Taiwanese Soldiers' Ghost Stories: Asking the Password Three Times

Taiwanese men doing military service have all heard ghost stories about the barracks, told by seniors to juniors.

The most common one is standing night watch. At two or three in the morning, the barracks are empty, you stand alone at your post, everything around is quiet, and a figure walks toward you from a distance. According to regulations, the sentry must call out the password, ask three times, and if there is no answer after three times, they can fire a warning shot.

The story goes like this: the sentry called out three times, no one answered, and the figure kept walking slowly. He chambered a round, the figure walked under the light, with no face, or no feet. In some versions, it's an entire line of people, walking and walking, then disappearing.

Another version is that an old soldier tells a new recruit not to stand watch at a certain post at night, because someone died there before, so when scheduling shifts, new recruits are always assigned there.

These stories, every barracks has its own version; change barracks, change names, and old soldiers pass them down as they talk. Anyone who has served understands that these stories serve one purpose: to keep new recruits from falling asleep while standing watch at night.

Starting from 2024, Taiwan's compulsory military service reverted to one year, and these stories have found a new audience.

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