Vietic tribes of mountainous regions in Northern Vietnam and Laos are still practising shamanism and worship the god of Blooi (Heaven) and the dead souls of ancestors.
But both the North Vietnamese army and the South Vietnamese army were always multiethnic (Vietnamese, Tai, Tay, Nung, Khmer, Cham, Chinese, Lolo,...). Some region the army was only 50% Vietnamese. Vietnamese are Vietics. And Vietics are Austroasiatics (Mon-Khmer, Halogroup O1b1). In ancient time they were the Baiyue spread from Yunnan and the Tibetan Plateau to across Southeast Asia, India and the Archipelagos. Fucking ducks that distort the facts and keep saying Vietnam is full of Chinese, "Vietnamese people" or something stupid.
@@Ttegegg In my opinion, it might not work, since all of them at least have seen a body once in conflict, so they might only think it was their unlucky comrade.
Some points to clarify In Vietnamese culture, the "malevolent spirits" ("vong hồn" in Vietnamese) isn't exactly that scary compare to relevant western counterpart. They usually don't harm the subject like in horror movie but rather bring misfortune, sickness & miscarriages for those with weaker constitution. This CAN be ward off by offerings and prayers. IMO if the CIA tried to breed lots of predators, give the the taste of human and release them into the wild it would be more effective. My grandfather who was a sapper at the HoChiMinh trail said that he feared wild predators the most, then US/ARVN rangers & airstrikes. Not once was he concerned about ghosts but rather he is haunted by the sights of his comrades getting dragged into the woods by tigers (they were not allowed to fire since it would reveal their positions + being sapper units mean only a few have firearms on hand)
For the CIA that sounds like the silliest thing they would ever do but in one way it would be devastating to the environment introducing predators into mainland S.E.A. my respect for your grandfather, that war was hard on everyone.
my father tells me this story when I was a kid. since I came from a family who fled after vietnam war, my dad the ARVN and USMC played this alot while on search and destory mission. having this equipment from back then should be in the museum. for those souls who lost in that war god help them to get home.
Imagine being the Vietcong knowing it was a trick by the Americans, then finding out there were actually no Americans and the ghost sounds they were hearing were genuine ghosts.
Psychological warfare has changed alot over the history of warfare, yet the idea of scaring, missleading, disoroenting and demoralizing you'r enemy remains the same and is as old as warfare itself.
@@HandsomeTH-camBrowser hey, the Vietcong also used many booby traps that were a tad bit cruel as well. Although America probably should've minded their own business, no one is truly good in war
@@HandsomeTH-camBrowser bruh this is war. In the first place there are no good guys in a war. Stop your nonsense clean ethical war you are dreaming of. In every famous wars, there absolutely is immoral misconducts made by either side.
@@HandsomeTH-camBrowser yes actually. The allies committed a number of war crimes by their own definitions and yet nobody was trialed for them. See the US internment camps for japanese Americans. Also the bombing of Dresden by Bomber Harris is often cited, as is the fire bombing of Japan. I mean, at least we weren't the guys running Auschwitz, so that makes us the good guys still right?
I’m a Brit that visited the whole of Vietnam, firstly what an amazing and beautiful country! I did visit numerous museums including Chu Chi tunnels and I can honestly say the whole war just seemed so horrific for all. Really worth a visit if anyone gets the chance, such amazing people too.
Would be interesting to see this kind of tactic used with modern audio equipment. It could be a LOT smaller and higher quality to the point where it really would sound like ghosts in the jungle with speakers rarely found. Just imagine setting up a remote activated network automatedly run so you get only single sounds or sentences from each speaker, making them much harder to find along with real sounding audio Edit: They could probably use remote activated lights and such to enhance the wandering spirit thing
Oh the things we could do. Well-timed whispers from all directions like you said. Abandoned outposts with ritualistic equipment in poorly concealed rooms. Broken cages with heavy chains and unsettling roars in the distance. Drones fashioned into strange shapes and deformed creatures that patrol the land. Our superstitious foes believe the worst of us anyway. Play into their fear. Make them the stars of their own horror movie.
If not ghosts, fake troops firing guns maybe. Even have a second set of audio equipment playing bullet cracks. Idea is to dupe the enemy into thinking they are being shot at and hopefuly stay in cover, or move in on the "troops" which are strategically positioned. Either way, real soliders are already in position to pick them off. Especially those who had advanced into the fake infantry's location which doubles as a killzone.
The tactic is called “sonic deception”. It’s a common tactic used by tactical PSYOP units. We have used similar type tactics against ISIS with their unencrypted radios.
Classic example of Sun Tzu's "know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles" being put in use. Shame it wasn't always effective, but its interesting how US forces studied the culture of their enemies and use it against them
The sirens or "jericho trumpets" on the german stukas of ww2 were so crazy that they drove people crazy(or mad), where do you think the inspiration for the nazguls in lord of the rings comes from?
My vietnamese Grandfather fought during the Vietnam War, and he recalled hearing these voices, he told me that he had never heard the voices he heard before, though, it felt familiar. Meanwhile, my American Grandfather, who ironically, also fought in the Vietnam War, was appart of the troopers who set these tapes up, and while they heard the Vietnamese get scared shitless, he and his friends couldn’t help, but chuckle a bit, he almost laughed out loud before his friends had to shut him up. As you can guess, family reunions were very akward.
Just imagine what this would've been like. You're in relative isolation in the middle of a jungle at night, you already come from a culture where these things are believed in or even used as scare tactics already, you're trying to find your enemy and suddenly you just hear these voices, scared voices begging you, screaming at you, to leave and survive because dying in this battle leads to damnation, them begging you to get out of there because every single spirit and demon you've known is real and will actively come for you if you die in the war.
Thank you for continuing to acknowledge south Vietnam's role in the war rather than the many youtube channels that strictly frame the war as US vs everyone else.
