Ghosts Of Normandy
[ranking: 5]
One father took a trip through France with his family. He wanted to visit Normandy and see a few sites from WWII. His daughter was 7 years old at the time, and he says that she had, at that point, never been exposed to any history about WWII and didn't know what either side's uniforms looked like. After they returned home, things got a little odd. He writes:
Over the past year, my daughter has often spoke of 'things' or 'men' that she saw looking at her, pointing guns at her, and following her while we were in the bunkers and around the Normandy area. She often described them as crouching down, hiding behind corners, holding guns and looking as if they were very mad.
He started asking her questions about what she saw. Here's one conversation he had:
'Were you scared?'
'Yes, but I knew they weren't trying to hurt me. So I didn't think anything of it, but there were a lot of them. Everywhere I looked. They were moving around, like army men do. Kind of crawling, but bent over. When we would walk out of a bunker, I would see one in the grass, or behind a tree. Then when I was in the car, I could see them looking at me from behind a fence in a field. Sometimes a lot of them, sometimes only one or two.'
She also described their uniforms perfectly, camouflage and everything.
The Headless Gringa
[ranking: 12]
During WWII, the US Army set up a base in the Galapagos Islands. According to legend, a soldier and his girlfriend were living at the base. The soldier found out that she was cheating on him, so he pushed her off a cliff, ending her life. But despite how gruesome that is, it gets worse: as she fell, her head got caught between some rocks and she was decapitated.
The soldier covered up the incident, but the woman still haunts the island, appearing as a vengeful spirit to men who are alone at night.
Missing Children
[ranking: 1]
This story comes from Reddit user Igloo444. Their grandfather was a member of the British Army and was stationed in a remote village in the Swiss Alps during the winter of 1943. The village quickly got snowed in, and all the telephone lines were out. The roads were blocked, and the whole battalion was just stuck in the Swiss Alps for the entire winter.
Most of the villagers only spoke German, and most of the soldiers only spoke English. So when the soldiers were out at a local bar one night and a man began yelling "Where?? take you?? the children?" at them, they were pretty confused. They rounded up a translator and took the man back to the base, where he told them that, since their arrival, several small objects had gone missing. A tarp. Some wood. A halberd, which is similar to an ax. And then the children started disappearing. If it had just been one child, they probably would have written it off as a weird or tragic incident. They were, after all, stuck in the mountains, surrounded by snow and wild animals. But three kids?
Redditor /u/Igloo444 explains:
The Captain told the villagers that he would continue to look into the matter, and that he would begin sending some of his men to patrol the streets each night looking for whoever (or whatever) was the culprit behind all the strange [disappearances].
Later that night, Private Reginald disappeared from the barracks.
Disappearing children was one thing, but a grown man? It seemed unlikely that an animal (even a wolf) could have taken down a healthy full-grown man on its own. Naturally, rumors began to surface that there was some sort of monster living in the mountains that came down at night to feast on the occupants of the village."
So they keep doing nightly patrols. One night, the grandfather and a few other soldiers see a person standing outside the windows of a darkened house, peering into it. They shout for the figure to stay put. Instead, it takes off running. They gave chase. Eventually, it jumped into a hidden cave and began targeting them. They returned fire, and when the exchange stopped, they investigated. They found Reginald in the cave, deceased, surrounded by seven half-eaten children.
Saipan Airport
[ranking: 10]
During WWII, the US wrested control of Saipan, an island near Japan, from the Japanese army. The Japanese army had built an airport there, and inside the airport were bomb shelters. One woman saw the ghosts of Japanese soldiers inside one of the shelters during a visit to the island. She writes:
As I was standing there right inside the doorway, quietly looking around, the light suddenly started to get really dim inside the [...] shelter, and I heard a rushing sound in my ears. The rushing sound was like if you put coffee cups over your ears, but much louder. Then a shadow rushed right by me and sat down on the bench seat that was now mounted on the formerly rusted metal sticking out from the wall. Several more shadows rushed by me and sat on the bench seats.
One shadow would rush to the left room and the next would rush to the right room. The shadows were rushing by about every second and if they had both gone the same direction they would have collided. It looked like they had practiced drills of rushing into the bomb shelter quite a bit before. I could see the shadows. They looked like they were made out of grey [...] smoke. I could see their heads and bodies, but not their hands or feet. I saw that they were thin Japanese soldiers.
Japanese Cannibals
[ranking: 4]
Toward the end of the conflict, Japanese soldiers in Singapore and New Guinea began eating captured POWs. And it is not because they were starving - they were doing it simply because they could and to reinforce their bonds.
Sometimes the prisoners were deceased when the Japanese began to hack off their flesh, but sometimes, they were still alive.
Man In The Attic
[ranking: 8]
In Colmar, France, a young woman experienced something strange in the summer of 1991. Her family had just moved into a new house, and she found a hole in the wall of the attic. Through the hole, she could see another room, but as far as she could tell, it had no door. She felt something strange coming from the hole but didn??t investigate. Later, she went back with a flashlight and saw something:
There was a young man sitting on the floor, his knees against his chest. His arms were crossed on his knees, like he was hugging himself. He turned his head toward us and smiled. We bolted out of the room and went to the storage room. My heart was pounding, I was out of breath. I first thought that it was a real person, but he had no color. It was like a 3D dark shadow. And we never heard any footstep. My friend refused to admit that we saw a ghost and we never talked about it??
My grandmother learnt later that our house was a clandestine printing office during [WWII]. The owners printed slogans against the Germans. But I think that there was something else in that house. I believe that the secret room was used to hide people.
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