Haunted Campbell
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Editor Jenelle Grewell
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Photography Jenelle Grewell Paula Hallett CynDe Clack Tara Goodson Fort Campbell ODR
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Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday. The haunted houses, the scary movies, the costumes, the bats, the skeletons, the black cats, the ghosts, the witches and I could go on and on! Since Halloween is in October, it almost goes without saying that October is one of my favorite months and of course MWR has tons of fun things to do. Stop by the Robert F. Sink Memorial Library and check out some of their spooky books or read about Fort Campbell’s own hauntings. Want to step away from the Halloween stuff? Gear to Go is having Fall and Winter specials on their boats and campers that are scary good. Use those good deals to go on vacation for Fall Break and utilize our Dog Kennels to take good care of your pooch while you are gone. Whatever you plan to do for the tspookiest month of the year, make sure you stay in touch with MWR. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Jenelle Grewell, Editor Youtube or sign up for our eNews! Happy Haunting! fortcampbellmwrlife@gmail.com
Comments? Questions? Anything you want to see? Email us at fortcampbellmwrlife@gmail.com Disclaimers: Fort Campbell’s MWR Life Magazine is a monthly magazine produced by the Fort Campbell MWR Marketing Department under the authority of AR 215-1. Facilities and activities publicized are open to authorized patrons.The mention or appearance of commercial advertisers, commercial sponsors and/or their logos does not constitute endorsement by the Federal Government. The information in this issue is current at the time of publication; activities and events are subject to change. MWR Marketing is located at 5663 Screaming Eagle Blvd, Fort Campbell, Kentucky. For more information, call 270.798.7535. Visit www.campbell.armymwr.com. 24hr. event line - 270-798-3172 www.facebook.com/fortcampbellmwr
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By Jenelle Grewell
With Halloween right around the corner, ghosts and ghost stories are a popular topic. Fort Campbell has some ghost stories of its own. But no need to call Ghost Busters! All of the spooks have been harmless. The Warrior Zone The Warrior Zone isn’t just home to tons of video games and yummy food but it may also be the residence of a helpful ghost. Rena from MWR told a story from when The Warrior Zone used to be Champion’s Sports Club. One day the back door from the kitchen to the loading dock flew open and a rolling trashcan from within the kitchen started to move. The trashcan rolled out the door and down a flight of stairs. Maybe it was just the wind? Maybe! But…the trashcan had to turn corners to get out the door and when it went down the flight of stairs, it didn’t even tip over! Quite a few people were witness to this display. “We were all in such shock!” Rena exclaimed. It sounds to me like the ghost was just trying to help take out the trash. Rena has also heard voices. “But it could just be the radio or a car passing by,” she suggested. Another MWR employee said she has also heard things in The Warrior Zone. She shared that she will see shadows and hear people in the kitchen drop things but then go back there to find the room empty. “I see somebody move. The jukebox is lit up and sometimes it goes black as if someone stepped in front of it,” the employee described. The Warrior Zone’s stage seems to host a spotlight-hungry ghost. Alberto, an past MWR employee, told a tale of a Christmas party when he witnessed a black mass move across the stage but no one was actually there. “It looked so real!” he said. Another MWR employee said she would be in her office with the door closed and she would hear the sound of someone stepping on the stage. When she would call out to find out who else was in the building with her, she would get no response. “I do think The Warrior Zone is haunted,” she admitted.
Campbell Crossing It is not just MWR facilities that have stories of haunting, a few residents of Fort Campbell have haunting stories as well. Alberto said neighbors of his would give their son his pacifier at night before bed and their son would wake up crying. The neighbors would look for his pacifier but could not find it anywhere and they always found it sitting on a shelf in their pantry. There is no way the baby could have put his pacifier there. Seems like a ghost who enjoyed playing pranks on the residents of Fort Campbell.
Gate 10 Bridge The bridge at Gate 10 is also reported to be haunted and if you visit ghostsofamerica.com, you can see a photo of what appears to be a ghost under the bridge. One MWR employee said he hears Soldiers talk about hearing stuff all the time at the edge of the woods by Gate 10. “We are close to so many grave yards,” was his reasoning.
