In 1990, Six Soldiers Went AWOL for the Craziest Reason…

[Laughter] for those not familiar with the term awall it means absent without leave while there are many reasons a person will choose to join the military if you're like me you did it because you were fed up with working part-time jobs and had no direction in life that and my good friend Zach roped me into it because he had also just signed up it's not like I didn't sort of know this when I signed the enlistment paperwork but one of the more interesting reality checks after joining the military was finding out that I no longer

had the freedom to travel whenever and wherever I wanted especially when I was still a junior Marine unless it was a weekend and even that wasn't guaranteed you always had to tell someone where you were going why you were going and when you were going to be back a leave request is basically like submitting a request for time off at work but if you don't do it in the military you go to jail family emergency well you just hope that your emergency leave request gets approved but you can't just leave and yet some people do

why lots of reasons maybe there is something serious going on and they are emotionally overwrought not thinking rationally one sailor we knew was apparently just tired of being in the military so when we ported in Guam she just went to the airport caught a flight and went home but after some research it seems that some people have much more interesting reasons for going awall such as I don't know pull from a hat killing the Antichrist listen I've read a lot of wild stories but this one might just be the craziest it's got everything Ouija boards

demons ghosts mind control UFOs conspiracy to plot murder wire fraud heartbreak explosions okay there's no explosions but it's got everything else this is the true story of six US Army soldiers Intel Specialists by the way which I also was who were tried and convicted of abandoning their Post in West Germany to fly to Gulf Breeze Florida their reason because a spirit they spoke to through a Ouija board had warned them about the coming apocalypse and had ordered them to find and kill the Antichrist the military officials who interrogated these men were left as dumbfounded as

I am this is the story of the Gulf Breeze [Music] 6 the Mist which hangs before you offers you a choice to pass through or to escape Beyond it are stories which defy explanation and fly face of what we know to be real it is a void of both reality and impossibility of both fact and Superstition you alone are left to discern what to believe as you pass through what we call fog War you know everyone wants to accomplish something and if we did an honest assessment it's likely we' realize that we are capable of

doing a lot more than we give ourselves credit for but that's just it I know from personal experience that the biggest obstacle I often face in my day-to-day life is my own thoughts funny how that works right Sometimes the best thing we can do is just talk to someone and with that in mind I want to take a moment to thank better help for sponsoring this episode despite what anyone says therapy isn't just for diagnosed health issues like depression and anxiety maybe you're thinking about changing careers or you want to improve yourself but just don't

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Stories the story of the Gulf Breeze 6 begins with two young Army Specialists 26-year-old Kenneth B and 25-year-old Vance Davis while these men had what others would call interesting beliefs they were by all accounts well-trained and capable intelligence specialists in their field after completing their preliminary MOS training in the late 1980s both men were assigned to the 731 Military Intelligence Brigade stationed in alburg West Germany while there they were tasked with working at a major NSA listening post near the Soviet border it's no wonder they became fast friends out of all their peers these two

young men shared a sincere fascination with all things paranormal an interest that for both of them stretched far back to the days of their adolescence for Kenneth B his unexplained experiences began when he was just 5 years old he woke up one night feeling thirsty and as if on Q he said that a ghost came forward offering him a glass of water Kenneth would go on to spend his teenage and early adult years reading countless volumes of Science Fiction comic books and books about encounters with spirits and UFOs his fascination with the supernatural deepened with

each passing Year all of this did not go unnoticed by his family the more books Kenneth read the more concerned they became Kenneth was undeniably bright but he was also said to be woefully gullible his curious and welcoming attitude was something his family worried would make him susceptible to the influences of others after he enlisted in the Army his family's fears were fully realized during Kenneth's Intel training in Pensacola Florida he befriended and fell in love with a local woman named Anna Foster Anna was the owner of a new age book shop and referred to

herself as a psychic and UFO Enthusiast her own unrestrained belief in the Supernatural greatly encouraged Kenneth's everever growing fascination with the subject and then there was Vance Davis as a teenager along with the Paranormal he began to develop an interest in various methods of hypnosis at some point he enrolled in the Silva mind control courses created by a man named Alex merklinger a spiritual guide who also held a reputation as a con man stemming from his convictions and prison sentencing for wire and male fraud through these mind control courses Vance told Kenneth that he had

mastered the art of self-hypnosis through active imagination a psychological technique that allows individuals to access their subconscious mind and explore their inner thoughts and emotions eventually Vance's practice of hypnotizing himself would take a very interesting turn during one of his self-imposed transes Vance is said to have come face to face with a green-skinned alien being who identified herself as Kia and apparently Kia had various Powers as he communed with her during one session Davis claimed that KIA through some non-physical means corrected his flat-footedness something that had bothered him for years especially after joining the Army

