Imagine Seeing An Entire Tank Disappear...

0:00 – Introduction
4:20 – Brief History
7:02 – Ghost Tanks in the UK
19:17 – Nazi Ghost Tank of Bryansk
12:19 – Black Ghost of Libya
19:17 – Ghost tanks on Camp Lejeune
25:26 – Credit & Personal Story

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[WartimeStories]

If you know of any other ghost tank stories, by all means share them.

[jaysho]

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 '45. It had bullet holes, it was rusty, and the tires were rotten. It was the truck they saw go off, but it couldn't have been it due to the age.

They later found out that truck was hit in a Soviet ambush in '45.

[EricDaMAJ]

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

[TheFriendlyViking]

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

[epicdude]

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.

[mrjallenc]

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.

[valanme]

0:03 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.

[Mezcon]

Your story at the very end reminded me of my grandfather, earl morley, who was a radio operator for a Sherman tank in Pattons third army, fighting through France. He would have loved this video. Unfortunately he passed away from lung cancer when I was very young. He was a heavy smoker, like a lot of other guys who fought through that war. He told so many stories. I really miss him.

[sarhan]

I'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.

[madjack]

in the late 1980s I was stationed in what was then West Germany as a mechanized Infantryman. We had a particular M113 that was said to have been used in Vietnam. This vehicle would randomly start up, usually at night when no one was around. Our Motor pool guards would have to call the staff duty NCO to get someone to come down with the keys to unlock the vehicle and shut it off. Often the vehicles was switched off and the fuel cut off was already pulled, thus meaning the batteries would have to be disconnected. Finally the order was given to disconnect the batteries every time the vehicle was secured for the night. Sure enough, that didn't stop it from happening again. Finally the vehicle was shipped off when we transitioned to Bradley Fighting Vehicles in late 1989.

[prdurnion]

I served as a tank crewman when I first joined the Army. You have my deepest condolences for your loss. Supposedly, the Armor Museum in Fort Knox, Kentucky is haunted. When you realize almost every piece of equipment there that isn't a prototype was used during some conflict, you can imagine the blood and bones that those hulks of oil and metal have seen.

[Montana_horseman]

My Grandfather served in the north Atlantic on convoys to Murmansk, lost him rather young in 1976. My sympathies to you Luke on your Grandfather. I'm glad you shared something about him, you honor him and keep him in remembrance by doing so. Always a thumbs up from me.

[alexsmith]

The Moment you said "The Black Ghost" 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

[Bjorn]

Gives the name "Ghost Division" a whole new meaning...

[parrot]

This doesn’t involve armored vehicles, but back in 1977 I had recently got out of the navy and decided to drive from California to Iowa to visit a buddy who I had known while on active duty.
It was in Nebraska just at dawn, it had been storming on and off for several hours and I was leaving a highway restaurant/truck-stop driving up an entrance road to get back onto the interstate highway.
It was just beginning to rain again as I passed an old car that was pulled over to the side of the road with three women standing behind it.
One of the things that I noticed was the three women weren’t doing anything but standing there behind the open trunk staring at me as I drove by.
I was still going slow enough to also observe the left rear tire was flat.
In that second or two I decided to see if they needed help with changing the tire.
By the time I got my car over and stopped I was probably 50-60 yards ahead of them on the shoulder of the entrance road.
As I exited my vehicle it really started to pour down rain.
I hadn’t even had a chance to get my driver door closed when I looked back down a totally empty road. Nothing, no old car, no women, nobody not a thing. I could still make out the lights of the restaurant back down in distance.
After standing there a few moments more stunned, and getting soaked, I headed on to the highway, but decided to go back to the restaurant. Half believing I might be able to retrace my drive back out of that restaurant parking lot to see if somehow I could explain what i had experienced.

[snowvalkyrie]

Oh my goodness! Your grandfather was one of the Frozen Chosin?! AMAZING!!! Your grandfather has my complete and total respect. I’ve read several books about this series of battles. I can’t even fathom what your grandfather went through. Wow, just wow!

[roastytoastyvlogs]

My great grandpa was a tank commander in the Korean War he commanded an M4a3e8 sherman tank. In his obituary it says that he went from private to staff Sargent in the first few weeks he was there while fighting in some of the fiercest fighting of that conflict. I never got to hear many stories from him, at least that i can remember. I was 8 when he passed away in 2014, because i was so young i never thought to ask him anything about it. Even if i did i doubt hed want to tell an 8 year old about the horrors of war lol. My grandma told me something he had talked about a couple times before he passed. This is what my grandma said that he told her "i kept getting promoted because everyone above me kept getting killed." I dont know as much about him as i wish i did, all i know is he helped me become who i am today and i wouldnt want to change that.

[MangyMagi]

Your grandfather sounds like a great man, I'm sorry for your loss.

[thatguyfromvermont]

My dad told me a story about a trip he took to Gettysburg with a couple of friends. They did this night walk with a group. The area that they were in had been witness to so much that there was an overwhelming sensation. Talking to the tour guide, who had been doing this for a number of years said that never fades can’t explain if it’s the fact that knowing what took place there or is it something else? I believe anywhere something monumental has happened it leaves an impression.
In the words of Rod Serling
“It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.”

[davidspring]

Whoever made the decision to put the “young Marine” from the last story in a Dodge Charger… *chef’s kiss*.