14: Ghosts of War: Haunting Encounters in Afghanistan and Iraq

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

History, Fiction, True Crime, Drama

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Ghosts of Russian soldiers, red eyed creatures made from smoke. These are real life horror stories from soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000's who saw the unexplainable. Have your own story to share, or a request of something you want covered? Reach out on heartstartspounding.com Follow the podcast on instagram @heartstartspounding, You can support the podcast on patreon, or with a one time donation to Buy Me A Coffee. Thank you SO much to everyone who has already joined and donated, it means so much and allows me to keep making the podcast! Check out The Timekeeper Shownotes: www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/ghostsofwar To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I remember raising my rifle with my thermal optic on top of it, and seeing a lone soldier
0:11.4	out in front of us.
0:14.4	And he had all the Russian gear, all the Russian equipment, AK, et cetera, he had everything.
0:19.6	He was actually colder than the environment around him.
0:24.6	So I blew up my rifle, I told my guys, I was like, hey, I got a guy out here.
0:29.4	They all started raising their rifles, and I'm like, we don't see anything, we don't
0:32.1	see anything.
0:33.1	I don't know where he's at.
0:34.6	Everybody was looking around, kind of scared, but I was like, he's literally right in front
0:39.6	of me.
0:40.6	Like, how are you not seeing this?
0:41.6	So when I raised my rifle back up, he was gone.
0:46.5	And then all radiotrophic ceased, and it was over with.
0:53.5	It's that feeling.
0:56.3	When the energy and the room shifts, when the air gets sucked out of a moment, and everything
1:02.8	starts to feel wrong, it's the instinct between fight or flight.
1:09.4	When your brain is trying to make sense of what it's seeing, it's when your heart starts
1:14.3	pounding.
1:15.6	Welcome to Heart Starts Pounding, a podcast of terrifying tales.
1:23.1	I'm your host, Kaelin Moore.
1:26.5	If you're new, we release episodes every Thursday.
1:30.3	Before we jump in, I wanted to mention that I have something really special planned for
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