What is the "Ghost War" puzzle?

Sometimes at sunset, sometimes after the thick fog dissipates, in the turbid sky, many people have seen ghost wars: sometimes an infantry regiment walks towards them; sometimes an artillery regiment walks towards them. In the past, there were sometimes scenes of fierce fighting between the two armies... Is this people's illusion, or is it refraction in the clouds? This is a natural mystery that has not yet been revealed.

The Lancashire soldier lying on the bed in the hospital had no abnormality in his behavior, and there was no sign of confusion in his eyes. He had just received an injury from Vitry Le Francois in France, and the injury was not serious.

"Sister," he said to the nurse who was bandaging him, "do you have a portrait or medal of St. George?"

"No, I am a Methodist. But ..."

He said in a very calm tone that when the Allies were retreating, he saw Saint George riding a white horse, commanding the British at Vitry-le-Fran?ois. This battle took place at the end of August 1914, when the French and British Second Regiments were retreating. Since then, Miss Phyllis Campbell saw with her own eyes a large number of wounded soldiers from Britain, France, and Belgium, including some German soldiers, arriving at the hospital. But this was the first time she had heard of such a vision story. Could it be that the soldier was talking nonsense? No, because another wounded soldier proved that what he said was completely true.

“He was sitting on the ground,” Miss Phyllis Campbell recalled. “Sitting next to him was a German soldier with a wounded leg. He pulled me excitedly and said to me hurriedly: 'Sister, it's true, we all saw it. At first, there was a curtain of yellow mist in front of the Germans. At that time, the Germans had reached the top of the mountain... When the mist disappeared, we saw a tall man with blond hair. Wearing gold armor, riding a white horse, holding a long sword, with his mouth open, as if shouting: 'Come on, children, you are about to see how I will deal with these devils', the wounded soldier added. "At that time, the German cavalry stopped chasing, turned their reins and ran away in fear."

The two wounded soldiers were convinced that this was what they saw with their own eyes, so the 21-year-old Miss Phyllis Campbell. The incident was immediately reported to the dean, Mrs. Damou.

The lady did not take this matter lightly. She asked six Red Cross nurses under her jurisdiction to listen to the patients' accounts. According to a senior officer, a priest, several Belgian soldiers, French soldiers and three Irish guards who saw them with their own eyes, they all saw this ancient warrior.

They had seen various sides of him on the battlefield. When the Germans retreated, they all saw the yellow mist. To the French, this was not Saint George, but Joan of Arc, who came to save them, shouting: "Onward!" But to others, he was the Archangel Saint Michel, He was shouting: "Victory!"

This news published in a British newspaper aroused all kinds of discussions. The strange thing is that Miss Phyllis Campbell met a German nurse after the war. In 1914, this nurse was working in a hospital in Potsdam and heard a similar narrative: At that time, their regiment was about to attack the hilltop occupied by the British, when a magical giant leaped on a horse and raised its sword to threaten them, forcing them to turn back.

Just a day or two after the legendary warrior appeared, a vivid phenomenon was seen in the cloudy sky in the same area of ??France. On the night of August 28, a British brigadier general and his comrades saw a bright light appear in the sky, and then some people in strange costumes appeared, as if they were flying with wings. His body seemed to be wrapped in a drooping curtain.

On the first night of this incident, that is, after the terrible battle of Cato in which 1,600 British soldiers died, an officer and his soldiers were walking towards Saint-Quentin. There was a group of ghost cavalry escorting them parallel to and not far away from them. The bewildered officer immediately sent someone to find out. As they approached, the entire escorting group of soldiers suddenly disappeared.

The war has confused the minds of these soldiers. It should be noted, however, that the appearance of such magical figures in the sky has been recorded throughout world history at all times.

Tassit once wrote: "People saw people shouting and shouting on the horizon, and the flash of swords and swords..." Old Pulina and Tiet Lief also recorded similar strange things. The Battle of the Ghosts was also seen when the French were still under Pépin-le-Brève. This also happened in Nogent-le-Rotroux in the 18th century.

There are many such examples. Here we come to an even stranger oddity. This incident is documented in Amber Debilip's book "A Summary of Horrible, Fleeting Occurrences and Wonderful Visions." This vision occurred on June 28, 1577, in a village called Saint-Am in the Jura Mountains.

"About an hour and a half after the sun went down, all the men, women, and children in the village saw...a group of people holding swords and daggers appeared on the horizon, winding towards the north like snails..."

