Soldiers Encounter… Something | Shapeshifters

[Laughter] with its picturesque gently Rolling Hills dark forests and Gothic castles it's no surprise that Germany has served as the backdrop for some of literature's most iconic fairy tales drawing on the incredibly Rich folklore of their native land authors like Jacob and William Grim brought to life Timeless stories of evil witches Noble Heroes beautiful princesses and terrible monsters such stories were born out of a time when maning wolves took on public personas as being The Reincarnation of evil men such as the wolf who terrified the people of ansbach in 1865 until they captured him dressed

him in a man's clothes and then hung him like a criminal it's no surprise then that in many children's tales the malevolent Force often comes in the form of a devious wolf to better Aid in its deceptive ways the wolf will often mask its evil Intentions by adopting a physical disguise or most interestingly shape-shifting to assume the form of a normal man we see this in many German folk tales like the Werewolf of andak the Werewolf of ponet and the white wolf of the hearts mountains stories about men being Afflicted with lycanthropy because they have

been cursed but fantastic stories of supernatural beings lurking in European forests are of course only believable when read to small children certainly such creatures have long been understood to be figments of human imagination why then do the following stories from military AED men serving in various regions of Germany over the last 40 years seem to cast doubt on that presumption to the contrary the these men insist they saw something that terrified them out of their wits for want of a better word because the creatures they saw vary in appearance we might call them shape shifters

but the Germans might call them by another name Al hooker in essence at least according to the kurai people of neighboring Poland a skinwalker this is a smoke pit and these are true stories of skinwalkers in [Music] Germany claw marks on the generator sergeant Sergeant ah K chaer how did the repairs go did you manage to get some fixed negative Sergeant perhaps you would need to come and see this the generator has been damaged Sergeant damaged by v i i I'm nied sure Sergeant it looks like it's a slashed maybe an animal or something but

the deal an animal Sergeant I I wasn't sure to make it but so so it's damaged until unable to repair it affirmative Sergeant what can we do well the most we can do is tell the base comment uh and put someone to guard the door have the generator replaced um good thing reporting this Cadet chaer but uh back to training M Alis yes sergeant of course the following account was shared with the Paranormal scholar by a man named Adolf schaer a soldier who at the time of his writing was serving in the German bundes the

Armed Forces considering he uses the term East Germany but provides no exact date the first impression we got was that his story took place in possibly the80s before the German reunification after the Berlin Wall fell however considering he also stated that he was a felt or Sergeant at the time of his writing which had to have been submitted in the last 10 years it also gives the impression that the story has taken place much more recently so perhaps he simply meant he was training in the east of Germany in the same way an American Soldier

might say that they are stationed in the eastern United States whatever the case he recounts to us an unnerving encounter he had during his time in basic training he writes I am not easily scared when my experience occurred I was a Cadet in boot camp in East Germany it was around 5:00 in the afternoon we were doing drill courses whilst the base was having technical problems with the electric grid which was uncommon considering it had just been inspected days earlier and nothing I noticed that time was really that odd except a few of us kept

hearing these very unexplainable noises coming from one of the head buildings nearby where the water is kept during 5-minute breaks but skip ahead a few hours to around 8:00 the power was going in and out again and the drill sergeant had told me and three others to go fix it so me and the others grabbed flashlights and tools and went to the basement where the generators are located we found the first backup generator and it was turned off but operable as expected it was the same with the second generator the third generator was the largest

main source of power on the base the first thing I noticed were the scratches this seemingly super hardto break hunk of metal had what I think were scratches and cuts claw marks piercing its outer metal shell like a Buzz saw so deep the scratches had cut the cords inside and had damaged the batteries as though they were paper after a moment of thinking I knew this couldn't have been a person doing this seeing as nothing any Cadet had could cut through that tough metal so easily I immediately rushed up the stairs to tell my drill

sergeant hoping he would know what to do he told me the most we can do is tell base command and put someone to guard the door and have the generator replaced good thing reporting this could at Schaefer schaer after receiving a pat on the back and Commendation for his report was then told to resume his daily training activities which went without further incident still the nonchalant displayed by his Sergeant at being told that someone or some kind of animal had ripped through one of the the base's power generators did little to quell the young cadet's

concerns at best there was an apparent sabot running a muck on their base at worst well he didn't like to think about it as the sun set and the cadets retired to their bunks Schaefer must have drifted off into what was an uneasy sleep and it didn't last long he continues some hours later sometime in the night I can't be exactly sure when I heard scratching noises but not from the basement they were too close and too loud as if they were in the sleeping quarters after that moment of realization I open my eyes and