@@teehazmat you could actually say that about most most of us allies. They can't hold on their own. Earlier this year, Poland did a war game simulation where they are fighting a land war against Russia with Russia winning in only a few days despite the Poles having modern military and equipment. Shows how complacent these countries are and without the US they are essentially screwed.
The role of the so-called "South Vietnam" in that American Invasion of Vietnam, was being servant of the global financial dictatorship a.k.a "US democracy", and that's why the US withdrew from the war, and "Republic of Vietnam" collapsed in 55 days following 1975 Operation, despite numerous advantages in firepowers, equipments, military/militia personnels, aids and such (that theoretically made a collapse that fast impossible, if it wasn't foreign's puppet).
@@martinsonofwar395 Huh. Sorry its just at that time during the Vietnam War militaries for the most part were exclusively male, but at the same time it's not surprising seeing how the VietCong were fairly short on numbers.
@@averybishopmartin6964 Yeah there was even a scene in Full Metal Jacket where they mentioned that half the hookers in South Vietnam were undercover Vietcong soldiers.
I mean, ngl, south east asia is pretty off limits at night. In singapore, a lot of buildings have activities, which is probably why Ill never urban explore
Vietnamese American here and I just love the awesome Vietnam war videos, my grandfather on both sides severed on opposite sides of the military and it always amazes me how tough the Vietnamese population were when the war occurred
that is why we have Vietnamese Veteran's day. My dad used to tell me that story, and he said to me in serious: Whatever you do, you always have to pay a respect, so they will not haunt you.
YES this is one of my favorite things to learn about the Vietnam war I’ve started learning about the Wandering soul tapes since I was little when I listen to audio tapes on another TH-cam channel. These tapes got to me to learn about the Vietnam war
@ɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ sᴏᴄɪᴀʟɪsᴛ ᴠɪᴇᴛɴᴀᴍᴇsᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴋᴇʀs ᴘᴀʀᴛʏ Why do you refer all Americans as yankees? Considering yankee is a term for Americans residing in the North of the U.S.? I mean we can do this all day it's just abbreviations
It's already creepy but imagine these sounds on top of the fear and tension of war...the fact your enemy could be waiting literally anywhere in the jungle and very likely a lack of sleep.
Out of all the vids I've seen from you guys and the stories of from family who've served in Vietnam. I've never heard of this tactic before. And this has got to be one of my favorite videos of the Vietnam Conflict that you guys did ever
I was deployed to Australia doing war games with the commandos. We had a humvee blaring out a warning about a typhoon and the excise had been canceled as psychological warfare.
Not sure that would work as well now, with everyone having easy access to weather reporting on their phones. But 5-10 years ago that would have people running with no second thoughts.
hurting an enemies morale allows you to make them do anything you want them to do. a soldier with low morale is more likely to abandon his post than continue to fight. though a more effective method would be cripple the command structure just enough to where it starts falling apart. or strike at their supply lines abit and keep them off balance
@@JOJO-ig2jw i meant in general. not the Vietnam war specifically. and I was also referencing sun tzu. as he proposed "the best tacticians are those who can defeat the enemy without fighting". essentially forcing them to defeat themselves by forcing them to waste time, energy and resources. for example as an enemy force closes in on yours retreat just before you're in range of their weapons so they have to keep moving in. repeat process until they stop to rest the. don't let them relax too much so that they exhaust themselves faster the next day. then you just keep repeating the whole process until the enemy commander gives up which would let you capture him and his forces with minimal losses
@@Daidan0 Doesn't really apply much to modern warfare as it heavily depends on air superiority those with air power can just air drop or fly in supplies
I have heard about those tapes before, my great-grandpa was in the ARVN during the Vietnam war and he told me that most of his comrades hated the tapes because most of his comrades are Buddhists and those tapes can give them nightmares while asleep. Especially during Night Patrols.
All jokes aside, imagine what this must have been like for charlie. I can't even go into a forest at night when they aren't playing ghost sound effects
@@morningstar3831 they have prepared themselves with the thought that they will surely die, everyone's ideal is to win the liberation of the country, who bends the ideal will of a dead comrade to scare them back ,it will only infuriate them more and reinforce the belief that the enemy is afraid of them
America: we played audio to make it sound like there were ghosts of NVA soldiers. Russia: neat, we actually rose from the dead and charged at German troops
Age-restricted (set by TH-cam) and demonitised! "This video is age-restricted. Viewers must be signed in and at least 18 years old to watch it." confirmed by manual review? !?
I can’t confirm the effectiveness of this tactic but I can confirm in general the Vietnamese are very superstitious about the dead, death and especially burial sites
I know what you are talking about, in Jan. of 1967, LZ X-ray, we landed and starting to dig in. We were in a NVA graveyard dug up so many dead that the NVA would not attack, even us GI’s were creeped out, I did not sleep for 4 days, I will never forget it!
asian in general ! But think about it , those guys who walked thousand kilometers through jungles , suffered from many fire storm , no food ,.... actually , they were concern about B-52 rather than ghost .
@@gaylebordeaux7632 Wow, that sounds absolutely insane. How COULD you forget something like that? Were you guys sent to that area fully expecting to dig in and be attacked?
Vietcong: *Sees an American boat with speakers on it* Vietcong: "Come on, you sea rats. Get off your ship" Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas leap over the side of the boat, leading the Army of the Dead.
Interesting fact about early psychological warfare. I was in the 80‘s soldier in the PSV Battalion of the Bundeswehr. That was the only Bataillon in the army to do weird things. We had big loud speakers at trucks to send them into woods and hide until the enemy is approaching. Then it sounds Tank and Motor noises at the direction to distract the enemy’s perception of the fight action. I personally was in doubt wether that works. However we had also leaflets and a radio station.
Operation Wandering Souls should have been an easter eggs in Call of Duty Cold War. Like what if you find a radio and it plays the tapes you know? Or it should have been in Zombies on that Vietnam Map.
