Imagine Seeing An Entire Tank Disappear...

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  @WartimeStories · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @jaysho5461 · 2 years ago

  This happened to my grandpa in the 70s. He was a cop in Hungary at the time, and one night a foreign looking truck with no plates speeds passed them, and they chased it until it went off road, and crashed. He said they could see the dust, and the headlights rolling over, and over through the dust. They went down the embankment to look see if the driver is alive, but what they found was a wrecked German WW2 truck (probably an Opel Blitz) that looked to have not moved since &apos;45. It had bullet holes, it was rusty, and the tires were rotten. It was the truck they saw go off, but it couldn&apos;t have been it due to the age.<br><br>They later found out that truck was hit in a Soviet ambush in &apos;45.

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  @sharonwhiteley6510 · 2 years ago

  You should look up the odd occurrence during WW1 between British and German troops. <br>The British were on a fast paced multi-day retreat. &nbsp;The British began reporting seeing angels and even St. George. &nbsp; The British thought it was an omen of their demise. They decided to hold ground, &nbsp;fix bayonets, &nbsp;and prepare for the end by a much larger force. &nbsp; <br>Suddenly the Germans stopped their advancement and began retreating. <br>A few Germans fell in their haste and taken aas POWs. &nbsp;When asked why the sudden retreat in what would obviously been a massacre, &nbsp;the British were dumbfounded by the reply.<br>The Germans said: &nbsp;Didn&apos;t you see them behind you? &nbsp;Hundreds and hundreds of mounted calvary, &nbsp;in gleaming suits of armor with swords drawn<br>It&apos;s a well known story in the UK. &nbsp; We had a British Safety Officer and the equivalent to a CSM tell us.<br>They swear it&apos;s true.

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  @EricDaMAJ · 2 years ago

  One anecdotal story I heard a long time ago is from the Battle of Stalingrad. &nbsp;The German were having a problem with their tanks being targeted by a tank they couldn’t find. &nbsp;The did eventually find out how. &nbsp;A shot up, burned up T-34 tank wasn’t quite dead. &nbsp;Though horribly wounded, the crew would start it up and creep through the nighttime ruins to shoot at the Germans. &nbsp;Then return to their “parking place” to resume their role as &nbsp;a “wreck” in the daytime. &nbsp;I do not know if it’s true or just a tall tale.

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  @libertycowboy2495 · 1 year ago

  In the early 80s i was in Fulda Germany with the 11th ACR. I was a 19K but i was friends with a cav scout from Philly. &nbsp;One day i bumped into him at the NCO club, and he seemed disturbed. His troop had been in the field, and he and a few others on his jeep (this was when we were changing out jeeps for humvees) heard a tank and people speaking German. &nbsp;He walked through the brush thinking it was a leopard 2 tank and its crew, but he said when he saw it, the paint color was wrong as was the shape. It was really boxy and its road wheels were set up like a T62. He noted there were Bundewehr troops and turned to head back to report on the radio. As soon as he turned all the tank noise just stopped as did the voices. He looked back and they were just gone. I had him describe the tank in detail, and a buddy of mine drew what he described. What the drawing showed was a WW2 Tiger tank. &nbsp;This creeps me out still, all these years later.

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  @TheFriendlyViking · 2 years ago

  When stuff starts to stack itself and fly off the walls inside a tank, it&apos;s just a Panzergeist.

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  @epicdude1944 · 2 years ago (edited)

  My father served in the Canadian army during the Cold War as a tanker.. during an exercise in an area close to the Hurtgen Forest, he was on radio watch on a foggy night, and he heard the sounds of tanks moving off in the distance.. except no one was allowed to be moving any of their vehicles as they weren’t allowed to be doing manoeuvres at night. He said it was pretty creepy to hear that specially considering his proximity to Hurtgen Forest.

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  @mrjallenc · 2 years ago

  I’ve experienced something similar while stationed at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa in the mid 2000s. I remember walking up the outside stairs of my dorm building up towards the 3rd floor and happened to glance out over the horizon toward the flight line. For a split second I swear I saw what looked like a WWII era Japanese Zero fighter plane taking off from the runway where our modern F-15s usually took off from. It was literally a split second and it happened so fast that to this day I still second guess myself on if I really saw it or not. I haven’t told anyone about this because of how crazy it sounds. But after watching this video, I feel better knowing that others have experienced something similar before.

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  @valanme · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zXCrY2kYGo&amp;t=3">0:03</a> Years ago I worked with a guy who fought at Chosin. He was a machine gunner. Not many guys from his platoon survived. He talked about watching all the Chinese overrun his position and the way he survived was, because it was so dark, he turned and ran right with them until he could slip away somehow. He talked about all the guys who lost digits because of the frostbite. He was a hard nosed old guy. His name was Clarke Bennett.

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  @Bjorn308 · 2 years ago

  Gives the name &quot;Ghost Division&quot; a whole new meaning...

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  @sarhan5568 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve heard a very similar story about a tank in Egyptian Sinai that was destroyed in 1973 war. One soldier who served in a military point near the tank said that the patrolling soldiers used to take this destroyed tank as a shelter during the cold nights including himself. But in many occasions they got alerted by noises of a battle going on around them or even the distressed voices of the tank crew.

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  @alexsmith7313 · 2 years ago

  The Moment you said &quot;The Black Ghost&quot; a township truck plowing the snow off the road outside my house hit a massive patch of ice and made a really loud screeching, grinding noise. I just about crapped my pants lmao

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