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Home Castle Ghosts Ghost Ships Battle field Ghosts Ghost Lights Ghost Hunting E.V.P Poltergiest Your Ghost Stories Paranormal Links Ghost Articles	Part 2 The lost battalion of Hill 60 During the Gallipoli campaign in the Dardanelles on the 12th August 1915 the First-Fifth Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment were ordered to advance on Hill 60 in the Sulva Bay. It is reported that as the men moved up the hill they had to pass through some thick low lying clouds. They apparently never reappeared. The whole battalion had disappeared. Several months later the badly decomposing bodies of some of the men, less than half the battalion were discovered but the fate of the rest of the battalion was unknown. It was presumed at the time that they had been taken prisoners by the Turkish forces but at the end of the war when they were asked to return the remaining battalion the Turkish forces denied all knowledge of the events or any contact at all with the regiment. Many years later three witnesses made a startling statement about the missing men. The witnesses were veterans of the New Zealand field company who had been involved in the campaign. They told how they had seen from their vantage point overlooking the hill the men march up the hill and into a strange looking cloud that was resting on the ground straddling a dry creek. When the last man entered the cloud they say the cloud slowly lifted into the sky and joined a formation of similar looking odd shaped clouds that then drifted off to the north. They say that once the cloud had lifted that hill 60 was completely deserted; no living soul could be seen. Exactly what happened to the missing men of the Royal Norfolk Regiment remains a mystery. Merrills Marauders At the peek of world war two a patrol of Marauders were ambushed by a party of Japanese infantry. All but six of the men were killed during the battle. It was reported that the six men captured were tortured to death. Soon after the incident local natives and Allied troops reported seeing six American soldiers patrolling the jungle in the area of the massacre. The men whose appearance was reported as gaunt, pale and battle weary would vanish into thin air when approached. Rumours of the ghostly marauders soon began to spread and stories began to circulate that the ghost marauders had killed many of the Japanese soldiers that had been responsible for their untimely deaths. Reports of the ghost unit still continued after the end of the war. In 1957 a Dutch missionary reported an encounter with the men in the jungle. He had no previous knowledge of the stories. When he told of his encounter to the locals they confirmed that they had also been seen at least twice by others that day. Battlefield Ghosts...Part 1

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The lost battalion of Hill 60

Lost battalion of Hill 60 During the Gallipoli campaign in the Dardanelles on the 12th August 1915 the First-Fifth Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment were ordered to advance on Hill 60 in the Sulva Bay. It is reported that as the men moved up the hill they had to pass through some thick low lying clouds. They apparently never reappeared. The whole battalion had disappeared. Several months later the badly decomposing bodies of some of the men, less than half the battalion were discovered but the fate of the rest of the battalion was unknown. It was presumed at the time that they had been taken prisoners by the Turkish forces but at the end of the war when they were asked to return the remaining battalion the Turkish forces denied all knowledge of the events or any contact at all with the regiment.

Many years later three witnesses made a startling statement about the missing men. The witnesses were veterans of the New Zealand field company who had been involved in the campaign. They told how they had seen from their vantage point overlooking the hill the men march up the hill and into a strange looking cloud that was resting on the ground straddling a dry creek. When the last man entered the cloud they say the cloud slowly lifted into the sky and joined a formation of similar looking odd shaped clouds that then drifted off to the north. They say that once the cloud had lifted that hill 60 was completely deserted; no living soul could be seen. Exactly what happened to the missing men of the Royal Norfolk Regiment remains a mystery.

Merrills Marauders

Merrills Marauders At the peek of world war two a patrol of Marauders were ambushed by a party of Japanese infantry. All but six of the men were killed during the battle. It was reported that the six men captured were tortured to death. Soon after the incident local natives and Allied troops reported seeing six American soldiers patrolling the jungle in the area of the massacre. The men whose appearance was reported as gaunt, pale and battle weary would vanish into thin air when approached. Rumours of the ghostly marauders soon began to spread and stories began to circulate that the ghost marauders had killed many of the Japanese soldiers that had been responsible for their untimely deaths.
Reports of the ghost unit still continued after the end of the war.

In 1957 a Dutch missionary reported an encounter with the men in the jungle. He had no previous knowledge of the stories. When he told of his encounter to the locals they confirmed that they had also been seen at least twice by others that day.

Battlefield Ghosts...Part 1