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Even our own MWR administrative building has a few ghost stories! Tara from MWR Marketing told an account of when she first started working at MWR. She was alone at the end of the work day and checking to make sure the door was locked when she heard voices and what sounded like bowling pins being knocked down. She rechecked the entire building but found no one. It was most likely the sound of ghosts bowling! It wasn’t until Tara told her tale to coworkers that she even found out that it used to be a bowling alley. Tara and CynDe, another member of the marketing department, told a story about hearing voices and the sounds of a door opening and closing one night while they stayed late in the building painting. They checked and they were the only people in the building. Well…the only alive people…
But why? But what could be causing all this ghost activity on Fort Campbell? The rich and extensive history of Fort Campbell might have something to do with the hauntings of Fort Campbell. Fort Campbell is home to more than 130 distinct burial locations and it is reported that more than 1,000 people are buried here. People buried on Fort Campbell range from World War II German Soldiers to community members to Family members. The diverse type of burial grounds could be the reason behind the many different types of paranormal activity reported. With so much diverse history, Fort Campbell may be home to multiple different types of hauntings. There is generally considered to be four different types of haunting – intelligent haunting, residual haunting, poltergeists, and entity hauntings. I wonder which are the most common of Fort Campbell?
Types of Hauntings The residual haunting is the most common type of haunting. The easiest way to describe this haunting is that is an imprint of energy on an area. Certain images or sounds may be replayed over and over and it is almost like the area has an old film loop or “gif”. People will report sounds like footsteps, breathing, music or apparitions that are most likely seen doing the same thing over and over. It is like certain events that happened in an area such as a battle or a ball is remembered and the energy is replayed. While these hauntings may not have an actual spirit causing the activity, it doesn’t stop it from being any less creepy. The intelligent haunting or intelligent ghost, are ghosts or spirits that can communicate and interact with human beings. This ghost is the leftover personality of the person who passed on and generally reflects who they were in life. They often seek the attention of living people and do this by turning things on and off, hiding objects, moving things and other behavior that may be considered annoying. These are generally rare hauntings. It seems as though most of the paranormal activity reported around Fort Campbell are residual or the work of a harmless intelligent ghost. For more information about the different types of hauntings, one can simply take to their internet search engine for plenty of information. Do you feel scared yet? For more ghost stories of Fort Campbell, visit ghostsofamerica.com. The website is host to more than 30 pages of ghost stories by residents, Soldiers and employees at Fort Campbell. The tales range from apparitions to strange noises and voices to electronics doing bizarre things to objects being moved seemingly on their own. If ghost stories are your thing and you love to be spooked, then Fort Campbell is definitely the place to be. Disclaimer: This story was just for fun. This is not an endorsement of any of the ghost stories or information we shared.
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Halloween Reads Waiting for You at Sink Library by James Moore Halloween is fast approaching, and it’s time to head to the Robert F. Sink Library to check out some shocking tales guaranteed to give the reader a delicious sense of terror for the holiday. While costumes and treats occupy center stage these days, the roots of Halloween lie in ancient tales of ghosts and other supernatural creatures. When patrons ask “Do you have a scary section?” staff members have to reply that they have creepy reads in a variety of sections in the library.
Southern Spooks The ghost story is the foundation of all literature relating to Halloween. These legends began centuries ago in the Celtic traditions of the British Isles and the nearby Scandinavian countries. Based on oral traditions passed on from generation to generation, stories of ghosts and goblins came to America with the earliest colonists. This tradition has remained strong in the South. Many communities hold ghost walks or cemetery tours around Halloween. Starting in the nineteenth century, folklorists began collecting these stories and publishing them. Nearby Adams, Tennessee had the Bell Witch, who had an encounter with no less a person than Andrew Jackson. Sink Library holds a rich trove on this topic including: “Season of the Bell Witch” by Troy Taylor, • “An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch” by M.V. Ingram “The Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee” by Charles Edwin Price • “Atlas of Cursed Places” by Olivier Le Carrer
Other local folklore collections include “Ghost Stories of Tennessee” by A.S. Mott, • “Ghost Railroads of Tennessee” by Elmer Griffith Sulzer “Haunted Tennessee” by Charles Edwin Price • “Haints, Witches and Boogers” by Charles Edwin Price The Dewey section 133 contains a host of ghost stories from around the world. These include: “Natural History of Ghosts” by Roger Clarke, • “Ghosts Along the Texas Coast” by Docia Schultz Williams “Haunted Britain and Ireland” by Richard Glyn James • “The Ghostly Register” by Arthur Myers “Haunted Plantations of the South” by Richard Southall • “Hauntings” from Time-Life Books.