@@christasockey4660 but didn't Cod Cold War have a Vietnam War mission? Including a Vietnam Zombie map too? Actually, Wandering Souls would fit in Zombies.
I learned about this in 2019. I was doing a summer job which involved cleaning in the biggest hospital in europe. I had the early shift in a then practically vacant part of the hospital on the 5th floor. I was super eager to listen to this while i had a little break. It was super scary
I remember finding out about this years ago and thought it was the most fascinating thing! Just imagining that ringing through the woods at night is pretty terrifying!
Not really ; vietnamese soldier fear wild animal and enemy human more then ghost ; we have a say in vietnamese : ghost can't harm human ; but human can :) .
there is a similar tactics used in Philippines during the Hukbalahap revolt. Filipino and American units would look for mangled dead bodies and spread rumors of aswang-(Vampire like creature) Is attacking their forces. Its a mixed results from what i recall since Huks began to stop their attacks on certain regions but others didn't
Adding in the many actual paranormal or supernatural things experienced by those who fought in the jungles of Vietnam and this psych warfare would've been terrifying.
my grandparents said those sounds only make VC angrier as it's somehow disrespecting the fallen, make the VC and many South Vietnamese hate the US and RVN even more and want to end that war asap
2:18 That's so interesting. A complete reverse of a Viking's, Crusader's, and Jihadist's "good death" in battle that guarantees salvation in the afterlife. One could almost assume this belief should've made the Vietnamese the most pacifist people on Earth.
@@smorrow Well I can't speak much about our poultry farming, barn raising, horse driving, High German speaking pacifists brethren scattered throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania lands... But I can assure you the Vietnamese, especially the urban ones, absolutely detested and committed atrocities against the mountain tribespeople living primarily in the middle of Vietnam. The Montagnards were our closest ally, and we ultimately abandoned them, along with every other tribe we did CDIG with. So no, regardless of whatever anyone says in this thread or comments section as a whole, the Vietnamese are most definitely not pacifists. Whole exterminated villages speak otherwise. But hey, it's not genocide if nobody cares enough to stop it right? Just ask the Chinese.
me in army enemy team: blast ghost tape 3 me as soldier: hide to tree so i can shoot soldier1: yo man what are u doing we are in war why are u in hiding tree? me: im hiding some here so soul dont eat soldier1: die while getting shot* me: run run me: shooting* me: RUN RUN RUN I WANNA TO LIVE soldier 3: RUN RUN me: both run enemy: nuke* me: survive Soldier3: die*
7:13 Ultra nerd mode activate. That exact (stock?) sound is used in Might and Magic VII for the ghosts in the Barrow Downs. Always fun to hear such old sound effects still in use today.
As a Vietnamese that operation was a complete failure,not only it didn’t decrease Vietnamese force’s morale,it make the American position very clear to detect and you’d expect them to open fire,which is exactly what they did.
I heard it did the opposite of what the American Soldiers wanted. Theres a youtube video of a Ex Vietcong soldier saying the tapes only made them angrier and wanted them to fight the American troops more.
It's just a ton of jerks. There is no evidence for either its efective or the success of that operation. In the other hand, the America had to run and the Vietcong won. That's the strongest statement to prove that nothing can scare a person when he fights for family and homeland
It worked on the first day of the broadcast, some soldiers were bewildered, but then they followed the sound and discovered the truth. As a result, every time American soldiers broadcast the loudspeaker, they will be attacked and suffer heavy damage. The Wandering Souls Plan is bankrupt.
For some reason listening to the audio of the recording actually sounded scary and it even frightened me a lot but such a brutal tactic to use in a war where the US is losing
I heard that the tapes more encouraged the Vietcong to fight harder and that some Americans who didn't know about them had the affect that they were hoping to do to the VC
US Soldier: "Hey I thought orders were to stop the tape and return to base? Turn it off already!" US Psyops: *Goes to unplug it but find its been unplugged for a while now...*
Somewhere in Vietnam 1970: American Commander: Ok turn that off it creeps me out (Sound continues playing) Hey I said turn that off! American Soldier with Recorder and plug taken out: I DID! (Sound still continues)
@@giaphudoan1768 while I might be very anticommunist I have nothing but respect for Vietnamese patriots, both as an American citizen and one of Filipino blood
Thats true my friend, i just scared to take a picture from a random grave because a stranger ghost would bonded to me for the rest of the life but i just scared to losing the country, France and Spain did used this same tactic on us before when they first invading if you read the history, their's goal is to trick us into selling our country but we didn't because we don't sell country to the invaders
My grandpa was a member of a psychological unit in Europe (pre-Vietnam) and its always interesting to hear how they could trick European soldiers with a simple note and then loudspeakers or a tempting offer by a guy standing on the side of the road handing out papers manually. Interesting stuff and am very pleased he missed Vietnam as these soldiers had terrible survival rates! Imagine getting a paper that read "Tank crossing zone" and then setting camp in a open field, where tank sounds are played later that night... You'd have no choice but to get up and see, or make way for these invisible tanks!
Some people think how did the americans have vietnamese language in the paper notes its because They got help from South Vietnam which speaks The same language as North Vietnam.
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Isn’t incovation 57 also a public version of this?
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Could you start making First Indochina war or French conquest of Vietnam animation instead of rampaging Vietnam war?,
Captain Price: “I have Ghost.”
US in Vietnam: “We have Wandering Souls.”
Tony Stark: " We have a Hulk."
America is the loser in Vietnam
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Vietic tribes of mountainous regions in Northern Vietnam and Laos are still practising shamanism and worship the god of Blooi (Heaven) and the dead souls of ancestors.
But both the North Vietnamese army and the South Vietnamese army were always multiethnic (Vietnamese, Tai, Tay, Nung, Khmer, Cham, Chinese, Lolo,...). Some region the army was only 50% Vietnamese. Vietnamese are Vietics. And Vietics are Austroasiatics (Mon-Khmer, Halogroup O1b1). In ancient time they were the Baiyue spread from Yunnan and the Tibetan Plateau to across Southeast Asia, India and the Archipelagos. Fucking ducks that distort the facts and keep saying Vietnam is full of Chinese, "Vietnamese people" or something stupid.
