Jun 22, 2026 · 24 min · 9 segments
In this episode of Tales of the Night, members of the military share some of the most unsettling experiences they had during their night shifts. In the first story, a soldier stationed in the…
[música de suspenso] This happened when I was stationed at a military camp in the mountains, in an area bordering two of the most dangerous states in Mexico.
I won't say exactly where, but it's a complicated region, not so much because of armed confrontations, but because of what the local people said roamed the hills.
It was a small clearing surrounded by very tall trees, and from that position, you could see a dirt road winding down toward several villages in the mountains.
The reason no one wanted that post had nothing to do with ambushes or firefights.
It had to do with something several soldiers swore they had heard, and some even claimed to have seen.
They said that on certain early mornings, you could hear laughter coming from among the treetops, a woman's laugh that definitely wasn't coming from the ground.
At first, I thought it was just a story made up to scare the new recruits, the kind of tale that always shows up when you're out in the hills, until that post fell to me, and my shift was in the early morning hours.
We walked fifteen minutes along a trail until we reached the clearing where the watch post was.
But before he went, he said something that stuck with me, that if I heard someone laughing, I shouldn't look up, no matter what.
[ leaves rustling] You could barely hear the insects and the wind moving through the trees.
[música de suspenso] This happened when I was stationed at a military camp in the mountains, in an area bordering two of the most dangerous states in Mexico.
I won't say exactly where, but it's a complicated region, not so much because of armed confrontations, but because of what the local people said roamed the hills.
It was a small clearing surrounded by very tall trees, and from that position, you could see a dirt road winding down toward several villages in the mountains.
The reason no one wanted that post had nothing to do with ambushes or firefights.
It had to do with something several soldiers swore they had heard, and some even claimed to have seen.
They said that on certain early mornings, you could hear laughter coming from among the treetops, a woman's laugh that definitely wasn't coming from the ground.
At first, I thought it was just a story made up to scare the new recruits, the kind of tale that always shows up when you're out in the hills, until that post fell to me, and my shift was in the early morning hours.
We walked fifteen minutes along a trail until we reached the clearing where the watch post was.
But before he went, he said something that stuck with me, that if I heard someone laughing, I shouldn't look up, no matter what.
[ leaves rustling] You could barely hear the insects and the wind moving through the trees.
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