 27 00:01:42,860 --> 00:01:45,860 Established in 1940 to safeguard U.S. interests 28 00:01:45,860 --> 00:01:49,860 in the Northwest Pacific, the base serves a vital role 29 00:01:49,860 --> 00:01:53,860 in securing North American airspace. 30 00:01:53,860 --> 00:01:56,860 What was shocking for me was that these occurrences 31 00:01:56,860 --> 00:02:04,860 were happening inside a secure military facility. 32 00:02:04,860 --> 00:02:06,860 My name is Mike Ricksecker. 33 00:02:06,860 --> 00:02:09,860 I was enlisted in the United States Air Force for six years. 34 00:02:09,860 --> 00:02:11,860 I was stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base 35 00:02:11,860 --> 00:02:16,860 from November 1, 1992 to November 1, 1995. 36 00:02:16,860 --> 00:02:19,860 I come from a long line of military personnel, 37 00:02:19,860 --> 00:02:22,860 and so my family was very proud of me when I entered 38 00:02:22,860 --> 00:02:26,860 into the Air Force to carry on that family tradition. 39 00:02:26,860 --> 00:02:29,860 The Air Force had a lot of opportunities for technology 40 00:02:29,860 --> 00:02:31,860 to learn more about computers. 41 00:02:31,860 --> 00:02:34,860 I had a lot of academic training before I was sent up 42 00:02:34,860 --> 00:02:36,860 to Elmendorf Air Force Base. 43 00:02:36,860 --> 00:02:38,860 The stakes for me were very high. 44 00:02:38,860 --> 00:02:40,860 I had a top-secret security clearance 45 00:02:40,860 --> 00:02:44,860 and a lot of responsibility. 46 00:02:44,860 --> 00:02:47,860 At Elmendorf, Mike is assigned to work 47 00:02:47,860 --> 00:02:49,860 as a network and system administrator. 48 00:02:49,860 --> 00:02:54,860 Within less than a year, he is promoted to the Alaskan Command. 49 00:02:54,860 --> 00:02:57,860 The Alaskan Air Command is critical to protecting 50 00:02:57,860 --> 00:02:59,860 American sovereignty, aerial sovereignty, 51 00:02:59,860 --> 00:03:02,860 in an area that's extremely close to Russia. 52 00:03:02,860 --> 00:03:05,860 This is an area of great interest to both sides. 53 00:03:05,860 --> 00:03:06,860 They're spying on one another, 54 00:03:06,860 --> 00:03:08,860 trying to intercept one another's codes. 55 00:03:08,860 --> 00:03:10,860 There are absolutely high stakes involved 56 00:03:10,860 --> 00:03:13,860 when we're talking about communications between commanders. 57 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:16,860 This is a very important aspect of our nation's security 58 00:03:16,860 --> 00:03:20,860 that this sort of data is passed along in a secure manner. 59 00:03:20,860 --> 00:03:23,860 This is something that could have some dire consequences 60 00:03:23,860 --> 00:03:25,860 if it gets into the wrong hands. 61 00:03:25,860 --> 00:03:27,860 There's certainly a lot of weight on your shoulders. 62 00:03:27,860 --> 00:03:31,860 If they felt that the pressure was too much for you, 63 00:03:31,860 --> 00:03:34,860 you would suddenly become a security risk. 64 00:03:34,860 --> 00:03:38,860 Our primary office was in the basement 65 00:03:38,860 --> 00:03:40,860 of the Alaskan Command building. 66 00:03:40,860 --> 00:03:44,860 It was a very large building built in the late 1940s. 67 00:03:44,860 --> 00:03:46,860 This was an older part of the building. 68 00:03:46,860 --> 00:03:49,860 It was very musty, really kind of dark dank. 69 00:03:49,860 --> 00:03:51,860 The lighting wasn't very good. 70 00:03:51,860 --> 00:03:55,860 It had a very heavy feeling about it. 71 00:03:55,860 --> 00:03:58,860 One night, while working on a critical assignment, 72 00:03:58,860 --> 00:04:01,860 Mike witnesses something unusual. 73 00:04:01,860 --> 00:04:07,860 I'm loading up the crypto devices into our secure machinery. 74 00:04:07,860 --> 00:04:10,860 And then as I'm sitting there, 75 00:04:10,860 --> 00:04:16,860 I see this shape out of the corner of my eye glide by the doorway. 76 00:04:16,860 --> 00:04:22,860 I turn and I see this shadowy being walk past. 77 00:04:22,860 --> 00:04:25,860 Even though this being looks like a human, 78 00:04:25,860 --> 00:04:28,860 it was translucent in nature. 79 00:04:28,860 --> 00:04:31,860 You could see through it to the wall on the other side. 80 00:04:31,860 --> 00:04:33,860 Almost as if it wasn't there. 81 00:04:33,860 --> 00:04:37,860 I get up out of my chair and I'm looking around. 82 00:04:37,860 --> 00:04:39,860 Nobody's back there. 83 00:04:39,860 --> 00:04:42,860 I'm extremely puzzled, kind of shaking my head. 84 00:04:42,860 --> 00:04:45,860 What's going on here? 85 00:04:45,860 --> 00:04:48,860 I'm not sure at all what to think at this point. 86 00:04:48,860 --> 00:04:51,860 Maybe it was just a trick of the dark lighting back there. 87 00:04:51,860 --> 00:04:55,860 Maybe I didn't really see what I had seen. 88 00:04:55,860 --> 00:04:59,860 Mike spends hours working in poor lighting on electronics 89 00:04:59,860 --> 00:05:01,860 with very small components. 90 00:05:01,860 --> 00:05:06,860 It's quite possible that the shadows he sees are brought on by eye strain. 91 00:05:06,860 --> 00:05:10,860 Four months later, Mike experiences another strange event 92 00:05:10,860 --> 00:05:12,860 while working in the basement. 93 00:05:12,860 --> 00:05:16,860 December 1993, around Christmas holidays, 94 00:05:16,860 --> 00:05:18,860 most of the people have taken off. 95 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:21,860 And so I was really by myself. 