Operation Wandering Soul

Helicopters over the jungle playing the wails of the unquiet dead. Documented, deployed, and remembered by both sides.

Operation Wandering Soul: US PSYOP units in Vietnam broadcast 'Ghost Tape Number 10' — engineered audio of wailing dead urging soldiers home — from helicopters and patrol boats, exploiting ancestor-veneration beliefs. Fully documented military history (the tape survives and circulates). Effectiveness was mixed (fire was often drawn to the speakers). The node is the psywar file's confirmed baseline: the military-grade weaponization of an afterlife, on tape.