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It was war.

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We knew that there had been people killed up there.

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But there was something just completely wrong about this place.

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I never, ever believed in ghosts before.

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We didn't leash something.

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Someone is trying to kill us.

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It's gonna be them or me.

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And it sure as hell not gonna be me.

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What do you do? I mean you have this gun and all this gear.

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But that's not gonna help you now.

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We're all about to die right now.

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We're all about to die.

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As Commander-in-Chief, I have determined that it is in our vital national interest

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to send an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan.

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I do not make this decision lightly.

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I make this decision because it is from here that we were attacked on 9-11.

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And it is from here that new attacks are being plotted as I speak.

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In the Marines you live, you breathe with the guys you work with day in and day out.

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Some of the guys had kids that were just born recently married and this was their first deployment.

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It was pretty hard on them.

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Opri-Rak was my first assignment.

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It was just a kick in the face pretty much like, hey you're gonna do this training for a few months and boom,

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you're going straight to Afghanistan.

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I don't even know if I want to do this or not.

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The squad was led by Sergeant Green and I was his second command.

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Being in charge of so many guys as a burden,

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it's a mistake or decision you made and they pay the cost.

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That's a heartbreak to swallow.

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All right.

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One of the British soldiers came down to help his welcome to Opri-Rak.

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It looked like a giant rock.

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It was pretty much just a knoll.

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What?

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It was definitely a weird place.

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It had a very strange vibe.

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It was just a very strange feeling.

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The British soldiers looked pretty rough.

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They looked a little razzled, a little bit fried.

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You can tell they've been there for a long time and they're just ready to go and go home.

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You didn't have any beds, you didn't have any cot, you slept in the dirt.

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It was just really bare.

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Yeah, it sucked.

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There was this dog that was up there.

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Hey buddy, hey!

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And they said, oh, that's ugly Betty.

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Take care of her, feed her.

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Because you won't ever find a more diligent sentry.

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Hey!

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I was a dog person growing up, worked with animals,

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and I took it upon myself to take care of her.

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She's cute.

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Betty, come on!

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Come on!

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Finally it was time for the British soldiers to go.

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One more thing.

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The British soldiers told us something crazy.

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If you dig anything up, make sure you put it back where you found it, all right?

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So it was like, we don't know these guys, they're probably just like, jerking our chain, you know what I mean?

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It made no sense to us at the time.

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Later that night, I was on the machine gun post.

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It was very isolated.

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When you're in a small unit, there's always that fear of being vastly outnumbered and dragged away into the night.

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It's always a possibility.

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You know anything corporal?

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Anytime Sergeant Green had come from the post, you would do a very distinctive tap tap on your shoulder just to get your attention.

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No, I'm good.

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I told him everything was fine, he was good to rack out for the night.

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All of a sudden I heard something over the radio.

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It was a crackling, gurgling noise that kept fading in and out.

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I immediately called the main base.

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We have not sent or received any traffic at this time.

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Copy.

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It was just very unusual.

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I'll turn up the volume on it and see if I can kind of make out what's being transmitted.

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It doesn't sound English.

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My media thought it was bad batteries.

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I grabbed a fresh battery.

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I hope that's the end of it.

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This is our lifeline. We can't afford to lose this radio.

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If someone was to sneak up on us, we'd be done for.

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OP ROCK, this is Gulf Main. Radio check, over.

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Roger, Gulf Main. This is OP ROCK. Loud and clear. Over.

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It was very unusual, but you can't really dwell on what happened.

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Observation posts are usually pretty safe because you can see from miles and around.

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This was different, though. You felt somewhat exposed.

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Anytime your head was popping over to side, chances of a sniper is going to get you.

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There were trenches in place, but they weren't very deep.

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The British had been here for a while.

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We couldn't figure out why they had not dug in deeper.

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We immediately knew that we needed to dig deeper and wider trenches.

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I'm digging, I'm digging. All of a sudden, I hit metal.

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It's some kind of engineering stake.

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I brush it off. I see there's Russian lettering.

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It's very distinctive. It made sense.

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The Russians had been down here back in the 80s.

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Wouldn't be surprising to find leftover gear from their time here.

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The ground was pretty hard. It was like trying to break through rock.

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I poked the shovel into the wall and it collapsed on me.

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So now this was like a little crevice.

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Hey, Smith.

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Lance Coppill Smith started digging around.

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We found little pieces of ceramic pots, little cups and stuff like that.

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What is it?

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We went from Ben Mareens to archaeologist or anthropologist or something.

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There was something else down there. Just didn't know exactly what it was.

