In 1963 a US Navy Destroyer is on routine naval maneuvers near Guadalcanal.\u00a0 Sonar picks up a large metal object on the sea bottom about the size and shape of a submarine.\u00a0 And their underwater microphone picks up a banging noise coming from the object.\u00a0 Captain Beecham orders one of his divers, McClure, to go down and look at the object.\u00a0 Meanwhile the ship\u2019s Chief Petty Officer Bell starts acting strangely and is taken to the sick bay with something like a panic attack.<\/p>\n
McClure confirms that it is a submarine and markings identify it as an American submarine that was sunk twenty years earlier by the Japanese in WWII.\u00a0 And McClure also confirms that the banging noise is coming from the sub and seems to be someone inside trying to communicate with those outside.\u00a0 Finally, he finds a set of dog tags on the hull and when he returns to the ship, they are found to be Chief Bell\u2019s from his time as a crew member on the sunken submarine.<\/p>\n
Captain Beecham questions Bell about the sinking of the sub and Bell relates a story about how as a signalman he was charged with replacing the infrared filter on a signal light and when he dropped the filter the unfiltered light of the signal gave away the submarine\u2019s position to the surrounding Japanese naval forces that attacked and sank the sub.\u00a0 He was washed off the sub during the attack and was later rescued by a passing American warship.<\/p>\n
Now Chief Bell starts hallucinating that he sees his long dead shipmates gesturing to him to join them below.\u00a0 Captain Beecham tries to convince him that he is suffering from survivor\u2019s guilt and that he should calm himself and wait for the attack to pass.\u00a0 But Bell works himself up into a frenzy and yelling that his crew is calling him to muster he jumps overboard and disappears under the surface never to be seen again.\u00a0 And as Master Diver reminded me in the comments, the Corpsman found wet seaweed near the sickbay where Bell saw his dead shipmates.<\/p>\n
A diving team is sent down into the submarine and McClure tells the captain that a metal shaft was swinging free inside the sub and could have been responsible for the banging.\u00a0 But he also adds that one of the dead bodies was holding a hammer in its bony hand.<\/p>\n
This is a straight up ghost story.\u00a0 Chief Bell was a little too crazy for my taste but it wasn\u2019t bad, just a little thin.\u00a0 It\u2019s right on the cusp of C+\/B-.\u00a0 Alright, for the Navy I\u2019ll go B-.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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