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Episode 133: The Haunting of OP Rock and The Ghosts of the War in Afghanistan

Let's Get Haunted

Let's Get Haunted

Comedy

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 190 minutes

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SKIP TO 00:17:40 TO GET TO THE EPISODE Episode 133: The Haunting of OP Rock and The Ghosts of the War in Afghanistan Since the time of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, empires have routinely set up shop in Afghanistan before inevitably collapsing, one after the other. Following 9/11, President Bush declared a “War on Terror” that would launch the United States into 20 years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2009 following President Obama’s decision to send an additional 30,000 troops to the country, members of the marines and the army began experiencing strange paranormal occurrences - especially in the Afghan province of Helmand. Perhaps the best illustration of these supernatural happenings is in the story of OP Rock: a military observation post first occupied by the Welsh Guard before being taken over by the Marines. This episode explores the testimony of several soldiers in Afghanistan during the period of 2009 - 2011 and the ghostly lights, apparitions, disembodied voices, and hallucinations they encountered. Thank you very much to all the men and women who agreed to be interviewed for this episode. We appreciate you all so much and we believe you! This episode is sponsored! Buy Manscaped products: https://www.manscaped.com & use code “LETSGETHAUNTED” for 20% off + free shipping. TIME STAMPS 00:00:00 - INTRO & DONORS 00:13:20 - MANSCAPED AD 00:17:40 - PART I: THE HEART OF ASIA 00:38:00 - PART II: AFGHANISTAN IN THE MODERN ERA 01:01:00 - PART III: OP ROCK 02:20:00 - PART IV: KEY INTERVIEW CLIPS 02:47:40 - PART V: THE THEORIES Please reach out to Matt Parks to let him know that you listened to his interview this episode! Matt's Instagram (which he created just to interact with our show) is: @festergibs_00, link: https://instagram.com/festergibs_00?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Matt's YouTube channel is: https://www.youtube.com/@sirparksalot2461 —— Other Important Stuff: WE ARE STARTING A PATREON!!! STAY TUNED!! http://patreon.com/letsgethaunted Buy Our Merch: https://www.letsgethaunted.com Donate to our stupid show: https://ko-fi.com/dogmomusa Check out the photo dump for this week’s episode: https://www.instagram.com/letsgethaunted Send us fan mail: PO BOX 1658 Camarillo, CA 93011 Send us your listener stories: LetsGetHauntedPod@gmail.com —— BACKGROUND MUSIC - “Aftermath” by Kevin MacLeod found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJApqlWZTHo - “Abyss” by Myuu, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XmKYYm1Elw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Let's Get Haunted!

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With your host, Nat Strong and Allie, welcome back guys to episode 133 of Let's Get Haunted.

0:24.3

It is our season 5 premiere.

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It certainly is and we have been awaiting this moment for a very long time.

0:33.1

That's right and if you're new to this show, you can go ahead and check out our show notes right now

0:38.6

because you should know that the first 10 to 30 minutes is usually us just catching up with each other,

0:43.6

interacting with our listeners, giving people updates and taking care of housekeeping.

0:48.1

So if that sounds like something that does not interest you and you would prefer to just jump right into the story that's in today's title,

0:54.6

you can go ahead and expand those show notes and the very first sentence will say skip two and then a time stamp that you can skip to.

1:03.6

And you are welcome to skip to it at any time.

1:05.6

We can't tell you what that time stamp is because we won't know until we've finished catching up with each other.

1:11.1

During the intro, we do personal hauntings where we just talk about haunted things that are going on in our personal lives and we think our donors.

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That's right and speaking of donors, I would love to give a big shout out to the hauntings that donated to us in the month of December.

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We have Cassidy D, Jordan B, Kenny S, Kristiana E, Anna J, Rachel G, Robert S, Anna K, Savannah W, Rachel V, Maria O, Sam V,

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Payng Urban, Malik, Vicki, Mariah and John, Natalie G, Alaina B, Cassilda from Australia, Kinley, Anonymous, Michael, Madison, Emily W, Malik again, Alien Cation and Brienne M.

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Thank you all so, so much for donating your donation means a lot to us whether big or small.

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And I would like to go ahead and thank Malik and Peter Barker, Jim H, Gentry B, Curie S, Skyler L, Alicia J, Kathy G, Amber A, October Noir V, Camry G, Lindsay L, Kathy G, P, M, Rebecca M, Haley Sidney and Katie D, Brandy B, McKenzie K, P, M,

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Camry G again, Anna K, Jessica M, Gentry B, Gentry B, Cory T, Cassilda P, who donated and didn't hear her name, she contacted me and said, hey, I don't really care about a shout out.

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I just want to make sure that my donation went through because I haven't heard my name and I wanted to let you know Cassilda that it did go through and you're going to be shouted out so many times this month, like you're going to never

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donate again because you're going to be like that was terrible to hear my name that many times. Curie S, Camry G once again, Sarah W, Megan C, Alyssa S, who gave a very, very generous donation.

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Thank you so much Alyssa and Olivia M as well. Thank you guys so much.

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There were several people this month that I felt gave very generous donations and I just wanted to say thank you guys so much.

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