Into Darkness
On this episode of Expanded Perspectives Elite, Cam goes at it all alone! He brings up a very bizarre story about a strange cult discovered in an underground tunnel system during the Vietnam War. The underground war of Vietnam had a subterranean aspect reaching far beyond the awareness of the American military brass conducting the war. From the beginning, the Viet Cong knew that they didn’t have the means to defeat the United States. But they also knew that, even if they couldn’t win by conventional means, they could keep their fight alive as long as they could disappear from one raid and reappear to execute another. They were the invisible enemy for the exasperated American troops. That vast network of tunnels below the ground and out of sight provided the Viet Cong with the hiding places that a guerilla army used to thwart a superpower.
The Viet Cong relied upon a network of small access holes just two feet wide and three feet deep that led to communication tunnels which encompassed a maze of caverns and caves typically less than six feet high that reached as far as the border of Cambodia. Those tunnels were the nerve center of the Viet Cong military. If the VC, booby traps, snakes, and spiders weren’t scary enough, some tunnel rats claimed to have seen some horrific things beyond comprehension!
All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives Elite!
Music:
All music for Expanded Perspectives Elite is provided by The Black Angels http://theblackangels.com, Pretty Lights http://prettylightsmusic.com
Songs Used:
- Young Men Dead
- Understand Me Now
- Samso
- Almost Familiar