AWOL or Apparition? The Man Who Returned After Death | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
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4.2 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In tonight’s chilling true account, a Vietnam veteran recalls the only brush with the supernatural he’s had in 74 years of life — and it happened deep in the Mekong Delta. While serving night duty at a Special Forces C-team, he was tasked with monitoring communications and handling emergencies. One night, a wounded American, Sergeant T, was flown in after a grenade trap nearly destroyed his airboat. His injury was minor but serious: a small hole above the eye, possibly pressing on the optic nerve. Medics recommended evacuation to Saigon, and the sergeant was flown out.
Two days later, reports came back thanking the officer for returning Sergeant T. Confused, he went to retrieve the man — only to be told by multiple soldiers that they had seen him walking around, bandaged head and all, even heading to the showers. His girlfriend in the village was questioned. Everyone swore he was still alive.
But when the officer returned to headquarters, the truth hit like a bullet: Major Jay handed him the paperwork. Sergeant T had died the night before, on the operating table in Saigon. Yet at least three men swore they saw him walking the barracks that same night.
Was this a case of a spirit lingering behind, unaware of his death? A phantom farewell to comrades? Or something far stranger — a soldier caught between worlds, neither alive nor gone?
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| 0:07.6 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
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| 0:29.5 | A better help ad. |
| 0:31.5 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:36.8 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:42.2 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:46.6 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 0:51.0 | I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:54.8 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 1:01.2 | Today on an episode of Real Ghost Stories Online that may very well make you soil your undergarments, |
| 1:06.7 | the brave Vietnam veteran recalls not only the horrors of war, |
| 1:10.1 | but the horrors of the paranormal during battle. |
| 1:12.3 | As a soldier that had fallen in combat, |
| 1:14.4 | makes a mysterious return to the band of brothers that thought he had perished. |
| 1:18.2 | What was their reaction to his ghostly return? |
| 1:20.4 | And how was he able to come back? |
| 1:22.1 | That story and much more on this chilling episode of Real Ghost Stories Online. |
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