Sunday, December 27, 2009

Eerie outpost unnerves US Marines with strange lights and whispers in the night

Sunday, December 27, 2009 5:11:03 PM



The Marines found the bone as they scraped a shallow trench. Long, dry and unmistakably once part of a human leg, it was followed by others. They reburied most of them but also found bodies. Three of the graves were close together; in another was a skeleton still wearing a pair of glasses. The Marines covered the grave and told their successors to stay away from it. Observation Point Rock sits a few hundred metres south east of Patrol Base Hassan Abad, where a company from 2/8 Marines has been stationed for the past seven months. It is a lonely...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6969122.ece