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  1. Yithian

    Old Soldiers' Ghost Tales: Interviews From The IWM

    I've just been filtering through the vast repository of interviews that the Imperial War Museum has made available online. The following are a number of examples of references to ghosts and the supernatural--some are fleeting, others more involved. I have supplied a brief indication of what...
    • Yithian
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    • ghosts & hauntings history and historiography interviews military museum collections the army the first world war the imperial war museum the raf the royal navy the second world war
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    • Forum: Ghosts: General
  2. rynner2

    History Rewritten: Myths Busted & New Truths Uncovered

    http/tinyurl.com/yqr5sy (Mod Edit: Original link is broken. Archived version found via The Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090130100439/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1545177/Caravaggio-was-actually-Merisi-of-Milan.html) rynner the ubiquitous
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    • Forum: Urban Legends & Folklore
  3. D

    Ghosts In Leicestershire?

    Abbey Pumping Station "Abbey Pumping Station is reputedly haunted by the ghost of an engineer who worked at the site in the early nineteenth century. He plunged to his death in 1890, falling over 50 ft from the top balcony of the pump house down into the depths of the engine room. " -...
    • diamonddogs
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    • 1890 abbey pumping station astley castle belgrave hall bosworth hall ghostly soldiers ghosts & hauntings grey ladies guildhall lane hinckley leicester leicestershire market bosworth phantom horsemen road ghosts roads sir wolstan dixie sutton cheney the a6 motorway the battle of bosworth field the first world war
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Ghosts: General
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