Over the years the two ladies dedicated their vacations to their research. All their findings confirmed their belief that they had seen Versailles as it was 112 years before. In 1911 they published their account in a book, An Adventure. The two women were so concerned about losing their professional credibility that they felt compelled to publish their account of the story under pseudonyms. It was only after Miss Jourdain’s death in 1924 that their true identities were revealed. The book caused a sensation and was considered to be the best authenticated ghost story of its time.

This is probably the oldest ghost story in the history of aviation. The little Irishman Desmond Arthur, black-haired and grey-eyed, gained his Royal Aero Club certificate in June 1912 and was killed in May 1913 when the BE2 biplane he was flying over Montrose in Scotland folded up in the air. But it was no flying accident. It was murder…

The French author Albert Dauzat told a fascinating legend that emerged from World War One in a book that was published two years after the Great War. Civilian skeptics laughed at the soldiers’ tales of the murderous giant hound of No Man’s Land, but to the soldiers it was a gruesome reality…

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