The Unhappy Afterlife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Unhappy Afterlife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand The tormented post-mortem world of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose murder precipitated the Great War.
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‘Great War’
“Decede” A Stamp Story of the Great War
The horror of the First World War, reduced to stamps and statistics.
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.
The Spy Who Loved Me: Mata Hari’s Last Lover
Mata Hari is said to have blown kisses at the firing squad at her execution. Did the lover who failed to save her, ultimately meet the same fate?
Rattlesnakes for Huns: Snake Bombs of the Great War
A man with a venomous plan for clearing out the German trenches in World War I.
The Ghost Map of Gainesville
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?
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.