I look around and I saw what I thought was someone in the corner going through a bag but when I looked around the rest of the room sheer error came into me because all the other bunks were full everyone so I thought to myself wait the hell but then as if it had heard what I was thinking this thing what I thought was a person in the corner turned to face me it was pale gray with no nose and had claws like razors this thing was skinny and at least 2 feet taller than my 6ot

self after that I just froze in a Blank Stare of horror and in my mind seconds turn to minutes minutes to hours and hours turned into what felt like days ultimately I think I passed out in Terror because all I remember after that is waking up to my buddies and Sergeant looking at me while talking to me telling me I looked sick and I felt sick too like all energy from me was drained for days on end I swear during my entire military career I have never been so afraid since that [Music] night even in

my own mundane military experience being in the Marines boot camp can get weird at night sleeping in a large open Squad Bay with a concrete floor we would always hear the occasional recruit crying in his sleep or waking up Suddenly and screaming II sir um but after a long day of marching studying and generally being run into the ground every day by our drill instructors sleep was a precious thing to have the only things that ever woke me up were severe leg cramps uh needing to use the head or having a red light shined in

my eyes and being told hey you got firat uh there was a time when the drill instructor started screaming at a kid who they caught writing letters to his girlfriend while sitting on the toilet there was a guy in the bunk next to mine he had caught pink ey like most of us and they'd given him some saline eye drops to kind of help alleviate it well he woke up with his eyes all crusty I guess in the middle of the night and went to reach for his eye drop bottle he grabbed a small bottle

of rifle cleaning fluid and he put that in his eye I thought somebody was stabbing him right he's screaming like crazy um and we also had one strange guy which I think every platoon must have once the lights were off it was probably the first week we were in boot camp I heard this like this weird sound and I turn over the side of my bunk to see what the what the sound is cuz it's getting closer and I see this guy pop out basically upside down from my perspective from underneath the bunk next to

me I was the last bunk on the row so he's made it all the way to the end and he's like spidermanning himself underneath the bunks like dragging his back across the floor I like why like what are you doing like go to bed and he just Smiles at me and he goes hey and proceeds to pull himself back under the bed and then disappear I I don't even remember in my mind who it was like you'd think that I was probably very tired but You' think you'd remember like which guy was that like the

next day I don't remember but yeah just some weird guy in our platoon that would do that on a nightly basis um harmless but still creepy with respect to Sergeant schaer he also said that he was awoken by something making noise in his birthing that night and like the stories I shared regardless of how bizarre it was he assures us that he's certain of what he saw but like many unexplained encounters I don't doubt that this will be written off by many as a dream we've all had nightmares that felt as if we were truly

living them and what a relief right it was to finally wake up it doesn't explain what he saw previously in the day along with two other Cadets and reported to his drill sergeant about the generator being slashed open but for the sake of argument even if it was merely a dream or perhaps a vision of some kind such a surreal experience is arguably no less terrifying but we will come to find out that Schaefer's experience is not at all that unique delving into the realm of German Legends and folklore we come upon a creature known

locally as the Al huler said to be found skullking in the night around Bridges cemeteries and Forest paths the AL hooker or hookup is a malevolent demonic entity that is known to take many physical forms in Regional Tales the AL Hoka is said to be a huge black vampiric dog which walks on its hind legs and singles out those people who travel alone at night depending on its chosen prey however the off hauler will morph its size and shape accordingly in order to overpower their helpless victim Beyond its wolfish facade this entity has also been