96 00:05:21,860 --> 00:05:23,860 And that's something that we really wear on the psyche, 97 00:05:23,860 --> 00:05:25,860 especially during the wintertime. 98 00:05:25,860 --> 00:05:31,860 When you saw very, very little daylight, it is dark all the time. 99 00:05:31,860 --> 00:05:37,860 As I'm sitting there, I start to feel this strange heaviness come over me, 100 00:05:37,860 --> 00:05:41,860 like this weight on your shoulders pressing down. 101 00:05:41,860 --> 00:05:44,860 I start to feel a bit claustrophobic, 102 00:05:44,860 --> 00:05:47,860 like the walls are starting to come in around me. 103 00:05:47,860 --> 00:05:50,860 It was almost like I was inside a bubble. 104 00:05:50,860 --> 00:05:54,860 As that bubble is starting to shrink around me, 105 00:05:54,860 --> 00:05:58,860 I start to feel that there is a presence that's there, 106 00:05:58,860 --> 00:06:01,860 even though nobody else is around. 107 00:06:01,860 --> 00:06:04,860 It's like the hairs on your neck start to raise. 108 00:06:04,860 --> 00:06:07,860 There's somebody or something else nearby. 109 00:06:07,860 --> 00:06:11,860 I can't see it, but I'm feeling it. 110 00:06:11,860 --> 00:06:14,860 When your mind or your brain is devoid of stimuli, 111 00:06:14,860 --> 00:06:17,860 it starts to create its own stimuli. 112 00:06:17,860 --> 00:06:19,860 Sometimes when you're in isolation, 113 00:06:19,860 --> 00:06:21,860 you start to sense things that aren't there. 114 00:06:21,860 --> 00:06:24,860 You might feel like there's a presence of somebody else with you, 115 00:06:24,860 --> 00:06:29,860 because we're social creatures and we're so used to being around other people. 116 00:06:31,860 --> 00:06:34,860 I decide I need to have a look around. 117 00:06:34,860 --> 00:06:41,860 So I get up from my desk and walk into the back hallway where it's extremely dark. 118 00:06:41,860 --> 00:06:44,860 The lighting is terrible back there. 119 00:06:45,860 --> 00:06:52,860 All of a sudden, I see this large black mass pass right down the hallway. 120 00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:54,860 I'm shocked. 121 00:06:54,860 --> 00:06:56,860 I don't know what to do. 122 00:06:56,860 --> 00:06:59,860 I'm confused as to what I'm looking at. 123 00:06:59,860 --> 00:07:04,860 The other shadow that I saw is more translucent in nature. 124 00:07:04,860 --> 00:07:08,860 This one that I'm looking at now is more solid. 125 00:07:08,860 --> 00:07:10,860 It's tall, it's dark. 126 00:07:10,860 --> 00:07:14,860 You could see ahead and shoulders, part of a body like a torso. 127 00:07:14,860 --> 00:07:17,860 I don't know what to do or say in this moment, 128 00:07:17,860 --> 00:07:22,860 other than just watch this shadow walking down that hallway. 129 00:07:22,860 --> 00:07:25,860 I'm just frozen in dumbstruck looking at this. 130 00:07:28,860 --> 00:07:31,860 At Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, 131 00:07:31,860 --> 00:07:38,860 Airman Mike Ricksecker is confronted by a mysterious presence at a secure military facility. 132 00:07:40,860 --> 00:07:44,860 Finally, I collect myself enough to actually ask, 133 00:07:44,860 --> 00:07:47,860 hello, who's there? 134 00:07:49,860 --> 00:07:53,860 As this thing just dissipates away into the ether, 135 00:07:55,860 --> 00:08:02,860 I am totally astonished to actually see a form disappear into nothing. 136 00:08:02,860 --> 00:08:09,860 I was pretty unnerved and this is where I start acknowledging something paranormal, 137 00:08:09,860 --> 00:08:13,860 something supernatural is really happening in this basement. 138 00:08:15,860 --> 00:08:21,860 Alaska has long been known as an area where magnetic anomalies are the rule rather than the exception. 139 00:08:21,860 --> 00:08:27,860 Some people have claimed that this part of Alaska experiences what is known as electromagnetic energy vortexes, 140 00:08:27,860 --> 00:08:33,860 and they claim that these affect humans, that people experience disorientation, 141 00:08:33,860 --> 00:08:38,860 they have auditory and visual hallucinations, and they can just get confused. 142 00:08:38,860 --> 00:08:46,860 This idea, though, of electromagnetic energy vortexes is not something that has been conclusively determined to be true. 143 00:08:49,860 --> 00:08:53,860 I was very nervous about what I had just seen. 144 00:08:53,860 --> 00:09:03,860 There's a certain connotation when you're in the military that if you start seeing unreal things that there might be something wrong with you, 145 00:09:03,860 --> 00:09:10,860 you could always have your top secret security clearance pulled if that's the case, and then your career's in jeopardy. 146 00:09:10,860 --> 00:09:15,860 So I decide I'm going to go work and do my job and try to forget what I just saw. 147 00:09:18,860 --> 00:09:25,860 Some days go by, I'm setting up a new file server, getting some equipment together. 148 00:09:25,860 --> 00:09:32,860 As I'm walking up the hallway, there's a shadow that darts right into that room. 149 00:09:33,860 --> 00:09:36,860 So I swing open the door. 150 00:09:36,860 --> 00:09:43,860 I don't see the shadow at that point, but I know I saw it go into that room, so where did it go? 151 00:09:43,860 --> 00:09:53,860 As I'm looking around in this storage area, the crimpers just suddenly fly off the equipment shelf. 