Was stationed in Abu Grahib in 2006. Was the last US unit onsite as we were breaking it down and handing it over to the Iraqi Army. While the US was there, we had converted the old jail cells into living quarters. Well we had decommissioned an area of the base, and wanted to go ghost hunting in the dark. Essentially this area no longer had power, and there was no one there. It was empty. Well our plan was to go through the old cells at night with no flashlights and just randomly take pictures in the rooms. Each building was a 2 story single halway running down the middle with cells on either side. The doors in and out of the building were located on the ends. They were old 1/4" metal doors, that had sagged over time, so they scratched on the concrete to open and close them, which you basically didn't do because it was so hard. It was a group of 4 of us. Yancey, Richardson (who had the camera), McCaughey, and myself. We started at one end, and I remember we had to pull the metal door open as someone had probably closed it when they shutdown the area. It was so loud that we joked that we already scared all the ghosts away. As we started, it was pitch back inside. The only light we had was the intermittent flash from the camera and the cherry on our cigarettes. About the 5th room in, we just weren't seeing anything. So we started to 'Taunt' the ghosts. "Typical Al Queda, running when they see US troops" or " Terrorists can't even scare us in death... " Well that did it. It was then when Richardson snapped a pic in a room, and a i'm telling you, in that picture a face showed up in the dust that was floating in the room that became illuminated by the flash. Right as we were seeing the picture, that 200lb metal door that rubbed on the concrete skirt slammed shut behind us. I don't think the 4 of us have ever run that fast again.
Maybe except for the night a big group of us went into the torture chambers Sadam used.