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It is common for locations that have played host to major military conflict to feature persistent manifestations of ghosts or other such paranormal entities. But the Japanese island of Okinawa is the site of a somewhat disproportionate number of supernatural sightings. Join us this week, as we walk amongst the Ghosts of Kadena Air Base.
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I really like the artwork looks cool.
I prefer mostly Black and White but colour occasionally is a nice change.
@@countofdownable Yeah I agree. Maybe to accentuate things. Pop of story, bold color to match.
Thanks for working on the weekends boys 😁
Must admit, I love the colour format. Still retains the atmosphere for the story. Still, I'm happy with either colour or monochrome.
Spook aside, it’s so wholesome that Angelo was like “aww, these kids don’t have any of their own toys, I’ll just give them mine”
That kid is probably having a nice future ahead of him. Wish more kids are like him, even if their toys are given to fellow living children.
A nice, charitable soul :)
@@ericward8459 I'll just excuse the possible pun.
I support the weird wholesomeness of him so much.
@@michaelandreipalon359
What pun?
My father is from Okinawa and his parents are survivors of the Battle of Okinawa. I’ve visited Okinawa several times years ago and it is a beautiful place. Because of the sheer violence and despair of the war and battle many Okinawans are staunchly anti-war. We have a saying from a poem supposedly written by our last reigning king (we were a kingdom once with our own government and royal family and are a separate ethnicity from the Japanese entirely and were later colonized). The saying from the poem is as follows: Nuchi du takara “The Treasure of Life”. Basically life is a treasure and must be cherished and upheld. I hope the spirits of my father’s homeland and that of my ancestors can find peace as well those of the soldiers who died there.
Amen to that.
Unfortunately there are men in this world that don’t believe in that poem, but fortunately there are men that will always stand as a barrier between them and the innocent
Amen to that. I've been to Okinawa many times. It is as close to paradise on earth as is possible I believe. Your people are a treasure, I truly think your the kindest most honerable people on earth. It is my great shame that I'm forced to visit such a beautiful place as an occupier. Even still the people there have shown me nothing but kindness. Though I can see no way for it to happen I truly hope that one day the people of Okinawa will be free once more. I can only hope that until then you can forgive the rest of this savage world for not allowing the Okinawans to live in peace.
@@sasquatchycowboy5585 Thank you. Yes I hope someday, perhaps within my lifetime if possible, that the island will no longer house the bases and the whole can be laid to rest. The whole of the island is a giant cemetery and honoring the dead is very important to us. And hopefully one day it just be a place for my father’s people to live fully in peace.
@@darushinya7295 I'd drink to that. Let us hope that we live to see it.
I was stationed at Kadena for 2 years, from 2015 - 2017. I did not believe in ghosts/apparitions before getting stationed there. Working on the flightline at night, alone in many areas I saw things I can't explain. I definitely wasn't as alone as I thought in some of the hangars, especially on midshift (2300-0700). I would feel like something was right behind me as I walked.
One night I was up in the mezzanine finding a large aircraft part when I saw what I thought was someone standing with their back to me at the end of the aisle as I passed (I was at the opposite end.) The mezzanine was a thin, but strong sheet metal, so it made a very particular sound when you walked on it that is almost impossible to recreate given the area. When I called out (thinking one of my maintainer buddies was coming by to get the part), I heard nothing but the sound of something stepping on the mezzanine towards me that stopped abruptly after just a few seconds. It was hot and extremely humid that night, but after I had been standing there for a minute and kind of came out of my wide eyed stupor, I realized I was freezing.
That was the 2nd week of my 4 month stint of being alone on mids.
💛 RESPECT 💛 Thank you for your service
Do you have more to share? Please? And thank you for your service
Your job at least sounds more interesting than CQ desk. Yikes. I hope you are doing ok now.
Was stationed there from 94 to 96. I was in Flight line delivery.(mids) (Ammo) Used to see all kinds of strange orb lights in the bomb dump area. And they were not fire flies. Those are easy to spot and tell the difference. Even heard an old woman singing in the middle of the bomb dump. In Japanese. And if you know the bomb dump. Its miles long and wide and pretty much just jungle. Lots of shadow fatigues.
@@none-kq7ho Honestly this was the one major instance I had. Afterwards there were minor “I could have sworn I just saw something move” in dark places but I just attributed it to my imagination after my initial run in with whatever I encountered. Nothing that vivid happened again, at least not to me.
For anyone who needs something a little more lighthearted allow me to tell you about my grandfather who was at the invasion. He was on an Amphibious Cargo Assault ship which was hauling Jeeps and supplies to shore along with a small group of Marines. He was working the ramp on the landing craft and they hit the shore, the ramp dropped and guys started heading onto the beach.
A wave came up and pushed the bow up on the sand, this pulled the cables and caused the hand crank to swing back, directly into his groin. He screams and drops down onto the deck, the coxswain thinks he’s been shot so he throws the boat in reverse which dumps the Marines forward into each other and the surf. The coxswain is screaming “Where you hit?” To my grandad who weakly responds “The crank hit me in the balls!” At which point the coxswain stops and looks forward to see confused and soaking wet marines giving him the finger.