152 00:09:54,860 --> 00:10:04,860 The crimpers were back on the shelf away, so it actually had to somehow slide across that shelf before it dropped. 153 00:10:04,860 --> 00:10:11,860 It got me wondering, is this the shadow person that he knocked this off the shelf? 154 00:10:11,860 --> 00:10:15,860 Was he possibly trying to get my attention? 155 00:10:16,860 --> 00:10:22,860 I notice in my periphery on the right hand side in the very, very back corner. 156 00:10:26,860 --> 00:10:29,860 I see this shadow in this area. 157 00:10:29,860 --> 00:10:36,860 This shadow just suddenly starts to move toward me, and I'm backing up, backing up. 158 00:10:36,860 --> 00:10:39,860 This shadow is walking directly at me. 159 00:10:39,860 --> 00:10:43,860 I don't know what it wants, but it's making a B line straight for me. 160 00:10:43,860 --> 00:10:47,860 I don't want anything to do with this. I need to get out of here. 161 00:10:47,860 --> 00:10:50,860 This is not something I'm prepared for. 162 00:10:50,860 --> 00:10:53,860 I don't know if this thing is following me. 163 00:10:53,860 --> 00:10:56,860 I head down that hallway very quickly. 164 00:10:58,860 --> 00:11:01,860 I go back to my cubicle. 165 00:11:01,860 --> 00:11:04,860 My supervisor was back there. 166 00:11:04,860 --> 00:11:09,860 He kind of sees the expression on my face and asks me what's going on. 167 00:11:09,860 --> 00:11:14,860 So I describe to him what I had just seen. 168 00:11:14,860 --> 00:11:20,860 My supervisor leans in and just whispers, yeah, that happens here. 169 00:11:20,860 --> 00:11:27,860 This is where he starts telling me that this building had once been a hospital 170 00:11:27,860 --> 00:11:31,860 and that where we were at had actually once been the morgue, 171 00:11:31,860 --> 00:11:37,860 and the storage area had actually been where the coolers were that stored the bodies. 172 00:11:39,860 --> 00:11:43,860 MUSIC 173 00:11:50,860 --> 00:11:55,860 As my supervisor is explaining this to me, I'm in total disbelief. 174 00:11:55,860 --> 00:11:58,860 I'm shocked. Is he telling me a ghost story? 175 00:11:58,860 --> 00:12:02,860 Did I just witness some form of shadow ghost? 176 00:12:02,860 --> 00:12:08,860 One of the concepts that started to be taken seriously in physics in the 90s 177 00:12:08,860 --> 00:12:10,860 was the idea of parallel universes. 178 00:12:10,860 --> 00:12:16,860 The data tells us that there are many other universes that we live in a multiverse. 179 00:12:16,860 --> 00:12:21,860 So could it be possible for different universes to interact? 180 00:12:21,860 --> 00:12:24,860 And if so, will we see signs of it as humans? 181 00:12:24,860 --> 00:12:31,860 What mic saw? Could that be some sort of other universal parallel universe interaction event? 182 00:12:31,860 --> 00:12:37,860 We have no idea. This is speculation, but this is the kind of thing we may need to consider. 183 00:12:38,860 --> 00:12:44,860 These types of events occurred for the next couple of years that I was stationed there at Elmendorf Air Force Base. 184 00:12:44,860 --> 00:12:49,860 I would see these shadows, especially in those back office areas. 185 00:12:49,860 --> 00:12:57,860 What was shocking for me was that these occurrences were happening inside a secure military facility. 186 00:12:57,860 --> 00:13:01,860 That was totally mind-blowing to me. 187 00:13:01,860 --> 00:13:05,860 I left Elmendorf Air Force Base with more questions than answers. 188 00:13:05,860 --> 00:13:11,860 What I discovered was that these type of experiences have happened to many people, not just myself. 189 00:13:11,860 --> 00:13:16,860 And I'm hoping to let people realize that they are not alone in these experiences 190 00:13:16,860 --> 00:13:19,860 and have the courage to come forward and tell their own stories. 191 00:13:25,860 --> 00:13:30,860 I am just hoping, praying. Don't let it blow up. 192 00:13:30,860 --> 00:13:38,860 In 1960, after decades of British military occupation, the Republic of Cyprus became an independent state. 193 00:13:38,860 --> 00:13:46,860 But violence broke out between the native Turkish and Greek populations, leaving hundreds of innocent civilians dead. 194 00:13:48,860 --> 00:13:54,860 In 1964, to restore order, the UN Security Council sent in peacekeeping forces. 195 00:13:54,860 --> 00:13:59,860 Canada's response to the crisis became known as Operation Snow Goose. 196 00:13:59,860 --> 00:14:05,860 The peacekeepers' job is to keep death at bay on this conflicted island. 197 00:14:08,860 --> 00:14:15,860 I can't come up with why these things happened. It's an unexplained event. 198 00:14:16,860 --> 00:14:23,860 My name is Robert Simpson. I am an ex-member of the Canadian Armed Forces. 199 00:14:23,860 --> 00:14:30,860 I was stationed in Nicosia Cyprus on a UN peacekeeping tour. 200 00:14:30,860 --> 00:14:38,860 Our deployment went from October, 78, to April, 79, six-month deployment. 201 00:14:38,860 --> 00:14:45,860 The military's in my blood. My father's second world war veteran, he was a Korean war veteran. 202 00:14:45,860 --> 00:14:53,860 And my uncle, Dougie, was actually one of the first UN soldiers in 64 to go to Cyprus. 203 00:14:53,860 --> 00:14:57,860 The UN mission puts an end to the major violence in the region. 204 00:14:57,860 --> 00:15:02,860 But it can't resolve the underlying tensions between the two groups. 