The Day His Dead Dad Reported for Duty | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
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4.2 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, a Navy corpsman serving in Iraq finds himself in the middle of a violent attack—burning Humvee, trapped Marines, gunfire, RPGs, and bullets slamming into his body armor as he tries to drag the wounded to safety. At some point, he goes down… and that should’ve been the end of his story.
But it wasn’t. Between the chaos of the battlefield and waking up in a surgical unit in Fallujah, he remembers something else: a familiar figure shaking him awake… in full World War II Marine combat uniform. A man who’d already died nearly a decade before.
Was it shock, trauma, or a last desperate dream in a dying brain? Or did a father who’d worn the same emblem on his chest come back to pull his son out of the fire one last time?
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Real Ghost Stories Online did a soldier from World War II return to help an active-duty soldier survive and attack. |
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| 1:29.2 | real ghost stories tony and harper with you on today's episode of the program and uh happy |
| 1:34.1 | october to you hello people what's going on in your world well first of all i just want to start |
| 1:40.6 | off with what are you going to be for Halloween have you decided what are you going to be for Halloween? |
| 1:46.4 | Have you decided what you're going to be for Halloween? |
| 1:47.7 | A killer clown. |
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| 1:49.7 | Okay. |
| 1:50.3 | Okay. |
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