😁🤣😂 Getting hit in the family jewels is no laughing matter if it's you that got hit lol
He should have got a medal for that alone
Thanks man! Really needed it after some of these stories
I was stationed there. Lovely island with a sad history.
💛 RESPECT 💛 Thank for your service
@M.C.J Nothing particular happened to me there, but at one of our abandoned fire stations the Okinawan fire fighters said they could feel it was haunted. I was a fireman there for 2 years so I got to hear a few of there stories like cabinets opening for no reason or seeing an apparition walk down the hallway.
@@melissajacobs5822 thank you mam for your support🇺🇸
@@1985Seraphim this is your first time commenting on this channel
I was at Hansen town of Kin on the North shore. But we slipped over to Kadena once in a while for some decent Chow.
That Angelo kid is a saint. There was no chance I would lend my toys to other kids back when I was Angelo's age.
That’s not very nice. You’re grounded! Go to your room!
@mike mike Kids in my place usually end up breaking my toys.
Lol my mom had to "encourage" me not to lend toys to other people.
Even without spiritual intervention, the abstract concrete style of base housing on Kadena and other bases on Okinawa is creepy enough on its own.
A lot of the older housing is currently abandoned, and for a time our SOTG school utilized it for urban warfare training. Very eerie place.
*leans forward*
“Tell us more...”
Another “creepy” part is the ever present threat of black mold that lies with in most on base housing.
Just got COVID while I was TDY at Karena and they threw me into some abandoned base housing I got some creepy pics of it
@@elisigmon5505 lol too true
Also important to keep an eye out for Chiropterans.
Let's put it this way- Gate 3 wasn't really 'closed'- it was just closed at night. And the Japanese Security Guards that worked the gates had it in writing in their contract that would not ever guard that gate.
Oooo that’s spooky.
But ghosts aside, I hope that WW2 soldier eventually got his cigarette. Poor guy was probably freezing.
@@lavenderotaku2481 we were told by the people in charge of the Gate Guard duty that if we saw something like that, to... give him the proper greeting of the day and light his cigarette- the stories were too common to *not* say anything, so they told us this so people didn't try and start shooting or something, I guess. He was sort of regarded as a tragic brother that hadn't been able to rest- or maybe he chose to spend his time making sure future Marines were watching their post.
@@elijahherstal776 Poking his brothers from beyond the grave so they stay attentive? That would give whole new meaning to "Semper Fi".
@@Maddog3060 according to the hymn- "If the Army and the Navy, should ever look on Heaven's scenes- they will find he streets are guarded by United States Marines"... so maybe he got tired of doing that.
As a MP who was both the operations clerk for Okinawa and a patrol MP about 20 years ago, the reports are regular and put in the daily blotter every time it happened. That gate is “permanently” closed every few years and then reopened when a change of command happens, then shut down again when too many reports came in. The JSGs (Japanese Security Guards) absolutely do refuse to stand guard there when it is opened. This has been happening since the 60s. It’s almost a rite of passage for Hansen MPs to be stuck out there even if the gate isn’t open just to mess with them. Playing pranks on boot MPs is tradition, and dropping a new LCpl at the closed gate shack for no reason is absolutely some thing every training officer has done (at least in my day).
I used to live there in the early 2010s. Never saw anything outright paranormal but definitely heard and felt some strange things. My neighbor even thought she had a demon in her house cuz her daughter got scratched. Certain parts of Okinawa have a eerie ass vibe to it.
Glad to know I am not the only one who felt those vibes. Some places around the island just... feel off.
I'm not sure which is more unnerving: the stories presented, the shift in style format, or the brilliant choice of background music. Outstanding work as usual.
Honestly loving the art style here. And of course your storytelling skills are impeccable.
Lived there for 4 yrs; best place I ever lived; almost became a ghost when we (kids) found unexploded ordinance in the boonies and carried them home
Glad you're still around.
@@ufosrus one of my friends took one of the items into his house, I placed mine in the boonies at our backyard; after 30mins, I called the MPs and three MPs showed up a few mins later in a Jeep (military version you see in the movies); I showed them where I placed mine and they immediately evacuated our housing block (5 townhouse type houses)
They asked if there were more and I said yes, we were going to get them tomorrow and my friend took one into his house across the street, they evacuated that housing block
After that, I took two of the MPs to the location in the boonies where we had found the ordinance; once there they found many more and we left; they said never return to that area
The next school year, for the first time our school had an event to tell everyone what not to do when you find things in the boonies, they told a story of some kids finding some bombs; and showed a video of items being exploded, I yelled out “We Found Those!” Like that was a good thing 😂
Probably good you stumbled on them and just carried a few around then have some other kids find them and do something more dangerous that blows a bunch of stuff up. Everything happens for a reason!
Lived there growing up as well. Didnt realize until I was an adult that the school video" what to do if you find an unexploded device" was not in fact required yearly viewing stateside 😁
I genuinely like the color/monochrome combination. More episodes in this color scheme please!