205 00:15:02,860 --> 00:15:09,860 In 1974, the Turkish army invades and in effect divides the island between Greeks and Turks. 206 00:15:09,860 --> 00:15:13,860 And that UN peacekeeping force is in the center of all of that. 207 00:15:13,860 --> 00:15:21,860 This in-between area is known as the buffer zone or the green zone. 208 00:15:21,860 --> 00:15:27,860 The green zone is a UN-controlled sector. No man's land. 209 00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:34,860 As a peacekeeper, you have to sit there to keep the Turks and the Greeks apart, keep them from fighting. 210 00:15:34,860 --> 00:15:40,860 My mission in Cyprus, I call the world's most dangerous babysitting job 211 00:15:40,860 --> 00:15:50,860 because you're between two groups with automatic weapons who will complain and want to shoot because somebody made a face at them. 212 00:15:50,860 --> 00:15:57,860 From strategic observation posts, Roberts' unit keeps watch over the green zone in two-man teams. 213 00:15:57,860 --> 00:16:02,860 George and I were paired up from the start. We shared the same room. 214 00:16:02,860 --> 00:16:08,860 We became very good friends. He had my six and I had his. 215 00:16:08,860 --> 00:16:12,860 And that's important, that you got each other's back. 216 00:16:13,860 --> 00:16:20,860 Four months into his mission, Robert experiences something unnerving while on patrol. 217 00:16:20,860 --> 00:16:26,860 January 29th, it was George and I on observation posts on Omafita. 218 00:16:26,860 --> 00:16:33,860 At just about 11 a.m., all of a sudden, everything around me moves in slow motion. 219 00:16:33,860 --> 00:16:39,860 I felt this energy which was so powerful and so powerful. 220 00:16:39,860 --> 00:16:50,860 I felt this energy which it was like electric and I can't put my finger on why it is, but I know something's wrong. 221 00:16:50,860 --> 00:17:04,860 My skin was crawling. I put my binoculars down and all of a sudden, my arm jerked up and there was something very hot and a crook of my elbow. 222 00:17:04,860 --> 00:17:09,860 And I look down and I see I've been shot. 223 00:17:09,860 --> 00:17:19,860 There's no saying when you get shot, you never hear the shot. I can tell you I did not hear that shot. 224 00:17:19,860 --> 00:17:24,860 I just felt something was wrong. 225 00:17:24,860 --> 00:17:32,860 It was a minor wound, enough to injure me, but not enough to really do damage. 226 00:17:32,860 --> 00:17:41,860 Being a peacekeeper is a thankless job. Peacekeeping is literally walking into a real conflict zone where you're supposed to lead by example. 227 00:17:41,860 --> 00:17:47,860 That means in your personal conduct as well as in the fact that you don't shoot at somebody else. 228 00:17:47,860 --> 00:17:52,860 Now that doesn't mean that the other guy's not shooting at you. You're despised in a lot of ways. 229 00:17:52,860 --> 00:17:57,860 And you are perpetually a target for anybody who wants to shoot at you. 230 00:17:58,860 --> 00:18:10,860 A few weeks later, we're on foot patrol in the buffer zone and it's midnight and all of a sudden, I had the same feelings. 231 00:18:10,860 --> 00:18:22,860 Every hair in my body was standing up from the electricity. There was danger and I grabbed George by the collar and pulled him back and I said, hold it, we got a problem. 232 00:18:22,860 --> 00:18:26,860 I get down on my hands and knees, he says, what are you doing? 233 00:18:26,860 --> 00:18:36,860 And I found this black line. I traced it to a soup can on a stake and there's a grenade in there. 234 00:18:36,860 --> 00:18:41,860 Once it comes out, it'll alarm and in five seconds it goes bang. 235 00:18:41,860 --> 00:18:47,860 Had George taken that step, he would have triggered that booby trap. 236 00:18:47,860 --> 00:19:02,860 In that moment, the sense I got and how close that line was, which is impossible to see, had I not listened to that strange electricity, George and I would have been blown to bits. 237 00:19:03,860 --> 00:19:18,860 The feeling I got is unexplained. It alerted me something was wrong and I have yet to come up with a logical explanation of what it is. I just know I trust it. 238 00:19:18,860 --> 00:19:30,860 I started calling it a combat antenna because I know it saved George and I's life. I absolutely feel my combat antenna is a sixth sense. 239 00:19:30,860 --> 00:19:39,860 Often what we call a sixth sense is really our unconscious taking in information and then like a feeling arising. 240 00:19:39,860 --> 00:19:50,860 Robert was already on high alert because he's in a war zone. He's hyper vigilant. He's looking for potential threats consciously, but also unconsciously. 241 00:19:50,860 --> 00:20:00,860 It's not coming out of nowhere. There are little tiny cues that the unconscious is picking up on that's giving you a feeling and I think that's what might have happened here. 242 00:20:00,860 --> 00:20:05,860 Something in his unconscious did some calculation and gave him a feeling. 243 00:20:05,860 --> 00:20:35,860 I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what 244 00:20:35,860 --> 00:21:05,860 it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I'm not sure what it is, but I 245 00:21:05,860 --> 00:21:12,860 am just hoping, praying, don't let it blow up. 246 00:21:35,860 --> 00:21:41,860 There is a misconception that mines will only go off after you take the weight off, 247 00:21:41,860 --> 00:21:45,860 once you've triggered it, but that's not true. Some mines go off immediately on contact, 248 00:21:45,860 --> 00:21:48,860 or just because of proximity. 