After a while, a mist surrounded these rare soldiers. When the thick fog cleared, "three brave and strong warriors appeared on the horizon." They were fighting fiercely, but they didn't appear to be injured. After a pause, they put their hands to their bellies as a sign of respect, and another wave of thick fog swept them away.

Now let’s talk about visions with aura. This is also true. This vision occurred more than ten days before the real event. The situation is as follows:

On the night of February 1st to 2nd, 1574. Five Utrecht guardsmen saw a strange battle going on overhead. At that time, the two armies were fighting. One army came from the northwest, and the other army came from the southeast. A fight begins, but suddenly disappears under a new confrontation. This vision also disappeared, leaving a long trail of blood in the sky.

The shocked soldiers reported the incident to their superiors the next day. The magistrate of Utrecht questioned them and took down their oral statements, which they swore to be entirely true. Although people consulted some divination books, no one understood the true meaning of this ghost war.

But the bloody Battle of Mork broke out on February 23. The Spanish army, commanded by the Duke of Avila, came from the northeast and was repulsed by the armies of Henry and Louis of Naso. Soon, the former went into battle again and finally won. This is exactly the same as the above-mentioned vision, but more than 100 kilometers south.

On the contrary, the scene of the Battle of Edge Hill in Warwick, England, has appeared many times in the sky. The soldiers who died in this battle are buried here. Between 12 and 1 o'clock in the middle of the night on December 23, 1642, some shepherds, farmers and travelers witnessed the Royal Army being defeated by the Parliamentarians. The battle flags of the Royal Army and the opponent's battle flags are both vivid in my mind. The battle lasted for 3 hours.

Later, the witnesses went to find Mr. Wood, the judge of the Kaidong region. The latter was persuaded, and decided to go to the place of the said battle, accompanied by his neighbor the shepherd Martial. Out of curiosity, local dignitaries also followed to watch the fun.

How strange! The next night, that is, Christmas Eve on Sunday, the two armies appeared in the sky again and started a fight, accompanied by hellish noises.

This strange thing at night spread all over the country in an instant. The place was crowded the next night, but nothing showed up. The next day it was still the same. From now on, there will be scenes of fierce fighting every Saturday and Sunday, and then there will be a desolate and silent sky.

The following weekend, the two armies fought again. Charles I, who was in Oxford at the time, was very surprised when he learned the news, and everyone was suspicious. Charles I then sent Colonel Lewis Kirk, Captain Dudley, Captain Wenman and his three accompanying officers to investigate the area.

These representatives not only witnessed the battle with their own eyes, but also recognized some of the generals. Among them was His Majesty Edmond Vane, who had been killed at the Battle of Edge Hill two months before.

Six representatives of the king returned to Oxford and described everything they saw. This is the end of the matter. Later, there was no more fighting scene in the sky above Kaidong.

About 150 years later, the German magazine "The Hateful Friend" published an astonishing report:

"At the beginning of 1785, in Ueste (belonging to Upper Sicily) Some strange things happened near Glostritz (District of Opelen County) that made Prussia and the whole of France talk about it. At three or four o'clock in the afternoon on January 27 of this year, more than 50 people were working in the fields. Suddenly, they found an infantry regiment walking towards them in three lines. The two officers in front were officers in red hats. When they reached a certain point, they stopped. The soldiers in the first line raised their guns and shot at the farmers, but there was no point. There was a sound of gunfire, and only a thick black smoke rose from the ranks. After the smoke disappeared, people saw the light cavalry on horseback in the position of the infantry. After a while, they disappeared. Around 8 o'clock on the morning of the same day, four hundred farmers saw these soldiers again in the same place. Among them was a "handsome ghost" riding towards them. The farmers stepped back and saw him stopping among the soldiers wearing various uniforms. But he saw nothing. On the 15th of the same month, this scene appeared again in front of 30 people. After hearing the news, General von Saas immediately sent a detachment to the scene of the trouble. As soon as they arrived, the ghost warriors also appeared. The commander of the detachment spurred his horse and rushed towards them. At this time, an officer on horseback immediately left the line of ghosts and came towards the commander of the detachment. However, when the Prussian commander asked who the other party was, who he was. When He Gui did it, the other party didn't answer. When he was about to raise his gun and shoot, the other party suddenly disappeared."

It should be noted that these strange encounters with the "third person" happened in broad daylight. Down.

In June 1815, shortly after the Battle of Waterloo, the residents of Verviers, more than 100 kilometers away from the east side of this famous plain, saw an artillery regiment passing by in formation on the horizon. One of the artillery carriages was so dilapidated that even the wheels were about to fall off.

