10 Strangest Vietnam War Unsolved Mysteries

8. The Bird Woman Of Da Nang

Operation Wandering Soul
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It is August 1969. Earl Morrison and his comrades are on guard duty. They are straining every sense they have to keep watch for the enemy. Everything was quiet until around 1:30 AM. That’s when the men of the US 1st Marine division saw an odd shape in the night.

The shape was a giant form with the wings of a bat, but then it got closer. The Marines could see that it had the body of a naked woman, except it was totally black. It emitted a strange glow as it came closer to the men. Morrison said that it came to just 10 feet away from them before flying off towards their camp.

Morrison later talked to some locals about the event. They told him about the legends of these creatures and how they usually carry off people to feast on. Morrison was understandably unwilling to talk about this event until years after it. With reports of similar creatures coming from across the world, is there the possibility of a new species? After all, why would a group of battle-hardened marines lie about such a thing?

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