Officer: Sir, we are running out of men.
General: Then just reuse them.
Pee
Lmao
Okay someone bring the priest
Officer : uhh. how sir?
General : **Holds out staff** by *Necromancy*
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Just to imagine hearing that while doing a patrol in the jungle...and at night. This will make a great horror film
There is a shortfilm on TH-cam about this, would recommend, it’s by a user called “Omeleto”
Should’ve placed random bodys. Maybe it would’ve be more powerful
@@Ttegegg In my opinion, it might not work, since all of them at least have seen a body once in conflict, so they might only think
it was their unlucky comrade.
*O H F U C K N A H!*
Directed by and starring Jane Fonda as the Viet Cong
Some points to clarify
In Vietnamese culture, the "malevolent spirits" ("vong hồn" in Vietnamese) isn't exactly that scary compare to relevant western counterpart. They usually don't harm the subject like in horror movie but rather bring misfortune, sickness & miscarriages for those with weaker constitution. This CAN be ward off by offerings and prayers.
IMO if the CIA tried to breed lots of predators, give the the taste of human and release them into the wild it would be more effective. My grandfather who was a sapper at the HoChiMinh trail said that he feared wild predators the most, then US/ARVN rangers & airstrikes. Not once was he concerned about ghosts but rather he is haunted by the sights of his comrades getting dragged into the woods by tigers (they were not allowed to fire since it would reveal their positions + being sapper units mean only a few have firearms on hand)
For the CIA that sounds like the silliest thing they would ever do but in one way it would be devastating to the environment introducing predators into mainland S.E.A. my respect for your grandfather, that war was hard on everyone.
@Grey Donovun
Oh really?
*stares* *in* *agent* *orange*
@@captaindookey thank you
THERE WERE UPPER LEVEL OFFICERS THAT WOULD CONSIDER
GRUNTS AS ANOTHER BOX OF BULLETS!!
“EXPENDABLE, THERE ARE MORE BACK HOME TO REPLACE THEM!!!”
During the school trip to Chiến Khu Đ (War Zone D), the tour guide told us about the legend of the 3 claws tiger. It was pretty cool though.
my father tells me this story when I was a kid. since I came from a family who fled after vietnam war, my dad the ARVN and USMC played this alot while on search and destory mission. having this equipment from back then should be in the museum. for those souls who lost in that war god help them to get home.
Imagine being the Vietcong knowing it was a trick by the Americans, then finding out there were actually no Americans and the ghost sounds they were hearing were genuine ghosts.
Also realizing you actually opened fired on a lost comrade trying to help you.
I see the propaganda is working as it should 😉
@@cracno1125 Ghosts to my understanding aren't wounded by bullets.
@@quillmaurer6563 yep, they need to be blessed by priests for holy dmg
You believe in the existence of ghost? Pfff
This takes "spiritual warfare" to a whole new level...
lol
Call of Duty: Spiritual Warfare Vietnam War
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perfect timing
Pentecostals lol
@@iceuyitzh2336 pentacostals propaganda at its finest. yes.
Psychological warfare has changed alot over the history of warfare, yet the idea of scaring, missleading, disoroenting and demoralizing you'r enemy remains the same and is as old as warfare itself.
@han thedepressedgerman yes indeed
@@HandsomeTH-camBrowser Welcome to war.
@@HandsomeTH-camBrowser hey, the Vietcong also used many booby traps that were a tad bit cruel as well. Although America probably should've minded their own business, no one is truly good in war
@@HandsomeTH-camBrowser bruh this is war. In the first place there are no good guys in a war. Stop your nonsense clean ethical war you are dreaming of. In every famous wars, there absolutely is immoral misconducts made by either side.
@@HandsomeTH-camBrowser yes actually. The allies committed a number of war crimes by their own definitions and yet nobody was trialed for them. See the US internment camps for japanese Americans. Also the bombing of Dresden by Bomber Harris is often cited, as is the fire bombing of Japan.
I mean, at least we weren't the guys running Auschwitz, so that makes us the good guys still right?
So wait, a fleet of helicopters blasting "fortunate son" isn't just a movie thing and is actual history?
Didn't they blast Rise of the Valkyries?
@@regalblade8171
it depended on whether an older high ranking officer or one of the younger GIs had called dibs on the record player.
Well I'm pretty sure it was
@@regalblade8171 It is useless to play such songs since the huey would be too loud to hear from the ground.
@@GigaChadlovesandcares well they clearly played the ghost tapes on Hueys
I’m a Brit that visited the whole of Vietnam, firstly what an amazing and beautiful country! I did visit numerous museums including Chu Chi tunnels and I can honestly say the whole war just seemed so horrific for all.
Really worth a visit if anyone gets the chance, such amazing people too.
Respect 💪🏼💯
Would be interesting to see this kind of tactic used with modern audio equipment. It could be a LOT smaller and higher quality to the point where it really would sound like ghosts in the jungle with speakers rarely found. Just imagine setting up a remote activated network automatedly run so you get only single sounds or sentences from each speaker, making them much harder to find along with real sounding audio
Edit:
They could probably use remote activated lights and such to enhance the wandering spirit thing
Oh the things we could do. Well-timed whispers from all directions like you said. Abandoned outposts with ritualistic equipment in poorly concealed rooms. Broken cages with heavy chains and unsettling roars in the distance. Drones fashioned into strange shapes and deformed creatures that patrol the land. Our superstitious foes believe the worst of us anyway. Play into their fear. Make them the stars of their own horror movie.
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Damn that would be absolutely terrifying
If not ghosts, fake troops firing guns maybe. Even have a second set of audio equipment playing bullet cracks.
