Posts tagged
‘WWI’

A Casket 300 Feet Long A casket 300 feet long would be required to bring back the remains of all the US soldiers who died in the Great War in France.

A Ghost of the Gallipoli Campaign A dying man during the Gallipoli Campaign sees the apparition of his sister. Oddly enough, so does a war correspondent.

The Worst Soldier in the British Army Tommy Brown, the worst soldier in the British Army, saves his comrades in an extraordinary and coincidental way.

Two Skulls at Thiepval British war artist William Orpen and a French painter have strange encounters with unburied skulls at the Somme.

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

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.