Posts tagged
‘Great War’

War correspondent Paul Scott Mowrer reports on the gruesome war toys indoctrinating the youth of Germany during the Great War.

Weird tales from the trenches of the Great War: Spectral bloodhounds, a ghostly old soldier, a reconstituted corpse.

Were images of the Virgin Mary beamed into the sky by airborne stereopticon to try to save a besieged city? And would these images explain the Angel of Mons and other Great War visions?

A mysterious map of the battlegrounds of Europe appears on a sooty ceiling in a Texas house in 1919. The face of a man and a coiled serpent also materialized. What did it all mean?

In 1917 John Van Valkenburg, a Salt Lake City inventor, announced that he had conquered the laws of gravity and had an aircraft that could fly from Salt Lake City to the Pacific Coast and back in a night. It was reported that he had taken it to Washington and then turned it over to the US government for use in the War effort. Then, suddenly, Van Valkenburg found himself on trial.

A moving crucifix in the midst of war-torn France.

For Veterans Day, nothing fortean, just an account from the Great War by a woman first aid worker and writer.

A Fairy Tale from the Trenches: 1916 A most awfully jolly tale from the trenches of the Great War. The fairies do not wear boots, but have ordered unusual pants for their spring costumes.

Ending War with Ionic Vibration and a Vacuum Cleaner Dr. Orville W. Owen who “proved” that Bacon wrote Shakespeare and an unknown night watchman from Wisconsin take a crack at ending the First World War.