Idea is to dupe the enemy into thinking they are being shot at and hopefuly stay in cover, or move in on the "troops" which are strategically positioned.
Either way, real soliders are already in position to pick them off. Especially those who had advanced into the fake infantry's location which doubles as a killzone.
The tactic is called “sonic deception”. It’s a common tactic used by tactical PSYOP units. We have used similar type tactics against ISIS with their unencrypted radios.
Classic example of Sun Tzu's "know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles" being put in use. Shame it wasn't always effective, but its interesting how US forces studied the culture of their enemies and use it against them
and then they lost the battle against the hippies and then lost the war because of that
Sun Tzu's phrase may refer to the use of psyops and deception. Incline to his view of Supreme Excellence which to win without fighting
@@caualongshanks that's an oversimplification
@Ted Hubert Pagnanawon Crusio lmao
all good idea but one thing: communist don't believe in god and ghost.
at least those commissars and officers don't
Operation wandering soul is one of the craziest things ever tried in war
No doubt about it. Not even Napalm can top it
It’s up there with the inflatable army thing they did before d-day.
The sirens or "jericho trumpets" on the german stukas of ww2 were so crazy that they drove people crazy(or mad), where do you think the inspiration for the nazguls in lord of the rings comes from?
Bat bombs
@@DJl3iohazord I love the inflatable ghost army, it was so clever and worked and pretty cheap I bet.
My vietnamese Grandfather fought during the Vietnam War, and he recalled hearing these voices, he told me that he had never heard the voices he heard before, though, it felt familiar.
Meanwhile, my American Grandfather, who ironically, also fought in the Vietnam War, was appart of the troopers who set these tapes up, and while they heard the Vietnamese get scared shitless, he and his friends couldn’t help, but chuckle a bit, he almost laughed out loud before his friends had to shut him up.
As you can guess, family reunions were very akward.
How do you have two grandfathers?
@@astro_mapping1by having two parents
@@astro_mapping1is that a serious question lmfao…
Just imagine what this would've been like.
You're in relative isolation in the middle of a jungle at night, you already come from a culture where these things are believed in or even used as scare tactics already, you're trying to find your enemy and suddenly you just hear these voices, scared voices begging you, screaming at you, to leave and survive because dying in this battle leads to damnation, them begging you to get out of there because every single spirit and demon you've known is real and will actively come for you if you die in the war.
Thank you for continuing to acknowledge south Vietnam's role in the war rather than the many youtube channels that strictly frame the war as US vs everyone else.
Yea. Man the u.s should’ve train the south better.
@@Ttegegg Could say the same about Afghanistan.
@@teehazmat you could actually say that about most most of us allies. They can't hold on their own. Earlier this year, Poland did a war game simulation where they are fighting a land war against Russia with Russia winning in only a few days despite the Poles having modern military and equipment. Shows how complacent these countries are and without the US they are essentially screwed.
@@toledochristianmatthew9919 even the us lost against a war sim against the uk
The role of the so-called "South Vietnam" in that American Invasion of Vietnam, was being servant of the global financial dictatorship a.k.a "US democracy", and that's why the US withdrew from the war, and "Republic of Vietnam" collapsed in 55 days following 1975 Operation, despite numerous advantages in firepowers, equipments, military/militia personnels, aids and such (that theoretically made a collapse that fast impossible, if it wasn't foreign's puppet).
The sound quality that time was the reason why this operation was an absolute fail
-my grandma(a VietCong soldier)
Wait. Your Grandmother was a former VietCong soldier?
@@averybishopmartin6964 all wars are fair game after all. I wonder if she as story’s of the first indochina war?
@@averybishopmartin6964 the vietcong had many female soldiers.
@@martinsonofwar395 Huh. Sorry its just at that time during the Vietnam War militaries for the most part were exclusively male, but at the same time it's not surprising seeing how the VietCong were fairly short on numbers.
@@averybishopmartin6964 Yeah there was even a scene in Full Metal Jacket where they mentioned that half the hookers in South Vietnam were undercover Vietcong soldiers.
I remember listening to one of the videos. Being vietnamese and understanding what was being said I could see how people could be scared by it
Me too
Same man
That is vietcong's and nva's worst nightmare
I mean, ngl, south east asia is pretty off limits at night. In singapore, a lot of buildings have activities, which is probably why Ill never urban explore
@@kagenlim5271 yeah u should'nt
Vietnamese American here and I just love the awesome Vietnam war videos, my grandfather on both sides severed on opposite sides of the military and it always amazes me how tough the Vietnamese population were when the war occurred
that is why we have Vietnamese Veteran's day. My dad used to tell me that story, and he said to me in serious: Whatever you do, you always have to pay a respect, so they will not haunt you.
I had just lost my grandpa today, who was a veteran of the Vietnam War, I was never able to see him in his last year here, may you rest in peace.
God speed and keep him.
amen
Rip to him 🕊️
F
God rest him well.
YES this is one of my favorite things to learn about the Vietnam war
I’ve started learning about the Wandering soul tapes since I was little when I listen to audio tapes on another TH-cam channel.
These tapes got to me to learn about the Vietnam war
I would always get creeped out by the audio
@@smileyshark123 Tbh It didn't freak me out as a kid i was more confused on the audio
I saw scary war sounds on the infographics show and the soul tapes was one of them.
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@@XSc177 paan lagi
"Alright, you can stop it now."
"What? I never played it."
"What?"
*Imagine being a NVA soldier patroling in the jungle at night and then you hear a fallen soldier ghost voice telling you to abandon your post*
I remember hearing about this! Glad you’re documenting this! My dad was in ‘Nam, he told me about these.
@ɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ sᴏᴄɪᴀʟɪsᴛ ᴠɪᴇᴛɴᴀᴍᴇsᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴋᴇʀs ᴘᴀʀᴛʏ its just the shortened form just like how people say the states or czechia
@ɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ sᴏᴄɪᴀʟɪsᴛ ᴠɪᴇᴛɴᴀᴍᴇsᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴋᴇʀs ᴘᴀʀᴛʏ idk Im Vietnamese and I also say Nam
@ɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ sᴏᴄɪᴀʟɪsᴛ ᴠɪᴇᴛɴᴀᴍᴇsᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴋᴇʀs ᴘᴀʀᴛʏ Why do you refer all Americans as yankees? Considering yankee is a term for Americans residing in the North of the U.S.? I mean we can do this all day it's just abbreviations
@@ashtonwolfe6785 The term "Yankee" was a slur coined by the British to discourage independence.
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Russians: Hey I’ve seen this one! It’s a classic!
hm?
Americans: What do you mean? It's brand new.
Russians: Oh I saw it on... *rerun*
@@hayro252 attack of the dead
Russians or Soviets, to be right, have seen this from Hitler's Germany. Americans never learned from Nazi's..
I’ve read and watched a lot about this, very cool you guys are covering it!
using southen accent to scare northen troops 😀 , very smart guys 🐧
@@milokhanh313 lol
@@milokhanh313 Yep, and it worked. Just play spooky noises and they get scared and run away 😂
@@aquastar1182 have you even been in Vietnam , not to say in the war ?
@@aquastar1182 Those who walk thousands of kilometers in dark jungle to die , you really think they scared of that ?
It's already creepy but imagine these sounds on top of the fear and tension of war...the fact your enemy could be waiting literally anywhere in the jungle and very likely a lack of sleep.
Out of all the vids I've seen from you guys and the stories of from family who've served in Vietnam. I've never heard of this tactic before. And this has got to be one of my favorite videos of the Vietnam Conflict that you guys did ever
This campaign failed because it was useless, even counterproductive
I was deployed to Australia doing war games with the commandos. We had a humvee blaring out a warning about a typhoon and the excise had been canceled as psychological warfare.
Isn’t that cheating lmao
warnings about typhoons?
tornado warning considered as psychological warfare is so fucking hilarious
Not sure that would work as well now, with everyone having easy access to weather reporting on their phones. But 5-10 years ago that would have people running with no second thoughts.
@@stormystudios9804 hey we Marines do eat crayons
@@tanith117 it was in 2007
Effecting enemy morale is a very important job.
hurting an enemies morale allows you to make them do anything you want them to do. a soldier with low morale is more likely to abandon his post than continue to fight. though a more effective method would be cripple the command structure just enough to where it starts falling apart. or strike at their supply lines abit and keep them off balance
@@Daidan0 they depended on the forest for their supplies -_-
@@JOJO-ig2jw i meant in general. not the Vietnam war specifically. and I was also referencing sun tzu. as he proposed "the best tacticians are those who can defeat the enemy without fighting". essentially forcing them to defeat themselves by forcing them to waste time, energy and resources. for example as an enemy force closes in on yours retreat just before you're in range of their weapons so they have to keep moving in. repeat process until they stop to rest the. don't let them relax too much so that they exhaust themselves faster the next day. then you just keep repeating the whole process until the enemy commander gives up which would let you capture him and his forces with minimal losses
@@Daidan0 Doesn't really apply much to modern warfare as it heavily depends on air superiority those with air power can just air drop or fly in supplies
@@JOJO-ig2jw really then how did the technologically inferior Taliban and other terrorists evade the United states military force for 10+ years?
For a minute there, I thought the US Military dispatch their necromancers to the front lines.
It's the cold war anything goes
You saying we didn't?
USA: "I have ghost"
VietCong: "Look at me, I'm ghost here"
Tưởng tụi Mỹ sợ lính quân giải phóng khi họ là những cái cây biết nói?
I have heard about those tapes before, my great-grandpa was in the ARVN during the Vietnam war and he told me that most of his comrades hated the tapes because most of his comrades are Buddhists and those tapes can give them nightmares while asleep. Especially during Night Patrols.
"Now let's go get those Viet Congs."
- A U.S. Soldier
Its viet Cong. You dont say chineses
@@julioflorescertifiedtherap1425 it’s a joke, he’s poking fun at Americans and stuff like how we say ‘Nam or Murica.
@@thecast9175 r/ woosh. Go watch tropic thunder
You can’t just whoosh someone when you didn’t get the joke
@@evosioa2944 he was quoting the movie too…
As a Vietnamese i don’t need English subtitles to hear what my *grandpa friend* says
Oh boy, Ghost Tape 10, I don’t speak Vietnamese but that audio recording to me is scary
6:00 imagine at one point hearing the cries of the dead and the next hearing “Stars and Stripes Forever” blasting full volume
*A M E R I C A*
All jokes aside, imagine what this must have been like for charlie. I can't even go into a forest at night when they aren't playing ghost sound effects
They were almost afraid of nothing, so this American campaign backfired on the American army, becoming a big joke. ha ha
Those charlies fell for it for sure
@George Thomas they already were
@@thaiduongdang3702 so it didn't work?
@@morningstar3831 they have prepared themselves with the thought that they will surely die, everyone's ideal is to win the liberation of the country, who bends the ideal will of a dead comrade to scare them back ,it will only infuriate them more and reinforce the belief that the enemy is afraid of them
America: we played audio to make it sound like there were ghosts of NVA soldiers.
Russia: neat, we actually rose from the dead and charged at German troops
Ah yes,
*Attack of the dead men*
* With American supplies..
@@brianjschumer dang the imperial russian army used american supplies to charge the germans at osowiec fortress in 1916??
@@richardgrimsel1106 yup. Americans and Imperial Russians were good allies at the time.
@@yeboxxx_channel_2505 except of course the Americans weren’t even in the war yet…
As silly as this sounds it would probably work at first but after awhile you'll probably just piss people off waking them up at night with noise
either way, the object has been achieved, the enemy is denied a good night rest
Keep up the great work! One of the most intriguing vids yet. Especially loved that yall included the actual tape recordings.
Truly those AKs are durable, even having a spirit to follow and defend their master to the after life.
