A Dispatch Rider of the Great War
Nothing fortean for Memorial Day weekend, just a letter home written by a dispatch rider of the Great War.
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‘First World War’
Feeding Private Rex and a Colonel Presents Arms: Two Stories from the Great War
Feeding Private Rex and a Colonel Presents Arms: Two Stories from the Great War Two curiously solid apparitions from the trenches of the Great War. “Lieut. Smith said that it was quite a common occurrence for men in the war zone to see the ghosts of their comrades who had been killed.”
Not on the Side of the Angels: An enquiry concerning “The Angels at Mons”
In honor of the 150th birthday anniversary for Welsh horror and fantasy author Arthur Machen, we look at a 1915 article discussing the evidence for the Angels of Mons visions. Machen’s story, “The Bowmen,” may have inadvertently helped to create this legend of the Great War. Despite Machen’s protests that the story was fictional, the stories of angels on the battlefield took on a life of their own and became hoplessly tangled in false memories, hoaxes, and a twisted kind of ostension.