Invisible Armies
I used to scoff when people would tell me that an eerie feeling alone might betoken the presence of a spirit or something like that. One time when I was younger, my family was visiting the Petersburg National Battlefield on a humid Virginia afternoon. There was a storm beginning to gather as not infrequently happens at that time of day in that part ( Read more... )
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I have walked over the battlefield of Towton (1461) as the light was failing and felt kinda vulnerable. (Towton was the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil.) I think a lot of battlefields are haunted-; perhaps they all are. People still report seeing people in 17th century battledress at Edgehill- which saw the first major engagement of the English Civil War.
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I can believe it.
The classic scenario of the unhappy and blood-drenched death for an individual is said to often produce a haunting, so multiply that however many times and you might come close to what really happened. I've heard it said before that the real mystery is why there aren't more ghosts at these places. Maybe it is just the fact that the dead knew that they were there for a purpose and accepted/anticipated their fate to an extent rather than being unexpectedly hacked up in a stairway on a moonless night or something like that. I really don't know, but I do believe that such things exist despite the little smiles you see when such things come up.
As cornball as ghost tours might appear, walking through the streets by lantern-light did produce a certain atmosphere which--although not frightening at the time--was more than worth the price in my estimation. Even here there are alleyways and forgotten places where one might feel the veil of centuries lifting in a singularly pronounced way. To visit at the right time and in the ( ... )
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