Age-restricted (set by TH-cam) and demonitised!
"This video is age-restricted. Viewers must be signed in and at least 18 years old to watch it." confirmed by manual review? !?
Ok
bro that's idiotic why would someone report a learning war video when it littery has no blood i know the audios are chilling but srsly
I can’t confirm the effectiveness of this tactic but I can confirm in general the Vietnamese are very superstitious about the dead, death and especially burial sites
Same as vietnamese
I know what you are talking about, in Jan. of 1967, LZ X-ray, we landed and starting to dig in. We were in a NVA graveyard dug up so many dead that the NVA would not attack, even us GI’s were creeped out, I did not sleep for 4 days, I will never forget it!
asian in general ! But think about it , those guys who walked thousand kilometers through jungles , suffered from many fire storm , no food ,.... actually , they were concern about B-52 rather than ghost .
@@gaylebordeaux7632 Wow, that sounds absolutely insane. How COULD you forget something like that? Were you guys sent to that area fully expecting to dig in and be attacked?
@@milokhanh313 Yeah, also they are convince that his cause is just so yeah
Vietcong: *Sees an American boat with speakers on it*
Vietcong: "Come on, you sea rats. Get off your ship"
Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas leap over the side of the boat, leading the Army of the Dead.
Simple history: what should we do for a video
Veterans: we have a couple of ideas
Interesting fact about early psychological warfare. I was in the 80‘s soldier in the PSV Battalion of the Bundeswehr. That was the only Bataillon in the army to do weird things. We had big loud speakers at trucks to send them into woods and hide until the enemy is approaching. Then it sounds Tank and Motor noises at the direction to distract the enemy’s perception of the fight action. I personally was in doubt wether that works. However we had also leaflets and a radio station.
Prank in 2021: **wears scary outfit and surprise him at the door**
Prank in 1955:
Imagine if they used surround sound technology back then.
Operation Wandering Souls should have been an easter eggs in Call of Duty Cold War. Like what if you find a radio and it plays the tapes you know? Or it should have been in Zombies on that Vietnam Map.
No no stupid, the Vietnam War from COD Black Ops would fit better.
@@christasockey4660 true because that game is darker than Cold War but to keep up with the present Cold War is the one..... Kinda
@@dairydregone7146 Operation Wandering Souls was used during the Vietnam War, not the Cold War. -_-
@@christasockey4660 but didn't Cod Cold War have a Vietnam War mission? Including a Vietnam Zombie map too? Actually, Wandering Souls would fit in Zombies.
@@christasockey4660 stupid that you didn't think of Zombies.
This voice actor is really really good , hope to hear him more
I think it’s Mike Rowe from dirty jobs
@@joshuarandall2159, It's Bryan Beauregard
I like how you guys used Ghost Tape 10 in this video. Makes it more historically accurate.
I learned about this in 2019. I was doing a summer job which involved cleaning in the biggest hospital in europe. I had the early shift in a then practically vacant part of the hospital on the 5th floor. I was super eager to listen to this while i had a little break. It was super scary
My grandfather who was a south vietnamese soldier told me about this
How it go?
I remember finding out about this years ago and thought it was the most fascinating thing! Just imagining that ringing through the woods at night is pretty terrifying!
Not really ; vietnamese soldier fear wild animal and enemy human more then ghost ; we have a say in vietnamese : ghost can't harm human ; but human can :) .
If I heard the bush start telling me to leave, you're damn right I'm gonna void my bowels and go home
there is a similar tactics used in Philippines during the Hukbalahap revolt. Filipino and American units would look for mangled dead bodies and spread rumors of aswang-(Vampire like creature) Is attacking their forces. Its a mixed results from what i recall since Huks began to stop their attacks on certain regions but others didn't
Adding in the many actual paranormal or supernatural things experienced by those who fought in the jungles of Vietnam and this psych warfare would've been terrifying.
my grandparents said those sounds only make VC angrier as it's somehow disrespecting the fallen, make the VC and many South Vietnamese hate the US and RVN even more and want to end that war asap
and then aliens invaded and we all died but then Tom Cruise destroys the aliens
@@GlitchedBlox i thought it will be Chuck Norris..
Yeah, I Agree with that
2:18 That's so interesting. A complete reverse of a Viking's, Crusader's, and Jihadist's "good death" in battle that guarantees salvation in the afterlife.
One could almost assume this belief should've made the Vietnamese the most pacifist people on Earth.
And the souix had the good day to die
They kinda were, but war was the only option if they want their nation to see the light of day
Tell that to the Rhades and Montagnards...
@@BeingFireRetardant And the Amish
@@smorrow
Well I can't speak much about our poultry farming, barn raising, horse driving, High German speaking pacifists brethren scattered throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania lands...
But I can assure you the Vietnamese, especially the urban ones, absolutely detested and committed atrocities against the mountain tribespeople living primarily in the middle of Vietnam. The Montagnards were our closest ally, and we ultimately abandoned them, along with every other tribe we did CDIG with.
So no, regardless of whatever anyone says in this thread or comments section as a whole, the Vietnamese are most definitely not pacifists. Whole exterminated villages speak otherwise. But hey, it's not genocide if nobody cares enough to stop it right? Just ask the Chinese.
I always shivering everytime i heard the original record....
I can’t sleep for a night after listening to this
@@justacringychannelpassingb7044 and the record is still whispering in my mind for a week....
4:37 with VC holding the m14. In the foreground is that a m91/30 mosinn?
Top notch animation of the SKS 👍👍
USA and ARVN: *Ghost sounds*
Few Vietcong: Mom, come pick me up. I'm scared
A Vietcong Squad: So anyways I started blasting
Please do the Philippine-American war please.
My first thoughts were this:
Soldier1: Alright man are you ready?
