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[Victor_c3]

41. I've seen several ghosts, but I'm still not a full believer

Early in my deployment to Iraq in 2004, we were occupying what used to be an Iraqi military hospital. My platoon was given a section of dorm room looking rooms to occupy and live in and, since I was the platoon leader, I got my own room (even with its own bathroom!) luxury like that is unheard of for an Infantry unit.

Anyways I was sleeping in my bed on my back when at about 4:30 or 5:00 in the morning, as the sun was beginning to rise, I woken by a heavy shove on my chest. I opened my eyes and standing on my mattress just by my feet I saw the ghost of a little girl. She was staring at the window to my left and didn’t move. I remember her having short hair, cut just above her shoulders and she was wearing a white nightgown with lace around the neck that had little colored flowers on it. I just looked at her and didn’t move for 30-60 seconds and I decided to close my eyes. I fell back asleep and went on with my day.

I didn’t say anything to anyone about the ghost I saw. A day or two later a couple of my Soldiers started to tell me “sir, you know this place is haunted, right?” I still said nothing and a bunch of the guys proceeded to tell me their own ghost stories of things they saw late at night. The reason I’m still a skeptic is because we were given a large dose of quinine - enough to protect us For an entire year+ from malaria a few days before. One of the prominent side affects is lucid dreaming and hallucinations. I suspect that was what had happened. However, they did find a mass grave on the hospital campus and one evening when I was walking to the main building I kicked a weird looking rock only to discover that it was a human hip bone.

Many months later, while I was still in Iraq, 5 of my Soldiers were killed violently when I lost a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. For weeks after the event my Soldiers and I all kept seeing the ghosts of our dead friends. I’m still skeptical about those sightings as I’ve heard that people who suffer trauma and/or lose people close to them sometimes have similar sightings. This is sometimes associated with PTSD.

On the lighter side of things, I’ve been telling my two daughters that when I get old and die that I’m going to haunt them. I’m mostly just going to mess with them and do things to annoy then like make fart noises and moan a lot.