249 00:21:48,860 --> 00:21:58,860 I weigh 275 pounds. I can set an anti-tank mine off, which is about 8 to 10 pounds of explosives. 250 00:21:58,860 --> 00:22:07,860 That would vaporize me. I am freaking out, and yet my combat antenna was trying to get me through this. 251 00:22:07,860 --> 00:22:16,860 My whole body's tingling. My senses are just razor sharp. My feet are sensing. 252 00:22:16,860 --> 00:22:27,860 Try it to feel if there's mines as I step. As I walk through this minefield, I knew something had to be guiding me, 253 00:22:27,860 --> 00:22:31,860 trying to find me a safe path. 254 00:22:31,860 --> 00:22:37,860 I make it across the field, and the Turkish soldier's jaw was almost on the ground. 255 00:22:37,860 --> 00:22:40,860 He was amazed I got through. 256 00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:44,860 The Turkish soldier said, why didn't you take the safe path? 257 00:22:44,860 --> 00:22:52,860 I said, I asked you, is this the path? And you nodded to me, yes. 258 00:22:52,860 --> 00:23:03,860 The safe path was actually five feet further away from where I was walking. 259 00:23:03,860 --> 00:23:15,860 When I got back, I walked over to George, and we watched three mines explode exactly where I walked. 260 00:23:15,860 --> 00:23:23,860 And we both had our mouths open, and George looked at me with wide eyes and goes, 261 00:23:23,860 --> 00:23:35,860 so why didn't the mines go off when I walked there? And I said, I think my combat antenna kept me safe. 262 00:23:35,860 --> 00:23:47,860 Two weeks left on my tour, we're on a foot patrol. My combat antenna starts going nuts. 263 00:23:47,860 --> 00:23:54,860 Suddenly we hear what sounds like a shot. I turned around to the sound. 264 00:23:54,860 --> 00:24:01,860 I started to pull the trigger. Something stopped me as I'm squeezing the trigger. 265 00:24:01,860 --> 00:24:11,860 In that nanosecond, I see this young man, and I realize this guy did not have an actual weapon in his hand. 266 00:24:11,860 --> 00:24:18,860 This young man had this cap gun. Somehow I got my finger off the trigger. 267 00:24:18,860 --> 00:24:22,860 I almost killed this young man. 268 00:24:22,860 --> 00:24:27,860 My weapon should have discharged. It did not fire. 269 00:24:27,860 --> 00:24:35,860 That weapon's a very sensitive trigger at that point. Even taking your finger off it, it can discharge. 270 00:24:35,860 --> 00:24:44,860 Somehow my combat antenna saved that young man's life by making sure my weapon did not discharge. 271 00:24:44,860 --> 00:24:48,860 Why? I cannot tell you. 272 00:24:48,860 --> 00:24:56,860 I had almost done the unthinkable. I had almost shot an innocent person. 273 00:24:56,860 --> 00:25:09,860 That is the worst nightmare of any soldier to shoot an innocent person. 274 00:25:09,860 --> 00:25:14,860 Everything's hitting me. 275 00:25:14,860 --> 00:25:23,860 I didn't think I'd get that emotional. But it proves I'm human. 276 00:25:23,860 --> 00:25:29,860 I threw my weapon down. I said, I don't want to do this no more. 277 00:25:29,860 --> 00:25:41,860 I knew I'd lost my edge, and they had to pull me off the line for my own good. 278 00:25:41,860 --> 00:25:51,860 Later that night, Robert is still reeling from the traumatic event. While he's in bed, his combat antenna goes off. 279 00:25:51,860 --> 00:26:12,860 It's dark. I suddenly wake up. My whole body's lit up, and I can't understand why in the safety of this room am I getting my combat antenna going? 280 00:26:12,860 --> 00:26:24,860 I look up to my left, and in the far corner is this thing. It's not a human. I don't know what it is. There's a hood. 281 00:26:24,860 --> 00:26:31,860 All I can see is some glowing eyes. The rest of the figure is always moving. 282 00:26:31,860 --> 00:26:39,860 My mind's racing, trying to figure out what am I seeing. I know this thing is not a good thing. 283 00:26:39,860 --> 00:26:48,860 And finally, the only thing I could come up with was you are the Angel of Death. 284 00:26:48,860 --> 00:26:54,860 The Angel of Death, he takes your soul. He kills. I didn't know why this was happening. 285 00:26:54,860 --> 00:27:02,860 I just knew you're not touching George. I will defend that man to my dying breath. We've been through too much. 286 00:27:02,860 --> 00:27:13,860 If it's coming for me, I'll fight with everything I got. I looked at it, and I said in a forceful voice, there's nothing here for you. 287 00:27:13,860 --> 00:27:19,860 You need to leave now. And then, poof, it was gone. 288 00:27:24,860 --> 00:27:35,860 The Angel of Death is a pretty well-documented phenomenon. A lot of soldiers have seen it. A lot of soldiers going into harm's way see a hooded black figure, who they colloquially refer to as an Angel of Death. 289 00:27:35,860 --> 00:27:46,860 The Angel of Death is a harbinger of death. It signifies that somebody is about to die. 290 00:27:46,860 --> 00:27:58,860 After the Angel of Death lapsed, George woke up. I told George what went on. And he says, I didn't hear a thing. 