Soldier2: Wait! *Throws a sheet over himself* Alright let’s go👻👍
Lol
me in army
enemy team: blast ghost tape 3
me as soldier: hide to tree so i can shoot
soldier1: yo man what are u doing we are in war why are u in hiding tree?
me: im hiding some here so soul dont eat
soldier1: die while getting shot*
me: run run
me: shooting*
me: RUN RUN RUN I WANNA TO LIVE
soldier 3: RUN RUN
me: both run
enemy: nuke*
me: survive
Soldier3: die*
@@seri_ramo5034 uhh kinda wierd but ok...
Never have I ever thought I would need Simple History to say "killer pair of boots"
7:13 Ultra nerd mode activate. That exact (stock?) sound is used in Might and Magic VII for the ghosts in the Barrow Downs. Always fun to hear such old sound effects still in use today.
“Alright turn off the radio”
“But sir I turned it off a minute ago”
" New Objective:Survive "
Would love to ever hear a veitnamese opinion on the effectiveness of such methods. Their side of the conflict lacks presentation so badly
Agreed
As a Vietnamese that operation was a complete failure,not only it didn’t decrease Vietnamese force’s morale,it make the American position very clear to detect and you’d expect them to open fire,which is exactly what they did.
I heard it did the opposite of what the American Soldiers wanted. Theres a youtube video of a Ex Vietcong soldier saying the tapes only made them angrier and wanted them to fight the American troops more.
It's just a ton of jerks. There is no evidence for either its efective or the success of that operation. In the other hand, the America had to run and the Vietcong won. That's the strongest statement to prove that nothing can scare a person when he fights for family and homeland
It worked on the first day of the broadcast, some soldiers were bewildered, but then they followed the sound and discovered the truth.
As a result, every time American soldiers broadcast the loudspeaker, they will be attacked and suffer heavy damage.
The Wandering Souls Plan is bankrupt.
Never knew about this, fascinating stuff !
"Fear is the most effective instrument of destruction of the human soul and the souls of all people"
-Anwar Sadat
@@thotslayer9914 Im filipino, I love to look into Quotes
NVA soldier: Hah, those stupid GIs playing this dumb tape again.
Soul of his KIA brother: What tape?
For some reason listening to the audio of the recording actually sounded scary and it even frightened me a lot but such a brutal tactic to use in a war where the US is losing
Actually it wasn’t brutal
It probably wouldn’t work and it didn’t
However in a guerrilla war you start looking for more options than direct force
Pity this wasn’t included in “COD: Black Ops” and “COD Black Ops Cold War”.
Maybe because it took place in the year before
@@redsnoof BO/Black Ops, did have Vietnam in it.
Unless ya meant timeline wise, then yeah that's understandable.
This tactic wasn’t used until near the end of the war, I think The Vietnam segment in black ops takes place in 67 or 68
I heard that the tapes more encouraged the Vietcong to fight harder and that some Americans who didn't know about them had the affect that they were hoping to do to the VC
Possibly to avenge their fallen comrades
@@willstealyourboats true man
My grandpa told that
“They blasted other popular American music”
*Fortunate son continues*
US Soldier: "Hey I thought orders were to stop the tape and return to base? Turn it off already!"
US Psyops: *Goes to unplug it but find its been unplugged for a while now...*
Somewhere in Vietnam 1970:
American Commander: Ok turn that off it creeps me out (Sound continues playing) Hey I said turn that off!
American Soldier with Recorder and plug taken out: I DID! (Sound still continues)
The guy in the thumbnail must be scared shitless, he had his arms in the air before the rifle even moved
I was Literally talking about operation wandering soul and tape 10 with my grandfather in the afternoon, what a Coincidence
"We threw everything we had at the VC... machine guns, grenades, mortars, napalm, and only one thing worked....scary voices."
*Vietnam soldier chilling at the camp about to go to sleep*
In the middle of the night:
6:00
A Wise man once said , "He who tries to play with people' Beliefs and values, He will be ending up having the most embarrassing defeat in history"
Who is the wise man
In Vietnam, we are afraid of ghosts, but we are more afraid of losing our country :)))))
Vietnamese nationalism is cool
@@giaphudoan1768 while I might be very anticommunist I have nothing but respect for Vietnamese patriots, both as an American citizen and one of Filipino blood
Thats true my friend, i just scared to take a picture from a random grave because a stranger ghost would bonded to me for the rest of the life but i just scared to losing the country, France and Spain did used this same tactic on us before when they first invading if you read the history, their's goal is to trick us into selling our country but we didn't because we don't sell country to the invaders
Call of Duty Zombies In Vietnam will be like:
**When you pause the tapes, but the sound didn't stop**
lol
My grandpa was a member of a psychological unit in Europe (pre-Vietnam) and its always interesting to hear how they could trick European soldiers with a simple note and then loudspeakers or a tempting offer by a guy standing on the side of the road handing out papers manually. Interesting stuff and am very pleased he missed Vietnam as these soldiers had terrible survival rates!
Imagine getting a paper that read "Tank crossing zone" and then setting camp in a open field, where tank sounds are played later that night... You'd have no choice but to get up and see, or make way for these invisible tanks!
Turns out the strategy affect to south vietnamese soldier more, and they were so afraid to fight Vietcong after that
No joke, I've been really looking forward to this being covered on the channel
I remember hearing this before on TH-cam, kept me awake, spooky.
Americans: We blast ghost sounds to defeat you!
Vietnamese: Uno reverse card! **shoots at sound**
Americans that left: No u **shoots at gunfire**
Some people think how did the americans have vietnamese language in the paper notes its because They got help from South Vietnam which speaks The same language as North Vietnam.
Legend says that the AK soul still wondering with its user in the jungle of vietnam
I could see this being a viable tactic today, but back then it literally sounds like an audio recording
Video starts at 0:59
No surprise if the voices are real and the SCP FOUNDATION has to “contain the noises.”
Underated comment
“All warfare is based on deception”
-Sun Tzu
I see the Americans employ Scooby Doo tactics on those Vietcongs.