when running in boots or standing for long periods in formation but it wasn't just healing sessions they spoke for hours Kia told Kenneth all about her species and about the wider Universe part of this included telling him about a protective alien group called The Alliance which was at war with a more hostile Coalition of beings known as the others bonded as friends by their shared interests and bizarre paranormal experiences Kenneth and Vance spent much of their free time researching the subject of the strange and unexplained after spending their days intercepting and decrypting Soviet radio signals

at the post in West Germany following the evening formation the Two Soldiers could often be found in their Barracks carrying on spirited conversations about their personal stories or discussing books and manuscript scripts that they had been reading but these more light-hearted activities soon progressed into sincere attempts to begin practicing what they were reading about convinced of the existence of something on the other side Kenneth and Vance wanted to make contact with whatever that was they attempted communication using a broad array of methods ranging from guided meditations to the use of tarot cards while all of

this took place privately eventually a few other like-minded soldiers in their unit fell in with the group PFC Michael huat age 19 PFC Chris perlock age 20 PFC William cederberg age 20 and even one of their ncos Sergeant Annette eeson age 22 as a group the six young soldiers continued making attempts to contact Spirits however all of their initial methods repeatedly fell short of contacting anything all of that changed when they decided to pull out a Ouija board for the group the board was a last resort they considered it rather juvenile the board having a

reputation in the late 1980s as a cheap party game but at this point they were becoming somewhat desperate to validate their Collective beliefs and it worked any ounce of doubt that they had quickly vanished the moment the planet started moving across the board something was responding to their questions at first what what was being communicated through the board had no overtly religious meaning to it but during the course of seven or eight separate Ouija board sessions this changed as the six soldiers received messages from at least seven different Spirits most of these Spirits identified themselves

using names corresponding to biblical figures prophets from the Old Testament like Zechariah and the names of several of the Disciples of Christ including Mark and Timothy the group was shocked to eventually be contacted by a spirit claiming to be Mary herself the mother of Jesus who was reaching out specifically to the only female in the group Sergeant Annette eeson the most domineering voice to come through the board however wasn't any of the spirits going by a Biblical name it was a mysterious entity that identified itself only as Sapphire well we got introduced uh basically she

said and it was a woman very womanly I guess in the way it was moving uh a person named Sapphire and we asked who it was and and uh she you know where she was from and she basically said she used to be a woman from uh Georgia believe it or not yeah so it someone in the other realm uh which had me and both Ken and most of us uh really spook soall to a dead person over the course of the group's many consecu Ive Ouija board sessions Sapphire relayed a terrifying warning to the

six soldiers a warning that the world was on the cusp of terrible apocalyptic events as they continueed to ask the spirit questions the list of horrifying predictions grew longer and longer totaling between 80 to 90 prophetic warnings one of the first predictions was that a major earthquake would occur in Iran resulting in staggering casualties over 300,000 people would be either injured or killed this would soon be followed by other significant geological disturbances more devastating earthquakes in Russia and along the west coast of the United States this would lead to volcanic eruptions and catastrophic weather conditions

impacting Global geography and climate Sapphire's predictions also included social and political upheavals forecasting wars in the Middle East involving the US Iraq and Israel social unrest and E iomic collapse in the United States would lead to widespread riots and martial law Europe would undergo economic and political unification leading to shifts in global power balances these events would set the stage for significant shifts in technology and religion including the revealing of extraterrestrial life and the emergence of a new world order in the midst of this chaos and Global transformation the Antichrist would appear a man who

would bring about more devastating Wars major major religious reform persecution against all Christians and immense human suffering despite their prodding the six soldiers were unable to obtain a specific identity for this person Sapphire only telling them that he would emerge out of the smoldering ruins of Europe in the year 1998 the year being significant because mathematically it was three times the biblical number 666 proclaiming himself to be the Messiah Sapphire went on to say this person would be hailed as a peacemaker by the masses including all major religious leaders in reality he was of course

a wolf in sheep's clothing but what was the point in them knowing all of this if the world was about to end as the Ouija board was telling them what could six low-ranking US Army soldiers do about it according to Sapphire's messages these six young soldiers did have a part to play their psychic connection was no accident Sapphire told them that they had been chosen by God himself to embark on an urgent and important mission to prepare for the coming apocalypse and be among the Chosen Few survivors tasked with guiding Humanity towards the light of