291 00:27:58,860 --> 00:28:10,860 George did say, I'm glad you've seen him, not me. George said to me, I'm not saying nothing because nobody's gonna believe us. 292 00:28:10,860 --> 00:28:21,860 Sometimes something that could be an ambiguous stimuli becomes superseded by what our expectations are and what our surroundings are and what we're currently experiencing in that time. 293 00:28:21,860 --> 00:28:37,860 Robert, for example, having recently experienced this traumatic event, whatever he might have seen in the shadows for him could have manifested as what he interpreted to be the Angel of Death. 294 00:28:37,860 --> 00:28:51,860 For the next two weeks, kept my mouth shut, did my job, go back to Canada. We got off the plane. I get down on my hands and knees and kiss the Canadian soil. Glad to be back. 295 00:28:51,860 --> 00:29:07,860 People should believe my story because it's the truth. It really happened. To me, it's an unexplained event. My experiences in Cyprus changed me to open my mind. 296 00:29:07,860 --> 00:29:17,860 My combat antenna, the energy it exerts, warrant me and protect me. Why? I wonder to this day. 297 00:29:22,860 --> 00:29:30,860 I felt like something higher on the food chain than me was tracking me down. The feeling of being hunted is not a feeling I'm used to. 298 00:29:31,860 --> 00:29:40,860 35 miles south of Washington, D.C. is one of the largest military bases in America, Marine Corps base Quantico. 299 00:29:40,860 --> 00:29:50,860 The base is situated on 55,000 acres of land that run from the Chesapeake Bay in the east to a forest wilderness in the west. 300 00:29:51,860 --> 00:30:03,860 Known as the west side, it has a reputation for unsettling the Marines who trained there, prompting questions about the mysteries lurking beyond the treeline. 301 00:30:10,860 --> 00:30:15,860 I'm not sure what the reason is, but I'm not sure. 302 00:30:24,860 --> 00:30:27,860 And that's when it says I know you're there. 303 00:30:31,860 --> 00:30:35,860 I'm an active duty US Marine. I'm currently a military policeman stationed in Quantico. 304 00:30:36,860 --> 00:30:41,860 I'm choosing to hide my identity because still being active duty is kind of a touchy area. 305 00:30:41,860 --> 00:30:46,860 At the same time, anybody can have experiences like this. Marines are just as human as everybody else. 306 00:30:47,860 --> 00:30:53,860 My mom is Mexican and Navajo. My father is also native. I was raised really close to the land. 307 00:30:53,860 --> 00:31:00,860 Spent most of my time growing up in the high desert hunting mule deer. It's definitely influenced a lot of where I've become today. 308 00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:08,860 Being the child of a first generation Mexican American immigrant, I feel like I owe something to the country that's given my family so much. 309 00:31:09,860 --> 00:31:15,860 In 2020, Leon is stationed at Marine Corps Base Quantico as a military police officer. 310 00:31:16,860 --> 00:31:21,860 I say the Marine Corps goes away for me to give my life a different set of purpose and a different set of guidelines. 311 00:31:22,860 --> 00:31:26,860 One of my favorite things about the Marine Corps is that Marines don't die, they just go to hell under a group. 312 00:31:27,860 --> 00:31:34,860 The job duties as a military police officer means anything from writing a speeding ticket to homicides. 313 00:31:34,860 --> 00:31:37,860 Most of the time you're trying to mitigate problems from happening. 314 00:31:38,860 --> 00:31:43,860 But one of Leon's primary assignments is to patrol the west side of Quantico. 315 00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:46,860 I was a road unit from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. 316 00:31:47,860 --> 00:31:52,860 Being a road unit, it's your job to patrol back and forth with the guards and do security checks. 317 00:31:52,860 --> 00:31:57,860 Making sure that the base is secure and that nobody was doing anything that they shouldn't have been. 318 00:31:59,860 --> 00:32:05,860 After several months of working the graveyard shift, Leon starts having disturbing nightmares. 319 00:32:06,860 --> 00:32:13,860 I kept having this dream that I was a Harris hawk and it was just me diving at this coos deer. 320 00:32:13,860 --> 00:32:18,860 Everything in me needed to fight this coos deer. I would dive it, I would attack it, I would scratch it. 321 00:32:18,860 --> 00:32:22,860 And no matter the damage I would cause to it, I could never beat it. 322 00:32:22,860 --> 00:32:24,860 It was just so weird that it was so repetitive. 323 00:32:25,860 --> 00:32:33,860 The Navajos were veer birds of prey and deer are so scarce, especially back when Navajos depended on hunting for assassins. 324 00:32:33,860 --> 00:32:35,860 It was really unsettling. 325 00:32:36,860 --> 00:32:45,860 It's completely natural to look for meaning in our dreams, but the scientific evidence behind that is very questionable as to whether our dreams really do mean anything. 326 00:32:46,860 --> 00:32:57,860 What we do know about recurring dreams is that they are a sign of mental or physical stress and that they can cause sleep deprivation or sleep disorders like parasomnia, which can cause vivid hallucinations. 327 00:33:00,860 --> 00:33:07,860 A month after Leon's haunting dreams, he's on patrol late at night on the west side of the base. 328 00:33:08,860 --> 00:33:10,860 I complete my nightly security checks. 329 00:33:10,860 --> 00:33:13,860 I'm a big hunter. Marine Corps Base Quantico allows hunting. 