The color isn't monochrome
@@moreplease394 Good thing he said 'color/monochrome combination' then, or boy would there be egg on his face.
I agree
@@jerryshelton7406 😂😂😂
@@jerryshelton7406 good thing people talk like this/ like that/ this way or we would never know wtf they're talking about/speaking about/going on about
Although I highly respect your distinctive trademark black & white graphics, I absolutely love the use of muted colour to bring your beautiful artwork to life. Anything too colourful would have ruined the dark tone of the stories, so a massive well done on getting this transition to colour correct first time! This is fast becoming my favourite channel... I just love the craft that goes into each video.
I've always been intrigued by building 2283 in Okinawa. One of the officers that was staying there went through a bad case of depression without any good reason and reported to develop sleep paralysis where he claimed he would see a woman standing in the doorway every time it happened.
My dad was stationed on Okinawa and I was able to take a ghost tour. One of the stops was that house on Kadena. It was boarded up. I heard it has since been demolished a few years ago. The entire island is haunted so it was common to run into other people who had paranormal experiences.
That house was demolished in 2008. I remember walking past it every day on my way to school in 2004.
I lived at Kadena in the early-mid-1970s when my father was stationed there. Attended Makiminato Pre-School at the age of 4 (according to my mother). My mother said I always talked to people who weren't there. I have no memory of it.
A lot of those islands that we retook from Japan are haunted as shit.
My son, while he was in the Marines said that Guam was positively “hopping” with restless souls that seemed benign but wanted you to know that they were still there.
Mikey has really outdone himself with the artwork on this one!
I was at Kadena in the 1970s. There were a few hauntings reported in "Stars and Stripes" at the time, particularly "the ghost of Gate 3". I never encountered the "Ghost of Gate 3", but I suffered through the ghost of Gate 2 many times. (If you've been there, you will understand).
What happened with the ghost of Gate 2?
@@osakarose5612 ... Yes, I don;t remember the specific issue, but the story was there.
The ghost of hangovers haha
Ah gate 2. All the memories, and blacked out nights I wish I could remember.
She said she loved me!!!!!!!!!!!
Reminds me of a story my mom told me once. The building that was her school used to be used as a hospital during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and one time, she and her friend saw the ghost of a Japanese soldier in one of the stairwells.
It's hard to feel any pity for Japanese soldiers in the Philippines, considering all the awful things they did there, but I can't help but feel a twinge of empathy at the idea of some guy still being stuck there after dying there, so far from home, after all these decades. Even if he did terrible things, at a certain point, after a certain amount of time, you'd think he's suffered enough.
It's absolutely insane how good the art on this channel has gotten. I can't even imagine how good these will look in another year or two.
It's like a comic book series is just waiting to hit the book stores... 😏😏😏😏😏
@Morgrim oh wow, I've never even heard of them. Definitely gonna check it out!
Um, they're already perfect.
@@spencerfrankclayton4348 I'm not saying they're not amazing, but as an artist myself I know that even unintentionally constant practice will cause you to improve.
Did anyone give the Unkown Soldier a light?!? You can't just leave us hanging like this!
Funny how spirits continue to enjoy an occasional cigarettes and perhaps also a drink.
I don’t know if you ever saw anyone answer this question of yours, but apparently someone has at some point. Not sure if this is real or true, but this is what a commenter said in reply to a different comment,
“I had a freind who was stationed on Okinawa in the 80s, said he saw the Marine at Gate 3 a few times. The first time the Marine asked him for a cigarette, and he panicked, but the Marine vanished before he could get the other Marine out of the guard shack. The second time he appeared and asked Jared for a light, and Jared went back into the shack to get his lighter. By the time he returned, the Marine was gone. The third and final time he asked for a light, Jared fished his lighter out of his pocket, and as soon as he clicked it and held it up for the Marine, he said "Thanks, buddy" and vanished.”
So I guess he did get a light, in a way lol. I know I’d help out if I found myself in the same situation. However, my curiosity would drive me to say, “hold on, before I do, can I ask you something?” Hopefully they wouldn’t disappear before I could ask, “do you know?” And hopefully they’d understand what I mean, if they know they’re dead. I’d also like to ask what it’s like. These are the things I’d like to say to a ghost if I ever had the chance to see/speak to one, if I knew for sure they were a ghost.
I went to visit two friends stationed at Kadena a while back. When I asked my one friend about seeing gate 3, they got really quiet and said “noooo… we don’t really go over there…”
my wife is Okinawan.. her mom.. who i knew really well, told of the story as her and her brother 10 yrs old, running from Kadena to Gusikawa to hide..to be discovered by Us Soldiers, and her brother to jump from the cliffs.. i spent many years stationed on Okinawa.. lots of stories.. dont forget the haunted old hotel too!! i been the cave she and several villagers hid in. imagine being 12 yrs old, holding ur brother.. all else is missing or died.. running to a cave, ur parents told u about just a few prior weeks ago.... its an amazing story she and her brother told me one night.. my son, loved his Obachan ..great woman
Just important to note.. The Japanese viewed the Okinawans as a lesser race.. slaves and so forth. They even went as far as destroying the record of births - from entire villages- prior to the wars...