God in its aftermath while the soldiers were fairly convinced that they were in direct contact with a Divine being they were initially unsure of what to make of these incredible predictions about the future that is until one of the prophecies spelled out on the Ouija board came [Music] true a powerful earthquake hit Iran early this morning killing at least 25,000 people according to the Iranian government and injuring thousands more the Quake was centered about 200 Mi outside Teran in a remote mountainous farming region it measured 7.3 on the rter scale many towns were leveled Iranian

radio said rescue workers had not been able to reach some of the hardest hit Villages because the roads are blocked by landslides the Quake was felt in Teran but no damage was reported there the US has offered to send humanitarian Aid it has not yet received a request from Iran on June 21st 1990 a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck in a Caspian Sea region of Northern Iran devastating an area of 20,000 km or 7,700 Mi a number of cities and towns largely composed of unreinforced masonry buildings were reduced to Rubble considered one of the world's most

devastating earthquakes it resulted in some 40,000 to 50,000 deaths another 60,000 more injured and at least 400,000 people displaced from their homes while news of the major disaster was broadcast to the world it's unlikely many people gave it much thought it was just another bad earthquake but for the six soldiers stationed in Germany this seemed to be a chilling wake-up call outside of the difference in the number of casualties they were at a complete loss to understand how Sapphire was somehow able to predict this event over a month before it happened including its geog graphic

location having been initially skeptical about all the prophetic messages this event was apparently all the confirmation they needed to know that the end times were upon them and that God had truly called them into service the immediate problem was that they were all active duty in the Army it's not as if they could simply explain their god-given mission to their chain of command and expect to be dismissed from the NSA listening Post in West Germany they needed more guidance once again they turned to the Ouija board the hand of sapphire coming through to move the

planchet and give them clear instructions on how to proceed according to Sapphire the best course of action was for the soldiers to abandon the military regardless of the consequences then quickly make their way back to the US from there the group would Retreat into the mountainous regions of the country in order to continue their spiritual develop velopment and preparations for the coming disasters after hearing this the six soldiers found themselves at a bizarre and tense Crossroads what was more important the oath that they had sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution and defense of their

Nation or to protect the entire world in service to God the choice it seemed had already been made for them [Music] over the course of the next month if any of their army peers or commanders were paying any attention they might have been concerned about the new and Strange Behaviors of the six soldiers in their unit members of the Ouija board group had quietly started selling off personal belongings in an attempt to raise money for their life on the Run meanwhile Kenneth B reached out to Anna Foster back in Florida telling her of their plans

and how they would need a safe house to lay low in it was likely the military would quickly investigate The Disappearance of six soldiers from an NSA listening post and start looking for them without any hesitation Anna told Kenneth that he and his gang of runaways were welcome to hide out in her home in Gulf Breeze a small town not too far outside of Pensacola where all of the soldiers had been stationed during their intelligence training with that the final piece of the soldiers plan to abandon their Post in Germany fell into place they had

a destination on July 9th 1990 using both official and falsified off-base Liberty passes the soldiers casually walked off of the Augsburg listening post but rather than remaining in the local area as their leave passes required they headed to the train station as they boarded the first train heading for the city of Munich despite his otherwise unflinching belief in the importance of their god-given mission Kenneth B felt terrified while the United States wasn't technically at war with the Soviets the two nuclear Rivals were still locked in a tense standoff that threatened to boil over at a

moment's notice his and the other soldiers Collective duties in Manning the Augsburg listening post were vital to the West's efforts to intercept and decrypt Soviet radio Transmissions breaking their radio codes hoping to catch early indications of any offensive nuclear actions the sheer weight of six Soldiers with top secret security clearances abandoning their posts at such a critical time meant the consequences of their actions could be severe at best a court Marshal followed by a long prison sentence at worst well Kenneth tried to put the thought out of his mind finding their seats on the train

Kenneth's stomach turning over at the thought of what would happen if they were ever caught he reminded himself that there was something far worse looming on the horizon the end of the [Music] world hoping to throw off anyone tracking their movements they chose not to fly directly to Pensacola Florida but to Knoxville Tennessee arriving back in the States a friend of Kenneth B's picked them up at the McGee Tyson Airport in Knoxville but they needed to get their own wheels so the group pulled their cash to purchase a vehicle a rundown 1970s Volkswagen van piling

inside they then immediately drove the 400 Mi South to Florida having spent almost a full day traveling after leaving their Post in Germany by the time the group had landed in Tennessee their failure to return to Bay had not gone unnoticed with their command being unsure of their whereabouts their official status was considered absent unknown but if the following investigation determined their absence was voluntary it would be updated to absent without leave or awall considering the sensitive nature of their classified intelligence work the Army quickly spread the names and faces of the six soldiers far

and wide anxious to find them the initial underlying presumption was that the young soldiers had potentially been taken by a foreign group whether their disappearance was involuntary or not and certainly if they had willingly defected to the Soviets or some other group the US military could be looking at a major security breach in short the sudden disappearance of six intelligence Personnel raised all kinds of hell as American and European authorities began searching high and low for them in Germany Kenneth B and the five other runaways were crossing the p Cola Bridge entering the city of