known to assume other physical forms including that of a beautifully seductive woman sounds like the kitsun in the Japanese lore something like that and the gray ghoulish appearance of an undead corpse it's name translated from German as leap upon is indicative of the Demon's preferred method of attack once their target is chosen often a criminal thief or some sort of wrongdoer the AL huler will jump onto their backs latching on with an unbreakable death grip their prey caught off guard and panicked will soon be drained of all energy in their attempts to resist just ties

in with what schaer said about losing of his energy at least in some respect considering the creatures are said to have some perception of a person's criminal history this would seem to merely be a work of fiction meant to instill superstitious fears in children at a young age of the dangers of walking alone at night and certainly to stop them from stealing in other Renditions however the creatures are far more animalistic in their blood lust after latching onto their victim's back instead of gradually wearing them down the AL hauler will use its claws and fangs

to Maul the defenseless human's throat ripping it to shreds as their target then drowns in their own blood while looking into this malevolent entity commonly spoken of in dramatic folklore it does make Adolf schaer's story all the more intriguing with the creatur's ghoulish appearance combined with its notable set of claws as recalled in the Sergeant's story we must ask what interest would such a creature have in prowling German military bases and slashing their generators but if the next story is worth its salt it would appear that such creatures are by no means strangers to encounters

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you to all of my loyal viewers and now listeners of wartime Stories the night stag H sometimes I think I should have had a pilot hey flying cabs must be nice uh you'd think so but I don't have the brains for it and as I say it's not a matter of if you crash it's when true words Sage advice you seen the new flick yet ragers of The Last Arc I haven't I've been me to take the wife once we off rotation why you seen it how was it it's not bad it's got that pun

solo bloke in it and connory and Nazis left just wait till you find out um uh I shouldn't spoil it for you but you are not going to bit hang on I'm here what is it something about the film no what what's wrong do you do you see that over there by the tree line about uh egging me just out who the hell is that more like what the hell is that it's got to be a person standing upright costume oric Twi too early for Halloween mate that's that's an animal of some [Music] kind in

the early 1980s the Cold War now simmering for the better part of 40 years had the forces of NATO and the Soviet Union teetering on the edge of an allout War while looming hypothetical world war3 was largely thought to be determined by the thousands of nuclear warheads leveled at one another across the Iron Curtain the armies of the Free World at this time deployed millions of troops to Western Europe working alongside Regional and international allies these troops prepared and trained for this coming War intending to be the rock that would break the coming red tide

for a young British soldier named Francis all of this only meant countless hours of overnight drills in preparation for a mighty struggle that would ultimately never come on one such night in 1981 Francis then stationed in West Germany tells us that he found himself in an open field some 60 Mi south of the city of detmold with the help of another Soldier these two men were tasked with establishing an hlz a helicopter landing Zone in order for their units Squadron to practice some routine night touch and goes Landings and takeoffs that afternoon they arrived at

this field which was commonly used for military exercises and went about the procedures as they had done dozens of times before without incident as it got dark and the Crickets came out the Stillness of the night was only occasionally interrupted by the comings and goings of the helicopters with little else to do but to stand by the field and observe these helicopter exercises until they were concluded Francis and his friend did what all true Brits do when they had a bit of downtime they made tea and casual conversation something to keep them warm against the

chilly night air as yet one more helicopter touched down and lifted back off into the sky the sound of its rotor blades Rippling off into the distance the two tomies were once again left alone on the desolate Landing zone or so they thought around 1:30 a.m. as the two men eagerly awaited for the arriv of the final helicopter so they could pack up and leave one of the men spotted something on the far side of the landing Zone Francis recounts what he saw I looked to where he was pointing and standing on the edge of

the woods about 80 M across the clearing was a figure it was a full moon so it was quite bright and stood out easy to see it stood on two legs about 7 or 8 ft tall it had yellow ey shine and the body kind of shimmered in the Moonlight it made no sound and it just really put the shits up us it just stood there watching us we then Heard the Last Cab getting closer to us coming in for a landing and at that point this thing then dropped onto all fours and backed back

