Son My (My Lai) village complex / My Lai Memorial Site

Son My (commonly referred to by the hamlet name My Lai) is a cluster of hamlets in Quảng Ngãi Province where, on 16 March 1968, U.S. Army personnel killed a large number of civilians in what historical sources characterize as the My Lai Massacre. Secondary sources and historical summaries place total victim estimates variably (commonly cited ranges include between 347 and 504 civilians, with some accounts using "over 500"), and some reporting notes that over 150 civilians were killed at a particular farm-ditch location that is now the site of a memorial. Contemporary accounts and historical scholarship document sexual violence, mutilation of bodies, and victims that included women, children, and elderly men. The site today includes a formal memorial (often termed the Son My Memorial Site or My Lai Memorial) erected beside a farm ditch identified in reportage and memorial literature as one of the killing locations. Journalistic photographs and investigative reporting (notably the work that exposed the massacre to global attention) and later historical commentary have made Son My / My Lai a central locus of remembrance, public debate about military conduct, and scholarship on wartime atrocities. The provided research materials do not report or document paranormal phenomena, apparitions, named spirits, or hauntings at Son My / My Lai. The surviving documentation focuses on historical facts, eyewitness testimony, photographic evidence, memorialization, and interpretation of the massacre's meaning. Any folkloric or supernatural claims about the site are not present in the supplied sources and are therefore not recorded here.