Gulf Breeze Florida their first stop would be Anna Foster's home they would spend a few days lying low Gathering supplies and preparing to drive their van back North to the Appalachian Mountains where according to Sapphires instructions they would await the coming apocalypse and here is where their story collides with a very odd coincidence tonight on hard copy there's been a new wave of strange activity in the Skies over Gulf Breeze Florida and we've got the latest pictures Doug ruckner shows us what's going on in the town they call UFO USA here it is here's our

videotapes look at it you tell us we don't know but it's there and what appears on those videotapes is a mystery UFOs hovering as plain as day spherical shiny objects seeming to defy gravity and then in the blink of an eye they're gone but they keep coming back to Gul Breeze Florida it's an affluent Community nestled in the Florida panham some say the UFOs are attracted to the crystal white sand others say it's the sparkling clear waters whatever it is the UFOs are coming in droves why the UFO is coming here why why we witness

it so much I I don't know the answers to the why Ed Walters makes his living as a housing contractor but 7 years ago his life was changed forever when he looked to the sky and saw his first UFO I deal with concrete and steel and uh UFOs are just something I was never interested in and um until I saw one myself and here are those photographs Ed took in 19 whether they knew it at the time or not the six soldiers arrival into Gulf Breeze Florida on a glorified mission to destroy the Antichrist could

not have come at a stranger time while Gulf Breeze had long been nothing more than a quiet little Beach Community in the late 1980s the town finally became famous beginning in 1987 and over the following 2 years the small Panhandle Community played host to hundreds of sightings of supposed extraterrestrial craft and other flying objects the Gulf Breeze sightings as they came to be known became some of the best known UFO sightings in history they were referenced on the X Files studied by the History Channel and other cable programs and have since been repeatedly dissected and

argued on various online forums the UFO sighting started when a local contractor named ed Walters began producing photos of UFOs that he claimed to have taken in his front yard on the evening of Veterans Day November 11th 1987 using a Polaroid camera Walters would snap numerous pictures of these UFOs while many Skeptics argued the photos were clearly a hoax Walters was not the only eyewitness apparently there were multiple Witnesses who drew what they saw before his story was even published and in the following UFO Mania Walters would later capture even more footage of other UFOs

using his video camera Ed scanned The Horizon hoping to capture one of those flashes in his camera but instead he saw the source of the mysterious strobes a UFO hovering silently above the beach there she is right there oh my God I kind of felt a little insecure being out on the beach all by myself and then the UFO disappeared Into Thin Air when you know it it interacts with the boat with a person walking uh these are the kind of things that you look for in a video Bland Pew is a field investigator for

the mutual UFO Network he's spent years investigating thousands of sightings over Gulf Breeze and he says that Ed Walter's footage remains completely unexplainable unless uh Ed Walters had a brother-in-law named uh Spielberg it'd be pretty hard to do tapes like that UFO researchers have investigated the photos for tampering as well as compared them with descriptions and drawings provided by other Witnesses in the area despite the opposition those who support Walter's claims have to some people's satisfaction provided at least enough evidence to believe that something strange did happen in short some have said that while they

may not believe all of it Walters is a far more interesting story than most people give it credit for in any case following the publication of his photos more reports of UFO sightings started pouring in even a few local Gulf Breeze politicians said they saw them hoping to see one for themselves thousands more people from out of state started flooding in gathering with many locals at places like Shoreline Park in Gulf Breeze and other nearby areas at night to watch the skies but here's the thing about this small Panhandle section of Florida it is packed

with military bases Pensacola Naval Air Station Hurlbert field and Egan Air Force Base as such the UFO sightings caused quite the stir and now right as the sightings had started to die down the small town of Gulf Breeze would soon be recognized in National papers all over again and the UFO craze of the previous 2 years would take on a whole new chapter when it was combined with a shocking story involving six awal soldiers and a Biblical [Music] apocalypse after arriving at Anna Foster's Home in Gul Breeze the group decided it would be best to

split up five of them would remain at the house while Sergeant Annette eeson established an emergency campsite nearby as a fallback in case their safe house was somehow compromised initially the group didn't plan to stay in Gulf Breeze for long maybe just a few days to give the ongoing investigation by the military time to settle down and during that time they kept in communication with the spirit Sapphire using the Ouija board um Sapphire had told us that Gulf Breeze would be safe until Friday then we would stop in Texas to to pick up our stuff

