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Wartime Stories

Rakes on Night Watch

Wartime Stories

Wartime Stories

Society & Culture, History

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In remote training areas, far from anything resembling civilization, service members occasionally report encounters they struggle to explain. Most can be written off — stress, exhaustion, or misidentified wildlife. But some accounts are harder to dismiss. Across multiple locations and separate incidents, soldiers and Marines have described seeing the same pale, human-like figure moving just beyond the treeline — watching, tracking, and vanishing without a trace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Over the years, I've had more than a few service members reach out to me about strange things they've encountered while training in remote areas, deep woods, mountain ranges, places where you don't expect to see

0:47.2

anyone for miles. Most of the time, the explanation is simple, sleep deprivation, misidentified wildlife, the human mind

0:57.3

trying to fill in gaps in the dark when you're running on fumes. But every now and then,

1:04.0

a story comes across my desk that feels familiar. Here we find ourselves again. Multiple accounts from men serving in different branches

1:14.6

of the military at different locations at different times. Men who describe encountering

1:20.6

something with sallow white skin that moves low to the ground and was watching them from just

1:31.4

beyond the tree line something that might have looked human but acted nothing

1:37.6

like it was it stress coincidence or something else entirely.

1:45.0

I'll let you decide.

1:47.0

But their reported encounters are hardly the only ones we can read about.

1:53.0

From Marines and soldiers, training in the woods of Paris Island and Fort Knox

2:00.0

and exploring the woods of West Virginia,

2:03.6

these are their true stories of encounters with an entity commonly known as the Rake,

2:11.6

or pale crawler. I'm Luke Lamanah, and this is wartime stories.

2:28.3

Every story I tell starts long before the recording. It's hours of research, writing, trying to get it right.

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