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Hey, Lena. Make a wish.

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From the shape of it, it's a femur bone. It was definitely, definitely human.

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You sure?

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Positive.

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Like, is this kind of creepy?

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Lance Coppill Smith was definitely the practical joker.

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You know, he always wanted to say something crazy and cruel.

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Oh, can you check my heart? I think something's wrong.

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Come on.

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You got something? You got something?

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Seriously, man. Put it back.

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Yeah, yeah.

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We're here to work.

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All right.

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We were kind of superstitious about things like that.

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So we just went to the lab and found out that there was something wrong.

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We were superstitious about things like that.

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So we just put it back where it belonged.

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But you couldn't dig anywhere without digging up bone after bone.

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What the?

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There's another one.

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They were everywhere.

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Now it became very clear why the bridge did not dig in deeper.

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There were bodies buried underneath here.

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We're on top of a graveyard.

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It was my 20th birthday. I was the most junior marine on OP rock.

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Being up there alone with nothing to do just mentally drains you.

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I had to wait for it to be over.

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I had to wait.

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I had to wait.

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I had to wait.

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I had to wait.

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I had to wait.

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I had to wait.

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Being up there alone with nothing to do

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just mentally drains you.

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It's an eerie silence.

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I grew up in a farm, so I was used to the country,

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but it was deathly quiet.

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And I'm sitting there, and all of a sudden,

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I just get this unnerving feeling that I'm being watched.

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And it just sent chills through my entire body.

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I hear just blood curling scream.

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It's not good, guys.

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It's not good.

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I thought someone got grabbed.

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And this is our biggest fear.

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Someone's sneaking into camp, grabbing us at night

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and carrying them off.

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I'm just like, hey.

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He's like, man, what was that?

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I was just like, I don't even know, man.

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It was just like really creepy.

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Move.

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Go.

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I assumed that it was a person that had caught in the water.

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I'm just like, hey, what's going on?

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I'm just like, hey, what's going on?

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But I look around, and there's nothing to be seen.

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I saw something move across right outside our perimeter wire.

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We immediately went.

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Guns already straight to the little front entrance

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where our razor wire was.

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Shined a flashlight out there.

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Look.

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I thought someone is going to try to either take a pop shot at us

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or throw a grenade into the OP.

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I don't have a visual.

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So I grabbed the thermals.

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Thermal optics would very clearly show anybody that was hiding behind brush

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or hiding in the dirt.

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You can very clearly see its shape from the body.

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He'd tell if it's a person or an animal.

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You sure you saw something, Huy?

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With all the assets and gear at our disposal,

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there was no way that someone could have hidden from us and not be seen.

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I saw something.

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You're trying to put together what you just heard.

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What caused that?

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And you just don't have an answer.

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We'll take a look in the morning.

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We just shook their shoulders and went back to post,

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and I feel like nothing happened.

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Good night.

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I assumed that it was just my mind playing tricks on you.

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It was just my mind playing tricks on me because I was so tired.

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So early next morning, I took Lance Corporal Parker down with me.

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You always have a battle buddy watching your back.

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Being outside the wire, you feel very exposed for any kind of sniper attack.

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So we didn't want to spend a whole lot of time out there.

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I immediately started looking for some kind of rationalization

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for what had been there.

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Individual or even an animal, for that matter, would have left footprints.

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I could not find any kind of prints, you know, man or beast,

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indicating that there had been there previous night.

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So you start to wonder, well, what was it?

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It was quiet out. It was still.

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And I was just reflecting about life stuff.

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It would get so hot at night.

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It was very uncomfortable.

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Put your helmet on.

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I'm sorry.

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Some hours passed after that.

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What's the feeling?

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All of a sudden, I feel like this cold chill move across me.

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What's this?

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There was no, like, breeze.

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There's no reason why I would feel like cold all of a sudden.

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And then I feel this breath on the side of my face.

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And I hear something whisper in my ear.

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I spun around.

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Nothing was there.

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The whisper, I mean, it sounded like Russian.

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I thought I'm just tired.

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I mean, I'm just stressed out.

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So I gaffed it off as being that.

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I hear, like, a crunching noise.

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It sounded like footsteps above me.

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There was definitely somebody walking above me.

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And I thought, OK, it's probably Smith.

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So I ran around real quick to catch him on top of the post.

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Nobody was there.

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And that's when I started getting spooked.

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So I turned on my thermal scope.

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And I'm looking around.

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And I'm, like, scanning around on top of the base.

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And nothing was there.

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I'm just looking around.

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And then I see this figure in my sight.

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I'm just looking around.

