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[Peter C]

Hello all this is new member Peter C here, I am returning to Paranormal Investigation after a lengthy break.
I am interested in World War I Paranormal activity and though over the years I have read off and on of accounts dealing with WW1 Paranormal activity ranging from haunted U-Boats to Phantom Pilots I have never been able to find a book {or for that matter even a chapter of a book} dealing with WW I Paranormal activity.
I am wondering if maybe I have simply missed finding the above OR perhaps as yet there has not been a concentrated attempt to gather such data???.
Any comment welcome. Peter C.

[Robot]

Peter C, on Jun 24 2010, 11:10 AM, said:

Hello all this is new member Peter C here, I am returning to Paranormal Investigation after a lengthy break.
I am interested in World War I Paranormal activity and though over the years I have read off and on of accounts dealing with WW1 Paranormal activity ranging from haunted U-Boats to Phantom Pilots I have never been able to find a book {or for that matter even a chapter of a book} dealing with WW I Paranormal activity.
I am wondering if maybe I have simply missed finding the above OR perhaps as yet there has not been a concentrated attempt to gather such data???.
Any comment welcome. Peter C.

Hello Peter, Welcome!

True Ghost Stories from WW1 and WW2 is all I could find:

http://www.amazon.co...W...4300&sr=1-3

[TwoCrows]

I've heard accounts of some haunted areas of WWI battlefields. Your best bet is probably to look at specific locations and research paranormal activity there. I don't think your going to find much in print.

[wawa]

I have a book, in dutch, called mysterie 14/18. Its subject is the hidden mystical-occult story behind the first world war. Its written by Richard Heijster. Who visited personal many 'hot spots'and former battle fields in the first world war. In the secound part of the book , page 167-238, he describes his personal and other ones experiences with the paranormal on belgium and french former battle fields.

for exemple The talbot house an former British militairy club house in Belgium. During the first world war it was used as a social-meeting place for both ordinary soldiers and highers officiers. Witnesses reported the sightings of not only ghost soldiers but also doctors und nurses in the building.

[Oiche]

Welcome to GV Wawa! Interesting...had it been a hospital?

[loganinkosovo]

The Biggest "Ghost" story of the first world war was the "Angel of Mons".

http://en.wikipedia..../Angels_of_Mons

http://www.forteanti...el_of_mons.html

http://www.militaryh...ngelofmons.aspx

http://www.worldwar1...itage/angel.htm

http://www.westernfr...angel-mons.html

[Cryscat]

I found a couple of things. One is a bizarre disappearance.

"
Three soldiers claimed to be witnesses to the bizarre disappearance of an entire battalion in 1915. They finally came forward with the strange story 50 years after the infamous Gallipoli campaign of WWI. The three members of a New Zealand field company said they watched from a clear vantage point as a battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment marched up a hillside in Suvla Bay, Turkey. The hill was shrouded in a low-lying cloud that the English soldiers marched straight into without hesitation.
They never came out. After the last of the battalion had entered the cloud, it slowly lifted off the hillside to join other clouds in the sky. When the war was over, figuring the battalion had been captured and held prisoner, the British government demanded that Turkey return them. The Turks insisted, however, that it had neither captured not made contact with these English soldiers."

http://paranormal.ab...pearances_2.htm

The second one:
"This intriguing photo, taken in 1919, was first published in 1975 by Sir Victor Goddard, a retired R.A.F. officer. The photo is a group portrait of Goddard's squadron, which had served in World War I at the HMS Daedalus training facility. An extra ghostly face appears in the photo. In back of the airman positioned on the top row, fourth from the left, can clearly be seen the face of another man. It is said to be the face of Freddy Jackson, an air mechanic who had been accidentally killed by an airplane propeller two days earlier"

http://paranormal.ab...ddy-Jackson.htm

Edited by Cryscat, 07 April 2013 - 04:59 PM.

[Cryscat]

The World War One U-boat U-65 was said to have had an interesting reputation.....

http://www.subsim.co...hp/t-83769.html

[TheresaRHPS]

I know the Angel of Mons has been mentioned, but if you have a Kindle or the software to read Kindle books, Amazon has a FREE ebook on the subject that is very enlightening about how it was all created as a piece of fiction, yet soldiers started coming out with stories that they had actually seen it.

http://www.amazon.co...s=angel of mons

[jimmary]

Being a World War 2 enthusiast, it causes me wonder why, after the millions upon millions of people killed in both World Wars in the same general locations (except the Pacific), that there aren't more ghost or hauntings stories. I have heard of a few here and there, but nothing like one would think it would be.
No one knows how the other side works and why one spirit would come back when many others do not, apparently. It's crazy and mind-boggling to even consider the reasonings. And I don't go for the "unfinished business" explanaiton. That's redundant and regurgitated whenever people don't have an explanation, because there just isn't one that we can grasp.