Vietnam War Mysteries We Still Can't Solve

From unexplained creatures in the jungle to a haunted apartment building in Saigon, these Vietnam War mysteries are straight out of the X-Files.

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The disappearance of Flight 739 | 0:00
The Mayaguez Incident | 1:30
The missing soldiers of Baron 52 | 2:53
The first female POW | 4:20
Operation Marigold | 5:45
The murder of Robert Daniel Corriveau | 7:09
The rock apes | 8:20
The last POW | 9:40
Saigon's haunted apartment building | 11:16‌

Voiceover by: Tim Bensch

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[GrungeHQ]

Which of these mysteries do you think is the most haunting?

[erikguth]

My cousin served in the marine corps in Vietnam. He told me several stories of the rock apes. They could and would swing down from tree limbs and take a man’s head clear off with one single swipe. I notice no mention of the drug courier choppers. Blacked out choppers that picked up shipments of heroin. Another dear family member who served in the marine corps in the “Recon” units came across multiple choppers on multiple occasions and were always told “You saw nothing”.

[ATK]

The more you dig into the Vietnam war history and lore, the more you realize how not crazy the Rambo movies are, and how truly twisted our government is.

[The_Dudester]

7:00 "The Reasons may never be known."
Puh-leez. President LBJ was from Texas. General Dynamics, based in Fort Worth Texas, as well as Bell Helicopters, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman benefitted greatly from the war. They were the reason that LBJ committed the US to the war in the first place.

[Harpo]

Lack of sleep high adrenaline nerves all explained. I’ve been through sleep deprivation in the military and you will hallucinate .

[karljungel]

Very well I was in 'nam in '67 and heard similar tribesmen of the central highlands had many to tell....

[JPriz]

We ran hundreds of missions over the boarder from 68 to 72 and no one wore dog tags or anything that would indicate an American..

[DMT]

I read a memoir of an nva soldier, he said there's a place in Vietnam refered to as "the jungle of screaming souls" because of the amount of soldiers killed by napalm in it

[erikguth]

My cousin served in the marine corps in Vietnam. He told me several stories of the rock apes. They could and would swing down from tree limbs and take a man’s head clear off with one single swipe.

[johnneill]

The island of puntang ??? I need to go there

[davidneidel]

Some of these stories are factual based upon other sources of information. I was there from 1969-1972. There was an Army Green Beret, major if I recall correctly, who was captured and ultimately killed because he was constantly trying to escape. The rock apes through objects at us because idiots there thought it would be funny to throw them at the apes. Some idiots got the idea of throwing live grenades at the apes and watch them to be blown up. That until they started throwing them back. We had large monkeys who would jump on the small helicopters flying slowly around tree top level. That scared several people. I had always read and heard that one Marine was left behind.

[daveanderson]

I saw a video about those "Rock apes" before. I reckon those stories are the result of combat stress and/or drugs. I am pretty sure that there aren't any giant monkeys running around the jungle. If there had been such things then the french would have reported them.

[knothead]

The humanoid creatures are documented in a book on my bookshelf: Very Crazy G. I. by Kregg P. J. Jorgenson. The chapter is titled The Nguoi Rung...people of the forest. The encounter was witnessed by a group 101st Airborne LRPS. The story starts on page 33. BTW, good book!

[adamdelarozza]

In 68' my dad was sent to the Viet-Nam war area. He was sent to a fire fight base in Thailand, where he loaded bombs on the wings of the fighter jets, he has told some wierd stories about that time ove there

[nigeh]

Rock Apes is the nickname given to members of the RAF regiment in Britain.

[ives]

“I believe this resolution to be a historic mistake. I believe that within the next century, future generations will look with dismay and great disappointment upon a Congress which is now about to mistake such a historic mistake.”—Senator Wayne Morse (D-OR) on the Senate’s impending vote to adopt the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution on August 7, 1964

[georgegraham]

I remember in early reporting concerning dog fights in the air we us actually shot down a few Russian pilots. That storyline disappeared quickly?

