The Ghosts Of Kadena Airbase
Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, isn't just the largest U.S. military installation in the Pacific—it's also one of the most haunted. From shadowy figures trying to enter through the gates to abandoned buildings that drive occupants to the edge, and the chilling laughter of ghostly children, Kadena’s legends are as eerie as they are enduring. But are the hauntings rooted in the base itself… or in the haunted history of Okinawa Island beneath it?
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SOURCES
https://www.kadena.af.mil/About-Us/History/Kadena-Air-Base-History/
https://www.kadena.af.mil/About-Us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadena_Air_Base
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa
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The Ghosts of Okinawa by Jayne A. Hitchcock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_Okinawa_F-100_crash
https://www.reddit.com/r/MilitaryStories/comments/5txjpt/70_miles_east_of_okinawa_2_nov_1987/
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Jayne_Hitchcock
TRANSCRIPT
Welcome back to Heart Starts Pounding, a podcast of Horrors, Hauntings, and Mysteries. I’m your host, Kaelyn Moore.
When I first set out to make this episode, I thought it was going to be about haunted military bases. But when I read about the hauntings people have experienced at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, I knew I had to do an entire episode on it.
Not just because the stories are some of the most chilling I’ve ever heard, but because the more I read about the dark history of the base and the area around it, the more REAL LIFE stories I uncovered that correlated with these hauntings and backed them up.
Because the island that Kadena sits on, Okinawa, is maybe the most haunted island on the planet, and is essentially a giant graveyard. So today, I want to tell you about the ghost children of the island, the creature that is often seen at one of the entry gates of the base, the one ghost where anytime someone sees him, someone else dies within two weeks, and so much more.
Before we dive into these scary stories together, you know I love to shout out listeners, and I wanted to shout out the listener who let me know that when they moved into their home on the Marine Corps Base Hawaii, they jokingly yelled out “Hello!” to their empty unit, and something shouted hello back…
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Alright let’s dive in. To begin our story, I’m going to take you to the US Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.
ACT 1
First, let’s talk about where the Air Base Is.
Kadena Air base is an american military base that sits on the island of Okinawa, a Japanese Island that is honestly pretty far from Japan. It sits on the divide of the east china sea and the philippine sea, between Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea and for most of human history bloody battles have been fought on the island, the most recent being the 82 day battle between the Americans and Japanese during world war 2. During the battle of Okinawa, 12,000 american soldiers and over 110,000 Japanese soldiers were killed. And on top of that about 42,000 civilians were killed in the crossfire. It was about 14% of the island's population.
For centuries, now, locals have sworn that the island is full of spirits, ghosts of those killed in the many battles on the island, trickster spirits, protective spritis, and some that serve as omens.
But a woman named Jayne hadn’t heard those stories when she moved onto Kadena air base In the early 1990’s. Her husband was stationed there, and He and Jayne moved into a small house on base that wasn’t anything flashy. Think White washed walls freshly painted over, red crumbling terracotta tiling on the roof, a small front lawn with big bald patches.
in Jayne’s experience, you had to keep your expectations low when it came to military housing. She was an author, so it was easy for her to pack up and go wherever her husband was stationed, and each place was the same. A little well.. Janky. It made sense though, so many people were in and out of these units that were originally built by the US military in the height of world war II,. They were for utility, not luxury. And as a result they were not well kept.
So Jayne probably wasn’t all that surprised when one morning, after her husband had left for the day, she saw a puddle of water sitting on the floor of her kitchen. She looked around for the source, hoping to catch the leak before it got much worse. But the ceiling had no water damage, the sink was in perfect working condition. It seemed like the water had materialized out of nowhere.
Jayne mopped it up, and didn’t really think much of it. Okinawa is an island after all. The humidity, the rain, the jungle climate, it’s not like it was weird to see a puddle somewhere.
But the next day, the puddle was back. A perfectly circular, crystal clear small pool of water. Sitting undisturbed in the middle of her kitchen. Again, nothing was leaking from the sink, or dripping down from the ceiling. It hadn't even rained the night before.
