Part 1
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ghostly encounters and visions would not only have been restricted to WWI
and WW2 but would have been experienced through out the history of military
campaigns. During the times of war and particularly during the two great
wars there were also many reported cases of crisis type apparitions. Loved
ones fighting away from home on the battlefields of foreign lands would
appear before their family members back at home. Very often the telegram
confirming that they had been killed in action would follow shortly after.
The cases that follow are just some of the typical cases of the many stories
related by men who faced death on an appalling scale during world war one
and world war two
The Phantom Sentry
The incident happened on a particularly dark night when an
ambulance was taking a badly wounded solider to hospital. As the driver raced
to the hospital suddenly he saw on the road ahead that this path was blocked
by a ghost like figure of a British sentry. The driver had to brake hard
to avoid hitting the figure. When he got out from the ambulance he found
that the sentry had vanished into thin air. What the driver saw next was
even more startling because there just in front of him on the road was a
deep shell crater that would have mostly likely have caused serious injury
if not death had they driven on and not braked to avoid the hitting the sentry.
The ghostly figure of the sentry had warned them of the danger and possibly
saved their lives.
The Angels of Mons
The
first major engagement of British forces of the 1914 war occurred at the
battle of Mons in France. German forces had advanced on the heavily out
numbered British Forces. With only the one hope left to them that only
God could save them now it is reported that a strange luminous cloud appeared
and angelic warriors drove the advancing forces back. The description of
these angelic warriors that miraculously intervened to help at a decisive
moment of the battle greatly varies with some reports suggesting it was
the ghosts of medieval longbow men from Agincourt and led by Saint George
himself to Angels led by Jesus and protecting the forces from the bullets
of the other side while healing and caring for the dying and wounded on
the battle field. The evidence for this ghostly encounter on the battle
fields of Mons suggests that it was most likely fuelled by a fictitious
patriotic story that was carried in the London Evening news at the time
and subsequently developed in to an urban myth
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