FAHA MASSACRE SITE
Historic Site — Malesso’, Guam
Status: Historic site · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/faha-massacre-site-malesso-guam/

Site of a separate July 1944 massacre near Malesso’.

Faha massacre site is a historic site in Malesso’, Guam. Site of a separate July 1944 massacre near Malesso’. The archive files it under dark history. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.

In mid-July 1944, with the American invasion days away, Japanese forces in Malesso', Guam's southern village, called for work crews. On the night of July 15 at a place called Tinta, thirty villagers were marched to a dugout cave and attacked with grenades; sixteen were killed and fourteen survived — some only because soldiers sent to finish the wounded turned back in a downpour. The victims had been chosen as former Insular Guard members or suspected pro-Americans.
The next day, July 16, the method was repeated at Faha and made complete. Thirty men of Malesso' — survivors say they were chosen for their size and strength, among them Vicente Acfalle Champaco, a man over six-and-a-half feet the villagers called 'Carabao' — were marched to the site and killed with grenades, machine guns, and bayonets. There were no survivors.

WHAT FOLLOWED
Word of Tinta and Faha reached the Malesso' men held at Atate, who read a newly dug pit there as their own intended grave; on July 20 they turned on their guards in one of Guam's few acts of open revolt during the occupation. The massacres and the uprising are commemorated in annual memorial services coordinated by the village.
The file distinguishes Faha from the Tinta cave site nearby — separate dossier, separate ground — and records no paranormal claim. The documented July of 1944 is the whole entry.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Guampedia dates the killing of detained civilians at Faha to July 16, 1944. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'War Atrocities: Tinta and Faha Massacres' carry the record. The record keeps it — history, not lore.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· War Atrocities: Tinta and Faha Massacres — Guampedia
  https://www.guampedia.com/war-atrocities-tinta-and-faha-massacres/

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