This time it was 20 years later, over the fields of Mendis in England, at 5 o'clock in the evening, a regiment of soldiers passed by. The cavalrymen held swords and marched in six columns. —After a while, they appeared in two lines on the quiet horizon.

Walter Scott once described such an incident in his book "A Study in the Devil": "A large number of soldiers marched in the air. They collided with each other along the river, and then they disappeared. , giving way to another group of air soldiers.

I went there three times in the afternoon and found that 2/3 of the people had seen this phenomenon, while the other 1/3 had seen nothing. Those who saw it could also describe the length and width of the area where the soldiers fought with their guns, as well as the appearance of things like sword hilts and hat ribbons. "

In early February 1871, some cavalrymen with lancers were fighting, and the horses' hooves set off a snowstorm. This scene lasted for about 2 hours. Two witnesses walked towards the cavalrymen and caught them. behind them, but they saw nothing. Then they returned to the others and looked at the soldiers again. This happened during the German-French War in Goraz, Poznań. None of the battles known to man could match up, but Father Grilewski swore on his honor that the vision was entirely true.

Jér?me Cardin's account made it clear again. People fell into a poetic state. Around 1550, he was in Milan. People in the city were talking about a strange thing: an angel was flying in the sky.

This was completely true. It's true. The image of this figure flying in the sky is very clear. One of the more careful witnesses said that it is the stone angel on the bell tower of St. Gotthard. This kind of cloud refraction is indeed rare. p>

A century later, in Vizlay, residents also saw a miracle: a giant in the sky waving his long sword. Elder Descarl said that this was St. Michel on the church bell tower. A replica of the statue.

But people could not make such a simple explanation. Those who were unable to explain these phenomena finally had to turn to the Holy See for help. In the 18th century, Pope Benoit XIV faced. He couldn't help but get excited with so many witnesses. Although he believed in miracles more, from the perspective of the development of natural science and history, he had to worry about the reliability of miracles. For this reason, he advised them not to listen to those absurd things. Explanation. "However, refraction often occurs in clouds..." he wrote in his Bishop's Notes.

But sometimes it is strange that clouds neither refract nor conceal. !The men and horses of a regiment evaporated behind the clouds! This is no nonsense! On the morning of August 21, 1915, the 5th Norfolk Corps was marching not far from the Simita Mountains in northern Turkey. This regiment belonged to the British Expeditionary Corps. , responsible for attacking the Dardanelles Strait. At this time, this regiment of less than 800 people was about to join the Australian battalion that had just landed.

The New Zealand soldiers guarding the nearby hills were watching. The weather was unbearably hot that day, except for the sky above 60 Heights, which was completely blue. From early in the morning, the New Zealand soldiers discovered that there was a strange fog hanging motionless in the sky, which was so dense that it could be reflected. Sunlight. It is about 250 meters long and 50 meters thick. There are about 6 to 8 large clouds in the sky. They have been hanging in the sky since early in the morning.

A man named Laikeha. The German New Zealand soldiers also witnessed this natural scene on another nearby mountain. There was a breeze, but the clouds and dense fog did not move, let alone disperse. How could this not be surprising? At this time, the British Li Cheng 8 walked over.

“Let’s see if they dare to walk in?” Engineer Reichhard said to his comrades.

"Why don't you dare? This is not a suffocating gas."

At this time, 22 New Zealand soldiers were closely watching the Nokford Fifth Corps in the observation post. move. At this time, the British got into the thick fog without hesitation and disappeared. It stands to reason that they would be able to get out of the fog layer in a few minutes, but after 10 minutes, there was still no sign of them. The hands of the watch keep moving forward, but they...

At this moment we can imagine the expressions of the New Zealand soldiers who were peeping at the British. They simply couldn't believe their eyes. Of course, it was not impossible for the British to rest for a while in the fog and avoid others, but they couldn't stay there forever! Where was the Fifth Corps? Suddenly something inexplicable happened: this thick fog slowly The earth rises toward the sky, its outline very clear. The sky above 60 Highlands suddenly became clear. There was no one! There was nothing! There was desolation all around. All 800 British people evaporated, as if they had never existed! The ground was bare, and not even a shadow of a weapon was visible.

At this time, the thick fog got into the clouds above the 60th Highland and floated to the north.

The 5th Norfolk Regiment was never seen again. None of the 800 British people who climbed the Turkish highlands in August 1915 survived! After Turkey surrendered, the British investigated for a long time, but to no avail. Even August 21, 1915, was never recorded in the Turkish military files. Records of any British prisoners.