330 00:33:13,860 --> 00:33:20,860 So in my spare time, I'll spot out places and put my trail cams just to see the wildlife in the area. 331 00:33:23,860 --> 00:33:30,860 Usually I have anywhere from three to five set up at a time in different areas to help get a picture of somebody trespassing on the base or poaching at night. 332 00:33:31,860 --> 00:33:33,860 The woods on the west side are just different. 333 00:33:33,860 --> 00:33:37,860 Those woods just give off a really unsettling aura about them. 334 00:33:37,860 --> 00:33:39,860 You're pretty much by yourself out there. 335 00:33:40,860 --> 00:33:45,860 As I'm making my way towards my trail camera, the woods start to get silent. 336 00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:51,860 It was just really unsettling to me. 337 00:33:52,860 --> 00:33:55,860 So I'd stop for a second. I look, I listen. 338 00:33:55,860 --> 00:33:59,860 That was when I started to feel the little tingling on the back of the neck. 339 00:34:00,860 --> 00:34:03,860 It was kind of that feeling, like something's right behind you. 340 00:34:03,860 --> 00:34:07,860 I'm not one to shake easily. There's not a lot of stuff that can really freak me out. 341 00:34:07,860 --> 00:34:10,860 I don't really understand why I was reacting the way I was. 342 00:34:11,860 --> 00:34:15,860 There's nothing around me. I can't hear anything. I can't see anything. I don't smell anything. 343 00:34:15,860 --> 00:34:18,860 There's nothing to be freaked out about. 344 00:34:19,860 --> 00:34:27,860 Particularly people who are in combat or in the military, they have to be on high alert and that changes how we perceive the world. 345 00:34:28,860 --> 00:34:36,860 A lot of these military people are so trained to be vigilant that it's almost like their senses are on hyperdrive. 346 00:34:36,860 --> 00:34:43,860 They're more sensitive to finding potential threats in the environment because it could potentially save their lives. 347 00:34:44,860 --> 00:34:51,860 So it's kind of like a smoke detector is set to go off very easily because if you miss a fire, it can be deadly. 348 00:34:51,860 --> 00:34:57,860 So it makes more sense to be more sensitive to a potential threat just in case. 349 00:34:58,860 --> 00:35:02,860 So I get to the bottom of the creek where I have my trail camera posted. 350 00:35:02,860 --> 00:35:10,860 I grab the little card out of there and I pull my laptop out and I flip it open and start flipping through my trail cam pictures. 351 00:35:12,860 --> 00:35:15,860 All of a sudden I started hearing somebody walking through the woods. 352 00:35:15,860 --> 00:35:18,860 It's unmistakable that you hear a human walking through the woods. You can tell. 353 00:35:18,860 --> 00:35:24,860 Just the way they crush leaves, they move branches, they breathe heavy, they don't feel like they belong. 354 00:35:25,860 --> 00:35:28,860 And 10, 15 yards away from me, sound stops. 355 00:35:29,860 --> 00:35:32,860 And I can barely make out a shape in the brambles. 356 00:35:33,860 --> 00:35:36,860 And a white tail deer buck steps out. 357 00:35:37,860 --> 00:35:39,860 I was like, okay, that's weird. 358 00:35:40,860 --> 00:35:44,860 It's a really nice looking buck. It's at least an eight pointer. It looks at least to be 180 pounds. 359 00:35:45,860 --> 00:35:51,860 The thing that really threw me off was how it went from sounding like a human to seeing a deer. 360 00:35:52,860 --> 00:35:57,860 Right adjacent to the clearing, there's this big oak tree. 361 00:35:59,860 --> 00:36:03,860 It just trots up to it and just starts feeding its skull into it repeatedly. 362 00:36:04,860 --> 00:36:07,860 I was kind of stupefied. I was like, wait, what? It was just not normal. 363 00:36:08,860 --> 00:36:12,860 Am I just hired? Did I drink one too many energy drinks tonight? 364 00:36:13,860 --> 00:36:17,860 When you over-stimulate the brain, you get increased dredelin and cortisol. 365 00:36:17,860 --> 00:36:24,860 And we know that too much caffeine or too much of a stimulant can actually cause hallucinations. 366 00:36:25,860 --> 00:36:29,860 You do see things that you think are there. They become in effect waking dreams. 367 00:36:30,860 --> 00:36:35,860 And I've been there myself. It doesn't rule out Leon's experience, but it is an important thing to say. 368 00:36:36,860 --> 00:36:41,860 I can hear it now. It's just the crushing of bone and like, squelching. It's just unbearable. 369 00:36:41,860 --> 00:36:47,860 My stomach hit the floor. There has been very, very few times in my life where I've been frozen in fear. 370 00:36:48,860 --> 00:36:49,860 And that was one of them. 371 00:36:52,860 --> 00:36:57,860 After I felt like I could move, I thought I was like, what the hell was that? 372 00:36:58,860 --> 00:37:07,860 While patrolling the West Side Forest of Marine Corps Base, Quantico, military police officer Leon sees something he can't explain. 373 00:37:07,860 --> 00:37:11,860 As somebody who's hunted and is taking game, everything makes a sound. 374 00:37:12,860 --> 00:37:17,860 When something's in pain, it makes sounds. Deer have a dying grunt, but there's no crunching. 375 00:37:18,860 --> 00:37:26,860 There's no sound of something trying to kill itself. The only sound was just this repeated smashing of bone over and over. 376 00:37:27,860 --> 00:37:32,860 I was like, maybe this is chronic wasting disease. Maybe this is a new symptom of chronic wasting disease. 