Welcome to the smoke pit.

In the military, the smoke pit is simply any odd place that service members will gather to have a smoke,

a drink with their buddies, or just hang around to swap stories.

And sometimes these stories are about experiences that the individual's sharing doesn't really

expect anyone to believe, possibly because even they themselves have a hard time believing

it or making sense of it, or otherwise because, well, nobody likes to be laughed at or

thought to be crazy.

But since they feel the need to get it off their chest, the smoke pit is where these kinds of stories often circulate.

In this episode, we are going to cover a number of encounters and other ghostly stories,

as told by the men and women who experience them, some of them being service members,

others being from their spouses. As I've noticed from my reading of many similar types of ghostly

stories, one of the most common themes with regard to haunted buildings and other places

is that these often seem to be places where something terrible happened,

an unnatural taking of life, whether by the person's own hand or by murder.

As such, if you are sensitive to that kind of thing,

be aware that some of these stories may be difficult to listen to,

especially as one of the final

accounts is believed to be connected to the tragic murder of two young children.

These are stories of hauntings where, with no one else to turn to, these men and women had to call

the base chaplain.

I'm Luke Lamanah, and this is wartime stories. 29 Palms

The Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, more commonly known as 29 Palms, sometimes called 29 sticks, is often cited by Marines as being just about the

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