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It looks like it's fist or balls.

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I was ready to shoot.

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I needed to make sure it wasn't one of my boys.

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And when I look back through it...

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It gone. Just gone.

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I was like, are you kidding me, man?

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I got to deal with the towel band, all the insects, the IEDs, the heat.

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And now I got to deal with, like, spirits.

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And that's when I felt that chill again.

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What do you do?

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I mean, you have this gun and all this gear

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and your training, but that's not going to help you now.

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What's up with you, man?

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When I got up to relieve Damien on post,

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he started telling me about strange things going on that night.

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Something bad here, man.

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I saw something.

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I took it with a grain of salt, because it's late. You're tired.

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One of your senses plays tricks on you.

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It's a lonely feeling knowing that this place is haunted,

256
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and you're the only one that sees these things or hears these things.

257
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:07,800
I'd rather, you know, take my chances against something I could actually, like, fight against.

258
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,800
So after that, I requested a transfer.

259
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,800
We didn't know what quite to make of it.

260
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,800
If he wasn't strong enough to be there, then I didn't quite want him watching my back,

261
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,800
because then that's something I can't trust.

262
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,800
At the same time, you're down a man now.

263
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,800
That sucks for everybody else.

264
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:39,800
I'm sorry.

265
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,800
Copy that, Golf Main. All clear here.

266
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,800
How's our boys doing?

267
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:57,800
Kickin' ass, OP Rock. You know it.

268
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:02,800
A few days after Zola had left OP Rock, I was on the machine gun post.

269
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,800
It was about 1.30 in the morning.

270
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,800
I hear ugly Betty barking,

271
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:15,800
and instinctively I throw up my night vision goggles to see what she's barking at.

272
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,800
I see something in the distance.

273
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:43,800
The first thing that goes through my mind is a scout for the Taliban.

274
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,800
It was unnerving.

275
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:51,800
I felt like this figure was staring right at me and knew I was staring right back at it.

276
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,800
At that distance, your eyes can kind of play tricks on you.

277
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,800
I switch over to my thermal optics.

278
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:13,800
There's no animal activity, no creatures, no people out there.

279
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,800
So, thinking that I had made a mistake somehow,

280
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,800
I switch back over to my night vision goggles.

281
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,800
The figure had moved 100 meters closer in just a few seconds.

282
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,800
It is teleporting to me.

283
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,800
I thought it must have been crazy.

284
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,800
It was just a little bit of a shock.

285
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,800
Still nothing.

286
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,800
The field's cold. There's no body heat, it's just insures.

287
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,800
The whole time ugly Betty is still barking in that direction.

288
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,800
I look back to where the figure is.

289
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,800
I'm just in.

290
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:19,800
And just then, I felt Sergeant Green's signature double tap on the shoulder.

291
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,800
Green?

292
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,800
I knew I felt that double tap.

293
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,800
It was so precise.

294
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,800
Ah!

295
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,800
And there's nobody there. It is vanished.

296
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,800
I know how not crazy ugly Betty was barking at it.

297
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,800
It's not just me.

298
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,800
I realized Zolic, you know, was on to something.

299
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,800
And he got out of there.

300
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,800
And we're still here.

301
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,800
What is my next step?

302
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:25,800
You don't go running to your command saying I've got ghosts playing tricks on me on post

303
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,800
because that's gonna get you one way ticket to the loony bin.

304
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,800
You alright, sir?

305
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,800
Yeah.

306
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,800
Part of me kind of would be going and trying to find out what's going on in the room.

307
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,800
But I don't know.

308
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,800
I don't know, I don't know.

309
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,800
I don't know.

310
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,800
I don't know.

311
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:50,800
Part of me kind of wished that someone else might have the experience too.

312
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,800
It was the dead of the night.

313
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,800
Everyone else is asleep.

314
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:22,800
There's one other Marine that's awake.

315
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,800
Lance Corporal Smith, who was 15 to 20 meters away in a different post.

316
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,800
I could hear big footsteps behind me.

317
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,800
Hey, Sarge.

318
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,800
Hey, sir.

319
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,800
And there's nothing there.

320
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,800
It was probably just loose gravel falling.

321
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,800
Ugly Betty, who's just standing there with her hair up.

322
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,800
Teeth bare growling.

323
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,800
So I scanned with my thermal.

324
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:20,800
The only heat signatures up there were the dog and the other Marine sleeping.

325
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,800
Smith.

326
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,800
What?

327
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,800
You see anything?

328
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,800
No, man.

329
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,800
He said no.

330
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,800
Try to shake it off. Do your job.

