Shaking America

Ghosts in the Jungle: Operation Wandering Soul

Season 1 Episode 41

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During the Vietnam War the United States military attempted a strange form of psychological warfare.  Hoping to demoralize and terrify the Viet Cong, American forces used helicopter-mounted speakers to project ghostly screams, distorted Buddhist chants and fabricated sounds of dead Vietnamese soldiers begging for a proper burial.