Where was this mystery puddle coming from? Once again, she mopped it up, and then, she went on with her day.
First, she sat down to do some writing and then went for a walk. but Before she left the house she put her dog in its crate. Outside, The air was thick and humid, storm clouds sat off in the distance, like they always did. The island was so lush and green.
When she made it back home, she was relieved to see that the puddle had not come back, which was a relief because her dog was running around the room, and she didn’t really love the idea of him drinking up strange water. Wait. Why was her dog running around, she had locked him in his crate before she left.
Jayne went over and looked at the crate to be sure. The door was wide open, nothing was bent, nothing was broken. Her dog hadn’t violently escaped, it was as if she just didn’t lock the kennel door. But it was such a force of habit for Jayne she must have.
It wasn’t long after these strange occurrences, that Jayne’s husband let her know he was going on an assignment, and was going to be gone for a while. Her heart sank as he told her. she would miss him, but the thought of being alone in this house, the fluorescent impersonal lights, the furniture that wasn’t her own, the puddle, was unsettling.
Sure She hadn't seen the puddle since the second time she mopped it up, but over the last week or so, the dog's kennel kept opening on its own. Her husband insisted that it was just old, she should get a new one, but Jayne knew that wasn’t the case.
One night, when her husband was away, Jayne was alone in the house with just the dog when she felt something small whip past her head. It was the size of a large insect She jumped off of the couch and looked behind her, in the direction it traveled. And there, on the floor, was her husband's guitar pick. It had somehow flung itself across the room.
Jayne is not alone in feeling started to wonder if what was happening in her home was… supernatural. It’s not uncommon to hear people speaking on bases about their homes being haunted, that is, if they’re willing to. I often hear stories about how people suffered in silence, fearing that if they told anyone about their haunting they’d seem crazy, only to later find that everyone around them felt similarly.
Jayne’s story is the most common I read about on Kadena. People who hear bumps in the night, who awake to see puddles on the floor, who watch objects move around the house. Some believe these are the local Japanese spirits, or Yokai, but others think it’s the spirits of Americans who died in world war II. Jayne always had the sense that whatever was in her home was the latter
But There’s a few other really common ghost stories I read about on the island. One comes from an on base nursery. The following is a version of that story told by one of the employees.
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“I’ve worked at the daycare just off base for years, and a few, really unexplainable things have happened, but there’s one that really comes to mind. One that keeps happening, no matter the turnover of kids, every group of kids I’ve had since I’ve started at the job does this.
Basically, the staff has had a problem with kids throwing toys. Not at each other though. They’ll go to the back of the yard outside, where there’s the high fence, and they’ll start chucking their toys over it. The first time I saw kids do this, I almost lost my mind, it’s rude, it’s wasteful, it’s littering. So I ran out and grabbed a little toy truck from a boys hand and told him, don’t do that! Why are you throwing your toys, that’s not very nice.”
and he looked at me, like, he had this dazed look on his face like he was looking past me, and he said that he wanted to share with the kids on the other side of the fence. Now, there’s no kids on the other side of this fence, there’s nothing but fields that lead to runways, but that’s what every kid that throws their toys says, that the little kids on the other side of the fence wants them to share.
Again, I don’t know why this happens, but the other teachers all say this has been happening for years. We’ve tried to make the fence higher, but it doesn’t stop them. I’ve just gotten used to going out over lunch, collecting the toys, and bringing them back into the yard.”
(regular voice) I’ve heard so many different people talk about that exact thing happening. Kids playing with other kids that no one else can see. Offering to share their toys with the invisible children who have none to play with. Who are these kids?
Well, like I mentioned before, all of Okinawa is essentially a giant graveyard, and tens of thousands of normal civilians were killed during world war II. Not to mention the battles that occurred over thousands of years on the island as Mongolia, China and Japan were constantly at war over the territory.
But as I was reading more about the area, I found a disaster that occurred on the island on June 30th, 1959, and it made my heart drop.
