The Presence

Name:            Jim Roarke
Email:           Jjroarke@aol
Location:        Adak,Alaska.
Anonymous:       No
Type:            Ghost
Date:            Saturday, January 15, 2000
Time:            09:45 PM

In 1973 I was stationed at the Naval Air Station in Adak, Ak. One morning after working the mid-night shift I went back to my room at the barracks ,which I shared with three other guys. I fell asleep in my bunk which was a top one, about five and a half feet high. I had been asleep approximately one hour when I was awoken to the feeling of a hand pressing on my back.

At first I ignored it , thinking I had been dreaming it but I was now awake and the pressure had actually started to increase. Thinking that one of my room-mates had come into the room while I was asleep and was goofing on me I suddenly swung my arm out off the bed to hit the person doing it. I swung into thin air. This really got my attention. I got up and looked around the room real carefully. The door was locked from the inside and could only be opened with a key. After convincing myself that this didn't really happen, that I was still partially asleep I went back to bed, with no further disturbances. I never said a word to my room-mates about this.

Then one morning I entered the room expecting to find one of my room-mates asleep there. He wasn't. Instead I found him in the community lounge with his blanket and pillow sleeping on the couch. I woke him up and asked why he was here? He said you're not going to believe this but early this morning I was sound asleep when all of a sudden someone or something just started punching the hell out of me, but nobody was there. So he decided to spend the night somewhere else.

Years later I learned that the Japanese had occupied this particular island during WWII, and subsequent to an invasion by overwhelming American forces, approximately 5,000 Japanese soldiers committed ritual suicide rather than surrender in disgrace. This information was contained in a book written on the military history of the Aluetian Island chains titled 'The Thousand Mile War.' No one will ever convince me, or my room-mate, that the Japanese weren't still fighting the war.