This subject reminds me of a Japanese documentary movie (filmed on location in Okinawa) entitled Saigo no Kizuna: Okinawa Hikisakareta Kyodai. It is the true story of two brothers: one was educated in the US and entered the US military; the other stayed to work on the farm at home but was later enlisted in a Japanese military unit. Both had to fight during the Battle of Okinawa. There is also footage from real people who were there during the Battle. It is very intense emotionally and worth seeing if you can find it online.
Angelo is truly angelic, and sort of reminds me a bit of my son.I think that the ghost children were happy when they tore down the fence...they can now play freely with the other children.
Stationed there 1992-1995…I’ve been saying ever since how haunted that place is. From my own experiences stationed at the Camp Lester Naval Hospital (only 5 minutes from Kadena), I saw so many inexplicable things that it changed my view on the supernatural for the rest of my life.
"Battle brings death. Death brings sorrow. The living... may not hear them. Their voices... may fall upon deaf ears. But make no mistake... the dead... are not silent."-The Sorrow in MGS3.
Now you will know the sorrow of those whose lives you have ended.
When I was an MGS3 noob: "Oh great, time for an hour long walk"
When I got gud: "Oh great, time for a few minutes walk where I just see the bosses"
When I truly understood the game: "Time to lie down and drown myself"
Such a great line.
Wonder who he plagiarised with that quote?
Nice
I deployed several times as a Marine to Okinawa from 77 - 82 , just a few miles from Kadena . While I never heard of any unusual activity going on while I was there, it wouldn't surprise me none
~ it was a horrific battlefield from the site of Kadena all the way south. A real nightmare of a place 💜
General Simon Buckner got killed there.
He was in command of the Army and Marine forces during the operation.
One of my dad's cousins was in the army fighting there, in the 7th Infantry division, and one of his younger uncles was with the Marines there.
They both survived ww2, and both never got a scratch, despite being grunts.
Why does everyone in the military have to announce it?
@@Quole1234 its a milestone in most peoples lives who did it and often the best and worst experience they ever had. It stays with you forever, a way of life and not just a job.
Unless you do it you'd never really understand it
@@haleygerdes5248 lol it's nothing to brag about, nor is it anything to be proud of.
@@Quole1234 the jews in Buchenwald would disagree... people of Paris... Holland... South Korea...
Actually it kind of is
There’s a Japanese legend that states that kids until they are seven and go through certain rituals/rites of passage are not yet fully human and can fully interact with spirits. The fact the the kiddos at the nursery were constantly talking about the kids next door is a horrifying coincidence. As much as I think children are the future and we should nurture things like imagination/creativity/thinking outside the box/learning through play, etc I’d be scared myself if one of them started adamantly saying they were friends with the kids next door. Much less trying to interact with an entity that is seemingly showing itself to young kids.
Sounds pretty spot on. I think children are very close to the otherworld, the world of spirits and other beings; as we get older, we lose that connection through fear and denial.
I stopped at Kadena on my way to/from Su Won Air Base, Korea to Clark Air Base in the Philippines; my fellow airmen and I spent two days exploring the area. We didn't see anything strange but my friend got chills while we were walking near the "Suicide Cliffs" (in spite of the warm temperature at the time).
The World War Two veteran I knew who was there told me about the many women jumping off the cliffs with their children out of fear of them. They tried to stop them but were unsuccessful until they found a chaplain who spoke Japanese and told them they and their children would not be harmed. He told me this with tears in his eyes nearly 75 years later. I pray he is at peace now.
This happened on Saipan, did it happen on Okinawa too?
@@vonfragesq7145 He said Okinawa and I’d bet my soul he wasn’t lying given the emotion he showed.
@@yortsemloh1156 I read some more comments and yes it did happen. I was not aware it happened on Okinawa as well. Very sad.
That was really sweet of Angelo to try and give those kids some of his toys when he saw that they didn't have any, even if he didn't know that they were ghosts.
I bet the children he befriended were happy that someone was willing to share their toys with them....
"Hello, Angelo. Come and play with us. Come and play with us. Forever, and ever, and ever."
@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 " Hello, Angelo. Thank you for being our friend, and sharing your toys with us. We wish you could play with us, but it is enough that you are our friend, and we will always remember that.. "
As a Security forces member it makes me super excited, to be stationed there next year and can’t wait to explore the island and see if it’s haunted.
When you are checking out that abandon house in the night, by yourself, we will not be able to hear you, in the night....
No one could hear your scream, in the night, in the dark.
Don't go at Night. Go during the Day 🌞 . Day Ghosts are refreshing stories.
Be careful what you wish for
Well I just said a prayer for you. Hehe. Honeslty you kinda need it wherever you go. :p
Document it.
