The Welcome to another edition of Welcome to another edition of Nightmare Fuel Creeps and Peepers.

I'm Dan Cummins and I'll be sharing another original short story of the fictional horror variety,

except this fictional story has a very interesting factual basis.

Operation Wandering Soul, and its accompanying Ghost Tape Number 10, were all too real.

The audio you will hear today from Ghost Tape Number 10 is the actual audio, the U.S. government

recorded for a now declassified sciop.

I highly recommend noise cancellation headphones for the best experience.

Hope you enjoy this new nightmare.

Time now for the tale of Operation Wandering Soul.

This is based on a true story.

While the characters in specific events are fictional,

the mission at the heart of the story and the belief surrounding it are not.

It was the middle of January, 1968.

The war in Vietnam had entered a new and terrifying phase. In a remote portion of the enemy's mountains,

Cy War Detachment 6, part of the U.S. military's shadowy MAC-V-S. Command, was conducting

black operations meant to terrify and break the spirits of the Viet Cong. The small six-man

team had pushed deep beyond their operations base,

up more than 4,000 feet in the mountains,

on a wet jungle ridge thick with cypress, bamboo, ferns, and other dense tropical foliage.

They had hacked through miles and miles of an area often called the Amazon of Asia,

full of strange and often dangerous animals, such as king cobras, horned pit vipers, Burmese, pythons, tigers,

leopards, and even packs of wild dogs. After they had hunkered down hours after the sun had

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