Ghosts in the Great War, and true tales of haunted houses : $b Thrilling experience of "Daily News" readers
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Ghosts in the Great War, and true tales of haunted houses : $b Thrilling experience of "Daily News" readers
Ghost stories
A few days later, I received from my husband a letter stating that he
had just arrived at Netley Hospital, Southampton, having been wounded
and, therefore, drafted home. Therefore, at the time of my experience
he must have been on his way to England from Egypt.
The Robin's Warning
WHEN each of my four brothers was killed in the War a robin came and
hopped through the house. The last time this happened mother went to
bed in a worried state as, having three previous visits from the
robin, she knew what to expect and dreaded the morning post.
Waking up at midnight she saw Will leaning over the bed-rail in his
uniform, with his head in bandages. She called him by name and he
came towards her but, when she put her hand out to touch him, he
vanished. News soon came that Will died on that same midnight from
head wounds. Mother has never really recovered from this vision and
the visits of the innocent robin.
A Remarkable Story
IT was at a base hospital in France, January, 1916. My brother, who
had previously been partly buried by a shell bursting near him, was
now dying from pneumonia.
I sat by his side through the night, having travelled across the
Channel to see him, as the authorities had arranged for the same in
serious cases.
He was a bootmaker by trade, as was his father; both working the
business. In his delirium he was back home in the shop. His bed was
close to the boards of the Army hut. He would fix his gaze on these
boards and then swing his fist with three distinct knocks, after
which he would push the palm of his flat hand up the boards, thus
producing a peculiar squeaking noise. My father, home in England, was
working late in the shop; there came three distinct knocks on the
window, followed by the peculiar sound of someone pushing their flat
hand up the window. Thinking it was somebody playing a joke he
shouted, but got no answer. After a little while, it was repeated; he
went outside to see who it might be, but there was no one visible,
and, although by no means a nervous man, or superstitious, he felt a
something, and could not proceed with his work. On my arrival home,
after ten days' absence, he related his experience to me. Then
everything seemed linked up. No wireless could have been more direct.
My brother’s hand on the board in France had produced its effect on
the shop window in North Bucks.
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“WE DO NOT COMPREHEND”
I am not superstitious nor a believer in spiritualism, and yet I
believe there is something connected with the after life which we do
not comprehend.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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