331
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,800
And all of a sudden, I just hear this crunch again.

332
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,800
My body is telling me that something just breathed on me.

333
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,800
My skin is icy.

334
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,800
I couldn't see anything.

335
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,800
And it was like my eyes were just lying to me because every other sense in my body was saying,

336
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,800
no, there's something there.

337
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:38,800
It was then that I really accepted the fact that, you know what, Damien was right.

338
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,800
We were not alone up there.

339
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,800
I was like, I'm not alone.

340
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,800
I never, ever believed in ghosts.

341
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,800
There's no way, man. There's no way that happened.

342
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:13,800
Like, I don't believe any of that stuff.

343
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,800
And then out of nowhere, it was just like this weird cold chill.

344
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,800
And then that's when I heard the whispering.

345
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,800
At first it was just like faint like,

346
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,800
like you can barely hear what was going on.

347
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:56,800
There was no one there.

348
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,800
I was like, I'm not alone.

349
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,800
I was like, I'm not alone.

350
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,800
I'm not alone.

351
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,800
I'm not alone.

352
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,800
I'm not alone.

353
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,800
There was no one there.

354
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,800
The voice came back again, but it was more distinct.

355
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,800
That's Russian.

356
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,800
But no Russians here.

357
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:35,800
And then it just got louder, like the person was actually touching me in the ear.

358
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,800
They're all there.

359
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,800
It was me, it's boys.

360
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,800
And it was just so loud in my head.

361
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,800
And it just terrified me.

362
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,800
It's a space, huh?

363
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,800
Space, pick up the fire.

364
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,800
Did something happen to you?

365
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,800
We couldn't deny that these things had happened to us,

366
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,800
because it happened to all of us.

367
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,800
I've seen some things too.

368
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,800
Everybody was just like, yeah man, I know exactly what you're talking about.

369
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,800
Some weird stuff going on.

370
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:41,800
This is not something that we can just write off as being heat stroke or being exhaustion.

371
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,800
It was too many things happening to all of us too many times.

372
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,800
I felt breath on the back of my neck, perk whispers.

373
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,800
It just became common knowledge.

374
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,800
There's no rational explanation here.

375
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,800
At this point you have to look to the supernatural.

376
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,800
You can't shoot it, you can't stab it, you can't blow it up.

377
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:09,800
You just have to accept the fact that these things are happening and we need to continue to do our job.

378
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,800
The one person to see most unaffected by it was Lance Corporal Smith.

379
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,800
He used to give us a bit of a hard time about it.

380
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,800
The sun fried your brain.

381
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,800
But there was something just completely wrong about this place.

382
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,800
It's not the sun guys.

383
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:33,800
And it wasn't a matter, you know, if something would happen.

384
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,800
Again, it was a matter of when.

385
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,800
This was our last night.

386
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,800
We were so close to our goal of getting out of there.

387
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,800
We were all on edge.

388
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,800
Last couple of days, calls me over.

389
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,800
Something going on with the radio.

390
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,800
What's the problem here?

391
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,800
Well, I've changed out the battery twice now.

392
00:33:58,800 --> 00:33:59,800
Both gone dead.

393
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,800
And both of them have gone dead within a ten minute period.

394
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,800
It just made no sense.

395
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,800
So, I grabbed the last good battery we have.

396
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,800
That's all we have left.

397
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,800
Seems fine to me.

398
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,800
Seems fine to me.

399
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:17,800
Thanks.

400
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:23,800
Corporal Lena.

401
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,800
Corporal Lena. Radio's dead.

402
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:26,800
System's dead.

403
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,800
Our means of communication have now been completely severed.

404
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:35,800
We were on our own.

405
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,800
We're on our own.

406
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,800
What's he doing?

407
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,800
What's he doing?

408
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,800
What's he doing before?

409
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:29,800
This is going to happen again.

410
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,800
I'm sitting here waiting for that whisperer.

411
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,800
I'm sitting here waiting for that whisperer.

412
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,800
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

413
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,800
Holy hell, we're all about to die right now.

414
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,800
Someone finally got in.

415
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,800
Someone is trying to kill us.

416
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,800
We've been shot at before, but this is close.

417
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,800
Time to go to work.

418
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,800
It's going to be them or me.

419
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,800
And it sure as hell not going to be me.

420
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,800
My heart was pounding really hardcore.

421
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,800
The machine gun fired right next to my ear.

422
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:22,800
Wilson!

423
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,800
What's going on?

424
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,800
It wasn't a misfire.

425
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:28,800
What happened?

426
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,800
It was very clear that no rounds had been recently expelled from the machine gun.

