Operation Wandering facts
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A 50-ft. tall mechanical spider wandered around Liverpool for four days in 2008 as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations. It was operated by 12 people strapped to its body and moved at two mph, causing critics to object to the potentially traumatic effect on arachnophobia victims.
Operation Wandering Soul, where American forces would play eerie sounds of voices and mourning, which the Viet Cong believed that if a dead soldier was not buried in its home territory it's spirit would wander the area moaning, causing the Viet Cong to think it was their dead ancestors.
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Operation "Wandering Soul" in the Vietnam War. Recordings of Americans pretending to be ghosts, urging the Vietcong to turn back or give up, were played through the forests at night. Audio in comments.
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"Operation Wandering Soul" - a recording played by the US in the Vietnam War to demoralise the Viet Cong.
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Operation Wandering Soul; where during the Vietnam War, US Forces would broadcast an eerie recording of the ghost of a Vietcong soldier mourning his poor choices
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During the 1983 invasion of Grenada, "after an American bomb was mistakenly dropped on a mental hospital, dazed patients wandered aimlessly as heavily armed fighters emerged from surrounding cinnamon and allspice plantations, lending a surreal quality to the operation."
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Operation Wandering Soul. It was a psychological warfare method used by the US to frighten the Vietnamese soldiers. It was played in the middle of the night over the forests from big speakers in helicopters.
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The United States Military used Scary sounds with extremely disturbing messages under the operation "Wandering Souls" to drive away the Vietnamese Soldiers who were defending their position during the Vietnam War.
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In the Cold War, the CIA started Operation Acoustic Kitty, in which a m-phone and radio was embedded into a cat's body so it could eavesdrop foreign official's secret discussions. On its 1st mission, the cat wandered onto a street instead instead of the plan and was squashed by a taxi.