and head for the mountain states to begin the rest of our lives and prepare for what was to come however something unexpected happened that changed their plans something that Sapphire failed to warn them about Anna Foster lived with a roommate by the name of Diana and when Vance Davis met Diana he almost immediately fell head over heels in love with her according to Davis's later writings he had had visions of Diana his soulmate dating back to his teenage years as soon as he laid eyes on her he just knew she was the one his prophetic

dreams had been telling him about and as it turned out Diana was equally smitten with him so Kenneth and Vance were now feeling at home eager to spend some quality time with their girlfriends but over the next few days the other members of the group were not feeling so comfortable they were instead growing increasing Restless after all the military was actively searching for them and coming back to Pensacola an area dotted with military bases and the city where they had completed their intelligence training it might not have been the wisest decision after several days of

prolonged boredom the youngest member of the group PFC Michael huot decided to throw caution to the wind he borrowed their rickety van and went into town hoping to blow off some steam at a local nightclub his going out might not have been an issue were it not for one Minor Detail the van had a busted tail [Music] light on the night of July 14 1990 4 days after their group had snuck out of Germany PFC Michael huat driving alone in their van at the time was pulled over by a Gulf Breeze police officer Michael had

every reason to be terrified as he watched the officer exit his vehicle and approached the driver side window of the van he had a hard time concealing it the officer then couldn't help notice how tense this young man behind the wheel was as he questioned him asking for his IDE D and proof of insurance Michael had neither the officer then asked for his name perhaps too nervous to think up a lie Michael gave him his real name the officer then returned back to his vehicle and promptly ran a computer check on his identity sure enough

Michael huot's name was flagged in the system the Department of Defense had been looking for him as he was wanted for desertion the officer returned to the van politely asking Michael to step out of the vehicle Michael knew he'd been caught and begged the officer to look the other way and just let him go the officer did not after he was arrested Michael was quickly turned over to local military authorities after calling the security police at Pensacola Naval Air Station to come pick him up the Gulf Breeze Police were informed that Michael was traveling with

five other soldiers also wanted for being absent without leave a search of the van provided Ed them enough information to lead the police back to the home of Anna Foster and the group's emergency campsite the other five were rounded up and all six of them were shipped North to Fort Benning Georgia where they were then placed in solitary confinement and interrogated they were later moved to Fort Knox Kentucky all of them were terrified their fate a possible execution sentence for desertion hung in the balance [Music] in spite of all their weeks of careful planning and

spiritual guidance in only a matter of hours the soldiers Divine Mission had completely Fallen apart coming to a very anticlimactic end the military investigation that followed was extensive with each member of the six being kept isolated and relentlessly questioned to expose any underlying motives of Espionage or treason they were interrogated by the Army the CIA the FBI and the National Security Agency who was in charge of their listening Post in Germany the truth as investigators were soon to discover was Far stranger than anything they could have anticipated knowing the severity of their situation family members

of the six soldiers immediately went to the press and what appears to be their hope to stop the Army from sentencing them to death once the Press got involved the whole story started to take on a life of its own a media frenzy ensued but the story needed a name and that's when journalists dubbed the group The Gul Breeze 6 on July 20th 1990 the Northwest Florida Daily News ran the following headline six awal soldiers say they aimed to kill Antichrist continuing Gulf Breeze six soldiers reported by an unofficial military newspaper to be on a

mission to kill the Antichrist were charged Thursday with desertion from their intelligence unit in West Germany Pentagon spokesman said their bizarre story Drew National interest with more Sensational headlines about their mission from God being spread across every broadcast and newspaper stand in the country as the military was being very tight lipped on the matter journalists looking to get the scoop resorted to contacting friends family and other associates of the six Soldiers the subsequently wild assertions and statements made by some of these individuals about the group and their motives only added to the frenzy for example

a BBY Tennessee Man Who Sold the 1970s Volkswagen to the Gulf Breeze 6 told reporters that the soldiers intended to go to Gulf Breeze because they thought Jesus Christ would make his second coming a board one of the many UFOs seen in the area it was supposed to be Rapture time said his wife viven another unknown person possibly a fellow Soldier told the press the six believed the end of the world was near and that Jesus Christ was going to arrive on a Pensacola Beach on a UFO to take Believers up to heaven in his

defense Vance Davis was reported to have scoffed at these claims what how ridiculous can you get Jesus Christ is Jesus Christ why would he come in a flying saucer with their strange Mission and arrival in Gulf Breeze coming only a short time after a string of hundreds of UFO reports in the area the media and public were quick to gravitate towards the conclusion that the two Supernatural events Were Somehow connected many believed the group had come to Gulf Breeze because of the UFOs as opposed to their stated motive of Simply needing a place to lie