427
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:35,800
Wilson! You okay?

428
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,800
I don't know where I heard.

429
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:40,800
Damn!

430
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:41,800
It was definitely an RPG.

431
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,800
You can just hear the thump, thump, thump, thump of your heartbeat.

432
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,800
I thought that was it. I thought I was done for.

433
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,800
What's happening?

434
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,800
Everyone started to try to figure out where we were taking fire from.

435
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,800
Wait, take the trenches, spider.

436
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:58,800
Let's go.

437
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,800
Check every trench.

438
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,800
The only thing going to your head is the next step that I have to take.

439
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,800
Move forward. Find the enemy.

440
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,800
But there was no enemy to find.

441
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:34,800
Clear.

442
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:35,800
Clear.

443
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:37,800
Go, go, go, go!

444
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:48,800
Whatever it was, was actually like holding a gun next to my ear and just opening fire.

445
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,800
I'm going to die.

446
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,800
It's God forsaken rock out in the middle of Afghanistan.

447
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,800
All I remember was hearing the noise.

448
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,800
All of a sudden it was completely silent.

449
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,800
Like there's nothing even there.

450
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,800
I couldn't even explain what was going on.

451
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,800
What's going on?

452
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,800
Everyone heard it. Everyone knew and was just a machine gun.

453
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,800
At that point we realized there's no one there.

454
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,800
We felt helpless.

455
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,800
It's too much for your mind to process.

456
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,800
Lance Corporal Smith gets mad. He throws off his helmet.

457
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,800
Freaking OP rock!

458
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:04,800
We are all so ready to get off that God forsaken piece of rock.

459
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:24,800
Finally, we heard from the main base that you're no longer going to be there.

460
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:34,800
It was amazing. We were packed up and ready to go within five minutes of getting the order.

461
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,800
The moment we actually did step foot off the rock,

462
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,800
we were ready to go.

463
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,800
The moment we actually did step foot off the rock,

464
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,800
it was the greatest feeling of all time.

465
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:51,800
I felt really happy. It was like my birthday.

466
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,800
It was Christmas to us.

467
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,800
We're finally on our way out the door here.

468
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,800
Someone else's problem now.

469
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,800
See chap, see any ghosts?

470
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,800
Yeah, a place that's proper haunted.

471
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,800
This one time, early on in the first one.

472
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,800
Eventually I found out the true recent history behind OP rock.

473
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,800
Back when the Russians first invaded,

474
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,800
the Russians killed all the Mujahideen up there,

475
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,800
took it over for themselves.

476
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,800
Later the Taliban rolled in force.

477
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:33,800
In the middle of the night, they snuck up to top of OP rock and ritualistically beheaded

478
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,800
all the Russian's holders up there.

479
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,800
Finally when the Marines rolled through the area,

480
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,800
they buried a number of Taliban underground.

481
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,800
The whole story makes sense.

482
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:54,800
The Russian's stake, all the broken and shattered bones,

483
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,800
the voices we heard,

484
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,800
the images,

485
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,800
the screams.

486
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,800
This little piece of rock was one giant tomb.

487
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,800
That silly-ass of my sound started to wonder,

488
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,800
did we then leash something when we first started digging up those bones?

489
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,800
Elena, make a wish.

490
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,800
Some curse.

491
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,800
I thought we were safe from whatever was up there.

492
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,800
We'll be able to move on with our lives.

493
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,800
We didn't realize what was to come.

494
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,800
I just curled up in the ball and just like, cry,

495
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,800
because he was a good friend of mine.

496
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,800
Really sad.

497
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,800
It made no sense.

498
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,800
You have a better chance of getting struck by lightning

499
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,800
than what happened with him.

500
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:51,800
We had been told going in, Marines were going to die,

501
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,800
but we didn't expect that many that fast.

502
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,800
We didn't expect that many that fast.

503
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,800
We didn't expect that many that fast.

504
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,800
I mean, this is like some final destination thing.

505
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:06,800
What the hell is going on?

506
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,800
You thought you were done with OP rock when you left,

507
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,800
but in some ways it wasn't done with you.

508
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,800
You get told, man, we went out on patrol, it just went bad.

509
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,800
You didn't make it.

510
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:33,800
I mean, that, that, that brother of agent,

511
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,800
it's just, there's no words that can describe it.

512
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,800
It really isn't.

513
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,800
There was just this really strange feeling.

514
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,800
That was my family, and there were only three of us left.

515
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,800
I'm hoping that the curse is over.

516
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:55,800
I hope nothing happens to me.

517
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I mean, hopefully not.

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Thank you.