So, by the end of june in 1959, The rainy season would have just wrapped up, giving way to warm summer days. A perfect day for outdoor recess at Miyamori Elementary School. At 10:30am, it would not have been long since the students got dropped off by their parents, and they would have been taking a mid morning ”milk break”
Just then, they saw A plane flying overhead, called a “United States Air Force F-100D Super Sabre.” It was a shiny metallic fighter bomber plane with a bright red tail. All of the kids would watch it do test flights past the school and point at it in awe.
This one was being piloted by 34-year-old John Schmitt. He was a 10 year Verteran who was stationed at Kadena, and he was just a 5 minute flight from base.
As the children watched the plane in the sky, they saw it was taking an irregular flight path. Actually, it seemed to be flying lower than usual, and too close to the school.
One child who was inside of a classroom and had heard horror stories of war from his parents screamed out AIR RAID, and all of the kids in his class ducked below their desks, just as the plane collided into the school’s roof. It sent flaming gasoline, shattered glass and debris everywhere.
Upon takeoff, John Schmitt had lost control of the plane. When he realized there was no hope, he ejected himself from the craft and safely made his way to the ground.
His plane essentially firebombed the school, killing but 11 children and 6 adults. It caused a fire to break out, which quickly spread to the surrounding neighborhood and consumed 25 more homes.
Thousands of servicemen from Kadena and surrounding miltary bases flooded the area to provide aid, but 210 people in total would be injured, including 150 children.
Could that be who the kids on base today are giving their toys to? What do you think?
Another famous ghost story surrounding the Kadena base takes place just north of it by the caves on the beaches of Cape Maeda. It goes:
“If you see an old man at Cape Maeda walking slowly back and forth, run. Don’t look at him, just run.
Cape Maeda is just north of the base, and it’s gorgeous. It’s where everyone snorkels and scuba dives, there’s cliffs. It’s perfect for a day off. That is, unless what locals refer to as “the man” is there.
I haven’t seen him, I’ve only heard about him. But there’s an elderly Japanese man who can be seen walking by a cave by the water. That man is not alive. He’s dead, he died a long time ago, no one knows how. But everytime he’s spotted on the beach a body washes up on the shore within a few days.
I know, it sounds like an urban legend, but 2 of my buddies were down by the water one day a few months ago when one of them saw the man. He was wearing a tattered suit, and was slowly walking back and forth by the rocks, staring out into the distance. My buddy had heard the stories, so he told our other friend to not look, and then he grabbed their stuff and left. But it was too late, apparently.
Because two weeks later, a family was walking down the beach one morning and they found the body of a local man in his 30’s washed ashore. Cops said he probably had gotten swept out to sea at some point the day before. They said he was probably drunk and that was the last we heard of it. But to this day my buddy wonders if it’s because he saw the man.
The area actually used to be a field hospital used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. I don’t know if that has anything to do with it but, yea. Don’t look at the man, or another body will wash ashore.”
(Tape ends playing)
I read a theory about the man who walks the beach. While some people believe that he’s a bringer of death, that seeing him means someone will die, some locals actually theorize that he’s a protector, ensuring that anyone lost at sea is returned to the shore, so no family has to wonder what happened to their loved one.
But as I was reading more about the base and the island, I came across one of it’s biggest unsolved mysteries, and actually, it ties into this specific ghost story.
So Another plane accident actually happened on the island on November 2nd in 1987. That day, two aircraft flew out of the Kadena air base to perform a simulated attack for pilot training. It was a beautiful day for flying with clear blue skies and a calm ocean below. the planes were proceeding on their simulated routes when one pilot looked out his window and noticed the other plane was no longer in position, but instead spinning out of control in a nosedive.
A drag chute had been ejected in an attempt to slow down the plane’s dangerous downward trajectory which signaled that there was no hope of righting the aircraft. A drag chute acts as a bandaid to an inevitable crash. The pilot watched from the safety of his own plane as he prayed the other pilots would make it out alive.
Over the radio, he yelled to the pilots: “Eject! Eject! Eject!” He kept waiting to see their personal parachutes falling through the air, signaling that they made it out of the plane alive. Finally, he saw both of pilots successfully eject themselves from the aircraft. Making it out with only moments to spare before the plane hit the water. The two parachutes made their way to the water, narrowly avoiding the flames that had erupted from the downed plane.