13:35 I'm not a marine, but knowing my uncles who were (and are) as well as I do, I'd bet anything that after the initial shock the terrified young marine would have still managed to get out a lighter and light that cigarette up for his brother marine.
imagine wanting a light and the dude is just screaming.
Typical
"Semper... Fi..." 😱
"Semper Fi, mate. Now, can you please hand over the damned lighter.?. I have been yearning for a smoke since '45..." 😑
Like a comic book. Pretty cool style of episode. As for the hauntings or alleged hauntings on Okinawa, it was one of the bloodiest battles of ww2 after all and it’s far from the first bloody battle to eventually be associated with strange happenings or hauntings. Gettysburg, Antietam, Verdun, the Somme, Omaha beach, probably any battle from the Vietnam war. Humankind has always known war so it’s perhaps always inevitable that urban legends or strange happenings begin occurring in the aftermath.
Bedtime Stories continue to completely smash it with their amazingly well researched, presented and produced videos.
The fact we can get this level of quality, for free, on a regular basis, puts TV stations and large production companies to shame.
Thank you guys so much for sharing your unquestionable, amazing talents.
Honestly, ghost children of all supernatural things make me extremely uncomfortable.
I personally love children (preferably living ones) and they seem to like me as well. I don’t know what it is about deceased ones that unsettle me… possibly just the fact that the poor things died so young.
If I were miss Patsy, I’d have left as soon as I saw the cars in a circle.
Just- “Alright then, enjoy your toy cars! Play nice please.” And I’d have booked it.
Ghost children are scary as heck, and can go either way with being good or bad. Of all the ghosts to piss off, I’d definitely not want to piss off the ghost of a child.
Preferably living ones lol 😂
The idea of "Daylight" Ghosts 🌞👻 outside is something I'd never *HEARD* of.
@Григорий Фэша I'm not gonna lie, you had me in the first 1/3rd. And *THEN* Joseph Smith...
There's an episode of the old TV series 'Haunted Lives' that features ghost children. It's called 'School Spirits' if I remember correctly, centered on the demolition of an elementary school in Texas and it's a creepy episode.
Meeting a ghostly child is truly frightening, especially when they appear as solid as the living..... brrr.....
The colour wash looks fantastic.
That's not to say that I don't like the usual style, but this is excellent.
The art on this channel just keeps getting better and better and better
I lived there from 2011 til 2013 . There's a gate that has a video of a ghost crossing the street. Its believed to be the ghost of a marine who had got out of the marines and decided he wanted to live in okinawa. The story says he was killed at the gate and returns to catch a ride home
I lived at Kadena as a young child in the mid to late 60s. My father was active duty Air Force. We had a housekeeper named Mitsiko who took care of my sister an I. I disinctly remember her telling us stories of the hauntings of Okinawa. What a trip to run across this video today.
PLEASEEEE do this artwork style more often!! I am absolutely in love with it. So unique to anyone else i’ve seen
I went to Okinawa last week, I go every summer whenever I have my summer break (live in Tokyo).
I always go to the many, and I mean MANY, WW2 sites on the island and it’s a very eerie place. I’ve seen some weird things there, especially in the Japanese Imperial Navy Underground tunnels in Tomigusuku (near Naha).
Tell us about it. We all enjoy eerie stories or we wouldn't be watching this channel.
@@ufosrus You can offer money at a small shrine in one of the rooms in the tunnel system there. I think it two years ago or so, I threw a coin (as there is a barrier in the way so you cannot enter the room) and my coin landed near the shrine, then suddenly another coin came off the floor by about 5 feet and got thrown to the otherside of the room.
Last week I saw 2 dark shadows walking up a set of steps, followed by a white mist which followed and then disappeared into nothing (same tunnel system).
I've been to WW2 sites in Europe, specifically, Slovenia. That was truly eerie and I sensed things even though I didn't understand the language, I was able to sense what had happened. I had so many paranormal stories in general over there.
Will, I'd love to hear more about your stories!
The naval bunker mines in Tomogusuku;
I’ve had the sound of someone running up behind me;
I’ve see a coin flying up and being thrown to the other side of the top
(The coin has been by an alter at the time)
And; I’ve heard voices on walking routes on Zamami Island
It’s a very haunted set of islands
I was stationed on Foster from 2004-2006 and I lived in Barracks 5696. There was a barracks room that was haunted, where the two Marines would leave their room spotless, every day and would come back from work to a room completely trashed.
My parents were stationed here when I was in high school (06-08). I used to love the ghost stories about that place. However, Its all fun and games until you need to walk to Family Mart at 12am for a midnight snack.
Former Marine here; lived on Camp Hansen for 4 years between 2008 - 2012. One Halloween some friends of mine and I did a sponsored tour called “Ghosts of Okinawa” or something to that effect which took place on Kadena. They talked about that haunted house. They said that 3 families, in succession all suffered the same fate; wherein the father/husband killed every member and then himself before the house was finally closed for good. One time would have been a sad story, but three times in the same house is a haunting. I don’t remember what year that tour was, but I think it was after 2009 and the building was still there. Perhaps they were still arranging its demolition IDK. It was also heavily implied that this house wasn’t the only one to have this kind of tragedy it was just the most well known example.
