Pearl Harbor: The Ghost of the USS Arizona

The USS Arizona has been a tomb ever since the morning of December 7th. 

When this ship was bombed and sunk, 1,177 crew members perished with her, making it the most significant loss of life on any United States warship in American history. 

On this date in 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States into the Second World War. 

Today the USS Arizona rests in the shallow waters of Pearl Harbor off Oahu, Hawaii, as a tribute to all those who died.

Sunk

Forward Magazine Explode

The USS Arizona was based along with seven other battleships in Pearl Harbor's "battleship row," its shallow waters ideal for these massive ships. 

During the attack, several bombs hit their mark, one of these penetrated her forecastle, which detonated her forward ammunition magazines. The resulting massive explosion wrecked Arizona’s forward hull, collapsing the forward superstructure, and causing her to sink. 

After the attack, in the following months, much of her armament and topside structure was removed. Two of her aft triple 14^th gun turrets were transferred to the Army encampment as coast defense batteries for Oahu.

Arizona’s wrecked hull remains where she sank. 

In the 1950s, she began to be used as a site for memorial ceremonies, and, in the early 1960s, an official memorial was built. 

It is run by the National Park Service. It is a permanent shrine for all those brave souls who lost their lives in Pearl Harbor, and those who died fighting the Pacific war that began there. 

All warships that enter and leave Pearl Harbor, pause and salute the USS Arizona.

Countless visitors to this memorial, which stands on pillars astride Arizona’s broken hull, pay their silent tribute to this tragedy. 

A few bits of this sunken hull, rusted, twisted metal, can be seen near the shallow waterline. Still attached to the deck is the ship’s flagpole; Arizona’s hull still leaks oil from her bunkers—all these decades later. 

Some state this is a fitting tribute for she appears to still bleed for all who were lost on the day Franklin D. Roosevelt called, “a date that will live in infamy”.

For years, people who have visited this memorial and park service employees have witnessed some strange activity. 

Many photographs that have been taken around the memorial have captured strange foggy spots and misty human figures seem to appear in the background of these photographs.

 One specific ghost that appears is said to be the officer who was posted on Arizona’s deck the morning of December 7, 1941.  

Distracted by something personal, he left his station briefly. It was during this time the Japanese planes attacked. This officer was killed. 

Some speculate he is seen because he is driven by guilt to walk the deck, and then look out near the flagpole. He is seen mostly at night, low tide, and in the dim light of dawn.

USS Arizona in the 1930s

The Incubus and Succubus

These two types of ghosts are sexual in nature. An incubus is a male ghost and a succubus is a female ghost. When the living encounter this kind of spirit they often report a feeling that they have been caressed or even violated for the purpose of sexual gratification.

Today many associate this kind of encounter with ‘Old Hag Syndrome” which I wrote about in another post here. 

These kind of encounters have been associated with Old Hag because people often report feeling a pressure weighing down on them and they sometimes state that these encounters seem to happen in a dreamlike state. These descriptions sound similar to “Old Hag” hence the association. 

But many incubus or succubus descriptions go way beyond what we associate with this syndrome. 

Are the people who report this phenomena truly being attacked by an unseen pressure or is it imagined or psychological in nature? Regardless, it must be admitted that some of these encounters are something other than sleep paralysis.

As more people openly share what they have experienced it is becoming more acceptable to consider the possibility that some negative ghosts abuse the living in this way. 

Since many people believe that ghosts exist—then should we also accept that incubus and succubus attacks occur? If we can hear ghosts' footsteps their voices, and if they can move objects and touch the living, then it should be conceivable that disturbed or negative ghosts could attack in this manner.

As I have mentioned in past posts many feel that ghosts reflect their personalities while they were living. 

If they were good and kind while alive they most often will be mild ghosts. But if they were angry and violent while alive they will have these same attributes as ghosts. Therefore, it could be a distinct possibility that some ghosts sexually abuse the living.