david hobbs
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Ghosts and the warSomething that always puzzles e is this.
Having visited the war graves out in Belgium where tens of thousands would die in a single day and the carnage must have been beyond anything that we could possibly imagine, Why is the place not the most haunted place on the planet?
With death an suffering on such a large scale you would think that you could not go for ten minutes without encountering the ghost of some fallen soldier but it seems to me that this is not the case.
The feeling that I got from the place was one of peace and tranquillity.
Could it be that the reverence given to this land that is now sacred to our glorious dead has layered it with a kind off peace and tranquillity where once there was death and terror?
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Hunter
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Quite possibly David, because I can say that the forts around Verdun certainly aren't THAT peaceful.
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david hobbs
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| Hunter wrote: | | Quite possibly David, because I can say that the forts around Verdun certainly aren't THAT peaceful. |
Sounds like you have some stories to tell.
Try us out as we are a bit bored at the moment it would seem
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Hunter
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Well if you go into Douaumont fort, (where, in different attacks both De Gaulle & Hitler were captured), there's not really a feeling of peace, and there are the ruins of a village next to the monument (that you must have seen on the November 11th ceremonies last year), where there's a distinct impression of horror. This may be the fact that the village was totally blasted to hell, and that there's only a few bits of wall left standing, but I got a feeling of profound sadness every time I went (and I was doing training to be a tourist guide there at the time !)
Also there is a part of the area where a troop train was blocked in a railway tunnel & all on board suffocated or were blown to bits. Shivers go down my spine even typing this !
Another area, the bayonnettes trench ( la tranchée des baïonettes), a small group of men were waiting to go and replace others when a shell exploded near their trench & smothered them. All that was left to show they were there were the tops of their bayonettes.
Some say this is a war legend, and that the shell simply landed in an arms cache & that the bayonnettes stuck out, but how do you explain the feeling of total disbelief you get walking around there ?
I could go on for hours about this, but won't !
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david hobbs
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Yes I can understand the emotional feelings you experienced.
I was wondering more about actual spirits/ghost wandering about the place.
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Hunter
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In the tunnel you are supposed to hear the sound of groaning on the anniversary of the attack.
The war memorial in Verdun has a lone soldier that often stands there head bowed just around the 11th of November, it is thought he's one of the several candidates of unknown soldiers that were chosen in Verdun in 1920, to go under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
I have also heard that at Vimy ridge, like at a civil war battle site in the UK, on the day of the battle you can hear & see the battle going on.
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david hobbs
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When I hear of anniversary hauntings I stand and wonder at tho sheer scale of the implications.
Ethereal happenings according to the calender.
What on Earth could be causing such a thing.
They say there is no time in spirit so I just don't get it at all.
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