YVETTE INVESTIGATES: The Ghosts of War - The Dead Who Never Left the Battlefield
Paranormal Activity with Yvette FieldingShow Notes
August 1914, the retreat from Mons. Exhausted British soldiers, outnumbered and about to be annihilated, look up to see shining figures in the sky between them and the German guns. Somehow, impossibly, the army escapes. And the first great ghost story of the modern age is born.
This week, Yvette Fielding investigates five hauntings from five wars, across five corners of the world. The angels of Mons and the phantom archers of Agincourt. The marching dead of Ypres, still going up the line a century on. The blood-soaked Sunken Lane at Antietam. The phantom hammering of the Burma Death Railway, where a man died for every sleeper laid. And the thirsting soldier of the Chaco, still stepping out of the scrub to beg travellers for water he'll never drink.
From guardian angels and phantom bowmen, to hungry ghosts and spirit houses, to the darkest theory of all: that a battlefield can become a doorway, held open by suffering, and that not everything marching through it ever wore a uniform.
Why does war, in every land and every age, leave the same restless dead behind? Was it the souls of the fallen, trapped by the manner of their dying? The land itself, remembering? Or something older, drawn in by the killing?
Listen, and decide for yourself.
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