But The pilot’s relief at his fellow pilots’ safe landings would be short lived. One of the downed pilots was easily recovered from the water, but the other was not so lucky. There was no sign of him. They searched and searched but the pilot’s body was never found. Other than his liferaft, the only evidence of him having hit the water was his helmet, bobbing lightly on the surface. No one is sure what happened to him, and we most likely will never know.
The leading theory became that he must have drowned. Somehow his helmet became unattached from his head and he drowned, case closed.
But those on the island who know the story of the man who walks the beach think something else may have happened. They believe if he really was lost out at sea, the man would have ensured that his body returned.
So they think something else may have happened to the man, though they don’t have any explanation for exactly what that might be.
So When talking about hauntings on Kadena, it seems like there are two main areas that people talk about. The first is the gates. Specifically, gate 3
Gate 3 is one of the main gates on the base. It’s where people can get on and off. It’s open from the crack of dawn until deep into the night. Because it’s an entry point onto the base, it’s constantly monitored by cameras and guards. For the most part, it seems like it’s an uneventful job to have, watching people drive in and out. except at night. At night, more visitors come to this gate, and according to the guards, they’re not always human. This is one of the most common ghost sightings from Gate 3
I want to start this story by saying that I do not believe in ghosts. Well, I didn’t believe in ghosts. Until I got to Okinawa.
I was a guard at gate 3. Most of what I did was easy, checking people in, looking at IDs, mostly making sure people weren’t too drunk getting back on base, that kind of thing.
Every now and then we’d have contractors from the area come on the base to do some work, and it was well known that there were some buildings on the base they didn’t like going into because they thought they were haunted. I always thought that was local superstition. For context, People in Japan believe in spirits, like REALLY believe in spirits, it’s a huge part of the culture. So, of course, we never forced anyone to go into a building they weren’t comfortable with, but still, I just figured it was a cultural thing, not real.
But some people insisted they couldn’t go through gate 2 because of the same thing. Spirits. I had one guy tell me that he felt a big, dark energy near the gate and refused to come in. We had to send him to another gate instead. I let him do it to be polite, but I was also kind of annoyed.
One night though, around midnight, I was on duty at the gate with a guy that had been on the base much longer than me, and he starts telling me a story, about how one night a drunk guy comes stumbling towards the gate. He was so drunk he could hardly stand, and so the guard on duty got up to go help the guy, check his ID, see where he needed to go. But when he got over to the guy and helped him up, he saw that he was wearing a leather flying jacket, and olive trousers. He looked like a world war 2 cosplayer, until he opened his jacket and the guard saw that he was covered in blood. Drenched in it. He said it looked like someone had reached into his chest and pulled out his heart, that’s how much blood there was. The guard turned to run to get help, but when he turned back, the man was gone.
Later on he told someone else in the AFSF (that’s the air force security forces) what he saw, and they told him that man comes around all the time, and they’re pretty sure he’s dead. Apparently it’s not uncommon to get a visitor from ww2. I mean, hundreds of thousands of people were brutally killed on this island.
But here’s the crazy part. As he was telling me this story, it’s the middle of the night, there’s nothing going on, and all of a sudden something big and shadowy whipped by the corner of my eye. There, infront of the gate, was a big, black blob, almost in the form of a human. It hovered by the gate for a moment. So long I thought it was a shadow, but then it floated away. The guy with me saw it too, and he was speechless.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but years later, someone caught the exact same blob on video. The video is this old grainy security footage by the gate, taken just after midnight, around the same time it happened for us, too. and at the beginning you can see a shadow on the back of a sign. But then you hear the guys on guard speak
The guy says that something is going to move, and then you see the shadow on the sign move about a foot to the left, really quickly. It has the movement and sort of the shape of a person, just how I remembered it.
The older guy says it’s going to fly away, and then a few seconds later, it floats away, up and to the right off screen.
To this day, I don’t think anyone knows what it was. It wasn’t the world war 2 vet everyone says they see, it was something else. Maybe it was what that guy felt, the reason he couldn’t go on base. But like I said, I never believed in ghosts. Until I got to Okinawa.”
