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Aug 14, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
Tonight we're digging into five disturbing encounters straight out of military records — soldiers who ran into something far stranger than the enemy. What were U.S. troops really seeing out on those…
Matt HarveyHost
Once you get away from the developed areas, you're surrounded by piney forests, sandy ground, thick brush, streams, and miles of military training land.
And hidden among these woods are old military structures that have slowly been swallowed up by the forest over the
years.
It was in one of these remote areas that a soldier walked into a small clearing in 1989 and noticed something strange in the sand.
It appeared to be barefoot, and the tracks were much larger than they should have been.
Fort Bragg has huge stretches of secluded military training land surrounded by piney forests and thick woods far away from the populated areas of the base.
On August 9th, 1989, an Army soldier was participating in training exercises at Fort Bragg with four other soldiers.
Before sunrise that morning, a C-130 aircraft crashed on a landing strip roughly a quarter mile from their location, approximately one hour after sunrise.
The ground there was mostly shallow sand with small patches of grass surrounded by pine trees.
Once you get away from the developed areas, you're surrounded by piney forests, sandy ground, thick brush, streams, and miles of military training land.
And hidden among these woods are old military structures that have slowly been swallowed up by the forest over the
years.
It was in one of these remote areas that a soldier walked into a small clearing in 1989 and noticed something strange in the sand.
It appeared to be barefoot, and the tracks were much larger than they should have been.
Fort Bragg has huge stretches of secluded military training land surrounded by piney forests and thick woods far away from the populated areas of the base.
On August 9th, 1989, an Army soldier was participating in training exercises at Fort Bragg with four other soldiers.
Before sunrise that morning, a C-130 aircraft crashed on a landing strip roughly a quarter mile from their location, approximately one hour after sunrise.
The ground there was mostly shallow sand with small patches of grass surrounded by pine trees.
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