low which was Anna Foster's Home it didn't help at all to quell these leading connections when Kenneth B was later found to have stated that he believed in reincarnation and that he had been sacrificed to the Gods in a previous life and that he also believed that the US government was in cahoots with aliens and that evidence for this could actually be found in alburg the NSA listening site in Germany where they worked he truly believed mankind was about to make an evolutionary step which is why many alien entities were in Orbit on or under

the Earth and or in telepathic contact with people like him Kenneth said that there were two alien groups the alliance the good guys who believed in Free Will and the others who were abducting people and Performing medical experiments on them the spirit they spoke to through the Ouiji board Sapphire confirmed to the group that the US government was working with the aliens as he and his friends had suspected all [Music] along for his part Vance Davis was sincere and showing investigators documented proof that their defection and travel to Gulf Breeze was the result of the

eight Ouija board sessions he explained how Sapphire the spirit they had contacted had warned them of a coming War when some of Sapphire's prophecies both minor and significant started to come true one stating the exact Dynamics and the number of casualties of a major earthquake in Iran it convinced the six of them that they were dealing with genuine Supernatural encounters when they deserted Vance told the investigators each Soldier left a copy of the letter dictated by the spirits in the hope that the letter might make its way into the hands of the president so that

he would know of the dire times ahead Vance assured them their decision to hide in Gul Breeze was simply because they knew the area and Anna Foster lived there it had nothing to do with UFOs Anna Foster was of course questioned by police but was not arrested or charged police told the press that she was only involved because she knew one of the men she was advised not to make any comments during the ongoing investigation during an interview with reporters Anna was quoted as saying I don't know what to do I know it's all real

crazy right now I feel very caught up in this I was just being a nice person when I opened my house to a friend and his friends I don't know when he was interviewed by the Press Stan Johnson a friend of Kenneth B spoke at length about their time as friends being a resident of Kenneth's home state of Tennessee Stan had been the one to pick the six soldiers up at the airport in Knoxville and his testimony seemed to contradict the group's statements about having no interest in UFOs uh he was a very nice fellow

but very gullible he was one of these people who uh believed anything someone would tell him uh the idea that he was arrested or that he was hanging around with a cult-like group didn't surprise me um he kind of lives in a science fiction fantasy World sometimes um he used to hang around my photography business um never talked much about what he did in the Army but he did always talk about science science fiction uh UFOs that kind of thing he loved UFOs uh a couple years ago before he went back into the army there

was a book floating around the area uh predicting the end of the world he really believed that uh he called me several weeks before I I picked him up you know said he needed a ride from the airport and uh you know wanted me to find uh a vehicle for him to buy uh after he landed said he needed a van um station wagon or a you know a big car that several people could fit in and I was under the impression they were on leave and uh and they were going to Pensacola um to

meet some friends um he he did mention about going to Pensacola for a UFO convention Stan's comments were published in a Florida paper under the headline six soldiers here to kill Antichrist whether these headlines were intended to be serious or just shocking enough to sell papers in an amongst the flurry a bizarre and often conflicting testimony there was at least one claim that gave investigators cause for a legitimate concern according to a renowned ufologist jacqu fet during the investigation a rather Insidious rumor was gathering Headway in the local UFO Community one that depicted the Gulf

Breeze 6's Mission with a much darker intent in a letter received from Georgia State muon the state's Mutual UFO Network the organization's director Larry heand had conveyed some alarming information Larry was a personal contact of jacqu valet evidently during the course of the investigation Larry had been contacted by an anonymous source who worked at Fort Benning in Georgia in the letter that Larry received this person claimed to have conducted examinations on the six Soldiers the Anonymous contact stated that during their interviews at least two of the soldiers their names withheld stated that one of their

reasons for being in Gulf Breeze was to find Ed Walters the man who had kicked off the UFO crate 2 and 1/2 years earlier with his UFO photos according to this letter the Gulf Breeze 6 believed that Ed Walters was in fact the Antichrist that the spirits had been warning them about and that he was the one responsible for bringing the UFOs to the Skies over Gulf Breeze the letter asserted that the group's intention was in no uncertain terms to murder Ed Walters when confronted with these claims however the soldiers denied the allegations as ludicrous

while they did believe that an antichrist would surface such an event wasn't going to occur for another 8 years according to the spirit Sapphire's prophetic statements the Army's investigation ultimately failed to surface any real evidence suggesting a plot to commit murder the conspicuous letter sent to Larry heab brand from his Anonymous Fort Benning contact was ultimately considered completely unfounded [Music] much to the surprise of everyone following the story by the end of the month of July 1990 the military investigation into the Gulf Breeze 6 came to a sudden and abrupt close one article published on