377 00:37:32,860 --> 00:37:37,860 Maybe this is the deer feeling its brain deteriorating, so it's trying to get out whatever fell in its head. 378 00:37:39,860 --> 00:37:48,860 There's something called chronic wasting disease, and it actually affects the brains and nervous systems of deer and other hooved and antlered mammals. 379 00:37:49,860 --> 00:37:58,860 So infected animals can actually display physical and behavioral changes, things like loss of coordination, drooling, listlessness, and even a fear of people. 380 00:37:58,860 --> 00:38:07,860 And it can actually spread between animals, either with direct contact or because of contamination of food or soil or water. 381 00:38:08,860 --> 00:38:17,860 Most animals' retinas reflect back at you, and there's no reflection of the retina. It was just weird, just off. 382 00:38:18,860 --> 00:38:25,860 As this buck finishes smashing its face, it takes a step back and stands up on its hind legs. 383 00:38:26,860 --> 00:38:33,860 And that's when, in the clearest voice I have ever heard in my entire life, it says, I know you're there. 384 00:38:34,860 --> 00:38:39,860 I felt freaked out, scared. This thing doesn't even have a working jaw, much less a working voice box. 385 00:38:40,860 --> 00:38:47,860 I would say anything like, I felt like I was frozen in time. Like somebody put me in jello and I couldn't react. 386 00:38:48,860 --> 00:38:52,860 Every realization or explanation I tried to come up with didn't make sense. 387 00:38:53,860 --> 00:38:58,860 What is this? Is it a warning? Is it a sign? Is it what? I need proof for things. 388 00:38:59,860 --> 00:39:03,860 I don't want to use the term supernatural, but I've never had anything in my face like that. 389 00:39:04,860 --> 00:39:07,860 The only thing I could come up with was that it was a skinwalker. 390 00:39:10,860 --> 00:39:19,860 In Navajo lore, a skinwalker is a witch or a shaman who gets supernatural powers by committing some sort of cultural taboo like murder. 391 00:39:20,860 --> 00:39:25,860 And then this skinwalker can turn and shape shift into any animal they wish, 392 00:39:26,860 --> 00:39:32,860 inheriting their cunning, their speed or their strength, and can even control people's minds with direct eye contact. 393 00:39:33,860 --> 00:39:39,860 Looking at it, it feels like something that's been here way before we have and will be here way after we're gone. 394 00:39:40,860 --> 00:39:44,860 The only thing I could compare the voice to is depictions of Native Americans. 395 00:39:45,860 --> 00:39:49,860 They always had that old deep ancestral wisdomy voice, like a voice of something that's way older than you. 396 00:39:50,860 --> 00:39:53,860 I felt like I was looking at it for hours and it was probably just five to ten seconds. 397 00:39:54,860 --> 00:39:58,860 And then it dropped back on all fours and walked back into the brush. 398 00:39:59,860 --> 00:40:04,860 I was shaking so bad that I didn't even think about it. I just got out of there pretty quick. 399 00:40:06,860 --> 00:40:13,860 Got back into the car. I just kind of sped off trying to put as much distance between myself and it as possible. 400 00:40:17,860 --> 00:40:21,860 After that, I called my grandfather and I told him what happened. 401 00:40:22,860 --> 00:40:25,860 He was like, just don't speak into existence. Just stay away from there. 402 00:40:26,860 --> 00:40:31,860 And his tone of voice made me not question that. I just said, okay, just kind of let it go. 403 00:40:32,860 --> 00:40:37,860 There's the part of me who's like something spiritual was happening, something involving your ancestry is happening. 404 00:40:38,860 --> 00:40:43,860 And then there's the marine part of me who's like, it's dumb. My laptop was still out there. 405 00:40:45,860 --> 00:40:49,860 So a month later, I finally built up the fortitude to go back out there to grab it. 406 00:40:50,860 --> 00:40:55,860 Then the thing that kind of threw me off about it was after being in the woods exposed to the elements, 407 00:40:56,860 --> 00:40:58,860 my laptop should have been grungy and like hurt in the leaves, but it wasn't. 408 00:40:59,860 --> 00:41:01,860 It was like, I just left it there like 20 minutes ago. 409 00:41:03,860 --> 00:41:06,860 I made my way over to the tree where this book was hitting its head into. 410 00:41:07,860 --> 00:41:14,860 And the thing that made my stomach absolutely drop was when I looked down, there was splinters of bone and antler. 411 00:41:14,860 --> 00:41:19,860 And I picked one of the splinters up and felt it in my hand and I was like, okay, that's real. 412 00:41:20,860 --> 00:41:29,860 It was nice to know that I wasn't insane. It was solid evidence, but at the same time, whether it was supernatural or not, I don't really want to be around it. 413 00:41:32,860 --> 00:41:35,860 I have not been back. I don't really plan on going back. 414 00:41:36,860 --> 00:41:37,860 If it was a skin walker, why was it here? 415 00:41:38,860 --> 00:41:41,860 Part of me wants to find some answers. Part of me doesn't. 416 00:41:41,860 --> 00:41:49,860 I would definitely say a good part of wanting to hide my identity is because of the thought that for Navajo and a lot of other Native American culture, 417 00:41:50,860 --> 00:41:54,860 speaking things into existence give them power. Part of me would much rather leave it alone.