Story about a pilot looking for his friend that crashed in the jungle, and finds shadow people
Looking for a story I read in the 1970s about a pilot whose friend crashed in the jungle during the war.
He returns after the war to where he thinks the friend crashed and hires local natives to help search. The natives become uneasy and play drums at night to protect themselves from being taken by shadow people. The pilot is drawn away from the group and the drums and is then confronted by shadow people.
They explain that they found his dying friend and could only save him by converting him to a shadow. The pilot meets his friend again in shadow form, and is told that shadow people fight a battle every night against aliens that want to invade Earth.
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Looking for a story I read in the 1970s about a pilot whose friend crashed in the jungle during the war.
He returns after the war to where he thinks the friend crashed and hires local natives to help search. The natives become uneasy and play drums at night to protect themselves from being taken by shadow people. The pilot is drawn away from the group and the drums and is then confronted by shadow people.
They explain that they found his dying friend and could only save him by converting him to a shadow. The pilot meets his friend again in shadow form, and is told that shadow people fight a battle every night against aliens that want to invade Earth.
story-identification
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Jenayah
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Welcome to SFF.SE! You may want to take the tour to understand just how the site works. You've provide a reasonable summary of your story, but may want to look at How to ask a good story-ID question? for more ideas on info you could provide. In particular, when did you read the story? Did you have a feel for how old it was then? Was it a full-length novel, or a short story in a collection or magazine (or even on-line)?
– RDFozz
Sep 24 '18 at 17:46
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Looking for a story I read in the 1970s about a pilot whose friend crashed in the jungle during the war.
He returns after the war to where he thinks the friend crashed and hires local natives to help search. The natives become uneasy and play drums at night to protect themselves from being taken by shadow people. The pilot is drawn away from the group and the drums and is then confronted by shadow people.
They explain that they found his dying friend and could only save him by converting him to a shadow. The pilot meets his friend again in shadow form, and is told that shadow people fight a battle every night against aliens that want to invade Earth.
story-identification
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Jenayah
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asked Sep 24 '18 at 17:35
The KoalaThe Koala
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Looking for a story I read in the 1970s about a pilot whose friend crashed in the jungle during the war.
He returns after the war to where he thinks the friend crashed and hires local natives to help search. The natives become uneasy and play drums at night to protect themselves from being taken by shadow people. The pilot is drawn away from the group and the drums and is then confronted by shadow people.
They explain that they found his dying friend and could only save him by converting him to a shadow. The pilot meets his friend again in shadow form, and is told that shadow people fight a battle every night against aliens that want to invade Earth.
story-identification
story-identification
edited yesterday
Jenayah
18.7k494131
asked Sep 24 '18 at 17:35
The KoalaThe Koala
322
edited yesterday
Jenayah
18.7k494131
asked Sep 24 '18 at 17:35
The KoalaThe Koala
322
edited yesterday
Jenayah
18.7k494131
edited yesterday
Jenayah
18.7k494131
edited yesterday
Jenayah
18.7k494131
18.7k494131
asked Sep 24 '18 at 17:35
The KoalaThe Koala
322
asked Sep 24 '18 at 17:35
The KoalaThe Koala
322
asked Sep 24 '18 at 17:35
The KoalaThe Koala
322
322
1
Welcome to SFF.SE! You may want to take the tour to understand just how the site works. You've provide a reasonable summary of your story, but may want to look at How to ask a good story-ID question? for more ideas on info you could provide. In particular, when did you read the story? Did you have a feel for how old it was then? Was it a full-length novel, or a short story in a collection or magazine (or even on-line)?
– RDFozz
Sep 24 '18 at 17:46
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Welcome to SFF.SE! You may want to take the tour to understand just how the site works. You've provide a reasonable summary of your story, but may want to look at How to ask a good story-ID question? for more ideas on info you could provide. In particular, when did you read the story? Did you have a feel for how old it was then? Was it a full-length novel, or a short story in a collection or magazine (or even on-line)?
– RDFozz
Sep 24 '18 at 17:46
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Welcome to SFF.SE! You may want to take the tour to understand just how the site works. You've provide a reasonable summary of your story, but may want to look at How to ask a good story-ID question? for more ideas on info you could provide. In particular, when did you read the story? Did you have a feel for how old it was then? Was it a full-length novel, or a short story in a collection or magazine (or even on-line)?
– RDFozz
Sep 24 '18 at 17:46
Welcome to SFF.SE! You may want to take the tour to understand just how the site works. You've provide a reasonable summary of your story, but may want to look at How to ask a good story-ID question? for more ideas on info you could provide. In particular, when did you read the story? Did you have a feel for how old it was then? Was it a full-length novel, or a short story in a collection or magazine (or even on-line)?
– RDFozz
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Welcome to SFF.SE! You may want to take the tour to understand just how the site works. You've provide a reasonable summary of your story, but may want to look at How to ask a good story-ID question? for more ideas on info you could provide. In particular, when did you read the story? Did you have a feel for how old it was then? Was it a full-length novel, or a short story in a collection or magazine (or even on-line)?
– RDFozz
Sep 24 '18 at 17:46