July 28 read Washington six US soldiers who left their Military Intelligence post in West Germany and told friends they were going to rendevu with Jesus Christ and UFOs have been discharged from the army they have been released from their military obligation and they are civilians again an army spokesman major Joseph aled said Friday but that's just the thing after finding no evidence of Espionage the six soldiers were quickly offered a non-judicial punishment under the charges of desertion the military quickly ended the investigation the were reduced to the lowest Rank and forfeited half a month's pay

and then they were released from military service with what is widely reported as honorable discharges it didn't help alleviate the strangeness of the whole thing when despite the vast amounts of media coverage devoted to the gulf Brie 6 in the aftermath of their arrest even after the investigation came to a close the Army continued to offer no comments or information on the case a pentagon spokesman evidently stated that six were members of a group called the end of the world but the statement was later retracted saying that there was no such group and even when

the case was eventually Declassified 1,400 pages of the military's 1600 page report were redacted kept from public view people who took interest in the story began to wonder if the military actually had something to hide or if they were just too embarrassed to openly admit that something this outlandish happened within the ranks of their own servicemen likewise most members of the Gulf Breeze 6 and their known Affiliates have refused to speak with the media about the ordeal leaving newspapers and tabloid journalists to fill in the blanks in the years that have followed numerous theories surrounding

the case continue to circulate in media and online forums with some even speculating that the soldiers were the witing subjects of military psychic experimentation although we only have Davis's word for it along with many other fascinating claims when he later published his writings he does suggest that they may have been part of an experiment as even some observers noted at the time when their story hit the press something that only adds to the mystery is that a few days before their release from confinement at Fort Knox an anonymous letter was sent to several major news

outlets and the US Army which read the following ABC NBC CBS AP UPI US Army free the Gulf Breeze 6 we have the missing plans the box of 500 Plus photos and the plans you want back here is proof with close-ups cut out next we send the close-ups and then everything unless they are [Music] released theorists have often pointed to this as proof that the gulf Bree 6 had in fact tapped into something legitimate with their psychic dabbling possibly even obtaining classified government knowledge on UFOs or psychic research but again now over 30 years later

the story is fraught with contradictions wild assertions and otherwise a difficult to follow path of information from various sources what is known is that the Fallout from the ordeal weighed heavily on the members of Gulf Bree 6 whatever LED them to abandon their post whether Spirits or not their military careers their professional reputations and personal relationships were irreparably damaged while not much is known about what became of most of them Vance Davis remained quite vocal about his experience and beliefs publishing a book in 1995 detailing the events of the Gulf Breeze 6 which is titled

unbroken promises a true story of courage and belief the book by Davis includes various predictions including the earthquakes and political events that Sapphire told him about Davis even claimed to have predicted the Gulf War but was later questioned about the specificity and timing of this prediction many of Davis's predictions were criticized for being vague or easily derived from current events at the time Davis appeared on the Coast to Coast AM radio program with Art Bell in 1994 and 1998 to share his story his final interview does seem to be one of his last public appearances

it has been suggested that perhaps as Sapphire's predictions of the coming apocalypse failed to materialize in the next 3 years by 1998 Vance Davis also chose to distance himself from the public eye whatever you think about it the Gulf Breeze 6's story is certainly one of the most bizarre cases of desertion to come out of the US military its outlandish nature continues to baffle and enthrall Supernatural researchers well into the 21st century and as demonstrated by the Marine Corps engineer school on Camp leun who banned the use of them outright in 2013 it wouldn't be

the last time American servicemen would attempt to use Ouija boards to speak with something on the other side which then resulted in bad things happening hey guys thanks for sticking around for the after action here in the credits I do have a couple of personal stories to share uh with this one I actually grew up in the Gulf Breeze area and I was a kid at the time that all these events were taking place in the early 90s so it's just interesting to me that the kind of stuff that either my parents just weren't paying

attention to it just it's I I'm just shocked that I didn't hear something about this sooner because I only found out about this very recently so there's a lot of interesting history to Pensacola uh both for myself of course having lived there and also because I was an Intel Marine you know I became Recon right I went to a radio Battalion and I signed up for the radio reconnaissance platoon but my training was done in Pensacola Florida my signals intelligence training and so this story just kind of really hit a lot of notes for me

and resonated with my experience in being in Pensacola and just like wow this actually happened in the same place that I grew up and then went for my military training and and also it has an interesting connection to the channel because the first episode I ever did on the channel the ghost blimp well the Gondola from the blimp the passenger compartment that those two guys fell out of that is actually now on display in the Naval Air Station Pensacola Museum the Naval Air and Space Museum that I used to go to for field trips I

