Battles and Ghosts

George Metcalf Archival Collection, Canadian War Museum

For a long time now, I've harbored a strange fascination with World War I and World War II. I wouldn't necessarily call myself a history buff, in the way that people can recall facts and figures at the drop of a hat, but I do love learning almost everything about those eras. It's so different from how we live now, but a time close enough that we still have enough artifacts to look at and learn from. 

Then again, this might just be my love of war literature and Downton Abbey speaking up.

The National Post published this article yesterday, about the relationship Canadian soldiers had with the ghostly and supernatural while on the front lines of war. It's an interesting read, and satisfies that weird part of myself that still thinks ghosts exist*.

*Embarrassingly, a question I struggled with through most of my childhood. I used to read compilations of ghost stories by the handful, scaring myself into insomnia. I still do that sometimes, I'm willing to admit.