Famous Horror Authors With such a strong tradition of ghostly doings in their popular culture, it was inevitable that the British would invent the literary ghost story. The most popular, of course, is Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”. A host of writers on both sides of the Atlantic perfected this genre over the 19th century. It was a short distance from the literary ghost story to the full-blown tales of horror. Edgar Allen Poe’s stories and Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” were precursors for this type in the Victorian era. However, the genre came into full flower in the 20th century. The reader will instantly recognize these authors whose works occupy many shelves in the fiction section. Works by Ray Bradbury found in the R.F. Sink Library are: “Something Wicked This Way Comes” • “From the Rust Returned” • “The October Country”. In the second half of the century, Stephen King achieved international best-seller status and some of his noted works found in our library include: “Carrie” • “It” • “The Stand” • “The Shining” among many others. Equally impressive was Dean Koontz and you can check out a few of his books in our library including: “The Taking” • “The Bad Place” • “Midnight” Anne Rice carved out her own empire with tales of vampires in “Interview with a Vampire”, “The Vampire Lestat” and “The Queen of the Damned”. Rice had the ability to create a unique atmosphere and then sustain it with suspense to the end of the book. Her “Interview with a Vampire” was also made into a popular Hollywood movie with Tom Cruise.
Horror as a Science Last but not least are the works by psychical researchers, who investigate ghost stories and paranormal occurrences as a science. These are found in the 001 area and can cover everything from ghost hunters, UFOs, Bigfoot, Yeti to the Bermuda Triangle. A sampling of titles here includes: “Monster Hunters” by Tea Krulos • “UFOs and UFOology: The First 50 Years” by Paul Devereux • “UFOs and How To See Them” by Jenny Randles Also, the audio-visual collection contains the DVD “Ghost Hunters Live from the Stanley Hotel”.
No matter what your age or taste, Robert F. Sink Memorial Library is guaranteed to have something that will scare the daylights out of you just in time for Halloween. The facility is open seven days a week including evening hours on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. For more information please call (270) 798-5729. http://campbell.armymwr.com/us/campbell/programs/robert-f-sink-memorial-library
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Southern Buffet Offers a Variety of Tasty Daily Specials No matter what you are in the mood for, Cole Park Commons Southern Buffet is sure to satisfy your taste buds at least one day a week! With their daily rotating buffet specials, you are sure to never get bored. Of course, you can still try their classic fried catfish, chicken and southern fixings every day along with their amazing full soup, salad and dessert bar every day.
Monday: Mexican Tuesday: Southern Comforts
Wednesday: Pasta Bar Thursday: All-American Monday through Friday: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All-You-Care-To-Eat-Buffet (Buffet, Soup & Salad Bar, and Beverage): $10.25 All-You-Care-To-Eat Soup & Salad Bar (Beverage Included): $7.95 Kids Buffet (Beverage Included): $.75 cents per year of age (up to age 12) Location: 1610 101st Airborne Division Rd. For more information: (270) 798-4610x319 campbell.armymwr.com/us/campbell/programs/southern-buffet
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Test Your Skill
Challenge Course If you have utilized Gate 10, chances are you have seen the Challenge Course. Did you know the course is a great option for team building and unit cohesion? The Challenge Course consists of five different elements: The Carolina T Wall: almost 50 feet of eight different faces that features a realistic style of rock climbing. The Alpine Tower: a vertical 50 foot obstacle course where participants can work as a team or by themselves to climb to multiple cargo nets, ropes, poles and hanging ladders. The Giant Swing: a part of the Alpine Tower. Groups use cables to lift individual participants 30 feet before releasing in a controlled fall/swing. The Low Ropes Course: a low to the ground ropes course. The challenges include the Team Development Course, perfect for working in a group. The Odyssey Course: the largest structure with cargo nets, zip lines, sliding platforms and cables suspended in mid-air, where participants can work as a team or alone to get from one side to the other.