Ooohhh... Hadn’t heard of this one before!
Post-listening Edit:
Really wish my dad had said anything about his time stationed at a Naval base on Okinawa. He was there just before Vietnam.
He probably made some ghosts himself lol. He's a hero!
@@Artofficial1986 he probably wouldn’t agree, as he would do while he was a police officer later. “Just doing my job.”
I used to live in Okinawa, and never heard the stories until about a year before I left, but even before that, out of all the bases Kadena always had a strange vibe that you could just never put your finger on. I had a Japanese coworker that, when we moved into an older building on Kadena, used to ask if we had ever heard/seen any ghosts (I worked night shift). I used to think he was joking, but after this, I will always wonder if he was serious or not.
Probably was serious.
I lived there as a dependent for a few years. A lot of the marine bases also have their hauntings, even the schools. The entire island is haunted. I heard about it a lot when I was there. Surprised you didn’t.
13:27
Gotta say, I love the MP who chose to run the FN FAL instead of an M16 or M14.
LOL, maybe it was from his private collection. Our military used them in Vietnam and up until the 80s until they replaced them with the POS Steyr AUG. They are gone now aswell.
LOL!
cheers to this european artist ~ !
I have mixed feelings about the addition of color to the illustrations/animations. I like the color, but also like the black and white with only some things having color.
I think he used color in the first scene to emphasize the contrast of the daycare center as opposed to the area outside of the daycare property.
Inside the daycare property its colorful to represent the innocence and carefree nature of children happily playing. Everything is light and airy.
Then you have the property outside of the daycare fence. This is a place of past tragedies, it still holds dark negative energies, sorrow, depression and death. The care-taker finds the toy cars in an unnatural circle and they are colored because they came from the kind innocent boy and to demonstrate the point of their impossible formation.
@@rpurdy4821 The whole video was in color though.
Agree, black and white was much better in my opinion 😅
There's also a B&W version for the coloured videos! I think you have to use the link in the top comment to see it though.
@@Eidolon1andOnly I've personally found the mono-chrome to be annoying many times since color is often a key aspect of stories. When it's not? enh.. but every now and then....
I was a military kid & lived on Okinawa between the ages of 9 and 12. As my cousins lived on the same base at the same time, I had a blast on the island.
My mother and aunt were both convinced the island was haunted, however. They especially stayed away from the infamous murder-suicide house in Kadena.
We lived about 30 minutes from Kadena, on a base called Camp Lester. We had strange experiences there, as well, however.
When my youngest brother was a toddler, he spent one night staring up at the ceiling, unmoving. My mother asked him what he was looking at, and he responded: "The angel."
I still think about that.
Okay, but the little boy tossing his toys to the ghost children? Wholesome af.
I was stationed on Okinawa for 3 years. I worked on Kadena AFB and lived in the south on Kinser Base.
My then 4 yr old daughter lived with me. We would see a ghost of a Japanese man in our apartment complex often in the elevator. He scared us at first, but we got used to his presence. He just appeared, then faded out.
There is a few other places on kadena that i know for a FACT are haunted. There is the Japanese tunnel system that might be the hospital that was talked about. Me and a buddy were exploring the area to take some pictures and started hearing voices coming from inside the tunnel. It was a man with a raspy voice speaking in Japanese. Never ran faster in my life.
The other is the fuel truck yard. It was about 2300 (11:00) and i went to refill a water tank at the management building. After filling the water i went to lock the door and leave to go home only to find some sergeant in an old uniform ask what i was doing there. Thinking it was my NCO i told him “filling the water like you told me to.” I turned to finish locking the building, still talking to this person only to realize no one was there. For context, the door is in the middle of the decent sized building. And the yard is flat and large. He couldn’t of found a place to hide in the 5 seconds it to finish locking the building.
Kadena is weird…
The soldier with the facial injuries asking for a smoke really unsettled me. Not because of the details, but because I remember watching a documentary that had an interview with a wwII veteran who said the worst memory he had was witnessing one of his comrades being aided by a medic. His jaw was blown off, and he was asking the medic for a light on his cigarette.
Have done a total of 7 years in Okinawa during my time in service. Have heard hundreds of these stories including some really scary things that have occurred off base. Small island lots of suffering, could understand restless souls.
got any specific ones that aren't well known?
Man! So I guess what they said in The Grudge movie series is based in fact: once a murder occurs, it leaves a stain!👀 😬😳But seriously, there seems to be unsettled energy if you will on certain areas where violent deaths have occurred. I hope said energies can find peace. Another great video! Liking the color addition as well. 👍🏾👍🏾
I was thinking The Grudge as well. Nothing beats the horror of the Japanese ghost stories and sometimes their remakes. 🥺👻
Kadena AB was my first duty station. Many weird things happened in and around our dorms. Even with all the creepy happenings, it was the best place I was ever stationed.