I’ve seen the video that this writer is talking about, and it’s true, I can’t explain what’s happening. I’ll actually link it for anyone listeneing who wants to watch it. It’s just how it’s described, a strange black blob that floats around with shockingly human qualities. Usually on videos like this, the first few comments are people disproving it, explaining that it’s a spider on the camera or a glitch. But no, the comments are just other people sharing their horrifying experiences in Okinawa.
And this story really makes a lot of sense when you think about the death and destruction that has happened on the island. The area seems to be teeming with the restless spirits of world war 2, and it sounds like that guy just wants to get back to his bed.
Ok, I mentioned that there’s two places that tend to get spoken about on Kadena. We talked about the gate, but now I want to talk about the other place. building 2283. The last story mentioned that there were buildings on base that some local contractors wouldn’t go into because they felt like they were so haunted. This is one of those buildings.
I’ve read a bunch of stories, there’s too many good ones to pick just one, and they all have the same elements.
Building 2283 was a single family home on base. While a lot of the housing I saw on the base was units in a complex that shared walls, Building 2283 was a standalone building.
Now, a few reports say the house was demolished in 2009 or 2010, and I’d love if someone listening lived on base and could confirm that for me
But before the house was demolished, it’s said that it was used as a storage unit. Why would one of the nicer housing units on base be used just for storage, you might ask. Well, because no one felt comfortable enough to stay there.
This building has an incredibly dark history. It seems like when families moved into this house, something would, lets say, possess the father of the family.
In one story, a family who moved into the house in the 70’s was murdered by the father before he took his own life. In another story, a deranged father killed his teenage step daughter.
Shortly after these events, a new family moved in, and they started experiencing strange things. At first, they thought it was just jet lag. They were tired at odd hours, lightheaded, sometimes they felt as if they were hallucinating.
They would hear the faucet turn on in the kitchen from another room. But when they went to turn it off, they found it wasn’t on and the sink was dry. One time the young daughter approached the mother and said she had seen a teen girl washing her hair in the bathroom sink.
The little boy used to sit by the vent in his bedroom for hours dropping pennies into it, and giggling (SFX). When his mother asked what he was doing, he said he was sending coins to “his friends in the walls”
The family thought they were going crazy, until they needed work done on the house. None of the Japanese contractors they called would take the job. They eventually were able to find one place that agreed to help them out, but when they arrived the employees complained of the same symptoms. They’d get unusually tired as they worked, incredibly lightheaded, and they’d also hear sounds they couldn’t explain, like children laughing from the vents, and a young woman sobbing.
One evening, when a worker was finishing up for the day, he walked out of the house and saw another man standing on the walkway leading up to the home. He went to say hi, but quickly saw that the man didn’t look like one of his fellow workers. No, he didn’t look like anything he had ever seen before, at least, outside of a history book.
There, was a japanese man in striking purple, green and red garments. He had long gray hair, and a gray beard that just covered his chin. On his head was a beautiful gold and red dragon head piece. And strapped to his side was a long sword in an elegant red and gold sheath.
The worker blinked, and the man was gone.
But he wasn’t the only person to have seen this figure before. An Air Force officer had seen him, but couldn’t make sense of it. Was it someone who had shown up on the base in costume? The worker recognized him from his history books, however. He said it looked like a samurai
That seemed to be the last straw for the workers, they couldn’t finish the job. Eventually, the family moved out and the home fell into disrepair for years. Other people on the base were too afraid to get too close to it, and accounts of paranormal activity continued. Sounds of children laughing, brief sightings of the samurai, one person even said they saw the house GLOWING one night.
