8. “I saw one of the modified stealth helicopters that were used in the Bin Laden raid. I used to live near McChord Air Force Base while I was growing up. During the ’90s, we’d occasionally see an F-117 or a B-2 flying during the day. But one night in ’09 or ’10, I was hanging out on the shore of a lake doing teenage things and heard something weird. I was along a flight path and near the aforementioned airbase, so I was used to planes and helicopters flying past. I’m familiar with what Chinooks and MH60s sound like, but this was different. Something was off.”
“That’s when I saw two helicopters with normal lights break through the tree line. I assume Apache, but it was dark, and I’m just guessing there. However, between them was a third helicopter with no lights at all, almost like the other two were escorting it.
I know it’s incredibly rare for any aircraft to be granted permission to fly with no lights. And, again, it sounded weird. I could differentiate between the normal ‘thwump thwump’ of the two escorts and the mysterious third craft that had a much more muffled ‘thwip thwip.’
Anyway, in 2011, Seal Team Six crashed one of their modified stealth helicopters during the Bin Laden raid, and they had to acknowledge that the Comanche program wasn’t as dead as we were led to believe. Ever since then, I’ve been convinced that’s what I saw that night a few years prior.”
18. “I slept on the sofa at a friend’s house. Woke up and saw someone sitting on the chair. The lights were off, but the street lights were quite bright. I thought it was his dad, so I said, ‘Hello, Mr. X. What are you doing up?’ He didn’t respond to anything I said. He had his legs crossed, bouncing his leg, just staring mindlessly. I went upstairs and woke up my friend and told him that his dad or someone was downstairs and being weird. He was mad and told me to fuck off.”
Now, at no point did I think it was a ghost; I just thought it was someone in the house being an asshole. So I went back to sleep. This guy just sat there. When I woke up, everyone was laughing at me.
I still just thought it was just some prank. My friend had older brothers, so I thought maybe it was one of his friends or something. I was like, ‘Ha ha, OK, hilarious. You got me.’
It was only when his dad came down and said no one was downstairs and that he sometimes slept downstairs and heard things in the kitchen that I realized I saw a ghost!
