Soldier Diaries Tell Of Ghosts Intervening In First World War: Canadian Historian

Outside the Belgian city of Mons in August 1914, as the British Expeditionary Force was thrown into its first major engagement, legend has it the “Angels of Mons” — a battalion of phantom longbowmen — swept down to help the outnumbered Brits hold off the Germans.

In the century since, the popular legend has largely been discounted as mere rumour and literary invention, but archival research by Canadian historian Tim Cook has found First World War diaries are more rife with supernatural encounters than one would expect.

“There are spectral visions; people see ghosts, they see images of their mothers, they see dead comrades,” said the Canadian War Museum historian and the author of the First World War histories Shock Troops and At the Sharp End.

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