I will admit, I had to look up what the worker saw, and what I found was really shocking. So, there were Samurais in Okinawa throughout history, but the dress that the man described was so specific, and I wanted to see if I could figure out exactly which era of Samurai he saw. Well in 1609, the Satsuma Domain in mainland Japan invaded and conquered Okinawa. Samurai officials would have been leading the battle all over the island as they defeated the Ryukyuan
And when I looked up what Satsuma Samurais in okinawa looked like, they matched his description PERFECTLY. Beautiful purple, red and green garments, a gold head piece that looked like a dragon. An intricately designed sword. His restless spirit patrols the base, reminding everyone of the conflicts that define the island
It seems like Kadena is one of the most haunted military bases on the planet, because Okinawa is one of the most haunted islands on the planet. Would Kadena be so haunted if it were anywhere else? Probably not. Okinawa has such a dark past and spirits are such a big part of Japanese culture, and mix all of that in with the recent tragedies that have happened on the base, and you have a place that is so ripe for these kinds of hauntings.
If you ever get a chance to visit okinawa, be careful. If you’re standing on the shore and see an old man walk by, or hear a child laugh off in the distance, you may have to look twice.
It’s worth mentioning here that the history of Okinawa is incredibly dark and bloody. It was the location of one of the deadliest battles of world war 2, when over 60,000 soldiers and US marines of the 10th army stormed the beaches there. It led to over 100,000 japanese deaths, which is potentially the highest number of Japanese deaths at one time on the island, which is shocking considering the island’s deadly history. It sits in between China, Japan, and Mongolia, and for thousands of years battles were fought to gain control of the islands. One time Chinese soldiers came and burned down the entire island and tried to kidnap all the survivors to bring them back to china to study them.
So, it's no wonder that the island is considered one of the most haunted places in the entire world.
As for Jayne, well, she didn’t know about all of this, she just knew her house was haunted and she wanted it to stop. So, she decided to take matters into her own hands.
One night, she invited a few friends and a Magician named Milligan the Magician over. Milligan had an interest in the paranormal, and Jayne’s friends were all hyper sensitive to spirits, they said.. She wanted to see if they could pick up on any of the spiritual activity as well, basically to prove to herself she wasn’t crazy.
Milligan wasn’t exactly an expert on seances or exorcisms, but the island wasn’t that big so she had to take what she could get. he brought with him a few tools to try and help make contact: a crystal ball, handcuffs having once belonged to Houdini, and a bell from the front desk of a haunted hotel.
As night fell across the military base, our group got the house ready. They needed to set the tone. They lit candles which cast an eerie flickering around the room. Shivers spread through them even though it wasn’t that cold of a night. The plain military housing transformed into an otherworldly den that could be the portal into another realm. Once ready, the group joined hands and closed their eyes.
Milligan closed his eyes and asked whoever was there to come forward. Just then, Jayne felt a presence stand behind her, and something with a low voice whispered in her ear, BOO.
And just then, a jolt ran through Milligan, he said he made contact. He went on to describe what he was seeing as a military man, with a sense of humor.
And then, Jayne’s friend Fanny started panicking, she was staring behind Jayne, where the voice had come from. She said that there was a man in a military uniform standing right behind her. And as she said it, she could feel the hot breath of something on her neck.
The whole experience was enough to convince Jayne that her home, was in fact haunted. The ghosts of Okinawa were real, and they weren’t anything she could exercise from her home.
No, the spirits on Okinawa are there to stay, it seems. And some of them have been there for thousands of years. They’re part of the local legend and culture now, deeply embedded on the island. Waiting for the day where they can exist in peace again, it seems. The echos of the past are still there, from the school children that died in the plane crash, to the samurai who fought to gain control of the land. Some people claim some of the spirits intentions are good, while others believe they are mostly evil, at least, towards those they feel don't belong there. Others are trapped there forever, far from home, like the military man who shows up at the gate, forever locked in a loop of trying to get back to the only home he had on the island.
Jayne and her husband would eventually move to another base, but while they remained on Okinawa, they had to get used to having an entity in their home.
Jayne recounts more of her tales in her book The Ghosts of Okinawa.
But, that’s all i have for you today. If you’d like more, you can always join me over on footnotes on patreon where I’ll be going through the case file and sharing some more stories of ghosts on Okinawa that didn’t make it into the episode. We’re off next week, I know sad!!! But i’ll be back the week after sharing you some tales of horror straight from the Appalachian trail. You wont want to miss that.
Until then, stay curious
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