I had an ex girlfriend who was stationed there from 2001-2003 as her first base. Always used to talk about strange stuff in the dorms. I also had some very weird stuff happen in the dorms at Canon afb in NM. Stereos coming on full volume despite being off. water faucets turning on. Toilets flushing with no one in the bathroom. Stuff like that.
I forgot some really weird stuff. We got an ouija board and had some weird things happen. One guy freaked out and had some kind of mental breakdown. Went running around base drunk and screaming nonsense. Cops got him and led to all kinds of trouble. He went AWOL and was arrested in Germany. They put him in a mental hospital and diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia.
No one cares
@@Quole1234 someone does. What you should say is you don't care,which is fine. Odd that you need to tell us though 🤔
My fiancé’s parents house on the airfield is where my first ghost experience ever was. Woke up at 4 am sleeping alone to someone breathing heavily in my ear. Her parents had so many stories about the house they lived in
That ghost had the hots for you!😄
Was stationed in Okinawa from 1998-2001. I heard these stories but never encountered anything. Beautiful island and wonderful people. I was stationed on Camp Hansen. The rifle range for the island is on this base. I did feel uneasy a few times while on duty in the barracks.
Was stationed in sasebo from 2011-2014 and would go to kadena Everytime we pulled into Okinawa which was all the damn time. I miss that island it was beautiful
THAT LONE MP IS A BADASS FOR HAVING ENTERED THAT BUILDING ALONE
Yeah but I bet when he saw a freaking samurai he was like “I did NOT sign up for this!”
People in the military love a good story like anyone else, and will embellish a good story into a great one. Every base, camp, airfield or whatever has its own legends...it gives them character.
My mother and father were visiting the Culloden battlefield and came back to the B&B they were staying in and commented how clever it was that whoever managed the site had put speakers up and played sounds of battle through them, cannon, muskets, shouting etc. The person who ran the B&B said "No they don't, theres nothing like that there" They always thought the person was wrong because they both swear they heard battle sounds.
I went to college up in a city in the northeast US that experienced intense race riots in the 70's. One night, I was up late studying (I had a single bedroom in a shared dorm) and all of a sudden I started to hear gunfire-- now the city had a high crime rate so just wince and go back to studying, hoping no one was hurt. Usually after the gunfire there were sirens though. Not this time. Next it was machine gun fire, close by, like, just up the street. Still no sirens. Then yelling. Finally I go to the window, more than a bit freaked, and there was nothing. But the yelling and the gunfire got worse, louder and closer until it was almost right under my window but there was still *nothing* just an empty city night. When something I can only imagine was a grenade went off, I ran, mite with terror, from my room into the living room. One of the other girls I lived with immediately asked what was wrong because I could feel that there was no blood in my face, and I was shit scared. Violence echoes. It really does.
Yep my great-uncle was a Montford Point Marine and he fought in the Battle of Peleliu and Okinawa.
Great one fellas… really feelin the visuals… big WW2 History buff, right up my alley y’all, thanks
I do like the combination of colour and B&W frames, it is an excellent addition, especially when you do a "crash cut" to the surprise shot (like showing the Samurai in the picture)
The artwork just keeps getting better and better. I’ve seen every episode you have released and I love this colour combination in this video. Please do more
This channel has helped me cope through all this mess the last 18 months , It's a true blessing .
Longtime follower, and an Air Force duder. Just got orders to Kadena…great timing.
Don't go poking those spirits! But if you do run into the cigarette smoking ghosts, do light it up for him, please!
Yes, visit gate 3 and report back!
Everyone in the military has to announce it for some reason
My father was part of a crew in the Pacific during WWII that built and maintained airfields and he told me he made it as far as Okinawa. Wish I could ask more questions now.
I was at camp hansen DURING the 70s. Beautiful beaches. Went to kadena airbase several times but the only spirits I seen I consumed them one bottle at a TIME. Great program THANKS
Honestly the thought of seeing a toy car turn towards you , under the control of a ghost , in the backdrop of ethereal silence spooked me more than any episode thus far .
Was stationed there for two years. It was an awesome experience. Beautiful place and people. Also awesome food
I was stationed at Kadena for over 2 years. Saw no ghost. Did see a lot of lockdowns due to DUIs.
What are DUIs?
@@mysticallymerry5523 Driving under the influence. In other words, driving while drunk.
I’ve spent significant time on Okinawa with P-3’s detached to Kadena Air Base.
I loved being on the island: Lots of bike riding, long walks exploring, and watching the SR-71 come and go. Those two extended detachments were my favorite times in the Navy.
The Samurai had nothing to do with the battle of Okinawa , and being Japanese and having studied the Samurai I would have shit my pants if I'd have seen one !!
I mean the people running the Japanese government at the time basically behaved like Samurai in ways and we're literally descended from Samurai domains who built their Meiji era navy
My Grandfather fought with the US Marine Corps through the Pacific Theater. He landed on Okinawa. Though he never talked much about the war, he always said that what he saw men do to each other on Okinawa would stain that island forever, and it was Okinawa he screamed about in the night terrors.