[JonasHilty]

It's Federal identification # 6088 again about the Adam's county police officer James France, he confessed some of his crimes to his aunt Lovina ( Coblentz ) Joe C.Eichers wife just a few minutes before his friends shot him, I listened in to some of their conversation . He told her to get Jonas a gun, he would stop this area's crime problem and make it safe " I am thinking of my family some ", this will be a very good credit in your favor Ben Coblentz , Jonas A. HILTY believe . Having a good honest sheriff to work for, he would have been a very good police officer, I believe that most of the local Adam's county government has been taken over by corruption I personally believe ?

[scallopohare]

Sorry, but how would a captured missionary qualify as a POW? That is a military designation.

[BinhLe-bzeu]

The truth about the Vietnam War that was never told fully told to Americans peoples  United States had No intention of winning the Vietnam War from the very beginning. Fear it might become like the Korean War with mass continuing Communist Chinese troops from China pouring against American military force in Vietnam. And the threat of a thermal nuclear War with the Soviet Union. Why the Vietnam War was never officially declare but only as US military action. The Vietnam War started during the Civil Rights movement and racial tension between whites and blacks all across America. Several members in the US government were segregationist and they had their eyes dumping their Blacks problem on Vietnam with the chaos that was happening in Vietnam at that time between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam. At that time, the South Vietnamese had 250, 000 troops and North Vietnamese had 60, 000 troops and the DMZ line had already been establish at the 17th parallel. Many Vietnamese peoples from both North and South did Not support going to War and killing each other over the idea of Communist. Even though several North and South Vietnamese leaders believe Vietnam should Not be divided and try to distrupt one another. But they couldn't rally enough support among the Vietnamese peoples in Vietnam to support going to War. Until Nov. 2, 1963 When JF Kennedy and LB Johnson order his CIA to stage a military coup assasination on a catholic South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. This give America the power to do what ever they want to Vietnam and to the Vietnamese peoples. And they appointed an ex-Vietminh soldiers for Ho Chi Minh, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as their puppet South Vietnamese President. The South Vietnamese President who cause the lives of 500, 000 South Vietnamese troops killed or capture by the North Vietnamese army and their communist allies The Pathet Lao army, and the Communist Khmer Rouge army of Cambodia when he order them to be station and patrol in Kampuchea. And who told Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to do so? The United States, fear more Americans troops will be killed in Kampuchea. 20 days after the military coup assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. US President JF Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas, TX on Nov 22, 1963 and LB Johnson was sworn in as the 36th US President. On Aug 10, 1964, US President LB Johnson declare US military action to Vietnam over an alleged attack on a US destroyer, Maddox that was on patrol past the 17th parallel near Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. While supporting the South Vietnam. 500, 000 US ground troops was sent to fight in Vietnam. 40% of those US troops that were sent to fight in Vietnam were adult blacks male along with high school drop out white male, non-college white male, trouble teen white male, and white convict male were all sent to fight in Vietnam. And when these US troops arrive in Vietnam and they did their "Search and Destroyed mission." The Communist North Vietnam gain mass support for their cause and their army grew from 60, 000 troops to over 1, 000, 000 troops. In 1975, the Democrats control congress cuts off funds to all US promise military aids to South Vietnam causing the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. Thus began a mass flow of Vietnamese refugee fleeing out of Vietnam. 10 of thousands of Vietnamese refugee died at sea from hunger, thirst, illness, Thai pirates, and Chinese warships. Today over 100's of thousands young South Vietnamese childrens are born of birth defect from the US toxic biological chemical, Agent Orange which the US military spray all over rivers and forest of South Vietnam. 3, 000, 000 innocent Vietnamese civilians of women, childrens, and old peoples had to die in their country during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War is the worse United States War Crime in history. From Truman, JF Kennedy and LB Johnson were all were WWI and WWII veteran who sent the next young American men to become killers. Why I post this is because for years I'm tired Americans use Vietnam War as a Propaganda War story. Telling peoples that they there to help South Vietnam fight against communist North Vietnam. When America is the root cause of the Vietnam War and the downfall of South Vietnam.