into the woods as soon as that cab left we packed up and were out of there we had a track to drive down to get back to the main road and we must have done that at 60 M an hour to get out of there we never said anything to anyone as it's not the thing to do Brave Soldier fighting the Russian hordes but being frightened of the woods is not the image you want to give but after that night I avoided doing night landing sites and never felt comfortable in the woods on exercises doing

night Stags we both know what we saw and didn't imagine it I know Germany has a lot of werewolf encrypted stories but that night I got well and truly scared and can remember it like it was last night [Music] lying in [Music] weight for many paranormal enthusiasts or those fascinated by cryptozoology the creatures supposedly encountered in these two stories will almost certainly ring familiar with another Infamous malevolent supernatural being commonly spoken of in Native American lore it would seem that the elf Hulker despite being half a world away from the American Mainland shares more than

than a few similarities with the feared Skinwalker and possibly even another creature known as a rake or pale crawler Skin Walkers are described as evil beings or corrupt witches that have the ability to turn into possess or disguise themselves as animals while there are certainly some differences between the Skin Walkers and their German counterparts in a world Rife with strange dark and mysterious encounters they certainly seem to be cut from the same demonic cloth this is all the more interesting when considering the vast Geographic and cultural differences of these entities which has no less garnered

the attention of paranormal enthusiasts and investigators one such person a British author by the name of Lee Brickley was Keen to discover the shared connections various shape-shifting entities had in seemingly unconnected cultures all over the world he recounted his many findings in his book and titled skinwalkers traveling to Germany to follow up on leads of a few supposed Shape Shifter encounters Brickley found himself in the company of a man named Stefan RoR who alongside his family in late 2020 claimed to have also encountered one of these nefarious beings while walking in the woods Stefan along

with his wife and two young children were getting ready to go for one of their morning walks along the trails in the reand forest near their home in Brandenburg which is just a few miles from the center of Berlin oddly enough Stefan's children usually enthusiastic about adventuring in the outdoors apparently woke up that morning with a strange aversion to the forest he recalls the children usually love our walks in the forest it is their happy place but something was different that morning it was almost as if they were scared of something both were quiet and

reserved and neither wanted to venture far away from us was very out of character for them to act that way despite concern that his children may be coming down with some sort of illness the family continued with their morning ritual after all what better remedy is there for a common cold than a couple of hours breathing in some fresh air and so the RoR family made their way to the rahon forest setting off on their track along a narrow winding path as they walked further into the Woods the canopy overhead grew denser shrouding the family

Below in darkness and although Steven couldn't quite Define it something in the woods unseen or unheard now had him on edge it was his wife that saw it first freezing in her tracks her eyes fixed at a nearby point in the surrounding trees when asked what was wrong Stefan's wife in a shaking voice said that there was someone watching them from a point beyond the trees when asked what was wrong Stefan's wife in a shaking voice told him he said she stopped dead in her tracks and told me there was someone watching us from Beyond

the trees I couldn't see anyone so I told her no not to worry the children seemed to be getting more upset though and a few minutes later my wife saw the figure in the distance for a second time and refused to continue walking Stefan told his family to stay put and then walked ahead to see if he could see anyone for himself and he did he said he was a huge man crouching down with what looked like an entire wolf skin draped over his head shoulders and back he looked like something out of a Viking

movie I took a few steps closer but I stood on a stick that snapped and made a loud noise the figure in front of me turned around in an instant and I could see that it wasn't entirely human the eyes were bright yellow it looked straight at me before transforming in front of my very eyes it was almost as if the wolf skin the creature wore grew over its entire body in seconds it changed from a man into a wolf and then began running towards myself and my family I carry a hunting knife and all