When i was a kid i saw my Grandfather having a nightmare about his WW1 experiences, he was a Vickers gunner and while he was screaming and yelling, calling out for ammo and ranges of targets, his hands were going through the motions of operating the gun. He had fallen asleep on the couch but Granma said he normally had them in bed, she said it was always the same "Dream" about his gun jamming at Passchendaele.
It looks like your granddad was right. I hope he was able to get some kind of help for his nightmares.
I hope he got help for his PTSD. Terrible memories to carry for the rest of your life
While I enjoyed the black and white artwork, I am really surprised with the color artwork. Impressive!
In the film Kwaidan, a film that contained four ghost stories based on Japanese folklore, there is one tale about a sea battle between two feudal clans. Years later, a crab was discovered and on its shell is the a human face. Other crabs were found and each had a different human face on their shells. Check out that movie.
I have always wanted to go to Japan ever since I was a little boy(thanks to Godzilla and friends). I still want to go to Japan.
It is said that any place where there is conflict or, in most cases, violence and death, the memories remain. I don’t think that it produces ghosts, but these places become memorials to these tragedies.
If one listens closely, they might hear a whisper or a scream.
But these sights and sounds could be explained rationally. Could they?
Keep up the great work.
Peace.
Seen several ghosts when I lived down the road from Gate 3 in a housing area called Chibana. My friends and I used to play hide and seek at night and when it was my turn to hide, I hid near a generator. As I was creeping around I saw what appeared to be a grey Japanese man with his throat slit, looking at me in shock. I gave myself away because I screamed in terror as I ran out into the street. This was also in front of my friend's complex which was extremely haunted. He has had countless experiences and so did my other friend's father when he visited, "We gotta talk about the little boy hanging out in your stairway. Do you know about him?" Still gives me goosebumps!
When the car started spinning and then pointed at her (the curious teacher) I legitimately got chills. That’s terrifying.
Now that RAAF and RNZAF are stationed at Kadena, the ghosts will probably move out. No point in being the second most disturbing entities in the area.
But they have cool accents 🧐
I love the artwork, fonts, and design you guys use. Definitely very modern and clean looking. I’m usually a black and white kinda guy but the dash of color you guys used in this episode looks great! Your channel is great free entertainment! If I was a richer man I’d donate to the cause.
Two stories from the American television series "Unsolved Mysteries" are two Civil War-era stories that I have always enjoyed. One is the Drum Barracks in Wilmington, CA. The other story is the centered around the Gettysburg battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This is included many ghostly sitings in Gettysburg and on the battlefield.
I’m currently stationed at Kadena and live on base right down the road from this daycare center. Many of the Japanese who work on base know and tell these stories to new Airmen who ask about the haunted history of Okinawa.
The artwork was very good for this feature. Kudos to the artist, Mikey!
Another great episode guys!! Hats off to Mikey for the stunning artwork in this particular episode. It really made the storytelling more vivid. You guys are all rockstars!!!
Big fan of your channel 👍👍👍can u guys do one of these to be next
1. Ghosts of Gettysburg
2. Last Sightings of The Loch Ness Monster
3. Sightings of the Megaladon Shark
If u can, please and thank you. Big fan and keep them coming
Spent most of my early adulthood in Okinawa. Still one of the most beautiful and peaceful places I've ever been, despite the wartime history. Good job on these stories by the way!
Love the story's on this channel and the art work put into each episode. Hope everyone had a great weekend.👍❤️
I’ve been inside that house next to the daycare when it was being used for storage. Very cold and eerie inside! I’ve heard so many ghost stories from friends who lived in base housing and I have some of my own. Still my favorite place though!!
How sweet is that kid who was like "They don't got any toys, so I gave them mine. They need them more."
Encountering playful ghostly children may of course be startling, but to be confronted by a ghostly aggressive Samurai would really put the willies up me, I can tell you!
While the battle for Okinawa was indeed extremely bloody, there are battlefields in Europe that were the scene of more significant numbers of deaths - for example in Flanders during World War One. The Hürtgen Forest near Aachen in Germany was also a particularly bloody battle in the closing days of WW2 and the ghosts of both German and American soldiers have been regularly seen by visitors to the area. These ghostly soldiers have been known to actually interact with people, warning them not to proceed down certain path ways due to danger from machine gun fire and artillery! The most astounding part of these sightings is that the ghosts seemed totally real and in no way translucent in the way ghostly apparitions are normally described. These ghostly stories from Hürtgen Forest would make for an interesting video by "Bedtime Stories"!
I remember getting drunk on Camp Hansen and ghost hunting around that closed gate at about 3 AM with some buddies, guess the ghost wasn't interested that night lol
Glad to see you guys uploading more lately. Love the stories and everything else here.
LOVE this art style. If there is a choice between the old greyscale color palate style and this graphic novel art....GRAPHIC all the way!
Great art as usual!! I love this story because I still have 100s of diecast cars even in my 50s! Those ghosts are welcome to my collection anytime!