Observation Point Rock, “OP Rock”, lay a few hundred metres southeast of Patrol Base Hassan Abad in Afghanistan’s infamous Helmand Province. Between 2008 and the point at which the coalition forces departed the country, the isolated OP had been in NATO hands since it had been captured from the Taliban.  

During 2008 and 2009, a unit of the Welsh Guards and then U.S. Marines deployed at the OP Rock reported strange supernatural activity with several men involved to corroborate the weird experiences. Locals and foreign soldiers have reported experiencing apparitions, unexplained events, and strange curses.