I could think to do was to throw it in the direction of the Beast while he wasn't sure if he hit the thing or not throwing the knife at it was apparently enough to send this unearthly creature running back deeper into the woods leaving the knife behind Stefan and his wife scooping up their terrified children tore out of the woods as fast as they could lest this wolf or whatever it was chose to come back while the story itself was quite outlandish Brickley having spent the better part of the last few days with the family

had come to trust them if anything Stefan's retelling seemed to take an emotional toll on the man clearly calling up a memory that he would much rather leave buried with the rahan forest a mere 5 minutes down the road from the RoR household Brickley inquired about possibly going to the site where they encountered The Shape Shifter Stefan reluctantly agreed and then LED Brickley into the woods and much to their surprise they found the very hunting knife that he had talked about and chillingly its blade was covered in the unmistakable stain of dried blood realizing that

they may very well be in The Possession of some sort of crypted DNA Brickley said that he insisted on finding a local blood lab and having the knife tested not realizing at first that they might inadvertently be suspected of murder if the knife was found with human blood the final results of the blood tests were otherwise just as baffling as they were terrifying the blood lab Technic was confused according to the private company that had tested the blood samples the DNA a didn't match any animal native to German soil in fact it didn't seem to

come from any known animal in their extensive database the closest DNA match at 96% was that of the Steep wolf however this species was almost entirely confined to the region of Siberia the other side of the continent of Asia she told them such an animal being cited should be immediately reported to the authorities still she said there were notable discrepancies in its DNA profile that prohibited experts from definitively identifying it in the end the two men and the DNA experts were at a complete loss during his travels Brickley would encounter more than a handful of

individuals in Germany who would share similar stories to stefans embarking on an Excursion to Poland with a local man he met the man's sister Elsa who lived shoulder-to-shoulder with the indigenous kurai people in the white Wilderness forest in their culture they believed that such shape-shifting creatures descended from the Stars many thousands of years ago establishing themselves all over the world the white Wilderness Forest she explained served as a sort of portal for these creatures to easily access the human world in greater numbers much akin to what Skinwalker Ranch is in America according to her husband

a Corpi native the American skin walker and the beings stalking the forest were one in the same Elsa would warn Brickley that much like the Navajo and hopy tribes America the corai rarely share such tales with Outsiders fearing that the attention brought to such creatures will only increase their power and that it is best just to ignore them considering more than a few people have reported encountering such entities what can we say with its many dark forests long rumored to Harbor every kind of evil thing could the many centuries of children's Fables attributed to Germany

have some shred of Truth to them while these encounters are of course not exclusive to those serving in the military it would seem at least a couple of soldiers would say that there is with regard to their accounts Fantastical and otherworldly as they seem perhaps they are telling us the truth that the world is far stranger than we could have imagined hey guys thanks for sticking around for the after action here in the credits didn't want to forget to mention yeah don't forget to check out the podcast if you're looking for a brand new episode

after finishing this one we've got one over there uh I don't want to give it away but it's a interesting encounter in a place that I've been in the military it's another creature encounter curious what you guys will think about it but uh yeah as far as this story is concerned the creatures obviously weren't all lined up as being like dog men but I just as I kind of researched this topic with Jake I got a sense that if you look up off huler the creature it's supposed to come in different shapes and sizes like

it's a shape shifter and what you know Goblin or woman or wolf or or other creatures so I just got this sort of sense that there's no categorizing this creature we do have other dog men stories and I know bedtime stories has covered dog men creatures or werewolves in Germany and other places in Europe so it's not an uncommon phenomena to hear talked about whatever the cause is but in the case of the cadet's experience even if it is a dream you wonder spiritually speaking dreams can be influenced right let's say the Bible talks about

people having visions that were given to them and they saw a lot of strange things in those Visions but that gives you the sense that dreams and Visions kind of go hand inand you can even have a vision while you're awake so I mean whatever spiritual entity spiritual force is causing it if that is the case right we'll never understand I'm sure but these people see things they have an experience that leaves an impact on them in closing I guess I keep bumping into this as it was discussed and as I found out through the

research and reading those books that the corai people in Poland are of the opinion that the Skin Walkers in America and the creatures in Europe are one and the same so you keep bumping into that sort of all of these creatures are somehow connected or all of these creatures are of the same ilk even though they're spotted in in different countries and they're called by different names and there's a a long history of lore of encounters and things with them I'm sure that's something will keep bumping into in the future uh but thank you guys

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