colonel-kurtz-official: A member of the United States Army’s 1st Extranormal Activities Divisi

colonel-kurtz-official: A member of the United States Army’s 1st Extranormal Activities Division photographed with the remains of a Viet Cong guerilla killed by a Thành hoàng, or guardian spirit. While these village deities are generally benign and were even reported to help American and allied forces operating within their domains, in the more remote corners of Vietnam there are villages which are deemed “corrupt” or “tainted” by the ruling religion. Worshipping such shadowy beings as the Lecher, the Serpent God and the Beggar God in rituals which bear a striking similarity to those witnessed later by Soviet “Division P” troops in Afghanistan, the villages generally kept to themselves and were left alone by all sides. Unfortunately, when roused, the dark spirits are known to manifest physically and go on horrendous killing sprees far outside of their village borders. Only one such incident was officially reported, when a Soviet advisor, disregarding the warnings of his North Vietnamese comrades, led a company of VC directly through such a village. Not a single one survived, and although the Thành hoàng was eventually subdued and then banished by a sanctioned cultist, the amount of amateur footage and eyewitness accounts that was released to the public caused an uproar. From that day forward, the EAD was declassified and their “secret war” against non-human creatures and supernatural entities has become a topic of near-national obsession. @cold-warrior @the-alt-historian “From where I was, it looked like bad news. Being out in the open was something none of us were used to, and we weren’t sure how the increased scrutiny would affect our ability to operate. What we had never banked on was the sheer raw ability of the American public to ferret out the truth when the situation calls for it. Within months we had tips going through the roof, some of them bum tips but most of them on the spot. We were all shocked– the first year, 83% of the tips checked out, and by 1982 it was 91.5%. "Phil Edwards, who at the time was our J-3, always thought it was the massive interest of the American people forming a sort of telepathic collective consciousness that could sniff out supernatural entities. Privately, I always wondered whether that collective consciousness would someday gain sentience and if we might someday have to fight it, and many of the officers shared my fears. That precipitated our first foray into psychic warfare, our contact with Colonel Ed Dames’ First Earth Battalion, and our eventual exploitation of the ‘battlefield of the mind’s inner reaches’ as Dames put it…”from Major Tom Selenkow’s article “What We Do In The Shadows: On the Frontlines of America’s Deadliest Secret War” published in Soldier of Fortune magazine in 1988 -- source link

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