The challenges are meant to enhance communication, patience, trust, cooperation, group cohesion and creativity. For more information about the Challenge Course, call (270) 412-7855. campbell.armymwr.com/us/campbell/programs/challenge-course
Indoor Climbing Wall Also located in the Outdoor Recreation area, the Indoor Climbing Wall is another great opportunity for groups to try something new together! The Indoor Climbing Wall will provide equipment and instruction for all levels of experience. The weather is getting colder so it is harder to find fun and active alternatives to the traditional birthday party. The Indoor Climbing Wall is the perfect answer providing parties for all ages. Try something new for PT! Reserve the Indoor Climbing Wall and provide your unit with a physical and mental challenge. For more information about the Indoor Climbing Wall, call (270) 412-7855 campbell.armymwr.com/us/campbell/programs/challenge-course
Taking Care of Your Fur Family Attention all dogs! Need a place to stay while your Family goes on vacation? The Fort Campbell Dog Kennels has got you covered!
How much will it cost for you to stay? Deployment Special Longer than 4 weeks $250 Call for current rates at (270) 798-2629
Tuesday through Sunday: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hours: Drop off time: Tuesday through Sunday 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Pick up time: Tuesday through Sunday 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Packing List: Dog food: please ask your owner to prepackage your food in zip lock bags and the place those bags inside an air tight container. This keeps your food safe and secure! Leash and collar: this is just so your owner can get you to the kennel. Once you are inside, your leash and collar will be returned to your owner. We will use a slip lead for you during your stay. Toys: if you have a favorite hard rubber toy, bring it along for your visit! But please leave any fabric toys at home. Medications: don’t forget your medicine! Ask your owner to put your medications in a pill pocket in your dog food bags
Health: I know going to the vet is no fun but you have to go if you want to stay with us. Make sure you are up to date on your Bordetella, Parvo/Distemper and Rabies vaccines. The Bordetella vaccination needs to be updated every month because Bordetella is very contagious and we don’t want you to get sick. These will keep you and all your fellow doggie guests safe! Also get a fecal and heartworm exam before boarding with us.
Want to know more? Have your owner call us at (270) 798-2629 or visit us at 6603 11th Airborne Division Road campbell.armymwr.com/us/campbell/programs/dog-k
Things to know before boarding: We know staying in a kennel can be stressful. Try staying with us for a day or two before your owners go on an extended trip, if possible? That might get you a little more acclimated to our kennels. Learn to walk on a leash before you come visit us because we don’t want you to come into contact with too many other dogs. Also, we know seeing humans is always exciting, but please learn to not jump on humans before your stay. The staff here at the dog kennels want to ensure everyone and every dog is as safe as possible!
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Where to Eat with MWR
Monday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. 3910 Indiana Ave • (270) 461-0603 Age 18+ to enter the Warrior Zone For prices and menu, please visit campbell.armymwr.com/us/campbell/ programs/zone
Cole Park Commons Southern Buffet Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 101st Airborne Division Road • (270)798-4610 All-You-Care-To-Eat-Buffet $10.25 All-You-Care-To-Eat Soup & Salad Bar $7.95 Kids Buffet $.75 per year of age (up to age 12) Mondays: Mexican Buffet Tuesday: Southern Comforts Wednesday: Pasta Bar Thursday: All American Buffet Friday: Seafood Bar
Hooper Bowling Center Sunday through Tuesday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. Saturday 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Breakfast served all day! For prices and menu, please visit campbell.armymwr.com/us/campbell/programs/ hooper-bowling-cente
The Smokehaus 6633 Sportsman’s Lane (270) 798-4993 Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Lunch Adult $10.25 Children (4-11) $5.95 Children 3 and under Free Dinner Adult $11.25 Children (4-11) $5.95 Children 3 and under Free Sunday Brunch Adult $11.25 Children (4-11) $5.95 Children 3 and under Free Monday: Pulled Pork & Lasagna Tuesday: Smoked Sausage & Baked Cod Wednesday: Smoked Turkey Breast & Glazed Ham Thursday: Pulled Pork & Home-style Meatloaf Friday: Smoked Chicken & Fried Shrimp Saturday: Smoked Sausage & Roast Beef Sunday: Smoked Beef Brisket & Baked Chicken