If anyone can deal with scary situations, it's a soldier.

But even though the 9-5 for many military personnel involves dodging bullets and firing

machine guns, some war stories are scary enough to frighten even the toughest soldiers,

especially the stories that involve bizarre occurrences that seemingly defy explanation.

So today we're going to load our rifles and

ship out to the front lines, exploring encounters with Philippines ghouls, 50-foot snakes, and

horrifying lake-dwelling entities, as we investigate some military encounters with unidentified creatures.

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The Vietnam War was home to countless horrors, including relentless guerrilla warfare, chemical

weapons, and, according to some soldiers, terrifying

cryptids. Throughout the war reports from both sides were made, noting battles with a different

common enemy. Packs of giant rock-throwing apes. According to official investigations

made at the time, the creatures were alleged by soldiers to be six foot tall and covered in red

hair. Vietnamese troops called them Batututs, while the Americans referred to them as

rock apes after their apparent weapon of choice. Both sides of the conflict took the Batutut

uits seriously, and in 1974, a Vietnamese general called Huang Mintha organized an expedition

to catch and kill one. Unfortunately, that expedition was unsuccessful, but in 1982, a professor

at Hanoi's Pedagogical University announced that he'd discovered an 11-inch-long humanoid footprint

in the Vietnamese jungle

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