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This Paranormal Life

The US Soldiers HAUNTED by Ancient Ghosts in Afghanistan

This Paranormal Life

This Paranormal Life

Improv, True Crime, Comedy

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week we dive into the incredible claims made by US marines deployed in the US-Afghan war in the early 2000s, that they witnessed real paranormal phenomena located at ‘Observation Point Rock’ — an area in the Helmand province that may not have meant much to the Americans outside of battlefield tactics, but to locals it holds much more mysterious significance… Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our Secret Society Facebook Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Support us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to get access to weekly bonus episodes! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Official TPL Merch!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Edited by Philip Shacklady Research by Ewen Friers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

In 2015, a post appeared on Reddit that took the paranormal world by storm.

0:05.0

The user who claimed to be an ex-marine detailed their experiences from the early part of the US-Afghan War,

0:11.0

and what they revealed was shocking.

0:13.0

The account was centered around one specific location in the infamous Helmand province.

0:18.0

It opened up a whole discussion about the supernatural in this region and has made one particular

0:23.0

feature in the landscape famous ever since.

0:26.2

That feature is known as Observation Point Rock, an isolated mound in the desert, but what happened

0:32.4

there?

0:33.4

Were the events described isolated incidents or is there a deep supernatural power located here?

0:39.0

Why are McDonald's ice cream machines always broken?

0:41.7

And how many fingers am I holding up in my mind?

0:45.2

Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life.

0:51.8

Welcome back to This Paranormal Life. This is the weekly comedy podcast where every Tuesday we dive into a different paranormal case. How are you doing today, Rory? 27. Am I right? Was it 27? Because obviously if you're holding up fingers in your mind, I'm an octopus. I know. You can have as many fingers as you want. And arms, famously, they're really fingers at all.

1:13.1

Everyone knows that the perfect number of fingers a human could have would be 27, hypothetically.

1:18.7

So I'm assuming that's what you went for?

1:20.1

I'm not going to ask what situation Roy was in where he wanted more fingers that paused, but we'll keep it pushing.

1:26.2

I hope you're doing well, Roy, because we have a huge

1:29.2

investigation on today's podcast. Well, guess what? Your boy's ready. Spilled a little on yourself

1:35.1

there. Oh, shit. Yeah, I did. Do we need to, do we need a towel in here or something? No, I'm all fine.

1:39.9

I'm just, I'm cracking open a fresh energy drink. Because based on what you just told me, we're about to hear a paranormal story that's going to require every piece of my brain working at 100%.

1:51.7

110%.

1:53.3

Yeah.

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