tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post8511318987221601661..comments2024-03-09T00:22:04.859-08:00Comments on Did It Really Happen?: Titan II Complex 373-4: Was It Really Haunted?Tim Heberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-76925320014905772962020-03-12T19:59:07.592-07:002020-03-12T19:59:07.592-07:00I was stationed at IRAFB from January 1963 until J...I was stationed at IRAFB from January 1963 until July 1966 as liquid fuel maintenance specialist. I helped to remove t 53 bodies. There was no explosion in the launch duct. The fire was at the cable way on the Silk end. No one could get thru the fire they say and all the electrical cables were burnt and no fans bringing in fresh air the fire consumed all the oxygen. People suffocated and were jammed in ladder ways. Being the control cables were inoperative a breaker box system was set up topside and I was one of the fuel specialist that offloaded it. I was discharged in July and I never knew if they brought it back on line. There are a couple of stories that say what happened but no one really knows. The Silk was the first to be modified in Ark. So if you believe in ghost you may think you saw one.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-18635709878561728722020-01-05T14:13:24.819-08:002020-01-05T14:13:24.819-08:00Correction. I was a BMAT(MSAT) not an MFT.Correction. I was a BMAT(MSAT) not an MFT.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14821048852397772058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-22219740067436817972020-01-05T14:11:48.706-08:002020-01-05T14:11:48.706-08:00I was a BMAT(MFT) from 1979-1982. I was assigned ...I was a BMAT(MFT) from 1979-1982. I was assigned to 373-4. I saw and heard things I can't explain to this day. Like a pink glowing orb I saw glowing above the deputy commander while he slept. Myself and the MFT heard what sounded like a chain being dragged across the floor while we did our daily inspection. We were the only ones in the silo at the time. There is another incident involving a deputy commander waking up in terror in the sleeping quarters. I was on the same sleep shift with him and what he told me scared the s##% out of me. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14821048852397772058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-2863185603544153102018-02-06T12:01:33.244-08:002018-02-06T12:01:33.244-08:00Mate that is weird, did you manage to get any more...Mate that is weird, did you manage to get any more details on it... have got the chills nowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-68635058529469780982017-11-14T11:19:38.685-08:002017-11-14T11:19:38.685-08:00One of my brother's good friend's family o...One of my brother's good friend's family owns the property where 3-4 was located and have it as pasture land now. He says that every now and then, they'll see something weird out in that field. Usually it's something like lights out by where the old silo or things like that.<br />I'll have to talk to my brother and see if he can give me some of the details of those stories.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03935312087030010660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-88780602770928326372017-10-08T08:04:10.598-07:002017-10-08T08:04:10.598-07:00I was a MFT assigned primarily y to site 3-4 from ...I was a MFT assigned primarily y to site 3-4 from 1967 until 1970. Probably because of the sensitive nature of this accident, it wasn't discussed much among crew members at that time. No talk of ghosts, and no bizar incidents in my three tears there. I have learned more about the accident in recent years from the internet than I knew when I served. It was an honor to serve and not something to talk ill of years later.Tom Pattersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-16871506204777275482017-07-16T09:35:05.699-07:002017-07-16T09:35:05.699-07:00I pulled several alerts at 3-4 during the 80s, I w...I pulled several alerts at 3-4 during the 80s, I was a skeptic about all of the ghost stories, until one night. I went to the crew rack for my sleep shift, after awhile I felt the vibration of someone coming up the stairs and then felt my bed shake. I awoke thinking my BMAT was waking me for his rest shift but no one was there. I went downstairs and the rest of the crew wondered why I was up. Very Strange. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-1602505107820582182016-06-19T16:57:43.473-07:002016-06-19T16:57:43.473-07:00My crew pulled alert at complex 3–4 in the early t...My crew pulled alert at complex 3–4 in the early to mid-1970s. On two separate occasions we encountered strange occurrences. Both occurred when maintenance was no longer on the site. The first situation occurred on a Saturday. We completed daily shift verification and settled in for a normal alert. Sometime in the early evening hours I saw launch door open light on my LCCFC. I sent two of my crew members out to check out the situation. They found that the duct door on level eight,was open approximately 5 inches. The launch the door handle, a large bar device, was in the up position "open ". We secured the door, and entered the situation in the Daily log. The second situation occurred also at night when no one else was on the complex. Once again, a light on the launch console came on. It said blast door open. We found that the hydraulic pins of the blast door adjacent to The control center and been withdrawn and the blast door was open a few inches. We scured the door and entered the anomaly and the crew log. Dan Rausch Maj. Ret. on crew from 1968-1973. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12277647281602037581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-46973578755635758422015-07-24T08:47:15.145-07:002015-07-24T08:47:15.145-07:00I was a BMAT/MSAT from 1982 til deactivation and I...I was a BMAT/MSAT from 1982 til deactivation and I always enjoyed going out to the "ghost site". Inevitably something strange would happen out there, especially when maintenance has departed for the day. One alert we were doing our nightly check of the silo and got off the elevator at level 5, walked around the level and came back to an elevator that was gone. Looks like it went down to level 8 on its own and we had to call it back to level 5. WTMN calls would happen on their own and the gate phone would occasionally ring with no one on the other end!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-23259911646642427052014-10-14T17:35:33.345-07:002014-10-14T17:35:33.345-07:00As a former Titan II BMAT I had the opportunity to...As a former Titan II BMAT I had the opportunity to pull alerts at 3-4. I never saw anything too strange but we always liked to mess with the new guys. You prime the pump with several ghost stories on the way to the site, then when it is time for sleep shifts, you take a radio maintenance net transceiver to the sleeping quarters without the new guy knowing you have one. Key the net, it rings in the control center and you make the new guy answer the call. There are plenty of ghostly pleas for assistance but the other crew member denies hearing anything. Always fun to mess with the new guy. I guess they call that hazing now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-29938067854018180412013-01-05T09:38:32.431-08:002013-01-05T09:38:32.431-08:00The site at Searcy was not destroyed due to the fi...The site at Searcy was not destroyed due to the fire. It would later be reactivated and continue in an operational mode until deactivated with all of the remaining Titan II sites in the mid-1980s. To the best of my knowledge the silos were imploded and back filled with the debris per SALT agreements with the then USSR.<br /><br />The Titan site near Damascus, Arkansas, was totally destroyed in 1980 after the punctured propellant tank incident. <br /><br />Both incidents long forgotten with the exception of a few. Titan system was an unforgiving beast.Tim Heberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-27046942238573943762013-01-04T02:14:28.591-08:002013-01-04T02:14:28.591-08:00I saw the video of the site . Has it been filled o...I saw the video of the site . Has it been filled or destroyed ? Is there no way to get back down there ? Seems just wrong for them to go through that and then have every thing covered up and forgoten .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-56445720978705324002012-03-15T11:24:01.953-07:002012-03-15T11:24:01.953-07:00Anonymous, thanks for the comment. Your feelings ...Anonymous, thanks for the comment. Your feelings toward the site seems to be echoed by a few others. On www.missileforums.com, there are others that have had "experiences" similar to yours. <br /><br />System anomalies? Or, are we more in-tune to the history of the site which in-turn plays on our psyche.Tim Heberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04816425882305963295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811150598222033655.post-36248502358898014502012-03-15T10:49:52.814-07:002012-03-15T10:49:52.814-07:00Serving as an mft for four years my experiences at...Serving as an mft for four years my experiences at 3-4 were always strange.Secured phones falling out of there stations at different levels with no one out in the hole at all hours of the night and ringing in the cc.Generator starting without loss of power or even a power spike.Strange noises at unoccupied levels.Glad to be tranferred to the acp.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com