On this edition of the show, we delve into a non-fiction story, and while non-fiction, it is also a little “other-worldly”.
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Tim Cook is a First World War historian with the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, but also an award winning author and adjunct research professor with Carleton University’s history department. He recently explored a little-researched aspect of the First World War.
With the carnage of the front, the line between the living and dead was blurred with soldiers living daily amongst the dead, and with the fact that one cold be alive in one moment, and dead the next.
With death all around in this surreal nightmare, many soldiers told of ghostly sightings, or being helped to safety by someone who could not possibly have been with them.
Tim Cook’s article is entitled “Grave Beliefs: Stories of the Supernatural and the Uncanny among Canada’s Great War Trench Soldiers,”. The article appears in the scholarly magazine,The Journal of Military History, vol 77 #2 (April 2013):
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