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August 2004 – Page
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The
Soldiers' Ghosts
by Danielle J.
Three days ago, about six people and I at a bar in Ocala Florida had a very real ghost sighting. A girlfriend and I went to a club to have a drink and unwind after work. We went in and sat down and soon thereafter ordered a drink. I looked over to the high wall mounted TV at the end of the bar and right underneath the television was a face of a soldier saluting, right under the TV!
I did a blink or two and looked closely again and there it was again. But there seemed to be two of them now. Both in mid-salute. I turned to my girlfriend Jackie and said, "Look under the TV there. Do you see what I do?" She looked over and looked carefully in the dim bar light and she said to me slowly, "There is an officer saluting us. What the hell is that?!" she shrieked.
We both stared at it for a good five or six minutes just astonished. I saw three of them and she said she saw one with an apparition of an American flag that he was saluting. Here's what is weird: I described black uniforms with a white hat like Marines wear and she said it was just one person with a white uniform like a sailor with a short-sleeved shirt.
Just then an old drunk guy saw us just staring at the wall under the TV quietly talking and said, "You see it, too? The guy there saluting? I thought it was just me seeing that."
Soon the bartender came up as now the three of us just staring at it. I turned to him and said, "You know this bar is haunted, don't you? Look right there." He looked over and said, "What?" like he couldn't see what was as plain as day right in front of us. Then more came up and some could see it and some couldn't. It was too weird.
Then I turned away for a second to talk to some lady who claimed to see it too and when I turned back to the place under the TV there was a different soldier. This one had on a sailor's uniform like the kid on a Crackerjack box, but all white still saluting. I said, "Now there's a sailor there saluting. What do you think they want?" The guy over my shoulder said, "No, it's a special forces guy with a black beret."
I argued back, "No, that's a sailor in all white." My girlfriend then said it was a man in tan and green with a dark tie and an officer's cap. We were all seeing something different! One man even claimed that there were many of them just like "collaged" on top of each other. They were definitely three dimensional and you could even make out their facial features as they saluted or stood guard there.
After about 20 minutes, the whole bar was looking under the wall-mounted TV. Some could see them and others couldn't. I guess some are more psychic than others. But they were definitely there and many of them. After about an hour, we finally left the bar and even then I could still see the ghosts there. I guess they just wanted appreciation, that's all I can figure out. Quite an experience.
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