Camp Babylon true scary story

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I was a sergeant in the US
Army and getting out from the military when

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President Bush ordered more troops into Iraq
in two thousand and three, and I

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just returned home to Austin, Texas
when I was summoned to my local National

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Guard. It told us being recalled
to the Army, but the unit was

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already that was tasked out to deploy
to Iraq was already out. I was

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not part of the union, so
the commander offered me a waiver to deploy

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with the government contractor Halliburton. I
knew that would make more money as a

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contractor, so I took the offer. Not long after arriving at Kuwait Camp

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Doudoha, again working with the operations
team overseeing logistics affairs, we would oversee

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the daily convoy of supplies between Kuwait
and Baghdad, a route riddled with ied

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incidents, small arms skirmishes, and
almost constant breakdowns of army and civilian vehicles.

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Because I was a saw gunner in
the first Infantry Division while inactive during

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duty and was technically still in the
Guard, I was often in the convoys,

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manning a mounted weapon that accompanied the
mostly civilian convoys. During these runs,

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we had a few strange encounters in
area south of Baghdad known then as

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Camp Babylon, occupied by French troops
but then designated an archaeological site for obvious

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reasons. Camp Babylon was set up
in an area that was said to originally

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be inhabited by the famous Tower of
Babel. Indeed, there are ruins here

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that did look like a massive structure
once stood at that spot. I had

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two strange incidents happened me while passing
through there. The first incident seems a

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bit benign, but sets the move
for the second. We're passing through Camp

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Babylon in the afternoon one day when
a convoy took small arms fire. The

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standard operating procedure at the time was
to stomp the convoy in return fire.

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This was because in the past such
incidents ended up being a lone gunman attempted

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to scare the convoy into running into
id's on the road. Because of this,

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we are drawers changed to stop the
convoy dismount return fire. While engineers

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look for explosive devices on the road. We scanned the horizon for enemies.

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Nothing. They most likely fled immediately. However, the ruins around Camp Babylon

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were alive with shadow figures. They
seemed to move about the area. Several

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times we would spot the figures,
but they would immediately disappear. Contractor hing

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beside me with this weapon commented,
how odd that we are in the shadow

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of Babylon fighting supernatural. I didn't
respond, but knew he was a mason

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high up one at that it was
really into the arcane aspects of Babylon.

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I didn't feel at the time that
much was supernatural. Sudden, these shadowy

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and bizarrely small figures did seem so, and they darted about the structure.

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Once the road was deemed clear,
we continued on to Baghdad. The second

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incident occurred about a month later.
At this point, the weather in southern

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Iraqi Kuwait I turned quite cold at
night. During this encounter, we had

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just completed the fire on to Baghdad
and we were returning back to campd Ah

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and Kuwait when a vehicle on our
convoy broke down once again. We found

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ourselves right at Camp Babylon. While
the army mechanics took a look at the

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vehicle and the rest of us took
up fighting positions around the area. Strange

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things began to occur. Started with
a strange light bobbing in the desert.

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Thinking as a person with the flashlight, we used night vision gog to watch

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and check it out. It was
simply a glowing ball of light moving to

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where a set of ruins. After
the initial contact with the light, few

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of us had moved forward away from
the convoys see what the source was.

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After seeing it was self contained and
not a person, we were a bit

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along. Then we heard sound that
I will never forget. A long wailing

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began from one of the ruined structures
foundations not far away. It sounded like

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a woman in agony, mixed with
loneliness. On and on the sounds went

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while we huddled in the cold and
dark, wondering what the hell we were

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listening to. With our goggles equipped, we used our flashlights to spotlight the

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ruins. You've ever done this,
you'll know that a normal flashlight with night

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vision goggles looks like a massive beam
of light. We scoured the area of

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a those source of the whales or
the ball of light were seen. About

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this time we were told via radio
that the vehicle was repaired and ready to

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roll, so we decided to return
to the convoy. I was slinging my

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soul over my shoulder when I noticed
my contractor partner was staring at the ruins

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in horror. He was frozen.
I shook him and he snapped out of

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a stupor, quickly leaving the area
with the rest of us. Once we

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were back of the camp and it
was pleasantly daylight the following morning, so

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several of us were chatting about the
encounter Camp Babylon before our daily operations briefing.

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It was then that I remember the
terrified expression on the face of the

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contract so I asked him about it. He was still obviously traumatized by the

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event, but managed to explain that
as we were leaving our position on the

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Stanley Hill, he saw a tall, dark figure standing beside the ruins.

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It was washes. As we were
looking for it, he said that he

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felt an instant way of despair hit
him and thought he was going to die.

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He didn't really leave in the area, His memory was in the humpy

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heading back to Kuwait. I now
write non fiction books about haunted places for

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Luin Publisher, and visited hundreds of
reputedly haunted spots. But I'll never forget

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the wailing figure at the ruins of
Babbel. It's also worth noting that when

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I related this story to so our
Pakistani employees at Camp Doha and Camp are

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Found, they were quite horrified.
I want them a translator we called Artie.

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So we had encountered as gin or
a damned spirit and we were lucky

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to be alive to tell the tale. That's intense. Yeah, worst scary

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than you have that. Yes,
you have shallary figures. You have you

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know this this gin or whatever it
was. Yeah, that would be very

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difficult to deal with, just just
to see looking over the landscape and seeing

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all these shadowy, shadowy shadow figures. They got to be terrifying. Yeah.

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I think what makes even worse is
he described them as being very small,

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like almost like a childlike size,
darting between the structures. I'm sure

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they're like stuff like this happens all
the time, but a lot of people

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just don't come forward with it.
In war, seems like it would like,

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you know, if these things are
true, it would be like a

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definitely something that would manifest these sort
of things, you know what I mean.

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Yeah, this would be like a
location that would attract negative energy or

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evil spirits. I mean, why
that would be like a place to go

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if it was if there's some sort
of war or battle that's happening, that

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would be where they would end up. It's also you know, it makes

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sense that like you know, military
like soldiers would dismiss these things or not

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tell, though we still end up
finding out these stories, like you know,

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you know, even going back to
you know, stories from like Vietnam

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and things like they would hear there
there are there are some soldiers who had

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supernatural experiences as well. Also,
this is an area just filled with any

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traditions and magics and stuff that date
back millennia. The very cradles with Babylon,

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and so there's definitely if there's gonna
be a place where something old and

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ancient and dark exists, it would
be somewhere out there, just something that's

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been around for a long time,
feeding on war energy or despair and waiting.

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Yeah, the translator said it all
like I think a lot of times

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if you have like shadow people,
I don't know if people always associate that

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with something so dangerous, because the
translator said, like you're lucky to be

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alive. Yeah, but you definitely
seemed like he knew that this was something

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they should not have been near.
You're just going about your normal route,

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doing your normal things, and it's
that's terrifying. Or I had like several

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stories tonight where I've got Now I've
gotta check. I'll check all the locks.

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We gotta get new locks from every
week he gets new locks. This

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is a gatting expensive. The fact
that he mentions that he now writes books

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about huntings and stuff like that.
I need to track down his books.

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Actually, I believe he linked it
in one of the comments, so I'm

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wanting to check that out at some
point. What was his name again,

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you don't know. He did give
his real name in the threatitus. It's

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on the book. So once I
looked at it, finally, yeah,

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this seems like a ghost writer.
I really did me to do that.

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Jeff Townsend. Media sees you good
night, and the question is do I

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stay here? Will you be back? Are you gonna come back? Will

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you be back? Are you coming
back