I chose the blimp story completely at random and just to have that kind of connecting factor that it was there the gondola didn't end up at the museum until I was already in the Marines actually but me and my buddy Sean we actually wanted to go to the museum CU I was like dude there's like this really cool Museum down the street uh that we can go check out well when we got there it was closed so we never even got to go in the museum um and then we had to get a taxi off

base and we're telling them where to pick us up and there's a lighthouse on the base and we're trying to tell the taxi driver we're at the Lighthouse like he's like where and we're like dude like how many lighthouses do you know of we're on the Naval Air Base at the Lighthouse come find us but yeah otherwise the stories I have growing up in Florida are just one uh when I was I don't know how old I was maybe like 10 I went to go hang out at my friend's house his name was Thad and

we were exploring out in the woods and speaking speaking of gullible I guess here here is me outing myself as being a gullible kid because I was very trusting of my friend Thad we were best friends since like second grade and he took me to a creek that a lot of people were throwing trash in I realize that now but at the time it looked like I don't know some Pirate Treasure Trove of just like different objects and things like I you know when you're a kid you don't care that much about pollution I guess

well my friend Thad pointed at this like pile of rubbish or something that was in the it was probably an old mattress that had been like just like falling apart and I don't know what it was it was a pile of rubbish and he told me that that was actually the decomposed body of a civil war soldier who had been killed and he had been stabbed and then they left the knife in his body and that's where he died and I'm trying to remember exactly what he told me but in my little 10-year-old brain I

really wanted that knife I wanted the knife like I you know I was a kid you parents didn't let you have pocket knives cuz they're dangerous I wanted the knife it was like just this I became obsessed with getting the knife you know I didn't go get it then we we just we we continued just playing in the woods and having lightsaber battles and whatever we were doing but when I got home that night I told my parents hey sad told me that there is a dead body in this Creek and it's got a knife

and I want it you know I I you know and we were going to pick up a pizza that night so my dad I'm 10 years old I have no idea how much my parents are laughing behind my back my brother too my my older brother got in on this joke because he went with me he didn't want to go but then when he found out that dad was going to take me to the to the to the Dead Man's Creek to look for the knife he had to go to be there to see like

just to point out how stupid I was and so we go to the creek and sure enough we go and my dad just point it's just I suddenly it's like I was living in an imaginary world while I was you know with that because suddenly I realized he like yeah this is all just trash like dad lied to me and I I confronted him in school the next day and I said dude how could you lie to me and he's like you were dumb enough to believe me uh my dad when I got home that

day and I told him what that said he just laughed I remember he laughed so hard he's like cuz he was already laughing at me but yeah when when he heard that that's what Dad said that was his response well you were dumb enough to believe me so yes I my dad my dad thoroughly tried to convince me leaving the house son there is no dead body in that Creek I assure you your friend is just pulling your leg that kind of thing but I was I was adamant I had to get that knife the

other story happened before I remember anything sometime in the 80s but we lived close to the water my mom my dad was at work my dad worked out of the house he was at work my mom was home alone with us the kids and she recounted this to me somewhat recently in the last couple of years and it was just this wild story middle of the day broad daylight she looks she happens to be walking through the house she's doing laundry or something and she looks out the front window and she SE somebody run past

the front of the house her first assumption is that like delivery driver neighborhood kids something like that but then she catches a glimpse of somebody else standing outside the window she sees that he's wearing all black he is like full military kit the way she described it and he's got he's got a weapon he's got a of some kind and he's I don't know if he was wearing a mask or he was wearing something concealing his face but my mom realizes that there are armed men outside of our house she she panicked my dad wasn't

home she didn't know what to do so the first thing she did was she grabbed me and my siblings and she took us into the laundry room which didn't have any windows and she just started praying long story short she we just hid in the laundry room for like I don't know a couple hours or something something until she didn't hear any Windows breaking nobody broke into the house or something but she went out and they were gone my dad came home from work and she's just in just terrified and he's like what happened and

she's trying to explain this I guess and you m what do you think right you call the cops or were they cops or what was this like so no idea but that was again something that I didn't remember my mom had to share that with me years later but weird stuff going on in the Gulf Breeze area which incidentally was a civil war Battleground um in many loc Confederates and and and Union soldiers fighting there so all right well that's all I got about Gul Breeze very interesting story hope that you enjoyed listening to it

if you haven't heard it before let me know in the comments I had never heard this story before I found it thank you for listening thank you for watching as always a huge shout out to both my patrons and YouTube channel members and everyone who supports the channel in some way through buying merchandise or making donations you have gotten us here to this point we are going to be working even harder going into this year so thank you so much for your continued support oh and if you are of the Christian faith rest assured nowhere

in scripture has God ever spoken to anyone through a Ouija board just going to put that out there whenever God has wanted to speak to someone he is very direct whether it be through His prophets through a burning bush or even the mouth of a donkey if needed but otherwise no matter who you are may God be with you no matter what battle you are fighting right right now and I will see you in the next episode